John C. Maxwell

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618 appearances 2 recordings 1 series first heard Sep 2026 last heard 3d ago

John C. Maxwell’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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And when I wrote the book Leader Shifts, I've been sitting on that book probably for a good 12 years.

In fact, a lady on our team named Erin, who does a lot of content for me, she shared with me, she said, John,

you really need to get that book out.

And I kind of put it on the shelf and really wasn't too excited about getting out because I thought, I don't know, this may be a little too simple.

But when I started writing, I thought this is going to be life changing.

And now that I'm looking at the book coming out, I'm so excited because here's what happens.

We start leading in a way that gives us some success.

And immediately we get into this pattern.

And what we don't understand is that leadership, if leadership is about anything, it's about adjusting and being flexible.

If you want to be a manager, then nail it, get it straight, do it the same way every time.

That's management.

But when it comes to leadership, in fact, if you go back into the 1980s, there were no leadership books in bookstores.

They were all management books.

Because you were trying to manage your company, your business.

And then things began to change so fast, people were saying, this management stuff doesn't work because this baby isn't staying the same.

I turned around and it moved on me.

And so I've got to get in front of it.

And so leadership is all about being in front.

Well, if you're in front, one of the first things you know is if you're in front, you don't know everything.

the issue is not knowing everything.

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