Quotes

The Enthusiastic Employee, Page 415

…leadership is not simply about a position or title. An individual can have a high-sounding title such as CEO and not be considered a leader. And that… is an enormous problem.

Influence, Page 415

Providing advice puts a person in a merging state of mind, which stimulates a linking of one’s own identity with another party’s.

Influence, Page 416

…[it is wise to] ask for advice in face-to-face interactions with friends, colleagues, and customers. It should even prove effective in our interactions with superiors.

The Effective Executive, Page 416

In a well-managed enterprise, it is understood that people who fail in a new job, especially after a promotion, may not be the ones to blame.

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.