Podcast Notes Key Takeaways

• Leadership is influence and everybody has influence, therefore, everyone is a leader in one form or another
  • “Leaders are not made in a day, they’re made daily”
• “You can’t grow yourself unless you know yourself” – John Maxwell
  • You have to be aware of who you are and what you could become
• Success is all about Me but Significance is all about We
  • Success: Improving your life
  • Significance: Improving the lives of others
    • “I know a lot of successful people that aren’t happy. I mean, they have a lot of stuff, but they’re not happy. I’ve never known a person that committed to significance which is adding value intentionally to others on a consistent basis…that wasn’t happy.”  – John Maxwell
• Successful people do four things really well: 
  • 1) They have good relationships: “People won’t go along with you if they aren’t getting along with you” – John Maxwell
  • 2) They can mobilize teams and empower their people
  • 3) They maintain a positive attitude during tough times
  • 4) They influence others and know how to lead people
• Experience isn’t the best teacher–if experience were the best teacher, then everybody would be getting better as they got older 
  • A lot of people go through experiences and they learn nothing
    • “I think evaluated experience is the best teacher. I think after the experience, we pull ourselves away and ask ourselves what did I learn from that?” – John Maxwell
• “To have all wins and no losses, would be a person that, in the long run, would lack character. Character is literally birthed out of adversity and you really never know much about a person till you watch them go through adversity.”  – John Maxwell

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Leadership expert John Maxwell breaks down the four traits every successful person possesses and how to awaken the leader within you, no matter what your job title says.

 

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