John C. Maxwell Quotes

The signs of outstanding leadership appear primarily among the followers. Are the followers reaching their potential? Are they learning? Serving? Do they achieve the required results? Do they change with grace? Manage conflict?

I think the most effective managers in the world have a team that wants to jump through brick walls for them.

When leaders care less about their people, their people will be careless.

For leaders to be effective, they need to connect with people.

If your program has a great leader, you'll get great things. If you don't have a great leader and people aren't on the same page, you have a lot of different people doing a lot of different things. That's where trouble starts.

You know, I think when people are in important positions in big organizations, they often get tied up with the minutia of managing money, managing things. They often forget that people deserve to be led.

Every leader needs to clearly explain the top three things the organization is working on. If you can't, then you're not leading well.

Do you have a real interest in people who work for you? Most good leaders have that - it's hard to get someone to follow you if they feel like you hate 'em.

Know what your people are like, and make sure they do their jobs excellently.

We have leadership—there's just no followership.

When leaders lead in ways that people's brains can follow, good results follow as well.

You manage things, you lead people. We went overboard on management and forgot about leadership.

All good leaders listen to their people and empower them to go away and turn any innovative ideas they have into a reality.

We will have to learn to lead people rather then to contain them.

Acquiring and keeping good people is a leader's most important task.

I do have the strength. Leadership, leadership is not about attacking people and disparaging people. Leadership is about creating a serious strategy to deal with the threat of our time.

Respect is the key determinant of high performance leadership. How much people respect you determines how well they perform.

You can only lead if the people that you're leading want to be led.

A leader's job is to help his people.

I'm not sure leaders listen enough, especially to their people. And I've always thought in everything I've tried to do in my life, in the jobs I've had, is that if we can turn our transmitters off and our receivers on more often, we're better leaders and we know more of what is going on and therefore we can lead more effectively.

You must love those you lead before you can be an effective leader, you can certainly command without that sense of commitment, but you cannot lead without it. And without leadership, command is a hollow experience, a vacuum often filled with mistrust and arrogance.

I think that you can't choose leadership. You have to deal with the leadership that the people respond to.

One does not "manage" people. The task is to lead people.

A leader who loses his connection to his people soon loses the ability to lead them.

Focus on your customers and lead your people as though their lives depend on your success.