Candid Conversations: When You're in Over Your Head
Maxwell Leadership Podcast
John Maxwell
4.8 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 22 November 2019
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
In this Candid Conversation with John C. Maxwell and Mark Cole, John shares five principles for how to lead when you’re in over your head. These are principles John has gleaned throughout his career as he has taken on challenges necessary to accomplish a vision bigger than himself.
John points out: “The principles of survival are not the same as the principles of success.” Too often, leaders resort to the former in times of stress, and they allow obstacles and situations to stall progress and growth. Listen to this episode to learn what great leaders do when they’re in over their heads.
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References:
The Mentor’s Guide to Everyday Challenges audio series by John C. Maxwell
Thinking for a Change by John C. Maxwell
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, welcome to the John Maxwell Leadership Podcast. I am with John Maxwell and we are |
| 0:12.1 | going to have a candid conversation. John, thanks for taking some time with us today. |
| 0:15.8 | Hey, great to be with you. I always love our time with our podcast listeners. Just, |
| 0:20.5 | you know, talk about stuff that's happening in my life and your life and I enjoy our |
| 0:26.7 | time together like this. Yeah, I do too and I want to tell you, John, on behalf of everybody |
| 0:32.7 | that I hear from, we get great feedback. By the way, if there's a better way we can serve you, |
| 0:37.4 | a subject you would like, John and I to tackle, give us some feedback at Maxwell Podcast.com |
| 0:44.1 | and we would love any of your feedback. But, John, we get all kind of great feedback for you |
| 0:51.3 | taking this time to do candid conversation. Of course, your lessons every week on Wednesday's |
| 0:56.4 | phenomenal, but these candid conversations are really special. Thank you. They're fun. |
| 0:59.7 | Yeah. Let's just have one. Yeah, let's do. So literally just finishing up an event we call |
| 1:05.9 | Leadership Open and that's an event that for the last 18 years has been in Pebble Beach, |
| 1:12.0 | California's Tough Life. I mean, Tough Life. It's just a tough area and this year was really unique, |
| 1:18.4 | really special in what I think was three ways. One was the level of people in that room felt |
| 1:25.1 | different to me. Secondly, the response from the room, the people that wants to partner with you |
| 1:31.3 | in your vision was more significant than ever and I can prove that statistically. That's not a |
| 1:35.9 | felt indication. But then number three was the production, the team. It felt like the team was |
| 1:42.8 | just on point. What, give us a little bit of your feedback from the Leadership Open. |
| 1:47.2 | Well, first of all, maybe a little context as Mark said, we've been doing this. What, 18 years? |
| 1:52.0 | 18 years, yes sir. And this is for our non-profit organizations, John Maxilluship Foundation and Equip, |
| 1:59.9 | which basically is doing transformation in countries and pretty much committed to training leaders |
| 2:08.8 | and teaching good values. And so donors come. Donors that love to play golf come and we just spend |
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