Quotes

The Enthusiastic Employee, Page 416

Voluntarily following a leader is… making a bet on the future, relinquishing some degree of control over one’s fortune to someone else in the expectation that benefits will accrue from it.

The Enthusiastic Employee, Page 416

Leadership… is not a solo act: it is a relationship between the parties with obligations on both sides. It is not simply the leader determining the direction and telling his followers…

The Enthusiastic Employee, Page 416

Genuine leadership requires an understanding of what the follower wants and how the leader can help them get it.

The Enthusiastic Employee, Page 416

…genuine leadership… is congruent in all aspects only with a Partnership culture.

The Enthusiastic Employee, Page 417

The leader-as-partner, having trust in his subordinates, is comfortable distributing the power to them…

Management, Page 417

The conscience function of giving vision, of setting standards, and of reviewing performance against standards is basically a top-management function. But it has to work with the entire management group.

Thinking, Fast and Slow, Page 417

Observers are less cognitively busy and more open to information than actors.

Thinking, Fast and Slow, Page 418

Whatever else is produced, an organization is a factor that manufactures judgments and decisions.

The Enthusiastic Employee, Page 418

…business leaders seen as possessing charisma have almost invariably been known to have achieved outstanding business results.

The Enthusiastic Employee, Page 418

…there is no difference between the qualities that are important for truly effective business leadership and the qualities that are typically used to describe a charismatic leader.