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LAW # 1: THE LAW OF THE LID
Leadership Ability Determines a Person’s Level of Effectiveness
Leadership ability is the lid that determines a person’s level of effectiveness. ... The higher the leadership, the greater the effectiveness.
The higher you want to climb, the more you need leadership. ...
Leadership ability is always the lid on personal and organizational effectiveness. If the leadership is strong, the lid is high. ... That’s why in times of trouble, organizations naturally look for new leadership.
You can find smart, talented, successful people who are able to go only so far because of the limitations of their leadership.
LAW # 2: THE LAW OF INFLUENCE
The True Measure of Leadership Is Influence – Nothing More, Nothing Less
If you don’t have influence, you will never be able to lead others. ... ” – Colin Powell
True leadership cannot be awarded, appointed, or assigned. ...
Five Myths About Leadership:
1. The Management Myth
Difference between management and leadership: Leadership is about influencing people to follow, while management focuses on maintaining systems and processes. ... ” Most people, believing power is the essence of leadership, naturally assume that those who possess knowledge and intelligence are leaders. ...
IQ doesn’t necessarily equate to leadership. ... The Position Myth
The greatest misunderstanding about leadership is that people think it is based on position, but it’s not. ... No matter what anybody else tells you, remember that leadership is influence – nothing more, nothing less.
LAW # 3: THE LAW OF PROCESS
Leadership Develops Daily, Not in a Day
Leadership is Like Investing – It Compounds
• Becoming a leader is a lot like investing in the stock market. ...
• If you continually invest in your leadership development, letting your “assets” compound, the inevitable result is growth over time. ...
• Leadership is complicated, having many facets. Many factors that come into play in leadership are intangible, which is why leaders require so much seasoning to be effective. ...
The Four Phases of Leadership Growth
• Phase 1: I Don’t Know What I Don’t Know
Most people fail to recognize the value of leadership, believing that leadership is only for a few, with no idea of the opportunities they’re passing up when they don’t learn to lead.
Leadership is influence. ...
• Phase 2: I Know What I Don’t Know
Frequently, you realize you need to learn how to lead when you are placed in a leadership position and discover that no one is following. ...
Need to start gathering resources and learning from them
• Phase 3: I Grow and Know and It Starts to Show
Need to become a lifelong learner of leadership through reading books, listening to tapes, and attending seminars
Start developing your leadership today and someday, you will experience the effects of the Law of Process
You can be effective as a leader, but you will have to think about every move you make. ...
To Lead Tomorrow, Learn Today
• Leadership is developed daily, not in a day. ...
• Leadership ability is not static. ...
Fighting Your Way Up
• Leadership development is all about daily preparation. ... Leadership doesn’t develop in a day. ... Its who they wait to hear
• 2 kinds of leaders:
– Positional leaders: speak first; need the influence of the real leader to get things done; influence only the other positional leaders
– Real leaders: speak later; need only their own influence to get things done; influence everyone in the room
• If there is a disparity between who’s leading the meeting and who’s leading the people, then the person running the meeting is not the real leader
• The real test of leadership isn’t where you start out, its where you end up – if your starting a new position and you’re not the leader, don’t let it bother you
• The proof of leadership is found in the followers - when it comes to identifying a real leader, the task can be much easier if you remember what you are looking for. ... Instead, watch the reactions of the people around him
• Leadership does not develop in just a day. Neither does a person’s recognition as a leader
• 7 key areas that reveal themselves in leaders lives that cause them to step forward as leaders:
– Character – who they are
– Relationships – who they know
– Knowledge – what they know
– Intuition – what they feel
– Experience – where they’ve been
– Past success – what they’ve done
– Ability – what they can do
• People listen to what someone has to say not necessarily of the truth being communicated in the message, but because of their respect for the speaker
LAW #6: THE LAW OF SOLID GROUND
• Trust is the foundation of leadership
• When it comes to leadership, you just cant take shortcuts, no matter how long you’ve been leading your people
• Your people know when you make mistakes. ... Each time you make a good leadership decision, it puts change into your pocket. ...
