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Good leadership isn't about advancing yourself. It's about advancing your team.

Good leadership isn't about advancing yourself. It's about advancing your team.

John C. Maxwell
Team, Inspire, Good Leadership

Nothing of significance was ever achieved by an individual acting alone. Look below the surface and you will find that all seemingly solo acts are really team efforts.

John C. Maxwell
Team, Effort, Acting
John C. Maxwell (2012). “The Complete 101 Collection”, p.384, Harper Collins

No matter your title, people will not follow you if they don’t trust you. Whether you are just taking over a team or working to implement large-scale change within one, you are guaranteed to run into resistance if you haven’t taken time to establish a foundation with the people you oversee before turning their worlds upside down.

John C. Maxwell
Running, Team, Taken

If you really want to be a successful leader, you must develop other leaders around you. You must establish a team.

John C. Maxwell
Team, Successful, Leader
John C. Maxwell (2010). “Maxwell 2in1 (Developing the Leader w/in You/Developing Leaders Around You)”, p.214, Harper Collins

A team doesn't win the championship if its players are working from different agendas.

John C. Maxwell
Team, Winning, Player
John C. Maxwell (2007). “The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership: Follow Them and People Will Follow You”, p.186, Thomas Nelson Inc

Practice the 101 Percent Principle. Whenever possible, find the 1 percent you do agree on in a difficult situation, and give it 100 percent of your effort.

John C. Maxwell
Team, Difficult Situations, Practice

Profile of a winning team - They play to win. They have a winning attitude. They keep improving. They make their teammates more successful.

John C. Maxwell
Attitude, Team, Successful

It takes a team to do anything of lasting value

John C. Maxwell
Team, Lasting, Values
John C. Maxwell (2008). “Team Maxwell 2in1 (Winning With People/17 Indisputable Laws)”, p.12, Thomas Nelson Inc

Anyone who loves his opinions more than his teammates will advance his opinions but set back his team.

John C. Maxwell
Team, Teammate, Opinion
John C. Maxwell (2006). “The 17 Essential Qualities of a Team Player: Becoming the Kind of Person Every Team Wants”, p.107, Thomas Nelson Inc

The bottom line in managing your emotions is that you should put others – not yourself – first in how you handle and process them. Whether you delay or display your emotions should not be for your own gratification. You should ask yourself, What does the team need? Not, What will make me feel better?

John C. Maxwell
Team, Feel Better, Doe
John C. Maxwell (2011). “The 360 Degree Leader: Developing Your Influence from Anywhere in the Organization”, p.67, Thomas Nelson Inc

If you want to do something really big, do it as part of a team.

John C. Maxwell
Team, Want, Bigs
John C. Maxwell (2009). “Maxwell 2-in-1 Becoming a Person of Influence & Talent Is Never Enough”, p.184, Thomas Nelson Inc

Dependable teams members possess the desire to do the things they are capable of doing.

John C. Maxwell
Team, Desire, Members
John C. Maxwell (2006). “The 17 Essential Qualities of a Team Player: Becoming the Kind of Person Every Team Wants”, p.51, HarperCollins Leadership

Personnel determines the potential of the team. Vision determines the direction of the team. Work ethic determines the preparation of the team. Leadership determines the success of the team.

John C. Maxwell
Team, Wrestling, Work Ethic
John C. Maxwell (2003). “The 17 Indisputable Laws of Teamwork Workbook: Embrace Them and Empower Your Team”, p.182, Thomas Nelson Inc

To do something really big, let go of your ego, and get ready to be part of a team.

John C. Maxwell
Leadership, Letting Go, Team
John C. Maxwell (2008). “Team Maxwell 2in1 (Winning With People/17 Indisputable Laws)”, p.10, Thomas Nelson Inc

A nightmare is a big dream....with a bad team.

John C. Maxwell
Dream, Team, Nightmare

Do you value people who won't benefit you or only those who might contribute in some way to your success? Great team players truly value others as people, and they know and relate to what others value.

John C. Maxwell
Team, Player, People

When your great players are team players, everybody else follows their lead. The best team doesn't always win - it's usually the team that gets along best.

John C. Maxwell
Team, Winning, Player

Team leaders have to connect with their team and themselves. If they don't know their team's strengths and weaknesses, they cannot hand off responsibilities to the team. And if they don't know their own strengths and weaknesses, they will not hand off responsibilities to the team.

John C. Maxwell
Team, Responsibility, Hands

If you're going to play together as a team, you've got to care for one another. you've got to love each other.

John C. Maxwell
Team, Play, Together
John C. Maxwell (2002). “Your Road Map For Success Workbook: You Can Get There From Here”, p.224, Thomas Nelson Inc

The more that people know how they fit on a team, the more they will desire to properly make the most of their fit and maximize their contribution.

John C. Maxwell
Motivational, Team, People
John C. Maxwell (2015). “The Leadership Handbook: 26 Critical Lessons Every Leader Needs”, p.62, Thomas Nelson Inc

In my organizations I don't have employees; I have teammates. Yes, I do pay people and offer them benefits. But people don't work for me. They work with me. We are working together to fulfill the vision. Without them, I cannot succeed. Without me, they cannot succeed. We're a team. We reach our goals together. We need each other. If we didn't, then one of us is in the wrong place.

John C. Maxwell
Motivational, Team, Organization
John C. Maxwell (2015). “The Leadership Handbook: 26 Critical Lessons Every Leader Needs”, p.7, Thomas Nelson Inc

I remember as a seventeen-year-old kid saying, "If attitude made me captain of this team, I'm going to have a good attitude all my life."

John C. Maxwell
Attitude, Team, Kids
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