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🗓️ 20 March 2019
⏱️ 44 minutes
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In this special episode, John Maxwell and Mark Cole sit down with their good friend Don Yaeger. Don is an award-winning keynote speaker, business leadership coach, 11-time New York Times best-selling author, and longtime associate editor for Sports Illustrated.
John and Don talk about their journeys to become great communicators, both on stage and on paper, as well as favorite books they’ve written and what it means to truly be great.
Instead of notes, this week’s BONUS resource is a free preview of Don Yaeger’s online course, Journey to Greatness, which you can access by visiting MaxwellPodcast.com/Greatness or by clicking the link in the references below.
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| 0:00.0 | Well, hello everyone. Welcome to the John Maxwell leadership podcast. I today am sitting |
| 0:10.7 | between two greats in studio. One you're very familiar with, hence the name, the John |
| 0:17.3 | Maxwell leadership podcast. John Maxwell is with us today in studio and he's with us |
| 0:23.0 | for a lot of reasons. He loves all of you out there, but he's also with us because |
| 0:26.6 | we have another great sitting right across from John, Don Yeager. And if you don't know |
| 0:31.5 | Don, Google his name and it'll tell you everything you need to know. But let me tell you this, |
| 0:36.8 | Don's a great friend to you, John. He's a great friend to me. He's a partner in our vision |
| 0:41.9 | to multiply leadership around the world, but sitting behind a microphone, connecting with |
| 0:46.8 | people is not new to Don because he's been teaching leadership for decades. He's been |
| 0:51.6 | a writer for sports illustrated. He's been a contributor in the sports world, but he's |
| 0:55.8 | now working with businesses. He's now training leaders to emulate greatness that's around |
| 1:02.0 | them. He's training leaders to be great. He's training leaders to teach other people to |
| 1:05.8 | be great. And I'm really excited today, Don, to have you, John, to have you in the studio |
| 1:12.0 | with John is a gift to all of us. And so John, before we hear Don, just tell us a little |
| 1:17.2 | bit about what you're excited about right now. Leadership is out. It's out. And then tell |
| 1:22.4 | us a little bit about Don and let Don tell him a little bit about himself. |
| 1:25.4 | Well, leadership is out. And it's about how to strengthen, sustain your leadership. And |
| 1:31.2 | the only way you could do that is making changes. And so I talk about 11 shifts in my book |
| 1:35.8 | that you need to make to be agile and adaptable so that you can continue to go. And the reason |
| 1:42.6 | we have to be agile and adaptable, obviously, is because our culture moves so quickly now. |
| 1:47.1 | If you have to see before other see, if you're really going to be an effective leader. |
| 1:51.4 | That's what the book's all about. Very excited about it. And we're off to a great start |
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