Leadership Shorts: John Maxwell
- Leading is about the relationship between the leader and the led and trust is at its core.
- It’s not what we know before we make a decision that makes it a great decision. It’s what we do after we make a decision that makes it a great decision.
- Servant leaders enjoy seeing others succeed and look for ways to help them.
- The greatest mistake we make is living in constant fear that we will make one.
- You will never have all the information to make a decision. If you did it would be a forgone conclusion, not a decision.
- A great leader’s courage to fulfill his vision comes from passion not position.
- Life is not a dress rehearsal.
- Life is about adventure not maintenance.
- The entire population of the world – with one minor exception – is composed of others.
- If you could see yourself in terms of your true potential, you wouldn’t recognize yourself.
- As a leader you should always challenge people to move out of their comfort zone but never out of their strength zone.
- A procrastinator puts off until tomorrow the things he has already put off until today.
- Your attitude is either your best friend or your worst enemy, your greatest asset or your greatest liability.
- Position is lowest level of leadership. Anyone can be appointed a position.
- Everything is wrong with using position to get people to follow you.
- Position is a poor substitute for influence
- When you like people and treat them like individuals, you begin to develop influence with them. You develop trust.
- You can like people without leading them, but you cannot lead people well without liking them.
- Good leaders don’t just create pleasant working environment, they get things done.
- Leaders become great not because of their power but because of their ability to empower others.
- Great leaders use their position, relationships, and productivity to invest in their followers and develop them until those followers become leaders in their own right.
- Production may win games, but People Development wins Championships!
- Developing leaders to the point where they are able and willing to develop other leaders is the most difficult task of all.
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