Leaders vs Followers

• When leaders make a mistake, they say, "I was wrong."
  
• When followers make mistakes, they say, "It wasn't my fault."
  
  
• A leader works harder than a follower and has more time;
  
• a follower is always "too busy" to do what is necessary.
  
  
• A leader goes through a problem;
  
• a follower goes around it and never gets past it.
  
  
• A leader makes and keeps commitments;
  
• a follower makes and forgets promises.
  
  
• A leader says, "I'm good, but not as good as I ought to be;"
  
• a follower says, "I'm not as bad as a lot of other people."
  
  
• Leaders listen;
  
• followers just wait until it's their turn to talk.
  
  
• Leaders respect those who are superior to them and tries to learn something from them;
  
• followers resent those who are superior to them and try to find chinks in their armor.
  
  
• Leaders feel responsibile for more than their job;
  
• followers say, "I only work here."
  
  
• A leader says, "There ought to be a better way to do this;"
  
• followers say, "That's the way it's always been done here."
  
  

Author: Unknown
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You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments
when you have really lived are the moments
when you have done things in a spirit of love.