John Maxwell

It's a little bit ticked that I'm not catching this, you know.

And he's looking at me.

He said, John, listen to me.

He said, if the president were any good, the company wouldn't be going bankrupt.

The first thing we do is fire the president.

I remember finally saying it.

fire the president.

You know what he was teaching me that day?

He was teaching me the law of the lid.

What he was really saying to me is that it's an absolute fact that in any organization, everything rises and falls on leadership.

And the leadership of that organization will determine the size of that organization.

And so therefore, when you have a good company that's thriving and doing great business and excelling, you've got good leadership.

And when you've got a company that's stagnant and it's going downhill and it's not going well, I can promise you, you have bad leadership.

Everything rises and falls on leadership.

Now let me tell you what that law did for me as a leader.

That day when I walked out from the table, after listening to Don talk to me, that day what I realized was that I was responsible as a leader.

That I had to now take responsibility for my organization, I had to take responsibility for my people, I had to take responsibility for the success of my company, that I couldn't go and blame someone else.

I read a statement recently that's just powerful.

Here's what it is.

It's easier to go from failure to success than it is to go from excuses to success.