One of my favorite and most challenging concepts I enjoy teaching insurance agency leaders is “The Law of the Lid.”
“The Law of the Lid” comes directly from the number one leadership expert in the world, from his number one leadership book, and just happens to be the first law in this book. The book is the 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership and the author is John C. Maxwell.
|Leadership ability & personal effectiveness
The law of lid is simply this: Leadership ability is the lid that determines a person's level of effectiveness.
I love teaching the law of the lid with insurance agency leaders because it illustrates that by raising their leadership ability they can multiply their agency’s results. At the same time, it creates a challenge because understanding this law means that you must also acknowledge that you as the leader are often your own problem and your own solution.
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