Why the Best Are the Best
Maxwell Leadership Podcast
John Maxwell
4.8 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 9 October 2019
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
John Maxwell says, “Leadership determines the success of the team,” and in this episode, he dissects what makes the best leaders the best. He offers two main ideas: The best leaders give their best to their people, and the best leaders are able to get the best from their people. You’re going to want to download the notes and follow along as John dives deep into these two characteristics of the best leaders.
Mark Cole and Richard Chancy direct our attention to the application side of John’s lesson. There’s a lot of great information to consume, but the goal is to slow down so we can do something with what we’re learning. Mark encourages us to choose one idea to pursue and focus on living it out over the next week.
Our BONUS resource for this episode is the Why the Best Are the Best Worksheet. You can access the worksheet by visiting MaxwellPodcast.com/Best and clicking “Download the Bonus Resource.”
References:
Everyone Communicates, Few Connect by John C. Maxwell
Thinking for a Change by John C. Maxwell
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, this is Richard Chancy with the John Maxwell Leadership Podcast. |
| 0:16.8 | Today we've got an incredible teaching for you called Why the Best Are the Best. |
| 0:22.8 | If you want to get the notes for this episode and let me just tell you this, you want to |
| 0:26.3 | get the notes for this episode. |
| 0:28.0 | We don't want to over to Maxwell Podcasts.com, forward slash, best. |
| 0:32.4 | You can download those notes by clicking the download resources button. |
| 0:36.3 | Now here's Dr. John C. Maxwell. |
| 0:47.0 | I wrote a book several years ago now on the Indusputable Laws of Teamwork. |
| 0:51.6 | And one of the laws of teamwork is called the Law of the Edge. |
| 0:54.2 | The law of the Edge says the difference between two equally talented teams is leadership. |
| 0:59.2 | It's very simple law. |
| 1:01.0 | Basically, what I'm saying is all things being equal, leadership makes the difference. |
| 1:07.0 | Now what this lesson is all about is the fact that all leaders are not equal. |
| 1:11.0 | In other words, there are people that are good leaders, there are people that are fair |
| 1:14.3 | leaders, there are some people that are excellent leaders. |
| 1:17.6 | And so as I begin to think about the fact that even when you're a leader, the best leaders |
| 1:21.9 | have the edge over what I would call the good leaders. |
| 1:25.4 | I begin to ask myself the question, well, what makes the best the best? |
| 1:28.2 | The top 10%, that they're just the best leaders. |
| 1:31.5 | What sets them apart from the other leaders? |
| 1:34.8 | There's something that I've shared many, many times in my different companies here, but |
| 1:39.0 | I want to make sure I give it to you today because I want to say something about it that |
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