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Conformity Quote by Adam Grant

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“It's true that every leader needs followers. We can't all be nonconformists at every moment, but conformity is dangerous - especially for an entity in formation.”

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“All to often, on the long road up, young leaders become servants of what is rather than shapers of what might be.”

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No shepherd and one herd! Everybody wants the same, everybody is the same: whoever feels different goes voluntarily into a madhouse.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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“I lead with the knowingness that my reality conforms to my wishes and desires instantly.”

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Officers conditioned to conformity in peacetime cannot be expected to behave boldly and flexibly in combat.

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