4th BIGGEST LIE IN MLM
“You have to be a leader to make lots of money,” is something I am considering adding as the 4th biggest lie in MLM.
Long time readers of this blog, [thank you, so much], know I’ve been on the bully-pulpit about the 3 biggest lies in MLM.
I can feel the blood boiling in all those ‘leadership’ gurus now……and what you’ve been led to believe forming barriers of resistance as you read this.
Let me really get your defenses up. Nothing is as overrated in MLM as leadership. Nothing.
WHAT???!! I can feel you now……. I’m telling you that you don’t need to lead to build a group, get momentum and create a life second to none.
Check your feelings, OK? Then check your common sense.
If you are arguing with the statement, ‘Nothing is as overrated in MLM as leadership,’ you are not using common sense.
COMMON SENSE
What if I am right?
Common Sense
Wouldn’t that make building a group and momentum easier?
It’s all about common sense. We MLMer’s are a passionate but often irrational group. People who we deem ‘irrational’ is almost always in the context of them being ‘off-base’ with the primary objective.
Isn’t the primary objective to build momentum? To get exponential growth?
Yeah, yeah……I know what you’ve heard from ‘leaders’……they talk from stage and on conference calls about leadership, being a leader, breaking from the pack. Nonsense in MLM
One of my favorites, and I said it often, trying to inspire, “If you’re not the lead dog, the view never changes.”
Hogwash.
How’s all that working out for you? Didn’t work out for me either.
Imagine, for a moment, that you could build growth and then capture the big prize, momentum without all those 8 million ideas, rules, truths, Covey, Maxwell, Rhone, Tracy, etc., about leadership. Now that’s an MLM leadership tip I’d want to know, eh?
MOMENTUM
Momentum is a ‘movement’ that grows bigger and stronger.
What if everyone in your group knew one simple truth about leadership, that it is overrated that dramatically improved the speed of growth in your group?
What We Set in Motion Carries in Motion
Wouldn’t that take the pressure off everyone who doesn’t see themselves as leaders?
And what if you could show them 1 simple thing they could do, that anyone could do, to harness all their potential? Stress and pressure free?
The key to momentum, which is what we should be focused on, [Common sense please], is being a follower…..not being a leader.
THE 1 SIMPLE TRUTH
Honor your followers by making it about the ‘movement’ and give them the MLM skills that lead to success.
Once I shifted from trying to be a leader to honoring joiners and got them to focus few simple MLM skills….instead of me…..everything got easy, really easy.
What happened? They started teaching MLM skills instead of trying to be like me or other leaders.
Long time readers know this about me…..I make it about skills, not me. That is the ‘movement’ of my teams.
This will change your business, the lives of others and, by extension, your life. It is the key to to networking success.
The less than 3 minute video below is ALL anyone every needs to know about momentum and it will release everyone on your team, including you, from trying to be some mythical leader. Why keep trying to be something no one else can be?
believe
mark januszewski
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19 Responses to “1 Simple Truth Builds Momentum: MLM Leadership Is Overrated”
Outstanding lesson.
I thought so…..glad you agree Chirs, thank you for stopping by
I agree entirely. This is a service based industry, not a follow the leader type of business. If you offer good service to your customers as well as your promoters, you will be successful!
Michael
BINGO!
The basic coveat in Think and Grow Rich, eh?
Believe
mark j
You hit the nail on the head here
I Totally agree!! Many new Network Marketers loose focus of what the business is about, by trying to focus on something IRRELEVANT to the growth of an organization; instead of learning and developing the SKILLS necessary to Build a Successful Organization, and Duplicate it!!!
Mark,
You put into words what I’d been thinking for some years now. Not everyone is leadership material nor do they want to be. As soon as someone starts to gain a little success in NWM, then their well-intentioned upline starts talking to them about being a leader to their group when they really just wanted to make some money and see their sign-ups make money as well.
Kathy
Kathy, as usual, you put into 5 sentences what it takes me 80 sentences to say
Not hard to understand why you are an outstanding Success Coach
believe
mark j
I’ve never considered it that way before. I guess, to be a leader you have to know how to follow so that you can teach others to follow.
It’s the first 2-3 followers, being treated like peers, that build momentum……thanks for stopping by Jae
believe
mark j
Wow! I absolutely love this! This video has turned something that many people see as complicated into something natural and simple. Simplicity at it’s finest!
Roy
Roy……man did you ‘nail’ it…..
it really isn’t complicated as you point out
Thank you for stopping by and commenting
I cannot explain how this short video changed my whole perspective on MLM.
Thanks Mike.
And thank you for being so open and kind Marli
There a lot mor followers in NWM than leaders now those followers just need to learn the skills to build their business and make the money.
wow that is a wicked cool. I never thought about it like that before.
Great to hear from you Grant
Hello Mark,
Thank you for this post it makes so much sense. There is an old saying “Too many cooks spoil the broth” and it is relevant to Kathy Zimmer’s comment “then their well-intentioned upline starts talking to them about being a leader to their group when they really just wanted to make some money and see their sign-ups make money as well”.
Enjoy your site keep up the fantastic posts.
Robyn
Mark I like this post you did on leadership Keep up the good work