John C. Maxwell - Law Of Explosive Growth!

law number 20 the 20th law is what I call the law of explosive growth and the law of explosive growth says to add growth lead followers but if you want to multiply your growth you've got to lead leaders there's a difference between followers math and leaders math let me give it to you followers math is addition leaders math is multiplication and you and I in the law of explosive growth have got to get in the vein of multiplication and 90% of all leaders gather followers and not leaders and there are three reasons for that number one leaders are hard to find number two leaders are hard together and number three leaders are hard to hold that's a fact and because of those three reasons often our tendency is to leave followers instead of leading leaders so what I'm going to do in this lesson this is a very important exercise I want to share with you the differences between developing leaders and developing followers now let me give you the background of this for some time I have known that some leaders you just look at them and you go to some organizations you go to some businesses you go to some companies you go to some churches yeah you just got leaders who are they raise up leaders and then you go to other organizations and you got leaders and they're good leaders but they don't have any leaders you just say okay why do some have leaders and some not so over the process of studying people I came to the conclusion that there were some distinct differences I would watch I would study and I would get on my legal pad and write down my thoughts there are some distinct differences between leaders who develop followers and leaders who develop leaders and this is going to be this is going to be highly helpful and very practical for you so let me give them to you and and some of them I'll talk about some of them I'll just have to have to give them to you to write down here we go number one is the desire the desire is different between leaders to develop leaders and leaders to develop followers let me illustrate it to you here here we go leaders who develop followers need to be needed and leaders who develop leaders want to be succeeded and there's a world of difference between those two the desire is is as far apart as east is from west leaders who develop leaders who develop followers need to be needed leaders who develop leaders want to be succeeded in other words one wants people needing them and the other one wants people succeeding them one wants to keep a job and have people saying oh we need you we can't make it without you and the other one wants to be able to equip somebody to the job and walk away from it now now what I want I'm going to ask you to do something in this section because this will be very helpful as I give you the differences between leaders and develop followers and leaders develop leaders I want you to put a check mark by the one that you favor now I'm not coming back and look at your notes so don't worry about it okay here's a thought have an honest moment I don't want to press you too much but do your best in other words which camp are you in are you a person that you like to be needed now by the way I want stop it from one there's nothing wrong with this I just want you to settle in where you are are you a person that likes to be needed are you a person that you would like to be succeeded for example and I could give you a classic example that people asked me when I resigned skyline and Margaret and I left they said well how hard was the adjustment of leaving the church well it's a typical adjustment you got a you leave people that you love do you leave people that you're with for 14 years but if you really want to know the honest truth it wasn't a very big adjustment now you say Oh Chun you're so callous no no I'm not cows I love them dearly laughed with them cried with him worked with them but but but you have to understand my wife in me first of all my life isn't my church here's the thought I have a life and my identity isn't my church and my ego fulfilment isn't my church see my best friend is my wife Margaret we're best friends we happen to be lovers and a few other things that are none of your business - but the bottom line is she's my best friend and so we've never thrown ourselves into church like well this is everything no no church has been wonderful but it's something everything I mean there's going to be a day when I don't have the enjoy group enjoy groups not everything I love the enjoy group but it's not everything there's gonna be a day when Margaret and I are sitting out on the porch of life in a rocking chair gumming ourselves to death and you you know and she's gonna look at me and she's gonna say that well you know I you know what's your name what's your name I know you you see when you really get boil everything down the only thing really is going to count in life is when ever life is over she looks at me and says John you've been a great husband and I look at her and say boy the best decision I ever made was to marry you and my kids look at me and say dad you've given us all the advantages of life you taught us to love God and we're gonna try to carry your legacy on I mean when you think about life isn't very complicated and my wife never let the church make her the first lady she isn't the first lady for the church she's the first lady for me now she happens to be a lady that's in the church but she ain't the first lady so we don't have pedestals and we don't have scepters we don't have crowns and I never let the church put me up on some kind of a pedestal and boul down and say Oh your holiness how are you today my name is John I don't take myself seriously love the church but I can say goodbye and not turn back in fact the whole time I was there I was working hard to equip the church so I could work myself out of a job and I'm still doing it today as I'm building and developing the enjoy group as soon as I get good leaders and train them I turn it over to them and I quit doing that I love I love I love to give other people responsibility I'd like to play more golf in the name Jesus if you have a strong need to be needed you'll never grow leaders because you'll always want them dependent on you oh I got to have you could you give me this answer what do you think Oh could you please pray this prayer for me if you have that strong need you'll never grow leaders because you'll want everybody depend upon you you know I love my kids but I don't want my kids dependent upon me my son Joel now he's a sophomore in college my daughter Elizabeth she's a seventh year senior I think she's made school her life work now let's say something elegant I love my kids and they're both great