Eight Paradoxes of Great Leadership with Tim Elmore
Maxwell Leadership Podcast
John Maxwell
4.7 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 25 August 2021
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
This week, we are bringing you another incredible speaker who will be a part of our line-up at Live2Lead this year. Tim Elmore is a long-time friend of John Maxwell's, and, in fact, he's one of the first people John mentored. Tim is the founder and president of Growing Leaders––an organization that is aimed at developing emerging leaders.
Tim and John share some old stories of their time working together, and Tim talks about his latest book, The Eight Paradoxes of Great Leadership: Embracing the Conflicting Demands of Today's Workplace. We're excited for you to hear this conversation, and even more excited for you to hear Tim at Live2Lead 2021!
Our BONUS resource for this episode is the "Eight Paradoxes of Great Leadership Worksheet," which includes our favorite takeaways from John and Tim's conversation. You can download the worksheet by visiting MaxwellPodcast.com/Paradox and clicking "Download the Bonus Resource."
References:
The Eight Paradoxes of Great Leadership by Tim Elmore
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, welcome back to the John Maxwell Leadership Podcast. My name is Mark Cole and yes, there |
| 0:10.3 | is a little additional passion and excitement in my voice today because John Maxwell is |
| 0:16.0 | in studio with me. I'm not dissecting a recent lesson and trying to tell you how we apply |
| 0:20.9 | it or how we're experiencing that. I'm actually in studio with John and John, we don't do |
| 0:26.5 | this enough. Not enough, but I love doing it with you and I'm so glad you're with us |
| 0:30.6 | too. I just enjoy the podcast so much. So thanks for finally inviting me on my podcast. |
| 0:37.1 | Yes, I will try to do it more podcast listeners. You're welcome. Yeah, John, it is. And a lot |
| 0:43.7 | of times what it means when I get the privilege of having John in studio in Atlanta, it means |
| 0:48.3 | that we have another guest. We have somebody else to introduce you to. And today, John and I are |
| 0:55.1 | excited beyond ability to communicate it that it's Tim Elmore. And John, this is a young man, |
| 1:03.3 | still a young man, that you have poured a lot of your life into. And so I feel like I would just |
| 1:10.3 | mess it up if I didn't give you a chance to really tell the significance of Tim Elmore to you. |
| 1:14.7 | I agree with you. I think you would totally mess it up because you were hardly even born |
| 1:20.1 | when this boy I love to call it a young man, Tim. But honestly, in the 1980s, I was |
| 1:26.3 | pastoring in San Diego, California. And I needed somebody to take care of the college work |
| 1:32.0 | ministry and our congregation. And Tim had just graduated from college and his parents were |
| 1:37.6 | members of our congregation. So I met him and I looked at him and I thought, man, we could |
| 1:42.1 | use you because he was already a very gifted communicator, a very creative, very sharp |
| 1:48.3 | in his thinking. And so I just said, you know, we would like to hire you. Little did I know |
| 1:54.0 | when we agreed that almost 40 years later, we would still be together. And I mean, you |
| 2:01.4 | were with me at the church, you were with me when we did the nonprofit equip. And then |
| 2:05.5 | like, you know, when we had too much to carry with the equip, I asked you to take the young |
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