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Title: Leadership 101: Inspirational Quotes & Insights for Leaders by John C. Maxwell ISBN: 1-56292-369-2 Publisher: Honor Books Pub. Date: September, 1997 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (6 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: What you need to know is don't buy this book....
Comment: Unless of course you take your roll as a leader seriously! Listen, John has done it again with Leadership 101: What Every Leader Needs to Know. Will this man never cease to produce books of such excellent quality? I sure hope not! Rather than ranting and raving about the contents of this book, let me just say this: get it, read it, you'll love it!
Reviewed by: James L. Clark, MBA, MSc., PhD Candidate (Leadership) is a serial entrepreneur, lecturer, and consultant in the areas of success, achievement, personal development, influence and leadership. He is the author of the book Wading Through the Crap: How to Start Living the Successful Life You Have Always Wanted (ISBN 0972697551), which has received rave reviews.
Rating: 5
Summary: Unleash your leadership potential.
Comment: This 100 page book is jamm packed with information. Some of the topics include:
* follow your vision and bring others with you
* produce a lasting legacy
* grow the lotalty of your followers
* determine your leadership "lid"
* create a foundation of trust
Great book that belongs in your briefcase or purse and by your bedside to review every day.
Rating: 5
Summary: A Helpful Summary of Dr. Maxwell's Leadership Concepts
Comment: I was torn in deciding how to grade this book. Clearly, anyone who has already enjoyed most of Dr. Maxwell's outstanding leadership books would find this book to be a valuable, inexpensive and highly portable reminder of those many lessons. For that person, the book is clearly a five star value! Carry it around and draw sustenance from it!! My rating above reflects this perspective, since there are lots of people who do know his work well. When you face a leadership challenge, pull this book out to refocus you and your energies in the right direction!
What about the person who's new to leadership? I would have to grade the book much lower, probably a 2 or 3. Somewhere in the middle of the book (probably between chapters 5-7), most people new to leadership would lose the thread. It's just a little too condensed. In addition, I just didn't think that several of the examples worked for the point they attempted to make. For instance, Dr. Maxwell could have found more meaningful examples for me than Princess Diana and Roberto Goizueta if I were a new leader. I would nominate instead Barbara Bush for her caring and Frances Hesselbein for preparing successors.
Here are the book's structure and key examples for its 108 jam-packed pages:
Part I: The Development of a Leader
1. Why Should I Grow as a Leader? The McDonald brothers versus Ray Kroc in developing McDonalds.
2. How Can I Grow as a Leader? Teddy Roosevelt
Part II: The Traits of a Leader
3. How Can I Become Disciplined? Jerry Rice
4. How Should I Prioritize My Life? Paul Tsongas
5. How Do I Develop Trust? Billy Graham
6. How Can I Effectively Cast Vision? Walt Disney
Part III: The Impact of Leader
7. Why Is Influence Important? Princess Diana
8. How Does Influence Work? Robert Dilenschneider
9. How Can I Extend My Influence? His father
10. How Can I Make My Leadership Last? Roberto Goizueta
Finally, what's the best part of the book? For me, it was the repetition of the Law of the Lid: Your ability to accomplish things is circumscribed until you can energize others in the same purpose. There's a nice set of graphic displays to make this point.
As a technical note, some of the information in the examples seemed dated. I don't believe that Mr. Dilenschneider has been head of Hill & Knowlton for many years . . . yet that's the way he is described. Roberto Goizueta's hand-picked successor at Coca-Cola, Douglas Ivester, did not work out (although he is described as a great success here) and had to be replaced. Paul Tsongas later reentered politics to run for president rather than smelling the roses with his family (even though he had had a recurrence of the cancer that soon killed him). It's almost as though these examples were all written a number of years ago, and not revisited.
Draw inspiration from your vision of serving others . . . and get busy!
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Title: Attitude 101 : What Every Leader Needs to Know by John C. Maxwell ISBN: 0785263500 Publisher: Thomas Nelson Pub. Date: 03 January, 2003 List Price(USD): $9.99 |
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Title: The 21 Indispensable Qualities of a Leader: Becoming the Person Others Will Want to Follow by John C. Maxwell ISBN: 0785274405 Publisher: Thomas Nelson Pub. Date: 22 June, 1999 List Price(USD): $17.99 |
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Title: The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership by John C. Maxwell, Zig Ziglar ISBN: 0785274316 Publisher: Thomas Nelson Pub. Date: 18 September, 1998 List Price(USD): $22.99 |
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Title: Developing The Leader Within You by John C. Maxwell ISBN: 0785266666 Publisher: Thomas Nelson Pub. Date: 19 December, 2000 List Price(USD): $19.99 |
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Title: Thinking for a Change: 11 Ways Highly Successful People Approach Life and Work by John C. Maxwell ISBN: 0446529575 Publisher: Warner Books Pub. Date: 25 March, 2003 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
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