How Great Leaders Embrace Change with John C Maxwell (Motivational)

new day new goals let's own it and in this episode of leaders create leaders I am extremely excited about our guest is someone that I've really connected to since I was really young learning about what it means to be a leader from my father in fact you know my father's to leave these little notes around the house and I remember you know the one of my favorite quotes is in Dale Carnegie and it says you know to focus on your character not your reputation because your character is who you truly are your reputation is merely what people think of you and it really you know for meaning my character has always been what's most important and on top of leaving these notes around the house he also used to give me these books by an author who you may recognize today he is the New York Times bestselling author internationally known for selling over 30 million books on leadership and business and he's a speaker he's a coach that has worked with over 6 million liters in every country around the world he is someone who has worked with some of the top leaders I'm talking about presidents to Fortune 500 executives he's won the mother Teresa award for global peace and leadership he has someone that I just had the utmost respect for and you know I think you're gonna get an immense amount of value because he's gonna be talking about not only all of his principles of what makes a great leader but his new book leader shift so let's get to it and sit down with the leader of all leaders someone that is truly influential Jhansi Maxwell [Music] [Music] John Wow this is a such a like such an honor and an absolute privilege I want to just thank God right now for giving me this opportunity to be able to sit with you and connect with your soul connect with your wisdom and the opportunity to be able to just share this this conversation and this wisdom with with our community with leaders create leaders it's a thank you so much for taking the time today oh thank you true heart I I feel the same and when I look at somebody like you young and yet you're already making an impact what a what a terrific inspiration to so many other young potential leaders that look at you and say boy sure I can do it I can do it and I can remember back in my younger days how I was inspired by people like you so hey thanks for having me we're gonna have a good time oh yes absolutely I am so excited about leadership right now I mean talk to me a little bit about that this book compared to some of the other work that you've been doing I mean 30 million copies that you've sold I mean your your books we're the first leadership books that I've ever read in my entire life and growing up just a touch on it like my father used to write little notes around my house he did two things he was to write little notes around my house that I would find there were these quotes of different leaders and I never really understood what he was doing at a young like for me at a young age and then he had your books as I as I grew up and that's why it's so I'm so excited about you know sitting with you and talking a little bit about you know leader shift well first of all when I write a book it's for purpose and my purpose is very simple I want to add value to leaders who can multiply value to others so my crowd is the leadership crowd that's why I love your show so much because you understand leadership very well you are one and your your show is is geared to people that want to influence people and make a difference in people's lives and so this book came about I was getting ready to speak to a company a couple years ago and their theme was fast forward and so they said okay that's our theme kind of let me know what so I could kind of arrange my talk to kind of connect with them and they said what do you think fast forward means to you I said well first of all fast means faster it's always getting faster it's it's not slowing down I mean you know people sometimes say boy I can hardly four things so down so I could take a break and make some decisions okay I would say you're going to be dead I mean it they aren't slowing down fast as faster and forward is shorter and what I mean but that is when I started out when I was your age as a young leader we could have literally a ten-year plan for our company or organization it was a long-range plan five year was kind of mid-range two year was short-range well you know today at two somebody says they have a two-year plan you say oh that's awful long that's a that's a long race you see life is condensed it and so forward is shorter and faster is faster again when I started off as a leader a Gerard the big thing to lead was to see a bigger picture so that you can cast vision so if if I saw more than other saw pretty much I got to be the leader well today more has been replaced with before and as a leader now it's how quickly do I see it and because of the fast pace of time I've got to be very agile I got to be be able to make adjustments I'm gonna be able to make changes because nothing is set and if I'm waiting for something to be set or for something to be solid by the time I get it I've already lost it yeah and I think this is very key so I wrote leadership to help people understand a couple of things one is that their leadership should be expanding and to expand it means that it should be changing it should be shifting up to a higher level a higher gear so I wrote it to help people understand that no matter where you are as a leader there are more shifts for you for me for all of us to make to be highly successful and I wrote it to help us understand I I'm kind of like a guide and