Candid Conversations: Make the Most of the Middle
Maxwell Leadership Podcast
John Maxwell
4.7 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 3 January 2020
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
John Maxwell and Mark Cole sit down in this installment of Candid Conversations to reflect on the recent Exchange event in London. Hosted by John, Exchange is an annual, three-day, immersive event that puts attendees face-to-face with leadership experts in top industries and side-by-side with world-class thinkers.
This year, Exchange took place in London. John talks about how, this year, he wanted to take the attendees to the historic home of John Wesley, a place John himself visits every time he's in London. However, after not being granted permission to visit Wesley's home on this trip, John used the opportunity to talk with the Exchange attendees about what leaders must do when they're unable to provide what they know is best for their people.
John retells that lesson in this episode and shares why, as leaders, it's important to make the most of "the middle"––that place of tension between the ideal and reality.
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References:
Leadershift by John C. Maxwell
Developing the Leader Within You 2.0 by John C. Maxwell
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, welcome to the John Maxwell Leadership Podcast. It is so good to be joining you on |
| 0:11.3 | another episode. This is Candid Conversations with John Maxwell and John, I am glad to |
| 0:17.9 | be sitting across the table from you today. I'm glad to be across from the table from you |
| 0:22.3 | and I'm really glad to be on the podcast with our listeners. Yeah, you know John, I was |
| 0:27.3 | telling you just literally just a moment ago. Congratulations, 4 million downloads on your |
| 0:32.8 | podcast over 100,000 every episode and Kudos, man. People want to know what you're having to |
| 0:38.4 | have to say. Well, I'm delighted to have you join me. Really, I am in fact, if this lesson helps |
| 0:44.5 | you just share it with others, but I'm always glad to add value to people. I think the reason I love |
| 0:49.3 | the podcast so much, Mark, is because I know every podcast we give, it's Candid Conversations, |
| 0:55.5 | but it's a lot of learning, a lot of stuff that has helped you change our lives and we believe |
| 1:00.3 | it's going to help change the lives of those who are on with us. So that's very exciting to me. |
| 1:04.4 | Yeah, so we're sitting here today, listeners. We're in Costa Rica and we'll have to tell you more about |
| 1:11.5 | Costa Rica, maybe in an upcoming Candid Conversation, but we're here today because John has been |
| 1:16.8 | invited by the president through his foundation, the John Maxwell Leadership Foundation to come in and |
| 1:21.8 | do transformation work. And so John, you'll be speaking to, I don't want to make you nervous here, |
| 1:27.1 | you're going to be speaking to about 12,000, 13,000 people over the next 48 hours. |
| 1:32.7 | Well, that's wonderful. Because you know that if we're speaking to 12,000, 13,000 people, |
| 1:37.2 | we're going to be teaching them great values and looking for, of course, an opportunity to share |
| 1:41.4 | faith with them. So what a great opportunity we have before us for the next couple days. |
| 1:45.4 | Yes, going to be fine. It really is. We've got some meetings with Minister of Education, |
| 1:49.2 | some other really cool things. And again, we'll talk about that at some point. But we flew in |
| 1:53.4 | yesterday from one, oh, yes. And 11 hours, 11 hours, actually was about an hour and a half on |
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