kids but Kent is something I'm glad they're growing up you know one I wanted to get going I want him to enjoy their life I wanted to have their own life and I loved being an empty nester I'm sorry but I suppose I should feel guilty but Margot and I like being alone I now I can chase her in any room I want to this is this is wonderful I better get to number two before I get into deep weeds probably already am there's a difference not only in the desire there's a difference also in the focus let me explain leaders who develop early leaders who develop I'm sorry followers focus on the weaknesses of people this is a fact you can go to the bank on this one leaders who develop followers focus on the weaknesses of people and leaders who develop leaders focus on the strengths of people now this isn't going to thrill all of you but we've been together long enough that you know my name is John and I'm your friend okay I would consider that a proper response right there that is so much fun I love by the way Pastor just let me stop when something funny like that happens in your preaching stop and just enjoy it laugh with your people it's truthfully it'll be the highlight of their morning I learned a long time you don't fight that ride with it yeah ten years from now when they remember your church service they'll remember that not what you said now what I talked about the differences in the focus leaders who develop followers they focus on the weaknesses now now here's what I want there's one what you catch beside that that statement put counselor you're not going to like this but go ahead and do it and beside leaders that develop leaders focus on strengths of people put equip er I've just told you right there that most counselors do not develop leaders because most counselors are always dealing with the weaknesses where is if you equip people what do you do you equip them according to their strengths now I'm not going to do either/or on you because that's too dogmatic and I'm certainly not going to in any way slam counseling because I think counseling is very helpful it sure has helped me in my past it sure helped my wife and I and our marriage it sure helped them our kids so I'm not anti counseling here all I'm going to say to you is this if you are a counselor type pastor you almost always are dealing with the weaknesses of your people if you're an equip or type pastor you almost always are dealing with the strengths of people one develops followers the other develops leaders in fact I have a minor in counseling and in the first few years of my ministry I did a lot of counseling until I realized that it was quite worthless for me I'm not a good counselor in fact I would always tell my congregation if I needed help I wouldn't go to myself for counseling I wouldn't the day that I in the day that I went from a counseling pastor to an equipping pastor is the day I went from a leader who had followers to a leader who had leaders and you spent an awful lot of time in counseling working with weaknesses my suggestion would be find out good counselors find out good psychologists find out good social workers psychiatrists those wonderful people in your community Christian people that can help and do referrals all to them and just look at people and I know pastor said well by people they just want me it's because you want them to want you I know what your problem is don't come with that stuff to me because all I can tell you how you can get rid of your counseling load just tell people you're not any good at it you know just just to the people say I just want you to know I don't even follow my own advice and the moment that you begin to make fun of yourself they'll quit coming or they'll make fun of you see when we draw people to ourselves it's because there is a deep need that we have okay the third difference is in the area of priorities leaders who develop followers devote attention to the bottom 20% and leaders who develop leaders devote attention to the top 20% does that make sense remember the pret dough principle if you have if you if you give the top 20% 80% of your efforts you'll get an 80% return but if you give the bottom 20% 80% of your effort you only get a 20% return number for abilities leaders who develop followers are good leaders but leaders who develop leaders are great leaders one of the reason many leaders don't develop leaders is it takes a higher quality of leader it takes a higher quality of leader to do leaders and let me go back to an illustration I've used but this works so well in all the laws I can almost give this illustration all the laws let me give it here though what's this if from a 1 to a 10 I'm a 9 or a 10 as a leader in other words I'm a very good leader if I write at the top as a leader guess what if I'm a 10 I can have a lot of tens and nines right around me isn't that true so therefore I'm developing leaders but can I take some if I'm only a six as a leader that now all of a sudden I've cut out the best leaders because eights and nines and tens aren't going to follow me so if I'm a six is the leader I'm going to have a bunch of fives and four and so therefore I'm not going to be able to develop leaders only because I'm not dealing with people that have the qualities and the characteristics and the gifts and the abilities to be leaders does this make sense now watch this a 10 if you're a 10 which is tops as a leader if you're a 10 as a leader you will hire other tens around you you're very comfortable with 10 you're 10 you want tens so if you're a 10 you'll hire tens if you're an 8 you'll hire seven now watch this if you're a six you'll hire fours if you're a four you'll hire once the lower you go the wider the gap you want between yourself and others I wish I had time to teach that because I want to promise you I just gave you some incredible leadership wisdom when it comes to developing leaders around you the better your ability the better leaders you're going to raise around you and again here's the challenge because you can learn to lead if you're a six or seven get up there another not so good every time you go up a notch you increase your capacity now oh-ho I always had time for this one watch this one every time you go up a notch you increase your capacity 10% does that make sense if I was a five and I go to a six I increase my capacity 10% if I'm a six I go to seven I created I now have a capacity 10 more percent now watch this but it's not really true you don't increase your capacity 10 percent because every time you go up on those higher numbers you get better people and now isn't a 10% because all increments and all numbers aren't equal so when you go from an 8 to a 9 although you go a 10% number you may increase your capacity 