Followership Quotes

Mr. Bush has squandered the hard-built paternity of 40 years. But so has the party, and so have its leaders. If they had pushed away for serious reasons, they could have separated the party's fortunes from the president's. This would have left a painfully broken party, but they wouldn't be left with a ruined brand,- as they all say, speaking the language of marketing. And they speak that language because they are marketers, not thinkers. Not serious about policy. Not serious about ideas. And not serious about leadership, only followership. ~ Peggy Noonan

No one really wants to follow you per se. They really don't. They want to know that, by following you, they are really following a higher principle, a transcendent truth. In spiritual followership, people want to know whether they are being led and influenced by God. ~ Mel Lawrenz

From Gandhi to Mandela, from the American patriot to the Polish shipbuilders, the makers of revolutions have not come from the top. ~ Gary Hamel

A functioning, robust democracy requires a healthy educated, participatory followership, and an educated, morally grounded leadership. ~ Chinua Achebe

The ability to make hard truths palatable is one that every long-lived co-leader has mastered. ~ David A. Heenan

My name should not be made prominent. It is my ideas that I want to see realized. The disciples of all the prophets have always inextricably mixed up the ideas of the Master with person, and at last killed the ideas for the person. The disciples of Sri Ramakrishna must guard against doing the same thing. Work for the idea, not the person. ~ Swami Vivekananda

A leader is one who travels the path carved out by him, and he 'leads' himself onward on that path. If his path is good and his goals are desirable, many more may follow him in their desire to achieve the same goal. Hence, followership is the effect of leadership and not its cause. ~ Awdhesh Singh

Christ manifests his divine leadership in your sincere followership. Christ's followers become true leaders because Christ is the model of true leadership. ~ Israelmore Ayivor

Uncritical followership and habits of silent obedience give rise to the corruptions of power, or sometimes simply to avoidable catastrophes. For ~ Jonathan Sacks

You're gonna have to serve somebody. ~ Bob Dylan

Demand maximum effort from people. ~ Sunday Adelaja

If we're not ready for leadership or don't want to be the leader, then we need to focus on our followership skills that relate to a bad leader or select another leader that we think would do a better job than we would. ~ Kurt Madden

If a man aspires to the highest place, it is no dishonor to him to halt at the second. ~ Marcus Tullius Cicero

If you are guided by opinion polls, you are not practicing leadership
you are practicing followership. ~ Margaret Thatcher

Followership starts with Jesus, stays with Jesus, goes with Jesus, and ends with Jesus. ~ Leonard Sweet

The more people I am able to help, the more people are willing to help others. The more followers we have, the closer we are to a perfect world. ~ Akilnathan Logeswaran

Co-leadership should permeate every organization at every level. ~ David A. Heenan

The most difficult instrument to play in the orchestra is second fiddle. ~ Leonard Bernstein

I am reminded how hollow the label of leadership sometimes is and how heroic followership can be. ~ Warren G. Bennis