John Maxwell

their lid numbers.

What's my plan?

How am I going to increase the lid numbers of those around me?

Law number one, the law of the lid.

Ed, I love you, and I always love being with you, and I love when we get to do stuff together.

I wrote it to find myself.

A lot of times what we write is for ourselves and then we say, hey, this helped me.

Maybe it'll go help someone else.

But I wrote the 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership.

Interestingly enough, the idea came on a golf course.

You and I love to play golf.

I was playing golf with one of my publishers.

And he said, John, I just finished reading a book on the laws of management.

And he said, it was a terrific book.

So I said, Victor, I wanna write a book on the laws of leadership.

And then I began to ask myself, okay,

what really makes a law?

Because, I mean, you can have a good principle, you can have a good thought on leadership, but the word law kind of gives gravitas.

It's kind of like, this is kind of bigger than a principle.

So I, first of all, developed kind of a grid.