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All great leaders have understood that their number one responsibility is cultivating their own discipline and personal growth. Those who cannot lead themselves cannot lead others.
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Leaders need to remember that the point of leading is not to cross the finish line first. It's to take people across the finish line with you. For that reason, leaders must deliberately slow their pace, stay connected to their people, enlist others to help fulfill the vision, and keep people going. You can't do that if you're running too far ahead of your people.
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Acquiring and keeping good people is a leader's most important task.
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A successful person finds the right place for himself. But a successful leader finds the right place for others. By John Maxwell
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Great leaders always have self-discipline -without exception.
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Anyone can steer the ship, but it takes a leader to chart the course. Leaders who are good navigators are capable of taking their people just about anywhere.
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People buy into the leader before they buy into the vision. Many people who approach the area of vision in leadership have it backwards. They believe that if the cause is good enough, people will automatically buy in and follow. But that's not how leadership works. People don't follow worthy causes; they follow worthy leaders with a cause they can believe in. They buy into the leader first.
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If you can become the leader you ought to be on the inside, you will be able to become the person you want on the outside. People will want to follow you. And when that happens, you'll be able to tackle anything in this world.
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Your goal as a leader isn't to be indispensable to the people you lead; it is to leave your people something that is indispensable to them.
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There are three qualities a leader must exemplify to build trust: competence, connection, and character.
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Leaders have two characteristics: first they are going somewhere, and second they are able to persuade other people to go with them.
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A great leader's courage to fulfill his vision comes from passion, not position.
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Great leaders understand that the right attitude will set the right atmosphere, which enables the right response from others.
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A great leader has the ability to instill within his people confidence in themselves.
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Competence goes beyond words. It's the leader's ability to say it, plan it, and do it in such a way that others know that you know how - and know that they want to follow you.
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People today are desperate for leaders, but they want to be influenced only by individuals they can trust, persons of good character.
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The strength of any organization is a direct result of the strength of its leaders.
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Every new level of growth we hope to experience as leaders calls for a new level of change. You cannot have one without the other. If you want to be a better leader, get ready to make some trades.
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Grow a leader-grow the organization. A company cannot grow without until its leaders grow within.
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Leaders create and inspire new leaders by instilling faith in their leadership abilities and helping them develop and hone leadership skills they don't know they possess.
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Leaders become great, not because of their power, but because of their ability to empower others.
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All leaders make mistakes. They are a part of life. Successful leaders recognize their errors, learn from them, and work to correct their faults.
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A leader's attitude is caught by his or her followers more quickly than his or her actions.
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Knowing how to do a job is the accomplishment of labor - showing others is the accomplishment of the teacher - making sure the work is done by others is the accomplishment of the manager - inspiring others to do better work is the accomplishment of the leader.
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If you are a leader, the true measure of your success is not getting people to work. It's not getting people to work hard. It is getting people to work hard together. That takes commitment.
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The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning it.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton
John C. Maxwell
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February 20, 1947
(age 77)
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