The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership Workbook: Revised and Updated - Softcover

Maxwell, John C.

 
9781418526153: The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership Workbook: Revised and Updated
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1418526150 ISBN 13: 9781418526153
Verlag: HarperChristian Resources, 2007

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Required reading for both developing and experienced leaders, this one-of-a-kind workbook companion to a leadership classic outlines the core leadership principles that will make you more effective, more influential, and more successful—wherever you are in your career.

If you’ve never read The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership, you’ve been missing out on one of the best-selling leadership books of all time. In this companion workbook, leadership expert John C. Maxwell shares powerful insights gleaned from his forty-plus years of leadership success. Maxwell helps you:

  • Take your leadership skills to the next level
  • Discover life-changing principles of influence, empowerment, intuition, and legacy
  • Observe your own career and evaluate yourself, using an evaluation tool that reveals your leadership strengths and weaknesses
  • Learn from stories and observations from the worlds of business, politics, sports, the military, and non-profit organizations so you can transform as a leader 

Each of the twenty-one lessons contains the following sections:

  • Definition of the Law: Understand the law and how it operates 
  • Case Studies: Explore three primary cases—some positive, some negative—that reveal and illustrate the law.
  • Leadership Insight and Reflection: Draw important personal conclusions about the impact of this law on your life.
  • Taking Action: Assess yourself in this law and develop specific action steps to grow or make important changes.
  • Group Discussion Questions: Explore the core issues and share your insights through a guided discussion with your group.

 This workbook isn’t designed to be merely a theoretical exercise. It’s meant to help you become a better leader. And while you can easily go through this study on your own, there’s nothing more transformational than learning with other like-minded people. So, gather a group of any size and see what happens as you help each other become the kind of leaders that people want to follow.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

John C. Maxwell is a #1 New York Times bestselling author, coach, and speaker who has sold more than 33 million books in fifty languages. He has been identified as the #1 leader in business and the most influential leadership expert in the world. His organizations - the John Maxwell Company, The John Maxwell Team, EQUIP, and the John Maxwell Leadership Foundation - have translated his teachings into seventy languages and used them to  train millions of leaders from every country of the world. A recipient of the Horatio Alger Award, as well as the Mother Teresa Prize for Global Peace and Leadership from the Luminary Leadership Network, Dr. Maxwell influences Fortune 500 CEOs, the presidents of nations, and entrepreneurs worldwide. For more information about him visit JohnMaxwell.com.

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The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership Workbook

Follow Them and People Will Follow You

By John C. Maxwell

Thomas Nelson

Copyright © 2007 John C. Maxwell
All rights reserved.
ISBN: 978-1-4185-2615-3

Contents

Introduction...............................................................ix
21 Laws Leadership Evaluation..............................................xiv
1. THE LAW OF THE LID Leadership Ability Determines a Person's Level of 
Effectiveness..............................................................		1
2. THE LAW OF INFLUENCE The True Measure of Leadership Is 
Influence—Nothing More, Nothing Less.......................................		13
3. THE LAW OF PROCESS Leadership Develops Daily, Not in a Day.............23
4. THE LAW OF NAVIGATION Anyone Can Steer the Ship, but It Takes a Leader 
to Chart the Course........................................................		33
5. THE LAW OF ADDITION Leaders Add Value by Serving Others................43
6. THE LAW OF SOLID GROUND Trust Is the Foundation of Leadership..........53
7. THE LAW OF RESPECT People Naturally Follow Leaders Stronger Than 
Themselves.................................................................		65
8. THE LAW OF INTUITION Leaders Evaluate Everything with a Leadership 
Bias.......................................................................		79
9. THE LAW OF MAGNETISM Who You Are Is Who You Attract....................89
10. THE LAW OF CONNECTION Leaders Touch a Heart Before They Ask for a 
Hand.......................................................................		99
11. THE LAW OF THE INNER CIRCLE A Leader's Potential Is Determined by 
Those Closest to Him.......................................................		111
12. THE LAW OF EMPOWERMENT Only Secure Leaders Give Power to Others.......123
13. THE LAW OF THE PICTURE People Do What People See......................135
14. THE LAW OF BUY-IN People Buy into the Leader, Then the Vision.........147
15. THE LAW OF VICTORY Leaders Find a Way for the Team to Win.............157
16. THE LAW OF THE BIG MO Momentum Is a Leader's Best Friend..............167
17. THE LAW OF PRIORITIES Leaders Understand That Activity Is Not 
Necessarily Accomplishment.................................................		179
18. THE LAW OF SACRIFICE A Leader Must Give Up to Go Up...................189
19. THE LAW OF TIMING When to Lead Is As Important As What to Do and 
Where to Go................................................................		199
20. THE LAW OF EXPLOSIVE GROWTH To Add Growth, Lead Followers—To 
Multiply, Lead Leaders.....................................................		209
21. THE LAW OF LEGACY A Leader's Lasting Value Is Measured by Succession..223
Conclusion.................................................................233
Appendix: Suggestions for Leadership Growth................................235
Notes......................................................................243


