You can’t be a leader, let alone a good leader or an effective one, if your first instinct is to respond to any input from others by dismissing or demeaning them personally. When you make it clear to others that any suggestion, constructive criticism, complaint, or inspiration will be met with condescension, they will learn that their thoughts are not wanted or welcome, and will oblige your demonstrated wishes by keeping such to themselves – to your detriment, and the detriment of your organization as a whole.
Matthias Adler
Category: Matthias Adler Quotes
Matthias Adler on Utopias
What is a utopia but the humanly impossible, pursued by the philosophically reprehensible, using means morally indefensible?
– Matthias Adler
Matthias Adler on Activist Principles
Any principle elevated to dogma will become hypocrisy. This is something that activists seem surprised to discover about themselves and their causes no matter how many times they discover it.
– Matthias Adler
Matthias Adler on Independent Thinkers
It’s easy to spot the most ‘independent’ and ‘informed’ thinker in any group: he’ll be the one parroting the most conformist and ignorant nonsense.
– Matthias Adler
Matthias Adler on Causes
Yes, I’m sure all of this seems vitally important if not deadly serious to you today, but tomorrow, or the day after that, you’ll wake up to find all the other fish have shoaled abruptly in some entirely different direction. And you, terrified to be left behind, will just as abruptly drop today’s cause to follow along.
— Matthias Adler