How Leaders Make the Tough Call

Maxwell Leadership Podcast

John Maxwell

Business, Leadership, Education, Johnmaxwell

4.8 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 13 September 2023

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

John Maxwell shares eight ways to help leaders like you navigate making your next tough decision. This could be exactly what you need for breakthrough. Then Traci Morrow and Mark Cole share helpful and practical ways you can apply this lesson to your own leadership.

Key takeaways:

- “Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.” –Peter Drucker

- Those who can doubt their own judgment usually make competent decisions in the end.

- Research can make or break a major decision.

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0:00.0	Hey, welcome to the Maxwell Leadership Podcast.
0:22.0	This is the podcast that adds value to leaders who multiply value to others.
0:27.5	My name is Mark Cole and today John Maxwell is going to teach a lesson on how
0:32.6	leaders make the tough call. I know, stop it, pause it right now. Every leader
0:40.0	wants the easy call, right? I've heard John say often that it's the difficult,
0:45.2	it's the tough call that makes leadership necessary. If it were easy, everyone
0:51.2	would do it. But today we're going to recognize the difficulty of leadership
0:56.2	and your ability to make the tough call, rest in your ability to gain leadership
1:01.8	credibility. John is going to share eight ways to help leaders like you navigate making your
1:08.7	next hard decision. This could be exactly what you need for the breakthrough you want.
1:15.2	If you'd like to watch this episode on YouTube, visit MaxwellPodcast.com forward slash YouTube.
1:22.6	If you would like to download the free bonus resource for this episode to make note taking
1:28.5	easier, visit MaxwellPodcast.com forward slash tough call. Now here is John Maxwell.
1:40.1	Here's what I know about tough calls. In any organization, Peter Drucker is exactly right,
1:45.4	and I'm in your notes now. Whenever you see a successful business,
1:50.4	someone once made a courageous decision. Tough calls when they're the right tough calls
1:57.7	equal breakthrough. You are only for some of you in this room. You are only a tough call away.
2:06.1	Since that's part of leadership and since we all have to make it, there are things that will
2:10.3	help you and things will help me in making the tough call. Number one, accept tough calls
2:17.4	as a requirement of leadership. Just start there. Accept tough calls as a requirement of leadership.
2:26.7	Leadership means having the courage to make decisions not for easy headlines in 10 days, but for
2:32.5	a better country in 10 years. Ex-Prime Minister of Canada said that. Your decisions and your
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