Six Temptations of Successful Organizations (Part 1)
Maxwell Leadership Podcast
John Maxwell
4.8 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 17 July 2019
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
There’s a lot of great content in this episode, and you do not want to miss it!
John Maxwell talks about the temptations that successful organizations face, and he offers business maxims to counteract them. The first key idea he shares is that you and your business never arrive. He ties that into our need to be growth-oriented rather than goal-oriented. Goals have a finish line, but growth does not. Mark Cole is quick to point out that goals are not bad, but they do need to be a part of an ongoing growth process.
In a successful organization, leaders can be tempted to stop thinking big. John compares this challenge in business organizations to sports teams that switch from playing to win to playing to protect what they have. He points towards organizations that do something well and then want to stick to that same process for every venture moving forward. Richard Chancy reminds us that leaders make things happen! Our motivation may be a desire to win or a strong fear of losing, but either way we must be willing to work on ourselves, keep growing, and think BIG if we want to be successful over the long haul.
Our BONUS resource for this series is The Six Temptations of Successful Organizations Worksheet, which includes fill-in-the-blank notes from John’s teaching. You can download the worksheet by visiting MaxwellPodcast.com/Temptation and clicking “Download the Bonus Resource.”
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, this is Richard Chancig with the John Maxwell Leadership Podcast. |
| 0:09.2 | Thanks so much for being with us today. |
| 0:11.3 | Today you're going to hear part one of the six temptations of a successful organization. |
| 0:16.4 | Dr. Maxwell's actually going to cover points one and two in this episode and then parts |
| 0:20.8 | three through six in the next episode. |
| 0:23.4 | If you want to get the show notes for this episode, go over to Maxwell Podcast dot com |
| 0:28.6 | forward slash temptation and just click the bonus resource button to download the show |
| 0:32.7 | notes. |
| 0:33.7 | Now here's Dr. John C. Maxwell. |
| 0:42.8 | I'm bringing this out of a book that's entitled Up Your Business, Seven Steps to Fix, |
| 0:49.6 | Build, or Stretch Your Organization by Dave Anderson. |
| 0:53.5 | And there have been a lot of people I've had the privilege of mentoring and Dave Anderson |
| 0:56.1 | is one of the guys I've mentored. |
| 0:58.0 | And what's fun is to watch somebody that's being highly successful, especially in the |
| 1:03.0 | automobile industry. |
| 1:05.2 | Watching them being very successful is a speaker and is a writer. |
| 1:09.0 | And watching my principles come back to me. |
| 1:11.5 | And when he sent me this manuscript, he'll bet he quotes me a hundred times in the book. |
| 1:17.2 | And it's just so much fun to watch somebody take my stuff and do with it better than I could |
| 1:21.5 | do with it. |
| 1:22.5 | You know what I'm saying? |
| 1:23.5 | I look at and think, oh, this is really good. |
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