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    KSI Greg 7 ™ got a reaction from I am FuzzyMeep™ in Outstanding Service Award Level 3 VeRiiTaS 7   
    I’ve been tracking Veriitas 7 since he was a CoFo. 
    While Rita was cutting his teeth in FI he had developed his leadership qualities and was willing to reach out for advice from other leaders in the community.
    (btw we love to give advice it doesn’t matter if you just want to hang out in the party chat or play games if you’re looking to move up in this community be open to reaching out of your inner circle).
     
    Ok back to Rita
     
    Veriitas omg what’s not to say about this guy. 
    While Rita was in FI it became obvious to all the seniors of his potential his ability to connect with his members in fi really showed when MP and FI merged. Rita made it his task to incorporate the new members from MP into FI.  Rita worked hard to maintain a positive attitude during this stressful time 
     
    As a director he helped mentor the leaders under him and helped develop new leaders by teaching lead and learning from his experience in FI and made it a point to include the members he was over and making sure they felt connected to him.
     
    Later as a senior Rita continues to motivate new leaders.
    Also, all these things that I’m sealing from fuzzy’s post
     Accomplishments (most not all)
    Running Lead
    Achieving Senior Director 
    Strong showing and rebound of FI in spirit week and in general
    Having to take over and learn a lot regarding leadership in a short time ascending the ranks of FI
    Laying the ground work for Marketing
    Assisting in the rec reaction of the Handbook
     
     
    In closing Rita deserves this award.
    I'm not doing justice to Rita I can't explain it any other way the for doing small things great and I know its vague.
     
    Whether Rita is awarded this achievement or not I would like to say even though I’m Technically over the seniors and over twice Rita's age I would count Rita as a mentor that I’ve learned tons from Rita 
     
     
    Also, Rita I’m still Funny!
      
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    KSI Greg 7 ™ got a reaction from Rita in Outstanding Service Award Level 3 VeRiiTaS 7   
    I’ve been tracking Veriitas 7 since he was a CoFo. 
    While Rita was cutting his teeth in FI he had developed his leadership qualities and was willing to reach out for advice from other leaders in the community.
    (btw we love to give advice it doesn’t matter if you just want to hang out in the party chat or play games if you’re looking to move up in this community be open to reaching out of your inner circle).
     
    Ok back to Rita
     
    Veriitas omg what’s not to say about this guy. 
    While Rita was in FI it became obvious to all the seniors of his potential his ability to connect with his members in fi really showed when MP and FI merged. Rita made it his task to incorporate the new members from MP into FI.  Rita worked hard to maintain a positive attitude during this stressful time 
     
    As a director he helped mentor the leaders under him and helped develop new leaders by teaching lead and learning from his experience in FI and made it a point to include the members he was over and making sure they felt connected to him.
     
    Later as a senior Rita continues to motivate new leaders.
    Also, all these things that I’m sealing from fuzzy’s post
     Accomplishments (most not all)
    Running Lead
    Achieving Senior Director 
    Strong showing and rebound of FI in spirit week and in general
    Having to take over and learn a lot regarding leadership in a short time ascending the ranks of FI
    Laying the ground work for Marketing
    Assisting in the rec reaction of the Handbook
     
     
    In closing Rita deserves this award.
    I'm not doing justice to Rita I can't explain it any other way the for doing small things great and I know its vague.
     
    Whether Rita is awarded this achievement or not I would like to say even though I’m Technically over the seniors and over twice Rita's age I would count Rita as a mentor that I’ve learned tons from Rita 
     
     
    Also, Rita I’m still Funny!
      
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    KSI Greg 7 ™ got a reaction from PHIL0S0PHY in The 21 Irrefutable Law of Leadership   
    This will include the graphs
    http://www.u-leadership.com/the_21_irrefutable_laws_of_leadership-w.pdf
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
    The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership By John C. Maxwell
     
     
    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.  Your leadership ability always determines your effectiveness and the potential impact of your organization.   
      Let’s say you’re an 8 on a scale from 1 to 10.  But let’s say that your leadership ability is a 1.  Your level of effectiveness would look like this:
     

     
      Let’s say you become a real student of leadership and you maximize your potential, taking it all the way up to a 7.  Visually it would look like this:

     
      By raising your leadership ability – without increasing your dedication at all – you can increase your original effectiveness by 600 percent. 
    Leadership has a multiplying effect.  
      Smart, talented people are able to go so far because of the limitations of their leadership.  To reach the highest level of effectiveness, you have to raise your leadership lid.
     
    2.   The Law of Influence – The True Measure of Leadership is Influence –
    Nothing More, Nothing Less
      True leadership cannot be awarded, appointed, or assigned.  It comes only from influence, and that cannot be mandated.  It must be earned.
      Five Myths About Leadership
    1)    The Management Myth – that leading and managing are the same.  Leadership is about influencing people to follow, while management focuses on maintaining systems and processes.  Managers can maintain direction; to move people you need influence.
    2)    The Entrepreneur Myth – entrepreneurs are skilled at seeing opportunities and going after them.  But not all of them are good with leading people in their vision.
    3)    The Knowledge Myth – neither IQ nor education necessarily equates to leadership.
    4)    The Pioneer Myth – being a trendsetter is not the same as being a leader.  To be a leader, a person has to not only be out in front, but also has to have people following his lead.
    5)    The Position Myth – leadership is not based on rank or title.  It’s not the position that makes the leader; it’s the leader that makes the position.
      Several Factors That Make a Leader
    1)    Character – Who They Are – true leadership always begins with the inner person.  People can sense the depth of a person’s character.
    2)    Relationships – Who They Know – with deep relationships with the right people you can become the real leader in an organization.
    3)    Knowledge – What They Know – information is vital.  You need a grasp of the facts to develop an accurate vision for the future.
    4)    Intuition – What They Feel – leaders seek to recognize and influence intangibles such as energy, morale, timing and momentum.  
    5)    Experience – Where They’ve Been – the greater your past challenges, the more likely followers will be willing to let you lead.
    6)    Ability – What They Can Do – the bottom line is followers want to know whether you can lead them to victory.  As soon as they no longer believe you can deliver, they will stop following.
     
    3.   The Law of Process – Leadership Develops Daily, Not in a Day
      Leaders require seasoning to be effective.  If you continually invest in your leadership development, the inevitable is growth over time.
      The relationship between growth and leadership: It’s the capacity to develop and improve one’s skills that distinguishes leaders from their followers.
      Successful leaders are learners.  And the learning process is ongoing, a result of self-discipline and perseverance.  
      The Phases of Leadership Growth
    Phase 1: I Don’t Know What I Don’t Know – few think of themselves as leaders and as long as a person doesn’t know the importance of leadership he isn’t going to grow.
    Phase 2: I Know That I Need to Know – at some point we discover we need to learn how to lead.
    Phase 3: I Know What I Don’t Know – if we don’t get better at leadership, our careers will eventually get bogged down.  In this phase you develop a plan for personal growth on areas you need improvement.
    Phase 4: I Know and Grow and It Starts to Show – when you recognize your lack of skill and begin the daily discipline of personal growth, exciting things start to happen.  You start becoming an effective leader but you have to think about every move you make. Phase 5: I Simply Go Because of What I Know – your ability to lead becomes almost automatic.  You develop great instincts which results in incredible payoffs.  But the only way to get there is to obey the Law of Process and pay the price.
      Benjamin Disraeli asserted, “The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his time when it comes.”
      There is an old saying: champions don’t become champions in the ring – they are merely recognized there.  That’s true.  If you want to see where someone develops into a champion, look at his daily routine.
     
    4.            The Law of Navigation – Anyone Can Steer the Ship, but It Takes a Leader to Chart the Course
      First-rate navigators always have in mind that other people are depending on them and their ability to chart a good course.
      Before good leaders take their people on a journey, they go through a process in order to give the trip the best chance of being a success:
    o   Navigators Draw on Past Experience – every past success and failure you’ve experienced can be a valuable source of information and wisdom.  Success teaches you what you’re capable of doing and gives you confidence.  However, your failures can often teach greater lessons, if you allow them to.  If you fail to learn from your mistakes, you’re going to fail again and again.
    o   Navigators Examine the Conditions Before Making Commitments – No good leader plans a course of action without paying attention to current conditions.  Good navigators count the cost before making commitments for themselves and others.  
    o   Navigators Listen To What Others Have to Say – Navigating leaders get ideas from many sources.  They listen to members of their leadership team.  They spend time with leaders of other organizations who can mentor them.  They always think in terms of relying on a team, not just themselves.
    o   Navigators Make Sure Their Conclusions Represent Both Faith and Fact – A leader has to possess a positive attitude.  If you can’t confidently make the trip in your mind, you’re not going to be able to take it in real life.  On the other hand, you also have to be able to see the facts realistically.  If you don’t go in with your eyes wide open, you’re going to get blindsided.  Balancing optimism and realism, faith and fact can be very difficult.  
      Charting A Course with A Navigation Strategy – here’s an acrostic that the author used repeatedly in his leadership.
    Predetermine a course of action.
    Lay out your goals.
    Adjust your priorities. 
    Notify key personnel.
    Allow time for acceptance.
    Head into action.
    Expect problems.
    Always point to the successes.
    Daily review your plan.
      The secret to the Law of Navigation is preparation.  When you prepare well, you convey confidence and trust to people.  Leaders who are good navigators are capable of taking their people just about anywhere.
     
    5.            The Law of Addition – Leaders Add Value by Serving Others
      Adding Profits by Adding Value – Costco’s CEO, Jim Sinegal, believes the success of Costco comes from treating his employees well.
    o   Costco employees are paid an average of 42% more than the company’s chief rival and they also receive generous health care coverage.  
    o   Sinegal shows he cares and respects his employees – he has an open-door policy.  He is on a first-name basis with everyone. o Sinegal’s salary is well below what other CEO’s of similar size company’s make because he is more focused on serving his employees than making an exorbitant salary.
    o   The result: Costco has by far the lowest employee turnover rate in all of retailing.
      The bottom line in leadership isn’t how far we advance ourselves but how far we advance others.
      There is one critical question: Are you making things better for the people who follow you?
    o   If you can’t answer with an unhesitant yes, then you likely aren’t.
    o   90% of all people who add value to others do so intentionally. 
    Why do I say that?  Because human beings are naturally selfish. 
    Being an adder requires me to think about adding value to others.
      Adding Value, Changing Lives – four guidelines for adding value to others.
    1)    Truly Value Others – effective leaders go beyond not harming others, they intentionally help others.  They must value people and demonstrate they care in such a way that their followers know it.
    2)    Make Yourself More Valuable To Others – the more intentionally you have been in growing personally, the more you have to offer your followers.
    3)    Know and Relate to What Others Value – this can only come by listening to your people’s stories, their hopes and dreams.  Learn what is valuable to them and then lead based on what you’ve learned.
    4)    Do Things That God Values – God desires us not only to treat people with respect, but also to actively reach out to them and serve them.   
      The attitude of the leader affects the atmosphere of the office.  If you desire to add value by serving others, you will become a better leader.  And your people will achieve more, develop more loyalty, and have a better time getting things done than you ever thought possible.  That’s the power of the Law of Addition.
     
     
    6.            The Law of Solid Ground – Trust Is the Foundation of Leadership
      Trust is the foundation of leadership.  It is the most important thing.  Leaders cannot repeatedly break trust with people and continue to influence them.
      Your people know when you make mistakes.  The real question is whether you’re going to fess up.  If you do, you can often regain their trust.
      How does a leader build trust?  By consistently exemplifying competence, connection and character.  People will forgive occasional mistakes on ability.  And they will give you time to connect.  But they won’t trust someone who has slips in character.   
      Character Communicates – a person’s character quickly communicates many things to others.  Here are the most important ones:
    o   Character Communicates Consistency – leaders without inner strength can’t be counted on day after day because their ability to perform changes constantly.
    o   Character Communicates Potential – weak character is limiting.  Who do you think has the greater potential to achieve great dreams: someone who is honest, disciplined, and hardworking or someone who is deceitful, impulsive and lazy?
    o   Character Communicates Respect – When you don’t have character within, you can’t earn respect without.  How do leaders earn respect?  By making sound decisions, by admitting their mistakes, and by putting what’s best for their followers and the organization ahead of their personal agendas.
      No leader can break trust with his people and expect to keep influencing them.  Trust is the foundation of leadership.  Violate the Law of Solid Ground, and you diminish your influence as a leader.   
     
    7.            The Law of Respect – People Naturally Follow Leaders Stronger Than
    Themselves
      People naturally follow leaders stronger than themselves.  That’s how the Law of Respect works.
      People don’t follow others by accident.  People who are an 8 in leadership don’t look for a 6 to follow – they naturally follow a 9 or 10.  The less skilled follow the more highly skilled and gifted.   
      Occasionally, a strong leader may choose to follow someone weaker than himself.  But when that happens, it’s for a reason.  For example, the stronger leader my do it out of respect for the person’s office or past accomplishments.  Or he may be following the chain of command.  In general though, followers are attracted to people who are better leaders than themselves.   
      When people get together for the first time in a group, take a look at what happens.  As they start interacting, the leaders in the group immediately take charge.  But after the people get to know one another, it doesn’t take long for them to recognize the strongest leaders and to start following them.

     
      In time, people in the group get on board and follow the strongest leaders.  Either that or they leave the group to pursue their own agenda.
      Top Six Ways That Leaders Gain Others’ Respect
    1)    Natural Leadership Ability – if you possess it, people will want to follow you.  They will become excited when you communicate vision.
    2)    Respect For Others – when leaders show respect for others – especially for people who have less power or a lower position than theirs – they gain respect from others.  If you continually respect others and consistently lead them well, you will continue to have followers.
    3)    Courage – Good leaders do what’s right, even at the risk of failure, in the face of great danger and under the brunt of relentless criticism.  Can you think of one great leader from history who was without courage?  A leader’s courage gives his followers hope.
    4)    Success – When leaders succeed in leading the team to victory, then followers believe they can do it again.  As a result, followers follow them because they want to be part of success in the future.
    5)    Loyalty – When leaders stick with the team until the job is done and look out for their followers best interests even when it hurts them personally, followers will in turn learn to respect them.
    6)    Value Added to Others – Followers value leaders who add value to them and their respect for them carries on long after the relationship has ended.  
     
    8.            The Law of Intuition – Leaders Evaluate Everything with a Leadership Bias
      The Law of Intuition is based on facts coupled with instincts plus other intangible factors, such as employee morale, organizational momentum, and relationship dynamics.   
      The Law of Intuition often separates the great leaders from the merely good ones.
      Leadership intuition is the ability of a leader to read what’s going on.  For that reason, I say that leaders are readers:
    1)    Leaders Are Readers of Their Situation – leaders pick up on details that might elude others.  They sense people’s attitudes.  They are able to detect the chemistry of a team.  They know the situation before they have all the facts.
    2)    Leaders Are Readers of Trends – leaders discern where the organization is headed, often times they sense it first and find data later to explain it.  Their intuition tells them that something is happening, that conditions are changing.  Leaders must always be a few steps ahead of their people, or they’re not really leading.
    3)    Leaders Are Readers of Their Resources – leaders think in terms or resources and how to maximize them for the benefit of their organization.  They are continually aware of what they have at their disposal.  
    4)    Leaders Are Readers of People – Intuition helps leaders sense what’s happening among people and know their hopes, fears and concerns.  Reading people is perhaps the most important intuitive skill leaders can possess.  
    5)    Leaders are Readers of Themselves – leaders must know not only their own strengths and weaknesses, but also their current state of mind.  Why?  Because leaders can hinder progress just as easily as they can help create it.  
      Without intuition, leaders get blindsided, and that’s one of the worst things that can happen to a leader.  If you want to lead well, and stay ahead of others, you’ve got to obey the Law of Intuition.  
     
    9.            The Law of Magnetism – Who You Are Is Who You Attract
      In most situations, you draw people to you who possess the same qualities you do.
      Who you are is who you attract.  If you want to attract better people, become the kind of person you desire to attract.
     
    10.        The Law of Connection – Leaders Touch a Heart Before They Ask for a
    Hand
      For leaders to be effective, they need to connect with people.  All great leaders recognize this truth and act on it almost instinctively.  You can’t move people to action unless you first move them with emotion.
      “People don’t care how much you know until they know how much you care.”  You develop credibility with people when you connect with them and show that you genuinely care and want to help them.  And as a result, they usually respond in kind and want to help you.
      How do you connect with people?
    1)    Connect with Yourself – If you don’t believe in who you are and where you want to lead, work on that before doing anything else.
    2)    Communicate with Openness and Sincerity – People can smell a phony a mile away.  Authentic leaders connect.
    3)    Know Your Audience – When you work with individuals, knowing your audience means learning people’s names, finding out their histories, asking about their dreams.  When you communicate to an audience, you learn about the organization and its goals.  You want to speak about what they care about.  
    4)    Live Your Message – Practice what you preach.  That’s were credibility comes from.
    5)    Go to Where They Are – Remove as many barriers to communication as possible.  Try to be attuned to their culture, background, education, and so on.  Adapt to others; don’t expect them to adapt to me.  
    6)    Focus on Them, Not Yourself – Focus on others, not yourself.  That is the number one problem of inexperienced speakers and ineffective leaders.  
    7)    Believe in Them – It’s one thing to communicate to people because you believe you have something of value to say.  It’s another to communicate with people because you believe they have value.  People’s opinions of us have less to do with what they see in us than with what we can help them see in themselves.
    8)    Give Them Hope – French general Napoleon Bonaparte said, “Leaders are dealers in hope.”  When you give people hope, you give them a future.  
      Successful leaders who obey the Law of Connection are always initiators.  They take the first step with others and then make the effort to continue building relationships.  It’s not always easy, but it’s important to the success of the organization.  A leader has to do it, no matter how many obstacles there might be.
      You connect with others when you learn their names, make yourself available to them, tell them how much you appreciate them, find out what they are doing, and most important, listen to them. 
      There’s an old saying: To lead yourself, use your head; to lead others, use your heart.  That’s the nature of the Law of Connection.  Always touch a person’s heart before you ask for a hand.  
     
