Jeremy L. Berg

Just about everyone is capable of developing a degree of leadership intuition, though we don’t all start off at the same place. I’ve found that all people fit into three major intuition levels:

1) THOSE WHO NATURALLY SEE IT

Some people are born with exceptional leadership gifts. They instinctively understand people and know how to move them from point A to point B. Even when they’re kids, they act as leaders.  Watch them on the playground, and you can see everyone is following them. People with natural leadership intuition can build upon it and become world-class leaders of the highest caliber. This natural ability is often the difference between a 9 (an excellent leader) and a 10 (a world-class leader).

2) THOSE WHO ARE NURTURED TO SEE IT

Not everyone starts off with great instincts, but whatever abilities people have can be nurtured and developed. The ability to think like a leader is informed intuition. Even someone who doesn’t start off as a natural leader can become an excellent one. People who don’t develop their intuition are condemned to be blindsided in their leadership for the rest of their lives.

3) THOSE WHO WILL NEVER SEE IT

I believe nearly everyone is capable of developing leadership skills and intuition. But occasionally, I run across someone who “doesn’t seem to have a leadership bone in his/her body” and who has no interest in developing the skills necessary to lead. Those people will never think like anything but followers.

Taken from “The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership” by John C. Maxwell, page 85-86