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A lot of these people, these program directors, just like anybody else in the world, even though they're supposed to be leaders in the world, they're followers. They follow what they think someone else is doing, instead of trying to blaze a trail.

— Talib Kweli

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

Leaders who are kind of insecure or egocentric, they basically sabotage themselves.

— John C. Maxwell

Followers need to see how things will get better and what that future might look like. Leaders need to build that foundation of stability, and hope sits on top of that.

— Tom Rath

People look for their leadership to lead.

— Mick Cornett

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.

— Joe Namath

What happens with a lot of leaders is that their leadership style is like ADD; they are all over the place with different ideas. They could be driving one idea forward but then move on to something else too soon.

— Henry Cloud

There are a lot of people who call themselves teachers or leaders, but they're really just propagandists.

— Mos Def

Often leaders have the best intentions, but people cannot read their minds. That's why it's important to declare yourself: Tell people why you choose to lead and the code you live by.

— Douglas Conant

Leaders don't create followers, they create more leaders.

— Tom Peters

All directors are control freaks and very obsessive. I get the feeling that directors as kids, they all have had a childhood with not too much contact with other kids. They constructed their own reality and they continue to do it. It's a funny breed, directors.

— Stellan Skarsgard

Leadership appears to be the art of getting others to want to do something you are convinced should be done.

— Vance Packard

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