Ken Blanchard, author of the One Minute Managerwrote, “The key to successful leadership is influence not authority.” Politician, judge and author Thomas C. Halliburton wrote, “Whenever there is authority, there is a natural inclination to disobedience.”
Influence is defined as, “The power to change or affect someone or something or the power to cause changes without directly forcing them to happen.” In contrast, the word authority is defined as, “The power to give orders or make decisions or the power or right to direct or control someone or something.”