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

John C. Maxwell

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John C. Maxwell
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: February 20
Author
Motivational Speaker
Writer
Garden City
Michigan
John Maxwell
John Calvin Maxwell
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Bigs
Dream
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Show me a person who sees himself negatively and I will show you a person who sees others in a negative way.
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Even if you've had a negative effect on others in the past, you can turn that around and make your impact a positive one.
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The harder you try to forget something, the more you think about it subconsciously.
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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.
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