You Can Lead Now!
Maxwell Leadership Podcast
John Maxwell
4.7 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 26 August 2020
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
We say often on the podcast that there is a leadership deficit in our country and in the world. That means there is a huge need for leaders to step up and make change. But so many leaders talk themselves out of leading because they feel they don't have enough influence or opportunities.
In this episode, John encourages everyone that you can lead right now by starting wherever you are, using what you have, and doing what you can. He talks about influence and opportunities, and how to gain more of each.
Join Mark Cole and Traci Morrow in the application portion of the episode as they share their own stories of stepping into leadership and discuss the great things that happen when you lean into the leadership needs around you.
Our BONUS resource for this episode is the Lead Now Worksheet, which includes fill-in-the-blank notes from John's teaching. You can download the worksheet by visiting MaxwellPodcast.com/Now and clicking "Download the Bonus Resource."
References:
The 360° Leader by John C. Maxwell
The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership by John C. Maxwell
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, welcome to the John Maxwell Leadership Podcast. I'm Mark Cole and I'm excited today |
| 0:13.6 | to talk about you, that you can lead now. We say often in this podcast that there is |
| 0:21.5 | a leadership deficit in our country. In fact, there's one in the world right now. What |
| 0:27.8 | we really mean when we're saying that is there is a huge need for leaders to step up and make |
| 0:34.3 | a change and to make change and to change the world. But so many leaders talk themselves out |
| 0:41.0 | of leading because they feel they don't have enough influence or they don't have the opportunity. |
| 0:48.2 | In the episode this week, John is going to encourage everyone to lead now by starting right |
| 0:56.3 | where they are using what they have, doing what they can. In fact, it was several, several |
| 1:04.1 | months ago in our maximum impact mentoring program that John shared this lesson and it is so |
| 1:12.1 | relevant to where we are today that Tracy Morrow, the co-host of this podcast, yes, but also the |
| 1:19.0 | co-host with John in the maximum impact mentoring call, they dug into this conversation that |
| 1:26.2 | you can lead now. Now, if you want to download the show notes, you can go to maxwoolpodcast.com forward |
| 1:34.1 | slash now and you can follow along as John teaches about you, that you can lead now. Here is Dr. John C. |
| 1:45.1 | Max. I'm excited about the teaching entitled you can lead now. When I began the leadership journey, |
| 1:59.2 | I was asking myself, how do I really define leadership? I define it as the fact that leadership |
| 2:06.2 | is influence. What's beautiful is 45 years later, it's exactly what I still believe that leadership |
| 2:13.2 | is influence. The reason I start this lesson with that is we're talking about you are seeing right |
| 2:19.6 | now where ever you are, position, no position, young, old, maybe just being introduced to the subject |
| 2:27.7 | of leadership, what's so beautiful is once we understand what leadership is, which is said for |
| 2:33.0 | us, then we don't have to wait for permission from someone else to start leading, we just start |
| 2:39.4 | influencing people. Maybe the three quick phrases I want to begin this lesson with is start where you |
| 2:46.6 | are, use what you have and do what you can. It's really that simple start where you are. I could |
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