*Never* Hire Your Friends
Maxwell Leadership Podcast
John Maxwell
4.8 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 6 June 2025
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
If you want to love the people you work with and lead them effectively, build a community of friendship in the workplace. In this bonus episode of the Maxwell Leadership Podcast, Mark Cole is joined by special guest Marcylle Combs to discuss her brand-new book, Never Hire Your Friends!
Key takeaways:
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Too many people say that humility is a weakness and not a strength.
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Speak honesty with kindness, especially when it’s going to hurt.
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Having fun with your team isn't just a nice idea — it's serious business.
Our BONUS resource for this episode is the *Never* Hire Your Friends Worksheet, which includes fill-in-the-blank notes from this teaching. You can download the worksheet by visiting MaxwellPodcast.com/HireYourFriends and clicking “Download the Bonus Resource.”
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, welcome to the Maxwell Leadership Podcast. We have a special episode for you today. Now, I've got to be |
| 0:14.8 | honest with you. I'm kind of like John Maxwell when you write books. I think every book John |
| 0:20.5 | writes, he says, this is my best |
| 0:22.2 | book ever. Well, as the podcast guy, I think every podcast is our best podcast ever. And to be |
| 0:28.4 | honest with you, if I ever stop thinking that, I'm going to stop doing podcast. But today is special |
| 0:33.5 | for a lot of reasons because we're going to get to fulfill what we do. This is a podcast that |
| 0:39.0 | adds value to you with the expectation that you're going to multiply value to others. We're a |
| 0:45.1 | podcast we believe we add value to leaders who multiply value to others. Today I'm going to bring to |
| 0:51.7 | you a very, very, very special leader. Now, she's a friend. |
| 0:56.4 | You're going to hear that in our podcast talk because we're going to get so carried away. |
| 1:00.8 | We're going to talk like friends. That's good. That's important. That's important to the whole |
| 1:04.3 | concept of the content of this podcast. I'm going to introduce you to a friend in just a moment, |
| 1:09.6 | but I want introduce you to a leader. |
| 1:11.9 | Marcel Combs is a person that in the next 30 minutes you're going to want to know everything you can about her. |
| 1:19.1 | Marcel, she started seven or eight businesses. |
| 1:21.5 | We could get into all that, Marcel. |
| 1:23.0 | She still owns three. |
| 1:25.2 | She's done a ton in the health care and in managing relationship business all of her life. |
| 1:32.0 | Yet, as she still owns these three businesses, she's figured something out that she's put in her first book. |
| 1:38.8 | And the book's called Never Hire Your Friends. Now, I'm going to go ahead and tell you if you are a podcast viewer, you already get the |
| 1:46.6 | point because she's got a black line right through the word never. |
| 1:51.2 | If you're not listening to the podcast, you are already going, never hire a friend. |
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