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A Leader’s Lasting Value Is Measured by Succession
Max Depree, Author of Leadership Is an Art, declared “Succession is one of the key responsibilities of leadership”.
Achievement comes to someone when he is able to do great things for himself; success comes when he empowers followers to do great things with him; significance comes when he develops leaders to do great things for him; but a legacy is created only when a person puts his organization into the position to do great things without him.
Success is not majored by what you are leaving to, but by what you are leaving behind. When all is said and done, you ability to leadership will not be judged by what you achieved personally, or even by what your team accomplished during your years, you will be judged by how well your people and your organization did after you were gone. Lasting value is majored by succession.
This is the end of 21 Laws of Leadership.
John Maxwell summarized the following:
Everything rises and falls on leadership. The more you try to do in life, the more you’ll find leadership really does make the difference.
Personnel determine the potential of the organization; relationships determine the morale of the organization; structure determines the size of the organization; vision determines the direction of the organization; but leadership determines the success of the organization.
Learn to lead, not for yourself but for the people who follow behind you. As you reach the highest levels, don’t forget to take others with you to be the leaders of tomorrow.
To Multiply, Lead Leaders
Follower’s Math VS Leader’s Math
Leaders who develop followers grow their organization only one person at a time; but leaders who develop leaders multiply their group. Because for every leader they develop, they also receive all that leader’s followers. Add 10 followers to your organization and you have the power of 10 people; add 10 leaders to your organization, and you have the power of 10 leaders times all the followers and the leaders they influence. That’s the difference between addition and multiplication. To add growth, lead followers; to multiply growth, lead leaders.
Becoming a leader who develops leaders requires an entirely different focus from that of developer of followers. Consider some of the differences:
Leaders who develop followers want to be needed; leaders who develop leaders want to be succeeded.
Leaders who develop followers focus on weaknesses while leaders who develop leaders focus on strengths.
Leaders who develop followers develop the bottom 20%; leaders who develop leaders develop the top 20%.
Leaders who develop followers treat their people the same; leaders who develop leaders treat their people different.
Leaders who develop followers hold power; leaders who develop leaders give their power away.
Leaders who develop followers spend time with others; leaders who develop leaders invest time in others.
Leaders who develop followers grow by addition; leaders who develop leaders grow by multiplication.
Leaders who develop followers impact people only they can touch personally; leaders who develop leaders impact people far beyond their own reach.
When to Lead Is as Important as What do Do and Where to Go
The Law of Timing is a double-edge sword. Great leaders recognize when to lead is as important as what to do and where to go.
Every time a leader makes a move, there are really only four outcomes that can result:
If the leader performs the wrong action at the wrong time, it leads to a disaster;
If he performs the right action at the wrong time, it brings resistance;
When he does the wrong action at the right time, people see it as a mistake;
But the right action at the right time results in success.
The Law of Timing ever seems to be more apparent than before as the consequences are so dramatic and immediate.
Reading the situation and knowing what to do is not enough to make a leader succeed. Only the right action at the right time will bring success. Anything else exacts the high price.
A Leader Must Give up to Go up
Many people today want to climb up the corporate ladder, believing that freedom and power are the prizes waiting at the top, they don’t realize that the true nature of leadership is really sacrifice, it is a constant in leadership and ongoing process, not a one-time payment.
Leaders who want to rise has to do even more than occasional cut in pay, they have to give up their rights. Gerald Brooks says, “When you become a leader, you lose the right to think about yourself.”
The Law of Sacrifice demands, “The greater the leader, the more he must give up”.
Leaders Understand That Activity Is Not Necessarily Accomplishment.
Leaders never grow to a point where they no longer need to prioritize. It’s something that leaders keep doing.
All successful people live according to priorities.
Great success cOmes only when you focus your people on what really matters.
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