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This is the Ed Mylet Show. All right, welcome back to the show, everybody. So I cannot tell you how excited I am to let you know that
“every week on Thursdays, we are releasing what I believe is the greatest series in the history of any book written on the topic of leadership.”
You will now get access to either through audio or video on our channel the 21-year Refutable Laws of leadership. With John Maxwell himself, every single week, each lesson, each law broken down by the master directly through the camera or through your headphones. Into your life here on the Ed Mylet Show. We've structured this journey into three distinct sessions to help you master these principles. Session one is your foundation. The internal character required to lead. Session two moves into your influence.
How you connect and how you build elite teams and Session three is about legacy. How you multiply your impact for generations. Leadership is a discipline. It's not a title. In every episode, I'm giving you the rep. One clear high stakes action for you to execute that week. To track your progress, we've created a full 21-page leadership workbook. Just click the link in the show notes right now to download the entire playbook. It's free. Our gift to you. Between each session, John Maxwell and I are hosting Q&A sessions to solve your specific leadership struggles. Isn't that incredible?
“So if you want us to answer your question, here's how you do it. When you click the link to download your free workbook,”
you'll see a section to submit your leadership question directly to John and I. We're pulling our Q&A topics directly from that list. So if you want your situation navigated by John and me,
get that workbook and submit your question ASAP. We've never done anything like this on the show. I'm so excited.
So I hope you enjoy it, everybody. God bless you. Max out. So leadership is one of the most discussed topics on planet Earth. It's also one of the most misunderstood. My education on leaderships comes from one man and it's a book that number one sold book in the history of leadership books at 21-year feudal laws of leadership. Written by the man to my left who also happens to be my hero. We're going to get in the nitty gritty on leadership here today, everybody. With the number one expert on
planet Earth, Mr. John Maxwell, John, welcome back to the show. And I love you and I always love being with you.
“And I love when we get to do stuff together. I do too. I do. You are my hero as everybody knows.”
And my first introduction to you was actually this book. Did you write it to find me or why did you actually
write the book? I wrote it to find myself. A lot of times what we write is for ourselves and then we say, "Hey, this helped me. Maybe it'll help someone else." But I wrote the 21-year-old irrefutable laws of leadership. Interestingly enough, the idea came on a golf course. You and I love to play golf. I was playing golf with one of my publishers. I said, "John, I just finished reading a book on the laws of management." And he said, "It was a terrific book." So I said, "Victor,
I want to write a book on the laws of leadership." And then I began to ask myself, "Okay, what really makes a law?" Because I mean, you can have a good principle. You can have a good thought on leadership. But the word law kind of gives gravitas. It's kind of like,
this is kind of bigger than a principle. So I first of all developed kind of a grid. What would be a
law of leadership? And it has to be obviously about leadership. But it has to be, for example, timeless. If it's truly a law, I mean, the law of gravity, it's a law. I mean, it doesn't come in and go out with time. So it has to be timeless. It has to be able, I have to be able to it has to fit in every culture, it has to be fifth, male and female, it has to fit all of that. And it has to have positive life change in people's life. So I began to list what these laws were
and literally for two years. All I did was work with what would be a law of leadership in two years. And I started off with about 60. I was going to ask you. And then just kept whistling down, whittling down. And then I've talked to people like you and I'd say, "Do you think this is truly a law?" And sometimes they'd strike it down. So anyway, after a couple of years, I got to the 21
Irrefutable laws of leadership.
tour with it around the world because it became a best seller the first week it came out and it just
“stayed there on the best seller. And in fact, the 21 irrefutable laws of leadership sells as many”
books today, 20 plus years later, as it did the day the book came out. You're kidding me. It's just, it just keeps on going. I got to tell you on this show, you know, I probably interviewed 800, oh, going on 1,000 people. And one of the things people actually, what are these folks all have in common? And they're not all of them have something in common. But the vast majority of them have told me they've read this book. In fact, last week, the last podcast that I did was a gentleman
who was the president of Tesla for 10 years. And as the interview was over in passing, he asked me if I knew you because you're also his hero. And I said, in fact, I do, I consider him one of my great friends. He said, well, the 21 irrefutable laws of leadership changed my life. I'm curious of all of the laws, is there one that stood out to you? I kind of know the answer. But is there one that stands out more than others? Are they all like children you love them equally? Well, I love them, but not equally.
The law of the lead, which is the first one, and I put it first, and here's why, if a person buys
into the law of the lead, and I want us to talk about it for a moment, if they buy into the law of the lead, they'll buy into the other 20 laws. Okay, that's a fact. And the law of the lead just says, how well you lead determines how well you succeed. In other words, the reason I began teaching on leadership, I was in my 20s, and I came to the conclusion that everything rises and falls on leadership. And when I came to that conclusion, I said to myself, if that is true,
that if I can teach myself, if I can teach other people how to lead well, then it'll rise. Well, now we're taking that lead and it's going up. And if I don't know well, of course, it can fall.
“So the law of the lead basically just says that the most important thing you can do to succeed in life,”
really learn, and that's true in business, that's true in government, that's true in ministry, the ability to learn how to lead, because how well I lead, not only determines how well I succeed, how well I lead determines how well the people that are on my team succeed. So let's say that between a one and a ten, I'm an average leader, I'm a five. What that means is that my organization will come up to my lead of leadership, and it will be probably a four, but it cannot be a six or
seven, because in the history of mankind, no organization has risen higher than the leadership lid of those who lead it. It just doesn't happen. Now here's the good news, you can grow as a leader. And when I wrote the 20 winner if you'd have bought all those of leadership, I'd already written the book developing the leader within, which basically says, in fact, Ed, that was the first book written that said you can develop yourself as a leader.
