21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership

1. The Lid

1.1. Your potential impact that you can have is your lid

1.2. Work hard raising your lid/ceiling or your impact will be limited

2. Influence

2.1. People will follow you if you have influence on them; it is earned based on your experience, connections, and knowledge

2.2. Get others to participate

3. Process

3.1. Show up; do what you need to each and every day

3.2. Be committed to lifelong learning, and continue to develop and improve upon your skills

4. Navigation

4.1. Chart the course: planning and preparation will help you lead others to your goals

4.2. What you need and who you need to achieve them; get where you are going

5. Addition

5.1. Add value by serving others

5.2. Make things better for people who follow you

5.3. Help others get ahead and advance themselves

6. Intuition

6.1. Leadership Bias

6.2. Take stock quickly and be able to take appropriate actions

6.3. Read the situation, your sources, etc.

7. Buy In

7.1. Get others to buy into you; just because your vision is good, does not mean that others will follow you

8. Victory

8.1. Be unwilling to accept defeat or failure

8.2. Be passionate about getting your team to win and be successful

9. Momentum

9.1. To make changes you need momentum

9.2. Get things moving; make problems seem smaller and things more exciting

10. Priorities

10.1. Activity does not = accomplishment

10.2. 80:20 rule- 80% of the results come from 20% of the effort

10.3. What is required of you, what will give you a good return. What's important and what is not

11. Timing

11.1. Know when to lead. Take the right actions at the right time for best results

11.2. Cultivate understanding, confidence, and maturity

12. Respect

12.1. People follow people who are stronger than themselves and that they respect

12.2. Need to have the skills and competence to be respected

13. Connection

13.1. Touch a heart before you ask for their hand; need to connect to someone before expecting them to help you

13.2. Learn how to connect with others

13.3. Show you care about them before asking for action

14. Solid Ground

14.1. Competence, connection and great character are necessary to form a solid ground where your team trusts you

15. Magnetism

15.1. Who you are is who you attract

15.2. The better leader you are, the better people you will attract

16. Inner Circle

16.1. Potential is determined by those in your inner circle

16.2. Cannot do anything great alone, bring in others to make a bigger impact

16.3. Choose your inner circle wisely: good people and leaders, hard workers

17. Empowerment

17.1. Secure leaders empower others

17.2. Give resources to others and the freedom for them to achieve

18. Picture

18.1. Lead by example, people do what they see

18.2. a vision of what is coming and what needs to be done

18.3. Answer: why, what, and how for each action you take

19. Sacrifice

19.1. Leaders give up more than others and sacrifice certain rights as they go up

19.2. Put others before yourself

20. Explosive Growth

20.1. Concentrate on developing leaders so your impact is multiplied and you have a further reach

21. Legacy

21.1. Legacy is a leader's value that will be how you are remembered

21.2. Train others well and make yourself replaceable

21.3. set your sight on the future; beyond your own lifetime