I've been down the leadership road mhm and so I look at look at I started to say kids like you you're not a kid better be yeah you're young okay yeah I turn around I look at you and so many of the people that of course that you connect with and I've been down the road and it's kind of like do you mind if I just kind of give you a little little view of what the road looks like and and and you know all of us can handle changes if we understand that they're coming and and there's a kind of a awareness of the change that we really resist and are not effectively are the ones that blindside us and so leader shift is a book about let me be your father let me be your guide let me go down the road before you let me just say these changes are going to come in your leadership and let me help you to become flexible and very quickly to adjust and I know you have I know you have plan a but as soon as you start moving you better have option a and B and C and D in there because plan a that's your the only the only time everything works is before it starts yeah and the moment it starts then we begin to find out what's happening and the leader that can move the quickest is the one that's going to seize the moment and is going to have the majority of the the leadership bounty that it's for us it's interesting to me because I've had to make many shifts in my entire career shows it as an entrepreneur but whether whether you're an entrepreneur or not even just as a you know as a human being also as a leader as a business owner or as a CEO as an entrepreneur I feel that like a lot of the people that I have coached a lot of people that I've worked with my people I mentored a lot of people that I've worked with like they a lot of times they fear shifts they fear change you know and I remember my last startup it was like like you mentioned when you start it's you know it's about starting but then you just have to learn to adapt along the way but people a lot of the people that would work with would fear that they would feel fear change it would fear you know adapting totally in fact let me add them a pretty exchanger because if you look at the book leadership the you know the eleven central changes every leader must embrace that is a very key word embrace the change because most of us don't most of us resist the change we as you talked about we fear the change and and because of this we miss our moments you know I had a mentor much older than me in the find that hard to believe now but John Wooden the great coach UCLA for the last 13 years he was my mentor Wow and and he one of his statements Gerard was that when opportunity comes it's too late to prepare and and he said what you do is you prepare all your life so when the opportunity comes you can seize the moment that seed thought is part of this book and so what I want people to look at opportunity and change and transition I wanted them instead of to fear it as as a foe as as somebody that's something that's trying to do me in and hurt me and set me back I want them to look at as a friend now let's talk about attitude for a sec I've always said that the only time attitude shows up is during the adversity I during good times everybody has basically good attitude I even know people have a bad attitude then have a good attitude when things are all going their way okay so don't ever ever shows up as during adversity it's the same thing with transition and change when it shows up in our lives our ability to embrace it and understand that it is an opportunity because every opportunity I've ever had in my life every opportunity you've had in your life was surrounded by problems setbacks difficulties barriers I've never had an open door that was just open and and as I walked close that open door nothing but angels sang and birds flew and in the sunshine and I walked through it said oh my gosh oh I hardly knew I walked that open door was so easy don't know if it's an open door as I start to go toward it it shuts now what happens is when it shuts most people stop and one of the things I teach is the resources only come to you as you keep walking and how many times you've seen I've seen people said well you know I tried that and it wasn't working so I stopped and it's ins with the story well the end of the story was not the adversity not the failure it's not the difficulties then the story was I stopped no one ever wrote a book on I quit my way to success right or no one ever wrote a book on I I feared my way to the top so what we have to understand is that every one of us have within us I do you do all of them all of your listeners all of us have within us a fear element and a faith element we do I have things that I look at I Who that's suck suck some air and kind of golf a little bit III have that happen to me on it on a continual basis but I also have that faith voice that says you know you can do this you can do this start try get in get in the game now what am I going to do if my fear voice is greater than my faith voice then that fear of failure and adversity and mistakes will stop me but if my faith voice is larger I'm not quieting the fear voice I mean when people say well get rid of your fears I also like gosh you're delusional that's not it but what you do is you minimize you and how do you minimize your fears you minimize your fears by activating your faith and the more that I operate in the do it so the the the less of that I can't do it you know in the beginning when I started off as young I would look at a project or something and I'd ask myself can i you know wow that's a big mountain can i well anymore I don't ask the question can I I ask the question how can I I've already