Developing the Leaders Around You Quotes

“Relational skills are the most important abilities in leadership.”
― John C. Maxwell, Developing the Leaders Around You: How to Help Others Reach Their Full Potential

“Followers tell you what you want to hear. Leaders tell you what you need to hear.”
― John C. Maxwell, Developing the Leaders Around You: How to Help Others Reach Their Full Potential

“The reason for this is that sharks adapt to their environment. If you catch a small shark and confine it, it will stay a size proportionate to the aquarium in which it lives. Sharks can be six inches long and fully mature. But turn them loose in the ocean and they grow to their normal size. The same is true of potential leaders. Some are put into an organization when they are still small, and the confining environment ensures that they stay small and underdeveloped. Only leaders can control the environment of their organization. They can be the change agents who create a climate conducive to growth.”
― John C. Maxwell, Developing the Leaders Around You: How to Help Others Reach Their Full Potential

“The attitude of the leader, coupled with a positive atmosphere in the organization, can encourage people to accomplish great things.”
― John C. Maxwell, Developing the Leaders Around You: How to Help Others Reach Their Full Potential

“One of the best applications of this idea is expressed in what I call the 101 percent principle: Find the one thing that you believe is the potential leader’s greatest asset, and then give 101 percent encouragement in that area. Focusing on a person’s strengths promotes positive growth, confidence, and success as a potential leader. Focus”
― John C. Maxwell, Developing the Leaders Around You: How to Help Others Reach Their Full Potential

“To maximize the value of momentum, leaders must: (1) develop an appreciation for it early; (2) know the key ingredients of it immediately; and (3) pour resources into it always.”
― John C. Maxwell, Developing the Leaders Around You: How to Help Others Reach Their Full Potential

“Most people produce only when they feel like it. Leaders produce even when they don’t feel like it.”
― John C. Maxwell, Developing the Leaders Around You: How to Help Others Reach Their Full Potential

“If anything goes bad, I did it. If anything goes semi-good, then we did it. If anything goes real good, they did it.” That’s”
― John C. Maxwell, Developing the Leaders Around You: How to Help Others Reach Their Full Potential

“He knew that if you oversee people and you wish to develop leaders, you are responsible to: (1) appreciate them for who they are; (2) believe that they will do their very best; (3) praise their accomplishments; and (4) accept your personal responsibility to them as their leader.”
― John C. Maxwell, Developing the Leaders Around You: How to Help Others Reach Their Full Potential

“Unless you want to carry the whole load yourself, you need to be developing leaders.”
― John C. Maxwell, Developing the Leaders Around You: How to Help Others Reach Their Full Potential

“Spend 80 percent of your time on the most promising 20 percent of the potential leaders around you.”
― John C. Maxwell, Developing the Leaders Around You: How to Help Others Reach Their Full Potential

“People need clear objectives set before them if they are to achieve anything of value.”
― John C. Maxwell, Developing the Leaders Around You: How to Help Others Reach Their Full Potential

“Example is not the main thing in influencing others . . . it is the only thing.”
― John C. Maxwell, Developing the Leaders Around You: How to Help Others Reach Their Full Potential

“Don’t settle for poor performers. Keep in mind that one great person will always out-produce and out-perform two mediocre people.”
― John C. Maxwell, Developing the Leaders Around You: How to Help Others Reach Their Full Potential

“Above all, don’t dwell on yesterday’s victory. If your focus is on what’s behind you rather than what’s ahead, you will crash.”
― John C. Maxwell, Developing the Leaders Around You: How to Help Others Reach Their Full Potential

“Henry Ford knew this. He said, “You can take my factories, burn up my buildings, but give me my people, and I’ll bring my business right back again.” What did Henry Ford know that so many other people in leadership positions don’t know? He knew that buildings and bureaucracy are not essential to growth. A company must organize around what it is trying to accomplish, not around what is being done. I have seen people in an organization do things a particular way simply because the bureaucracy states it must be done that way, even when it hinders what the organization is trying to accomplish. Organize around tasks, not functions.”
― John C. Maxwell, Developing the Leaders Around You: How to Help Others Reach Their Full Potential

“एन्ड्रयू कारनेगी ने इसे इस तरह स्पष्ट किया था : “मैं अपनी क़ब्र के पत्थर पर यह लिखवाना चाहता हूँ : ‘यहाँ वह व्यक्ति लेटा है, जो इतना बुद्धिमान था कि वह अपने से ज़्यादा ज्ञानी लोगों को अपनी सेवा में लाया।” मेरी इच्छा है कि आगामी पृष्ठ बिलकुल ऐसा ही करने में आपकी भी मदद करें।”
― John C. Maxwell, Apni Team Leaders ko Kaise Viksit Karen

“There is no future in any job. The future lies in the person who holds the job.”
― John C. Maxwell, Developing the Leaders Around You: How to Help Others Reach Their Full Potential

“El crecimiento personal es como una inversión; no es cuestión de oportunidad sino de tiempo.”
― John C. Maxwell, Desarrolle el líder que está en usted