What Makes A Leader: Your Leadership Limit

What makes a leader?

What makes a leader is the ability to look within to see how our actions are benefiting or hamstringing the team we lead. If you want to push yourself and your team to levels of success that you might never have dreamed of, looking within is an important exercise—one you will want to do often.

This self-examination will help you to honestly identify and work to improve the current limits of your leadership, or what I call your Leadership Limit. By doing this exercise often, you will continually develop your own ideas of what makes a leader, and you will have new personal leadership goals to work toward.

Leadership Limit

In the last post, we started to have a conversation about your Leadership Limit. As I mentioned, this is a take on John Maxwell’s leadership theory of the Leadership Lid in which he describes a person’s leadership ability as the lid that determines their level of effectiveness. The...