accepted the fact I'm going so it's it's not a question should I start it's a question as as I start how am I going to overcome how am I going to get through this how am I going to be successful in this and one more thing on this I was talking to a very successful CEO the other day because in our John Maxwell company we have an executive circle Club where every month I talked to a successful CEO they listen in they do 20 minutes on their story that I do some leadership applications and I ask some questions and in the question period Gerard I asked him about his mistakes in his failures and I said let's talk about what I call do-overs I mean we look back at your career and say okay I'd like to go back there and do that over and if I could do that over if I could do that decision over if I could boy if I could do that action over and I said talk to me about what's one of the do-overs you want in your life where you go back say ah I wish I could go back and have another shot at that and he said something very interesting to me he said you know John III I don't think I I don't think I would change anything it got real quiet on the phone he said no he said now I made a lot of mistakes made a lot of bad decisions I've had a lot of oh gosh regrets and oops no they said I just don't think I'd go back and change anything he said because what I learned from my failures the the character that I developed because of my missteps and bad decisions have made me who I am today he said I'm not sure I would be the person I am today without those failures and without those mistakes and Gerard I know that you would say the same thing and let me say I'm saying the same thing now so when people begin to have the fear factor of oh I might fail and then what happens and all this stuff comes in I'm going to I say to them you will fail you will have missteps you will make bad decisions you will get on the slippery side right all this is going to happen to you so get started it first of all if you don't get started nothing's going to happen and if you do get started some good things are going to happen but some bad things are gonna happen and it's the bad stuff that will help you to develop the character to handle the see the bad stuff helps you handle in the long run the big stuff right and if you've not handled the bad stuff the big stuff you'll never get to it and it's like I teach it you know I wrote a book a few years ago called sometimes you win sometimes you learn and I tell people all the time - don't don't count your losses count your lessons and we all have lawsuits and so that person is starting out you're going to have losses it's okay in fact those losses are going to make you better if again you have the right attitude to it again if I have the wrong attitude losses defeat me and I'm flat on my back I love that and I love how you bring up faith and I want to dive into that a little bit more and I'm excited I actually go into a lot more of the eleven principles on leadership but I really want to touch on faith a little bit because before you really went into business side of leadership you were a pastor and for me one of the first things that has allowed me to become the man I am is was my faith and you know I've read how important the personal growth you know relates to the spiritual growth that allowed you to really become a leader and I want to touch on that because so many you know Millennials that I that I work with they it's almost like they don't understand the concept of leadership and before you can even lead an entire team you have to and I think there's something we both relate to I've said this before as well that find that leader within yes that's right and my spiritual growth and you know tapping into God and tapping into my faith has a really truly been the foundation for me to become the leader I am today can you take me back to that beginning of you know when when really before was business what did it mean to become a leader through just through faith and through understanding that that personal development and spiritual development for yourself before you can even lead a team well Gerard thanks for asking that question you know face personal and a lot of times when I'm given the opportunity like you're giving me now I talk about it there are times when I don't because III don't want to be offensive to anybody but I just always feel badly for people who don't have faith so let's go for a moment to the greatest leader who ever lived Jesus yes yes I meet the greatest leader I mean I this isn't anything spiritual here this is Christianity this isn't Bible 101 this is history facts 101 right I remember one time looking at a scripture the the scripture kind of convicted me it was said very simply Jesus is talking without me you can do nothing and I remember saying I don't think I believe that I think there are a lot of things I can do without God and and I wasn't resistant I wasn't anti in fact I was a person of faith young in my faith but I was a person of faith but I could begin to talk about all the things I could do it you know and so I kind of got my list together and you know I did this I you know and I mean I don't mean this unkind I didn't ask God to help me here and I did this I did this and so I went through my whole list and it's kinda like okay there are a few things I do without God and then in the process of a spiritual prayer life and meditation got spoke back to me it's a John of course you can do all those things but you could do nothing of significance that has eternal purpose without me all that stuff is that's just temporary that's that's today and it's gone tomorrow what I want you to do is I want