John Maxwell

Founder, Maxwell Leadership · 1 appearance on the record.

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John C. Maxwell is an American speaker, coach, and prolific author who has sold tens of millions of books worldwide on leadership and personal development. He is best known for bestselling titles such as The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership and Developing the Leader Within You, as well as founding organizations including Maxwell Leadership and EQUIP.

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Insight

Maxwell: Affirmation without tangible achievement produces hollow self-confidence

“If I don't back up that confidence that I feel, With success, that confidence will become very shallow and very hollow after a while, and that's why I tell people, you know, you could, like for a parent, you could affirm your children, tell them they're wonder…”

John Maxwell Mar 31, 2020 ▶ 26:36 #80 John Maxwell: Developing the Leader in You

Insight

Maxwell: Leadership is influence, nothing more and nothing less

“And yet what I do is I teach leadership as influence, nothing more, nothing less. And every person has influence.”

John Maxwell Mar 31, 2020 ▶ 2:18 #80 John Maxwell: Developing the Leader in You

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Maxwell: 80% of people never advance beyond positional leadership

“What's, I think, most insightful about level one, the position level, is that it's the lowest level of leadership, and yet, 80% of the people never get off of level number one.”

John Maxwell Mar 31, 2020 ▶ 3:44 #80 John Maxwell: Developing the Leader in You

Insight

Maxwell: True self-awareness requires external feedback for blind spots

“When people talk about being self-aware, I always say, I don't think so. I think that we all have blind spots. I do. I have things that I don't see about myself, and that's why I need other people to come around who, you know, care for me, but want to see me o…”

John Maxwell Mar 31, 2020 ▶ 7:06 #80 John Maxwell: Developing the Leader in You

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Maxwell: Most leaders only maintain followers rather than developing new leaders

“First of all, most leaders never develop other leaders. They just have followers.”

John Maxwell Mar 31, 2020 ▶ 8:36 #80 John Maxwell: Developing the Leader in You

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Maxwell: Attitude provides no competitive advantage during good times

“Attitude gives you no advantage during good times, because during good times, everybody has a good attitude. I mean, when things are going my way, I mean, I'm, my attitude's fine, but it's when the adversity comes, and the challenges come, That's when my atti…”

John Maxwell Mar 31, 2020 ▶ 19:40 #80 John Maxwell: Developing the Leader in You

Insight

Maxwell: Blind spots do not improve with age without direct confrontation

“And people say, well, I think as they get older, they're going to get better. Well, no. If it's a blind spot, they're not going to get better as they get older. They're just going to get a little more blind.”

John Maxwell Mar 31, 2020 ▶ 35:38 #80 John Maxwell: Developing the Leader in You

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Maxwell: Goal-oriented people have finish lines; growth-oriented people have none

“If you're goal oriented, there's a finish line. If you're growth oriented, there's no finish line at all.”

John Maxwell Mar 31, 2020 ▶ 42:38 #80 John Maxwell: Developing the Leader in You

Insight

Maxwell: Focusing on how you are perceived limits your communication skills

“The moment that I'm concerned about how people perceive me is the moment that I began to put limitations on my communication skills.”

John Maxwell Mar 31, 2020 ▶ 55:50 #80 John Maxwell: Developing the Leader in You

Insight

Maxwell: Compounding influence and time requires working through others

“If you want to compound influence, or if you want to compound time, energy, money, anything like that, if you really want to compound it, you have to do it with others and through others”

John Maxwell Mar 31, 2020 ▶ 5:33 #80 John Maxwell: Developing the Leader in You

Disclosure

Maxwell: Prioritizing people's happiness prevented him from effectively helping them

“As a young leader, one of my greatest weaknesses was that I wanted to make everybody happy, and I mistakenly thought that good leaders made everybody happy, and so I was much more concerned on making them happy than I was helping them.”

John Maxwell Mar 31, 2020 ▶ 33:07 #80 John Maxwell: Developing the Leader in You

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Episode	Date	Speaking time
#80 John Maxwell: Developing the Leader in You	Mar 31, 2020	47m

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