Candid Conversations: Leadership Themes During Crisis
Maxwell Leadership Podcast
John Maxwell
4.7 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 29 May 2020
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
After a two-month break from Candid Conversations due to the COVID-19 crisis, John Maxwell and Mark Cole meet up to discuss three themes during the crisis that John has observed in the great leaders he knows.
They also talk about the role hope plays in crisis, the difference between hope and hype, and how to remain hopeful during a crisis without becoming irrelevant as a leader.
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References:
The Leader's Greatest Return by John C. Maxwell
Leadershift by John C. Maxwell
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the John Maxwell Leadership Podcast. Here is another episode of a |
| 0:11.8 | candid conversation and you all know what that means is John Maxwell and I are |
| 0:16.9 | sitting in the same room and we're having a candid conversation. John, welcome to |
| 0:22.0 | your podcast. I love it. I love doing this with you, Mark. It's so much fun. We just |
| 0:26.4 | interact and talk out of our lives and what's happening and so it's so |
| 0:30.8 | honoring to have so many literally people join us. So yeah, welcome to our podcast. |
| 0:35.4 | Hey, so we're sitting in Highlands, North Carolina. The last time you and I did a |
| 0:40.6 | candid conversation was in Israel with your friends, people that you've |
| 0:45.3 | mentored Chris Hodges, Kevin Myers, their equipped board members and that was |
| 0:49.5 | our last and we were on the eve of coming home from Israel after living |
| 0:54.6 | there for a month and the world was shutting down. Yes, we came back just in |
| 0:59.3 | time. Yeah, just when everything was shutting down. Now you've had a lot of |
| 1:03.8 | podcasts since then talking about leading during crisis but we haven't had a |
| 1:07.6 | candid conversation and so today what I wanted to do, what is it now, two months |
| 1:12.3 | later, March 13th, it's May, so two months later. Yes. We, I want to talk a little |
| 1:18.6 | bit about what's your experiencing with leaders? I don't recall a time, John, |
| 1:24.7 | I've been with you 20 years. I've been by your side for the last 10. I don't |
| 1:28.4 | recall a time of you texting, calling and interacting with global leaders at |
| 1:34.4 | the rate and the amount that you're doing right now. Yeah. And so what I'd love |
| 1:39.6 | to do in this candid conversation, I'd love to talk about what are you hearing |
| 1:43.3 | from these global leaders that you're talking to? What are the themes of |
| 1:47.3 | leadership during this crisis? Well, I'm glad to and of course anybody that's |
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