John Maxwell: Chick-fil-A Leadercast 2013

Best-selling author and leadership expert

Simply Lead

John Maxwell started this event with one location more than 10 years ago and today more than 120,000 people in 750 locations world-wide.

Warren Buffet: “Business schools reward complex behavior, but it is the simple things that makes you successful in life.
An Educator takes something simple and makes it complicated, but a Communicator takes something complicated and makes it simple.
A Genius is someone who takes the complex and makes it simple.
Connectors do the work of keeping it simple
It is not easy to be simple but it is effective.
It is easy to be simplistic but not easy to be simple.
It is a process to make things simple.

Simplistic is shallow and fast, no depth to it, very easily understood, but very shallow.

The Process to Get To Simple

In every of you biz you have to go from simplistic to complex, complex is deep and slow.

Example: Take the statement: “Experience is the best teacher”

Is experience really the best teacher? Experience is not really the best teacher, many people are getting older but not getting better

Complexity requires questioning. Complexity tells us that simplicity is a half-truth. After spending time in complexity then you will move to simple.

Simple=Deep & Fast

Deep & Fast is what you want in your leadership. You want to develop something that you can grab hold of and it is of value and depth to it.
Many used to say that Leadership=Position. I learned this is not so, lots of people with positions have no leadership abilities at all. They do not perform well as a leader despite holding a position. Position does not equal Leadership.
Leadership=Influence

Leadership is Influence, nothing more, nothing less!

Key Principle To Keep It Simple

Add Value To People Everyday!

If you really want to be an influencer add value people everyday
Everyone who has a positive influence with you is because they add value to you.
Intentionally add value to people every day
I ask the question at end of day: “Did I add value to someone today?”

Simple Math Formula for Expanding your Leadership by Expanding your Influence

A. Subtract Landmines From Your leadership.

All of us has certain parts of our leadership that can destroy us, these are our land mines.

B. Multiply Your Strengths By Developing Them

Your strengths are those things that you do well, those things that you excel in & are most effective in doing. These are where you are the most productive and add the most value to your organization.
Make sure that you find your strengths for this is where you where you will have your greatest level of influence.

You don’t have influence in your areas of weaknesses

C. Divide your weaknesses by delegating them.

Great Leaders get paid to put the ball in the right hands. These leaders know how to maximize the effectiveness of their organizations by using all the strengths of their different team members while minimizing the impact of their weakness by delegating those duties to team members who are strong in those areas.
Learn to pass off your weaknesses to others on your team who have those as strengths.
Your people already know your weaknesses, share them with your team so that they know you know your weaknesses.

Our problem is that we keep trying to find a leader to solve our problems. The right answer is be the leader that solves the problem.

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