Quotes & Sayings About Followership

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

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

The answer is always "No" until you ask. - Ref James 4:2 — Charles S. Stamper

Leadership requires followership and following is an act of trust, faith in the course of the leader, and that faith can be generated only if leaders act with integrity. — Lawrence M. Miller

Leadership that is not well-grounded in followership - following Jesus - is dangerous to both the church and the world.41 — Robert Banks

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

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

For those of you who really want to give critical thought to your unique leadership style and foster genuine followership, learn from what's out there and weave it into something meaningful and authentic. — Stacy Feiner

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

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

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

Demand maximum effort from people. — Sunday Adelaja

Leadership is the ability to make things happen. — Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

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

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

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

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

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