Stikkord: Leadership Development

– Leadership Ability Determines a Person’s Level of Effectiveness

(DAY 1 – The 21 Day Leadership Challenge)

Every leader has a ceiling. Maybe you’re destined to be the supreme master of the universe or maybe you can’t even get your dog to come when you call him. Think about your leadership lid and what you can do to push it higher.

Dig into it:

• 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.

• Let’s say you become a real student of leadership and you maximize your potential, taking it all the way up to a 7.

• 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.

Every no and then I read up some old books, and by old I mean before year 2000. I now not everybody would agree with me but I mean that very much have change in our society the last ten years.

But never the less I find it educational to read them anyhow. So the pile before me contains seven books from the same author starting with a book from 1998.

The author is John C. Maxwell and he is an internationally recognized leadership expert, speaker, coach, and author who has sold more than 19 million books. His organizations have trained more than two million leaders worldwide. Dr. Maxwell is the founder of EQUIP and INJOY Stewardship Services.

Every year he speaks to Fortune 500 companies, international government leaders, and organizations as diverse as the United States Military Academy at West Point, the National Football League, and ambassadors at the United Nations. A New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Business Week best-selling author, Maxwell was one of 25 authors named to Amazon.com’s 10th Anniversary Hall of Fame.

Three of his books, The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership, Developing the Leader Within You, and The 21 Indispensable Qualities of a Leader have each sold more than a million copies.

After reading the book and about the author I find out that it is also a 10´th anniversary edition from 2008.

So I’ve put together a 21 days leadership challenge. Starting in March the 1. and for the next 21 days, make it your mission to practice one of the laws of leadership. Someway, somehow, any way you can.

So the 1. Of March I will start this challenge.

Good luck!