The Leadership Handbook: 26 Critical Lessons Every Leader Needs

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HarperCollins Leadership, Feb 3, 2015 - Religion - 272 pages
The most effective leaders across a wide variety of spectrums have achieved their success by beginning their journey with a question few bother to ask: How do I lead myself? As New York Times bestselling author and leadership expert John C. Maxwell says, “A leader never has to recover from a good start.” So when a leader takes root by firmly establishing themselves in their field of expertise, preparing for every risk and failure imaginable, the fruit of their endeavors will spread throughout their career and impact profoundly those in whom they invest.In The Leadership Handbook, Maxwell presents 26 insights intended to help build the leader within not only those aspiring to new positions of leadership but also those veterans who aim to improve upon the steps that led them to the front of the line. Readers will enjoy and benefit immensely from Maxwell’s highly relatable principles, such as:• The Best Leaders Are Listeners• Keep Your Mind on the Main Thing• Don’t Manage Your Time--Manage Your Life• Keep Learning to Keep Leading• People Quit People, Not Companies• And many more!With application exercises and a “Mentoring Moment” to accompany each chapter, The Leadership Handbook presents a road map for a path many may cross but few choose to follow.
 

Contents

1 If Its Lonely At the Top Youre Not Doing Something Right
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2 The Toughest Person to Lead Is Always Yourself
11
3 Defining Moments Define Your Leadership
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4 When You Get Kicked In the Rear You Know Youre Out In Front
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5 Never Work a Day In Your Life
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6 The Best Leaders Are Listeners
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7 Get In the Zone and Stay There
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8 A Leaders First Responsibility Is to Define Reality
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16 People Quit People Not Companies
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17 Experience Is Not the Best Teacher
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18 The Secret to a Good Meeting Is the Meeting Before the Meeting
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19 Be a Connector Not Just a Climber
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20 The Choices You Make Make You
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21 Influence Should Be Loaned But Never Given
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22 For Everything You Gain You Give Up Something
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23 Those Who Start the Journey With You Seldom Finish With You
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9 To See How the Leader Is Doing Look At the People
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10 Dont Send Your Ducks to Eagle School
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11 Keep Your Mind On the Main Thing
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12 Your Biggest Mistake Is Not Asking What Mistake Youre Making
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13 Dont Manage Your TimeManage Your Life
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14 Keep Learning to Keep Leading
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15 Leaders Distinguish Themselves During Tough Times
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24 Few Leaders Are Successful Unless a Lot of People Want Them to Be
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25 You Only Get Answers to the Questions You Ask
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26 People Will Summarize Your Life In One SentencePick It Now
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Conclusion
253
Notes
254
About the Author
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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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