How to Develop Leaders
Maxwell Leadership Podcast
John Maxwell
4.8 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 12 February 2025
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
John Maxwell says, “If the foundation is correct, you can build a skyscraper of leadership for your life.” In this episode, John is sharing 3 qualities that are the foundation of successful leadership!
After his lesson, Mark Cole and Chris Goede discuss these qualities and offer you practical ways to apply them to your life and leadership.
Key takeaways:
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Before you work on the outside of your leadership, work on the inside of your leadership.
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Commitment is an essential quality for you to have as a leader to make your dreams come true.
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Sowing comes before reaping.
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| 0:18.0 | What if the key to success isn't about what you started, but instead what you choose to stop doing? |
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| 1:04.5 | 25 things to stop doing in 2025. |
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| 1:17.0 | That's M-A-X-W-E-L-L-2-3. To 55-1-2-3. |
| 1:32.0 | Welcome to the Maxwell Leadership Podcast. |
| 1:37.5 | This is the podcast that adds value to leaders who multiply value to others. |
| 1:46.5 | My name is Mark Cole, and this week we're hearing from John Maxwell about a subject that I do believe he has credibility in. |
| 1:47.5 | In fact, the subject title is how to develop leaders. |
| 1:51.8 | But as you know, this is foundational to success. |
| 1:55.6 | This is how we all as leaders need to be looking at our primary and chief responsibility as a leader is to |
| 2:02.9 | develop other leaders. |
| 2:04.1 | Our entire organizations, every one of them, we use a lot of modeling and a lot of examples |
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