CHAPTER 1

THE LAW OF THE LID

Leadership Ability Determines a Person's Level of Effectiveness


The law of the lid will help you understand the value of leadership.If you can get a handle on this law, you will see the incredible impact ofleadership on every aspect of life.


READ

In 1930, two young brothers named Dick and Maurice moved from New Hampshireto California in search of the American Dream. They had just gotten out of highschool, and they saw few opportunities back home. So they headed straight forHollywood where they eventually found jobs on a movie studio set.

After a while, their entrepreneurial spirit and interest in the entertainment industryprompted them to open a theater in Glendale, a town about five miles northeast ofHollywood. But despite all their efforts, the brothers just couldn't make the business profitable.In the four years they ran the theater, they weren't able to consistently generateenough money to pay the one hundred dollars a month rent that their landlord required.

The brothers' desire for success was strong, so they kept looking for better businessopportunities. In 1937, they finally struck on something that worked. They opened asmall drive-in restaurant in Pasadena, located just east of Glendale. People in SouthernCalifornia had become very dependent on their cars, and the culture was changing toaccommodate that, including its businesses.

The drive-in restaurant was a phenomenon that sprang up in the early thirties, andit was becoming very popular. Rather than being invited into a dining room to eat,customers would drive into a parking lot around a small restaurant, place their orderswith carhops, and receive their food on trays right in their cars. The food was servedon china plates complete with glassware and metal utensils. It was a timely idea in asociety that was becoming faster paced and increasingly mobile.

Dick and Maurice's tiny drive-in restaurant was a great success, and in 1940, theydecided to move the operation to San Bernardino, a working-class boomtown fiftymiles east of Los Angeles. They built a larger facility and expanded their menu fromhot dogs, fries, and shakes to include barbecued beef and pork sandwiches, hamburgers,and other items. Their business exploded. Annual sales reached $200,000, and thebrothers found themselves splitting $50,000 in profits every year—a sum that putthem in the town's financial elite.

In 1948, their intuition told them that times were changing, and they made modificationsto their restaurant business. They eliminated the carhops and started servingonly walk-up customers. And they also streamlined everything. They reduced theirmenu and focused on selling hamburgers. They eliminated plates, glassware, and metalutensils, switching to paper products instead. They reduced their costs and lowered theprices they charged customers. They also created what they called the Speedy ServiceSystem. Their kitchen became like an assembly line, where each employee focused onservice with speed. The brothers' goal was to fill each customer's order in thirty secondsor less. And they succeeded. By the mid-1950s, annual revenue hit $350,000, and bythen, Dick and Maurice split net profits of about $100,000 each year.

Who were these brothers? Back in those days, you could have found out by drivingto their small restaurant on the corner of Fourteenth and E Streets in San Bernardino.On the front of the small octagonal building hung a neon sign that said simplyMCDONALD'S HAMBURGERS. Dick and Maurice McDonald had hit the great Americanjackpot, and the rest, as they say, is history, right? Wrong. The McDonalds never wentany farther because their weak leadership put a lid on their ability to succeed.

It's true that the McDonald brothers were financially secure. Theirs was one of themost profitable restaurant enterprises in the country, and they felt that they had a hardtime spending all the money they...

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Verlag
HarperChristian Resources
Erscheinungsdatum
2007
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1418526150
ISBN 13 
9781418526153
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Anzahl der Seiten
272
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