November is here! This means, we are going to take a month break from the 21 Laws by Maxwell for some variety before finishing out laws #15-21 in the New Year. Specific to today..  I want to take a step back around leadership and focus on the 1 key ingredient to leadership success. As I…

As John Maxwell writes in The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership.. “Victorious leaders have one thing in common: they share an unwillingness to accept defeat.”  This is probably 1 of my favorite laws of leadership.  In fact, it’s why I LOVE the saying “winners-win”. As if you cannot drive a winning culture, you will not…

The ​Law of Buy-In​ says, “​People buy into the leader, then the vision. ​”  Maxwell writes, “​many people who approach the area of vision in leadership have it all backward.  They believe that if the cause is good enough, people will automatically buy into it and follow. That’s a false belief, as you must remember.…

Maxwell describes the Law of the Picture:  “When leaders show the way with the right actions, their followers model them and succeed.”  Yes, that’s right. A leader’s job is to create a picture which serves as a model for their team.  Although there’s a dichotomy in this. As at the same time.. The leader cannot…

In his chapter on the Law of the Inner Circle, Maxwell expresses no one leader can excel at all the 21 laws. Nor does 1 person have enough bandwidth to execute the entire vision of an organization.  Especially if that vision makes a true impact.  This is why every leader needs a team. And as…