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The Best Leaders Are Listeners
John C. Maxwell
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The Best Leaders Are Listeners
John C. Maxwell
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Smart leaders learn from their own mistakes. Smarter ones learn from others' mistakesâand successes.
John C. Maxwell wants to help you become the smartest leader you can be by sharingChapter 6, The Best Leaders Are Listeners, of Leadership Gold with you. After nearly forty years of leading, Maxwell has mined the gold so you don't have to. Each chapter contains detailed application exercises and a "Mentoring Moment" for leaders who desire to mentor others using the book.
Gaining leadership insight is a lot like mining for gold. You don't set out to look for the dirt. You look for the nuggets. You'll find them here.
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THE BEST LEADERS
ARE LISTENERS
ARE LISTENERS
Steven Sample, in his book The Contrarianâs Guide to Leadership, writes, âThe average person suffers from three delusions: (1) that he is a good driver, (2) that he has a good sense of humor, and (3) that he is a good listener.â I plead guilty on all three counts!
I will never forget the time a lady I worked with confronted me about my poor listening skills. She said, âJohn, when people talk to you, often you seem distracted and look around the room. Weâre not sure that you are listening to us!â
I was surprised because, like most people, I really did think I was a good listener. The first thing I did was apologize. I trusted the opinion of the person who had confronted me, and I knew it had taken courage for her to tell me. (I was her boss.) The second thing I did was start trying to change. For several years I made it a regular practice to put an âLâ in the corner of my legal pad anytime I was in a meeting to remind myself to listen. Sometimes I would write âLLâ to remind myself to look at them while I listened. It made a big difference in my leadership.
Steven Sample says, âMany leaders are terrible listeners; they actually think talking is more important than listening. But contrarian leaders know it is better to listen first and talk later. And when they listen, they do so artfully.â
The positive benefits of being a good listener are much more valuable than we often recognize. Recently I read a humorous story that Jim Lange included in his book Bleedership.
A couple of rednecks are out in the woods hunting when one of them falls to the ground. He doesnât seem to be breathing and his eyes are rolled back in his head.
The other guy whips out his cell phone and calls 911.
He frantically tells the operat...