Succession: A Leader's Lasting Value
Maxwell Leadership Podcast
John Maxwell
4.8 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 12 March 2025
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
John Maxwell often says, “The best thing a leader can leave people is a legacy.” In this episode, John will be sharing 3 pictures that will help you develop a legacy culture for your team and organization.
After his lesson, Mark Cole and Traci Morrow sit down to talk about what John has shared and give you practical ways to apply it to your life and leadership.
Key takeaways:
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“There is no success without a successor. And the most important thing you can do is leave a legacy.” — Peter Drucker
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When you think of your legacy, you have to think of today.
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You should be preparing to hand the baton off to someone else.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to another episode of Maxwell Leadership podcast. |
| 0:12.4 | Our goal each week with this podcast is to add value to leaders who multiply value to others. |
| 0:19.2 | My name is Mark Cole, and today, |
| 0:22.0 | John Maxwell is bringing us a lesson. |
| 0:25.0 | Not only that he's going to teach well, |
| 0:26.8 | and he's been teaching for years, |
| 0:28.0 | but it's a lesson, to be honest with you, |
| 0:29.5 | that we're learning right now. |
| 0:31.1 | We're applying right now in John's leadership, in my leadership. |
| 0:36.3 | And this lesson is one that I know will help you too. |
| 0:39.2 | Here's the question. How can you, how can I, how can we develop a legacy culture in our |
| 0:46.7 | businesses or in our organizations? John's going to teach us today on how to do exactly that. |
| 0:53.3 | He's going to teach us three Cs. He sounds a little bit like a Baptist preacher today. He's going to teach us today on how to do exactly that. He's going to teach us three Cs. |
| 0:54.7 | He sounds a little bit like a Baptist preacher today. |
| 0:58.0 | He's going to give us three Cs in an illustration, but really today he's given us three |
| 1:01.4 | things that will help us become better at thinking legacy, that thinking life beyond ours. |
| 1:09.3 | Now after John's lesson, my co-host Tracy Morrill and I are going to give you some practical |
| 1:14.6 | ways that you can apply what John has shared to both your life and leadership. |
| 1:20.3 | If you would like to download the free bonus resource for this episode or watch this |
| 1:25.1 | episode on YouTube, you can go to Maxwellpodcast.com forward slash |
| 1:30.8 | succession. |
| 1:32.1 | Okay, get ready. |
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