The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership: Follow Them and People Will Follow You

People don’t follow others by accident. They follow individuals whose leadership they respect.

But the Law of Sacrifice demands that the greater the leader, the more he must give up.

leadership ability is the lid that determines a person’s level of effectiveness. The lower an individual’s ability to lead, the lower the lid on his potential. The higher the individual’s ability to lead, the higher the lid on his potential.

When it comes to working with people, the heart comes before the head.

The larger the organization, the more clearly the leader has to be able to see ahead. That’s true because sheer size makes midcourse corrections more difficult. And if there are errors in navigation, many more people are affected than when a leader is traveling alone or with only a few people.

You’ve got to have faith that you can take your people all the way. If you can’t confidently make the trip in your mind, you’re not going to be able to take it in real life.

Navigating leaders get ideas from many sources. They listen to members of their leadership team. They talk to the people in their organization to find out what’s happening on the grassroots level. And they spend time with leaders from outside the organization who can mentor them. They always think in terms of relying on a team, not just themselves.

the ability to lead is really a collection of skills, nearly all of which can be learned and improved.

“You must retain faith that you will prevail in the end and you must also confront the most brutal facts of your current reality.”3