    11.        The Law of the Inner Circle – A Leader’s Potential Is Determined by
    Those Closest to Him
      Nobody does anything great alone, nor do leaders succeed alone.  What makes the difference is the leader’s inner circle.
      As you consider whether individuals should be in your inner circle, ask yourself the following questions.  If you can answer yes to these questions, then they are excellent candidates for your inner circle:
    1)    Do They Have High Influence with Others? – One key to successful leadership is the ability to influence the people who influence others.  How do you do that?  By drawing influencers into your inner circle.
    2)    Do They Bring a Complementary Gift to the Table? – Bring a few key people into my inner circle who possess strengths in your areas of weakness.
    3)    Do They Hold a Strategic Position in the Organization? – Some people belong in your inner circle because of their importance to the organization.  If you and they are not working on the same page, the entire organization is in trouble.
    4)    Do They Add Value to Me and to the Organization? – The people in your inner circle must add value to you personally.  They should also have a proven track record as assets to the organization.  Seek for your inner circle people who help you improve.   
    5)    Do They Positively Impact Other Inner Circle Members? – Team chemistry is vital.  You want your inner circle to have a good fit with one another.  You also want inner circle members to make one another better, to raise one another’s game.   
      Once you’ve reached your capacity in time and energy, the only way you can increase your impact is through others.  Surround yourself with high performers that extend your influence beyond your reach and help you to grow and become a better leader.
     
    12.        The Law of Empowerment – Only Secure Leaders Give Power to
    Others
      If you want to be successful, you have to be willing to empower others.   
      Theodore Roosevelt once said: “The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and the selfrestraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it.”
      When leaders fail to empower others, it is usually due to three main reasons:
    1)    Desire for Job Security – The number one enemy of empowerment is the fear of losing what we have.  Weak leaders worry that if they help subordinates, they themselves will become dispensable.  Rather they should realize that if the teams they lead always seem to succeed, people will figure out that they are leading them well.
    2)    Resistance to Change – Most people don’t like change.  As a leader, you must train yourself to embrace change, to desire it, to make a way for it.  Effective leaders are not only willing to change; they become change agents.
    3)    Lack of Self-Worth – Self-conscious people are rarely good leaders.  They focus on themselves, worrying how they look, what others think, whether they are liked.  They can’t give power to others because they feel that they have no power themselves.  The best leaders have a strong self-worth.  They believe in themselves, their mission and their people.
      Strange as it sounds, great leaders gain authority by giving it away.  If you aspire to be a great leader, you must live by the Law of Empowerment.
    13.        The Law of the Picture – People Do What People See
      When leaders show the way with their right actions, their followers copy their good example and succeed.
      Great leaders are both highly visionary and highly practical.  Their vision helps them see beyond the immediate.  They can envision what’s coming and what must be done.  Leaders possess an understanding how: o Mission provides purpose – answering the question, Why? o Vision provides a picture – answering the question, What? o Strategy provides a plan – answering the question, How?
      As author Hans Finzel observed, “Leaders are paid to be dreamers.  The higher you go in leadership, the more your work is about the future.”
      As you strive to become a better example to your followers, remember these things.   
    1)    Followers Are Always Watching What You Do – Just as children watch their parents and emulate their behavior, so do employees watch their bosses.  If the boss comes in late, then employees feel they can too.  Nothing is more convincing than living out what you say you believe.   
    2)    It’s Easier to Teach What’s Right Than to Do What’s Right – Nothing is more convincing than people who give good advice and set a good example.
    3)    We Should Work on Changing Ourselves Before Trying to Improve Others – A great danger to good leadership is the temptation to try to change others without first making changes to yourself.  To remain a credible leader, you must always work first, hardest and longest on changing yourself; this is essential.  If we work on improving ourselves our primary mission, then others are more likely to follow.
    4)    The Most Valuable Gift a Leader Can Give Is Being a Good Example – More than anything else, employees want leaders whose beliefs and actions line up.  Leadership is more caught than taught.  How does one “catch” leadership?  By watching good leaders in action.   
     
    14.        The Law of Buy-In – People Buy into the Leader, Then the Vision
      The leader finds the dream and then the people.  The people find the leader and then the dream.  That’s how the Law of Buy-In works.
      People don’t at first follow worthy causes.  They follow worthy leaders who promote worthy causes they can believe in.  People buy into the leader first, then the leader’s vision.
      As a leader, having a great vision and a worthy cause is not enough to get people to follow you.  You have to become a better leader; you must get your people to buy into you.  That is the price you have to pay if you want your vision to have a chance of becoming reality.  You cannot ignore the Law of Buy-In and remain successful as a leader.
     
    15.        The Law of Victory -  Leaders Find a Way for the Team to Win
      Victorious leaders have one thing in common: they share an unwillingness to accept defeat.  The alternative to winning is totally unacceptable to them.  As a result, they figure out what must be done to achieve victory.
      The best leaders feel compelled to rise to a challenge and do everything in their power to achieve victory for their people.  In their view… o Losing is unacceptable. o Passion is unquenchable. o Quitting is unthinkable.
    o   Commitment is unquestionable.
    o   Victory is inevitable.
      With that mindset, they embrace the vision and approach the challenges with the resolve to take their people to victory.
      Three factors that contribute to a team’s dedication to victory:
    1)    Unity of Vision – Teams succeed only when the players have a unified vision, no matter how much talent or potential there is.
    2)    Diversity of Skills – Every organization requires diverse talents to succeed.
    3)    A Leader Dedicated to Victory and Raising Players to Their Potential – Unity of vision doesn’t happen spontaneously.  The right players with the proper diversity of talent don’t come together on their own.  It takes a leader to make those things happen.  It takes a leader to provide the motivation, empowerment, and direction required to win.
      Leaders who practice the Law of Victory believe that anything less than success is unacceptable.  And they have Plan B.  That is why they keep fighting.  And it’s why they continue to win.
      How dedicated are you to winning the “fight”?  Are you going to have the Law of Victory in your corner as you lead?  Or when times get difficult, are you going to throw in the towel?  Your answer to that question may determine whether you succeed or fail as a leader and whether your team wins or loses.   
     
    16.        The Law of the Big Mo – Momentum Is a Leader’s Best Friend
      If you’ve got all the passion, tools and people you need to fulfill a great vision, yet you can’t seem to get your organization moving and going in the right direction, you’re dead in the water as a leader.  If you can’t get things going, you will not succeed.  You need to harness the power of the leader’s best friend – momentum.
      When you have no momentum, even the simplest tasks seem impossible.   
      On the other hand, when you have momentum on your side, the future looks bright, and obstacles appear small.  An organization with momentum is like a train that’s moving at sixty miles per hour.
      Truths About Momentum
    1)    Momentum is the Great Exaggerator – momentum is like a magnifying glass; it makes things look bigger than they really are.  Because momentum has such a great impact, leaders try to control it.  When you have momentum, you don’t worry about small problems and many larger ones seem to work themselves out.
    2)    Momentum Makes Leaders Look Better Than They Are – When leaders have momentum on their side, people forget about their past mistakes.  Once a leader creates some success for his organization, people give him more credit than he deserves.  Momentum exaggerates a leader’s success and makes him look better than he really is.   
    3)    Momentum Helps Followers Perform Better Than They Are – When momentum is strong, people are motivated to perform at higher levels, making all participants more successful than they would be otherwise.
    4)    Momentum Is Easier to Steer Than to Start – Getting started is a struggle, but once you’re moving forward, you can really start to do some amazing things.
    5)    Momentum Is the Most Powerful Change Agent – Given enough momentum, nearly any kind of change is possible in an organization.  Followers trust leaders with a proven track record.  They accept changes from people when they have led them to victory before.  Momentum puts victory within reach.
    6)    Momentum is the Leader’s Responsibility – It takes a leader to create momentum.  Followers can catch it.  But creating momentum requires someone who has vision, can assemble a good team, and motivates others.  If the leader is waiting for the organization to develop momentum on its own, then the organization is in trouble.
    7)    Momentum Begins Inside the Leader – It starts with vision, passion, and enthusiasm.  The leader most model those qualities to his people day in and day out, which will attract like-minded people to his team.  Once you see forward progress, you will begin to generate momentum.  Once you have it, you can do almost anything.  That’s the power of the Big Mo.
     
    17.        The Law of Priorities – Leaders Understand That Activity Is Not Necessarily Accomplishment
      Leaders never advance to a point where they no long need to prioritize. Busyness does not equal productivity.  Activity is not necessarily accomplishment.  Prioritizing requires leaders to continually think ahead, to know what’s important, to see how everything relates to the overall vision.
      The Pareto Principle – if you focus your attention on the activities that rank in the top 20 percent in terms of importance, you have an 80 percent return on your effort.  For example if you 100 customers, the top 20 will provide you 80% of your business, so focus on them.
      The Three R’s – requirement, return and reward.  Leaders must order their lives according to these three questions:
    1)    What is Required?  Any list of priorities must begin with what is required of us.  The question to ask yourself is, “What must I do
    that nobody can or should do for me?”  If I’m doing something that
    is not necessary, I should eliminate it.  If I’m doing something that’s necessary but not required of me personally, I need to delegate it.
    2)    What Gives the Greatest Return?  As a leader, you should spend most of your time working in your areas of greatest strength.  Ideally, leaders should get out of their comfort zone but stay in their strength zone.  My rule of thumb: If something can be done 80 percent as well by someone else, I delegate it.   
    3)    What Brings the Greatest Reward?  Life is too short not to do the things you love.  Your personal interests energize you and keep you passionate.  And passion provides the fuel in your life to keep you going.
     
    18.        The Law of Sacrifice – A Leader Must Give Up to Go Up
      If you desire to become the best leader you can be, then you need to be willing to make sacrifices in order to lead well.  If that is your desire, then here are some things you need to know about the Law of Sacrifice.
    1)    There Is No Success Without Sacrifice – Every person who has achieve any success in life has made sacrifices to do so.  Effective leaders sacrifice much that is good in order to dedicate themselves to what is best.
    2)    Leaders Are Often Asked to Give Up More Than Others – The heart of leadership to putting others ahead of yourself.  It’s doing what is best for the team.  For that reason, leaders have to give up their rights.   
     
    The cost of leadership: Leaders must be willing to give up more than the people they lead.  Leadership means sacrifice.
    3)    You Must Keep Giving Up to Stay Up – Leadership success requires continual change, constant improvement, and ongoing sacrifice.
    4)    The Higher the Level of Leadership, the Greater the Sacrifice – The higher you go, the more its going to cost you.  And it doesn’t matter what kind of leadership career you pick.  You will have to make sacrifices.  You will have to give up to go up.  
     
    19.        The Law of Timing – When to Lead Is As Important As What to Do and
    Where to Go
      Timing is often the difference between success and failure in an endeavor.  Every time a leader makes a move, there are really only four outcomes:
    1)    The Wrong Action at the Wrong Time Leads to Disaster – If you take the wrong action at the wrong time, your people suffer and so will your leadership.
    2)    The Right Action at the Wrong Time Brings Resistance – Having a vision for the right direction and knowing how to get there is not enough.  If you take the right action but do it at the wrong time, you may still be unsuccessful because the people you lead can become resistant.  Good leadership timing requires many things:
    a.    Understanding – leaders must have a firm grasp on the situation.
    b.    Maturity – if leader’s motives aren’t right, their timing will be off.
    c.     Confidence – people follow leaders who know what must be done.
    d.    Decisiveness – wishy-washy leaders create wishy-washy followers.
    e.    Experience – if leaders don’t possess experience, then they need to gain wisdom from others who do possess it.
    f.      Intuition – timing often depends on intangibles, such as momentum and morale.
    g.    Preparation – if the conditions aren’t right, leaders must create those conditions.
    3)    The Wrong Action at the Right Time is a Mistake – the greatest mistake made by entrepreneurs is knowing when to cut their losses or when to increase their investment to maximize gains.  Their mistakes come from taking the wrong action at the right time.
    4)    The Right Action at the Right Time Results in Success – When the right leader and the right timing come together an organization achieves its goals and reaps incredible rewards.  
      Reading the right situation and knowing what to do are not enough to make you succeed in leadership.  If you want your company to move forward, you must pay attention to timing.  Only the right action at the
    right time will bring success.  No leader can escape the Law of Timing.
     
    20.        The Law of Explosive Growth – To Add Growth, Lead Followers – To
    Multiply, Lead Leaders
      You can grow by leading followers.  But if you want to maximize your leadership and help your organization reach its potential, you need to develop leaders.  There is no other way to experience explosive growth.
      Leaders who attract followers but never develop leaders get tired.  Being able to impact only those people you can touch personally is very limiting.  
      In contrast, leaders who develop leaders impact people far beyond their personal reach.  Every time you develop leaders and help them increase their leadership ability, you make them capable of influencing an even greater number of people. 
    21.        The Law of Legacy – A Leader’s Lasting Value Is Measured by
    Succession
      What do you want people to say at your funeral?  If you want your leadership to have real meaning, you need to take into account the Law of Legacy.  A leader’s lasting value is measured by succession.
      If you desire to make an impact as a leader on a future generation, then become highly intentional about your legacy.  We have a choice about what legacy we will leave, and we must work and be intentional to leave the legacy we want.  Here’s how:
    1)    Know the Legacy You Want to Leave – most people simply accept their lives – they don’t lead them.  I believe that people need to be proactive about how they live, and I believe that is especially true for leaders.  Someday people will summarize your life in a single sentence.  My advice: pick it now!
    2)    Live the Legacy You Want to Leave – I believe that to have any credibility as a leader, you must live what you say you believe.  If you want to create a legacy, you need to live it first.  
    3)    Choose Who Will Carry on Your Legacy – A legacy lives on in people, not things.  Too often leaders put their energy into organizations, buildings or other lifeless objects.  But only people live on after we are gone.  Everything else is temporary.
    4)    Make Sure You Pass the Baton – No matter how well you lead, if you don’t make sure you pass the baton, you will not leave the legacy you desire.
      Our ability as leaders will not be measured by the buildings we build, or institutions we established.  We will be judged by how well the people we invested in carried on after we are gone.  
      Jackie Robinson observed, “A life isn’t significant except for its impact on other lives.”  In the end we will be judged according to the Law of Legacy.  A leader’s lasting value is measured by succession.
     
