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Consensus: “The process of abandoning all beliefs, principles, values, and policies in search of something in which no one believes, but to which no one objects; the process of avoiding the very issues that have to be solved, merely because you cannot get agreement on the way ahead. What great cause would have been fought and won under the banner: ‘I stand for consensus? ↗

— Margaret Thatcher

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I don’t see myself being special; I just see myself having more responsibilities than the next man. People look to me to do things for them, to have answers. ↗

— Tupac Shakur

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The task of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there. ↗

— John Buchan

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It’s the great temptation for small groups of people to slide into a state where they’re not quite telling each other the truth and they’re not quite celebrating each other. Instead, they tolerate each other, they accommodate each other, and they settle for sitting on the unspoken matters that separate them. ↗

— Bill Hybels

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The only consequence of their (employee) silence is that the blind (employer) lead the blind. ↗

— Margaret Heffernan

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...which animal the ruler should impersonate depends strongly on what animals the followers are. ↗

— Geert Hofstede

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You did what your heart told you to do,' Brain complimented. 'It is what leaders, not followers, do. ↗

— Tonya Hurley

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People in any organization are always attached to the obsolete - the things that should have worked but did not, the things that once were productive and no longer are. ↗

— Peter F. Drucker

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(On being in a position of leadership) Even if it's your dog, you've got authority over somebody. Start treating him better. ↗

— Joyce Meyer

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Politics is when people choose their words and actions based on how they want others to react rather than based on what they really think. ↗

— Patrick Lencioni

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