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 Maxwell's Law of the Lid explained honestly - and what raising it actually requires. John Maxwell has a principle he calls  the Law of the Lid . It goes like this:  your leadership ability determines your level of effectiveness . The lower your ability to lead - yourself, your relationships, your environment - the lower the lid on your potential. No matter how hard you work or how talented you are, you cannot produce at a level higher than your leadership lid. When I first heard this, I thought it was about managing teams. About being a good boss. About having direct reports who perform. It took me a while to understand that the most important lid is not the one over your team. It is the one over yourself. What does self-leadership actually mean? Self-leadership is not motivation. It is not discipline, in the way most people use that word. It is not waking up at 5am or having a morning routine or meditating before your emails. (I know you thought I was about to go...

Today I would like to discuss about meetings in the work environment. I'm pretty sure that you all have an agenda on your desk or in your computer, filled with lots of meetings every week and month. Are these meetings necessary? All of them? Do you reach your goals with these meetings? Here is one excerpt from a very interesting article: How many meetings did you attend or hold in 2006? Tens? Hundreds? Now, take a minute to consider how many of those meetings were actually turned into positive, productive action that made your business better. These are important questions to ask in a world of ‘fast-food communication’, where ondemand, real-time, dynamic collaboration technologies have quickly turned global business into a single, connected cube farm. Everyone has meetings; it’s up to you to determine whether the information and responsibilities shared in those meetings drives your success, or simply leads to deeper inefficiency. Here is the full article, to which I challenge to di...