John Maxwell: REAL Success Conference – Session 2: “REAL Success”

These are the notes from the second (and last) session from the John Maxwell conference.

1. Relationships

• Highly successful people relate well with people
• People won’t go with you if they don’t get along with you
• You can learn to get along with people (not about charisma, about understanding people/relationships)
• What can I do for others that they can’t do for themselves?
• Everyday, do something that is not your job; don’t draw attention to yourself
• Take 15 minutes, sit down in an office unless insisted, thank the owner for the job, let them know you want to work hard for them, give cell number for weekend needs (more something, whatever)
• If you don’t get along with people, you choose to

2. Equipping

• Highly successful people have learned to train other people
• The way your compound energy, time, effort, money comes from developing other people
• The key to developing people is to pick the key people
• Lesson: don’t send your ducks to eagle school (Leadership Gold) – develop them both but don’t frustrate them by forcing them to be something they are not; focus on making them the best duck or eagle they can be

3. Attitude

• Highly successful have an amazing attitude during adversity
• You have to learn more from failures then successes
• When we fail, we can either 1) learn from our failures or 2) leave our failures (95% of world)
• When you leave you failure, you find your failure again
• When you fall down, clean up the floor (while you’re down there)
• Impress w/ success but impact w/ failures
• Make failure your friend, not a fear
• Attitude will not replace incompetence

4. Leadership

• Highly successful people have learned to lead well
• Not positional, but influence

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