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The Law of Solid Ground

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This week’s devotions from the John Maxwell Leadership Bible focus on the sixth law (of twenty-one) of leadership—the Law of Solid Ground, which says that trust serves as the foundation of leadership.

To build trust, a leader must exemplify three qualities: competence, character, and connection. People will forgive occasional mistakes based on ability, especially if they see that you’re still growing as a leader. But they won’t trust someone who slips in character. In that area, even occasional lapses are lethal. No leader can break trust with his team and expect to keep influencing them. Trust makes leadership possible.

Let’s examine this week’s devotions, focused on Samson and the Law of Solid Ground.

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Practicing The Law of E.F. Hutton with My Wife

This week’s devotions from the John Maxwell Leadership Bible focus on the fifth law (of twenty-one) of leadership—the Law of E.F. Hutton.

When I was growing up in the late 1970s and early 1980s, the brokerage firm E.F. Hutton became well-known for its advertising campaign.

E.F. Hutton’s commercials depicted people out for a jog, aboard a train, or at a dinner party. The conversation would inevitably turn to the stock market. And that’s when one person would say to the other “My broker is E.F. Hutton. And E.F. Hutton says….”

Then, the rest of the world would fall silent. Joggers would halt in mid-stride. Commuters on board the train would put down their newspapers. Dinner guests would cease passing the green bean casserole. Everything came to a screeching halt. The commercials all ended by saying, “When E.F. Hutton talks, people listen.”

The Law of E.F. Hutton was on display through the prophet Samuel, and it works well in my own life too!

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