Chapter 1: The Charismatic Leader
Maxwell Leadership Podcast
John Maxwell
4.8 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 16 April 2025
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
When you meet a truly charismatic leader, you’ll notice one thing: they are focused on others, not themselves. In this episode, John Maxwell is sharing 3 ways you can develop your influence – and achieve significance – as you maintain your focus on others.
After his lesson, Mark Cole and Traci Morrow dive into the chapter and give you practical ways that you can apply it to your life and leadership.
Key takeaways:
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Put your focus on others.
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Success in life has nothing to do with what you gain or accomplish for yourself. It’s what you do for others.
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Focusing on others can give you energy.
Our BONUS resource for this episode is the Chapter 1: The Charismatic Leader Worksheet, which includes fill-in-the-blank notes from John’s teaching. You can download the worksheet by visiting MaxwellPodcast.com/CharismaticLeader and clicking “Download the Bonus Resource.”
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to the Maxwell Leadership Podcast. |
| 0:11.6 | Our podcast is the one that adds value to you so you'll multiply value to others. |
| 0:17.8 | My name is Mark Cole, and today John Maxwell is sharing chapter one of his brand new |
| 0:23.0 | book, The Charismatic Leader. I can't wait for you to hear it and learn from it. Today, I'm really |
| 0:29.7 | excited because as John shares, and you can hear him reading and talking about a concept that is passionate, not only to him, but it's passionate |
| 0:40.1 | to us at Maxwell Leadership. But I'll tell you something more. It's something you're passionate |
| 0:45.3 | about, the idea of being effective with others. Now, after John's lesson, my co-host, who is |
| 0:52.6 | absolutely a charismatic leader herself, |
| 0:55.5 | Tracy Marl will be joining me to sit down and talk not only about this chapter, |
| 1:00.9 | but how we can apply John's advice in our life and in our leadership. |
| 1:06.8 | If you'd like to download the free bonus resource for this episode |
| 1:10.0 | or even watch this episode on YouTube, go to Maxwellpodcast.com forward slash charismatic leader. |
| 1:18.5 | Okay, it's time. Grab a pen, grab some paper. Here is John Maxwell. |
| 1:30.0 | Chapter 1. Put your focus on others. |
| 1:35.0 | I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I know. |
| 1:40.1 | The only ones among you who will be really happy are those who have sought and found how to serve. |
| 1:48.6 | Albert Schweitzer said those words. |
| 1:53.0 | Truly charismatic people care about others and focus their attention on them, not on themselves. |
| 2:00.4 | In my book, Winning with People, I discuss the |
| 2:03.1 | big picture principle which states the entire population of the world, with one minor exception, |
| 2:10.4 | is composed of other people. We must get outside of ourselves, see the bigger picture, |
| 2:16.9 | and start putting other people first |
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