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Maxwell Leadership Podcast

The Incomplete Leader (Part 1)

Maxwell Leadership Podcast

John Maxwell

Education, Business

4.72.4K Ratings

🗓️ 17 February 2021

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

The best leaders don't try to be perfect––they concentrate on honing their strengths and find others who can make up for their limitations. This week on The John Maxwell Leadership Podcast, we're starting a new two-part series called The Incomplete Leader. Throughout this series you will learn from John Maxwell on the four capabilities of leadership, how to evaluate your personal strengths and weaknesses, and how to develop a leadership team to give your organization complete leadership.

During the application portion of part one, Mark Cole and Chris Goede discuss the process they go through to become more self-aware as leaders and the importance of consulting the perspectives of others to broaden your own leadership perspective.

Our BONUS resource for this series is the Incomplete Leader Worksheet, which includes fill-in-the-blank notes from John's teaching. You can download the worksheet by visiting MaxwellPodcast.com/Incomplete and clicking "Download the Bonus Resource."

References:

Change Your World by John C. Maxwell

The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership by John C. Maxwell

The Maxwell Leadership Assessment

The John Maxwell Online Store

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to the John Maxwell Leadership Podcast, Mark Cole here and I'm excited about today

0:12.0

for a couple of reasons. One, John recently did a lesson called the incomplete leader.

0:18.2

And I don't know how that strikes you when you first hear it, but that gave me great

0:22.0

hope, incomplete and leader. Secondly, Chris, no, no intentionality here, but we brought Chris

0:31.3

into the studio today to help me debrief this as a co-host. Not because he's an incomplete

0:36.6

leader. Yeah, I'm stepping out right now, I'm out.

0:39.2

That's right. But because we want to hear from John and then we want to share with you

0:45.0

how we as leaders on John's team is applying this to ourselves and to our team. We believe

0:53.2

you will benefit from this two-part lesson on the incomplete leader. Today, John is going

0:59.2

to bring you two capabilities of a leader that they can work on to become more of a complete

1:06.1

leader. We hope you'll enjoy it. In fact, if you're ready to listen, we're ready to bring

1:11.0

you John. First, I'd like to invite you to go to the Maxwell Podcast dot com forward

1:16.2

slash incomplete. And you'll be able to click on the bonus resource button and download

1:22.2

the fill in the blank worksheet. Now, grab your pen, grab your paper by now, grab your

1:28.6

fill in the blank worksheet because here is John Maxwell on part one, the incomplete

1:34.6

leader. This is a lesson that I really got the seed

1:45.5

thoughts from the Harvard Business Review and I have the people in there that are responsible

1:51.5

for the paper. And so much of the material I'm going to give you comes from them and I

1:55.8

want to recognize their resource. No leader is perfect. The best ones don't try to be.

2:02.1

They concentrate on honing their strengths and find others who can make up for their limitations.

2:09.0

Let's stop right there. This lesson basically is about the fact that we are all incomplete

2:15.3

leaders and we need somebody around us to compliment us and to complete us. In other words,

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