Whether you are a Sovereign Leader or on your way to becoming a Sovereign Leader, you are seeking to create your legacy for your company. There isn't always a ready way to distinguish your success. Many times great leaders are unconsciously competent. They have an inward drive that steers the course for their outward success.

Sovereign Leaders (Level 5 Leaders) seek to leave a comprehensible philosophy that sustains the organization long after they are gone. Great leaders need to leave a living legacy of sustainable quality in the wake of their servitude.

1 CAPTURE PROCESS
Weekly calls, interviews, outside interviews, transcribing, creating storyboard/platform
2 FINDING YOUR VOICE
Developing your seminar, developing "your technology." Situation, Challenge Opportunity, Integration, 5R's, Manuscript Grid, Finalize the platform.
3 WRITE YOUR MANUSCRIPT
4 DELIVERY
Author read
5 EDITING
Level 5 Leaders want to see the company even more successful in the next generation, comfortable with the idea that most people won't even know that the roots of that success trace back to their efforts. As one Level 5 leader said, "I want to look out from my porch at one of the great companies in the world someday and be able to say, 'I used to work there.'"

"In contrast, the comparison leaders (Level 4 leaders), concerned more with their own reputation for personal greatness, often failed to set the company up for success in the next generation.

Good To Great - Jim Collins