You have to look at leadership through the eyes of the followers and you have to live the message.
Interpretation
True leadership requires understanding the perspective of those you lead and embodying the principles you promote.
This quote emphasizes the importance of empathetic leadership, suggesting that effective leaders must view situations from the perspective of their followers. Furthermore, it stresses that leaders must not only communicate their ideals but also live by them, setting an example for others to follow.
In practice
In a corporate training seminar focused on effective leadership styles.
I am still looking for the modern equivalent of those Quakers who ran successful businesses and made money because they offered honest products and treated their people decently . . . This business creed, sadly, seems long forgotten.
I started The Body Shop in 1976 simply to create a livelihood for myself and my two daughters, while my husband, Gordon, was trekking across the Americas. I had no training or experience and my only business acumen was Gordon's advice to take sales of Β£300 a week. Nobody talks of entrepreneurship as survival, but that's exactly what it is and what nurtures creative thinking.
If you think you're too small to have an impact, try going to bed with a mosquito.
But if you can create an honorable livelihood, where you take your skills and use them and you earn a living from it, it gives you a sense of freedom and allows you to balance your life the way you want.
Quite apart from anything else, my experience is trying to change things for the better makes you feel better, healthier. Humans are communicative animals: when you do good in a community, the benefits eventually get back to you.
First, you have to have fun. Second, you have to put love where your labour is. Third, you have to go in the opposite direction to everyone else.
The speed of the leader is the speed of the gang.
When Men are irritated, and the Passions inflamed, they fly hastily and cheerfully to Arms; but after the first emotions are over, to expect, among such People, as compose the bulk of an Army, that they are influenced by any other principles than those of Interest, is to look for what never did, and I fear never will happen
Leaders don't look backwards to condemn what has already been done; they look forward to create a better future.
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.
Progress comes from caring more about what needs to be done than about who gets the credit
We reasoned that the men would find it difficult to vote against the women in their home states when a woman was sitting with them making laws.
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