Recruitthebest Daily Digest- Why Great Leaders Are Needed Now More Than Ever Before

According to Albert Einstein, ‘Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.’

That is not going to happen. If you want your situation to change,

if you want your people to grow, if you want your organization to grow, you must stop doing what is not working.

You must change how you see the world around you. Why is that?

How we view things is how we do things.’

How you see yourself translate to how you treat other people.’

When you believe the best about people and give them your best, it brings out their best.’

Treating others better than they treat you, and with consistency and without judgmentalism, is the best way to bring people together.’

No matter what the circumstances, if we want to be good leaders, we must come to the table, sit in the middle without choosing a side, listen to others, and work to bring people together.’

Leadership rises when leaders possess good leadersip skills and good values. It falls when leaders’ skills or values are poor.’

When you’re aware of your humaness and you acknowledge you don’t know all the answers, you listen to yourself and others.’

Doing what’s right for the right reasons should be the goal- even if it costs me.’

When people stop growing and improving as leaders, it’s seldom due to a lack of capacity or ability. They stop because of an unwillingness to pay the price.’

When you do what’s right, you’re not only taking the high road with others. You’re taking the high road with yourself.’

There are never two consecutive good days in any leader’s life.’

Source:

John C. Maxwell (2024). High Road Leadership: Bringing People Together in a World That Divides

How To Grow Your Organization

Leadership development is self-development. To develop other leaders, you must start with yourself.

If developing ourselves as leaders is a lifelong process, then we should also expect the development of others in leadership to be an ongoing process that never ends.’

Grow a leader- grow the organization. A company cannot grow throughout until its leaders grow within.’

The strengths of any organization is a direct result of the strength of its leaders. Weak leaders equal weak organizations. Strong leaders equal strong organizations.

Good leaders want more for the people they lead than they want from them.’

If you desire to attract and develop leaders, you need to have the wind blowing with you, not against you.’

Leaders who genuinely listen and keep confidences gain the trust of the people they work with.’

Listening draws people to you, which works much better than trying to push your leadership on them. Empathy builds trust.

You can never get the best out of people if you don’t know who they are, where they want to go, what they care about, how they think, and how they want to contribute.’

As a leader, one of the most important things you can do with anyone you want to develop is to understand and connect with him or her.’

‘No matter how busy you are or how demanding your leadership situation, you will only be able to equip potential leaders effectively if you take the time to gather them close to you and invest time in them.’

The way you expand your potential is to help others expand theirs.’

Source:

John C. Maxwell (2020). The Leader’s Greatest Return: Attracting, Developing, and Multiplying Leaders