you to be your brother's keeper I want you to follow the golden rule and treat others as you want to be treated and I want you to add value into people's lives because I value people and the first thing I share with anybody is that when you go through the Gospels the thing that you come out with Jesus is more than anything else is how he valued people he valued all of us people that were liking people where they were unlike him didn't matter he valued people because we are God's creation so my leadership is founded on that beautiful principle of valuing people now how does this picture play out in the long run because this is huge when I look at a leader that has gone wrong gone south it is almost always Gerard because they failed to value the people they led so what did they do they started manipulating the people they had power Authority and so they could move people around and you manipulate people it's which is always wrong as a leader for personal advantage and so if you look at the world today the leadership crisis we have in the world today is a manipulation problem we've got leaders who are manipulating people for their own personal good in fact I'm I have a nonprofit organization equip in the John Maxwell Leadership Foundation the dust transformation in countries around the world fact we have 22 leaders of country there's that have asked us to come in and teach values and what we've when I'm one-on-one with a president of a country you know the press is out of the way everybody's cleared the room it's just the two of us I always look at him I said no I got a question to ask you are the people better off because you're leading them or are they were self are you are you gaining more than your people or your people gaining more than you because that's the question if I value people I'll never put my needs first I'll never manipulate them I'll never violate them why because I value them as a person so when when you talk about faith and you talk about the greatest leader that ever lived Jesus Christ he valued people so when people say well John you seem to love everybody I was because I love everybody and you seem to believe in everybody how it's because I believe in everybody and John you seem to want to serve everybody yes I do and you want to help yes I do and live yes I do yes I do Jesus Jesus Jesus Jesus he did those things so here's what faith allows me and allows you to have an edge this is an edge this is a realistic edge that you and I have that a lot of people don't have faith allows you Gerald he allows you to art he allows you to be bigger on the inside than your on the outside faith allows me to be bigger on the inside than the outside now what happens when I'm bigger I'm talking about character I'm talking about okay I'm talking about the stuff on the inside of a person the heart the stuff okay what happens when I'm bigger on the inside then I'm on the outside the result is eventually the outside gets bigger yeah because you cannot give what you do not have so if I'm bigger on the inside it's just a picture of the outside expanding because I have the capacity on the inside yeah most people just turn that the other way instead of working on the inside and their faith and and all the stuff that makes us who we are they go out say I gotta go make some money I gotta go to start my company's got and so they get real big on the outside but if they're getting big on the outside they're still small on the inside right and it's only then a matter of time only matter time you until the house Falls the house will fall because it can't stay and maintain that growth in that bigness if I stay small within me because I will sabotage myself it's only a matter of time until my manipulative spirit or my greed all the stuff that messes us up as leaders it'll come to play and why because I didn't build the inside first so to me when people say okay first of all the question I asked for all the time sororities well okay I'm a young leader who should I start leading very simple start with yourself yeah if you wouldn't follow yourself why should anyone else follow you right so you start with yourself build the inside get your faith build the character of the person yeah then you're going to be able to lead others and build organizations and be the success you want to be on the outside but but you'll never tip over because you stay solid because you understand first person to lead is myself the first person to grow is myself it all begins with me not with someone else then I'm gonna be able to do that well with other people it's interesting to me because I feel so many young men and women right now are missing that missing that principle you know and it's because things become so convenient to us we now have this term of like becoming influencers and it's just you know now there's people actually following us through through social media and all these things and people are literally portraying and so focus on the external and focused on those metrics and focus on you know trying to get people to like them right rather than really truly evolving themselves internally and I feel that you know it's almost become an epidemic at this point with a lot of the young young people that I see that really I feel like haven't tapped into that leader within they're so focused on the external well they are and we live in a star culture we live in a culture it's it's not what you've done so you know and and so therefore were we're taking pictures and and and and wanting to either be a fan or develop fans and what I share all the time is the fact that I don't want any fans I want friends now if I'm gonna have fans I gotta hold myself