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John Maxwell

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“And when he told me that, I mean, something within me just clicked, and I looked at him and I said, well, then I'm going to write books too. Well, I wrote books not because I wanted to write a book. I wrote books because I wanted to expand and extend my influence beyond me. And so literally that was the catalyst to get me to writing books. And then after that discussion, I thought, well, if I'm going to add value to people that I'm never going to know, I mean, what is it that I can say or what is it that the reader needs to hear for me to do that for them? And, you know, how can I help people be successful?”
2020-03-31 · The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish · #80 John Maxwell: Developing the Leader in You · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I had a mentor. Let me tell you a story. I had a mentor and he wrote books. And I hadn't written any books. In fact, I didn't have any desire to write any books. Or having lunch one day. And so I asked him, I said, Les, why do you write books? And he said, well, I write books to influence people that are beyond my personal touch. He said, I want to have influence and help people that I'll never get a note.”
2020-03-31 · The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish · #80 John Maxwell: Developing the Leader in You · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And the moment that I kind of lose myself and pour it into others, I honestly start to find myself. And that's been a major transition in growth area of my life also. But, I mean, there are so many of them.”
2020-03-31 · The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish · #80 John Maxwell: Developing the Leader in You · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Significance is all about others. It's how did I add value to you today, Shane? And how am I adding value to your listeners? And it's not about me. It's about improving the life of others. And I'm not at you do too. I know a lot of successful people. They're not happy. I mean, they have a lot of stuff, but they're not happy. But I've never known a person that committed to significance, which is adding value intentionally to others on a consistent basis. I've never known anybody that lived a significant life, which was all about others that was unhappy. And all of a sudden I realized that our unhappiness and sometimes disappointment and disillusionment is based on the fact that we thought that if we would take care of ourselves, our life would be fulfilling. And it's not. We're too small. I mean, it's got to be more than just a...”
2020-03-31 · The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish · #80 John Maxwell: Developing the Leader in You · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Of course. When I started off, it was all about, you know, building my career. And I did that. I did that. But I began to realize as the years have matured me that success and significance are not the same thing. And success pretty much is about me and about what I've done and my career and how I've taken care of my family and the money I've made. you know the house that I have and et cetera And all of a sudden I realized that. There is a higher level of living there, and that was what I would call a living a life of significance.”
2020-03-31 · The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish · #80 John Maxwell: Developing the Leader in You · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And in the last 32 years have been just incredible, but they've been incredible because I made a change. I called in audible at 40 and said, okay, John, your number one priority from now on is to developing other people. And the leader's greatest return is really a result. It's kind of like the end of the story of what I began at the age of 40 to do. And now I'm looking at it and I'm saying, oh my goodness, I wish when I was 20 I would have had somebody talk about developing the people around me and showing me how to do it because now I know where the return is when I was young. I just thought work hard and stay focused and you'll get everything that you want to have or that you need to have, but that's not true.”
2020-03-31 · The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish · #80 John Maxwell: Developing the Leader in You · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“But I felt within me that I had not yet achieved near the level of my potential, and yet I looked at myself and I said, well, I'm working very hard. I'm not a lazy person at all. And so why am I not satisfied or why am I not to the level I think I want to be? And my conclusion after not a long time, a few days of just inventory was that my team that I had, I brought them in to do a workload or to carry a workload for me, but I hadn't developed them. And so they weren't getting any better. And if they weren't getting any better, then the company wasn't going to get any better. And so I said, okay, I know what I'm going to do now. I'm going to pour my life into these people and help them to get better, which is going to increase their capacity to help other people to grow too. And that's what I did at four.”
2020-03-31 · The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish · #80 John Maxwell: Developing the Leader in You · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Well, I think every person has kind of an idea. You know, you've got a dream and you're not sure how it's all going to end up. But at 40, when I kind of was checking in with myself, what I knew was that one, I worked very hard. And number two is that people that from the outside that would look at me would already consider me to probably be successful.”
2020-03-31 · The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish · #80 John Maxwell: Developing the Leader in You · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“A leadership culture and an empowering environment. And when I did that, these people came alongside of me and helped me lift the load and helped me do things I couldn't have done on my own.”
2020-03-31 · The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish · #80 John Maxwell: Developing the Leader in You · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“When I wrote the book, The 21 Interfugable Laws of Leadership, it was out of that experience that I wrote the law of the inner circle, those who are closest to you, determine the level of your success. And what I discovered was that I hadn't reached my potential because I hadn't spent and invested the time in the people around me enough so they could help me raise that level. And so I made a commitment at 40. I'm now 72. And that was the rest of my life I was going to spend that in investing in my people and developing them and helping them learn how to lead. And it was the greatest business decision I ever made because in the last 30-22 years, the return has been pretty huge. But it's been a huge return because all of a sudden I took the vision from me to we and I created”
2020-03-31 · The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish · #80 John Maxwell: Developing the Leader in You · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Well, that happened to me, Shane, you know, when I turned 40, I did a kind of a review of my first half, and I became a little discouraged because I had really developed and grown myself. And in the eyes of a lot of people, I'd been successful, but I hadn't achieved yet what I wanted to achieve. And so I kind of just said, well, why am I not where I want to be? And I came to the conclusion I had not spent enough time developing and investing in other leaders. And so, in fact, it was out of that experience that”
2020-03-31 · The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish · #80 John Maxwell: Developing the Leader in You · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I wrote the book because as a young leader and people that are starting off and trying to build businesses, they have so many things that demand and call for their attention. It's kind of like I don't have time to invest in my people. I have time to mentor them because I've got to keep, you know, just try to keep this door open here. And it's a huge mistake because if you invest in people, they'll help you keep that door open and you won't have to be doing it all yourself. But many people just don't see the return or the fact that they have so many other pressing needs right now that they see the return, but they say, I don't have time to go there right now.”
