The Self-Aware Leader
Maxwell Leadership Podcast
John Maxwell
4.8 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 15 December 2021
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
“To know yourself, you must sacrifice the illusion that you already do.” –Vironika Tugaleva
In John Maxwell’s new book, The Self-Aware Leader, he states that fools want to conquer the world, while the wise want to conquer themselves. When we understand ourselves better, we understand our strengths and weaknesses better, and we are able to unleash our teams to accomplish great things! In this episode, we are celebrating John’s new book by releasing a lesson in which he talks about what it means to be a self-aware leader!
During the application portion of the episode, Mark Cole and Chris Goede examine the importance of self-awareness in leadership. They also discuss what they are learning throughout their own journeys toward becoming more self-aware leaders.
Our BONUS resource for this episode is the Self-Aware Leader Worksheet, which includes fill-in-the-blank notes from John’s teaching. You can download the worksheet by visiting MaxwellPodcast.com/Aware and clicking “Download the Bonus Resource.”
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| 0:00.0 | Hey podcast listeners, welcome back to another episode of the John Maxwell Leadership Podcast. |
| 0:20.6 | I'm joined today with Chris Goody, I'm Mark Cole and we're honored to get to attempt |
| 0:27.7 | to add value to you today so that you will attempt to go multiply value to others. |
| 0:34.6 | Now today in this episode we're talking about a new book that John has written called |
| 0:40.8 | the Self-Aware Leader. |
| 0:43.3 | If you've not picked it up, you want to go pick it up. |
| 0:46.0 | If you're watching by YouTube today, you just visualized the book because this book |
| 0:51.6 | we're very excited about. |
| 0:53.2 | In fact, in the book John says when we are foolish, we want to conquer the world but when |
| 0:59.1 | we are wise, we want to conquer ourselves. |
| 1:03.1 | And that's what today is all about conquering yourself and being a self-aware leader. |
| 1:09.6 | This episode John is going to share his own thoughts on what it means to be self-aware |
| 1:14.6 | and how he has applied that to be the leader that he is today. |
| 1:19.6 | For John's lesson, Chris Goody and I are going to come back and be a little self-aware |
| 1:24.1 | about our self as well as talk a little bit about how you can become more self-aware |
| 1:30.0 | and engage people around you to discover you. |
| 1:34.8 | So listen in, today we have a bonus resource for you. |
| 1:38.2 | It is a fill-in-the-blank worksheet and you can go find that at maxwellpodcast.com |
| 1:45.3 | forward slash aware. |
| 1:47.6 | Click on the bonus resource button, you'll be able to download the show notes. |
| 1:51.9 | Also, if you would like to purchase John's book, the self-aware leader, we're going to |
| 1:56.5 | have a link in our show notes today. |
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