Hey podcast listeners, welcome to the Maxvel Leadership Podcast. This is the podcast that adds value to leaders who multiply value to others.

My name is Mark Cole and I'm the CEO of Maxvel Leadership but today I'm just a teammate. I'm just a friend with you as we begin to dive in to a lesson that will help you.

In fact, let me ask you a question. Do you think great leaders possess the ability to lead anyone and lead everyone?

See the answer may surprise you. Certain factors can limit how far others can go and how far we can take them.

Today and my co-host Tracy Barrow in the studio with me are beginning a new series called Leadership Limitations.

In part one, John Maxwell will teach the four major factors that determine the limitations of the people you and I lead.

Next week in part two, John will teach on the five factors that determine how far we as leaders can take our people.

But first, if you would like to download our free bonus resource, which is a PDF worksheet that accompanies John's lesson, go to Maxwellpodcast.com

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Okay, here we go. Grab a pen, grab a paper. Here is John Maxwell.

Where this lesson came from is I was interviewed by Leadership Magazine, which is the largest Leadership Magazine in circulation wise that I know of.

I was interviewed by them to do a cover story on leadership of which one of the questions they asked me was, can you lead everyone?

That was the question. And so it got me to thinking, got my legal pad out and I said, okay, let me think this thing through.

Can I lead everything? Because you know, you know, what are my favorite quotes? Is everything rises and falls on leadership?

And in my beginning of leadership, I was very naive and I thought in the beginning of my leadership that I could lead everyone.

I thought everybody will follow because I've got a great dream and I know where I'm going and I've got confidence.

And I mean, why wouldn't they just fall in line and all of us go up the mountain together?

I mean, why stay at the base camp? Why not go to the top? That's what I thought.

But of course, I was very naive and when I finally got in the process of leading, I realized that there were some people that you either don't lead or you can't lead.

So let's let me give you and I break this down into two kinds of limitations. There are what I call people limitations and there are what I call personal limitations.

So let's deal with the people limitations first. There are four of those and then we'll deal with the personal limitations, which are five of those and I'll bring you through. And one of my goals as I take you through them is for you to begin to identify which ones you are strong and which ones you are weak in, not for me, but for yourself to help you to be a better leader.

Okay, let's go. Let's talk about people limitations. First, number one.

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