      
     
     
     
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    KSI Greg 7 ™ got a reaction from KSI Tea 7 in So You Think You Can Write: Gamer Life   
    Well naturally being a child of the 70s and 80s my first console was an Atari 2600.  With games like pong surround and combat all fun game that defiantly got me excited to play unfortunately the internet was invented yet hell we didn’t even have cable yet.   I also had to walk to school uphill both ways, but I digress.  The games quickly started to get better with better graphics and more enticing then just playing pong.  If I had to pick 1 game though that one game that really grabbed my imagination it would be the king of games Donkey Kong.  If I could name a second game, it would be pitfall I still remember the feeling of playing those 2 game spending loads of time fighting with my brother and sisters for playing time.   Btw some of those great Atari games are on 2 volumes in the Xbox marketplace
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    KSI Greg 7 ™ got a reaction from Truecifer in So You Think You Can Write: Gamer Life   
    Well naturally being a child of the 70s and 80s my first console was an Atari 2600.  With games like pong surround and combat all fun game that defiantly got me excited to play unfortunately the internet was invented yet hell we didn’t even have cable yet.   I also had to walk to school uphill both ways, but I digress.  The games quickly started to get better with better graphics and more enticing then just playing pong.  If I had to pick 1 game though that one game that really grabbed my imagination it would be the king of games Donkey Kong.  If I could name a second game, it would be pitfall I still remember the feeling of playing those 2 game spending loads of time fighting with my brother and sisters for playing time.   Btw some of those great Atari games are on 2 volumes in the Xbox marketplace
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    KSI Greg 7 ™ got a reaction from xKami in So You Think You Can Write: Gamer Life   
    Well naturally being a child of the 70s and 80s my first console was an Atari 2600.  With games like pong surround and combat all fun game that defiantly got me excited to play unfortunately the internet was invented yet hell we didn’t even have cable yet.   I also had to walk to school uphill both ways, but I digress.  The games quickly started to get better with better graphics and more enticing then just playing pong.  If I had to pick 1 game though that one game that really grabbed my imagination it would be the king of games Donkey Kong.  If I could name a second game, it would be pitfall I still remember the feeling of playing those 2 game spending loads of time fighting with my brother and sisters for playing time.   Btw some of those great Atari games are on 2 volumes in the Xbox marketplace
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    KSI Greg 7 ™ got a reaction from Finally FaIIout in So You Think You Can Write: Gamer Life   
    Well naturally being a child of the 70s and 80s my first console was an Atari 2600.  With games like pong surround and combat all fun game that defiantly got me excited to play unfortunately the internet was invented yet hell we didn’t even have cable yet.   I also had to walk to school uphill both ways, but I digress.  The games quickly started to get better with better graphics and more enticing then just playing pong.  If I had to pick 1 game though that one game that really grabbed my imagination it would be the king of games Donkey Kong.  If I could name a second game, it would be pitfall I still remember the feeling of playing those 2 game spending loads of time fighting with my brother and sisters for playing time.   Btw some of those great Atari games are on 2 volumes in the Xbox marketplace
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    KSI Greg 7 ™ got a reaction from KSI Widow 7 in KSI Mpliers 7 Outstanding Service LvL Two (Silver)   
    First off let’s just sit back and look at the career of Mpliers.
    He not only ran his div very well taking one of the first destiny squads showing the entire community how to grow and split a squad on destiny.  He also left a standard in ES of Leadership having not 1 but 2 ES leaders that followed him into the directors’ rank.
    As a director he continued his growth working with several division to mentor several leaders in KSI as well as running productions and had a big hand in running T&E.  Pliers later took over T&E to build it into one of the best run dept. working on way to keep it fresh and fun by expanding the team to include reps from every division.  I think the best way to describe pliers is little things done greatly
     
    I find it hard to put into words what pliers does to add to KSI.  I do agree with everything that has been posted so far
    pliers is always looking for ways to keep KSI moving forward weather its hanging out in a fun party or getting the BOD and some of the Directors to start playing a new fun game.   Pliers works very hard to keep t&e fresh mixing old and new games. 
    In closing I want to say I'm not giving pliers his justice
     
       
     
     
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    KSI Greg 7 ™ got a reaction from Truecifer in KSI Mpliers 7 Outstanding Service LvL Two (Silver)   
    First off let’s just sit back and look at the career of Mpliers.
    He not only ran his div very well taking one of the first destiny squads showing the entire community how to grow and split a squad on destiny.  He also left a standard in ES of Leadership having not 1 but 2 ES leaders that followed him into the directors’ rank.
    As a director he continued his growth working with several division to mentor several leaders in KSI as well as running productions and had a big hand in running T&E.  Pliers later took over T&E to build it into one of the best run dept. working on way to keep it fresh and fun by expanding the team to include reps from every division.  I think the best way to describe pliers is little things done greatly
     
    I find it hard to put into words what pliers does to add to KSI.  I do agree with everything that has been posted so far
    pliers is always looking for ways to keep KSI moving forward weather its hanging out in a fun party or getting the BOD and some of the Directors to start playing a new fun game.   Pliers works very hard to keep t&e fresh mixing old and new games. 
    In closing I want to say I'm not giving pliers his justice
     
       
     
     
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    KSI Greg 7 ™ reacted to Scotland in KSI Mpliers 7 Outstanding Service LvL Two (Silver)   
    Keep the momentum going! 
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    KSI Greg 7 ™ reacted to Metatron in KSI Mpliers 7 Outstanding Service LvL Two (Silver)   
    KSI Mpliers 7 is a outstanding senior leader here in KSI and has always gone above and beyond the call of duty in this community. He puts his all into everything he does with clan ops and web ops; no mater what time it is he is there for the members of this community and has mentored many myself included. He ha done incredible things with T&E and always makes sure members have a great experience not with just the tourneys but KSI wide. I don't think there isn't anything this leader cannot do and that is because he has done so much for KSI and still finds ways to help and make this community fun and better. Mpliers has earned this award because of his strong dedication to this community and everything he's has done and everything he's still doing and going to do in the future.  
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    KSI Greg 7 ™ reacted to Scotland in KSI Mpliers 7 Outstanding Service LvL Two (Silver)   
    No witness posting in 5 days.
    This is first nomination close warning.
    Closing in 96 hours.
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    KSI Greg 7 ™ got a reaction from Finally FaIIout in KSI Mpliers 7 OS LvL 2   
    First off lets just sit back and look at the career of Mpliers.
    He not only ran his div very well taking one of the first destiny squads showing the entire community how to grow and split a squad on destiny.  He also left a standard in ES of Leadership having not 1 but 2 ES leaders that followed him into the directors rank.
    As a director he continued his growth working with several division to mentor several leaders in KSI as well as running productions and had a big hand in running T&E.  Pliers later took over T&E to build it into one of the best run dept. working on way to keep it fresh and fun by expanding the team to include reps from every division.  I think the best way to describe pliers is little things done greatly.
     
    I will post more latter
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    KSI Greg 7 ™ got a reaction from Truecifer in True 7 - Outstanding Service Lv. 1   
    First let me take some time to apologize to true this should have been posted a long time ago.
    This is a no-brainer. 
    True has had an unorthodox trip through KSI.  True was working her way the ranks in her squad but she had some life issues that forced her to step away.  when she returned she started working hard from the start willing to help out new members and helped her squad grow. She eventually made it to CoFO.  This is when True should have received this award.  True was the only 7 in her div after all the other 7s left to join another community.   She stepped to the challenge and rebuilt the 7s staff under her. True has continued to grow as a leader not only in clan ops but also in web ops.  I could have also added that when Azeral and I  promoted true  to director from the codiv rank we placed a target on her back that could that put a lot of stress on her that she was able to over come but perhaps that can be for os lv2 
    I want to say that there is so much more to say about true and why she deserves this award
     
     
     
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    KSI Greg 7 ™ got a reaction from Finally FaIIout in True 7 - Outstanding Service Lv. 1   
    First let me take some time to apologize to true this should have been posted a long time ago.
    This is a no-brainer. 
    True has had an unorthodox trip through KSI.  True was working her way the ranks in her squad but she had some life issues that forced her to step away.  when she returned she started working hard from the start willing to help out new members and helped her squad grow. She eventually made it to CoFO.  This is when True should have received this award.  True was the only 7 in her div after all the other 7s left to join another community.   She stepped to the challenge and rebuilt the 7s staff under her. True has continued to grow as a leader not only in clan ops but also in web ops.  I could have also added that when Azeral and I  promoted true  to director from the codiv rank we placed a target on her back that could that put a lot of stress on her that she was able to over come but perhaps that can be for os lv2 
    I want to say that there is so much more to say about true and why she deserves this award
     
     
     
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    KSI Greg 7 ™ reacted to Finally FaIIout in KSI Mpliers 7 OS LvL 2 Nomination   
    I remember 2 years ago when I was in Fierce WI my best friend was in Lycans ES (Lycans is no longer around sadly) Pliers at the time was a Co-Founder whenever I talked to my friend or was around that squad Pliers seemed to be the heart and soul of it. He helped that squad immensely with just his presence and along with that, he helped members with a multitude of problems whether it be simple questions to someone who just was hurting and needed to talk to someone who would listen. The leader that everyone should aspire to be is Pliers in my opinion because this man goes above and beyond each day something which I myself admire. All I can say is Pliers will continue to be great and I thank him greatly for what he does.
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    KSI Greg 7 ™ got a reaction from KSI Ascend 7 in LEAD 101   
    Week 1 -
    Introduction to the Program/Recruiting
     
     
    All members will be expected to have a copy of the code of conduct on hand.
    Ask them if they could change anything in the CoC what would it be, why
    Allow the members to meet and greet each other, and introduce yourself as a program mentor.
    State your name
    Your rank
    What you do
    Your weakness as a leader
    Your Best aspect to being a leader
    (tell them your weakness and best parts first to warm up to people)
     
    1.       What is the purpose of leaders in KSI?
    a)       Provide structure.
    How do we provide structure in KSI?
    Meetings, Rank structure, Squad activities  
     
           Enforce Rules.
    Where are our rules
    It’s important for everyone to follow the rules
    c)       Ensure Fun.
     
    Recruiting
    Q. Why do we recruit
    A. Let them talk
    Q. what do people expect when they are recruited, what do we have to offer
    A. Tourneys
    A. Over 4000 members to be friends with
    A. We are selling a Friends list, 100 friends all the time
    Q. How to make people recruit
    A. Offer them the greatest place to Game
    A. convince them to give people the best opportunity to game like them
    A. tell them, the next recruit could be the next COO
    Q. What’s Better, someone who can recruit or someone who can motivate other to recruit
    (let them answer)
     
    we need to fill in more questions
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    KSI Greg 7 ™ got a reaction from Loyalty Paradox in KSI Mpliers 7 OS LvL 2 Nomination   
    sorry for the late response.
     
    I find it hard to put into words what pliers does to add to KSI.  I do agree with everything that has been posted so far
    pliers is always looking for ways to keep KSI moving forward weather its hanging out in a fun party or getting the BOD and some of the Directors to start playing a new fun game.   Pliers works very hard to keep t&e fresh mixing old and new games. 
    In closing I want to say I'm not giving pliers his justice   
     
    (I'll try to post more got to go back to work
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    KSI Greg 7 ™ got a reaction from Rita in The 21 Irrefutable Law of Leadership   
    This will include the graphs
    http://www.u-leadership.com/the_21_irrefutable_laws_of_leadership-w.pdf
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
    The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership By John C. Maxwell
     
     
    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.  Your leadership ability always determines your effectiveness and the potential impact of your organization.   
      Let’s say you’re an 8 on a scale from 1 to 10.  But let’s say that your leadership ability is a 1.  Your level of effectiveness would look like this:
     

     
      Let’s say you become a real student of leadership and you maximize your potential, taking it all the way up to a 7.  Visually it would look like this:

     
      By raising your leadership ability – without increasing your dedication at all – you can increase your original effectiveness by 600 percent. 
    Leadership has a multiplying effect.  
      Smart, talented people are able to go so far because of the limitations of their leadership.  To reach the highest level of effectiveness, you have to raise your leadership lid.
     
    2.   The Law of Influence – The True Measure of Leadership is Influence –
    Nothing More, Nothing Less
      True leadership cannot be awarded, appointed, or assigned.  It comes only from influence, and that cannot be mandated.  It must be earned.
      Five Myths About Leadership
    1)    The Management Myth – that leading and managing are the same.  Leadership is about influencing people to follow, while management focuses on maintaining systems and processes.  Managers can maintain direction; to move people you need influence.
    2)    The Entrepreneur Myth – entrepreneurs are skilled at seeing opportunities and going after them.  But not all of them are good with leading people in their vision.
    3)    The Knowledge Myth – neither IQ nor education necessarily equates to leadership.
    4)    The Pioneer Myth – being a trendsetter is not the same as being a leader.  To be a leader, a person has to not only be out in front, but also has to have people following his lead.
    5)    The Position Myth – leadership is not based on rank or title.  It’s not the position that makes the leader; it’s the leader that makes the position.
      Several Factors That Make a Leader
    1)    Character – Who They Are – true leadership always begins with the inner person.  People can sense the depth of a person’s character.
    2)    Relationships – Who They Know – with deep relationships with the right people you can become the real leader in an organization.
    3)    Knowledge – What They Know – information is vital.  You need a grasp of the facts to develop an accurate vision for the future.
    4)    Intuition – What They Feel – leaders seek to recognize and influence intangibles such as energy, morale, timing and momentum.  
    5)    Experience – Where They’ve Been – the greater your past challenges, the more likely followers will be willing to let you lead.
    6)    Ability – What They Can Do – the bottom line is followers want to know whether you can lead them to victory.  As soon as they no longer believe you can deliver, they will stop following.
     
    3.   The Law of Process – Leadership Develops Daily, Not in a Day
      Leaders require seasoning to be effective.  If you continually invest in your leadership development, the inevitable is growth over time.
      The relationship between growth and leadership: It’s the capacity to develop and improve one’s skills that distinguishes leaders from their followers.
      Successful leaders are learners.  And the learning process is ongoing, a result of self-discipline and perseverance.  
      The Phases of Leadership Growth
    Phase 1: I Don’t Know What I Don’t Know – few think of themselves as leaders and as long as a person doesn’t know the importance of leadership he isn’t going to grow.
    Phase 2: I Know That I Need to Know – at some point we discover we need to learn how to lead.
    Phase 3: I Know What I Don’t Know – if we don’t get better at leadership, our careers will eventually get bogged down.  In this phase you develop a plan for personal growth on areas you need improvement.
    Phase 4: I Know and Grow and It Starts to Show – when you recognize your lack of skill and begin the daily discipline of personal growth, exciting things start to happen.  You start becoming an effective leader but you have to think about every move you make. Phase 5: I Simply Go Because of What I Know – your ability to lead becomes almost automatic.  You develop great instincts which results in incredible payoffs.  But the only way to get there is to obey the Law of Process and pay the price.
      Benjamin Disraeli asserted, “The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his time when it comes.”
      There is an old saying: champions don’t become champions in the ring – they are merely recognized there.  That’s true.  If you want to see where someone develops into a champion, look at his daily routine.
     
    4.            The Law of Navigation – Anyone Can Steer the Ship, but It Takes a Leader to Chart the Course
      First-rate navigators always have in mind that other people are depending on them and their ability to chart a good course.
      Before good leaders take their people on a journey, they go through a process in order to give the trip the best chance of being a success:
    o   Navigators Draw on Past Experience – every past success and failure you’ve experienced can be a valuable source of information and wisdom.  Success teaches you what you’re capable of doing and gives you confidence.  However, your failures can often teach greater lessons, if you allow them to.  If you fail to learn from your mistakes, you’re going to fail again and again.
    o   Navigators Examine the Conditions Before Making Commitments – No good leader plans a course of action without paying attention to current conditions.  Good navigators count the cost before making commitments for themselves and others.  
    o   Navigators Listen To What Others Have to Say – Navigating leaders get ideas from many sources.  They listen to members of their leadership team.  They spend time with leaders of other organizations who can mentor them.  They always think in terms of relying on a team, not just themselves.
    o   Navigators Make Sure Their Conclusions Represent Both Faith and Fact – A leader has to possess a positive attitude.  If you can’t confidently make the trip in your mind, you’re not going to be able to take it in real life.  On the other hand, you also have to be able to see the facts realistically.  If you don’t go in with your eyes wide open, you’re going to get blindsided.  Balancing optimism and realism, faith and fact can be very difficult.  
      Charting A Course with A Navigation Strategy – here’s an acrostic that the author used repeatedly in his leadership.
    Predetermine a course of action.
    Lay out your goals.
    Adjust your priorities. 
    Notify key personnel.
    Allow time for acceptance.
    Head into action.
    Expect problems.
    Always point to the successes.
    Daily review your plan.
      The secret to the Law of Navigation is preparation.  When you prepare well, you convey confidence and trust to people.  Leaders who are good navigators are capable of taking their people just about anywhere.
     
    5.            The Law of Addition – Leaders Add Value by Serving Others
      Adding Profits by Adding Value – Costco’s CEO, Jim Sinegal, believes the success of Costco comes from treating his employees well.
    o   Costco employees are paid an average of 42% more than the company’s chief rival and they also receive generous health care coverage.  
    o   Sinegal shows he cares and respects his employees – he has an open-door policy.  He is on a first-name basis with everyone. o Sinegal’s salary is well below what other CEO’s of similar size company’s make because he is more focused on serving his employees than making an exorbitant salary.
    o   The result: Costco has by far the lowest employee turnover rate in all of retailing.
      The bottom line in leadership isn’t how far we advance ourselves but how far we advance others.
      There is one critical question: Are you making things better for the people who follow you?
    o   If you can’t answer with an unhesitant yes, then you likely aren’t.
    o   90% of all people who add value to others do so intentionally. 
    Why do I say that?  Because human beings are naturally selfish. 
    Being an adder requires me to think about adding value to others.
      Adding Value, Changing Lives – four guidelines for adding value to others.
    1)    Truly Value Others – effective leaders go beyond not harming others, they intentionally help others.  They must value people and demonstrate they care in such a way that their followers know it.
    2)    Make Yourself More Valuable To Others – the more intentionally you have been in growing personally, the more you have to offer your followers.
    3)    Know and Relate to What Others Value – this can only come by listening to your people’s stories, their hopes and dreams.  Learn what is valuable to them and then lead based on what you’ve learned.
    4)    Do Things That God Values – God desires us not only to treat people with respect, but also to actively reach out to them and serve them.   
      The attitude of the leader affects the atmosphere of the office.  If you desire to add value by serving others, you will become a better leader.  And your people will achieve more, develop more loyalty, and have a better time getting things done than you ever thought possible.  That’s the power of the Law of Addition.
     
     
    6.            The Law of Solid Ground – Trust Is the Foundation of Leadership
      Trust is the foundation of leadership.  It is the most important thing.  Leaders cannot repeatedly break trust with people and continue to influence them.
      Your people know when you make mistakes.  The real question is whether you’re going to fess up.  If you do, you can often regain their trust.
      How does a leader build trust?  By consistently exemplifying competence, connection and character.  People will forgive occasional mistakes on ability.  And they will give you time to connect.  But they won’t trust someone who has slips in character.   
      Character Communicates – a person’s character quickly communicates many things to others.  Here are the most important ones:
    o   Character Communicates Consistency – leaders without inner strength can’t be counted on day after day because their ability to perform changes constantly.
    o   Character Communicates Potential – weak character is limiting.  Who do you think has the greater potential to achieve great dreams: someone who is honest, disciplined, and hardworking or someone who is deceitful, impulsive and lazy?
    o   Character Communicates Respect – When you don’t have character within, you can’t earn respect without.  How do leaders earn respect?  By making sound decisions, by admitting their mistakes, and by putting what’s best for their followers and the organization ahead of their personal agendas.
      No leader can break trust with his people and expect to keep influencing them.  Trust is the foundation of leadership.  Violate the Law of Solid Ground, and you diminish your influence as a leader.   
     
