The Leader's Greatest Gift (Part 2)
Maxwell Leadership Podcast
John Maxwell
4.7 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 2 December 2020
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
In part 2 of The Leader's Greatest Gift series, John shares the final three points on passionate commitment and the potential for transformation when passion and commitment are combined.
During the application portion of the episode, Mark Cole and Traci Morrow talk about the "leadership malpractice" of leading everyone the same; how we often confuse passion with other personality traits such as charisma and woo; and the importance of understanding yourself before trying to understand your team members.
Our BONUS resource for this series is The Leader's Greatest Gift worksheet, which includes fill-in-the-blank notes from John's teaching. You can download the worksheet by visiting MaxwellPodcast.com/GreatestGift and clicking "Download the Bonus Resource."
References:
Change Your World by John C. Maxwell
Leadershift by John C. Maxwell
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, welcome back to the John Maxwell Leadership Podcast. Today you are in for a treat because |
| 0:11.7 | we're talking about the leaders greatest gift part two. Now, if you're new to the podcast, |
| 0:18.4 | you will want to go back and listen to John in part one. Last week, he talked to us about |
| 0:25.3 | passion and commitment and then gave us two of the first things that you need to know to make |
| 0:32.6 | passionate commitment a part of your leadership. Today, we pick up that lesson. John will share three, |
| 0:38.9 | four, and five. And then Tracy Morrow, my co-host today, mispassionate herself, is going to come back and |
| 0:47.4 | help me unpack what we heard from John. How we illustrate that in the John Maxwell Enterprise, |
| 0:53.8 | how we apply that and how you, our podcast family, can apply it as well. Now, as usual, if you |
| 1:01.3 | would like to follow along as John teaches today, you can go to Maxwellpodcast.com forward slash |
| 1:09.1 | greatest gift and you'll be able to click on the bonus resource button and download the worksheet. |
| 1:15.5 | It was Maya Angelou, who said, seek patience and passion and equal amounts. Patience alone will |
| 1:23.1 | not build the temple. Passion alone will destroy its walls. I know you're going to realize the |
| 1:30.2 | importance of passion is John continues today. Now, here is John C. Maxwell. |
| 1:36.4 | Statement number three. It is the difference maker between good and great. Now, I love this. |
| 1:57.4 | It's the difference maker between good and great. Another way to say it is it's the difference |
| 2:01.6 | maker between average and better than average. Michael Jordan said it right. Heart is what separates |
| 2:10.4 | the good and the great. Andrew Carnegie said people fall into three basic categories. Those who |
| 2:19.2 | did not do all their duty, those who only profess to do their duty and those who did their duty plus |
| 2:27.6 | a little bit more. While that's so true, great story. It's the fact that I want you to have this. |
| 2:34.2 | Former pro basketball star Bill Bradley shared health at the age of 15 he attended a summer |
| 2:39.7 | basketball camp that affected his life. The cap was run by Easy Ed McColley, great basketball player, |
| 2:45.6 | a former college and pro star. Just remember, here's what Easy Ed said. Just remember that if you're |
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