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“The one thing you need to know about leadership is that there is more than one thing you need to know about leadership!” To lead well, we must do 21 things well.
NO ONE DOES ALL 21 LAWS WELL
Once you’ve discovered in which laws you are average or below, begin looking for team members whose skills are strong where yours are weak.
none of us is as smart as all of us.
The higher you want to climb, the more you need leadership. The greater the impact you want to make, the greater your influence needs to be.
By raising your leadership ability—without increasing your success dedication at all—you can increase your original effectiveness by 600 percent.
“If he’d been a good leader, the organization wouldn’t be in the mess it’s in.”
when the real leader speaks, people listen.
Systems and processes can do only so much. To move people in a new direction, you need influence.
“It’s not the position that makes the leader; it’s the leader that makes the position.”
“Being in power is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren’t.”
the seven factors
LEADERS ARE LEARNERS
“you can be a great leader, but it won’t happen in a day. Start paying the price now.”
Champions don’t become champions in the ring—they are merely recognized there.
create a culture of growth.
“A leader is one who sees more than others see, who sees farther than others see, and who sees before others do.”
Successes teach you what you’re capable of doing and give you confidence. However, your failures often teach greater lessons.
Costco employees are paid an average of 42 percent more than the company’s chief rival. And Costco employees pay a fraction of the national average for health care. Sinegal believes that if you pay people well, “You get good people and good productivity.”
Are you making things better for the people who follow you? That’s it.
Great leadership means great service.
Inexperienced leaders are quick to lead before knowing anything about the people they intend to lead. But mature leaders listen, learn, and then lead.
people naturally follow leaders stronger than themselves.
Who you are dictates what you see.
Improvement is impossible without change.
Think about current projects or goals. Now imagine how you can accomplish them without doing any of the work yourself except for recruiting, empowering, and motivating others.
Who you attract is not determined by what you want. It’s determined by who you are.
If you think your people are negative, then you’d better check your attitude.
“People don’t care how much you know until they know how much you care.”
CONNECT WITH PEOPLE ONE AT A TIME
“I have seen competent leaders who stood in front of a platoon and all they saw was a platoon. But great leaders stand in front of a platoon and see it as forty-four individuals,
The secret is simple. I don’t try to talk to the thousands. I focus on talking to one person. That’s the only way to connect with people.
To connect with people in a group, relate to them as individuals.
When you give people hope, you give them a future.
If you want someone on your side, don’t try to convince him—connect with him.
It’s the leader’s job to initiate connection with the people.
Read books on communication,
Nobody does anything great alone. Leaders do not succeed alone.
success comes not from what you know but from who you know
Their insecurity made it impossible for them to give power to others.
The lower I want to push him, the more I have to bend down to do it. As I push him lower, I go lower. That’s the same way it is in leadership: to keep others down, you have to go down with them. And when you do that, you lose any power to lift others up.
Leading well is not about enriching yourself—it’s about empowering others.
greatest things happen only when you give others the credit.
“Leaders are paid to be dreamers. The higher you go in leadership, the more your work is about the future.”
Just as children watch their parents and emulate their behavior, so do employees watching their bosses. If the bosses come in late, then employees feel that they can, too. If the bosses cut corners, employees cut corners. People do what people see.
I would not teach anything I did not try to live out.
“Show me what you can do; don’t tell me what you can do.”
People buy Nike products because they have bought into Michael Jordan, not necessarily because of the quality of the products.
Leaders always find a way for the team to win.
“You’ve got to have great athletes to win, I don’t care who the coach is. You can’t win without good athletes, but you can lose with them. This is where coaching makes the difference.”
