John C. Maxwell Quotes

Having the ability to relate to people is such an important part of management and leadership.

I definitely learned a lot about how to be more communicative with my crews.

The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.

I think there's a worry that an excessive use or an almost exclusive use of text and emails means that as a society we're losing some of the ability to build interpersonal communication that's necessary for living together and building a community.

As you develop relationships in your team you have to learn how your teammates react to being yelled at or how to put your arm around them and show them how to do things. You have to build those relationships up and understand who that person is and how they respond and choose your way to lead them to hopefully help everyone out.

Leadership is all about emotional intelligence. Management is taught, while leadership is experienced.

...people have character strength but they lack communication skills, and that undoubtedly affects the quality of relationships as well.

In order to lead people, you have to get to know them.

The ability to understand the people you’re dealing with is practical. Leading with respect and curiosity is practical. ... At the center of every healthy family, organization, and nation is a core humanistic skill: the capacity to see others deeply, to understand them, and to make them feel seen, heard, and understood.

Most people that derail as leaders in the corporate world, it's not because they couldn't do the math and calculate return on investment properly. The issues are communication and understanding. All of what typically would've been called the 'soft stuff.' You have to be authentic. You have to be dialed into the soft stuff.

This applies to many film jobs, not just editing: half the job is doing the job, and the other half is finding ways to get along with people and tuning yourself in to the delicacy of the situation.

I'm engaged: I'm interested in other people. I think that's just as important as knowing how to do the job.

That's probably a problem for some people in this business, they don't like to listen.

Emotional intelligence is your ability to recognize and understand emotions in yourself and others, and your ability to use this awareness to manage your behavior and relationships.

Ultimately as a leader, you're evaluated on how you interact with people. If you do it well, you develop a reputation as effective leader. If you don't, you develop a reputation for being a highly ineffective leader.

Any good director, and I've worked with a few that I would call very good, they know how to disarm any anxieties very quickly.

I don't put together cars, I put together people.

I used to not listen that much, but I've really learnt to listen to other people and to really listen to what they're saying. I've found, especially being on a film set, people have so many different stories; if you just listen, you can pick up so much stuff. I try to listen as much as I can.

In most job interviews, people say they are looking for people skills and emotional intelligence. That's reasonable, but the question is, how do you define what that looks like?

I can be a good listener. I can ask the right questions a lot of the time.

I believe you learn social skills by mixing with people.

I think because both of my parents were essentially salespeople, and Italian-Americans, I always seemed to get along with people; I had a knack of finding something to talk about.

At AT&T, I learned an awful lot about people, and how important it is to have the right people in the right jobs. And when I say 'right people,' I'm not talking about their college degree or work history; I'm talking about things like bearing - How does this person interact with other people? Can he or she talk to you and not tick you off?

A really good uniformed cop has tremendous people skills, and they learn how to read people.

It’s important for me to hear others position and understand them.