apart from the people and I've got to be above them and I've got to show them how much better I am than they and and and they kind of well wish someday I wouldn't be wonderful I could be like John Maxwell I don't want to be I want to I want to remove the gap and by removing the gap I become a friend of yours I become a friend of people and I walk III don't walk in front of them I walk beside them and I say here come with me let's let's let's do this together and I think that I think when we look at instant gratification and I think we would look at you know it's quick success in reality there may be quick Fame but there's not quick success and and and you know the almost the speed of the rise determines almost the speed of the fall is just a matter of time and instead of instead of us using influence at value to people we use influence to impress people right and if I use influence to impress people it's all about me in fact in the book one things I talk about it's going from solos to conductor and the culture you're talking about today is a soloist culture it's kind of like it's all about me so I'll get the picture get to get the orchestra get the band you know behind me and it's all about it's all about me and one of the shifts that you make which comes through some maturity is one day I woke up and I thought leadership isn't about me at all the only gauge that I'm a good leader is how much I've benefited other people and the more people that say you know John Maxwell through his books through his speaking I'm a better person I've grown I've learned now that's the test of my true leadership it's not how many people know me it's how many people had their lives changed by me so it's not a like a popularity contest it's a it's a transformational contest how many people's lives can I add value to and change and what I've learned again about that is you don't change people by trying to look good or talk about status or position in fact you know as well as I do the best leaders they're so far over status and they're sobbing dear God they're so far over position they just want to be a friend they'd you know they've already they've already kind of been in that hypee world for a while and now they've come down and they said no no that my lasting legacy isn't how many people know me my lasting legacy is how many people have been helped with me yeah it's a real human connection a human connection that's exactly right and that gets me off the top of the mountain you know and when people say you know wow it's you know it's lonely at the top I look at him and say that's not a leadership problem that's a personality problem yeah you've got it you've got a relationship problem there if you're on the top all alone you're not a leader you're just a hiker you're just taking a hike on a mountain you know what do you do get off the mountain go down to where the people are and connect with them which is very very important fact in the book on leadership's I have a chapter on how to go from direction to connection because when I start off as a leader you know what's just like you Gerard we got this vision we got these dreams and so I'm just going around spouting a vision everybody telling everybody where I'm going and I'm given directions I'm saying here's the mountain come on and and I'm just gathering them all together you know and I'm just pointing giving directions and and and it one day I awaken to the fact that I can't lead people until I first find them and the moment I realized that I quit leading by assumption assuming everybody wanted to get on my train and take my trip and I started asking questions I started asking where are you and the questions let me connect with them find the common ground with them it let me find it and the moment that I found them and connected with them now I can lead them but you can't lead people that you can't find and so I think it's essential for every leader to value people enough to take time to connect with people yeah again I've said it and it made it kind of poppy over the years people don't care how much you know until they know how much you care so there are three questions that followers ask every leader do you like me can you help me can I trust you do you like me it's all about relationships Carrie can you help me that's all about confidence and there's will it get better if I follow you I know a lot of people I like real well but I'm not gonna follow them because they can't help my life to get to another level kind of trust you it's all about character now that goes back to the inside stuff again do I love people I don't know yourself type when you stop loving your people stop leaving your people you're gonna take advantage of it trusting that trust with is that's all about that's all about a character foundation it's so much again all this is stuff on the inside that that people are really wanting to see in us before they follow us I love how you know truly you you don't really how much you talk about with the team right like not only meaning find that leader within but really you're only a true leader if you're able to care about the people around you and in the book you have a one of the principles talks about team uniformity vert to actually the the importance right now of team diversity and that's been something that's been so important to me in my career I mean I owe all of my success to my team and throughout my entire career but I like really wanted touch on that because for me with daily daily the last company we had so much diversity and I think that that was like a super power of our forces it from women to different ethnicities to just people from all different backgrounds