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Maxwell Leadership Podcast

The Art of Leading Complicated People (Including Yourself) with Ryan Leak

Maxwell Leadership Podcast

John Maxwell

Business, Leadership, Education, Johnmaxwell

4.82.3K Ratings

🗓️ 21 May 2025

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

In life and in leadership, you’ll meet complicated people. How do you work with them? Do you change them? Challenge them? Ignore them? Or is there a better way to approach them? In todays episode, Mark Cole and Jared Cagle are joined by Ryan Leak for a special look at his new book, How to Work with Complicated People!

Key takeaways: 

  • Focus on influencing and serving your people rather than controlling them.

  • On the other side of each and every one of us is complexity. 

  • The best leaders humbly examine themselves first. 

Our BONUS resource for this episode is the The Art of Leading Complicated People (Including Yourself) with Ryan Leak Worksheet, which includes fill-in-the-blank notes from Johns teaching. You can download the worksheet by visiting MaxwellPodcast.com/Complicated and clicking Download the Bonus Resource. 

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0:00.0

Hey, welcome to Maxwell Leadership Podcast. Our podcast is committed to you, Podcasts

0:13.0

family. I'm glad so many of you are return listeners, return viewers. You truly make every

0:19.5

studio experience that I have extremely special because I'm sitting with you.

0:23.5

I'm walking with you.

0:24.5

I'm running with you.

0:25.5

We're driving down the road mad at traffic together.

0:28.9

You're my family.

0:30.0

And I'm super excited because every podcast, we put our best into it because we want you to grow.

0:36.0

We want to add value to you so that you'll multiply value to

0:39.5

others. Today is no exception. In fact, I am so excited today. I think I'm going to explode.

0:46.1

I'm excited because I'm doing something John Maxwell wish he could do. He called me this morning

0:50.2

and I told him what I was going into studio to do with this podcast. He was envious and he's not

0:55.2

showing up. That's an unusual part of the podcast. Number two, I'm excited because we've accomplished a

1:00.7

first time ever. And if you've listened to any of these podcasts, you know we're big about

1:04.3

first time ever's. We're pioneers. We want to accomplish something we've never accomplished. And

1:08.3

today that's happened. And thirdly, I'm in studio with

1:11.9

two brilliant, younger than me, better looking than me, leaders. And that always makes me kind of

1:18.4

feel younger and it makes me feel relevant. Today, it's no exception. One of my guests,

1:23.2

you haven't met on podcast yet, but he really runs the podcast. His name is Jared Kegel and

1:27.3

Jared is our executive vice president of content and publishing

1:31.2

here at Maxwell Leadership, and he's joining me today.

1:34.3

And he's joining me because also joining me is a Maxwell Leadership published author named

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