Ordinary to Extraordinary (Part 2)
Maxwell Leadership Podcast
John Maxwell
4.8 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 30 January 2019
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
Are you a leader or just a manager? According to John C. Maxwell, a manager’s goal is to do things right. A leader’s goal is to do the right things.
In this episode, we’re continuing our discussion on moving from ordinary to extraordinary as a leader. John touches on the importance of realism, change, thinking, attitude, and planning in the journey to becoming extraordinary.
Mark and Richard follow up with a discussion on the balance between realism and creativity. How does a leader embrace realistic thinking without smothering the creative fire? They also explore why most people have the “if it isn’t broken, don’t fix it” mentality––a mentality that thwarts innovation and change.
Our BONUS resource for this series is the Ordinary to Extraordinary Worksheet, which includes fill-in-the-blank notes from John’s teaching. You can download the worksheet by visiting MaxwellPodcast.com/extraordinary and clicking “Download the Bonus Resource.”
References:
Thinking for a Change by John C. Maxwell
Put Your Dream to the Test by John C. Maxwell
Developing the Leader Within You by John C. Maxwell
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, this is Richard Chancy. Welcome to the John Maxwell Leadership Podcast. Now, if this |
| 0:12.5 | is your first time with us, you're catching us right in the middle of a series called |
| 0:16.4 | Ordinary to Extraordinary. If you want to get the notes for this episode, and I highly |
| 0:21.5 | recommend for this episode in particular that you get the notes because John covers a lot |
| 0:27.3 | of ground, you can get those notes at maxwellpodcast.com, forward slash extraordinary, and then just |
| 0:33.4 | click the bonus resource button to download the notes. Now, here's Dr. John C. Maxwell on |
| 0:38.6 | Ordinary to Extraordinary Part 2. Let's go to number four. We need a little extra realism. |
| 0:53.4 | To go from Ordinary to Extraordinary, Max DePris said the first responsibility of a leader is |
| 0:57.8 | to define reality. Now, let me just stop here from giving a confession. This has been a weakness for |
| 1:05.6 | me. This is not my strength. I've always been a dreamer. I've always been a person who looks |
| 1:12.2 | on the positive side. I've always been a person who had great hope. I don't have many emotionally |
| 1:20.1 | down days. This has been a weakness of mine. This is something I've had to learn in my last few |
| 1:27.2 | years. This is something I've had to grab hold of because I realized that too often I wasn't |
| 1:32.3 | realistic. Sometimes I would look at my own strength or my own giftedness and think that everybody |
| 1:38.2 | else could come along with me and sometimes they could, sometimes they couldn't. And I've had to |
| 1:44.8 | back up. The good advice of Jack Welch really helped me. It's in your notes, six rules for successful |
| 1:52.6 | leadership. From the CEO's CEO, Jack Welch, here's what he said, number one, control your destiny or |
| 1:59.1 | someone else will. Two, face reality as it is, not as it was or as you wish it were. Three, be |
| 2:07.3 | candid with everyone. Four, don't manage lead. Five, change before you have two and six, if you |
| 2:12.8 | don't have a competitive advantage, don't compete. That stuff grabbed me because all of a sudden |
| 2:20.0 | I realized I needed a face reality as it was. Not as I wanted it to be, not as I thought it should be, |
| 2:26.8 | just what is real. That's the solid ground to stand on. I have a book called Thinking for a Change, |
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