• Every leader has a certain amount of change in his pocket when he starts in his new leadership position. ... ” – Craig Weatherup, PepsiCo CEO and chairman
• Character and leadership go hand in hand. “Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. ... And trust makes leadership possible. ... ” – Craig Weatherup
• Character communicates respect
– Respect is absolutely essential for lasting leadership. ... Everyone can recognize strong leadership ability and when they do, they feel compelled to follow that person
• People don’t follow others by accident. They follow individuals whose leadership they respect. Someone who is an 8 in leadership (on a scale of 1 to 10 with 10 being the highest) doesn’t go out and look for a 6 to follow – he naturally follows a 9 or 10. ... In general though, followers are attached to people who are better leaders than themselves – that is the Law of Respect
• Usually, the more leadership ability a person has, the more quickly he recognizes leadership – or its lack – in others. ... Randall
• Two ways to earn the respect of others is by showing them incredible loyalty and the respect they also deserve
• There are many ways to measure a follower’s respect for his leader but perhaps the greatest test of respect comes when a leader creates major change in the organization – the number of people who accept the change is a measurement of how much they respect their leader
LAW #8: THE LAW OF INTUITION
• Of all the laws of leadership, the Law of Intuition is probably the most difficult to understand. ... And the reality is that leadership intuition is often the factor that separates the greatest leaders from the merely good ones
• The great leaders can see things others can’t, make changes, and move forward before others know what’s happening
• A leader has to read the situation and know instinctively what play to call
• Leaders see everything with a leadership bias, and as a result, they instinctively, almost automatically, know what to do. ... Time after time, he was assigned commands that others avoided, but he was able to turn the situations around as the result of his exceptional leadership intuition and ability to act
• Because of their intuition, leaders evaluate everything with a leadership bias. Some people are born with great leadership intuition. ... This informed intuition causes leadership issues to come out. The best way to describe this bias is an ability to get a handle on intangible factors, understand them, and work with them to accomplish leadership goals
• Intuition helps leaders become leaders of the numerous intangibles of leadership:
- Leaders are readers of their situation – Everything that happens around us does so in the context of a bigger picture. ... How we see the world around us is determined by who we are
• Just about everyone is capable of developing a degree of leadership intuition though we don’t all start off at the same place. But the author has found that all people fit into three major intuition levels:
- Those who naturally see it – Some people are born with exceptional leadership gifts. ... The ability to think like a leader is informed intuition
- Those who will never see it – There are those who don’t seem to have a leadership bone in their bodies and who have no interest in developing the skills necessary to lead. These people will never think like anything but followers
• Whenever leaders find themselves facing a problem, they automatically measure it – and being solving it – using the Law of Intuition
• Leadership is really more art than science. The principles of leadership are constant but the application changes with every leader and every situation. ... Either way, the attraction is equally strong
Life experience
Leadership ability
- The better leader you are, the better leader you will attract. ...
• Hwelett-Packard manager Ned Barnholt believes there are three groups of people in an organization when it comes to their response to leadership and its impact:
1. ... Proven value – Those who raise up people who raise up other people
The greatest value to any leader is someone who can raise up other leaders; produces multigenerational leadership. ... Stockdale declared, “leadership must be based on goodwill…It means obvious and wholehearted commitment to helping followers…What we need for leaders are men of heart who are so helpful that they , in effect, do away with the need of their jobs. ... THE LAW OF REPRODUCTION
It Takes a Leader to Raise Up a Leader
• Origins of leadership
o People step into leadership because their organization experiences a crisis & are compelled to do something about it.
o People with such great natural gifting and instincts that they are able to navigate their way into leadership on their own
o People emerged as leaders because of the impact made on them by established leaders who mentored them. ... Leaders who develop leaders:
o See the Big picture
Makes development of leaders on of his priorities in life
Knows that the potential of the org depends on the growth of its leadership. ... ” This may be true but as the Law of Magnetism also suggest, if you first develop your leadership qualities, you will be capable of attracting people with leadership potential. ...
o Create an eagle environment
An environment where leadership is valued and taught becomes an asset to a leadership mentor
Eagle environment is one where the leader casts a vision, offer incentives, encourages creativity, allows risks, and provides accountability. ... If a company has strong leaders - & they are reproducing themselves – then the leadership just keeps getting better and better.
• A company will emerge where leadership is so strong & the development process is so deliberate that the impact not only drives that organization to the highest level, but it also over flows into other businesses.
• Leadership development should be one of the company’s highest priority. ... THE LAW OF BUY-IN
People Buy Into the Leader, Then the Vision
• People who approach the area of vision in leadership believed that if the cause is good enough, people will automatically buy into it and follow.
Approximate Word count = 9016
Approximate Pages = 36.1
(250 words per page double spaced)
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