    7.            The Law of Respect – People Naturally Follow Leaders Stronger Than
    Themselves
      People naturally follow leaders stronger than themselves.  That’s how the Law of Respect works.
      People don’t follow others by accident.  People who are an 8 in leadership don’t look for a 6 to follow – they naturally follow a 9 or 10.  The less skilled follow the more highly skilled and gifted.   
      Occasionally, a strong leader may choose to follow someone weaker than himself.  But when that happens, it’s for a reason.  For example, the stronger leader my do it out of respect for the person’s office or past accomplishments.  Or he may be following the chain of command.  In general though, followers are attracted to people who are better leaders than themselves.   
      When people get together for the first time in a group, take a look at what happens.  As they start interacting, the leaders in the group immediately take charge.  But after the people get to know one another, it doesn’t take long for them to recognize the strongest leaders and to start following them.

     
      In time, people in the group get on board and follow the strongest leaders.  Either that or they leave the group to pursue their own agenda.
      Top Six Ways That Leaders Gain Others’ Respect
    1)    Natural Leadership Ability – if you possess it, people will want to follow you.  They will become excited when you communicate vision.
    2)    Respect For Others – when leaders show respect for others – especially for people who have less power or a lower position than theirs – they gain respect from others.  If you continually respect others and consistently lead them well, you will continue to have followers.
    3)    Courage – Good leaders do what’s right, even at the risk of failure, in the face of great danger and under the brunt of relentless criticism.  Can you think of one great leader from history who was without courage?  A leader’s courage gives his followers hope.
    4)    Success – When leaders succeed in leading the team to victory, then followers believe they can do it again.  As a result, followers follow them because they want to be part of success in the future.
    5)    Loyalty – When leaders stick with the team until the job is done and look out for their followers best interests even when it hurts them personally, followers will in turn learn to respect them.
    6)    Value Added to Others – Followers value leaders who add value to them and their respect for them carries on long after the relationship has ended.  
     
    8.            The Law of Intuition – Leaders Evaluate Everything with a Leadership Bias
      The Law of Intuition is based on facts coupled with instincts plus other intangible factors, such as employee morale, organizational momentum, and relationship dynamics.   
      The Law of Intuition often separates the great leaders from the merely good ones.
      Leadership intuition is the ability of a leader to read what’s going on.  For that reason, I say that leaders are readers:
    1)    Leaders Are Readers of Their Situation – leaders pick up on details that might elude others.  They sense people’s attitudes.  They are able to detect the chemistry of a team.  They know the situation before they have all the facts.
    2)    Leaders Are Readers of Trends – leaders discern where the organization is headed, often times they sense it first and find data later to explain it.  Their intuition tells them that something is happening, that conditions are changing.  Leaders must always be a few steps ahead of their people, or they’re not really leading.
    3)    Leaders Are Readers of Their Resources – leaders think in terms or resources and how to maximize them for the benefit of their organization.  They are continually aware of what they have at their disposal.  
    4)    Leaders Are Readers of People – Intuition helps leaders sense what’s happening among people and know their hopes, fears and concerns.  Reading people is perhaps the most important intuitive skill leaders can possess.  
    5)    Leaders are Readers of Themselves – leaders must know not only their own strengths and weaknesses, but also their current state of mind.  Why?  Because leaders can hinder progress just as easily as they can help create it.  
      Without intuition, leaders get blindsided, and that’s one of the worst things that can happen to a leader.  If you want to lead well, and stay ahead of others, you’ve got to obey the Law of Intuition.  
     
    9.            The Law of Magnetism – Who You Are Is Who You Attract
      In most situations, you draw people to you who possess the same qualities you do.
      Who you are is who you attract.  If you want to attract better people, become the kind of person you desire to attract.
     
    10.        The Law of Connection – Leaders Touch a Heart Before They Ask for a
    Hand
      For leaders to be effective, they need to connect with people.  All great leaders recognize this truth and act on it almost instinctively.  You can’t move people to action unless you first move them with emotion.
      “People don’t care how much you know until they know how much you care.”  You develop credibility with people when you connect with them and show that you genuinely care and want to help them.  And as a result, they usually respond in kind and want to help you.
      How do you connect with people?
    1)    Connect with Yourself – If you don’t believe in who you are and where you want to lead, work on that before doing anything else.
    2)    Communicate with Openness and Sincerity – People can smell a phony a mile away.  Authentic leaders connect.
    3)    Know Your Audience – When you work with individuals, knowing your audience means learning people’s names, finding out their histories, asking about their dreams.  When you communicate to an audience, you learn about the organization and its goals.  You want to speak about what they care about.  
    4)    Live Your Message – Practice what you preach.  That’s were credibility comes from.
    5)    Go to Where They Are – Remove as many barriers to communication as possible.  Try to be attuned to their culture, background, education, and so on.  Adapt to others; don’t expect them to adapt to me.  
    6)    Focus on Them, Not Yourself – Focus on others, not yourself.  That is the number one problem of inexperienced speakers and ineffective leaders.  
    7)    Believe in Them – It’s one thing to communicate to people because you believe you have something of value to say.  It’s another to communicate with people because you believe they have value.  People’s opinions of us have less to do with what they see in us than with what we can help them see in themselves.
    8)    Give Them Hope – French general Napoleon Bonaparte said, “Leaders are dealers in hope.”  When you give people hope, you give them a future.  
      Successful leaders who obey the Law of Connection are always initiators.  They take the first step with others and then make the effort to continue building relationships.  It’s not always easy, but it’s important to the success of the organization.  A leader has to do it, no matter how many obstacles there might be.
      You connect with others when you learn their names, make yourself available to them, tell them how much you appreciate them, find out what they are doing, and most important, listen to them. 
      There’s an old saying: To lead yourself, use your head; to lead others, use your heart.  That’s the nature of the Law of Connection.  Always touch a person’s heart before you ask for a hand.  
     
    11.        The Law of the Inner Circle – A Leader’s Potential Is Determined by
    Those Closest to Him
      Nobody does anything great alone, nor do leaders succeed alone.  What makes the difference is the leader’s inner circle.
      As you consider whether individuals should be in your inner circle, ask yourself the following questions.  If you can answer yes to these questions, then they are excellent candidates for your inner circle:
    1)    Do They Have High Influence with Others? – One key to successful leadership is the ability to influence the people who influence others.  How do you do that?  By drawing influencers into your inner circle.
    2)    Do They Bring a Complementary Gift to the Table? – Bring a few key people into my inner circle who possess strengths in your areas of weakness.
    3)    Do They Hold a Strategic Position in the Organization? – Some people belong in your inner circle because of their importance to the organization.  If you and they are not working on the same page, the entire organization is in trouble.
    4)    Do They Add Value to Me and to the Organization? – The people in your inner circle must add value to you personally.  They should also have a proven track record as assets to the organization.  Seek for your inner circle people who help you improve.   
    5)    Do They Positively Impact Other Inner Circle Members? – Team chemistry is vital.  You want your inner circle to have a good fit with one another.  You also want inner circle members to make one another better, to raise one another’s game.   
      Once you’ve reached your capacity in time and energy, the only way you can increase your impact is through others.  Surround yourself with high performers that extend your influence beyond your reach and help you to grow and become a better leader.
     
    12.        The Law of Empowerment – Only Secure Leaders Give Power to
    Others
      If you want to be successful, you have to be willing to empower others.   
      Theodore Roosevelt once said: “The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and the selfrestraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it.”
      When leaders fail to empower others, it is usually due to three main reasons:
    1)    Desire for Job Security – The number one enemy of empowerment is the fear of losing what we have.  Weak leaders worry that if they help subordinates, they themselves will become dispensable.  Rather they should realize that if the teams they lead always seem to succeed, people will figure out that they are leading them well.
    2)    Resistance to Change – Most people don’t like change.  As a leader, you must train yourself to embrace change, to desire it, to make a way for it.  Effective leaders are not only willing to change; they become change agents.
    3)    Lack of Self-Worth – Self-conscious people are rarely good leaders.  They focus on themselves, worrying how they look, what others think, whether they are liked.  They can’t give power to others because they feel that they have no power themselves.  The best leaders have a strong self-worth.  They believe in themselves, their mission and their people.
      Strange as it sounds, great leaders gain authority by giving it away.  If you aspire to be a great leader, you must live by the Law of Empowerment.
    13.        The Law of the Picture – People Do What People See
      When leaders show the way with their right actions, their followers copy their good example and succeed.
      Great leaders are both highly visionary and highly practical.  Their vision helps them see beyond the immediate.  They can envision what’s coming and what must be done.  Leaders possess an understanding how: o Mission provides purpose – answering the question, Why? o Vision provides a picture – answering the question, What? o Strategy provides a plan – answering the question, How?
      As author Hans Finzel observed, “Leaders are paid to be dreamers.  The higher you go in leadership, the more your work is about the future.”
      As you strive to become a better example to your followers, remember these things.   
    1)    Followers Are Always Watching What You Do – Just as children watch their parents and emulate their behavior, so do employees watch their bosses.  If the boss comes in late, then employees feel they can too.  Nothing is more convincing than living out what you say you believe.   
    2)    It’s Easier to Teach What’s Right Than to Do What’s Right – Nothing is more convincing than people who give good advice and set a good example.
    3)    We Should Work on Changing Ourselves Before Trying to Improve Others – A great danger to good leadership is the temptation to try to change others without first making changes to yourself.  To remain a credible leader, you must always work first, hardest and longest on changing yourself; this is essential.  If we work on improving ourselves our primary mission, then others are more likely to follow.
    4)    The Most Valuable Gift a Leader Can Give Is Being a Good Example – More than anything else, employees want leaders whose beliefs and actions line up.  Leadership is more caught than taught.  How does one “catch” leadership?  By watching good leaders in action.   
     
    14.        The Law of Buy-In – People Buy into the Leader, Then the Vision
      The leader finds the dream and then the people.  The people find the leader and then the dream.  That’s how the Law of Buy-In works.
      People don’t at first follow worthy causes.  They follow worthy leaders who promote worthy causes they can believe in.  People buy into the leader first, then the leader’s vision.
      As a leader, having a great vision and a worthy cause is not enough to get people to follow you.  You have to become a better leader; you must get your people to buy into you.  That is the price you have to pay if you want your vision to have a chance of becoming reality.  You cannot ignore the Law of Buy-In and remain successful as a leader.
     
    15.        The Law of Victory -  Leaders Find a Way for the Team to Win
      Victorious leaders have one thing in common: they share an unwillingness to accept defeat.  The alternative to winning is totally unacceptable to them.  As a result, they figure out what must be done to achieve victory.
      The best leaders feel compelled to rise to a challenge and do everything in their power to achieve victory for their people.  In their view… o Losing is unacceptable. o Passion is unquenchable. o Quitting is unthinkable.
    o   Commitment is unquestionable.
    o   Victory is inevitable.
      With that mindset, they embrace the vision and approach the challenges with the resolve to take their people to victory.
      Three factors that contribute to a team’s dedication to victory:
    1)    Unity of Vision – Teams succeed only when the players have a unified vision, no matter how much talent or potential there is.
    2)    Diversity of Skills – Every organization requires diverse talents to succeed.
    3)    A Leader Dedicated to Victory and Raising Players to Their Potential – Unity of vision doesn’t happen spontaneously.  The right players with the proper diversity of talent don’t come together on their own.  It takes a leader to make those things happen.  It takes a leader to provide the motivation, empowerment, and direction required to win.
      Leaders who practice the Law of Victory believe that anything less than success is unacceptable.  And they have Plan B.  That is why they keep fighting.  And it’s why they continue to win.
      How dedicated are you to winning the “fight”?  Are you going to have the Law of Victory in your corner as you lead?  Or when times get difficult, are you going to throw in the towel?  Your answer to that question may determine whether you succeed or fail as a leader and whether your team wins or loses.   
     
    16.        The Law of the Big Mo – Momentum Is a Leader’s Best Friend
      If you’ve got all the passion, tools and people you need to fulfill a great vision, yet you can’t seem to get your organization moving and going in the right direction, you’re dead in the water as a leader.  If you can’t get things going, you will not succeed.  You need to harness the power of the leader’s best friend – momentum.
      When you have no momentum, even the simplest tasks seem impossible.   
      On the other hand, when you have momentum on your side, the future looks bright, and obstacles appear small.  An organization with momentum is like a train that’s moving at sixty miles per hour.
      Truths About Momentum
    1)    Momentum is the Great Exaggerator – momentum is like a magnifying glass; it makes things look bigger than they really are.  Because momentum has such a great impact, leaders try to control it.  When you have momentum, you don’t worry about small problems and many larger ones seem to work themselves out.
    2)    Momentum Makes Leaders Look Better Than They Are – When leaders have momentum on their side, people forget about their past mistakes.  Once a leader creates some success for his organization, people give him more credit than he deserves.  Momentum exaggerates a leader’s success and makes him look better than he really is.   
    3)    Momentum Helps Followers Perform Better Than They Are – When momentum is strong, people are motivated to perform at higher levels, making all participants more successful than they would be otherwise.
    4)    Momentum Is Easier to Steer Than to Start – Getting started is a struggle, but once you’re moving forward, you can really start to do some amazing things.
    5)    Momentum Is the Most Powerful Change Agent – Given enough momentum, nearly any kind of change is possible in an organization.  Followers trust leaders with a proven track record.  They accept changes from people when they have led them to victory before.  Momentum puts victory within reach.
    6)    Momentum is the Leader’s Responsibility – It takes a leader to create momentum.  Followers can catch it.  But creating momentum requires someone who has vision, can assemble a good team, and motivates others.  If the leader is waiting for the organization to develop momentum on its own, then the organization is in trouble.
    7)    Momentum Begins Inside the Leader – It starts with vision, passion, and enthusiasm.  The leader most model those qualities to his people day in and day out, which will attract like-minded people to his team.  Once you see forward progress, you will begin to generate momentum.  Once you have it, you can do almost anything.  That’s the power of the Big Mo.
     
    17.        The Law of Priorities – Leaders Understand That Activity Is Not Necessarily Accomplishment
      Leaders never advance to a point where they no long need to prioritize. Busyness does not equal productivity.  Activity is not necessarily accomplishment.  Prioritizing requires leaders to continually think ahead, to know what’s important, to see how everything relates to the overall vision.
      The Pareto Principle – if you focus your attention on the activities that rank in the top 20 percent in terms of importance, you have an 80 percent return on your effort.  For example if you 100 customers, the top 20 will provide you 80% of your business, so focus on them.
      The Three R’s – requirement, return and reward.  Leaders must order their lives according to these three questions:
    1)    What is Required?  Any list of priorities must begin with what is required of us.  The question to ask yourself is, “What must I do
    that nobody can or should do for me?”  If I’m doing something that
    is not necessary, I should eliminate it.  If I’m doing something that’s necessary but not required of me personally, I need to delegate it.
    2)    What Gives the Greatest Return?  As a leader, you should spend most of your time working in your areas of greatest strength.  Ideally, leaders should get out of their comfort zone but stay in their strength zone.  My rule of thumb: If something can be done 80 percent as well by someone else, I delegate it.   
    3)    What Brings the Greatest Reward?  Life is too short not to do the things you love.  Your personal interests energize you and keep you passionate.  And passion provides the fuel in your life to keep you going.
     
    18.        The Law of Sacrifice – A Leader Must Give Up to Go Up
      If you desire to become the best leader you can be, then you need to be willing to make sacrifices in order to lead well.  If that is your desire, then here are some things you need to know about the Law of Sacrifice.
    1)    There Is No Success Without Sacrifice – Every person who has achieve any success in life has made sacrifices to do so.  Effective leaders sacrifice much that is good in order to dedicate themselves to what is best.
    2)    Leaders Are Often Asked to Give Up More Than Others – The heart of leadership to putting others ahead of yourself.  It’s doing what is best for the team.  For that reason, leaders have to give up their rights.   
     
    The cost of leadership: Leaders must be willing to give up more than the people they lead.  Leadership means sacrifice.
    3)    You Must Keep Giving Up to Stay Up – Leadership success requires continual change, constant improvement, and ongoing sacrifice.
    4)    The Higher the Level of Leadership, the Greater the Sacrifice – The higher you go, the more its going to cost you.  And it doesn’t matter what kind of leadership career you pick.  You will have to make sacrifices.  You will have to give up to go up.  
     
