What Serving Others Has Taught Me
Maxwell Leadership Podcast
John Maxwell
4.8 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 29 January 2025
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
John Maxwell often says that a great leader serves others! In this episode, he’s sharing 3 things that serving others has taught him throughout his leadership journey.
After his lesson, Mark Cole and Chris Robinson sit down to talk about servant leadership and how you can apply what John has shared to your life and leadership.
Key takeaways:
- Leaders add value to others by serving them.
- One of us is not as smart as all of us.
- The moment I started valuing people, I found that fulfillment comes in living a significant life
Our BONUS resource for this episode is the What Serving Others Has Taught Me Worksheet, which includes fill-in-the-blank notes from John’s teaching. You can download the worksheet by visiting MaxwellPodcast.com/ServingOthers and clicking “Download the Bonus Resource.”
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, welcome back to the Maxwell Leadership Podcast. |
| 0:11.1 | I hope that you are enjoying the podcast this year. |
| 0:15.5 | For those of you that are brand new to us and just jumping on board, welcome. |
| 0:19.5 | We hope to you, we're doing what this podcast |
| 0:22.1 | purpose is all about, and that is to add value to leaders who multiply value to others. |
| 0:28.3 | My name is Mark Cole, and this week we're going to hear from John Maxwell, and he's going to |
| 0:33.8 | share with us what serving others has taught him in his own personal leadership |
| 0:38.8 | journey. I've been with John now for 25 years. This year, I will celebrate literally my 25th |
| 0:44.6 | anniversary. And I can tell you, I've watched John over the last 25 years grow in his influence, |
| 0:50.9 | grow in his impact around the world. I've watched our organizations, not even 10x, |
| 0:56.9 | but some cases 100x, what we've done just over the last 25 years of being here. One of my favorite |
| 1:04.0 | things about John is he's never lost his heart to serve others. He's never lost the purpose of what |
| 1:08.9 | he started in the humble beginnings. My challenge to you and I this |
| 1:13.1 | year is we aspire for greatness. We're wrapping up January. My challenge to you and I is no matter how |
| 1:19.2 | much we experience success, how aspirational we are about more, that we don't lose the foundation of serving others. |
| 1:30.4 | Now, after John shares today, I'm going to bring in a servant leader. |
| 1:34.1 | Our co-host today is Chris Robinson, and he and I will give you practical ways that you can |
| 1:39.6 | apply servant leadership in what John has learned to your own life and to your own leadership. |
| 1:46.2 | Today, if you would like to download our free resource or even watch this episode on |
| 1:51.3 | YouTube, you can go to Maxwellpodcast.com forward slash serving others. |
| 1:57.8 | Are you ready to make a difference by serving others to reach their potential? |
| 2:02.3 | Grab a pen, grab a piece of paper. Here is John Maxwell. |
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