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86 PCB007 MAGAZINE I JULY 2021 Step 6: Pure leadership ability. Not all great leaders are born that way; but some are, and people can sense when this is a natural condition. Intuition Everyone possesses intuition, however, not everyone is intuitive in leadership. What we "sense" as a leader has a direct correlation to the degree of our leadership ability, or remem- bering our first law, our Leadership Lid. "Who you are dictates what you see." —John C. Maxwell e best leaders are those who have mas- tered "situational leadership," adjusting their leadership style to best fit the current situation. A leader must read a situation and instinctive- ly know what play to call. Unfortunately, in- tuition cannot be learned; what you are born with is all you get. However, you can learn to be more aware of the constraints and fac- tors impacting a situation, and experience will teach lessons learned to improve your decisions going forward. Let's test your intuition; look at Figure 2 and describe what is happening in this situation. e person on the right is obviously the per- son in charge and is counseling an employee on something, right? Actually, the leader is the one on the le and is listening to their follower talk about something important. Great leaders listen more than they talk. Magnetism: Who You Are is Who You Attract I've shared an example from one of my clients in a past column on Lean about a small custom manufacturing shop run by an ex-Navy com- mander. What I didn't share in the previous article was that most of his management staff was also ex-military. We attract who we are and surround ourselves with like-minded people. If you are unhappy with your career (or life), change who makes up your inner circle and be true to who you are, or want to become. When I am working with a client's leadership team, training on the 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leader- ship, the first thing I do is have each member complete a self-assessment of what they feel are their leadership strengths. I tuck this away and a few sessions later I have them write down the attributes they look for when hiring a new per- son for their team. en I pull out their self-as- sessment for comparison and have never had less than an 80% match between the two. We Attract Who We Are Now this is not the same as hiring a bunch of "yes men/women;" that dynamic is never a trait of great leaders. When I talk about magne- tism I'm talking about things like your core val- Figure 2: Who is the leader in this image? It might not be who you think.