As a Leadership Coach, Speaker, and Consultant. When people hire me they want results. The challenge is unless they are ready to take a step in faith, no change will occur with them or their organization. In the book “The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership”, author John Maxwell describes “The Law of the Lid”. That law says the organization you lead is only as good as your own leadership ability. If you want to have a better organization, become a better leader.
John goes on to say that “everything rises and falls on leadership”. When he says “everything”, he truly means everything… including families, churches, schools, businesses, governments, and nations. The success of every organization is dependent upon its leadership.
If you need evidence to prove this point, simply open your Bible and read the Old Testament or study Hebrew culture. Ancient Israel thrived during times of great leadership, and suffered and finally fell under poor leaders (I will add that 95% of leadership failure is character failure Ex. Worldcom and most famous Enron). History clearly shows that strong, competent, high integrity leaders are needed for us to thrive.
I want to take this a step further and say that any significant, lasting positive change comes not just from good leadership, but from transformational leadership. All the major advancements in the world such as manned flight, disease-preventing vaccines, widespread utilization of automobiles, defeat of ruthless dictators, and dramatic changes in communication technology all resulted from transformational leadership.
