Sea como sea, cuando hay un líder autoritario en la cima de la pirámide, lo más probable es que las personas en las capas inferiores tengan menor capacidad para tomar decisiones oportunas, basándose en sus instintos. Preferirán, en cambio, remitir las cosas al nivel superior, con lo cual reducen las posibilidades de equivocarse y/o de excederse respecto a sus funciones asignadas.

Generally, we translate only one level of a language, the top of the pyramid, leaving very different levels concealed below.

Hierarchies only work to the benefit of those on the top. If you’re high, you’ll get by. If you’re low, out you go! That’s how it is.

The truth is that everything starts from the top. What determines your failure or success is your style of leadership and the chain of command that you design.

A leader. . .is like a shepherd. He stays behind the flock, letting the most nimble go out ahead, whereupon the others follow, not realizing that all along they are being directed from behind.

Those who lead are able to do so because those who follow trust that the decisions made at the top have the best interest of the group at heart.

Someone will declare, “I am the leader!” and expect everyone to get in line and follow him or her to the gates of heaven or hell. My experience is that it doesn’t happen that way. Unless you’re a guard on a chain gang, others follow you based on the quality of your actions rather than the magnitude of your declarations.

For what the leaders are, that, as a rule, will the men below them be. — Xenophon (430?–355? B.C.)

Historically leadership and the concept has always been the top down one most of us who do leadership training we do the bottom up leadership you don't impose structure you figure out organically who the people are.

Lead from the back and let others believe they are in front.

For the last 5 years, we have been writing a shameful chapter in American history. To sum all of this up, leading from behind doesn't work. If America leads from behind, somebody else is going to be in front. If the United States leaves conflicts and creates vacuums, then bad things happen. Look at a map of the Middle East in January of 2009, when this President came to the Presidency of the United States, and look at that map now--the way ISIS has metastasized, the way hundreds of thousands have been murdered and millions are on the march as refugees. We still have apologists for this leading from behind, a policy which is described as "Don't do stupid stuff." This is the result of leadership that has left the scene in a way that we have not seen since the 1930s, in the days of Neville Chamberlain and "peace in our time."

The highest type of leadership maintains itself by its intrinsic worth, sans panoply, pomp and power. Of course, there are never enough real leaders to go around. Wherefore it becomes necessary to dress some men up and by other artificial means to give them a prestige and a power which they could not win by their own resources.

Power rarely ends up in the hands of those who start a revolution, or even of those who further it; power sticks to those who bring it to a conclusion.

Lead from the back — and let others believe they are in front.