Connecting is All About Others, Part 5 (Leadership That Gets the Job Done #41)

Our Bible passage for this episode is Daniel 6:4 which says, “Then the presidents and princes sought to find occasion against Daniel concerning the kingdom; but they could find none occasion nor fault; forasmuch as he was faithful, neither was there any error or fault found in him.”

Our quote for this episode is from Max DePree. He said, “The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the leader is a servant.”

In this podcast, we are using three books as our texts: Spiritual Leadership: Moving People On To God’s Agenda by Henry and Richard Blackaby; Next Generation Leader, by Andy Stanley; and Everyone Communicates, Few Connect, by John Maxwell.

Our topic today is Part 5 of “Chapter 2: Connecting is All About Others” from Everyone Communicates, Few Connect, by John Maxwell. He continues talking about the three questions people are asking about you:

2. "CAN YOU HELP ME?"

One evening Tom Arington and I were having dinner, and I asked him questions about his success in business. Tom is the founder and CEO of Prasco, an independent pharmaceutical company. He told me he owed his success to one question he has always asked in any and every situation: "Can I help you?" By helping others, he has also helped himself. "Whenever people have a heart to do better," said Tom, "I help them if I can. What I found is that as I lifted others to a higher level, they lifted me up also." 

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