Defining Leadership Blind Spots

Maxwell Leadership Podcast

John Maxwell

Business, Leadership, Education, Johnmaxwell

4.8 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 1 August 2018

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

In this first episode of our four-part series on leadership blind spots, John Maxwell, Mark Cole, and Richard Chancy define what a leadership blind spot is.

Can leaders see their own blind spots? What indicators can leaders examine to identify and understand their own blind spots?

Every leader has at least one blind spot, and the greater a leader’s influence, the greater the effect of that blind spot. For transformational leaders, one of the most profound assets for growth is an external perspective on one’s own leadership. Such a perspective allows us examine the areas in which we are not intuitive.

But no leader can identify his/her blind spot alone. After all, it is called a blind spot. Identifying a blind spot requires consulting those around you for honest feedback. In this series, Mark asks a great question for those whom you lead and those who lead you: “What’s it like being on the other side of me?”

Our BONUS resource for the “Blind Spot” series is a worksheet on blind spots which you can fill in as you listen to each episode. Visit MaxwellPodcast.com/blindspots and click the "Bonus Resource" button to receive this worksheet as a PDF download.

Resources:

Multipliers by Liz Wiseman

No Limits: Blow the Cap off Your Capacity by John C. Maxwell

Maxwellpodcast.com/blindspots

Transcript

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0:00.0	Hey, this is Richard Chansey with the John Maxwell Leadership Podcast, and I am so excited
0:07.8	to get the ball rolling in an episode that we're calling Blind Spots.
0:12.2	Now what you're going to experience today is Dr. John Maxwell talking through about 15
0:17.0	minutes of what a blind spot is and then asking a critical question, which is, what am I
0:22.9	missing?
0:23.9	Now if you want to download the show notes for this episode and the next three episodes
0:27.8	which we're going to be discussing blind spots, go to Maxwellpodcast.com, forward slash
0:33.4	blind spots, and you can download that today.
0:36.2	Otherwise, here's Dr. John Maxwell.
0:38.5	I'm really delighted to be with you today.
0:45.6	Like a lot of the lessons that I teach, the genius of the lesson, the very genesis of
0:51.7	it, the beginning of it many times, is from someone else.
0:54.6	I have a golfing buddy in Southern Florida named Larry Stevens who emailed me about six
1:00.3	months ago on the subject of the blind spot.
1:03.4	I'm going to kind of start the lesson by reading just a few paragraphs of his email to me
1:08.3	which gives you the foundation for why we're going to teach about leadership in the blind
1:12.5	spot today.
1:13.5	Here's what he said to me.
1:15.0	John, it's my perception, therefore my reality that almost everyone has a blind spot.
1:20.4	Watching the news, reading the Wall Street Journal in particular.
1:24.2	There have been so many leaders in recent years who have been cut down by what may have
1:27.7	been their blind spot.
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