Book Description About the Author John C. Maxwell is a #1 New York Times bestselling author, coach, and speaker who has sold more than 31 million books in fifty languages. He has been identified as the #1 leader in business by the American Management Association® and the most influential leadership expert in the world by Business Insider and Inc. magazine. He is the founder of The John Maxwell Company, The John Maxwell Team, EQUIP, and the John Maxwell Leadership Foundation, organizations that have trained 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 speaks each year to Fortune 500 companies, presidents of nations, and many of the world’s top business leaders. He can be followed at Twitter.com/JohnCMaxwell. For more information about him visit JohnMaxwell.com. Read more Customers Review: I have been a fan of John Maxwell for many years and as an instructor and development professional, I have appreciated the sound principles that he has promoted to help us train and coach the next wave of leaders in our organizations, our communities, and our homes. Yet, the best part of reading this book was once again feeling that I was traveling with a good and trusted friend who values me and our team as much as his own family. The book is easy to read and full of useful information. I will be using it with my next leadership table!
This book is definitely a home run hitter. The most frustrating thing in the workforce is having poor leadership responsible for ones success. This book is a must own for everyone who is a leader in the workforce. These principles will help the morale of the staff, influence others, and create a productive working environment. Overall a great read and with it being just over 200 pages a quick read. No excuse as to why you can’t invest in your organization.
John Maxwell delivers masterpiece after masterpiece. This needs to be part of curriculum for aspiring leadership students. Mentor ship and leadership growth or may I say explosive growth potential very well explained.
Perfect Time on delivery. Absolutely love the book! Packaged well.
Whatever their size and nature may be, all organizations need effective leadership at all levels and in all areas of the given enterprise. I agree with John Maxwell and countless others that one of a leader’s most important responsibilities is developing other leaders. In my opinion, no one else has done more to do that than has Maxwell, author of more than 70 books since 1979.In this latest volume, he explains HOW TOo Find leaders and potential leaderso Invite them to “the leadership table”o Connect with them before leading themo Encourage them to make/sustain a best efforto Train them to produce high-impact resultso Release/empower them to fulfill their potentialo Team them up to maximize their impact in collaborationo Mentor/coach them to higher levels of performanceo Serve as a model for developing others as leadersThis process will enable those who participate in it to “compound” the scope, depth, and impact of leadership development.In or near the downtown area of most cities, there is a farmer’s market at which a few merchants offer fresh slices of fruit as sample os their wares. In that same spirit, I now provide a representative selection of observations, Maxwell’s as well as others’:- “If you desire to fulfill a bold vision or do something great, you have to let go of a microwave mindset for leadership.” (Page xvii)- “For a leader who develops leaders, there is something scarcer and much more important than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.” (3)- Alexander Solzhenitsyn “Talent is always conscious of its own abundance and does not object to sharing.” (13)- “The function of leadership isn’t to gather more followers. It’s to produce more leaders.” (85)- “Leadership is like swimming. It can’t be learned by reading about it. Leaders become leaders by practicing.” (115)- Phil Jackson “The strength of the pack is the wolf. The strength of the wolf is the pack.” (143)- “Today’s peacocks are tomorrow’s feather dusters.” (203)Almost $90-billion (that’s a b) was spent in 2018 on leadership development in the U.S. and much (if not most) of it was wasted. It seems certain that the total was even more in 2019. If the leadership development efforts in your organization have been only OK, if that, I highly recommend this book. It offers just about all the information, insights, and counsel needed to strengthen the leaders you already have, and, help them to develop other leaders that will be needed in months and years to come.Here is my favorite passage in Lao-tse’s Tao Te Ching. It describes a workplace culture within which leadership development is most likely to thrive.”Learn from the peoplePlan with the peopleBegin with what they haveBuild on what they knowOf the best leadersWhen the task is accomplishedThe people will remarkWe have done it ourselves.”
“The Leaders Greatest Return…” by John Maxwell is an excellent book on the dynamics of identifying, developing and cultivating leadership in an organizational setting.The objective of the author is to define,teach,practice,measure and model highly desired behaviors for current leaders and prospective candidates being groomed to lead.The initial challenge is to identify people with leadership potential who fit comfortably within the existing organizational culture.The ideal people are those with an ability to act in the facilitator role, as used in the organizational development/design trade or profession.A facilitator assembles small groups of people and works to define specific goals and implementation scenarios.Team members interact together with the facilitator who manages routine disagreements with the intention of moving the agenda forward.A strength of this book is that the author explains what good leaders seek to accomplish. For instance, leaders help people understand the company vision and implement it in their everyday work.The ultimate goal of the institutional vision is to produce superior results that grow the business and engage more customers.Leaders need to be supported by senior management. Their efforts should be well compensated and the company should empower its leaders to act.Prospective leaders first must connect with people positively before sound principles of leadership can be applied.Connecting with people means creating space for open conversation and honest discussion and evaluation of feedback.Oftentimes, front end questions help to set an agenda; whereas, backend questions invite reflection.Listening engenders trust and connectivity. And so,the job of a facilitator is to listen to the team discussions with great care in order to formulate approaches leading to a successful conclusion.Overall,”The Leaders Greatest Return…” by John Maxwell is a roadmap on identifying, cultivating and empowering leaders to act.This work would be very helpful for management throughout an organization. Professionals inthe managerial sciences, psychology, information technology and philosophy would benefit significantly from acquiring this book. An extensive set of research notes is put forward at the end of the book. “The Leaders Greatest Return…” by John Maxwell has some similarity to “How To Win Friends and Influence People” by Dale Carnegie. In Carnegie’s book, the author discusses empathy with people,appealing to noble motives,asking questions rather than just giving orders, discussing what matters to people,listening longer and connecting with core desires/values. Similarly, Maxwell discusses the importance of listening, empathy and key attributes of the facilitatorrole in developing leadership. |
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