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The best people always give others more than an invitation—they provide the means to get them there.
John C. Maxwell • The Complete 101 Collection: What Every Leader Needs to Know
Leadership is expertise. It is not rhetoric or cheerleading speeches. People will follow a person who organizes and manages others, because he or she has credibility and expertise—a knowledge of the profession—and demonstrates an understanding of human nature.
Bill Walsh, Steve Jamison, Craig Walsh • The Score Takes Care of Itself: My Philosophy of Leadership
Too many people in authority work to make those under them dependent on them. The more dependent the followers, the more indispensable the authority figure feels. Your job in exercising adaptive leadership is to make yourself dispensable.
Ronald A. Heifetz • The Practice of Adaptive Leadership: Tools and Tactics for Changing Your Organization and the World
Leadership expert Max De Pree’s definition is worth repeating:
R. Scott Rodin • The Steward Leader: Transforming People, Organizations and Communities
Send the Right Signals to Your People
Ronald A. Heifetz • The Practice of Adaptive Leadership: Tools and Tactics for Changing Your Organization and the World
into arrogant, defensive nonlearners. The lesson is: Create an organization that prizes the development of ability—and watch the leaders emerge.
Carol S. Dweck • Mindset - Updated Edition: Changing The Way You think To Fulfil Your Potential
James Clear • “The Multidisciplinary Approach to Thinking” by Peter Kaufman
To give yourself a fighting chance to become consistent in your growth, start by leveraging your personality type to get yourself going.
John C. Maxwell • The 15 Invaluable Laws of Growth: Live Them and Reach Your Potential
Mentoring leaders get more out of their people because they think more of their people.