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.
He who is not a good servant will not be a good master.
For organizations seriously committed to making teamwork a cultural reality, I'm convinced that 'the right people' are the ones who have three virtues in common - humility, hunger, and people smarts.
When I got to the Mavericks people were all giving me advice - change this, change that - and one thing that I didn't do was fire anybody.
Begin with praise and honest appreciation.
When hiring key employees, there are only two qualities to look for: judgement and taste. Almost everything else can be bought by the yard.
Of all tasks of government the most basic is to protect its citizens against violence.
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