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Authority Quotes by Gary Hamel
- Top-down authority structures turn employees into bootlickers, breed pointless struggles for political advantage, and discourage dissent.
- The real damper on employee engagement is the soggy, cold blanket of centralized authority. In most companies, power cascades downwards from the CEO. Not only…
- A titled leader relies heavily on positional power to get things done; a natural leader is able to mobilize others without the whip of formal…
More Authority Quotes
- To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough… — Hannah Arendt
- The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the… — Hannah Arendt
- Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority. — Francis Bacon
- A crown, if it hurts us, is not worth wearing. — Pearl Bailey
- The American press has the blues. Too many authorities have assured it that its days are numbered, too many good newspapers are… — Russell Baker
- Does it follow that I reject all authority? Perish the thought. In the matter of boots, I defer to the authority of… — Mikhail Bakunin
- But I recognize no infallible authority, even in special questions; consequently, whatever respect I may have for the honesty and the sincerity… — Mikhail Bakunin
- I bow before the authority of special men because it is imposed upon me by my own reason. — Mikhail Bakunin