FOLLOW THE LEADER
- ...the Law of Magnetism really is true: who you are is who
you attract...^16
- No one can live on a level inconsistent with the way he sees
himself. You may have observed that in people. If someone sees
himself as a loser, he finds a way to lose. Anytime his success
surpasses his security, the result is self-destruction. That’s not
only true for followers, but it’s also true for leaders...^17
- Insecure leaders are dangerous – to themselves, their followers,
and the organizations they lead – because a leadership position
amplifies personal flaws...^18
- Most people like to win, to be on a winning team, or to be a
part of a winning effort. The desire to win inspires people,
and a leader who projects a winning attitude or winning ways
attracts people who want to win. No one that I know wakes up
in the morning hoping their day will be a failure...^19
- A prominent psychiatrist once told me that America’s second
greatest sin, after refusing to delay gratification, is transference,
at the heart of so much of the victim syndrome. Those who feel
they are victims generally expect more than they are due...^20
- As Viktor Frankl discovered in the death camps of Nazi
Germany:
“We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men
who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away
their last piece of bread. They may have been few in number,
but they offer sufficient proof that everything can be taken
from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms –
to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to
choose one’s own way.
“And there were always choices to make. Every day, every hour,
offered the opportunity to make a decision, a decision which
determined whether you would or would not submit to those
powers which threatened to rob you of your very self, your
inner freedom; which determined whether or not you would
become the plaything of circumstance...”^21
