Whether individuals or organisations, we follow those who lead not because we have to, but because we want to. We follow those who lead not for them, but for ourselves.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
To get others to come into our ways of thinking, we must go over to theirs; and it is necessary to follow, in order to lead.
Leadership is all about taking people on a journey. The challenge is that most of the time, we are asking people to follow us to places we ourselves have never been.
You cannot lead others until you have first learned to lead yourself.
To be a leader, you have to make people want to follow you, and nobody wants to follow someone who doesn't know where he is going.
As a confirmed individualist I certainly do not wish to underrate the influence of the individual, for the masses do not lead the individual; rather, in the individual is vested the capacity to lead the masses.
You cannot be a leader, and ask other people to follow you, unless you know how to follow, too.
I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
People really are our most important resource, and people who don't realize that and choose not to live that way, choose not to lead that way, are paying a price for that in many of our companies, many of our organizations.
You who choose to lead must follow. But if you fall, you fall alone.
I consider myself a leader. I am not a follower.