Developing the Character of a Winner
Maxwell Leadership Podcast
John Maxwell
4.8 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 8 January 2025
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
As John Maxwell says, “Talent is a gift, but character is a choice.” Today’s lesson from John is all about how you can help your people cultivate the character of a winner in their own lives and leadership!
After his lesson, Mark Cole and Chris Goede sit down to talk about what John has talked about and offer you practical ways to apply it to your life and leadership.
Key takeaways:
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If you become better on the inside, you’ll become better on the outside. If you become bigger on the inside, you’ll become bigger on the outside.
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You can’t travel without until you’ve traveled within.
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Values are what give you stability.
Our BONUS resource for this episode is the Developing the Character of a Winner Worksheet, which includes fill-in-the-blank notes from John’s teaching. You can download the worksheet by visiting MaxwellPodcast.com/Winner and clicking “Download the Bonus Resource.”
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Maxwell Leadership Podcast. |
| 0:11.0 | This is the podcast that adds value to you, so you as a leader will multiply value to others. |
| 0:18.6 | I'm Mark Cole, and today I cannot wait for you to listen to what |
| 0:23.0 | John Maxwell is sharing with us. Here's why, because there's a winner in every one of us. |
| 0:29.1 | There's a desire to be a winner in all of us and there is a desire to be around winners |
| 0:35.4 | within every one of us. John often says it like this. If you become better |
| 0:39.8 | and bigger on the inside, you'll become better and bigger on the outside. The lesson today is all |
| 0:46.7 | about how you can develop the character of the winner within you, how you can develop the character |
| 0:52.8 | of the winner within the people that you |
| 0:55.3 | lead and where you can identify and create winners all around you. Our desire is to help you become |
| 1:03.0 | the winner you should be so you can help those around you be as successful as possible at being |
| 1:09.3 | the winner within them. |
| 1:13.7 | Once the lesson is finished today, I'll be talking to a winner. |
| 1:18.5 | My co-host today is Tracy Morrow, and she and I are going to offer you some practical advice that will help you apply John's lesson to your life and to your leadership. |
| 1:24.2 | If you would like to download today's free bonus resource, or if you'd like to watch us on YouTube, you can go to Maxwellpodcast.com forward slash winner. I'm ready. Are you ready? I want to be on the winning team. I want to be a winner. It's within you. Here is John to teach you how. |
| 1:56.8 | How a leader develops the character of a winner. This is a very important lesson because there are people that are kind of inclined to success because they have a lot of good |
| 2:04.2 | ability. But what we discover is sometimes that the detriment to the ability that we have that |
| 2:12.2 | we give us success is the fact that we lack character, we lack values, we lack on the inside those things which |
| 2:21.6 | would help us take the good, strong, long, successful journey. |
| 2:27.6 | So let's talk a little bit about character. |
| 2:30.1 | And how do you develop in a winter? |
| 2:31.5 | I'm still reminded of my friend, Truick Cathy, who has built a great restaurant company in the United States called Chick-fil-A. |
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