Leadership Law #4 The Law of Navigation

Anyone can steer a ship, but it takes a leader to chart the course.

John Maxwell's fourth law of leadership states that before good leaders take their people on a journey, they go through a process in order to give the trip the best chance of being a success. The best leaders are "navigators".

Navigators draw on past experience.

• Every past success & failure you've experienced can be a valuable source of information and wisdom - if you allow it to be.
• For leaders to become good "navigators", they need to take time to reflect & learn from their experiences.

Navigators examine the conditions before making committments.

• Drawing on experience maens looking inward. Examining conditions means looking outward.

Navigators listen to what others have to say.

• Navigating leaders get ideas from many sources.

Navigators always make sure their conclusions represent both faith and fact.

• If you can't confidently make the trip in your mind, you're not going to be able to take it in real life.
• You must retain faith that you will prevail in the end and you must also confront the most brutal facts of your current reality.