The Law of Influence

Good morning Tom and Hello to our listening audience

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Last week I started a segment on “Leadership” by talking about “The Law Of The Lid.”

This morning I want to talk about “The Law of Influence” which in my opinion is one of the most important laws of leadership! Because without “Influence” we can never—Let me say that again NEVER lead others.

Let me expand on last week’s example of the Manager, verses the Leader.

• The manager is given a title which buys them some time to increase their level of influence with their people or erase that influence

• A leader on the other hand uses his influence to grow and empower the people that willingly follow them

Colin Powell once stated “You have achieved excellence as a leader when people will follow you everywhere if only out of curiosity.”

Imagine how different things would be if the managers and leaders of every company received efficiency evaluations form the members of their team instead of just top down.

Believe it or not, that’s exactly why the network marketing industry is the perfect business model.

The leaders are identified buy the process of self-selection and elimination and they are empowered by willing followers because of there influence.

Within this past week there was a thread started on MLM.com that posed the question—
Who are your 5 Frontline Business Partners?

Rather than naming names one person chose to answer the question by describing five characteristics to select their top five people

1. A communicator


2. A trainer


3. A systems developer


4. Someone with courage and persistence


5. Someone fun, and with a genuine desire to help others to succeed

With that in mind, I submit to you that a person needs to possess all of these virtues if they want to become a leader that people want to follow.

So how do we increase our influence over others to become a more efficient leader?

By becoming a student of virtues that build character and changing our circle of friends.

Remember that we are all the sum of the five people that most closely associate with.

Leadership is assumed, so step up and identify yourself; seek out an upline mentor and become a stronger leader.

Success Is A Choice—Here’s To Yours!!!

Back to you Tom