20% because now you're getting a higher quality person who I wish I had time to teach that number 5 there's a difference in attitude leaders who develop followers lift up themselves and leaders who develop leaders lift up others total difference if you want followers you're going to want to look good if you're lifting up leaders you want them to look good it's goes back to the old Mark Twain scene it's wonderful when the leader of an organization doesn't care who gets the credit number six time leaders who develop followers spend time with people and leaders who develop leaders invest time with people a lot of difference number seven expectations leaders who develop followers ask for little commitment leaders who develop leaders ask for much commitment a lot of difference number eight leadership leaders who develop followers lead everyone the same leaders who develop leaders lead everyone differently in other words leaders have developed leaders they don't try to lead everybody the same and by the way quit trying to be fair this fairness stuff it's killing us it's just killing us what what do you woody and well I got to give well I've got to get everybody in my organization in equal amount of time why would you do something that stupid when the Lord teaches the lesson of the talents he gave 1/5 gave 1 to it and gave 1 1 in game all the same equal amount now you say why don't like that I don't care if you like it or not talk to God they didn't all have equal amount of it get abilities they don't have and by the way they not only didn't have an equal amount of abilities they didn't all have equal amount of responsibility either so it that's exactly right the ones who had the ability got the more responsibility now now this is this is a powerful truth quit trying to to church people a lot of times though they'll talk to a pastor and they said well pastor you're spending more time with those folks than with us and I don't want it too often often I want to say well of course I am you're a wimpy whiny person why would I want to spend much time with you your spouse doesn't even like spend time with you what do you have to do pay people to do it just a thought it's a thought we have to understand you're not supposed to treat everybody the same I mean when the Chicago Bulls were playing Utah and there were five seconds left and let's say that Utah was ahead and this is the deciding game of the world championship in basketball and Phil Jackson stands up last year and it calls timeout and he brings the team around him and they got the ball at half-court they got five seconds they got one shot and so he got his clipboard out there and he is drawing an X no and he is designing the blast plan that's going to determine the world champion and while he's doing that 20,000 people are standing on their feet in the United Center and they're clapping and cheering by the way while while Phil Jackson is mapping out the last play everybody in the entire arena knows what he is singing because when he gets that X in an Owen he's going to get the ball to Michael this is an IQ test can't just seem done Texan Owen has the play he's going to have he's gonna have a double a double pick out there on the top of the key and Michael's want to slide around and one guard is going to bounce pass it to him and I was going to go up about 21 feet from the bucket and do that wonderful patented jump shot and I mean he's just getting ready I mean they're ready to break the huddle he's call the play Michael's going to take the last shot which is the person you want to take the last shot if the World Championship is in somebody's hands you wanted to be in Michels and they're ready to break the huddle and just right before they get to break the hold on can't you see one of the other players on team going excuse me excuse me coach excuse me can I say something yeah what do you what do you want what you want will you hurry up we got it we got to get it what do you want well go giant I don't know how to say this there's some something something that's troubling my spirit coach um coach um I think this is just an oversight and it's okay coach it's I think it's my turn to shoot the ball what well coach um Michael shot the ball 17 times and I've only got it shoot it for and in and all in all fairness it really is it really is my turn now can't you see coach Jackson kids team looking at this wimpy whiny person catch him I just go I am I am so sorry can can you forgive my insensitivity towards you of course it's your turn Michael throw the ball to him are you kidding no Phil Jackson's no look at this wimpy whiny guy and say shut up sit down not idle say I'll go to the locker room you're fired you're off the team don't come back why I'll tell you why because the coach the leader realizes that he's got a selfies person who is now putting his interest above the interest of the team if old Phil Jackson lets that kid shoot that shot and he misses it the next day and the Chicago Tribune on the sports page it will say Phil Jackson is a stupid COO here he's got Michael on his team and he doesn't let Michael shoot the ball everybody says that's the dumbest thing white Lemm cash you question why is it the 20,000 fans of the United Center can figure out when the coach is stupid and people in the church can't figure it out about their leader just a thought you're not supposed to be fair as a leader you don't treat everybody it's not now now now that you treat them all with love you treat them all the respect but you don't spend an equal amount of time you don't give them all an equal amount of of resources no no no you've got it you've got to run with your leaders again one more thing number nine the difference this is the difference between leaders who develop followers and leaders to develop leaders is in the area of impact leaders who develop followers impact this generation and leaders who develop leaders impact the next generation and that's what we're trying to do impact the next generation and in the questions I want to encourage you I'm not going to read both of them but the second question you really got to do some work on this I want you to review the nine differences between leaders and develop leaders and leaders and develop followers and I want you to ask yourself which side do I usually fall on you might find that six times you follow on one side and three on the other I don't know but you've got to find out where you are strong where you are weak and if you want to develop leaders you've got to obviously get on the side of leaders who develop leaders and I have the resources for you there

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Length: 26min 55sec (1615 seconds)

Published: Tue Mar 13 2012