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The Purpose Of Leadership Is To Take Others To The Top. And When You Take Others Who Might Not Make It To The Top Otherwise, There's No Other Feeling Like It In The World. To Those Who Have Never Had The Experience, You Can't Explain It. To Those Who Have, You Don't Need To.

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The Purpose Of Leadership

John C. Maxwell

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The Purpose Of Leadership Is To Take Others To The Top. And When You Take Others Who Might Not Make It To The Top Otherwise, There's No Other Feeling Like It In The World. To Those Who Have Never Had The Experience, You Can't Explain It. To Those Who Have, You Don't Need To.

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Most People Are Not Valued. Very Few People Have Someone Who Believes In Them. Very Few Have Others Love Them Unconditionally. Do These Things Intentionally Every Day.

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For The Person Trying To Do Everything Alone, The Game Really Is Over. If You Want To Do Something Big, You Must Link Up With Others. One Is Too Small A Number To Achieve Greatness. That's The Law Of Significance.

Seek People Who Seek Solutions.

A Good Leader Encourages Followers To Tell Him What He Needs To Know, Not What He Wants To Hear.

I Say This In The Book [today Matters], We Either Spend Our Day Repairing Or Preparing, And If I Haven't Taken Good Care Of My Today's, They Accumulate. So All Of A Sudden Today What I'm Doing Is I'm Going Back, I'm Repairing Bad Relationships And Wrong Decisions, And I'm Digging A Hole. I'm Not Making Any Progress Because I'm In A Repairing Mode, Versus If I Really Make Today Count That Prepares Me For Tomorrow. Tomorrow Really Will Take Care Of Itself If I Do The Right Thing Today.

Bad Relationship

The First Order Of Things To Be Changed Is Me, The Leader. After I Consider How Hard It Is To Change Myself, Then I Will Understand The Challenge Of Trying To Change Others. This Is The Ultimate Test Of Leadership.

A Great Leader's Courage To Fulfill His Vision Comes From Passion, Not Position.

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