Leadership expert, bestselling author and coach, John Maxwell, dropped a ton of wisdom everyone at Leadership Summit this year and he was as quotable as ever. Here are my notes and take-aways.
- Leaders add value to people
- All communicators connect on common ground with their audience
- Have you ever been suspicions of a leader?
- Have you ever had a leader hurt you?
- When you’re a leader you have the opportunity to bless people or curse them, help the rise or fall.
- Before you can lead a person you have to find them
- Every day intentionally add value to people
- There is a thin line in leadership in motivating people and manipulating people
- 3 Questions that Followers ask Leaders (will you add value to my life?)
- Do you like me? (compassion)
- Can you help me? (competence)
- Can I trust you? (character)
- Everything worth while is uphill
- People have uphill hopes and downhill habits
- No one ever talks about accidental achievement
- Significance and selfishness are incompatible
- Most people don’t lead their lives, they accept their lives
- 5 Things to Daily Add Value to People
- Every day value people because Jesus values people
- Every day I think of ways to add value to people (intentional living is up front thinking – who am I going to see today and how can I value to them?)
- Every day I look for ways to add value to people
- Every day I add value to others (did I add value to others today?)
- Every day encourage others to add value to people
- Are we going to spend our lives connecting with people or correcting them?
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