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Maxwell Leadership Podcast

Leadership Lessons from Michael Jordan's "The Last Dance"

Maxwell Leadership Podcast

John Maxwell

Education, Business

4.72.4K Ratings

🗓️ 8 July 2020

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Recently ESPN released a 10-part documentary on Michael Jordan and the Chicago Bulls entitled "The Last Dance." John Maxwell watched this series and gleaned several important leadership lessons that he shares with you here on the podcast.

Mark Cole and Chris Goede join in for the application portion of the episode to talk about championing the people around you to accomplish great things together. Chris Goede shares what he's learned about leadership from his years of playing football in both the college and professional arenas.  

Our BONUS resource for this episode is the Last Dance Worksheet, which includes fill-in-the-blank notes from John's teaching. You can download the worksheet by visiting MaxwellPodcast.com/LastDance and clicking "Download the Bonus Resource."

References:

Watch the full video of John's lesson here

Developing the Leader Within You 2.0 by John C. Maxwell

Episode 1: Winning Is an Inside Job

JohnMaxwellSpeaker.com

The John Maxwell Online Store

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey, welcome to the John Maxwell Leadership Podcast. I am so glad you're with us today.

0:11.6

Now today we wanted to take a recent talk that John Maxwell did on the last dance. If

0:18.3

you don't know, there was a whole ESPN documentary on Michael Jordan and how he became one of

0:26.2

the greatest of all times, if not the greatest. Today in studio, I am extremely excited because I

0:32.7

have a competitor myself. In fact, I think his wife told me he's the goat. He's the goat of all

0:38.0

time. Chris Goady, you all know him, but Chris has played sports specifically football at every level

0:44.3

of the game. He has competed. He knows what it's like to be on a sports team and I can tell you

0:51.2

right now he knows what it's like to be on a competitive leadership team. I'm excited for you to

0:57.0

hear he and I break down John's lesson. We're getting ready to go to John Maxwell, but I want to tell you

1:03.5

this. If you want to get the notes, you can go to Maxwellpodcast.com forward slash last dance. And you'll get the

1:12.5

re the worksheet by clicking on the bonus resource button. So here is John and stay tuned because then

1:20.3

Chris and I are going to have a great time debriefing. Hi, John Maxwell here. I'm so excited again. Come to you. And

1:36.9

just hopefully give you lessons and teachings that are practical that are helping you not only with the

1:44.3

crisis that we're in, but just help you as a person to learn better, live better and love people better. And

1:52.4

what I want to do today is a little bit of a parting from what I've done. I like probably many of you got caught up in ESPN's

2:02.5

the last dance, you know, the documentary of Michael Jordan. And you know, in fact, when I watched it, I

2:09.1

not only enjoyed it immensely and learned from it, but I said it myself because there are there's very little

2:14.2

sports on TV. This is going to be a record audience. And sure enough, it was a record audience. More people watched

2:20.5

that, I think, documentary than any other that ESPN has ever had. And if you watched it, I think you'll get a little bit

2:27.8

more out of the lesson, but I'll try to keep it in context so that if you didn't watch it, we still have some

2:32.2

incredible lessons that we can learn from the Chicago Bulls from Michael Jordan. And this whole last dance documentary. So

2:40.6

let's get going because I'm just very excited about about the lessons we're going to learn. Before I teach any of the

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