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“Influence always outpaces authority.”
― Clay Scroggins, How to Lead When You're Not in Charge: Leveraging Influence When You Lack Authority

“Remember, leadership is the ability to motivate people to work harder, longer, and smarter, because the vision of the end goal has been painted so clearly.”
― Clay Scroggins, How to Lead When You're Not in Charge: Leveraging Influence When You Lack Authority

“Nothing so conclusively proves a man’s ability to lead others as what he does on a day-to-day basis to lead himself.”
― Clay Scroggins, How to Lead When You're Not in Charge: Leveraging Influence When You Lack Authority

“Great leaders love what they do, who they do it with, and who they do it for.”
― Clay Scroggins, How to Lead When You're Not in Charge: Leveraging Influence When You Lack Authority

“The best leaders lead like they’re not in charge even when they are.”
― Clay Scroggins, How to Lead When You're Not in Charge: Leveraging Influence When You Lack Authority

“When a younger leader tells me he is frustrated at not having a voice yet or not having influence yet, the answer I give him is to continue to be faithful in leading himself well.”
― Clay Scroggins, How to Lead When You're Not in Charge: Leveraging Influence When You Lack Authority

“But what you can do is focus on your own area of responsibility and make it great.”
― Clay Scroggins, How to Lead When You're Not in Charge: Leveraging Influence When You Lack Authority

“Waiting for others to do something negatively affected the gift of leadership within me.”
― Clay Scroggins, How to Lead When You're Not in Charge: Leveraging Influence When You Lack Authority

“The greatest benefit I bring my team is not my talents, gifts, experience, or education. It’s my energy.”
― Clay Scroggins, How to Lead When You're Not in Charge: Leveraging Influence When You Lack Authority

“Each of us has a unique opportunity to create something right where we are. It doesn’t require special authority or a fancy title or having the corner office.”
― Clay Scroggins, How to Lead When You're Not in Charge: Leveraging Influence When You Lack Authority

“The greatest danger of not being in charge and waiting around until you are, is that you never learn to risk or fail and how to handle that experience. You never learn from those mistakes. Learn to recognize that low-level fear in you that says, “If you try and fail, you’ll get labeled as someone who can’t.” Learning to ignore that voice is crucial. So being aware of passivity is the first step, but step two is learning to reject it and take action.”
― Clay Scroggins, How to Lead When You're Not in Charge: Leveraging Influence When You Lack Authority

“You are in charge of your emotions, your thoughts, your reactions, and your decisions. It’s the law of personal responsibility, because everyone is responsible for leading something, even if that something is just you.”
― Clay Scroggins, How to Lead When You're Not in Charge: Leveraging Influence When You Lack Authority

“Great leaders leverage influence and relationships over title and position.”
― Clay Scroggins, How to Lead When You're Not in Charge: Leveraging Influence When You Lack Authority

“There are better ways to build your case than to speak with absolute certainty about what is currently happening. It immediately invalidates the work others are doing and questions your credibility.”
― Clay Scroggins, How to Lead When You're Not in Charge: Leveraging Influence When You Lack Authority

“They have zero authority compared to Jesus. But here’s the thing: it wasn’t the authority Jesus possessed that made him a great leader. It was his influence over the minds and hearts of people, influence cultivated by speaking truth and challenging the status quo, by serving others, by healing people and meeting their needs. It was an influence cultivated by giving people hope and vision for the future.”
― Clay Scroggins, How to Lead When You're Not in Charge: Leveraging Influence When You Lack Authority

“Fear thrives in the absence of love.”
― Clay Scroggins, How to Lead When You're Not in Charge: Leveraging Influence When You Lack Authority

“is to recognize that the best leaders may or may not have all the authority they need or want, but the security of their identity—especially as someone called and loved by God—gives them a freedom and fearlessness to do what is right. They are able to challenge well, to lead by making a way even when there isn’t a way.”
― Clay Scroggins, How to Lead When You're Not in Charge: Leveraging Influence When You Lack Authority

“Jesus argues that the best leaders, the ones who align with his vision for leadership, will lead as servants who are aware of their responsibility and who answer to a higher calling.”
― Clay Scroggins, How to Lead When You're Not in Charge: Leveraging Influence When You Lack Authority

“But we all know that positional authority alone does not equate to effective leadership. If a leader does not inspire confidence, he or she will be unable to effect change without resorting to brute force. Influence has always been, and will always be, the currency of leadership. This book is about how to cultivate the influence needed to lead when you’re not in charge.”
― Clay Scroggins, How to Lead When You're Not in Charge: Leveraging Influence When You Lack Authority

“Leaders don’t sit back and point fingers. Leaders lead with the authority of leadership . . . or without it. The authority is largely irrelevant—if you are a leader, you will lead when you are needed.”
― Clay Scroggins, How to Lead When You're Not in Charge: Leveraging Influence When You Lack Authority

“leading without authority means you need to have a clear understanding of your identity—who you are as a leader, apart from any titles.”
― Clay Scroggins, How to Lead When You're Not in Charge: Leveraging Influence When You Lack Authority

“Honestly, I don’t know which is more damaging—being too critical or thinking too highly of yourself. Either way, accepting a distorted identity is failing to live in reality, which will ultimately erode your ability to lead.”
― Clay Scroggins, How to Lead When You're Not in Charge: Leveraging Influence When You Lack Authority

“Take responsibility to make great what you can make great.”
― Clay Scroggins, How to Lead When You're Not in Charge: Leveraging Influence When You Lack Authority

“I know your weaknesses. I know what you’re not good at. I know you stutter. I know you’re scared. I know you’re insecure. I know your past. I know about it all. But I don’t want that to define you. You have what it takes! Well, you don’t have what it takes, but because I’m going to be with you, you have what it takes! Now go! And quit worrying about who you are not and focus on who I AM!”
― Clay Scroggins, How to Lead When You're Not in Charge: Leveraging Influence When You Lack Authority

“When someone else is telling you what to do”
― Clay Scroggins, How to Lead When You're Not in Charge: Leveraging Influence When You Lack Authority

“The best teammates are those who are willing to share ideas”
― Clay Scroggins, How to Lead When You're Not in Charge: Leveraging Influence When You Lack Authority

“Si pensamos que la respuesta a nuestras emociones es anular la clase, correr a las redes sociales o usar herramientas para esconder y evitar lo que está en nuestro interior, no es de sorprender que consigamos los resultados que estamos viendo.”
― Clay Scroggins, Cómo liderar en un mundo de distracción: Cuatro hábitos sencillos para disminuir el ruido

“Who you are is more important than what you do and how you do it”
― Clay Scroggins, How to Lead When You're Not in Charge: Leveraging Influence When You Lack Authority

“Here’s the truth you need to know: Your boss is not in charge of you. You are in charge of you.”
― Clay Scroggins, How to Lead When You're Not in Charge: Leveraging Influence When You Lack Authority

“Humble yourselves, therefore, under God’s mighty hand, that he may lift you up in due time” (1 Peter 5:6).”
― Clay Scroggins, How to Lead When You're Not in Charge: Leveraging Influence When You Lack Authority