Leadership 101: What Every Leader Needs to Know

by John C. Maxwell

Overview

Unleash your leadership potential.

No matter who you are, you can lead—and lead well.

That is the message New York Times bestselling author John C. Maxwell gives in this power-packed guidebook: Leadership 101. Here the consummate leader offers a succinct and inspiring framework for enhancing the leadership abilities you already possess. Learn how to:

• Follow your vision and bring others with you
• Produce a lasting legacy
• Grow the loyalty of your followers
• Make continual investments in the quality of your leadership
• Increase your ability to influence others
• Determine your leadership "lid"
• Empower others through mentoring
• Create a foundation of trust
• Use self-discipline to improve your character—and your results

One of the keys to successful leadership is applying the concepts that have made other leaders strong. Here's your opportunity to do just that.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780785264194
Publisher:	Nelson, Thomas, Inc.
Publication date:	09/10/2002
Pages:	128
Sales rank:	24,673
Product dimensions:	4.70(w) x 6.42(h) x 0.55(d)

About the Author

John C. Maxwell, the #1 New York Times bestselling author, coach, and speaker who has sold 25 million books, is called America’s #1 leadership authority. In 2014, Maxwell received the Mother Teresa Prize for Global Peace and Leadership from the Luminary Leadership Network, and was named the worlds more influential leadership expert by Inc. and Business Insider. His organizations—The John Maxwell Company, The John Maxwell Team, and EQUIP—have trained more than 5 million leaders in 188 countries. For more information visit JohnMaxwell.com.

Editorial Reviews

Note: You can save over 60% on John C. Maxwell's four bestselling 101 series guides -- Relationships 101, Equipping 101, Attitude 101, and Leadership 101 -- when you buy them together as the one-volume Barnes & Noble exclusive edition REAL Leadership: The 101 Collection (0785288449).

This diminutive tome is a particularly sketchy treatise on the already vague subject of leadership, stitched together with excerpts from The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership and other Maxwell books and featuring an ad at the back directing readers to a Web site where they can buy one of the author's longer works. Maxwell's themes-don't just pull rank, don't sweat the small stuff, establish rapport with co-workers, "empower" underlings-are commonplaces of leadership lore, couched in aphorisms ("The boss says 'I'; the leader, 'we'"), pseudo-statistics ("Twenty percent of your priorities will give you 80 percent of your production") and bromides ("If you lack vision, look inside yourself"). But in distilling this wisdom, the nitty-gritty that might make it useful has been boiled off, leaving readers to grapple unaided with bullet-pointed truisms like "Deal wisely with difficult people." Perfunctory leadership profiles of usual suspect Theodore Roosevelt, Princess Di, executives and football notables scarcely flesh out the meager intellectual content of this book, which seems, more than anything, like a $10 congrats card for the recently promoted.(Sept. 10) Copyright 2003 Cahners Business Information.

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