John C. Maxwell
John C. Maxwell
winning working-together collaboration
Working together precedes winning together...collaboration is multiplication.
decision inability failing
Inability to make decisions is one of the principal reasons executives fail.
moving giving want
God wants to be our partner throughout life. Too often we are tempted to either carry the entire load ourselves or give everything to God and do nothing. God doesn't like either strategy. Sometimes He moves before us and sometimes after us - but He doesn't move without us. Without God... we cannot. Without us... God will not.
thinking people today
The greatest detriment to many people's success tomorrow is their thinking today.
effectiveness organizational
Personal and organizational effectiveness is proportionate to the strength of leadership.
motivation like-love happiness-and-love
Motivation is like love and happiness. It's a by-product. When you're actively engaged in doing something, it sneaks up and zaps you when you least expect it.
mistake successful thinking
Successful people...focus on the rewards of success: learning from their mistakes and thinking about how they can improve themselves and their situations.
smart believe leader
Smart leaders believe only half of what they hear. Discerning leaders know which have to believe.
character choices levels
Talent is a gift, but our character is a choice. Talent is natural ability, our gift from God, but we have the power to determine our character. That power rests on a foundation consisting of the choices we make in life. And those choices almost always dictate the amount of trust others have in us, and to what level of leadership we rise.
people want understood
What most people really want is to be listened to, respected, and understood.
believe fall expectations
People rise and fall to meet your level of expectations for them. If you express skepticism and doubt in others, they will return your lack of confidence with mediocrity. But if you believe in them and expect them to do well, they will go the extra mile trying to do their best.
attitude adversity prosperity
Adversity is prosperity to those who possess a great attitude.
loyalty leader groups
The collective influence of you and the other leaders will bring the rest along. If this does not happen, divided interest and loyalty will occur within the group.
focus seems
It seems the older you get, the more life comes into focus.