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There are three qualities a leader must exemplify to build trust: competence, connection, and character.
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A word of encouragement from a teacher to a child can change a life. A word of encouragement from a spouse can save a marriage. A word of encouragement from a leader can inspire a person to reach her potential.
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If you really want to be a successful leader, you must develop other leaders around you. You must establish a team.
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Openness by the leader paves the way for ownership by the people. Without ownership, changes will be short term. Changing people's habits and ways of thinking is like writing instructions in the snow during a snowstorm. Every twenty minutes the instructions must be rewritten, unless ownership is given along with instructions.
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While a good leader sustains momentum, a great leader increases it.
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Great leaders always have self-discipline -without exception.
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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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Acquiring and keeping good people is a leader's most important task.
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Leaders provide for their people what the people cannot provide for themselves.
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As a leader, you will never get ahead until your people are behind you.
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The leader's Attitude is like a thermostat for the place she works. If her attitude is good, the atmosphere is pleasant, and the environment is easy to work in. But if her attitude is bad, the temperature is insufferable.
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For leaders to be effective, they need to connect with people.
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The great leaders in history were great not because of what they owned or earned but because of what they gave their lives to accomplish. They made a difference!
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People will not follow a leader who does not have confidence in himself.
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It takes a leader to know a leader, grow a leader, and show a leader.
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When the leader lacks confidence, the followers lack commitment.
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A leader's ability to convey confidence and his ability to communicate effectively are similar.
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The first order of things to be changed is me, the leader. After I consider how hard it is to change myself, then I will understand the challenge of trying to change others. This is the ultimate test of leadership.
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As a leader, the first person I need to lead is me. The first person that I should try to change is me.
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A leader is one who sees more than others see, who sees farther than others see, and who sees before others do." (Leroy Eims)
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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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A good leader encourages followers to tell him what he needs to know, not what he wants to hear.
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Good leaders understand that they are stewards. They must find the best people they can, giving them the opportunity to join in the journey developing them, and encouraging them to reach their potential. But they must hold on to people lightly. Those who start with you seldom finish with you.
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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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A leader's attitude is caught by his or her followers more quickly than his or her actions.
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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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