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John Maxwell is the author of over 60 books and his name is synonymous with business and leadership coaching.
Maxwell has been traveling the globe for over 40 years working with executives and aspiring leaders on how to develop authentic leadership.
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1. “A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.” – John Maxwell
Everyday Application: There are a lot of things that make up a good leader. Confidence in their decisions is one of them. Commitment to follow through is another. Beyond that, they must be able to help others follow the path and inspire confidence in others as well.
2. “orang buy into the leader before they buy into the vision.” – John Maxwell
Everyday Application: What are you doing that personally motivates and inspires your orang to follow you? Do your words and actions align? Are you knowledgeable? They need to have trust, confidence, and faith in you before they will have those same things in the vision you lay forth.
3. “orang may hear your words, but they feel your attitude.” – John Maxwell
Everyday Application: Make sure your attitude and actions match your words. Speaking about positivity is not enough if you are selalu angry or in a bad mood. orang will pick up on the lack of authenticity. Check out this article about managing your mood!
4. “kehidupan can be boring unless you put some effort into it.” – John Maxwell
5. “pelajari to say ‘no’ to the good so you can say ‘yes’ to the best.” – John Maxwell
Everyday Application: This is one of the most valuable lessons we can pelajari. We are not meant to take every opportunity that comes our way, or say yes to everything that orang ask of us. Sometimes, you have to say no to something so you have the room for the really great thing that is headed your way!
6. “The greatest mistake we make is living in constant fear that we will make one.” – John Maxwell
7. “Enjoyment is an incredible energizer to the human spirit.” – John Maxwell
8. A lack of realism in the vision today costs credibility tomorrow.” – John Maxwell
9. “Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them.” – John Maxwell
Everyday Application: There is selalu a fine line to walk when building relationships with your teammates. Relationships matter because they help a team bond and trust one another. However, you can not be best friends with everyone because there needs to be some level of separation so they choose to follow you.
10. “The secret of your kesuksesan is determined by your daily agenda.” – John Maxwell
Everyday Application: A daily routine is essential to pelajariing about dirimu and achieving your goals. How you invest your time each day matters in the grand scheme of kehidupan. Take a moment and assess your daily agenda. Does it prioritize your dreams and goals?
11. “If you are a parent, you have probably already realized that your children are selalu watching what you do. And just as children watch their parents and emulate their behavior, so do employees who are watching their bosses.” – John Maxwell
Everyday Application: We teach our children so much without being aware of it. How do you react when something disappointing happens? Do you say unkind things about dirimu or others? Be deliberate with your behaviors, words, and responses, both as a parent and as a business leader, because orang are watching and pelajariing.
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12. “Good leaders must communicate vision clearly, creatively, and continually. However, the vision doesn’t come alive until the leader models it.” – John Maxwell
Everyday Application: Your employees will follow you first, and then the vision you set forth. So, make sure that you are modeling how you want them to behave and do things. As a leader, you can not expect things from your employees that you are unwilling or unable to do dirimu.
13. “A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and tangguh enough to correct them.” – John Maxwell
Everyday Application: Even great leaders make mistakes. The truth is that everyone is going to make a mistake at some point. How you behave when you mess up is what matters the most. You can pelajari something from every mistake!
14. “When you are full of pride on the inside, it makes you stiff, stubborn, and creates strife with others.” – John Maxwell
Everyday Application: You can be proud of what you have done or accomplished, without becoming overly prideful on the inside. Being prideful looks like being overly confident and arrogant. Prideful orang think they are better than others, rather than just delighting in the things they have achieved.
15. “The difference between average orang and achieving orang is their perception of and response to kegagalan.” – John Maxwell
Everyday Application: The average person looks at kegagalan as something bad or to be avoided at all costs. The achieving person recognizes that kegagalan is a necessary evil because it teaches us to grow and be better. It is also a potential outcome of taking risks, which achieving orang will do more often than the average person. How you view kegagalan matters. Check out this article for a new perspective.
