“The reason leaders must mediate values is that corporations have reached such levels of complexity that ‘giving orders’ rarely works anymore. What increasingly happens is that leaders’manage culture’ by fine-tuning values and dilemmas, and then that culture runs the organization. The leader defines excellence and develops an appropriate culture, and then the culture does the excelling.” ~Fons Trompenaars and Charles Hampden-Turner, 21 Leaders for the 21st Century

“My interest in leadership has always been from the perspective of those we call followers. At one point I wrote an article on followership that generated a lot of interest and I have worked with the idea ever since. I separate the idea of leadership position from leadership. In my life I have witnessed many in leadership positions who had very little of what I call leadership and I have seen individuals at all levels in an organization who are leaders and who influence others while operating as an individual contributor or team member. When I find fish swimming in an organization it is often the result of the work of someone inside, not at the top.” ~Stephen Lundin, author of Fish

“This selection is used by permission from Dr. John C. Maxwell’s free monthly e-newsletter ‘Leadership Wired’ available at www.MaximumImpact.com.”