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[email protected] NOT FOR SALE! 1/135 THE 21 IRREFUTABLE LAWS OF LEADERSHIP FOLLOW THEM AND PEOPLE WILL FOLLOW YOU JOHN C. MAXWELL THOMAS NELSON PUBLISHERS NASHVILLE Copyright © 1998 by Maxwell Motivation, Inc., a Georgia corporation All rights reserved. Written permission must be secured from the publisher to use or reproduce any part of this book, except for brief quotations in critical reviews or articles. Scripture quotations noted CEV are from THE CONTEMPORARY ENGLISH VERSION. © 1991 by the American Bible Society. Used by permission. Published in Nashville, Tennessee, by Thomas Nelson, Inc. ISBN 0-7852-7431-6 To the hundreds of thousands of people to whom I’ve taught leadership over the years through conferences and books … and To you— the person wanting to become a better leader because everything rises and falls on leadership CONTENTS Encoded by: Dhon Reyes
[email protected] NOT FOR SALE! 2/135 FOREWORD Acknowledgments Introduction 1. The Law of the Lid Leadership Ability Determines a Person’s Level of Effectiveness Brothers Dick and Maurice came as close as they could to living the American Dream— without making it. Instead a guy named Ray did it with the company they had founded. It happened because they didn’t know the Law of the Lid. 2. The Law of Influence The True Measure of Leadership Is Influence—Nothing More, Nothing Less Her husband had everything: wealth, privilege, position, and a royal title. Yet instead of him, Princess Diana won over the whole world. Why? She understood the Law of Influence. 3. The Law of Process Leadership Develops Daily, Not in a Day Theodore Roosevelt helped create a world power, won a Nobel Peace Prize, and became president of the United States. But today you wouldn’t even know his name if he hadn’t known the Law of Process. 4. The Law of Navigation Anyone Can Steer the Ship, But It Takes a Leader to Chart the Course Using a fail-safe compass, Scott led his team of adventurers to the end of the earth—and to inglorious deaths. They would have lived if only he, their leader, had known the Law of Navigation. 5. The Law of E. F. Hutton When the Real Leader Speaks, People Listen Young John went into his first board meeting thinking he was in charge. He soon found out who the real leader was and learned the Law of E. F. Hutton in the process. 6. The Law of Solid Ground Trust Is the Foundation of Leadership If only Robert McNamara had known the Law of Solid Ground, the War in Vietnam—and everything that happened at home because of it—might have turned out differently. Encoded by: Dhon Reyes
[email protected] NOT FOR SALE! 3/135 7. The Law of Respect People Naturally Follow Leaders Stronger Than Themselves The odds were stacked against her in just about every possible way, but thousands and thousands of people called her their leader. Why? Because they could not escape the power of the Law of Respect. 8. The Law of Intuition Leaders Evaluate Everything With a Leadership Bias How is it that time after time Norman Schwarzkopf was able to sense problems while other leaders around him got blindsided? The answer lies in the factor that separates the great leaders from the merely good ones: the Law of Intuition. 9. The Law of Magnetism Who You Are Is Who You Attract Why are the Dallas Cowboys, once revered as “America’s Team,” now so often r