Momentum Breakers vs. Momentum Makers (Part 1)

Maxwell Leadership Podcast

John Maxwell

Business, Leadership, Education, Johnmaxwell

4.8 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 29 August 2018

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Are you a momentum breaker or a momentum maker?

We hope you’ll be able to answer this question for yourself by the end of our two-part series on momentum. In this series, John discusses how momentum is a leader’s best friend, and then he walks through ten categories of momentum breakers and momentum makers. In this episode, John, Mark, and Richard touch on the first five breakers and makers.

This is a crucial conversation for leaders. Even if you’re a momentum maker, you may have momentum breakers on your team. How do you work with and lead momentum breakers? How do you move from a breaker to a maker? John, Mark, and Richard will discuss these questions and more in this series.

Our BONUS resource for this series is a worksheet on momentum where you can fill in your notes as John teaches. We’ve also included an assessment at the end of the worksheet to help you evaluate your personal momentum, as well as your organization’s momentum. You can download this resource by visiting MaxwellPodcast.com/Momentum and clicking the “Bonus Resource” button.

References:

The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership by John C. Maxwell

Managing Oneself by Peter Drucker

Intentional Living by John C. Maxwell

The John Maxwell Online Store

Momentum Series Page

Transcript

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0:00.0	Hey, this is Richard Chansey with the John Maxwell Leadership Podcast.
0:06.3	So excited to have you back here on Episode 8.
0:09.0	Today we're going to be talking about momentum breakers versus momentum makers.
0:13.5	You're going to spend a few minutes with Dr. Maxwell diving into this topic.
0:17.1	And then my partner in crime, Mark Cole, who's the CEO of John Maxwell's Enterprises is going
0:22.1	to be with me and we're going to dive in and break this thing apart for you.
0:25.9	As always, we want to give you something just for showing up.
0:28.2	And today we've got an assessment on this idea of makers versus breakers.
0:32.7	You can get that at maxwelpycast.com forward slash momentum.
0:37.0	Now here's Dr. Maxwell.
0:42.4	I did a lesson about four years ago entitled momentum is a leader's best friend.
0:52.1	Let me just talk to you about that for a moment.
0:54.8	You and I never have it so good as we have it when momentum is on our side.
1:00.0	It's the best friend any leader has ever had.
1:01.6	In fact, I'll tell you what, when we don't have momentum, it's the biggest enemy that we have.
1:07.1	A train going 55 miles an hour on a track can crash through a five foot concrete wall that is still reinforced.
1:15.9	That train can go through that wall at 55 miles an hour and not stop.
1:19.3	That same train, if it is stopped on the track, if you put a one inch block in front of the driving wheel,
1:24.3	it can never even get going.
1:26.2	A one inch block can stop a train from starting a five foot concrete wall.
1:31.6	Steel reinforced can't stop a train once it's moving.
1:34.8	See, that's why I always tell leaders it is never the size of your problem that is the problem.
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