Lao Tzu on Leadership

To lead people, walk beside them... As for the best leaders, the people do not notice their existence. The next best, the people honor and praise. The next, the people fear; and the next, the people hate... When the best leader's work is done the people say, 'We did it ourselves!'

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This, I think, summarizes teaching as well as anything I've read. The question, though, how to achieve this...