The Ledger
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Maxwell: Affirmation without tangible achievement produces hollow self-confidence
“If I don't back up that confidence that I feel, With success, that confidence will become very shallow and very hollow after a while, and that's why I tell people, you know, you could, like for a parent, you could affirm your children, tell them they're wonder…”
Maxwell: Leadership is influence, nothing more and nothing less
“And yet what I do is I teach leadership as influence, nothing more, nothing less. And every person has influence.”
Maxwell: 80% of people never advance beyond positional leadership
“What's, I think, most insightful about level one, the position level, is that it's the lowest level of leadership, and yet, 80% of the people never get off of level number one.”
Maxwell: True self-awareness requires external feedback for blind spots
“When people talk about being self-aware, I always say, I don't think so. I think that we all have blind spots. I do. I have things that I don't see about myself, and that's why I need other people to come around who, you know, care for me, but want to see me o…”
Maxwell: Most leaders only maintain followers rather than developing new leaders
“First of all, most leaders never develop other leaders. They just have followers.”
Maxwell: Attitude provides no competitive advantage during good times
“Attitude gives you no advantage during good times, because during good times, everybody has a good attitude. I mean, when things are going my way, I mean, I'm, my attitude's fine, but it's when the adversity comes, and the challenges come,
That's when my atti…”
Maxwell: Blind spots do not improve with age without direct confrontation
“And people say, well, I think as they get older, they're going to get better. Well, no. If it's a blind spot, they're not going to get better as they get older. They're just going to get a little more blind.”
Maxwell: Goal-oriented people have finish lines; growth-oriented people have none
“If you're goal oriented, there's a finish line. If you're growth oriented, there's no finish line at all.”
Maxwell: Focusing on how you are perceived limits your communication skills
“The moment that I'm concerned about how people perceive me is the moment that I began to put limitations on my communication skills.”
Maxwell: Compounding influence and time requires working through others
“If you want to compound influence, or if you want to compound time, energy, money, anything like that, if you really want to compound it, you have to do it with others and through others”
Maxwell: Prioritizing people's happiness prevented him from effectively helping them
“As a young leader, one of my greatest weaknesses was that I wanted to make everybody happy, and I mistakenly thought that good leaders made everybody happy, and so I was much more concerned on making them happy than I was helping them.”