Lessons from Maxwell's 44 quotes
Today I used my day to read over John C Maxwell’s 44 inspiring quotes of leadership and here are few
of my takeaways, I would love to share it with you.
Shortly Maxwell is an American motivational speaker and books writer who
mainly bases on leadership and for that he gave out many useful quotes and
these 44 are some of them. In these 44 quotes, he aimed to show some
characteristics of a good leader and here are some noted down:
A good leader should be the best picker for the benefit of the
organization; as a leader, it is more your job to make decisions for the
organization than other members, so you have to be responsible for all decision
making and you apparently you have to make best decisions and not just good
decisions. As Mr. Maxwell says "All true leaders have learned to say no
to the good to say yes to the best." John C. Maxwell.
So even
if something is good if there is an option for better ones you should choose
the best over the good or better, since citizens and the organization depends
on your best decisions and you frankly have to undergo critical thinking before
making any decision that would result in big effects of the organization and if
needed you have to even research about something before deciding
A leader should be a hard worker and challenges taker; A true
leader should always work hard for the benefit of the organization and citizens
but also he/she should be able to struggle against challenges and never run
from the challenges. If a leader is afraid of challenges or run from challenges
then he is a loser and it is better to be a follower than a loser as John
Maxwell shows the differences between a leader a follower and a loser: "Do you know the difference between
leaders, followers, and losers? Leaders stretch with challenges. Followers
struggle with challenges.
Losers shrink from challenges." John C. Maxwell so that
shows how a leader should be brave and hard work to provide benefits
to the organization and the citizens.
To be called a leader is something that everyone can be but
to be a leader is not something that all people can manage to be; because
leadership needs sacrifices and giving yourself to others or for the benefit of
others and most of the people tend to do everything only for their self-benefit
but a leader is needed to for other people and we don’t measure leadership
successes by looking at what they have achieved but what his leads have
achieved through him.
As John quoted in his 44 quotes he says: “Leaders see everything with a leadership bias.
Their focus is on mobilizing people and leveraging resources to achieve their
goals rather than on using their own individual efforts. Leaders who want to
succeed maximize every asset and resource they have for the benefit of their
organization. For that reason, they are continually aware of what they have at
their disposal." John C. Maxwell. so from this quote, Maxwell insists on the
importance of a leader to have empathy and to follow the interests of his/her
leads instead of his own interests, we can link this quote to this one as they
talk about the same thing a leader to be there for people’s interests and not
his/her interests as he again says: “If you want to
be the best leader you can possibly be, no matter how much or how little
natural leadership talent you possess, you need to become a serving
leader." John C. Maxwell
Reference:
The 44 inspiration quotes by John Maxwell –
2020
Written by:
Abdulshakur Abdilah
Youth Exchange and Study Alumni 2018-2019
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