Up until that time, two things are very significant. One is people thought leaders are kind of born. Secondly is, if you go back, because I wrote that in the late 1990s, if you go back, there were no leadership books in books. Wow, they were management books. I mean, Peter Drucker, he was a management group or a new, but what happened Ed was, you can't manage speed. And so by the late, by the mid 1990s, things were happening so
fast that you couldn't manage him anymore. And somebody says, we got to get ahead of them.
“And that's what leaders do. They see more and before. And so therefore, all of a sudden,”
leadership began to be the thing. And so I said, you can develop yourself as a leader. And then in developing yourself as a leader, I began with the list saying to you. So if you have a five, you can't learn leadership skills. You can go to a sixth with a lot of time, working on your skills, get to seven. Now every time I raise my leadership lid, guess what? Now, I raise the room, a potential for all the people on my team. So so when you raise your lid,
you raise the lid of everybody around you. And so therefore, the law of the lid, just, I just said, if people can understand it and they can really learn it and they can embrace it and they can do it, they're not only going to help increase their ability and the people's ability, but also one more thing Ed, when I raise my lid, if I'm a five as a leader, guess who I attract, fours,
three, two, and one. Great. In the history mankind, there's never been a person that is a nine,
they want to follow a five. And so therefore, every time I raise my leadership lid, I also raise the quality, the type of person I attract, because in the 21 laws, the law of magnetism is we attract who we are, not who we want. And so everybody's people, time will say, they'll say, well, I would like to have people that you hardworking, great attitude, you know, teachable, and I'm taking my little list of winners done. I look how I say now,
are you hardworking, are you teachable? Because if you have those qualities, people will migrate.
If you don't have those qualities, they won't.
it helps us improve our leadership. It's just, it's kind of like the essential law that if you get it,
“then now you say, I want to learn all the other 20, because now they're going to help me,”
what all the other 20, whether they help me raise my lid. So I got to tell you, when we start of this podcast, we were totally lost. We had no idea what we were doing. You know, starting a new business can be intimidating, and we didn't know how to do anything. We didn't know how to do move merch, how to post online, how to write copyright. Let's do anything. I recommend you do what I've done and what millions of other businesses done and use the tool of Shopify. Shopify's the
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on a regular basis where we're getting access to these laws. It's just mind blowing to me. But one of the other things that you've done for me, you've changed the definition for me of what a leader is or looks like, meaning this and I think a lot of people feel this way. I'd like you speak to it. I think they think they're not a leader. I think when they picture a leader, they're picturing someone who's the CEO of a company. It's a position or they're the head coach
of the Dallas Cowboys. Now that's a leader, but me, I'm not a leader, right? They're thinking about themselves. Of course. Who, how do you know if you are one? You don't want to start it off. I knew
“that if I was going to talk about leadership, I was going to have to define what I think it is.”
So after a much time, a lot of time, I came up with a conclusion that leadership is influence. Nothing more, nothing less. Your ability to influence people. In fact, I love that problem. He says he think of the leader than half-know-one following it. It's only taking a walk. And in fact, I wrote a book called The 360-degree leader that helps a person know where you can lead from the middle of the pack and lead up. You can lead besides you can lead others. And the
moment that we understand that leadership is influence, then all of a sudden, mom, at home. This is a winner, man. I'm a leader. I've influenced with my family. I've been in my children. And the reason I wanted everybody to understand that is, in our own world, to our own degree, had we all influence me. The moment I feel that I can influence people, now it gives a gravitas for me to learn how to do it. And so let's get a rid of the leader titles and all that.
And let's just say, look, where you are, what you're doing right now matters. So now, learn to use influence in a positive way to help people where you are right now. And you'll begin to add value to them. And once you add value to people, then I promise you they'll follow you. If someone's watching this week by week, would there be some advice you would give them if they they watch one of the laws or listen to one of the laws? Is there something that you would recommend
they do as they're doing that weekly? Some sort of daily practice, of course. First of you know,
as well as I do, Ed, if you don't practice it, it doesn't happen. I mean, action is. In fact, I had somebody that they said, "Now, what's the best action to take?" And I said, "Any action? Would you just get going in the game?" Because you and I know that it's the action that allows us to learn when I start moving. I find out a lot about myself. I find out a lot about my journey to what I'm doing. So what I tell the people is in fact,
another one of the 21-year feudal laws of leadership is the law of process that says leaders develop daily, not in a day. So as you're watching this weekly, understand, it's a process, okay?
Take one at a time and practice them.
The ability and the willingness to take action will give you what you need to know that you don't
know now. The big mistake people have is to say, "As soon as I figure it out, I'll do it."
“And I look at myself, "No, no, no, you have to do it to figure it out." And so I would take each”
law and I would practice them and take it slowly and understand in a few months. I can promise you
you're going to be a better leader than you are right now. And that's okay. By the way, I'm 79.
“I'm still growing every day. I'm still practicing every day. I'm still learning every day.”
And once you begin to learn the process of growth, you develop leadership growth capacity.
And now you have the ability to learn more quicker and in greater degrees because you've
“increased your capacity. So start now, start slow, but go. Trust me. You'll begin to see growth in your”
life. You'll find out sooner or later that you'll not go to the next level. You'll start to grow to the next level. So good. Everybody, I just feel so blessed that we're doing this. I'm so blessed that you're in my life. I'm blessed that I can't believe I love you. I can't believe we're doing this on the channel. They're getting access to this. It's like this is like a dream come true for me. There are 21 irrefutable laws of leadership, but there is one undisputed
go to all time on the leadership topic. And that is this man to my left. And so thank you so much. Thank John and Maxwell for being a part of the show. It's my joy. Love you, man. I love you too. Enjoy everybody. God bless you. Max out. This is the end of my life, Sean.