    19.        The Law of Timing – When to Lead Is As Important As What to Do and
    Where to Go
      Timing is often the difference between success and failure in an endeavor.  Every time a leader makes a move, there are really only four outcomes:
    1)    The Wrong Action at the Wrong Time Leads to Disaster – If you take the wrong action at the wrong time, your people suffer and so will your leadership.
    2)    The Right Action at the Wrong Time Brings Resistance – Having a vision for the right direction and knowing how to get there is not enough.  If you take the right action but do it at the wrong time, you may still be unsuccessful because the people you lead can become resistant.  Good leadership timing requires many things:
    a.    Understanding – leaders must have a firm grasp on the situation.
    b.    Maturity – if leader’s motives aren’t right, their timing will be off.
    c.     Confidence – people follow leaders who know what must be done.
    d.    Decisiveness – wishy-washy leaders create wishy-washy followers.
    e.    Experience – if leaders don’t possess experience, then they need to gain wisdom from others who do possess it.
    f.      Intuition – timing often depends on intangibles, such as momentum and morale.
    g.    Preparation – if the conditions aren’t right, leaders must create those conditions.
    3)    The Wrong Action at the Right Time is a Mistake – the greatest mistake made by entrepreneurs is knowing when to cut their losses or when to increase their investment to maximize gains.  Their mistakes come from taking the wrong action at the right time.
    4)    The Right Action at the Right Time Results in Success – When the right leader and the right timing come together an organization achieves its goals and reaps incredible rewards.  
      Reading the right situation and knowing what to do are not enough to make you succeed in leadership.  If you want your company to move forward, you must pay attention to timing.  Only the right action at the
    right time will bring success.  No leader can escape the Law of Timing.
     
    20.        The Law of Explosive Growth – To Add Growth, Lead Followers – To
    Multiply, Lead Leaders
      You can grow by leading followers.  But if you want to maximize your leadership and help your organization reach its potential, you need to develop leaders.  There is no other way to experience explosive growth.
      Leaders who attract followers but never develop leaders get tired.  Being able to impact only those people you can touch personally is very limiting.  
      In contrast, leaders who develop leaders impact people far beyond their personal reach.  Every time you develop leaders and help them increase their leadership ability, you make them capable of influencing an even greater number of people. 
    21.        The Law of Legacy – A Leader’s Lasting Value Is Measured by
    Succession
      What do you want people to say at your funeral?  If you want your leadership to have real meaning, you need to take into account the Law of Legacy.  A leader’s lasting value is measured by succession.
      If you desire to make an impact as a leader on a future generation, then become highly intentional about your legacy.  We have a choice about what legacy we will leave, and we must work and be intentional to leave the legacy we want.  Here’s how:
    1)    Know the Legacy You Want to Leave – most people simply accept their lives – they don’t lead them.  I believe that people need to be proactive about how they live, and I believe that is especially true for leaders.  Someday people will summarize your life in a single sentence.  My advice: pick it now!
    2)    Live the Legacy You Want to Leave – I believe that to have any credibility as a leader, you must live what you say you believe.  If you want to create a legacy, you need to live it first.  
    3)    Choose Who Will Carry on Your Legacy – A legacy lives on in people, not things.  Too often leaders put their energy into organizations, buildings or other lifeless objects.  But only people live on after we are gone.  Everything else is temporary.
    4)    Make Sure You Pass the Baton – No matter how well you lead, if you don’t make sure you pass the baton, you will not leave the legacy you desire.
      Our ability as leaders will not be measured by the buildings we build, or institutions we established.  We will be judged by how well the people we invested in carried on after we are gone.  
      Jackie Robinson observed, “A life isn’t significant except for its impact on other lives.”  In the end we will be judged according to the Law of Legacy.  A leader’s lasting value is measured by succession.
     
      
     
     
     
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    The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership By John C. Maxwell
     
     
    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.  Your leadership ability always determines your effectiveness and the potential impact of your organization.   
      Let’s say you’re an 8 on a scale from 1 to 10.  But let’s say that your leadership ability is a 1.  Your level of effectiveness would look like this:
     

     
      Let’s say you become a real student of leadership and you maximize your potential, taking it all the way up to a 7.  Visually it would look like this:

     
      By raising your leadership ability – without increasing your dedication at all – you can increase your original effectiveness by 600 percent. 
    Leadership has a multiplying effect.  
      Smart, talented people are able to go so far because of the limitations of their leadership.  To reach the highest level of effectiveness, you have to raise your leadership lid.
     
    2.   The Law of Influence – The True Measure of Leadership is Influence –
    Nothing More, Nothing Less
      True leadership cannot be awarded, appointed, or assigned.  It comes only from influence, and that cannot be mandated.  It must be earned.
      Five Myths About Leadership
    1)    The Management Myth – that leading and managing are the same.  Leadership is about influencing people to follow, while management focuses on maintaining systems and processes.  Managers can maintain direction; to move people you need influence.
    2)    The Entrepreneur Myth – entrepreneurs are skilled at seeing opportunities and going after them.  But not all of them are good with leading people in their vision.
    3)    The Knowledge Myth – neither IQ nor education necessarily equates to leadership.
    4)    The Pioneer Myth – being a trendsetter is not the same as being a leader.  To be a leader, a person has to not only be out in front, but also has to have people following his lead.
    5)    The Position Myth – leadership is not based on rank or title.  It’s not the position that makes the leader; it’s the leader that makes the position.
      Several Factors That Make a Leader
    1)    Character – Who They Are – true leadership always begins with the inner person.  People can sense the depth of a person’s character.
    2)    Relationships – Who They Know – with deep relationships with the right people you can become the real leader in an organization.
    3)    Knowledge – What They Know – information is vital.  You need a grasp of the facts to develop an accurate vision for the future.
    4)    Intuition – What They Feel – leaders seek to recognize and influence intangibles such as energy, morale, timing and momentum.  
    5)    Experience – Where They’ve Been – the greater your past challenges, the more likely followers will be willing to let you lead.
    6)    Ability – What They Can Do – the bottom line is followers want to know whether you can lead them to victory.  As soon as they no longer believe you can deliver, they will stop following.
     
    3.   The Law of Process – Leadership Develops Daily, Not in a Day
      Leaders require seasoning to be effective.  If you continually invest in your leadership development, the inevitable is growth over time.
      The relationship between growth and leadership: It’s the capacity to develop and improve one’s skills that distinguishes leaders from their followers.
      Successful leaders are learners.  And the learning process is ongoing, a result of self-discipline and perseverance.  
      The Phases of Leadership Growth
    Phase 1: I Don’t Know What I Don’t Know – few think of themselves as leaders and as long as a person doesn’t know the importance of leadership he isn’t going to grow.
    Phase 2: I Know That I Need to Know – at some point we discover we need to learn how to lead.
    Phase 3: I Know What I Don’t Know – if we don’t get better at leadership, our careers will eventually get bogged down.  In this phase you develop a plan for personal growth on areas you need improvement.
    Phase 4: I Know and Grow and It Starts to Show – when you recognize your lack of skill and begin the daily discipline of personal growth, exciting things start to happen.  You start becoming an effective leader but you have to think about every move you make. Phase 5: I Simply Go Because of What I Know – your ability to lead becomes almost automatic.  You develop great instincts which results in incredible payoffs.  But the only way to get there is to obey the Law of Process and pay the price.
      Benjamin Disraeli asserted, “The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his time when it comes.”
      There is an old saying: champions don’t become champions in the ring – they are merely recognized there.  That’s true.  If you want to see where someone develops into a champion, look at his daily routine.
     
    4.            The Law of Navigation – Anyone Can Steer the Ship, but It Takes a Leader to Chart the Course
      First-rate navigators always have in mind that other people are depending on them and their ability to chart a good course.
      Before good leaders take their people on a journey, they go through a process in order to give the trip the best chance of being a success:
    o   Navigators Draw on Past Experience – every past success and failure you’ve experienced can be a valuable source of information and wisdom.  Success teaches you what you’re capable of doing and gives you confidence.  However, your failures can often teach greater lessons, if you allow them to.  If you fail to learn from your mistakes, you’re going to fail again and again.
    o   Navigators Examine the Conditions Before Making Commitments – No good leader plans a course of action without paying attention to current conditions.  Good navigators count the cost before making commitments for themselves and others.  
    o   Navigators Listen To What Others Have to Say – Navigating leaders get ideas from many sources.  They listen to members of their leadership team.  They spend time with leaders of other organizations who can mentor them.  They always think in terms of relying on a team, not just themselves.
    o   Navigators Make Sure Their Conclusions Represent Both Faith and Fact – A leader has to possess a positive attitude.  If you can’t confidently make the trip in your mind, you’re not going to be able to take it in real life.  On the other hand, you also have to be able to see the facts realistically.  If you don’t go in with your eyes wide open, you’re going to get blindsided.  Balancing optimism and realism, faith and fact can be very difficult.  
      Charting A Course with A Navigation Strategy – here’s an acrostic that the author used repeatedly in his leadership.
    Predetermine a course of action.
    Lay out your goals.
    Adjust your priorities. 
    Notify key personnel.
    Allow time for acceptance.
    Head into action.
    Expect problems.
    Always point to the successes.
    Daily review your plan.
      The secret to the Law of Navigation is preparation.  When you prepare well, you convey confidence and trust to people.  Leaders who are good navigators are capable of taking their people just about anywhere.
     
    5.            The Law of Addition – Leaders Add Value by Serving Others
      Adding Profits by Adding Value – Costco’s CEO, Jim Sinegal, believes the success of Costco comes from treating his employees well.
    o   Costco employees are paid an average of 42% more than the company’s chief rival and they also receive generous health care coverage.  
    o   Sinegal shows he cares and respects his employees – he has an open-door policy.  He is on a first-name basis with everyone. o Sinegal’s salary is well below what other CEO’s of similar size company’s make because he is more focused on serving his employees than making an exorbitant salary.
    o   The result: Costco has by far the lowest employee turnover rate in all of retailing.
      The bottom line in leadership isn’t how far we advance ourselves but how far we advance others.
      There is one critical question: Are you making things better for the people who follow you?
    o   If you can’t answer with an unhesitant yes, then you likely aren’t.
    o   90% of all people who add value to others do so intentionally. 
    Why do I say that?  Because human beings are naturally selfish. 
    Being an adder requires me to think about adding value to others.
      Adding Value, Changing Lives – four guidelines for adding value to others.
    1)    Truly Value Others – effective leaders go beyond not harming others, they intentionally help others.  They must value people and demonstrate they care in such a way that their followers know it.
    2)    Make Yourself More Valuable To Others – the more intentionally you have been in growing personally, the more you have to offer your followers.
    3)    Know and Relate to What Others Value – this can only come by listening to your people’s stories, their hopes and dreams.  Learn what is valuable to them and then lead based on what you’ve learned.
    4)    Do Things That God Values – God desires us not only to treat people with respect, but also to actively reach out to them and serve them.   
      The attitude of the leader affects the atmosphere of the office.  If you desire to add value by serving others, you will become a better leader.  And your people will achieve more, develop more loyalty, and have a better time getting things done than you ever thought possible.  That’s the power of the Law of Addition.
     
     
    6.            The Law of Solid Ground – Trust Is the Foundation of Leadership
      Trust is the foundation of leadership.  It is the most important thing.  Leaders cannot repeatedly break trust with people and continue to influence them.
      Your people know when you make mistakes.  The real question is whether you’re going to fess up.  If you do, you can often regain their trust.
      How does a leader build trust?  By consistently exemplifying competence, connection and character.  People will forgive occasional mistakes on ability.  And they will give you time to connect.  But they won’t trust someone who has slips in character.   
      Character Communicates – a person’s character quickly communicates many things to others.  Here are the most important ones:
    o   Character Communicates Consistency – leaders without inner strength can’t be counted on day after day because their ability to perform changes constantly.
    o   Character Communicates Potential – weak character is limiting.  Who do you think has the greater potential to achieve great dreams: someone who is honest, disciplined, and hardworking or someone who is deceitful, impulsive and lazy?
    o   Character Communicates Respect – When you don’t have character within, you can’t earn respect without.  How do leaders earn respect?  By making sound decisions, by admitting their mistakes, and by putting what’s best for their followers and the organization ahead of their personal agendas.
      No leader can break trust with his people and expect to keep influencing them.  Trust is the foundation of leadership.  Violate the Law of Solid Ground, and you diminish your influence as a leader.   
     
    7.            The Law of Respect – People Naturally Follow Leaders Stronger Than
    Themselves
      People naturally follow leaders stronger than themselves.  That’s how the Law of Respect works.
      People don’t follow others by accident.  People who are an 8 in leadership don’t look for a 6 to follow – they naturally follow a 9 or 10.  The less skilled follow the more highly skilled and gifted.   
      Occasionally, a strong leader may choose to follow someone weaker than himself.  But when that happens, it’s for a reason.  For example, the stronger leader my do it out of respect for the person’s office or past accomplishments.  Or he may be following the chain of command.  In general though, followers are attracted to people who are better leaders than themselves.   
      When people get together for the first time in a group, take a look at what happens.  As they start interacting, the leaders in the group immediately take charge.  But after the people get to know one another, it doesn’t take long for them to recognize the strongest leaders and to start following them.

     
      In time, people in the group get on board and follow the strongest leaders.  Either that or they leave the group to pursue their own agenda.
      Top Six Ways That Leaders Gain Others’ Respect
    1)    Natural Leadership Ability – if you possess it, people will want to follow you.  They will become excited when you communicate vision.
    2)    Respect For Others – when leaders show respect for others – especially for people who have less power or a lower position than theirs – they gain respect from others.  If you continually respect others and consistently lead them well, you will continue to have followers.
    3)    Courage – Good leaders do what’s right, even at the risk of failure, in the face of great danger and under the brunt of relentless criticism.  Can you think of one great leader from history who was without courage?  A leader’s courage gives his followers hope.
    4)    Success – When leaders succeed in leading the team to victory, then followers believe they can do it again.  As a result, followers follow them because they want to be part of success in the future.
    5)    Loyalty – When leaders stick with the team until the job is done and look out for their followers best interests even when it hurts them personally, followers will in turn learn to respect them.
    6)    Value Added to Others – Followers value leaders who add value to them and their respect for them carries on long after the relationship has ended.  
     
    8.            The Law of Intuition – Leaders Evaluate Everything with a Leadership Bias
      The Law of Intuition is based on facts coupled with instincts plus other intangible factors, such as employee morale, organizational momentum, and relationship dynamics.   
      The Law of Intuition often separates the great leaders from the merely good ones.
      Leadership intuition is the ability of a leader to read what’s going on.  For that reason, I say that leaders are readers:
    1)    Leaders Are Readers of Their Situation – leaders pick up on details that might elude others.  They sense people’s attitudes.  They are able to detect the chemistry of a team.  They know the situation before they have all the facts.
    2)    Leaders Are Readers of Trends – leaders discern where the organization is headed, often times they sense it first and find data later to explain it.  Their intuition tells them that something is happening, that conditions are changing.  Leaders must always be a few steps ahead of their people, or they’re not really leading.
    3)    Leaders Are Readers of Their Resources – leaders think in terms or resources and how to maximize them for the benefit of their organization.  They are continually aware of what they have at their disposal.  
    4)    Leaders Are Readers of People – Intuition helps leaders sense what’s happening among people and know their hopes, fears and concerns.  Reading people is perhaps the most important intuitive skill leaders can possess.  
    5)    Leaders are Readers of Themselves – leaders must know not only their own strengths and weaknesses, but also their current state of mind.  Why?  Because leaders can hinder progress just as easily as they can help create it.  
      Without intuition, leaders get blindsided, and that’s one of the worst things that can happen to a leader.  If you want to lead well, and stay ahead of others, you’ve got to obey the Law of Intuition.  
     
    9.            The Law of Magnetism – Who You Are Is Who You Attract
      In most situations, you draw people to you who possess the same qualities you do.
      Who you are is who you attract.  If you want to attract better people, become the kind of person you desire to attract.
     
    10.        The Law of Connection – Leaders Touch a Heart Before They Ask for a
    Hand
      For leaders to be effective, they need to connect with people.  All great leaders recognize this truth and act on it almost instinctively.  You can’t move people to action unless you first move them with emotion.
      “People don’t care how much you know until they know how much you care.”  You develop credibility with people when you connect with them and show that you genuinely care and want to help them.  And as a result, they usually respond in kind and want to help you.
      How do you connect with people?
    1)    Connect with Yourself – If you don’t believe in who you are and where you want to lead, work on that before doing anything else.
    2)    Communicate with Openness and Sincerity – People can smell a phony a mile away.  Authentic leaders connect.
    3)    Know Your Audience – When you work with individuals, knowing your audience means learning people’s names, finding out their histories, asking about their dreams.  When you communicate to an audience, you learn about the organization and its goals.  You want to speak about what they care about.  
    4)    Live Your Message – Practice what you preach.  That’s were credibility comes from.
    5)    Go to Where They Are – Remove as many barriers to communication as possible.  Try to be attuned to their culture, background, education, and so on.  Adapt to others; don’t expect them to adapt to me.  
    6)    Focus on Them, Not Yourself – Focus on others, not yourself.  That is the number one problem of inexperienced speakers and ineffective leaders.  
    7)    Believe in Them – It’s one thing to communicate to people because you believe you have something of value to say.  It’s another to communicate with people because you believe they have value.  People’s opinions of us have less to do with what they see in us than with what we can help them see in themselves.
    8)    Give Them Hope – French general Napoleon Bonaparte said, “Leaders are dealers in hope.”  When you give people hope, you give them a future.  
      Successful leaders who obey the Law of Connection are always initiators.  They take the first step with others and then make the effort to continue building relationships.  It’s not always easy, but it’s important to the success of the organization.  A leader has to do it, no matter how many obstacles there might be.
      You connect with others when you learn their names, make yourself available to them, tell them how much you appreciate them, find out what they are doing, and most important, listen to them. 
      There’s an old saying: To lead yourself, use your head; to lead others, use your heart.  That’s the nature of the Law of Connection.  Always touch a person’s heart before you ask for a hand.  
     
