A Leader Sees More and Before (Part 1)
Maxwell Leadership Podcast
John Maxwell
4.8 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 8 October 2025
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
Leaders – are you practicing the “cycle of success,” or are you limited by a lack of vision? In this week’s episode, John is giving you some of his most powerful insights on how leaders can master the abundance mindset and pass it along to those they lead!
After his lesson, Mark Cole and Chris Goede unpack their major takeaways and help you apply them directly to your life and leadership
Key takeaways:
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The ability to see a bigger picture and see it quicker is the mark of a true leader.
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Creativity says there's always an answer. Flexibility says there's more than one answer.
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Test, fail, learn, improve, reenter.
Our BONUS resource for this episode is the A Leader Sees More and Before (Part 1) Worksheet, which includes fill-in-the-blank notes from John’s teaching. You can download the worksheet by visiting MaxwellPodcast.com/MoreAndBefore and clicking “Download the Bonus Resource."
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Maxwell Leadership Podcast. |
| 0:10.8 | If you are the last person in the room to know something, in other words, everybody in the room knows the idea before you, or if you're the first person, |
| 0:20.0 | today, Chris Godi and I are going to help you talk about, learn how to, and begin to see more, more, and more before. Chris, we've heard John talk about this a couple of times. I think this is the reason you and I are able to work here. This is simplicity at its best, right? More, more, less, less. You're going to hear that from John, I'm like, oh, there's no wonder why we're still sitting here, and we've heard it before because we can understand those words. Yeah, and I remember the first time, it's several years now, but I remember when John first started teaching this concept of how he sees more and more and more before, or he sees more and before is what he was saying. And then he said, hey, but I'm going to take it the next level. I'm going to go more and more before, which means |
| 0:57.5 | there's a natural state of leadership. I just see things before others and I see things more. |
| 1:02.6 | But John today is going to get into the science of seeing more and before by going more and more |
| 1:07.9 | before. Hey, podcast family, we recently just engaged you in an assessment, |
| 1:13.1 | said, hey, talk to us. Tell us what we can do. By the way, you're sending in questions |
| 1:17.4 | more regularly now, which we love. You're giving us comments. You're giving us feedback. |
| 1:23.2 | This assessment, let us know what we all know. We want more John Maxwell. And so you'll see today, |
| 1:29.7 | we're going to give you more access to John. In the coming episodes, we're going to give you more |
| 1:34.8 | access to John and John's content. So grab a pen and a paper. By the way, if you want to watch |
| 1:41.4 | this on YouTube, if you want to download the bonus resource, |
| 1:44.4 | you can go to Maxwellpodcast.com forward slash more and before. |
| 1:50.9 | John today is going to teach us two components of discipline yourself to see more and more |
| 1:56.1 | and more before. |
| 1:57.2 | Next episode will be part two, and John will give us three more three more points here we go here is |
| 2:03.8 | john maximal you have never known a leader that had no vision you've never heard it at one time |
| 2:17.1 | where a person says, |
| 2:17.8 | you know why I love the leader that we have? |
| 2:20.0 | That leader absolutely has no vision at all. |
| 2:23.7 | My God, doesn't know where he's going, |
| 2:26.1 | doesn't know what she's doing, |
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