The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership by John C. Maxwell
Week 9: Law 8 — The Law of Intuition
Read Chapter 8 of The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership. Key concept: leaders evaluate everything with a leadership bias.
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Leadership intuition is not mystical — it is the product of experience, passion, and natural gifting working together, and this chapter invites you to examine how well-developed your own leadership instincts actually are.
Discussion Questions
6 questions1.Maxwell defines leadership intuition as the ability to "read" a situation — the team, the morale, the momentum, the resources — almost instinctively. Think of a time when you walked into a room or meeting and sensed something was wrong before anyone said a word. What were you reading, and were you right?
2.Maxwell says that intuition is informed by several factors: natural gifting, skills learned through experience, and the sheer volume of situations a leader has processed over time. Which of these three contributors is most developed in you right now?
3.Maxwell identifies five things that leaders are always reading: situations, trends, resources, people, and themselves. Which of these five do you read most accurately? Which do you most often misread or neglect to read?
a.Can you give a specific example of misreading one of these five that cost you as a leader?
b.What did you learn from it?