Success Strategy Questions
Maxwell Leadership Podcast
John Maxwell
4.8 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 23 July 2025
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
Activity does not equal productivity. Are your actions strategic enough to be effective? In this episode, John C. Maxwell is sharing 5 strategy questions to ask yourself if you want to lead successfully!
After his lesson, Mark Cole and Chris Goede sit down to discuss what John has shared and help you practically apply it to your personal life and leadership.
Key takeaways:
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“Why” gives context to “what.”
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If you don’t see the big picture for your people, who else will?
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Get committed to seeking outside perspectives.
Our BONUS resource for this episode is the Success Strategy Questions Worksheet, which includes fill-in-the-blank notes from John’s teaching. You can download the worksheet by visiting MaxwellPodcast.com/Strategy and clicking “Download the Bonus Resource.”
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Maxwell Leadership Podcast. |
| 0:10.9 | Our podcast is committed to adding value to you so that you'll multiply value to others. |
| 0:16.7 | My name is Mark Cole, and today John Maxwell is going to give us five strategy questions that you will be able to ask yourself if you want to be successful. |
| 0:27.2 | Now, as you know, we come behind John Maxwell's content and we give application that you can use to better your life and to better your leadership. |
| 0:35.5 | And so today my co-host is Chris Goody, and we're going to |
| 0:38.5 | sit down and offer you insights and application that will make you better because it's making us |
| 0:45.6 | better. And truly, that is probably the greatest strategy thing that we all need to accomplish |
| 0:50.4 | at an individual level. How do we take some content? How do we apply it? And how do we get |
| 0:56.2 | results? Today, that's our guarantee to you. It's going to be incredible. If you would like to download |
| 1:01.2 | the free bonus resource for this episode or even watch this episode on YouTube, you can go to |
| 1:06.3 | Maxwellpodcast.com forward slash strategy. |
| 1:11.5 | Okay, grab a pen, grab a piece of paper, challenge yourself to put it into action. |
| 1:16.4 | Here is John Maxwell. |
| 1:23.4 | If you want to be successful, I'm going to give you some strategy questions that you want to ask yourself. |
| 1:29.7 | In fact, I'm going to give you five today. |
| 1:32.2 | And they're really good questions. |
| 1:34.0 | The lesson, I love the lesson. |
| 1:35.9 | And here's why I'm going to teach this lesson. |
| 1:38.9 | Leaders, all of us are leaders, and we all have a bias for action. |
| 1:46.7 | I mean, when you show action to a leader, |
| 1:51.6 | they're in the game. They're not in the stands. They're not, you know, stuffing themselves with a hot dog and a Coke or a beer. They're, they're playing the game. They're out there. I mean, |
| 1:57.0 | leaders love action. And since they love action, the result of that is they're busy. |
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