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John Maxwell: Leadership Ladder
Influence is within your reach.

Leadership is Influence
What’s the fastest way to
understand how leadership
works and to learn how to
lead others? What’s the
fastest way to teach it to
others? Those are
questions I’ve been asking
myself for over 40 years.
Maybe you’ve been asking
yourself those kinds of
questions, too.
To some people, leadership
is intuitive. It comes fairly
easily. They act on instinct;
what they do works and they
can’t easily explain it. To
other people, leadership is a
mystery. They have no idea
what dynamics are at play.
All they know is that
sometimes people listen to
what they have to say and
work with them, and other
times they’re alone scratching their heads.
Leadership is dynamic. It’s fluid. It changes from person to person, from
moment to moment. But that doesn’t mean it doesn’t follow a pattern. And
it doesn’t mean you can’t develop a level of mastery, even if you don’t
possess abundant natural leadership gifts.
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