THE ED MYLETT SHOW · 2026-08-06 · 18 min · 3,463 words

John Maxwell's #8 Law of Leadership: The Law of Intuition

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This is the environment, show. twenty one Irrefutable Laws of Leadership Series Law eight. The law of intuition. Great leaders don't just see what's happening. They sense what it means.

Leadership intuition is the ability to read between the lines before everybody else sees what you see. Welcome back to season two of this special leadership series on John Maxwell's twenty one irrefutable laws of leadership. John teaches the principle and I help connect it to what leadership looks like when the pressure's real, the decisions matter. And you don't always have the perfect information. Today's law is the law of intuition. You know, John teaches that leaders evaluate everything with a leadership bias. In other words, leaders learn to see more than what's really obvious to everybody else. They don't just notice facts, they sense patterns.

They use their intuition, they use their discernment. They don't just react to what's happening. They begin to discern what it means. This is one of those laws where you can sound abstract until you really have led for long enough to experience it. Leadership intuition is not just instinct in the casual sense. It's developed from discernment. It's a pattern recognition type thing. It's the ability to

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