Characteristics of a Builder
Maxwell Leadership Podcast
John Maxwell
4.8 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 22 January 2025
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
All great companies and organizations have great builders! In this episode, John Maxwell is sharing characteristics of a builder so that you know what they look like and so that you can become a builder yourself.
After his lesson, Mark Cole and Chris Goede talk about these characteristics and offer you practical ways to apply them to your life and leadership.
Key takeaways:
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Never be satisfied with yesterday; it ended last night.
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When people believe in the leader, they believe in the vision.
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When you build up builders, everything begins to compound.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, welcome to the Maxwell Leadership Podcast. |
| 0:11.3 | This is the podcast that we've committed to add value to leaders because we know they'll |
| 0:16.3 | multiply value to others. |
| 0:18.0 | I'm Mark Cole, and this episode is all about the characteristics of a builder. |
| 0:24.5 | It was Steve Harvey that said a person has to remember that the road to success is always under |
| 0:30.9 | construction. That's why John Maxwell is rightly gifted to talk about building and to talk about construction and to talk about |
| 0:40.2 | taking people somewhere. John's going to answer this question today. What does a builder look like? |
| 0:47.2 | This way, you will know how to recognize them on your team and you can actually take these principles, |
| 0:53.2 | these ideas that John shares today, |
| 0:55.1 | and you can grow yourself as well. After he shares this lesson, my co-host Chris Godi and I |
| 1:00.9 | will offer you practical ways you can apply this lesson, both to your life and to your leadership. |
| 1:07.8 | I'd like to invite you to download the free bonus resource and also to tune |
| 1:13.6 | into our episode by YouTube. You can do all this by going to Maxwellpodcast.com forward slash |
| 1:20.8 | builder. Here we go. Here is the builder himself, John Maxwell. |
| 1:38.1 | The characteristics of a builder. And great companies, one of the things you can always know about them is that all great companies have builders. Now, not everybody is going to be a builder, but I want you to |
| 1:46.6 | become a builder in some way or another at some level or degree. So let me just quickly share with you |
| 1:53.0 | the characteristics of what a builder looks like for two reasons. One is it will help you to identify |
| 1:59.1 | builders on your team because once you can identify them, they're the ones that will produce and bring great results and success for you. |
| 2:06.4 | And number two, if I give you these characteristics of a builder, honestly, you may say, well, I think there are a couple that I have that I can kind of make bigger. |
| 2:19.6 | And maybe it will help me to even build better than I ever have before. So what, you know, what does a builder look like? Well, |
| 2:26.3 | the first thing, and I think it's the first because it's the most obvious, builders love results. |
| 2:32.8 | You know, builders love to make things happen and so therefore anything that's |
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