John C. Maxwell Quotes

Effective leaders share two intertwined attributes: an unbridled level of confidence about where their organizations are headed, and the ability to bring people along.

Without organization and leadership toward a realistic goal, there is no chance of realizing more than a small percentage of your potential.

Leadership means bringing people together in pursuit of a common cause, developing a plan to achieve it, and staying with it until the goal is achieved.

If a leader cannot give you a clear picture of what he or she sees in the future, that person is not the leader of that organization.

I learned quickly that motivating people would be the most important responsibility of my career.

If you can provide the funding and you get the leadership, you'll have a competitive team.

I love the ability to work with very good managers, and to provide the right incentives for them, and truly become a partner with that management, and make that management take a long view.

My view is that, as management, the focus has to be on having a strategy and executing it. As you do the strategy and execution, it is important to communicate it consistently.

I fell in love with the topic of leadership. For three decades, that has been a major focus of my hands-on work: listening to and working with leaders, their teams and their organizations.

Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.

Strategy must dominate tactics, not the other way around.

I think as a manager you want to manage at the highest level possible and international management is one of those higher levels.

My job is to not be easy on people. My job is to make them better. My job is to pull things together from different parts of the company and clear the ways and get the resources for the key projects. And to take these great people we have and to push them and make them even better, coming up with more aggressive visions of how it could be.

Efficient management without effective leadership is, as one individual phrased, it, "like straightening deck chairs on the Titanic".

The very first task of leadership is to set the vision for the organization. If you don't set the vision, you're not the leader.

You can never underestimate the amount of energy and frequency you must give to vision casting. You can never underestimate it.

Set goals - high goals for you and your organization. When your organization has a goal to shoot for, you create teamwork, people working for a common good.

A business leader has to keep their organization focused on the mission. That sounds easy, but it can be tremendously challenging in today's competitive and ever-changing business environment. A leader also has to motivate potential partners to join.

The successful leader must plan his work and work his plan.

Management is the most noble of professions if it's practiced well.

If becoming a high performing organization is the destination, leadership is the engine.

When people can see which direction the leaders are going in it becomes easier to motivate them.

Building a mission and building a business go hand in hand.

Managers help people see themselves as they are; Leaders help people to see themselves better than they are.

The effectiveness of your work will never rise above your ability to lead and influence others.