“Leadership is not defined by the exercise of power but by the capacity to increase the sense of power among those led. The most essential work of the leader is to create more leaders.”  ~Mary Parker Follett, The Creative Experience, 1924

“The message of heroic leadership is about the sterling character of the leader, not the substance of the issues that the public is called to decide. And the temptation of heroic leadership is the extension of power and the escaping of public accountability. Heroic leaders are one of democracy’s leviathans, and the large shadows they cast obscure what democratic citizens lose in their presence.”

~ Bruce Miroff, Icons of Democracy:
American Leaders As Heroes, Aristocrats, Dissenters, and Democrats…

“…leadership will be understood as the collective capacity of all members of an organization to accomplish such critical tasks as setting direction, creating alignment, and gaining commitment. Leadership development based on this paradigm is more difficult to design and implement than those that have been popular for the last several decades in which the focus was to train individual leaders. Taking this next step will require a deeper understanding of the role of organizational systems and culture in leadership development.”