Cultivating Humility for Lasting Influence
Maxwell Leadership Podcast
John Maxwell
4.7 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 25 March 2026
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
John Maxwell shares that there's one most important quality of leadership. Do you have it? In this week's episode, John Maxwell reveals why humility isn't just a virtue—it's the essential ingredient for lasting influence and meaningful leadership.
After his lesson, Mark Cole and Chris Goede dive into real-life examples and honest reflections, sharing how you can apply John's wisdom to multiply your impact and create sustaining influence as a leader.
Key takeaways:Â
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True humility empowers you to learn, grow, and serve others, turning challenges into opportunities for lasting impact.
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Leaders who balance confidence with humility create environments where influence compounds and teams thrive over time.
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Your willingness to be teachable and embrace gratitude—especially in adversity—is the key to both resilience and enduring success.
Our BONUS resource for this episode is the Cultivating Humility for Lasting Influence Worksheet, which includes fill-in-the-blank notes from John's teaching. You can download the worksheet by visiting MaxwellPodcast.com/Cultivate and clicking "Download the Bonus Resource."
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Maxwell Leadership Podcast. We're real committed today and really in every episode |
| 0:13.4 | to add value to you for an exchange. That exchange is we want you to go multiply value to others. |
| 0:22.5 | Today I think we'll be able to really dig into something that's helpful for leaders, and that is how to cultivate humility |
| 0:27.9 | for lasting influence. I've watched a lot of leaders, Chris, and Chris Godi's with me today. |
| 0:34.3 | I've watched a lot of leaders that lead with a lot of certainty, a lot of |
| 0:38.8 | confidence, all desirable traits. But there's also these leaders that know how to employ and use |
| 0:45.7 | humility. And so we're going to talk about that. I can't wait for John to share with us about |
| 0:51.0 | cultivating humility. I can't wait to come back and break it out, break it down with you, |
| 0:54.7 | but what is a leader that's been in your life that really demonstrated humility and what was it |
| 1:01.2 | about that leader that was demonstrating humility so well? Yeah, I love the question. I actually |
| 1:05.7 | think about a leader that I know from a distance and I've watched. |
| 1:13.7 | And it's interesting that when you step back and you watch somebody when they don't know you're watching them |
| 1:17.3 | and they still live out that humility, |
| 1:21.1 | I think they got it. |
| 1:23.1 | And this leader could, has access to any resource, |
| 1:31.3 | doesn't have to meet with people that have just joined the team, whatnot. But I watch them walk in the back of the offices and start connecting with shaking hands, looking, pacing themselves through the people that have just joined the team that maybe are an hourly employee |
| 1:45.3 | and really make it about them, then about him. And so that's the leader when you ask me that |
| 1:52.7 | question, it comes in mind and an action that he lives out that I can tell he's a true, |
| 1:57.8 | he's bathed true in humility as a leader. Yeah. When I thought about that question, |
| 2:03.6 | I thought, you know, John exhibits a lot of humility, can't believe at the success he's had or the |
| 2:09.1 | people that's been impacted by his life's work, but probably the leader that has exhibited |
| 2:13.3 | humility more for me than anyone else is my dad. My dad was an elected official in his denomination. |
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