“How do I fit in my area or department? • How do all the departments fit into the organization? • Where does our organization fit in the market? • How is our market related to other industries and the economy?”
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John C. Maxwell
“Successful people do the things that unsuccessful people are unwilling to do.”
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John C. Maxwell
“Contentment is taking your present situation—whatever obstacles you are facing, whatever limitation you are living with, whatever chronic condition wears you down, whatever has smashed your dreams, whatever factors and circumstances in life tend to push you under—and admitting you don’t like it but never saying, “I can’t cope with it.”
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John C. Maxwell
“If you want to get ahead, leading up is much better than kissing up.”
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John C. Maxwell
“Forty-two percent of college graduates never read a book after college.”
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John C. Maxwell
“If you lead a team, start asking questions and really listening. Start valuing the contributions of your teammates ahead of your own. And remember that when the best idea wins, so does the entire team.”
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John C. Maxwell
“Eighty-nine percent of what people learn comes through visual stimulation, 10 percent through audible stimulation, and 1 percent through other senses. So”
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John C. Maxwell
“How do you identify someone who needs encouragement? That person is breathing.
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John C. Maxwell
“If you want to be productive, you should try to learn to get joy from what gives the greatest return and discipline yourself to do those things.”
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John C. Maxwell
“A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.”
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John C. Maxwell
“If you wait until you feel like doing something, you will likely never accomplish it.”
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John C. Maxwell
“And you will have greater credibility with your leader if you admit your shortcomings and refrain from making excuses.”
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John C. Maxwell
“Where success is concerned, people are not measured in inches, or pounds, or college degrees, or family background; they are measured by the size of their thinking.”
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John C. Maxwell
“I believed that if you have the heart to make a difference, there is always an answer, but if you have a heart of indifference, there is never an answer.”
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John C. Maxwell
“An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an invasion of ideas.”
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John C. Maxwell
