Leadership Gold: Lessons I've Learned from a Lifetime of Leading

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HarperCollins Leadership, Mar 30, 2008 - Business & Economics - 272 pages

Smart leaders learn from their own mistakes. Smarter leaders learn from other’s mistakes and their successes.

Bestselling author and leadership guru Dr. John C. Maxwell wants to help you become the smartest leader you can be by sharing Leadership Gold with you. After more than forty years of leading and teaching, Maxwell has mined the gold so you don't have to. Each gold nugget is contained in one of twenty-six chapters designed to be a six-month mentorship from the international leadership expert.

A leader among leaders, Maxwell promised himself early in his career that he wouldn't write this book until he was sixty. Now, the time is finally here.

In Leadership Gold, he shares valuable lessons such as:

  • Don’t send your sucks to eagle school
  • People quit people, not companies
  • Influence should be loaned but never given
  • When you get kicked in the rear, you know you’re out in front
  • People will summarize your life in one sentence – pick it now

With his signature style, Maxwell comes alongside like a mentor, candidly taking you through what feels like a one-on-one leadership program.?Each chapter contains detailed application exercises and a “Mentoring Moment” for leaders who desire to mentor others using the book.

Leadership Gold offers the best of the best, the tried-and-true lessons that no one but Maxwell can share.

 

Contents

2 The Toughest Person to Lead Is Always Yourself
11
3 Defining Moments Define Your Leadership
20
4When You Get Kicked in the Rear You Know Youre out in Front
32
5 Never Work a Day in Your Life
41
6 The Best Leaders Are Listeners
49
7 Get in the Zone and Stay There
57
8 A Leaders First Responsibility Is to Define Reality
66
9 To See How the Leader Is Doing Look at the People
74
16 People Quit People Not Companies
143
17 Experience Is Not the Best Teacher
154
18 The Secret to a Good Meeting Is the Meeting Before the Meeting
164
19 Be a Connector Not Just a Climber
174
20 The Choices You Make Make You
184
21 Influence Should Be Loaned but Never Given
193
22 For Everything You Gain You Give Up Something
203
23 Those Who Start the Journey with You Seldom Finish with You
213

10 Dont Send Your Ducks to Eagle School
85
11 Keep Your Mind on the Main Thing
96
12 Your Biggest Mistake Is Not Asking What Mistake Youre Making
105
13 Dont Manage Your TimeManage Your Life
114
14 Keep Learning to Keep Leading
124
15 Leaders Distinguish Themselves During Tough Times
134
24 Few Leaders Are Successful Unless a Lot of People Want Them to Be
223
25 You Only Get Answers to the Questions You Ask
232
26 People Will Summarize Your Life in One SentencePick It Now
244
Conclusion
253
Notes
255
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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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