A Leader's Greatest Enemy
Maxwell Leadership Podcast
John Maxwell
4.8 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 7 August 2024
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
What happens when a leader has too much pride? In today’s episode, John C. Maxwell talks about the problems that pride causes so that you can reflect on and assess yourself and your leadership.
After John’s lesson, Mark Cole and Traci Morrow discuss these problems and give you practical ways to apply what you’ve learned to your life and to how you lead those around you!
Key takeaways:
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Envy is the deadly sin of inferiority. Pride is the deadly sin of superiority.
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When we fail or make a mistake, we either learn from that failure or we leave that failure.
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When we live and when we die, we will only be known for the value we added to others, not the value we added for ourselves.
Our BONUS resource for this episode is the Leader’s Greatest Enemy Worksheet, which includes fill-in-the-blank notes from John’s teaching. You can download the worksheet by visiting MaxwellPodcast.com/Pride and clicking “Download the Bonus Resource.”
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Maxwell Leadership Podcast. This is the podcast that adds value to leaders who multiply value to others. |
| 0:16.0 | My name is Mark Cole and today John Maxwell is going to teach you a lesson on the's greatest enemy, which by the way is pride. |
| 0:27.0 | After John is done with the lesson, Tracy Moore and I will dig even deeper into John's |
| 0:31.5 | lesson and really offer some ways that you can apply, really we all can |
| 0:36.4 | apply these principles to our own life and our own leadership. |
| 0:40.1 | If you'd like to watch this episode on YouTube or download the free bonus resource for this episode, |
| 0:46.0 | just visit Maxwell Podcast.com forward slash pride. |
| 0:51.0 | Now, grab your pen and paper, get ready to learn and be challenged to stay away from the |
| 0:58.0 | greatest enemy of a leader. Here is John Maxwell. Pride, a leader's greatest problem. |
| 1:07.0 | Sometimes when people think, well, if I don't have any pride, then I'm going to be a doormat, people |
| 1:14.2 | going to walk over. |
| 1:15.2 | We're not talking about that at all. |
| 1:16.2 | We're talking about an ability to assess yourself in such a way that you pass on credit to others, |
| 1:21.0 | check your ego at the door, value the people around you, and in the same |
| 1:25.6 | sense have a great passion to grow and build your business. And in your notes, there are two |
| 1:31.5 | kinds of pride. There's a good pride which is reflected in |
| 1:34.8 | dignity, respect and honor and then there's what I would call a bad pride which it |
| 1:38.6 | turns into conceit and arrogance and independence and when you look at the word pride, |
| 1:45.0 | notice the middle letter is I. |
| 1:47.0 | And when you're full of pride on the inside, |
| 1:50.0 | it makes you stiff, stubborn, and creates strife with others. |
| 1:55.0 | You see, envy is the deadly sin of inferiority. |
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