These Qualities Will Make You a MAGNETIC Leader | John Maxwell EP 549

0:00Hi, my name is Lewis Howes and welcome to the Daily Motivation Show.

0:11What are the two or three leadership qualities that were the same 50 years ago? And then what is something maybe that is involved in leadership and communication that you see is a great asset to bring to the table and learn and develop and grow into as a leader? What got me into the leadership game was when I was in my 20s, I came to the conclusion, and this is what I'm known for, everything rises and falls on leadership. I became totally convinced of this. I studied successful people like you. And one day I just, I can remember saying, the key to success is being able to lead well. And when I wrote the 21 Laws of Leadership, the first law is the law of the lid.

0:57How well you lead determines how well you succeed. So everything rises and falls on leadership. When I became convinced that that was true, I also became convinced that that was something worthy of my time. That I could give my life to that. Because if it's true that everything rises and falls on leadership, if I can teach people how to lead, what an added value is going to be to them. So that I knew 50 years ago. I'm 76 now. What's beautiful about that is today, I believe it more than I believed at 26. It's been proven thousands of times that everything rises and falls on leadership. So I've given my life to something that really works and that is a true principle.

1:47And by the way, on rising, when leadership is good, there are two things that causes it to rise. And there are two things that causes it to fall. This is very simple. What causes leadership to rise is good leadership skills and good values. And you have to have both of them. You can't substitute one for the other. I know you have very good leadership skills, but they have very poor values. And what happens is if you have good leadership skills, but you don't have good values, you'll manipulate people and you'll be unfair to people. You know, it's not right to manipulate people. What are two or three skills and values that you've seen have proven the test of time of all types of leadership and all industries and avenues of life?

2:37Well, one of the leadership skills that is so essential is a soft skill, but it's foundational for leadership, and that is good relationships. You know, people won't go along with you if they can't get along with you. In fact, I tell leaders all the time, quit leading. When you stop loving people, stop leading people because it's not going to work if that makes sense to you. And so that's huge. And that's one of the things that we talk a lot about. The skill of the ability to cast vision. See, a lot of people can see something, but they can't cast it to make it contagious. And so how do you cast the vision to make it contagious?

3:19Well, it has to be contagious with you. And then secondly, you have to understand that you need others to accomplish it. So that's what causes you to cast it. There are a lot of people that are successful, but they're not leaders. They have a vision for themselves. They have a vision for their entrepreneurial. Perhaps they have a vision for their business. And so they do very well for themselves, but they don't lead others to it. When the vision is bigger than you, you have no choice. You've got to relate well to people. Then you have to make your vision contagious to people to get them to join you because one is too small of a number to achieve greatness.

3:53And so you have to have the ability to develop and create teams. That's a huge leadership skill that you have to have. The values, obviously the first value is just valuing people. You never add value people to people that you don't value. You just don't do it. And so if I devalue people, and that's one of the things that's heartbreaking to me today in leadership is the division that leaders cause. Great leaders unite their friends and divide their enemies. The leaders we have today, they divide their friends and unite their enemies. That's horrible. And so the ability to, you know, to, to build a team, these are all good skills, but the value of valuing people and integrity.

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