John Maxwell shares standards for leaving a leadership legacy. Mark Cole and Chris Goede discuss character, decision-making, and legacy outcomes. Key takeaways: character is vital for a lasting legacy, managing decisions is crucial, and the harvest of a legacy is inevitable.
Character is essential for a lasting legacy, as lacking it will eventually harm both oneself and those influenced.
Emphasizing decision management over decision-making is crucial for sustained success in leadership and legacy building.
Deep dives
Defining a Legacy
A legacy comprises possessions, people, and principles that individuals leave behind. While possessions are common, influencing people through moral significance is less frequent. Principles that outlive individuals are also crucial. A holistic legacy includes moral, material, and prinicipled aspects.
Building a Leadership Legacy
Character, choices, conduct, and consequences form the foundation of leaving a leadership legacy. Character encompasses being a moral example, with integrity and honesty being core values. Choices involve thinking clearly and making wise decisions rooted in character. Conduct is defined by doing the right things consistently well.
Character: Being True to Oneself
Character begins with integrity - being true to oneself - and honesty - being truthful with others. Integrity is about staying true to one's core values, while honesty involves authentic communication. Good character is foundational to effective leadership and legacy building.
Choices: Decision-Making and Management
Choices involve clear thinking and wise decision-making, guided by a sense of right and wrong rooted in character. Making important decisions early in life and managing them over time is crucial for personal growth. Emphasizing decision management over decision-making is key for sustained success in leadership and legacy building.
Have you ever wondered what legacy you’ll be leaving behind to those around you? In this episode, John C. Maxwell shares four standards that you can embrace in order to leave a legitimate leadership legacy to the people you lead!
After John’s lesson, Mark Cole and Chris Goede come together to talk about what they learned and how you can apply it to your life and leadership.
Key takeaways:
No matter what your strengths are, if character is not present in your life, it’s only a matter of time until it will hurt you and the legacy you’re passing on.
We over value decision-making and we under value decision managing.
At the end of a legacy done well or not done well, there will be a harvest.
Our BONUS resource for this episode is the Leaving a Legitimate Leadership Legacy Worksheet, which includes fill-in-the-blank notes from John’s teaching. You can download the worksheet by visiting MaxwellPodcast.com/LeadershipLegacy and clicking “Download the Bonus Resource.”
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