Facilitator Quotes

A leader is someone who is always a step ahead of his people … but never more than one step … always close enough in order to understand his people and for his people to understand and feel him.

The real leader has no need to lead - he is content to point the way.

Dad was an outstanding leader. He'd bring in top thinkers from a wide array of fields - how to fix the Detroit schools, for example. I watched him in these meetings. He listened and probed.

I think a great leader is somebody who realizes it's not about them, it's about the people that they're serving, that they're really other-directed rather than self- directed.

I think 'director' is a very broad term. I like to think of myself as the head collaborator, not the director, because I think, for a lot of people, 'director' connotes giving orders and telling people what to do.

An MC is somebody who can control the crowd. An MC is a master of ceremonies so not only can you say your rap, you can rock the party.

Cruise director is - I always laugh and say, 'He's the ship's liver,' because almost everything you can think of filters through you at some point.

A consultant solves other people"s problems. I could never do that. I want to help other people solve their own problems.

In getting good results team leaders become conductor rather than driver, enabling others to play the right music, not by hands-on domination of all decisions and execution, but by providing inspiration, motivation and stimulus.

I was always the mediator.

Edson is the person that supports Pele. Edson is the base. Pele just comes and adds the face.

Teaching sometimes seems like not one profession, but every profession. We ask them to be doctor and diplomat, calf-herder, map-maker, wizard and watchman, electricians of the mind.

From an early age, I understood the concept that, if you're not the star, then your job is to not pull attention away from the star.

A mediator is an impartial outsider who tries to aid the negotiators in their quest to find a compromise agreement.

I don't really classify myself as a scorer. I'm a ballplayer; I'm a playmaker. I like to set people up and make the game easy for everybody.

He neither serves nor rules, he transmits. His position is humble and the beauty at the crown is not his own. He is merely a channel.

I feel like I'm a guy who gets other guys shots.

I don't expect to be a ‘leader’ with this thing. I'd rather be a builder. I'd like to build a way for people doing good work to connect, to learn from each other, protect each other, and then I want to get out of their way.

The MC has to be just that, a master in control. They can show no signs of weakness.

We teachers can only help the work going on, as servants wait upon a master.

It is well-known what a middleman is: he is a man who bamboozles one party and plunders the other.

I have the mentality of a supporting actor.

Leadership means getting people to do what they don’t want to do.

I always wanted to be the person to whom people looked forward to give opportunities. As opposed to always being the person who wants to work with others and who is always the backup: where it's like, 'If nothing works out then OK, let's get this person.'

I have a different vision of leadership. A leadership is someone who brings people together.