This is a personal opinion from the book The 5 levels of leadership by John C Maxwell specifically level 5 the Pinnacle level.
In the Pinnacle level, people follow you because of who you are and what you represent. These kinds of people seem to bring success with them wherever they go. You emphasize on building leaders who build other leaders to tackle as many challenges as possible and to extend their influence way beyond their industry or organization.
You also continue to mentor potential level 5 leaders.
The idea is to leave behind other leaders that can carry the mantle that you leave behind. I imagine a world where I don’t need to be at work but everything is running so well that they don’t even bother calling to ask where I am. I imagine this for me and for the team I lead with. A future where there are so many competent people doing better than we ever could do.
The highest position of leadership is a place not to receive but to give. No matter the position you are in never forget that what got you to where you are won’t get you to the next level. I have to keep learning. I have to be a life long student of leadership.
In the 21 laws of leadership, the law of respect is shown best at this level because people naturally follow leaders stronger than themselves.
You also practice the law of intuition. Meaning that you evaluate everything with a leadership bias. You experience immediate insight without without rational thought.
At this level you have so much experience and credibility that people listen to your hunches when it comes to timing and that is within the law of timing.
The law of legacy is fulfilled because the goal is to create something that lives on forever way after you are gone.
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