    11.        The Law of the Inner Circle – A Leader’s Potential Is Determined by
    Those Closest to Him
      Nobody does anything great alone, nor do leaders succeed alone.  What makes the difference is the leader’s inner circle.
      As you consider whether individuals should be in your inner circle, ask yourself the following questions.  If you can answer yes to these questions, then they are excellent candidates for your inner circle:
    1)    Do They Have High Influence with Others? – One key to successful leadership is the ability to influence the people who influence others.  How do you do that?  By drawing influencers into your inner circle.
    2)    Do They Bring a Complementary Gift to the Table? – Bring a few key people into my inner circle who possess strengths in your areas of weakness.
    3)    Do They Hold a Strategic Position in the Organization? – Some people belong in your inner circle because of their importance to the organization.  If you and they are not working on the same page, the entire organization is in trouble.
    4)    Do They Add Value to Me and to the Organization? – The people in your inner circle must add value to you personally.  They should also have a proven track record as assets to the organization.  Seek for your inner circle people who help you improve.   
    5)    Do They Positively Impact Other Inner Circle Members? – Team chemistry is vital.  You want your inner circle to have a good fit with one another.  You also want inner circle members to make one another better, to raise one another’s game.   
      Once you’ve reached your capacity in time and energy, the only way you can increase your impact is through others.  Surround yourself with high performers that extend your influence beyond your reach and help you to grow and become a better leader.
     
    12.        The Law of Empowerment – Only Secure Leaders Give Power to
    Others
      If you want to be successful, you have to be willing to empower others.   
      Theodore Roosevelt once said: “The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and the selfrestraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it.”
      When leaders fail to empower others, it is usually due to three main reasons:
    1)    Desire for Job Security – The number one enemy of empowerment is the fear of losing what we have.  Weak leaders worry that if they help subordinates, they themselves will become dispensable.  Rather they should realize that if the teams they lead always seem to succeed, people will figure out that they are leading them well.
    2)    Resistance to Change – Most people don’t like change.  As a leader, you must train yourself to embrace change, to desire it, to make a way for it.  Effective leaders are not only willing to change; they become change agents.
    3)    Lack of Self-Worth – Self-conscious people are rarely good leaders.  They focus on themselves, worrying how they look, what others think, whether they are liked.  They can’t give power to others because they feel that they have no power themselves.  The best leaders have a strong self-worth.  They believe in themselves, their mission and their people.
      Strange as it sounds, great leaders gain authority by giving it away.  If you aspire to be a great leader, you must live by the Law of Empowerment.
    13.        The Law of the Picture – People Do What People See
      When leaders show the way with their right actions, their followers copy their good example and succeed.
      Great leaders are both highly visionary and highly practical.  Their vision helps them see beyond the immediate.  They can envision what’s coming and what must be done.  Leaders possess an understanding how: o Mission provides purpose – answering the question, Why? o Vision provides a picture – answering the question, What? o Strategy provides a plan – answering the question, How?
      As author Hans Finzel observed, “Leaders are paid to be dreamers.  The higher you go in leadership, the more your work is about the future.”
      As you strive to become a better example to your followers, remember these things.   
    1)    Followers Are Always Watching What You Do – Just as children watch their parents and emulate their behavior, so do employees watch their bosses.  If the boss comes in late, then employees feel they can too.  Nothing is more convincing than living out what you say you believe.   
    2)    It’s Easier to Teach What’s Right Than to Do What’s Right – Nothing is more convincing than people who give good advice and set a good example.
    3)    We Should Work on Changing Ourselves Before Trying to Improve Others – A great danger to good leadership is the temptation to try to change others without first making changes to yourself.  To remain a credible leader, you must always work first, hardest and longest on changing yourself; this is essential.  If we work on improving ourselves our primary mission, then others are more likely to follow.
    4)    The Most Valuable Gift a Leader Can Give Is Being a Good Example – More than anything else, employees want leaders whose beliefs and actions line up.  Leadership is more caught than taught.  How does one “catch” leadership?  By watching good leaders in action.   
     
    14.        The Law of Buy-In – People Buy into the Leader, Then the Vision
      The leader finds the dream and then the people.  The people find the leader and then the dream.  That’s how the Law of Buy-In works.
      People don’t at first follow worthy causes.  They follow worthy leaders who promote worthy causes they can believe in.  People buy into the leader first, then the leader’s vision.
      As a leader, having a great vision and a worthy cause is not enough to get people to follow you.  You have to become a better leader; you must get your people to buy into you.  That is the price you have to pay if you want your vision to have a chance of becoming reality.  You cannot ignore the Law of Buy-In and remain successful as a leader.
     
    15.        The Law of Victory -  Leaders Find a Way for the Team to Win
      Victorious leaders have one thing in common: they share an unwillingness to accept defeat.  The alternative to winning is totally unacceptable to them.  As a result, they figure out what must be done to achieve victory.
      The best leaders feel compelled to rise to a challenge and do everything in their power to achieve victory for their people.  In their view… o Losing is unacceptable. o Passion is unquenchable. o Quitting is unthinkable.
    o   Commitment is unquestionable.
    o   Victory is inevitable.
      With that mindset, they embrace the vision and approach the challenges with the resolve to take their people to victory.
      Three factors that contribute to a team’s dedication to victory:
    1)    Unity of Vision – Teams succeed only when the players have a unified vision, no matter how much talent or potential there is.
    2)    Diversity of Skills – Every organization requires diverse talents to succeed.
    3)    A Leader Dedicated to Victory and Raising Players to Their Potential – Unity of vision doesn’t happen spontaneously.  The right players with the proper diversity of talent don’t come together on their own.  It takes a leader to make those things happen.  It takes a leader to provide the motivation, empowerment, and direction required to win.
      Leaders who practice the Law of Victory believe that anything less than success is unacceptable.  And they have Plan B.  That is why they keep fighting.  And it’s why they continue to win.
      How dedicated are you to winning the “fight”?  Are you going to have the Law of Victory in your corner as you lead?  Or when times get difficult, are you going to throw in the towel?  Your answer to that question may determine whether you succeed or fail as a leader and whether your team wins or loses.   
     
    16.        The Law of the Big Mo – Momentum Is a Leader’s Best Friend
      If you’ve got all the passion, tools and people you need to fulfill a great vision, yet you can’t seem to get your organization moving and going in the right direction, you’re dead in the water as a leader.  If you can’t get things going, you will not succeed.  You need to harness the power of the leader’s best friend – momentum.
      When you have no momentum, even the simplest tasks seem impossible.   
      On the other hand, when you have momentum on your side, the future looks bright, and obstacles appear small.  An organization with momentum is like a train that’s moving at sixty miles per hour.
      Truths About Momentum
    1)    Momentum is the Great Exaggerator – momentum is like a magnifying glass; it makes things look bigger than they really are.  Because momentum has such a great impact, leaders try to control it.  When you have momentum, you don’t worry about small problems and many larger ones seem to work themselves out.
    2)    Momentum Makes Leaders Look Better Than They Are – When leaders have momentum on their side, people forget about their past mistakes.  Once a leader creates some success for his organization, people give him more credit than he deserves.  Momentum exaggerates a leader’s success and makes him look better than he really is.   
    3)    Momentum Helps Followers Perform Better Than They Are – When momentum is strong, people are motivated to perform at higher levels, making all participants more successful than they would be otherwise.
    4)    Momentum Is Easier to Steer Than to Start – Getting started is a struggle, but once you’re moving forward, you can really start to do some amazing things.
    5)    Momentum Is the Most Powerful Change Agent – Given enough momentum, nearly any kind of change is possible in an organization.  Followers trust leaders with a proven track record.  They accept changes from people when they have led them to victory before.  Momentum puts victory within reach.
    6)    Momentum is the Leader’s Responsibility – It takes a leader to create momentum.  Followers can catch it.  But creating momentum requires someone who has vision, can assemble a good team, and motivates others.  If the leader is waiting for the organization to develop momentum on its own, then the organization is in trouble.
    7)    Momentum Begins Inside the Leader – It starts with vision, passion, and enthusiasm.  The leader most model those qualities to his people day in and day out, which will attract like-minded people to his team.  Once you see forward progress, you will begin to generate momentum.  Once you have it, you can do almost anything.  That’s the power of the Big Mo.
     
    17.        The Law of Priorities – Leaders Understand That Activity Is Not Necessarily Accomplishment
      Leaders never advance to a point where they no long need to prioritize. Busyness does not equal productivity.  Activity is not necessarily accomplishment.  Prioritizing requires leaders to continually think ahead, to know what’s important, to see how everything relates to the overall vision.
      The Pareto Principle – if you focus your attention on the activities that rank in the top 20 percent in terms of importance, you have an 80 percent return on your effort.  For example if you 100 customers, the top 20 will provide you 80% of your business, so focus on them.
      The Three R’s – requirement, return and reward.  Leaders must order their lives according to these three questions:
    1)    What is Required?  Any list of priorities must begin with what is required of us.  The question to ask yourself is, “What must I do
    that nobody can or should do for me?”  If I’m doing something that
    is not necessary, I should eliminate it.  If I’m doing something that’s necessary but not required of me personally, I need to delegate it.
    2)    What Gives the Greatest Return?  As a leader, you should spend most of your time working in your areas of greatest strength.  Ideally, leaders should get out of their comfort zone but stay in their strength zone.  My rule of thumb: If something can be done 80 percent as well by someone else, I delegate it.   
    3)    What Brings the Greatest Reward?  Life is too short not to do the things you love.  Your personal interests energize you and keep you passionate.  And passion provides the fuel in your life to keep you going.
     
    18.        The Law of Sacrifice – A Leader Must Give Up to Go Up
      If you desire to become the best leader you can be, then you need to be willing to make sacrifices in order to lead well.  If that is your desire, then here are some things you need to know about the Law of Sacrifice.
    1)    There Is No Success Without Sacrifice – Every person who has achieve any success in life has made sacrifices to do so.  Effective leaders sacrifice much that is good in order to dedicate themselves to what is best.
    2)    Leaders Are Often Asked to Give Up More Than Others – The heart of leadership to putting others ahead of yourself.  It’s doing what is best for the team.  For that reason, leaders have to give up their rights.   
     
    The cost of leadership: Leaders must be willing to give up more than the people they lead.  Leadership means sacrifice.
    3)    You Must Keep Giving Up to Stay Up – Leadership success requires continual change, constant improvement, and ongoing sacrifice.
    4)    The Higher the Level of Leadership, the Greater the Sacrifice – The higher you go, the more its going to cost you.  And it doesn’t matter what kind of leadership career you pick.  You will have to make sacrifices.  You will have to give up to go up.  
     
    19.        The Law of Timing – When to Lead Is As Important As What to Do and
    Where to Go
      Timing is often the difference between success and failure in an endeavor.  Every time a leader makes a move, there are really only four outcomes:
    1)    The Wrong Action at the Wrong Time Leads to Disaster – If you take the wrong action at the wrong time, your people suffer and so will your leadership.
    2)    The Right Action at the Wrong Time Brings Resistance – Having a vision for the right direction and knowing how to get there is not enough.  If you take the right action but do it at the wrong time, you may still be unsuccessful because the people you lead can become resistant.  Good leadership timing requires many things:
    a.    Understanding – leaders must have a firm grasp on the situation.
    b.    Maturity – if leader’s motives aren’t right, their timing will be off.
    c.     Confidence – people follow leaders who know what must be done.
    d.    Decisiveness – wishy-washy leaders create wishy-washy followers.
    e.    Experience – if leaders don’t possess experience, then they need to gain wisdom from others who do possess it.
    f.      Intuition – timing often depends on intangibles, such as momentum and morale.
    g.    Preparation – if the conditions aren’t right, leaders must create those conditions.
    3)    The Wrong Action at the Right Time is a Mistake – the greatest mistake made by entrepreneurs is knowing when to cut their losses or when to increase their investment to maximize gains.  Their mistakes come from taking the wrong action at the right time.
    4)    The Right Action at the Right Time Results in Success – When the right leader and the right timing come together an organization achieves its goals and reaps incredible rewards.  
      Reading the right situation and knowing what to do are not enough to make you succeed in leadership.  If you want your company to move forward, you must pay attention to timing.  Only the right action at the
    right time will bring success.  No leader can escape the Law of Timing.
     
    20.        The Law of Explosive Growth – To Add Growth, Lead Followers – To
    Multiply, Lead Leaders
      You can grow by leading followers.  But if you want to maximize your leadership and help your organization reach its potential, you need to develop leaders.  There is no other way to experience explosive growth.
      Leaders who attract followers but never develop leaders get tired.  Being able to impact only those people you can touch personally is very limiting.  
      In contrast, leaders who develop leaders impact people far beyond their personal reach.  Every time you develop leaders and help them increase their leadership ability, you make them capable of influencing an even greater number of people. 
    21.        The Law of Legacy – A Leader’s Lasting Value Is Measured by
    Succession
      What do you want people to say at your funeral?  If you want your leadership to have real meaning, you need to take into account the Law of Legacy.  A leader’s lasting value is measured by succession.
      If you desire to make an impact as a leader on a future generation, then become highly intentional about your legacy.  We have a choice about what legacy we will leave, and we must work and be intentional to leave the legacy we want.  Here’s how:
    1)    Know the Legacy You Want to Leave – most people simply accept their lives – they don’t lead them.  I believe that people need to be proactive about how they live, and I believe that is especially true for leaders.  Someday people will summarize your life in a single sentence.  My advice: pick it now!
    2)    Live the Legacy You Want to Leave – I believe that to have any credibility as a leader, you must live what you say you believe.  If you want to create a legacy, you need to live it first.  
    3)    Choose Who Will Carry on Your Legacy – A legacy lives on in people, not things.  Too often leaders put their energy into organizations, buildings or other lifeless objects.  But only people live on after we are gone.  Everything else is temporary.
    4)    Make Sure You Pass the Baton – No matter how well you lead, if you don’t make sure you pass the baton, you will not leave the legacy you desire.
      Our ability as leaders will not be measured by the buildings we build, or institutions we established.  We will be judged by how well the people we invested in carried on after we are gone.  
      Jackie Robinson observed, “A life isn’t significant except for its impact on other lives.”  In the end we will be judged according to the Law of Legacy.  A leader’s lasting value is measured by succession.
     
      
     
     
     
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    The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership By John C. Maxwell
     
     
    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.  Your leadership ability always determines your effectiveness and the potential impact of your organization.   
      Let’s say you’re an 8 on a scale from 1 to 10.  But let’s say that your leadership ability is a 1.  Your level of effectiveness would look like this:
     

     
      Let’s say you become a real student of leadership and you maximize your potential, taking it all the way up to a 7.  Visually it would look like this:

     
      By raising your leadership ability – without increasing your dedication at all – you can increase your original effectiveness by 600 percent. 
    Leadership has a multiplying effect.  
      Smart, talented people are able to go so far because of the limitations of their leadership.  To reach the highest level of effectiveness, you have to raise your leadership lid.
     
    2.   The Law of Influence – The True Measure of Leadership is Influence –
    Nothing More, Nothing Less
      True leadership cannot be awarded, appointed, or assigned.  It comes only from influence, and that cannot be mandated.  It must be earned.
      Five Myths About Leadership
    1)    The Management Myth – that leading and managing are the same.  Leadership is about influencing people to follow, while management focuses on maintaining systems and processes.  Managers can maintain direction; to move people you need influence.
    2)    The Entrepreneur Myth – entrepreneurs are skilled at seeing opportunities and going after them.  But not all of them are good with leading people in their vision.
    3)    The Knowledge Myth – neither IQ nor education necessarily equates to leadership.
    4)    The Pioneer Myth – being a trendsetter is not the same as being a leader.  To be a leader, a person has to not only be out in front, but also has to have people following his lead.
    5)    The Position Myth – leadership is not based on rank or title.  It’s not the position that makes the leader; it’s the leader that makes the position.
      Several Factors That Make a Leader
    1)    Character – Who They Are – true leadership always begins with the inner person.  People can sense the depth of a person’s character.
    2)    Relationships – Who They Know – with deep relationships with the right people you can become the real leader in an organization.
    3)    Knowledge – What They Know – information is vital.  You need a grasp of the facts to develop an accurate vision for the future.
    4)    Intuition – What They Feel – leaders seek to recognize and influence intangibles such as energy, morale, timing and momentum.  
    5)    Experience – Where They’ve Been – the greater your past challenges, the more likely followers will be willing to let you lead.
    6)    Ability – What They Can Do – the bottom line is followers want to know whether you can lead them to victory.  As soon as they no longer believe you can deliver, they will stop following.
     
