The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership: Follow Them and People Will Follow You

John C. Maxwell

May 2022 · Sold by HarperCollins Leadership

About this ebook

The Best-Selling Leadership Book of All Time Just Got Better!

The fully revised and updated 25th Anniversary Edition of Maxwell's New York Times bestseller provides clear guidance on how to become an effective leader in today's world.

You'll learn the key principles of successful leadership such as vision, influence, responsibility and commitment. It highlights ways to set goals for yourself and your team while maintaining emotional balance during difficult times. Each law is backed up by inspiring and practical examples from Maxwell's personal experience.

John Maxwell has gone through every word of this book and updated it for the next generation of leaders, adding new insights to these timeless laws and incorporating 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 he 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.

The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership is essential reading for anyone looking to better understand what it takes to be a great leader and achieve success in their chosen profession.

Ratings and reviews

This book is an exploration of particular human virtues and how certain historical figures achieved what can be interpreted as success but whether they achieved that success via leadership or a mix of many other factors is uncertain. In no way however does the author acknowledge this uncertainty yet he presumes to call his ideas as "laws". Unless he's done so strictly for marketing purposes which I assume was the intended reason since he also placed the word "irrefutable" next to it. However, this makes me wonder if the author is more a salesperson than a scholar nor is he an example of a visionary leader other than his vision to sell as many books and conference sessions as he can which is ironic because one of his most important stated law is based on trust but it seems he already broke his own law by claiming these laws exist when such laws in reality never existed and never will because they are not laws but are in fact observations that may appear to be "law".

About the author

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.