2020-03-31 · The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish · #80 John Maxwell: Developing the Leader in You · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I can. First of all, most leaders never develop other leaders. They just have followers. And the reason for that's very simple. Followers are looking for somebody to lead them. Honestly, they're looking for the line. Where do I get in and where are we going? And can you help me get there? Whereas if you're trying to develop leaders, they're not as needy and they're not as hungry to get in line and have somebody kind of show them the way. In fact, they kind of want to put people in their line. I used to laugh and say leading leaders like herding cats. So when I wrote this book on the leader's greatest return, it's kind of like if you read this book, I don't promise you it's going to be easy, but I do promise you it'll be worthwhile.”
2020-03-31 · The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish · #80 John Maxwell: Developing the Leader in You · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Really, just help people be self aware where they are. And it's kind of like once you know where you are, now you can kind of get going in the right direction. But sometimes I have to find myself before I can move where I want to be. And so, you know, the leader's greatest return, the five levels of leadership, developing the leader within you 2.0, these are leadership books I've written. There's a lot of awareness in it where it's kind of like I know that once you're aware, you're going to be able to improve yourself. So let me just kind of hold up the mirror for you, let you see yourself so that you can proceed.”
2020-03-31 · The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish · #80 John Maxwell: Developing the Leader in You · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And so I think it's very important to as a leader to help people with awareness of where they are, you know, where they could be. And when people talk about being self-aware, I always say, I don't think so. I think that we all have blind spots. I do. I have things that I don't see about myself. And that's why I need other people to come around who care for me. but want to see me obviously reach my potential. And so they sometimes the only self-awareness I have is the awareness that was given to me by someone else until I understood it and had maybe a teachable spirit and said, okay, I'm going to work on this area. Now that I see it, now that I know it. So I think a lot of my leadership writing and a lot of my leadership teaching.”
2020-03-31 · The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish · #80 John Maxwell: Developing the Leader in You · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“No, I think that there's a lack of awareness. In fact, I wrote that book because most people weren't aware that there were levels of leadership. They weren't aware that leadership is a continual growth process and that leaders develop daily, not in a day. And so I wrote the book to help a person become aware because you can't grow yourself unless you know yourself.”
2020-03-31 · The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish · #80 John Maxwell: Developing the Leader in You · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I not only know how to lead myself, but I know how to help other people learn how to lead. And of course, that's the main purpose of my book on the leaders' Greatest Return. It's all about the fact that if you want to compound influence, or if you want to compound time, energy, money, anything like that, if you really want to compound it, you have to do it with others and through others, which is a level four, then a level five is pinnacle where you've done it so well with so many for so long that after a while you just kind of become bigger than life. And why I teach these levels of leadership is to help people understand and be aware that no matter where you are, it's a journey. It's a verb. You got to keep moving. And no matter where you are, you certainly can continue to grow and develop. Hopefully go up to another level.”
2020-03-31 · The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish · #80 John Maxwell: Developing the Leader in You · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“People, the people that you lead, give your permission to lead because they like you and you like them. And so there's a relationship synergy that begins at level number two, get a lot more energy at that level from the people. Level number three is the production level. And I often say that this is where the credibility of leadership really begins because people, if they're going to follow you, they have hopes that their life is going to get better. If you haven't been successful yourself, how are you going to make other people successful? You cannot give what you do not have. And so level three is all about Being personally successful so I have the credibility and the moral authority to lead other people. Level four is the people development level. This is where”
2020-03-31 · The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish · #80 John Maxwell: Developing the Leader in You · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Kind of like, wow, I'm now a leader. In fact, when anybody just says, you know, last week I became a leader, John. I know that immediately that they think that having a position of leadership makes them a leader, which it doesn't. So level one is position level, and that's where we normally all start if somebody gives us a leadership shot. And then level two is the permission level, which is all about relationships. In fact, it's at level number two that.”
2020-03-31 · The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish · #80 John Maxwell: Developing the Leader in You · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“The other of five. I wrote a book called The Five Levels of Leadership What makes the book so helpful to people is they begin to understand that leadership is a verb, it's not a noun, and that there are different degrees of leadership and that they can kind of find out where they are and then if they want to, they can have a game plan to go to the next level. So it begins at the very bottom what we call the lowest level of leadership, which is the position level. It's where you have a job tied on a job description that says you're a leader. Maybe they even call you a leader or a supervisor or whatever. What's I think most insightful about level one, the position level, is that it's the lowest level of leadership and yet 80% of the people never get off of level number one. And I think they never get off of level number one because nobody's ever made them aware that there are other levels.”
2020-03-31 · The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish · #80 John Maxwell: Developing the Leader in You · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I think the biggest surprise is that most people Qualify themselves as a leader, they think of it as a title or a position. And so whenever I talk about leadership, it's kind of like, well, I'm not one of those. And yet what I do is I teach leadership as influence, nothing more, nothing less. And every person has influence. And then they kind of get excited because I say I can help you know how to increase your influence. You know, that appeals to even a parent of children. Okay, I can increase my influence, which as you do that, basically you're increasing your ability to lead people successfully. So I think what's been really a wonderful surprise is that once people understand and equate leadership and influence together, then they're all in. They're saying, hey, okay, I may never have a leadership position, but I would certainly like to be able to be an influential person. And so they kind of dive into the leadership pool.”
2020-03-31 · The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish · #80 John Maxwell: Developing the Leader in You · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT