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The secret of your success is largely determined by your daily agenda. Now, New York Times bestselling author John C. Maxwell has produced a planner to help you achieve your goals. With inspiring quotes from his bestselling books and presentations, this planner shares Maxwell's system for compounding greatness daily. It offers both month-at-a-glance and weekly planning layouts in an easy-to-use lay-flat binding.

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Unleash your leadership potential with this need-to-know guide, direct from the playbooks of America's most trusted leadership expert, John C. Maxwell.No matter who you are, you can lead—and lead well. That is the message New York Times bestselling author John C. Maxwell gives in this power-packed guidebook.The consummate leader offers a succinct and inspiring framework for enhancing the leadership abilities you already possess.In Leadership 101, Maxwell will teach you how to: Follow your vision and bring others with you Produce a lasting legacy Grow the loyalty of your followers Make continual investments in the quality of your leadership Increase your ability to influence others Determine your leadership "lid" Empower others through mentoring Create a foundation of trust Use self-discipline to improve your character—and your results One of the keys to successful leadership is applying the concepts that have made other leaders strong. Here's your opportunity to do just that.

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Are some people born to achieve anything they want while others struggle? What is the real reason for their success? John C. Maxwell has the answer: The difference between average people and achieving people is their perception of and response to failure.Most people are never prepared to deal with failure. Bestselling author John C. Maxwell says that if you are like him, you feared it, misunderstood it, and ran away from it. However, he has learned to make failure his friend, and he can teach you to do the same.Maxwell takes a closer look at failure and reveals that the secret of moving beyond failure is to use it as a lesson and a stepping-stone.In Failing Forward, Maxwell will show you: the key main reasons people fail, how to master fear instead of being mastered by it, and positive benefits can accompany negative experiences. Filled with action suggestions and real-life stores, Failing Forward is a strategic guide that will help you move beyond mistakes to fulfill your potential and achieve success.Discover how to confidently look the prospect of failure in the eye and move forward anyway. In life, the question is not?if?you will have problems, but how you are going to deal with them? Stop failing backward and start failing forward!

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Dive into a masterclass with world-renowned leadership expert John C. Maxwell as he shares the most important lessons he’s learned about the leadership development process over the last quarter century.What is the greatest return on a leader’s time? After leaders have invested in their own leadership growth, what is the best way to accomplish their vision and grow their organizations? Develop other leaders! The more leaders an organization has and the better equipped they are to lead, the more successful the organization and its leaders.In the last twenty-five years, New York Times bestselling author John C. Maxwell has grown from equipping a handful of leaders in one organization to developing millions of business, government, and nonprofit leaders in every country around the world. In this book, Maxwell takes the reader step-by-step through the process of identifying, attracting, empowering, and positioning leaders to create a culture capable of then reproducing and compounding the value of its leaders.In The Leader’s Greatest Return, you will be instructed on: The Leadership Table - Create a place where people not yet leading at your level can come, be welcomed and try on leadership. The 7 Motivators - Review the seven motivators and discover what motivates each person and then lead him or her accordingly. Team Success - Use the 10-80-10 method to set people up for success and empower them to perform at a high level. Who to Grow as a Leader - Love and value everyone but use the Pareto principle to choose who to grow as a?leader. This is where leaders really experience the compounding value of developing leaders and go to the highest levels of leadership themselves. The Leader’s Greatest Return is perfect for anyone who wants to take the next step in their leadership, build their organization or team today, and create their legacy for tomorrow needs to read.

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Learn how to build and maintain champion level teams, then lead your team to the peak level of success regardless of the field you're in.Individual all-stars can only take you so far. Ultimately, success--whether in business, family, church, athletic teams, or any other organization--is entirely dependent on teamwork. But how does one build that team?Leadership expert and bestselling author John C. Maxwell knows that building and maintaining a successful team is no simple task. Even people who have taken their teams to the highest level in their field have difficulty re-creating what accounted for their successes. In his practical, down-to-earth style, Maxwell shares the vital principles of team building that are necessary for success in any type of organization.In The 17 Indisputable Laws of Teamwork, Dr. Maxwell shows how: The Law of High Morale inspired a 50-year-old man who couldn't even swim to train for the toughest triathlon in the world; The Law of the Big Picture prompted a former US president to travel across the country by bus, sleep in a basement, and do manual labor; Playing by The Law of the Scoreboard enabled one web-based company to keep growing and make money while thousands of other Internet businesses failed; Ignoring The Law of the Price Tag caused one of the world's largest retailers to close its doors after 128 years in business; And much more! Building a successful team has plagued leaders since the beginning of time. Is the key a strong work ethic? Is it “chemistry”? The 17 Indisputable Laws of Teamwork will empower you--whether coach or player, teacher or student, CEO or non-profit volunteer--with the “how-tos“ and attitudes for building a successful team.

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Leadership can be a blessing or a curse. It can help people rise up to a better life, or it can cause people to fall into despair. Become part of the solution by becoming a high-road leader.The world’s most influential leadership expert, John C. Maxwell, tackles the problem of our divided world in his latest book High Road Leadership. “Everything rises and falls on leadership,” says Maxwell. “Today it is causing people to fall—into disputes, frustration, anger, and despair. His solution is to expose the problems of taking the low and middle roads when interacting with others and teach people how to instead take the high road. Leaders who practice high road leadership value all people, do the right things for the right reasons, take accountability for their actions, and place people above their own agenda. In his trademark communication style, Maxwell teaches the principles and practices of high-road leadership that can increase anyone

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No one wins at everything they try. But any setback, whether professional or personal, can become a step forward with the right tools and mindset to turn loss into a gain. Drawing on nearly 50 years of leadership experience, Maxwell provides a roadmap for winning by examining the eleven elements that constitute the "DNA" of people who succeed in the face of problems, failure, and losses. Learning is not easy during down times. It takes discipline to do the right thing when something goes wrong. As John Maxwell often points out, experience itself isn't the best teacher; evaluating, understanding, and growing from your experience is. By examining how that process works, you can learn how to take risks and tackle challenges with a successful person's outlook. Derived from material previous published in Sometime You Win--Sometimes You Learn.

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Every believer is a person of influence. In the Maxwell Leadership Bible, leadership expert John C. Maxwell shows you the principles of leadership taught in God’s Word and how to use them. Whether you are an employee, a boss, a parent, or a neighbor, you are a person of influence in your part of the world. Throughout the pages of Scripture, John Maxwell has assembled the time-tested and irrefutable biblical principles of leadership to equip and encourage leaders with his signature approach, including the 21 Laws of Leadership, the 21 Qualities of a Leader, biographical profiles, and hundreds of notes.Features include: Bible book introductions provide an overview of the background and historical context of the book about to be read Over 120 “Profiles in Leadership” lessons drawn from the people of the Bible Hundreds of Leadership Principles provide concise guidance for leaders directly from Scripture 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership articles draw from John C. Maxwell’s vast leadership experience 21 Indispensable Qualities of a Leader articles focus on important qualities found in leaders exemplified through the lives of men and women in the Bible A complete reference index to help easily navigate all 21 Laws of Leadership and the 21 Qualities of a Leader Easy-to-read large 10-point NKJV Comfort Print

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Subtitled: 11 Ways Highly Successful People Approach Life And Work this book explores the concept that success is really just a frame of mind.

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The perfect, compact read for today's fast-paced world, How Successful People Think (derived from Maxwell's previous book, Thinking for a Change) guides readers through the 11 secrets successful people know. Arranged in an easy-to-follow format, America's leadership expert John C. Maxwell will teach readers how to expand their thinking and achieve their dreams. The 11 keys to successful thinking include: Big-Picture Thinking - seeing the world beyond your own needs and how that leads to great ideas Focused Thinking - removing mental clutter and distractions to realize your full potential Creative Thinking - thinking in unique ways and making breakthroughs Shared Thinking - working with others to compound results Reflective Thinking - looking at the past to gain a better understanding of the future.

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"Leadership loves daily, not in a day."Use 102 of John Maxwell's best quotes on leadership to inspire your own inner leader. Whether you want to increase your influence, prepare yourself for that big promotion, or get a handle on leadership for the first time, you can trust John Maxwell to help you in the journey.Maxwell gives you clear leadership philosophies, prompts you to examine yourself, and encourages you to become the leader you've always wanted to be.

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Are there actually tried and true principles that are always certain to help a person grow? John Maxwell says the answer is yes. He has been passionate about personal development for over 50 years, and in the 15 Invaluable Laws of Growth, he teaches everything he has gleaned about what it takes to reach our potential. In his trademark style, Maxwell covers:- The Law of the Mirror: You Must See Value in Yourself to Add Value to Yourself- The Law of Awareness: You Must Know Yourself to Grow Yourself- The Law of Modeling: It's Hard to Improve When You Have No One But Yourself to Follow- The Law of the Rubber Band: Growth Stops When You Lose the Tension Between Where You are and Where You Could Be- The Law of Contribution: Developing Yourself Enables You to Develop OthersThis 10th anniversary edition comes with an updated foreword from John Maxwell. The 15 Invaluable Laws of Growth will help you become a lifelong learner whose potential keeps increasing so you can lead others with passion and get results.

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Dive into a masterclass that reveals the shifts you should make over the course of you career to keep innovating, improving, and influencing others to the highest levels of success in today’s unprecedented business climate.Change is so rapid today that leaders must do more than stay the course to be successful. If they aren’t nimble and ready to adapt, they won’t survive. The key is to learn how to leadershift.John C. Maxwell helps leaders gain the ability and willingness to make leadership changes that will positively enhance their organizational and personal growth. He does this by sharing the eleven shifts he made over the course of his long, successful leadership career.In Leadershift, Maxwell shares some of the leadershifts including… Adaptive Shift from Plan A to Option A, the Production Shift from Ladder Climbing to Ladder Building, the Influence Shift from Positional Authority to Moral Authority and more! Leadershift gives specific guidance to readers about how to make these shifts in their own lives.Each one requires them to change the way they think, act, and ultimately lead so they can be successful in a world that never remains the same.To go forward, we need to move faster. And as leaders, we need to stay ahead, we need to see more than others, and we need to see before others.

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Lack of self-awareness is the single greatest obstacle leaders face in their development, effectiveness, and advancement. Dr. John C. Maxwell will help any leader become more self-aware, focused, and confident.With fifty years of leading and teaching experience, influential leadership expert and speaker John C. Maxwell can help you become your best leadership self.In The Self-Aware Leader, Maxwell teaches you how to: gauge your effectiveness as a leader, make better choices that lead to success, discover and correct your own mistakes, improve your leadership with the team, and make the right trades in your career. Self-awareness is key for new and seasoned leaders who want to avoid micro-managing, handle criticism with grace, and give others the credit they deserve. Maxwell also aims to help current and new managers looking to identify their strengths, become a better learner, and improve listening skills.When leaders don’t see themselves clearly, understand their strengths and weaknesses, or recognize their negative interactions with their team, they limit their influence and undermine their own effectiveness. What’s the solution? Become a self-aware leader.

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Every believer is a person of influence. In the Maxwell Leadership Bible, leadership expert John C. Maxwell shows you the principles of leadership taught in God’s Word and how to use them. Whether you are an employee, a boss, a parent, or a neighbor, you are a person of influence in your part of the world. Throughout the pages of Scripture, John Maxwell has assembled the time-tested and irrefutable biblical principles of leadership to equip and encourage leaders with his signature approach, including the 21 Laws of Leadership, the 21 Qualities of a Leader, biographical profiles, and hundreds of notes.Features include: Bible book introductions provide an overview of the background and historical context of the book about to be read Over 120 “Profiles in Leadership” lessons drawn from the people of the Bible Hundreds of Leadership Principles provide concise guidance for leaders directly from Scripture 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership articles draw from John C. Maxwell’s vast leadership experience 21 Indispensable Qualities of a Leader articles focus on important qualities found in leaders exemplified through the lives of men and women in the Bible A complete reference index to help easily navigate all 21 Laws of Leadership and the 21 Qualities of a Leader 7-point print size

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Every believer is a person of influence. In the Maxwell Leadership Bible, leadership expert John C. Maxwell shows you the principles of leadership taught in God’s Word and how to use them. Whether you are an employee, a boss, a parent, or a neighbor, you are a person of influence in your part of the world. Throughout the pages of Scripture, John Maxwell has assembled the time-tested and irrefutable biblical principles of leadership to equip and encourage leaders with his signature approach, including the 21 Laws of Leadership, the 21 Qualities of a Leader, biographical profiles, and hundreds of notes.Features include: Bible book introductions provide an overview of the background and historical context of the book about to be read Over 120 “Profiles in Leadership” lessons drawn from the people of the Bible Hundreds of Leadership Principles provide concise guidance for leaders directly from Scripture 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership articles draw from John C. Maxwell’s vast leadership experience 21 Indispensable Qualities of a Leader articles focus on important qualities found in leaders exemplified through the lives of men and women in the Bible A complete reference index to help easily navigate all 21 Laws of Leadership and the 21 Qualities of a Leader Easy-to-read large 10-point NKJV Comfort Print

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Learn how to lead well and grow your team amidst challenges and tough times.Great leaders will face challenges. Markets will collapse; pandemics will come; people will always provide new and interesting ways to makes things difficult. But leaders must achieve results and build a team that produces, even when you are faced with difficult circumstances.This all-new book from John Maxwell, created using content from several of his previous bestselling titles, is the ultimate guide to helping your team survive and even thrive when the unexpected happens. Maxwell helps leaders identify their team's main challenges, take stock of their liabilities, understand what they can control, and use challenges as opportunities to rethink the way they do things. He ultimately gives leaders the tools to grow their teams in the midst of difficult times.Using humor, in-depth insight, and examples, internationally recognized leadership expert John C. Maxwell reassures leaders that they can still lead well and help people develop the skills they need to become great leaders, even when times are tough.

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John Maxwell, America's #1 leadership authority, has mastered the art of asking questions, using them to learn and grow, connect with people, challenge himself, improve his team, and develop better ideas. In this compact derivative of Good Leaders Ask Great Questions, he gives detailed answers to the most popular and intriguing questions posed to him by people at all stages of their careers. Whether readers are seasoned leaders or wanting to take their first steps into leadership, this small volume will be a big help in providing applicable advice to improve their professional lives.

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True leadership isn't a matter of having a certain job or title. In fact, being chosen for a position is only the first of the five levels every effective leader achieves. To become more than "the boss" people follow only because they are required to, you have to master the ability to invest in people and inspire them. To grow further in your role, you must achieve results and build a team that produces. You need to help people to develop their skills to become leaders in their own right. And if you have the skill and dedication, you can reach the pinnacle of leadership-where experience will allow you to extend your influence beyond your immediate reach and time for the benefit of others. The 5 Levels of Leadership are: 1. Position - People follow because they have to 2. Permission - People follow because they want to 3. Production - People follow because of what you have done for the organization 4. People Development - People follow because of what you have done for them personally 5. Pinnacle - People follow because of who you are and what you represent Through humor, in-depth insight, and examples, internationally recognized leadership expert John C. Maxwell describes each of these stages of leadership. He shows you how to master each level and rise up to the next to become a more influential, respected, and successful leader.

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The most effective leaders know how to connect with people. It's not about power or popularity, but about making the people around you feel heard, comfortable, and understood.While it may seem like some folks are born with a commanding presence that draws people in, the fact is anyone can learn to communicate in ways that consistently build powerful connections. Bestselling author and leadership expert John C. Maxwell offers advice for effective communication to those who continually run into obstacles when it comes to personal success.In Everyone Communicates, Few Connect, Maxwell shares five principles and five practices to develop connection skills including: Finding common ground Keeping your communication simple Capturing people’s interest How to create an experience everyone enjoys Staying authentic in all your relationships Your ability to achieve results in any organization is directly tied to the leadership skills in your toolbox. Connecting is an easy-to-learn skill you can apply today in your personal, professional, and family relationships to start living your best life.

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Success is not generated by your title. In fact, being named to a position is the lowest of the five levels every effective leader achieves. By combining the advice contained in these pages with skill and dedication, you can reach the pinnacle of leadership-where your influence extends beyond your immediate reach for the benefit of others.

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Are you unstoppable? You can be. Most people allow others to put limitations on them. They even put limitations on themselves. Don't ever do that again. You don't have to be stoppable. Instead, unleash your potential.When John Maxwell started his career in small-town Indiana, few people would have guessed he would go on to become a bestselling author and world-wide leadership expert. How did he do it? He didn't put limits on himself. He believed he could make a difference in the world, and he kept going until he achieved it.You can too. In The Unstoppable You, Maxwell teaches the seven ways you can tap into your potential and start overcoming obstacles, solving problems, and accomplishing results you previously thought impossible.Go ahead. Take your next steps and achieve the success you've always dreamt of. Then never stop.About Maxwell Moments Maxwell Moments is an innovative new series that will encourage personal growth, leadership development, and success. Find direct and practical advice to grow your career, business, or interpersonal skills. These easy-to-read books include short chapters for busy readers that can be savored in small bites, read in a single sitting, given as gifts, and used as mentoring tools.

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The choices you make every day based on your values are what define you. And define your life. Make the right ones, and you are a winner. And here's the good news: they're not rocket science. Anyone can make them. Internationally bestselling author and leadership expert John C. Maxwell shares twelve everyday choices that you can make today and every day. They will help you master what matters so that you can have a better life.About Maxwell MomentsMaxwell Moments is an innovative new line of derivative books unlike any other Maxwell books in the marketplace. They will look and feel fresh, appealing to a younger and more innovative audience while delivering the time-tested Maxwell message of hope, personal growth, leadership development, and success.Titles in the Maxwell Moments series will be single-concept books in a creative format, chock full of wisdom, insight, and inspiration. Each will contain the essence of one of John's messages, divided into short chapters to be savored in small bites, read in a single sitting, given as gifts, and used as mentoring tools.

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“My greatest discovery in forty years of leading: Leadership can be developed.” ~ Inc. Magazine’s No. 1 Leadership Expert, John C. Maxwell Twenty-five years ago, John Maxwell published the book that forever transformed how people think about leadership. Developing the Leader Within You showed that leaders are made, not born, and helped more than two million people in the process. Maxwell now returns to this classic text to include the insights and practices he has learned in the decades since that work first appeared. In this completely revised and expanded workbook, based on the book of the same title, you will receive everything you need to take a significant step in your leadership journey, along with in-depth activities designed to help develop the leader within you. If you complete all the readings and exercises and answer all the questions, you will be amazed at how your influence, effectiveness, and impact will increase in such a short time. And if you’re going through this process with a group, you’ll enjoy the challenging discussion questions at the end of each lesson so you can explore the ideas in even greater depth. With insights gleaned from his forty-plus years of leadership success, Maxwell will especially help readers explore the value of: Achieving success using the Five Levels of Leadership Developing people—a leader’s most appreciable assets Identifying and solving problems and preventing their recurrence Defining and articulating a vision for your organization Building on the leadership skills you already possess No matter the arena in which you find yourself called to serve—family, business, or nonprofit—the principles Maxwell shares in this workbook will help you develop the vision, value, influence, and motivation required of successful leaders. Designed for use with Developing the Leader Within You 2.0 (9780718073992), sold separately.

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Drawing from the text of the Business Week bestseller TODAY MATTERS, this condensed, revised edition boils down John C. Maxwell's 12 daily practices to their very essence, giving maximum impact in minimal time. Presented in a quick-read format, this version is designed to be read cover to cover in one sitting or taken in as brief lessons in a few spare minutes each day. Readers will learn how to make decisions on important matters and apply those decisions daily to put them on a path to more successful, productive, and fulfilling lives.

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The Best-Selling Leadership Book of All Time Just Got Better!HarperCollins and John C. Maxwell are celebrating the milestone anniversary of Maxwell’s New York Times bestselling book The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership with the publication of a new revised and updated 25th Anniversary Edition.Maxwell has gone through every word of this book and updated it for the next generation of leaders. He has added new insights to these timeless laws and included lessons learned since he originally wrote the book. He removed dated stories and replaced them with fresh ones that apply to today’s world of business.What Maxwell didn’t change are the powerful leadership truths that have been helping people become better leaders for the last quarter century. This is still the best book on leadership people can buy, whether they want to learn leadership on their own, develop as leaders in a group, or teach leadership to others as a mentor.Readers new to Maxwell, as well as lifelong fans will want to get this new edition of the leadership book that has sold millions of copies in the United States and around the world.

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What can make the difference in your life today? How can two people with the same skills and abilities, in the same situation, end up with two totally different outcomes? John C. Maxwell says the difference maker is attitude.For those who have ever wondered what may be separating them from achieving the kind of personal and professional success they’ve always dreamt of, leadership expert Dr. John C. Maxwell knows that it is attitude that colors every aspect of your life.In The Difference Maker, Dr. Maxwell teaches you how to: Shatter common myths about attitude—what it can do for you and what it can’t Overcome the five biggest attitude obstacles Develop an impactful attitude on your career, family, and daily living Your attitude affects everything in your life, and it's one of the few things that you can control. A good attitude doesn't necessarily make good things happen to you, but it sure does help. Or you can easily set yourself up for failure by harboring a bad attitude, undermining your own efforts to succeed.The Difference Maker reveals the skills you need to not only make attitude your biggest asset, but shows you how to maintain that attitude for the rest of your life.

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Every believer is a person of influence. In the Maxwell Leadership Bible, leadership expert John C. Maxwell shows you the principles of leadership taught in God’s Word and how to use them. Whether you are an employee, a boss, a parent, or a neighbor, you are a person of influence in your part of the world. Throughout the pages of Scripture, John Maxwell has assembled the time-tested and irrefutable biblical principles of leadership to equip and encourage leaders with his signature approach, including the 21 Laws of Leadership, the 21 Qualities of a Leader, biographical profiles, and hundreds of notes.Features include: Bible book introductions provide an overview of the background and historical context of the book about to be read Over 120 “Profiles in Leadership” lessons drawn from the people of the Bible Hundreds of Leadership Principles provide concise guidance for leaders directly from Scripture 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership articles draw from John C. Maxwell’s vast leadership experience 21 Indispensable Qualities of a Leader articles focus on important qualities found in leaders exemplified through the lives of men and women in the Bible A complete reference index to help easily navigate all 21 Laws of Leadership and the 21 Qualities of a Leader 7-point print size

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Learn how to maximize your potential in minimal time with this compact how-to book derived from No Limits by #1 New York Times bestselling author John Maxwell.Many of us hold ourselves back because we firmly believe our abilities are limited. But what if what we believe are our limitations is just an illusion? In THE POWER OF YOUR POTENTIAL, John Maxwell identifies and examines the 17 key capacities each of us possess. Some are abilities we are born with such as how we think or how we relate to other people. The rest are choices we make, often unconsciously, including our attitude or personal discipline. He then gives clear and actionable advice on what we can do to improve in each of these areas. From learning to manage your emotions and increase your energy, to conquering procrastination and becoming more comfortable with taking risks to move forward, Maxwell will help you surpass your own expectations to become a better you than you ever thought possible.

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What is the secret sauce for every kind of organization?What is the secret to organizational success? Whether the goal is developing a new product, establishing a new location, launching a new initiative, starting a new team, or improving your existing one, what will determine its success? The leaders! For any team, small business, large corporation, non-profit organization, or government entity, the key to accomplishing today’s goals and achieving tomorrow’s success depends on its present and future leaders.Few people know more about developing leaders than John C. Maxwell, the bestselling leadership author in history. In the last twenty-five years, he has grown from equipping a handful of leaders in one organization to developing millions of business, government, and non-profit leaders in every country around the world.In The Ultimate Guide to Developing Leaders, Maxwell teaches everything leaders need to know about how to develop leaders in their team or organization. Readers will learn how to: Become developers of people. Identify people with leadership potential. Recruit, train, and motivate emerging leaders. Empower new leaders to lead. Coach new and existing leaders to higher levels of achievement. Teach their leaders how to develop other leaders. Anyone frustrated by leadership limitations in their organization needs to read The Ultimate Guide to Developing Leaders. If they follow the practical steps it offers, they will create a leadership pipeline that will never run dry.

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Full of interactive questions and space for readers to provide answers, as well as new material for readers to assess their current type of thinking, this workbook guides readers in applying the lessons they learned from HOW SUCCESSFUL PEOPLE THINK or the book which it was derived from, Thinking for a Change. Each of the eleven chapters will focus on one type of thinking. Each chapter will contain content such as an overview, case studies and questions to help the reader apply the principles from the case study, 'Value of X Thinking' questions from HOW SUCCESSFUL PEOPLE THINK with additional new questions, a journal section, a 'How to Become a X Thinker' section from HOW SUCCESSFUL PEOPLE THINK, and an action plan of steps to help reader create a plan.

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True leadership isn't a matter of having a certain job or title. In fact, being chosen for a position is only the first of the five levels every effective leader achieves. In his seminal work, leadership guru John Maxwell presents readers with the five stages of leadership and explains how to maximize each one to become more influential, respected and successful: 1. Position - People follow because they have to. 2. Permission - People follow because they want to. 3. Production - People follow because of what you have done for the organization. 4. People Development - People follow because of what you have done for them personally. 5. Pinnacle - People follow because of who you are and what you represent.

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John C. Maxwell shows how the best leaders in any organization learned to be successful by having a good mentor.Through this essential and easy-to-read reference book, international leadership expert John C. Maxwell gives you the bottom line on mentoring--what it is, why you should do it, and how you can do it most effectively.In Mentoring 101, Maxwell guides you in the art of mentoring by explaining: how to choose the right person to mentor, how to create the right environment for leaders to thrive and grow, how to help people become better, and how to overcome the most intimidating hurdle of all: getting started. What if you spent your entire life achieving but never shared your wisdom with anyone else?Mentoring is the key to creating a lasting legacy, and Mentoring 101 is your personalized key to seeing that journey through.

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Regardless of your position, learn how to lead with impact by utilizing John C. Maxwell's thirty years of experience teaching people how to make a significant difference in their organizations.As one of the most trusted leadership mentors, John C. Maxwell debunks the myths that hold people back from leaning into and developing their influence. In this inspiring call-to-action, he shows middle managers how to leverage their unique positions and become 360 degree leaders by exercising influence in all directions--up (to the boss), across (among their peers), and down (to those they lead).In The 360 Degree Leader, you will learn how to: overcome the challenges facing the vast majority of professionals; understand the pressures and pain points that come from being caught in the middle; and gain the confidence and competence to step into their roles as significant influencers. Complete with a workbook to help you personalize your leadership journey and the authors’ plethora of stories, studies, and development models and strategies, The 360 Degree Leader equips you with the skills you need to begin making a difference in your organization, career, and life, today--with or without the promotion.There are endless opportunities for those trying to lead from the middle of an organization. From what you are, your influence is already greater than you know.

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