    3.   The Law of Process – Leadership Develops Daily, Not in a Day
      Leaders require seasoning to be effective.  If you continually invest in your leadership development, the inevitable is growth over time.
      The relationship between growth and leadership: It’s the capacity to develop and improve one’s skills that distinguishes leaders from their followers.
      Successful leaders are learners.  And the learning process is ongoing, a result of self-discipline and perseverance.  
      The Phases of Leadership Growth
    Phase 1: I Don’t Know What I Don’t Know – few think of themselves as leaders and as long as a person doesn’t know the importance of leadership he isn’t going to grow.
    Phase 2: I Know That I Need to Know – at some point we discover we need to learn how to lead.
    Phase 3: I Know What I Don’t Know – if we don’t get better at leadership, our careers will eventually get bogged down.  In this phase you develop a plan for personal growth on areas you need improvement.
    Phase 4: I Know and Grow and It Starts to Show – when you recognize your lack of skill and begin the daily discipline of personal growth, exciting things start to happen.  You start becoming an effective leader but you have to think about every move you make. Phase 5: I Simply Go Because of What I Know – your ability to lead becomes almost automatic.  You develop great instincts which results in incredible payoffs.  But the only way to get there is to obey the Law of Process and pay the price.
      Benjamin Disraeli asserted, “The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his time when it comes.”
      There is an old saying: champions don’t become champions in the ring – they are merely recognized there.  That’s true.  If you want to see where someone develops into a champion, look at his daily routine.
     
    4.            The Law of Navigation – Anyone Can Steer the Ship, but It Takes a Leader to Chart the Course
      First-rate navigators always have in mind that other people are depending on them and their ability to chart a good course.
      Before good leaders take their people on a journey, they go through a process in order to give the trip the best chance of being a success:
    o   Navigators Draw on Past Experience – every past success and failure you’ve experienced can be a valuable source of information and wisdom.  Success teaches you what you’re capable of doing and gives you confidence.  However, your failures can often teach greater lessons, if you allow them to.  If you fail to learn from your mistakes, you’re going to fail again and again.
    o   Navigators Examine the Conditions Before Making Commitments – No good leader plans a course of action without paying attention to current conditions.  Good navigators count the cost before making commitments for themselves and others.  
    o   Navigators Listen To What Others Have to Say – Navigating leaders get ideas from many sources.  They listen to members of their leadership team.  They spend time with leaders of other organizations who can mentor them.  They always think in terms of relying on a team, not just themselves.
    o   Navigators Make Sure Their Conclusions Represent Both Faith and Fact – A leader has to possess a positive attitude.  If you can’t confidently make the trip in your mind, you’re not going to be able to take it in real life.  On the other hand, you also have to be able to see the facts realistically.  If you don’t go in with your eyes wide open, you’re going to get blindsided.  Balancing optimism and realism, faith and fact can be very difficult.  
      Charting A Course with A Navigation Strategy – here’s an acrostic that the author used repeatedly in his leadership.
    Predetermine a course of action.
    Lay out your goals.
    Adjust your priorities. 
    Notify key personnel.
    Allow time for acceptance.
    Head into action.
    Expect problems.
    Always point to the successes.
    Daily review your plan.
      The secret to the Law of Navigation is preparation.  When you prepare well, you convey confidence and trust to people.  Leaders who are good navigators are capable of taking their people just about anywhere.
     
    5.            The Law of Addition – Leaders Add Value by Serving Others
      Adding Profits by Adding Value – Costco’s CEO, Jim Sinegal, believes the success of Costco comes from treating his employees well.
    o   Costco employees are paid an average of 42% more than the company’s chief rival and they also receive generous health care coverage.  
    o   Sinegal shows he cares and respects his employees – he has an open-door policy.  He is on a first-name basis with everyone. o Sinegal’s salary is well below what other CEO’s of similar size company’s make because he is more focused on serving his employees than making an exorbitant salary.
    o   The result: Costco has by far the lowest employee turnover rate in all of retailing.
      The bottom line in leadership isn’t how far we advance ourselves but how far we advance others.
      There is one critical question: Are you making things better for the people who follow you?
    o   If you can’t answer with an unhesitant yes, then you likely aren’t.
    o   90% of all people who add value to others do so intentionally. 
    Why do I say that?  Because human beings are naturally selfish. 
    Being an adder requires me to think about adding value to others.
      Adding Value, Changing Lives – four guidelines for adding value to others.
    1)    Truly Value Others – effective leaders go beyond not harming others, they intentionally help others.  They must value people and demonstrate they care in such a way that their followers know it.
    2)    Make Yourself More Valuable To Others – the more intentionally you have been in growing personally, the more you have to offer your followers.
    3)    Know and Relate to What Others Value – this can only come by listening to your people’s stories, their hopes and dreams.  Learn what is valuable to them and then lead based on what you’ve learned.
    4)    Do Things That God Values – God desires us not only to treat people with respect, but also to actively reach out to them and serve them.   
      The attitude of the leader affects the atmosphere of the office.  If you desire to add value by serving others, you will become a better leader.  And your people will achieve more, develop more loyalty, and have a better time getting things done than you ever thought possible.  That’s the power of the Law of Addition.
     
     
    6.            The Law of Solid Ground – Trust Is the Foundation of Leadership
      Trust is the foundation of leadership.  It is the most important thing.  Leaders cannot repeatedly break trust with people and continue to influence them.
      Your people know when you make mistakes.  The real question is whether you’re going to fess up.  If you do, you can often regain their trust.
      How does a leader build trust?  By consistently exemplifying competence, connection and character.  People will forgive occasional mistakes on ability.  And they will give you time to connect.  But they won’t trust someone who has slips in character.   
      Character Communicates – a person’s character quickly communicates many things to others.  Here are the most important ones:
    o   Character Communicates Consistency – leaders without inner strength can’t be counted on day after day because their ability to perform changes constantly.
    o   Character Communicates Potential – weak character is limiting.  Who do you think has the greater potential to achieve great dreams: someone who is honest, disciplined, and hardworking or someone who is deceitful, impulsive and lazy?
    o   Character Communicates Respect – When you don’t have character within, you can’t earn respect without.  How do leaders earn respect?  By making sound decisions, by admitting their mistakes, and by putting what’s best for their followers and the organization ahead of their personal agendas.
      No leader can break trust with his people and expect to keep influencing them.  Trust is the foundation of leadership.  Violate the Law of Solid Ground, and you diminish your influence as a leader.   
     
    7.            The Law of Respect – People Naturally Follow Leaders Stronger Than
    Themselves
      People naturally follow leaders stronger than themselves.  That’s how the Law of Respect works.
      People don’t follow others by accident.  People who are an 8 in leadership don’t look for a 6 to follow – they naturally follow a 9 or 10.  The less skilled follow the more highly skilled and gifted.   
      Occasionally, a strong leader may choose to follow someone weaker than himself.  But when that happens, it’s for a reason.  For example, the stronger leader my do it out of respect for the person’s office or past accomplishments.  Or he may be following the chain of command.  In general though, followers are attracted to people who are better leaders than themselves.   
      When people get together for the first time in a group, take a look at what happens.  As they start interacting, the leaders in the group immediately take charge.  But after the people get to know one another, it doesn’t take long for them to recognize the strongest leaders and to start following them.

     
      In time, people in the group get on board and follow the strongest leaders.  Either that or they leave the group to pursue their own agenda.
      Top Six Ways That Leaders Gain Others’ Respect
    1)    Natural Leadership Ability – if you possess it, people will want to follow you.  They will become excited when you communicate vision.
    2)    Respect For Others – when leaders show respect for others – especially for people who have less power or a lower position than theirs – they gain respect from others.  If you continually respect others and consistently lead them well, you will continue to have followers.
    3)    Courage – Good leaders do what’s right, even at the risk of failure, in the face of great danger and under the brunt of relentless criticism.  Can you think of one great leader from history who was without courage?  A leader’s courage gives his followers hope.
    4)    Success – When leaders succeed in leading the team to victory, then followers believe they can do it again.  As a result, followers follow them because they want to be part of success in the future.
    5)    Loyalty – When leaders stick with the team until the job is done and look out for their followers best interests even when it hurts them personally, followers will in turn learn to respect them.
    6)    Value Added to Others – Followers value leaders who add value to them and their respect for them carries on long after the relationship has ended.  
     
    8.            The Law of Intuition – Leaders Evaluate Everything with a Leadership Bias
      The Law of Intuition is based on facts coupled with instincts plus other intangible factors, such as employee morale, organizational momentum, and relationship dynamics.   
      The Law of Intuition often separates the great leaders from the merely good ones.
      Leadership intuition is the ability of a leader to read what’s going on.  For that reason, I say that leaders are readers:
    1)    Leaders Are Readers of Their Situation – leaders pick up on details that might elude others.  They sense people’s attitudes.  They are able to detect the chemistry of a team.  They know the situation before they have all the facts.
    2)    Leaders Are Readers of Trends – leaders discern where the organization is headed, often times they sense it first and find data later to explain it.  Their intuition tells them that something is happening, that conditions are changing.  Leaders must always be a few steps ahead of their people, or they’re not really leading.
    3)    Leaders Are Readers of Their Resources – leaders think in terms or resources and how to maximize them for the benefit of their organization.  They are continually aware of what they have at their disposal.  
    4)    Leaders Are Readers of People – Intuition helps leaders sense what’s happening among people and know their hopes, fears and concerns.  Reading people is perhaps the most important intuitive skill leaders can possess.  
    5)    Leaders are Readers of Themselves – leaders must know not only their own strengths and weaknesses, but also their current state of mind.  Why?  Because leaders can hinder progress just as easily as they can help create it.  
      Without intuition, leaders get blindsided, and that’s one of the worst things that can happen to a leader.  If you want to lead well, and stay ahead of others, you’ve got to obey the Law of Intuition.  
     
    9.            The Law of Magnetism – Who You Are Is Who You Attract
      In most situations, you draw people to you who possess the same qualities you do.
      Who you are is who you attract.  If you want to attract better people, become the kind of person you desire to attract.
     
    10.        The Law of Connection – Leaders Touch a Heart Before They Ask for a
    Hand
      For leaders to be effective, they need to connect with people.  All great leaders recognize this truth and act on it almost instinctively.  You can’t move people to action unless you first move them with emotion.
      “People don’t care how much you know until they know how much you care.”  You develop credibility with people when you connect with them and show that you genuinely care and want to help them.  And as a result, they usually respond in kind and want to help you.
      How do you connect with people?
    1)    Connect with Yourself – If you don’t believe in who you are and where you want to lead, work on that before doing anything else.
    2)    Communicate with Openness and Sincerity – People can smell a phony a mile away.  Authentic leaders connect.
    3)    Know Your Audience – When you work with individuals, knowing your audience means learning people’s names, finding out their histories, asking about their dreams.  When you communicate to an audience, you learn about the organization and its goals.  You want to speak about what they care about.  
    4)    Live Your Message – Practice what you preach.  That’s were credibility comes from.
    5)    Go to Where They Are – Remove as many barriers to communication as possible.  Try to be attuned to their culture, background, education, and so on.  Adapt to others; don’t expect them to adapt to me.  
    6)    Focus on Them, Not Yourself – Focus on others, not yourself.  That is the number one problem of inexperienced speakers and ineffective leaders.  
    7)    Believe in Them – It’s one thing to communicate to people because you believe you have something of value to say.  It’s another to communicate with people because you believe they have value.  People’s opinions of us have less to do with what they see in us than with what we can help them see in themselves.
    8)    Give Them Hope – French general Napoleon Bonaparte said, “Leaders are dealers in hope.”  When you give people hope, you give them a future.  
      Successful leaders who obey the Law of Connection are always initiators.  They take the first step with others and then make the effort to continue building relationships.  It’s not always easy, but it’s important to the success of the organization.  A leader has to do it, no matter how many obstacles there might be.
      You connect with others when you learn their names, make yourself available to them, tell them how much you appreciate them, find out what they are doing, and most important, listen to them. 
      There’s an old saying: To lead yourself, use your head; to lead others, use your heart.  That’s the nature of the Law of Connection.  Always touch a person’s heart before you ask for a hand.  
     
    11.        The Law of the Inner Circle – A Leader’s Potential Is Determined by
    Those Closest to Him
      Nobody does anything great alone, nor do leaders succeed alone.  What makes the difference is the leader’s inner circle.
      As you consider whether individuals should be in your inner circle, ask yourself the following questions.  If you can answer yes to these questions, then they are excellent candidates for your inner circle:
    1)    Do They Have High Influence with Others? – One key to successful leadership is the ability to influence the people who influence others.  How do you do that?  By drawing influencers into your inner circle.
    2)    Do They Bring a Complementary Gift to the Table? – Bring a few key people into my inner circle who possess strengths in your areas of weakness.
    3)    Do They Hold a Strategic Position in the Organization? – Some people belong in your inner circle because of their importance to the organization.  If you and they are not working on the same page, the entire organization is in trouble.
    4)    Do They Add Value to Me and to the Organization? – The people in your inner circle must add value to you personally.  They should also have a proven track record as assets to the organization.  Seek for your inner circle people who help you improve.   
    5)    Do They Positively Impact Other Inner Circle Members? – Team chemistry is vital.  You want your inner circle to have a good fit with one another.  You also want inner circle members to make one another better, to raise one another’s game.   
      Once you’ve reached your capacity in time and energy, the only way you can increase your impact is through others.  Surround yourself with high performers that extend your influence beyond your reach and help you to grow and become a better leader.
     
    12.        The Law of Empowerment – Only Secure Leaders Give Power to
    Others
      If you want to be successful, you have to be willing to empower others.   
      Theodore Roosevelt once said: “The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and the selfrestraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it.”
      When leaders fail to empower others, it is usually due to three main reasons:
    1)    Desire for Job Security – The number one enemy of empowerment is the fear of losing what we have.  Weak leaders worry that if they help subordinates, they themselves will become dispensable.  Rather they should realize that if the teams they lead always seem to succeed, people will figure out that they are leading them well.
    2)    Resistance to Change – Most people don’t like change.  As a leader, you must train yourself to embrace change, to desire it, to make a way for it.  Effective leaders are not only willing to change; they become change agents.
    3)    Lack of Self-Worth – Self-conscious people are rarely good leaders.  They focus on themselves, worrying how they look, what others think, whether they are liked.  They can’t give power to others because they feel that they have no power themselves.  The best leaders have a strong self-worth.  They believe in themselves, their mission and their people.
      Strange as it sounds, great leaders gain authority by giving it away.  If you aspire to be a great leader, you must live by the Law of Empowerment.
    13.        The Law of the Picture – People Do What People See
      When leaders show the way with their right actions, their followers copy their good example and succeed.
      Great leaders are both highly visionary and highly practical.  Their vision helps them see beyond the immediate.  They can envision what’s coming and what must be done.  Leaders possess an understanding how: o Mission provides purpose – answering the question, Why? o Vision provides a picture – answering the question, What? o Strategy provides a plan – answering the question, How?
      As author Hans Finzel observed, “Leaders are paid to be dreamers.  The higher you go in leadership, the more your work is about the future.”
      As you strive to become a better example to your followers, remember these things.   
    1)    Followers Are Always Watching What You Do – Just as children watch their parents and emulate their behavior, so do employees watch their bosses.  If the boss comes in late, then employees feel they can too.  Nothing is more convincing than living out what you say you believe.   
    2)    It’s Easier to Teach What’s Right Than to Do What’s Right – Nothing is more convincing than people who give good advice and set a good example.
    3)    We Should Work on Changing Ourselves Before Trying to Improve Others – A great danger to good leadership is the temptation to try to change others without first making changes to yourself.  To remain a credible leader, you must always work first, hardest and longest on changing yourself; this is essential.  If we work on improving ourselves our primary mission, then others are more likely to follow.
    4)    The Most Valuable Gift a Leader Can Give Is Being a Good Example – More than anything else, employees want leaders whose beliefs and actions line up.  Leadership is more caught than taught.  How does one “catch” leadership?  By watching good leaders in action.   
     
    14.        The Law of Buy-In – People Buy into the Leader, Then the Vision
      The leader finds the dream and then the people.  The people find the leader and then the dream.  That’s how the Law of Buy-In works.
      People don’t at first follow worthy causes.  They follow worthy leaders who promote worthy causes they can believe in.  People buy into the leader first, then the leader’s vision.
      As a leader, having a great vision and a worthy cause is not enough to get people to follow you.  You have to become a better leader; you must get your people to buy into you.  That is the price you have to pay if you want your vision to have a chance of becoming reality.  You cannot ignore the Law of Buy-In and remain successful as a leader.
     
    15.        The Law of Victory -  Leaders Find a Way for the Team to Win
      Victorious leaders have one thing in common: they share an unwillingness to accept defeat.  The alternative to winning is totally unacceptable to them.  As a result, they figure out what must be done to achieve victory.
      The best leaders feel compelled to rise to a challenge and do everything in their power to achieve victory for their people.  In their view… o Losing is unacceptable. o Passion is unquenchable. o Quitting is unthinkable.
    o   Commitment is unquestionable.
    o   Victory is inevitable.
      With that mindset, they embrace the vision and approach the challenges with the resolve to take their people to victory.
      Three factors that contribute to a team’s dedication to victory:
    1)    Unity of Vision – Teams succeed only when the players have a unified vision, no matter how much talent or potential there is.
    2)    Diversity of Skills – Every organization requires diverse talents to succeed.
    3)    A Leader Dedicated to Victory and Raising Players to Their Potential – Unity of vision doesn’t happen spontaneously.  The right players with the proper diversity of talent don’t come together on their own.  It takes a leader to make those things happen.  It takes a leader to provide the motivation, empowerment, and direction required to win.
      Leaders who practice the Law of Victory believe that anything less than success is unacceptable.  And they have Plan B.  That is why they keep fighting.  And it’s why they continue to win.
      How dedicated are you to winning the “fight”?  Are you going to have the Law of Victory in your corner as you lead?  Or when times get difficult, are you going to throw in the towel?  Your answer to that question may determine whether you succeed or fail as a leader and whether your team wins or loses.   
     
