John Maxwell

And when I wrote the 20 Winner Refutable Laws of Leadership, I'd already written the book, Developing the Leader Within You, which basically says, in fact, Ed, that was the first book written that said you can develop yourself as a leader.

Up until that time, two things are very significant.

One is people thought leaders were kind of boring.

Secondly is, if you go back, because I wrote that in the late 1990s,

If you go back, there were no leadership books in bookshops.

They were management books.

I mean, Peter Drucker, he was a management guru.

But what happened, Ed, was you can't manage speed.

And so by the late, by the mid 1990s, things were happening so fast that you couldn't manage them anymore.

And somebody says, we got to get ahead of them.

And that's what leaders do.

They see more and before.

And so therefore all of a sudden leadership began to be the thing.

And so I said, you can develop yourself as a leader.

And then in developing yourself as a leader, I began with the lid saying to yourself, if you have a five, you can learn leadership skills.

You can go to a six with a lot of time working on your skills, get to seven.

Now, every time I raise my leadership lid, guess what I do?

Now I raise the room of potential for all the people on my team.

So when you raise your lid, you raise the lid of everybody around you.

And so, therefore, the law of the lid, I just said, if people can understand it and they can really learn it and they can embrace it and they can do it, they're not only going to help increase their ability and the people's ability, but also one more thing, Ed.