Maxwell Leadership Executive Podcast
Jun 25, 2026 · 24 min · 10 segments
Get the learning guide from today's episode here! In this episode, Chris Goede and Perry Holley explore eight key questions leaders…
Well, today's topic w- is, is one that, this is a, um, I'm gonna set it up with, this is a question that we often will ask at times when we go into a room, and it's phrased a little bit differently, but I love it.
Now, oftentimes we will ask people a question, "Who's the greatest leader you've ever worked with, you've served for?" Maybe it was in your family, because we want them thinking about the attributes of these, this, the greatest leader, right? And when you think about those attributes, man, as a leader, I know that I go, I started, I start internalizing that, going, "Am I that leader? Am I representing that to my team?" 'Cause that's my leadership, that's gonna be my leadership legacy.
And I love this word legacy, and oftentimes people think, you know, hey, it's legacy is, you know, what you leave for people, and I, I wanna encourage you to think about it a little bit different.
It's what you leave in people that is really your legacy that is going to, to, to live beyond.
And so for us, when we built everything off of the five levels of leadership, this is where a leader has done, you know, levels two, three, and four for so long that they now, people look at them as a level five leader.
And what we mean by that is, level one influence is you have a title, but, so you're leading people and people are following you because they have to.
Level three is you guys have produced together, you've won together, and you have influence with them because of that.
And when you have done that for so long, for so well, and so well, then people look at you at level five.
Matter of fact, I think if you right now go back to the question, who's the greatest leader, and you think about that person, you can actually see that lived out.
We're gonna talk about what does this look like and the questions you should be asking yourself so that you can, you can get there.
Well, today's topic w- is, is one that, this is a, um, I'm gonna set it up with, this is a question that we often will ask at times when we go into a room, and it's phrased a little bit differently, but I love it.
Now, oftentimes we will ask people a question, "Who's the greatest leader you've ever worked with, you've served for?" Maybe it was in your family, because we want them thinking about the attributes of these, this, the greatest leader, right? And when you think about those attributes, man, as a leader, I know that I go, I started, I start internalizing that, going, "Am I that leader? Am I representing that to my team?" 'Cause that's my leadership, that's gonna be my leadership legacy.
And I love this word legacy, and oftentimes people think, you know, hey, it's legacy is, you know, what you leave for people, and I, I wanna encourage you to think about it a little bit different.
It's what you leave in people that is really your legacy that is going to, to, to live beyond.
And so for us, when we built everything off of the five levels of leadership, this is where a leader has done, you know, levels two, three, and four for so long that they now, people look at them as a level five leader.
And what we mean by that is, level one influence is you have a title, but, so you're leading people and people are following you because they have to.
Level three is you guys have produced together, you've won together, and you have influence with them because of that.
And when you have done that for so long, for so well, and so well, then people look at you at level five.
Matter of fact, I think if you right now go back to the question, who's the greatest leader, and you think about that person, you can actually see that lived out.
We're gonna talk about what does this look like and the questions you should be asking yourself so that you can, you can get there.
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