John Maxwell’s Law of Priorities, as taught on The Ed Mylett Show, begins with a blunt distinction: activity and accomplishment are not the same thing. You can work twelve-hour days, answer every…
John Maxwell — Podcast Appearances & AI Summaries
John Maxwell has appeared on 8 podcast episodes in our AI-summarized catalog, including THE ED MYLETT SHOW. Every appearance below has a free 5-minute AI summary.
What John said
“The key to leadership is the ability just to get over yourself.”
— John Maxwell
“When you stop loving people, stop leading them. Because now you're in the danger zone. You'll start manipulating people.”
— John Maxwell
“If I ask them questions, they'll engage. If I give them answers, they'll disengage.”
— John Maxwell
“My greatest challenge in leading is me. Leading me is much harder than leading you. When I lead you, I just tell you what to do and I leave the room. When I lead me, I have to do it.”
— John Maxwell
“You either go up with your people or you go down with your people.”
— John Maxwell
“One of the worst days of your life is to be in any organization where you have to follow an insecure leader. Trust me. It's like walking handcuffed through a landmine.”
— John Maxwell
“You can't lead people if you need people.”
— John Maxwell
“The reason I wasn't hitting all my goals was because I didn't have a good team around me.”
— John Maxwell (07:13)
“They're not there to compete with you. They're there to complete you.”
— John Maxwell (13:58)
“There are two kinds of people in life: lifters and leaners.”
— John Maxwell (16:21)
Episode appearances
8The Law of Victory: Why Leaders Find a Way When No Path Exists "We may have been knocked down, but we are not finished." That's how Ed Mylett frames the core of John Maxwell's 15th law of…
When Leadership Becomes About the People, Not the Position John Maxwell and Ed Mylett sat down for a Q&A session drawn from over 10,000 submitted questions, and the conversation quickly moved past…
The Law of the Picture: Why Your Actions Reproduce Faster Than Your Words A mother once brought her child to Gandhi and asked him to tell the boy to stop eating sugar. Gandhi replied, "Come back…
In the live demonstration that opens this episode, John Maxwell asks a volunteer to stand beside him, then pushes down on the man's shoulders. As Maxwell pushes down, he sinks lower himself. Then…
The Law of the Inner Circle: Your Potential Is Determined by Those Closest to You John Maxwell was 40 years old, disciplined, hardworking, and frustrated. He had clear goals and genuine gifts, but…
John Maxwell’s Law of Addition is the simplest leadership principle to understand and the hardest to live by: leaders add value by serving others. In this episode of The Ed Mylett Show, Mylett and…
The Leader as Navigator: Seeing Further, Preparing Thoroughly, Taking Others Along When a man in a hot air balloon asks a woman on the ground for directions, she gives him precise latitude and…
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