so you know can talk to you about that leadership well it's a huge shift and and it was a it was a challenge for me because I in the beginning first of all well in the beginning it started beginning I didn't even think of a team I just had energy and you know and I want to make a difference so here I go charge in that role well you go there go few steps and you realize that you can the good news is you can make a difference by yourself the bad news you can't make a big difference by yourself it's it's a I wrote a book several years ago on the 17 laws of teamwork and one of them is the laws of Mount Everest in the wall mount ever says as the challenge escalates the need for teamwork elevates and it's all it's all about the fact if you're if you got a Mount Everest in your life got to you yeah so you know I wasn't wanting to climb Hills in my life I was wanting to take mountains in my life so now well I I've got to get some people to help me so who were the first people I got to help me Gerard they were people like me oh yeah I like you you like me we look alike we talk alike we've been alike we got your whoo and so now I've got a whole bunch of bland like a few people there just like me and so we sit down and we start discussing how we're gonna get better and the great news is their ideas for my ideas and their thoughts are my thoughts and yes yes yes yes yes and I want to ask stopped us in wait a minute sure I'm not having people around me that complete me I just have people that are Yesi me I gotta get somebody that will compliment me and the only way I'm gonna get people to complete me is that gotta go get somebody's got a different background than I have there's got to be a different age than I am they gotta be a different gender they've got a they bit they've had to go through things I haven't gone through but they have to have experienced things I have an experience and so then I began to strategically say I've got to go after people that are different than me and what I discovered is as you've discovered is the only way to be a complete team is to have a diversity because I have blind spots I wrote a book a few years ago called No Limits and the key to that book is the first third of the book I I tell people the second third I don't know if you have to read it or not but the first third is all about awareness about the fact that I have blind spots in my life you have blind spots every you know and somebody says well can't you on your own you know figure your blind spots I said no their blind spots the only way that I can ever receive help in the blind spots of my life and leadership is for somebody like you Gerard that's on my team to walk into my life and say John you got a blind spot here you say I tell people they not only need to have an open-door policy they need to have an open ear policy they need to ask questions and be wanting to hear answers that that doesn't necessarily gel with them in the beginning I can still remember I can still remember a staff member coming to me and saying to me one day John you don't listen to us and of course what I do I protest it I stalk hi I get to show I listen listen listen listen but I wasn't listening I went home to my wife Margaret and I said you know Susan says I don't listen very well Marcis yes yeah that's good that's very correct and all of a sudden I realized I wasn't maximizing the people around me because I was directing instead of connecting and because I was but it was coming off for me and I began to say let diversity lift you John sit down and get their experiences I remember oh my gosh when we left San Diego and I moved to Atlanta to build my companies because it was more centrally located after there's a large beautiful very influential very effective african-american community in Atlanta and I said I need to meet them so I found a door keeper and every six months I would have a lunch with about 20 of them and I did this for three years and they would come together and they always thought well okay Joe oh my gosh I'm excellence my slide she's gonna teach us something anyone teach me anything I said I want to have a meal with him and I want him to tell me about their life and I just say you know tell me about your background your life and I would ask questions and we'd have this most wonderful time and I just take notes and I'd get to meet them and know them better and and then at the end I'd give him a book and sign it but I wouldn't do any of the teach I just want to get to know them and I and they became great friends it was out of that that I started mentoring Bernice King Martin Luther King's daughter and and and and they would always look at me say wow we thought you're gonna come and say something to us or teach us something and all you really want to do is didn't know us and that connection happened right there and so I tell people all the time if everybody's like you you've got too many people around you they're like you you want to get people that that really can compliment and complete you and I think that's what diversity is all about I think to do that you have to be secure I want all of my people just into my life on the front end not the back end I don't want somebody to say you know what John I thought that was kind of a dumb decision I don't need a history teacher I want somebody in current events if I'm getting ready to make a decision I wanted to grab me Helens say John this is not spark talk to me and my team does this every day I mean they know how much I need them so when I go into a room and we're going to do a creative meeting if I throw out an idea it's very simple make it better I never leave a meeting without a better idea