Subordinates Quotes

• There is only one condition in which we can imagine managers not needing subordinates, and masters not needing slaves. This condition would be that each inanimate instrument could do its own work.

  

  Aristotle
  • Work
  • Imagine
  • Slaves

• Art cannot be subordinate to its subject, otherwise it is not art but biography.

  

  Tom Stoppard
  • Art
  • Subjects
  • Biographies

• Like a good parent can't also be his child's best friend, a leader with authority requires some separation from subordinates.

  

  Simon Sinek
  • Children
  • Leader
  • Parent

• In any type of institution whatsoever, when a self-directed, imaginative, energetic, or creative member is being consistently frustrated and sabotaged rather than encouraged and supported, what will turn out to be true one hundred percent of the time, regardless of whether the disrupters are supervisors, subordinates, or peers, is that the person at the very top of that institution is a peace-monger.

  

  Edwin H. Friedman
  • Regardless
  • Imaginative
  • Supported

• Always let your subordinates know that the honor will be all theirs if they succeed and the blame will be yours if they fail.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Honor
  • Blame
  • Subordinates

• No, General. I'm not your subordinate. And what I'm coming dangerously close to is violence. -General Wedge Antilles

  

  Aaron Allston
  • Violence
  • Subordinates
  • Wedges

• My rationale was that commanders and leaders have to judge and assess subordinates on their merit, and considerations that are not merit-based should not be part of the equation.

  

  Norton A. Schwartz
  • Judge
  • Commanders
  • Subordinates

• Ethical obligation has to subordinate itself to the totalitarian nature of war.

  

  Karl Brandt
  • Obligation
  • Ethical
  • Subordinates

• But especially if you are dependent on others—if you are the boss or senior person trying to increase the likelihood that your subordinates will help you and be open with you—then Humble Inquiry will not only be desirable but essential. Why is this so difficult? We need next to look at the cultural forces that favor telling.

  

  Edgar Schein
  • Help
  • Forces
  • Dependent