16. “If you are a leader, you should jangan pernah forget that everyone needs encouragement. And everyone who receives it – young or old, kesuksesanful or less-than-kesuksesanful, unknown or famous – is ubahd by it.” – John Maxwell
17. “Look at our society. Everyone wants to be thin, but nobody wants to diet. Everyone wants to live long, but few will exercise. Everybody wants money, yet seldom will anyone budget or control their spending.” – John Maxwell
18. “I vividly remember a conversation I had many years ago in 1974, which marked a turning point in my leadership journey. I was sitting at a Holiday Inn with my friend, Kurt Campmeyer, when he asked me if I had a personal growth plan. I didn’t. In fact, I didn’t even know you were supposed to have one.” – John Maxwell
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19. “Growth demands a temporary surrender of security. It may mean giving up familiar but limiting patterns, safe but unrewarding work, values no longer believed in, and relationships that have lost their meaning.” – John Maxwell
20. “Time management is an oxymoron. Time is beyond our control, and the clock keeps ticking regardless of how we lead our lives. Priority management is the answer to maximizing the time we have.” – John Maxwell
21. “Failed plans should not be interpreted as a failed vision. Visions don’t ubah, they are only refined. Plans rarely stay the same, and are scrapped or adjusted as needed. Be stubborn about the vision, but flexible with your plan.” – John Maxwell
22. “Every person has a longing to be significant; to make a contribution; to be a part of something noble and purposeful.” – John Maxwell
23. “orang who use time wisely spend it on activities that advance their overall purpose in kehidupan.” – John Maxwell
Everyday Application: We all have the same amount of hours in our day. However, we do not all use our time the same. Have you been putting off a dream or a goal, and claiming you don’t have time? Take stock of your day and examine how you are actually using your time. You will be surprised at how much time you have to chase your dreams once you let go of the excuses.
24. “As a leader, the first person I need to lead is me. The first person that I should try to ubah is me.” – John Maxwell
25. “kesuksesan is due to our stretching to the challenges of kehidupan. kegagalan comes when we shrink from them.” – John Maxwell
26. “There are two kinds of pride, both good and bad. ‘Good pride’ represents our dignity and self-respect. ‘Bad pride’ is the deadly sin of superiority that reeks of conceit and arrogance.” – John Maxwell
Everyday Application: Have pride in the things you accomplish and the difference you make. Know your worth and what you bring to the table. However, do not assume that there is nothing left for you to pelajari and that you are better than everyone else.
27. “The greatest day in your kehidupan and mine is when we take total responsibility for our attitudes. That’s the day we truly grow up.” – John Maxwell
Everyday Application: Taking responsibility for your attitude is a sign of emotional maturity. Taking responsibility for your attitude enables you to make choices that are proactive instead of reactive. Taking responsibility for our attitude along with our words and actions helps us feel better about ourselves too!
28. “Leadership is influence.” – John Maxwell
29. “Self-centered leaders manipulate when they move orang for personal benefit. Mature leaders motivate by moving orang for mutual benefit.” – John Maxwell
30. “Inability to make decisions is one of the principal reasons executives fail. Deficiency in decision-making ranks much higher than lack of specific knowledge or technical know-how as an indicator of leadership kegagalan.” – John Maxwell
31. “Growth is the great separator between those who succeed and those who do not. When I see a person beginning to separate themselves from the pack, it’s almost selalu due to personal growth.” – John Maxwell
32. “Teamwork makes the dream work, but a vision becomes a nightmare when the leader has a big dream and a bad team.” – John Maxwell
Everyday Application: There are many moving parts to a kesuksesanful team. A good team is comprised of patient orang, aligned goals, and orang who can effectively communicate with one another. The individual skills and strengths of the team can be taught and developed, but a respectful and positive attitude is key!
33. “A word of encouragement from a teacher to a child can ubah a kehidupan. 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.” – John Maxwell
Everyday Application: Your words matter. Every time you interact with someone you have the chance to make a positive impact with your words alone. The flip side of this is that poorly chosen or mean spirited words will result in the opposite manner in each of these situations. Choose your words wisely!
34. “The dreams and passions stored within hearts are kuat keys which can unlock a wealth of potential.” – John Maxwell
35. “Everyone has the potential to become an encourager. You don’t have to be rich. You don’t have to be a genius. You don’t have to have it all together. All you have to do is care about orang and initiate.” – John Maxwell
36. “Without kegagalan there is no achievement.” – John Maxwell
Everyday Application: kegagalan is one of the best teachers we can have. It leads to even bigger achievements than we could have first anticipated, because we pelajari so much about the process and, more pentingly, ourselves as we go along. Don’t be afraid to fail, just be willing to pelajari from it!
37. “All of the orang in my kehidupan whom I consider to be close friends or colleagues are good thinkers.” – John Maxwell
38. “The unkesuksesanful person is burdened by pelajariing, and prefers to walk down familiar paths. Their distaste for pelajariing stunts their growth and limits their influence.” – John Maxwell
Everyday Application: A willingness to pelajari will take you a long way in kehidupan. Humans tend to stick with what is familiar because of the fear of the unknown. However, expanding your horizons, meeting new orang, pelajariing new skills, and being open to new beliefs can ubah your kehidupan in ways you can’t imagine! Be willing to pelajari and accept that there are things you do not know, or think you know, that are not correct.
