Raise Your Leadership Lid

If you own a business or you are planning on starting one, you really need to invest your time and effort into becoming and learning to be a leader.  I know you have heard that leaders are born not created but that is not true.  Yes...some people are born with the natural ability to lead but some of the greatest leaders in history were not born that way but they grew into it.

I talk to business owners all the time who have never picked up a book on leadership or went to any type of seminar on how to be a good leader.  I cannot emphasize enough the need to learn good principals of leadership because the fact is that it will save you time, conflict and money in the long run.

There are tons of great books on leadership and you cannot go wrong at all with John Maxwell's materials.  They are in my opinion the best around.  I would begin with his book "The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership."  It was one of those laws I titled this post with...Raising Your Leadership Lid.

You see, some people have a leadership lid of 5 while really great leaders have a leadership lid of say 10 on a scale of 1 to 10.  If you have a leadership lid of 5, then those under you can only rise to a 4.  So if you are going to improve the quality of those under you, you have to raise your leadership lid.

You need to be pushing yourself to come up a little higher in your leadership.  I here business owners complain all the time that the people that work for them are not up to par and want take initiative.  However, when I stop to observe them, they are not up to par and they don't take initiative either.  They think that somehow because they are the owner or manager of a business that they have arrived at the appex yet they struggle to succeed and are unhappy.

One thing I know for sure is that when you learn new things and you challenge yourself to rise to another level, you develop a greater sense of well-being and personal expansion.  The mind was meant to be challenged and is the greatest super computer on the planet.  Some experts say that we only use about 10% of our minds real capabilities. 

If your struggling in your business and personal life, maybe it is time for a challenge and I am not talking about the ones you are currently facing.  It maybe that if you seek to raise your leadership skills that you will discover solutions to the problems you are facing now. 

I want to encourage to start to do something now.  Get a book on leadership and go through like a text book.  Take notes and write down areas of application and then take action.

It's time to raise the lid on your leadership.