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
