Leader Empowerment Quotes

The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.

A leader who develops people adds; a leader who develops leaders multiplies.

I start with the premise that the function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.

As a servant leader the way you serve the vision is by developing people so that they can work on that vision even when you're not around. The ultimate sin of an effective servant leader is what happens when you are not there. That was the power of Jesus' leadership-the leaders He trained went on to change the world when He was no longer with them in bodily form.

Perhaps the central task of the leader of leaders thus becomes the development of other leaders.

the best leaders try to train their followers themselves to become leaders. ... they wish to be leaders of leaders.

The intelligent employer encourages challenge, questioning--not blind acceptance and "our Leader knows best" acclaim.

You have to create circumstances where your first-tier leader knows what you are trying to accomplish, because he is the one who's going to get it done.