Candid Conversations: Turn Setbacks into Setups

Maxwell Leadership Podcast

John Maxwell

Education, Business

4.8 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 8 November 2019

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

John Maxwell says that one of a leader’s greatest assets is the perspective of others. That’s why he incorporates what he calls “Learning Lunches” in his schedule regularly. Learning lunches are a time for John to learn from those with different backgrounds and experiences by asking them seven key questions, which John shares in this episode.

John and Mark Cole then share a recent Learning Lunch story in which a new friend tells John how he was able to turn a $100 million setback into the most significant setup for success in his organization’s history.

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References:

Good Leaders Ask Great Questions by John C. Maxwell

Developing the Leader Within You 2.0 by John C. Maxwell

Leadershift by John C. Maxwell

The John Maxwell Online Store

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0:00.0	Hey, welcome to the John Maxill Leadership Podcast. Mark Cole here on another edition of
0:11.6	candid conversation. And yes, that means John Maxill is here with me. John, I'm excited
0:18.4	today because you're going to share with us something you just learned on this concept
0:25.5	of a learning lunch. You were in DC, you can talk a little bit about that if you'd like, but
0:30.6	I want to challenge all of you. Grab a pan, grab a paper because you're getting to learn from somebody
0:36.7	that learned something from somebody. And I love that. Before we even get into the lesson,
0:41.9	will you talk to me about how you prepare yourself for these learning lunches? You were getting
0:46.7	ready to meet somebody. Sure, sure. And just talk to me about that. Well, I was in DC. Margaret
0:52.4	is on an advisory board from Museum of the Bible. And she has a friend Martha is on that advisory
0:57.1	board. Martha's husband is named John. John Zomalt. And John is a new friend. I had never met him
1:05.7	before. I had met Martha before. And in our very brief meeting conversation, I found out that he
1:12.4	was a CEO and he said something about embezzlement in his company. And so I pulled away because I
1:22.8	had much time then. And the next morning, I thought, I've got to find him and see if I can have
1:27.6	a luncher. In this case, a breakfast with you. Because I'd like to talk to you about how he handled
1:32.0	the problem. And so we did. I grabbed, I found him in the lobby. And so we had we had a learning,
1:37.8	not a learning lunch. We had a learning breakfast there. But as you know, when I do this all the
1:42.1	time, I have these languages. And for you on the podcast, I would encourage you, I teach it in the
1:48.2	area of personal growth and development. I teach a lot of times that if you're at the head of the
1:51.6	class, you're in the wrong class. And the way I keep out of the head of the class is I find people
1:57.5	bigger, better, faster, smarter than I am. And I ask him to go to lunch. I buy the lunch. I don't
2:02.5	even eat. I just ask questions. And I ask seven questions. And these aren't the only questions.
2:07.9	You probably can think of something maybe better than mine. That's for sure. But for 30 plus years,
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