Maxwell Leadership Podcast Success and Failure: The Partnership that Fuels Growth
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Mar 11, 2026 
John C. Maxwell, bestselling leadership author and speaker, shares a lesson on how success and failure work together. He explores why viewing failure as part of success unlocks growth and humility. Topics include managing decisions after they are made, daily disciplines that compound into success, and practical steps to turn setbacks into forward momentum.
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Perspective Makes Failure Part Of Success
- How we view failure determines our response and whether it becomes part of success.
- John C. Maxwell says keeping success and failure together makes failure valuable, encourages persistence, and builds humility and maturity.
Manage Decisions Daily Not Just Make Them
- Prioritize decision managing over decision making by owning mistakes and learning quickly.
- John lists daily disciplines (Just for Today) to compound good decision management into long-term results.
Capture The Lesson Immediately After Failure
- Build a system to capture the lesson after failure so you don't “lose the lesson.”
- Mark Cole recommends know yourself, identify what you need in failure, find growth since the last failure, then pick up a specific lesson immediately.