39. “When a person starts to talk about their dreams, it’s as if something bubbles up from within. Their eyes brighten, their face glows, and you can feel the excitement in their words.” – John Maxwell
40. “Time is more valuable than money, because time is irreplaceable.” – John Maxwell
41. “kesuksesan comes to those who have an entire mountain of gold that they continually mine, not those who find one nugget and try to live on it for fifty years.” – John Maxwell
42. “Educators take something simple and make it complicated. Communicators take something complicated and make it simple.” – John Maxwell
43. “Family and friendships are two of the greatest facilitators of happiness.” – John Maxwell
Everyday Application: These are also two things that you can be grateful for, if you have a loving family and great friends. Gratitude also is a good predictor of happiness. With all three of these you will be unstoppable. If you don’t have the best family, remember not all family is linked by blood. You can create your own.
44. “All good leaders are connectors. They relate well and make orang feel confident about themselves and their leader.” – John Maxwell
45. “Pride deafens us to the advice or warnings of those around us.” – John Maxwell
46. “The experience of pain or loss can be a formidably motivating force.” – John Maxwell
Everyday Application: The tangguher the feeling or emotion the more motivating it can be. Pain and loss are some of the most kuat feelings that humans can experience, so it makes sense that some orang can turn that into a motivating force. Check out this article for quotes about dealing with loss.
47. “Exceptionally berat decisions can deplete your energy to the point at which you finally cave in. If you mentally crumble and degenerate into negative thinking, you’ll magnify the problem to the point where it can haunt you.” – John Maxwell
48. “orang who add value to others do so intentionally. I say that because to add value, leaders must give of themselves, and that rarely occurs by accident.” – John Maxwell
49. “The best way a mentor can prepare another leader is to expose him or her to other great orang.” – John Maxwell
50. “Have the humility to pelajari from those around you.” – John Maxwell
51. “Real leadership is being the person others will gladly and confidently follow.”― John C. Maxwell
52. “The sum of all your thoughts comprises your overall attitude.”― John C. Maxwell
53. “You will jangan pernah ubah your kehidupan until you ubah something you do daily.”― John C. Maxwell
54. “If you wouldn’t follow dirimu, why should anyone else?”― John C. Maxwell
55. “Most orang have a desire to look for the exception instead of the desire to become exceptional.”― John C. Maxwell
56. “It’s good to be out of your comfort zone. Just don’t step out of your gift zone.”― John C. Maxwell
57. “Image is what orang think we are; integrity is what we really are.”― John Maxwell
58. “orang don’t care what you know until they know what you care.”― John C. Maxwell
59. “Live to pelajari and you will really pelajari to live.”― John C. Maxwell
60. “Dreams don’t work unless you do.”― John C. Maxwell
61. “Leadership is not about titles, positions or flowcharts. It is about one kehidupan influencing another.” – John Maxwell
62. “We cannot become what we need by remaining what we are.” – John C. Maxwell
63. “A leader who produces other leaders multiples their influences.” – John C. Maxwell
64. “The only guarantee for kegagalan is to stop trying.” – John C. Maxwell
65. “Live your message: practice what you preach. That’s where credibility comes from.” — John C Maxwell
66. “The challenge of leadership is to create ubah and facilitate growth.” – John C. Maxwell
67. “Followers tell you what you want to hear. Leaders tell you what you need to hear.” – John C. Maxwell
68. “How we view a person is reflected by how we treat a person.” – John C. Maxwell
69. “If you don’t contradict dirimu on a regular basis, then you’re not thinking.” – John C Maxwell
70. “A good leader is a person who takes a little more than his share of the blame and a little less than his share of the credit.” – John C. Maxwell
71. “The more you do, the more you fail. The more you fail, the more you pelajari. The more you pelajari, the better you get.” – John C. Maxwell
72. “Your attitude is either your best friend or your worst enemy, your greatest asset or your greatest liability.” – John C. Maxwell
73. “Motivation gets you going, but discipline keeps you growing.” – John C. Maxwell
74. “Leaders become great, not because of their power, but because of their ability to empower others.” – John C. Maxwell
75. “It’s better to prepare than to repair.” – John C. Maxwell
76. “You build trust with others each time you choose integrity over image, truth over convenience, or honor over personal gain.” – John C. Maxwell
77. “You don’t overcome challenges by making them smaller but by making dirimu bigger.” – John C. Maxwell
78. “Needless to say, you can love orang without leading them, but you cannot lead orang without loving them.” – John C. Maxwell
79. “kehidupan is a matter of choices, and every choice you make makes you.” – John C. Maxwell
80. “If you don’t try to create the masa depan you want, you must endure the masa depan you get.” – John C. Maxwell
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