“No one is apathetic except those in pursuit of someone else’s objectives”
Henry Ford, American automobile pioneer

“Leadership is not so much the exercise of power as the empowerment of others. Leaders lead by pulling rather than by pushing; by creating achievable, challenging expectations and rewarding progress toward them, rather than by manipulating; by enabling people to use their own initiative.”
Warren Bennis and Joan Goldsmith, Learning to Lead: A Workbook on Becoming a Leader

“The core of the problem is the mindset that somehow people have to be managed, motivated, and trained for them to perform well. In fact, mostly people just need to be included and given some choice, treated as owners, and supported as if theyÆre central to the business. That’s what stewardship is all about.”
Peter Block, author and consultant

“The ratios of We’s to I’s is the best indicator of the development of a team”

Lewis Eigen, Executive Vice President, University Research Corporation

“People want to be treated like responsible adults, but many workers – primarily in factories but also in many white-collar settings – are, as they see it, treated like children or criminals, subjected to strict monitoring of their work and other behavior to coerce performance and conformity to the ‘rules.’ The response to this kind of treatment is that anger builds up in workers over time, and this has always been a major element in the more severe industrial relations conflicts we have studied. Even when the reaction is not explosive, this mode of management is self-defeating for the company. It is based on false assumptions about the great majority of workers (e.g., that they are irresponsible) and becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy: management that expects the worst from people gets it.”
David Sirota, Louis A. Mischkind, and Michael Irwin Meltzer, The Enthusiastic Employee

“When you give people choice, you give them power. When you give them power, you give them freedom. When you give them freedom, you give them back their individuality and their life. When they get their life back, they will choose to find unity and purpose. This is a natural human yearning and a requirement of the spiritually centered organization.”
Ian Percy, Going Deep: Exploring Spirituality in Life and Leadership