than what I brought into it why because I got people on the team that are diverse I've got an inner circle that's with me daily I've got an outer circle that's not with me daily but they're much more creative and and so the outer circle allows me to have that creativity and to add to see the big picture the inner circle they kind of want to keep me kind of bit focused and and I need it both Linda eckers is my assistant been my personal system for 31 years and she's just incredible does all my travel she says everything I basically do nothing okay and one day I was talking to her about developing an outer circle and I could tell she felt threatened but you know you mean somebody else is gonna come and be an outer circle don't want how much influence they're gonna have on you and she asked me the question very sincerely because she felt like maybe she failed me she said John am I not enough and master tourists no you haven't but it's okay I'm not enough either none of us are enough and only through diversity do we get to be enough and the moment we embrace that now all of a sudden I am the summation and the sum of all the people I've got around me right and that's what makes it really work and I think on you know like adding to that when you have that diversity I think when you really can lead from a place of being a great listener like you know having compassion empathy so many laws it you know I've learned from reading your books that I feel it took me a while to drop that ego to think that like leading meant to be like oh you know you know you know it all and like your inch and earlier giving that vision it was more so taking that that you know that seat where I'm looking at the people around me with compassion and empathy and trying to understand them listen to them more and I think that you know that has been a huge factor for me yeah I used to be you know as you say that Gerard I used to think that I had to have all the answers so when I was a young leader I either had all the answers or I pulled away - I thought I had an answer and then I would come back and provide the answer and I look back at my young years of leadership of how much I cheated myself and cheated my people from the best answers because I was still insecure and I felt like I've got to be the sharpest person in the room and I've got to come up with the answer first in this room and and one day I realized hey realistic I'm not the sharpest person in most rooms and I'm not the one that comes up with the best answer and you know again when a person really comes to a reality CRIF who they are and it becomes comfortable within their own skin then all of a sudden they they say okay I need you and and maybe maybe the most empowering encouraging word to a team member is to look at a team member and say I really need you III want you to I'm not sure I can do this without you what's your opinion what how would how would you handle this situation I mean talk to me give me your thoughts there is something inclusive and there's something incredibly empowering in doing that and I do it not to patronize my people I do it because most of the time my people together will give me a better answer that I can come up with by myself right and that's that's the beautiful beauty of having a team you know teamwork makes the dream so the three core things that I took away from this and there's so many but one it's activating faith over fear and it talks about how by you activating the faith on the inside that's what allows you to step up and being a leader truly on the outside you know the next thing that I really took from him was this concept of you are not enough right like we always hear people talking about that you are enough but this concept that you're not enough and therefore you have to learn how to survive against surrounding yourself with a diverse team you know people that you can really truly help to elevate and understand them when they're different backgrounds and different experiences so really think about that you're not enough go out there and fill in those gaps internally by surrounding yourself with a diverse group you know your team the people your you're friends with the people that your are your mentors you know right and then realize that like in you're not truly a leader if you get to the top of the mountain alone you're just a hiker so how are you lifting people up with you and I think that comes with your character right how are you truly understanding that you have to be in service of others once you activate that leader within you have that character and now you're surrounding yourself with that diverse team how are you actually caring about them and it's about how you make them feel and if you can do that and truly make an impact on the people around you I think that's what makes a great leader and I hope this episode will help you to create a leader shift in your life and make sure to go and cop leader shift the new book by John see max well you haven't yet look back at all the books is that 20 that are just unbelievable on leadership and business so many principals go and make that leadership in your life when you recognize that change is good the same thing I have worked through yesterday is not gonna work for you today if they continue to adapt and grow so go pick it up head to leadership book calm get your copy and thank you to John C max when his entire team equip for allowing us this opportunity to get some insights and sit down with him tap into this wisdom it's your host gerard adams leaders create leaders peace

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Length: 42min 47sec (2567 seconds)

Published: Fri Mar 29 2019