http://johnmaxwellonleadership.com Everything rises and falls on leadership Thu, 02 Feb 2012 03:49:25 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://johnmaxwellonleadership.com/2012/01/30/level-up-week-4-permission/comment-page-1/#comment-16183 Dave Leingang Thu, 02 Feb 2012 03:49:25 +0000 http://johnmaxwellonleadership.com/?p=1274#comment-16183 I remember whe young sailors in new leadership roles would come and complain to me that nobody would listen to them, even though they out ranked them. I would look at them, smile and ask, "do you respect them?" And of course they would say, "I don't have to, I outrank them." I would just let them know that they would never be able to get someone to do anything with first respecting them. As John says, "They don't care how much you know, until they know how much you care." I remember whe young sailors in new leadership roles would come and complain to me that nobody would listen to them, even though they out ranked them. I would look at them, smile and ask, “do you respect them?” And of course they would say, “I don’t have to, I outrank them.” I would just let them know that they would never be able to get someone to do anything with first respecting them. As John says, “They don’t care how much you know, until they know how much you care.”

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