Leadership Gold: Lessons I've Learned from a Lifetime of Leading
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.
Top Highlights
“What gives me the greatest return? What is most rewarding? What is required of me?” (source)
“Leaders need to remember that the point of leading is not to cross the finish line first. It’s to take people across the finish line with you. For that reason, leaders must deliberately slow their pace, stay connected to their people, enlist others to help fulfill the vision, and keep people going. You can’t do that if you’re running too far ahead of your people.” (source)
“Learning that was very sobering to me, because I shared the same attitude. I thought I was above such possibilities, and that scared me. At that moment, I made two decisions: First, I will not trust myself. Second, I will become accountable to someone other than myself. I believe those decisions have helped to keep me on track and able to lead myself and others.” (source)
“In ‘Decision of Character,’ British essayist John Foster writes, ‘A man without decision of character can never be said to belong to himself. He belongs to whatever can make a captive of him.’When we are foolish, we want to conquer the world. When we are wise, we want to conquer ourselves. That begins when we do what we should no matter how we feel about it.” (source)
“Each of us is ‘monarch’ of our own lives. We are responsible for ruling our actions and decisions. To make consistently good decisions, to take the right action when needed, and to refrain from the wrong actions requires character and self-discipline.” (source)
Product Details
- Title : Leadership Gold: Lessons I've Learned from a Lifetime of Leading
- Author: Maxwell, John C.
- Publisher: HarperCollins Leadership
- Publication Date: 2008
- ISBN: 9781418571139