    16.        The Law of the Big Mo – Momentum Is a Leader’s Best Friend
      If you’ve got all the passion, tools and people you need to fulfill a great vision, yet you can’t seem to get your organization moving and going in the right direction, you’re dead in the water as a leader.  If you can’t get things going, you will not succeed.  You need to harness the power of the leader’s best friend – momentum.
      When you have no momentum, even the simplest tasks seem impossible.   
      On the other hand, when you have momentum on your side, the future looks bright, and obstacles appear small.  An organization with momentum is like a train that’s moving at sixty miles per hour.
      Truths About Momentum
    1)    Momentum is the Great Exaggerator – momentum is like a magnifying glass; it makes things look bigger than they really are.  Because momentum has such a great impact, leaders try to control it.  When you have momentum, you don’t worry about small problems and many larger ones seem to work themselves out.
    2)    Momentum Makes Leaders Look Better Than They Are – When leaders have momentum on their side, people forget about their past mistakes.  Once a leader creates some success for his organization, people give him more credit than he deserves.  Momentum exaggerates a leader’s success and makes him look better than he really is.   
    3)    Momentum Helps Followers Perform Better Than They Are – When momentum is strong, people are motivated to perform at higher levels, making all participants more successful than they would be otherwise.
    4)    Momentum Is Easier to Steer Than to Start – Getting started is a struggle, but once you’re moving forward, you can really start to do some amazing things.
    5)    Momentum Is the Most Powerful Change Agent – Given enough momentum, nearly any kind of change is possible in an organization.  Followers trust leaders with a proven track record.  They accept changes from people when they have led them to victory before.  Momentum puts victory within reach.
    6)    Momentum is the Leader’s Responsibility – It takes a leader to create momentum.  Followers can catch it.  But creating momentum requires someone who has vision, can assemble a good team, and motivates others.  If the leader is waiting for the organization to develop momentum on its own, then the organization is in trouble.
    7)    Momentum Begins Inside the Leader – It starts with vision, passion, and enthusiasm.  The leader most model those qualities to his people day in and day out, which will attract like-minded people to his team.  Once you see forward progress, you will begin to generate momentum.  Once you have it, you can do almost anything.  That’s the power of the Big Mo.
     
    17.        The Law of Priorities – Leaders Understand That Activity Is Not Necessarily Accomplishment
      Leaders never advance to a point where they no long need to prioritize. Busyness does not equal productivity.  Activity is not necessarily accomplishment.  Prioritizing requires leaders to continually think ahead, to know what’s important, to see how everything relates to the overall vision.
      The Pareto Principle – if you focus your attention on the activities that rank in the top 20 percent in terms of importance, you have an 80 percent return on your effort.  For example if you 100 customers, the top 20 will provide you 80% of your business, so focus on them.
      The Three R’s – requirement, return and reward.  Leaders must order their lives according to these three questions:
    1)    What is Required?  Any list of priorities must begin with what is required of us.  The question to ask yourself is, “What must I do
    that nobody can or should do for me?”  If I’m doing something that
    is not necessary, I should eliminate it.  If I’m doing something that’s necessary but not required of me personally, I need to delegate it.
    2)    What Gives the Greatest Return?  As a leader, you should spend most of your time working in your areas of greatest strength.  Ideally, leaders should get out of their comfort zone but stay in their strength zone.  My rule of thumb: If something can be done 80 percent as well by someone else, I delegate it.   
    3)    What Brings the Greatest Reward?  Life is too short not to do the things you love.  Your personal interests energize you and keep you passionate.  And passion provides the fuel in your life to keep you going.
     
    18.        The Law of Sacrifice – A Leader Must Give Up to Go Up
      If you desire to become the best leader you can be, then you need to be willing to make sacrifices in order to lead well.  If that is your desire, then here are some things you need to know about the Law of Sacrifice.
    1)    There Is No Success Without Sacrifice – Every person who has achieve any success in life has made sacrifices to do so.  Effective leaders sacrifice much that is good in order to dedicate themselves to what is best.
    2)    Leaders Are Often Asked to Give Up More Than Others – The heart of leadership to putting others ahead of yourself.  It’s doing what is best for the team.  For that reason, leaders have to give up their rights.   
     
    The cost of leadership: Leaders must be willing to give up more than the people they lead.  Leadership means sacrifice.
    3)    You Must Keep Giving Up to Stay Up – Leadership success requires continual change, constant improvement, and ongoing sacrifice.
    4)    The Higher the Level of Leadership, the Greater the Sacrifice – The higher you go, the more its going to cost you.  And it doesn’t matter what kind of leadership career you pick.  You will have to make sacrifices.  You will have to give up to go up.  
     
    19.        The Law of Timing – When to Lead Is As Important As What to Do and
    Where to Go
      Timing is often the difference between success and failure in an endeavor.  Every time a leader makes a move, there are really only four outcomes:
    1)    The Wrong Action at the Wrong Time Leads to Disaster – If you take the wrong action at the wrong time, your people suffer and so will your leadership.
    2)    The Right Action at the Wrong Time Brings Resistance – Having a vision for the right direction and knowing how to get there is not enough.  If you take the right action but do it at the wrong time, you may still be unsuccessful because the people you lead can become resistant.  Good leadership timing requires many things:
    a.    Understanding – leaders must have a firm grasp on the situation.
    b.    Maturity – if leader’s motives aren’t right, their timing will be off.
    c.     Confidence – people follow leaders who know what must be done.
    d.    Decisiveness – wishy-washy leaders create wishy-washy followers.
    e.    Experience – if leaders don’t possess experience, then they need to gain wisdom from others who do possess it.
    f.      Intuition – timing often depends on intangibles, such as momentum and morale.
    g.    Preparation – if the conditions aren’t right, leaders must create those conditions.
    3)    The Wrong Action at the Right Time is a Mistake – the greatest mistake made by entrepreneurs is knowing when to cut their losses or when to increase their investment to maximize gains.  Their mistakes come from taking the wrong action at the right time.
    4)    The Right Action at the Right Time Results in Success – When the right leader and the right timing come together an organization achieves its goals and reaps incredible rewards.  
      Reading the right situation and knowing what to do are not enough to make you succeed in leadership.  If you want your company to move forward, you must pay attention to timing.  Only the right action at the
    right time will bring success.  No leader can escape the Law of Timing.
     
    20.        The Law of Explosive Growth – To Add Growth, Lead Followers – To
    Multiply, Lead Leaders
      You can grow by leading followers.  But if you want to maximize your leadership and help your organization reach its potential, you need to develop leaders.  There is no other way to experience explosive growth.
      Leaders who attract followers but never develop leaders get tired.  Being able to impact only those people you can touch personally is very limiting.  
      In contrast, leaders who develop leaders impact people far beyond their personal reach.  Every time you develop leaders and help them increase their leadership ability, you make them capable of influencing an even greater number of people. 
    21.        The Law of Legacy – A Leader’s Lasting Value Is Measured by
    Succession
      What do you want people to say at your funeral?  If you want your leadership to have real meaning, you need to take into account the Law of Legacy.  A leader’s lasting value is measured by succession.
      If you desire to make an impact as a leader on a future generation, then become highly intentional about your legacy.  We have a choice about what legacy we will leave, and we must work and be intentional to leave the legacy we want.  Here’s how:
    1)    Know the Legacy You Want to Leave – most people simply accept their lives – they don’t lead them.  I believe that people need to be proactive about how they live, and I believe that is especially true for leaders.  Someday people will summarize your life in a single sentence.  My advice: pick it now!
    2)    Live the Legacy You Want to Leave – I believe that to have any credibility as a leader, you must live what you say you believe.  If you want to create a legacy, you need to live it first.  
    3)    Choose Who Will Carry on Your Legacy – A legacy lives on in people, not things.  Too often leaders put their energy into organizations, buildings or other lifeless objects.  But only people live on after we are gone.  Everything else is temporary.
    4)    Make Sure You Pass the Baton – No matter how well you lead, if you don’t make sure you pass the baton, you will not leave the legacy you desire.
      Our ability as leaders will not be measured by the buildings we build, or institutions we established.  We will be judged by how well the people we invested in carried on after we are gone.  
      Jackie Robinson observed, “A life isn’t significant except for its impact on other lives.”  In the end we will be judged according to the Law of Legacy.  A leader’s lasting value is measured by succession.
     
      
     
     
     
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    KSI Greg 7 ™ got a reaction from KSI x Karma 7 in Education Department - Graduate awards Notification   
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    thanks
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    KSI Greg 7 ™ got a reaction from I am FuzzyMeep™ in LEAD 101   
    LEAD Week 3 Notes
    Remember this isn’t a one sided conversation
    members Work in and opener could use the folder/wader or talk about a funny story the idea is to connect with the
    Dealing with Issues:
    Ask the lobby how they deal with issues.
    ·       Point out that many of the responses include words like:
    ·       Listen – Research – Working as a team
     
     
     
    - R. I. D. Research -- Investigate/Identify – Diffuse
    ·     Court case
    ·        
    I obviously care about this 100% and will do anything to have a second chance. I still do not have a computer, and I am at the library 15 min away. I do care about KSI very much and I hope you can consider my apology for anyone who took my actions the way they did.

    Thanks
    Karen


    DrunkMonkee Posted

    DragonPearl and Harlequin came into a party with Shotty and Darth Sidious. They explained how Karen was doing this with a 14 yr. old. When asked if Karen knew he was only 14, she apparently said yes! If their mother doesn’t care about them being on here, then that is their problem. There was also an apparent conversation about "female toys".

    I was not a witness to this, I am just saying what I heard in the conversation with Darth Sidious. He blacklisted her on the spot.

    I will inform Harlequin and DragonPearl to come make their statements.


    Ashley Posted


    Not only that, KSI is supposed to be rated M; for Mature. KSI is NOT, however, rated X! As a member of KSI, you should conduct yourself respectively. If you want to carry on like that around your "near and dear" XBL and/or KSI friends, in an "INVITE ONLY" game lobby, or a private chat, that’s your choice. But, you should never conduct yourself like that in a party with random KSI or XBL people. You never know who is in the room.

    You came in my party the other night, with get0 baby and KSI reconcile. I was listening, but wasn't talking, as, that is what I generally do in a party. And I personally heard you saying something about being "so drunk", and telling the people who were in the game lobby about how your husband is in the military, and you were just so "horny".

    Now, I didn't witness this other conversation that Lunatic is referring too, but, I know I was pretty disgusted to hear a KSI member come into a game lobby, in which I do believe Darth Sidious was in, (but, he really wasn't there, just his gamer tag was), and talk like that. What a way to give a first impression!




     Please send me a reply as soon as possible. Please justify your answer to the best of your abilities.

     

     

     

     

     

    SO this is the court case, please read over this, decide if the defendant is in the fault, blacklisted, dnh’d, security risked, placed on a 3 month hold etc.

     

    what’s to happen too the underage member

     

    what’s to happen with the mother of the underage member who let him in (when was a director at the time)

     

    is there anything else you would do with this case, anyone else you would find is at fault or do anything too
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
    -Do not tackle issues if your plate is already full with others.
    ●      You do not want to overburden yourself, because the more you pile on your plate the more irrational and frustrated you’ll become. Being overwhelmed can be a bad thing!
    -Look at each issue from all possible perspectives.
    ●      Remember to put yourself in other people shoes.  That way you can see how the situation is affecting all those involved.
    ●      This helps you think of the right questions to ask to get to the bottom of the issue at hand.
    -Use constructive criticism instead of threats and negative comments.
    ●      Refrain from calling people “stupid” “dumb” or “retarded” if they’ve done something wrong.  Explain what they’ve done wrong, and how they should handle it in the future.
    ●      Do not tell someone, if they keep doing something they are going to get kicked out.  Let them know what the consequences of their actions are, without threatening them.
    -Always address someone with proof, not accusations.  Always have proof.
    ·    Hear say is NOT proof! 
    ●      Never go on hearsay alone, no matter how trustworthy the person may be.
    ●      Remember the telephone game from elementary school, what started off as one thing will most likely be something else by the time it gets to you.
    ●      Only speak to the people who are DIRECTLY involved in the situation. No matter how many people come out of the woodwork, only those who are directly affected should be involved.
    ●      Confidentiality is KEY!
    ●      People trust you as a leader, if they come to you in confidence and you break that your credibility goes down the drain.
    ●      Don’t throw people under the bus, no matter how tempting it may be.
    -Ensure all judgments/biasedness is removed from your decision.
    ●      Just because you don’t like a person, doesn’t mean that you shouldn’t rule in their favor.
    ●      Also, do NOT take sides.
    ●      This may be hard but do not make any pre-judgments before hearing both sides of an issue
    ●       You must remain neutral when dealing with any situation.
    ●      People can and do misunderstand situations often. 
    -Make sure you are able to justify and fully explain to everyone why you came to your decision.
    ●      Be honest with your members; always explain why you decided what you did. 
    ●      Have justifiable reasons as to why you reached your decision, to cover your butt just in case the issue arises again.
    -Only deal with issues in private lobbies/parties. 
    -Number 1 rule of being a leader - praise in public, discipline in private.
    ●      Public humiliation is NOT an acceptable form of punishment, and will only create a hostile environment.
    -Always have a plan B.
    ●      Never go into a situation, without considering worst case scenario/best case scenario.
    ●      Sometimes, people even though have been caught red handed doing something wrong, will deny they were wrong and will not accept reprimand lightly.
    ●      Each member gives an inspirational quote/advice for motivation.
     
     
     
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    KSI Greg 7 ™ got a reaction from Truecifer in Of The Years: Nominations 2016 (Closes 24th December)   
    Name/ Gamer tag: Current Rank/ Title in KSI: Category Nominating for: Forums Profile Link:  Reasons I feel this member should receive this award:  
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    Name/ Gamer tag: KSI Ashhh 7 Current Rank/ Title in KSI: Div. Leader Category Nominating for: Div. Leader Forums Profile Link:  Reasons I feel this member should receive this award: ES started this year a couple Generals down but Ashhh persevered she trained up new Generals and started building momentum that continued into spirit week with ES being part of the first 3-way tie for 1st place.  Later Ashhh and ES went on to take 2nd place in a very completive tie breaker between ES WI and LS.  ES had a huge presence during spirit week competing in every event and always adding to the conversations on twitch live streams.   I would like to mention some of the other outstanding Div. leaders from this year KSI Collector 7, KSI Pansir 7, KSI Ascend 7 and, KSI MFL Swagg 7 all of whom made this a very hard decision.  
    Name/ Gamer tag: Current Rank/ Title in KSI: KSI True 7 Category Nominating for: Forums Profile Link:  Reasons I feel this member should receive this award: True rose to take over DM during a very turbulent time with DM’s Founder, Co-div, div leader and Director all leaving in a span of 2-4 weeks.  I don’t mean to belittle the challenges that   other Leaders have had to face this year.  Well True started running her division with a trial by fire and could have tossed in the towel just accepting her situation she decided to make changes she slowly started building a team around her. True has recently been promoted to director leaving some great leaders that can continue the high standard she set in DM                                                  
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    KSI Greg 7 ™ got a reaction from I am FuzzyMeep™ in Of The Years: Nominations 2016 (Closes 24th December)   
    Name/ Gamer tag: Current Rank/ Title in KSI: Category Nominating for: Forums Profile Link:  Reasons I feel this member should receive this award:  
    Name/ Gamer tag: Current Rank/ Title in KSI: Category Nominating for: Forums Profile Link:  Reasons I feel this member should receive this award:  
    Name/ Gamer tag: KSI Ashhh 7 Current Rank/ Title in KSI: Div. Leader Category Nominating for: Div. Leader Forums Profile Link:  Reasons I feel this member should receive this award: ES started this year a couple Generals down but Ashhh persevered she trained up new Generals and started building momentum that continued into spirit week with ES being part of the first 3-way tie for 1st place.  Later Ashhh and ES went on to take 2nd place in a very completive tie breaker between ES WI and LS.  ES had a huge presence during spirit week competing in every event and always adding to the conversations on twitch live streams.   I would like to mention some of the other outstanding Div. leaders from this year KSI Collector 7, KSI Pansir 7, KSI Ascend 7 and, KSI MFL Swagg 7 all of whom made this a very hard decision.  
    Name/ Gamer tag: Current Rank/ Title in KSI: KSI True 7 Category Nominating for: Forums Profile Link:  Reasons I feel this member should receive this award: True rose to take over DM during a very turbulent time with DM’s Founder, Co-div, div leader and Director all leaving in a span of 2-4 weeks.  I don’t mean to belittle the challenges that   other Leaders have had to face this year.  Well True started running her division with a trial by fire and could have tossed in the towel just accepting her situation she decided to make changes she slowly started building a team around her. True has recently been promoted to director leaving some great leaders that can continue the high standard she set in DM                                                  
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