John Maxwell

Law number one, the law of the lid.

The law of the lid says leadership determines the level of effectiveness.

Now this is a huge law, and although I say one law is not more important than any other law, here's what I do want you to know.

If I would start off with any law, I must start off with this one, and here's why.

Because if you can buy into this law in the next five to six minutes as I talk to you, if you can buy into this law, you'll have a great passion to learn all the others, and let me explain why.

I'm gonna illustrate the importance of this law by using my hands.

Watch this for a moment.

It's kind of a visual illustration.

Let's say, for example, my left hand here represents my ability to lead people.

This is how well John Maxwell leads people.

This is my leadership lid, okay?

If this hand is my leadership,

And if this hand is my business, in other words, my company, my department that I'm overseeing, okay, whatever I'm in charge of, here's what I want you to understand.

My department, my business, my company, my organization, here's what I want you to understand.

The lid of my leadership will never allow my business

to get any higher.

In other words, if this truly is my leadership lid, my company, my business, my department, my organization, whatever it is, it can never get any higher than the lid of my leadership.

In other words, your leadership, my leadership, our leadership lid, whatever it is, is going to literally control and determine the size of our business.

Now, this is huge.

If I were sitting where you are right now and I was taking notes, what I'd be saying to myself is something like this.