It Is Hard To Feel

Perhaps The Most Promising Trend In Our Thinking About Leadership Is The Growing Conviction That The Purposes Of The Group Are Best Served When The Leader Helps Followers Develop Their Own Initiative, Strengthens Them In The Use Of Their Own Judgment, Enables Them To Grow, And To Become Better Contributors.

If You Have Some Respect For People As They Are, You Can Be More Effective In Helping Them To Become Better Than They Are.

One Generalization That Is Supported Both By Research And Experience Is That Effective Two-way Communication Is Essential To Proper Functioning Of The Leader-follower Relationship.

One Of My Less Pleasant Chores When I Was Young Was To Read The Bible From One End To The Other. Reading The Bible Straight Through Is At Least 70 Percent Discipline, Like Learning Latin. But The Good Parts Are, Of Course, Simply Amazing. God Is An Extremely Uneven Writer, But When He's Good, Nobody Can Touch Him.

We Have To Face The Fact That Most Men And Women Out There Are More Stale Than They Know, More Bored Than They Care To Admit.