The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership Workbook: Revised and Updated

John C. Maxwell

Sep 2007 · Sold by HarperChristian Resources

About this ebook

Required reading for both developing and experienced leaders, this one-of-a-kind workbook companion to a leadership classic outlines the core leadership principles that will make you more effective, more influential, and more successful—wherever you are in your career.

If you’ve never read The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership, you’ve been missing out on one of the best-selling leadership books of all time. In this companion workbook, leadership expert John C. Maxwell shares powerful insights gleaned from his forty-plus years of leadership success. Maxwell helps you:

• Take your leadership skills to the next level
• Discover life-changing principles of influence, empowerment, intuition, and legacy
• Observe your own career and evaluate yourself, using an evaluation tool that reveals your leadership strengths and weaknesses
• Learn from stories and observations from the worlds of business, politics, sports, the military, and non-profit organizations so you can transform as a leader

Each of the twenty-one lessons contains the following sections:

• Definition of the Law: Understand the law and how it operates
• Case Studies: Explore three primary cases—some positive, some negative—that reveal and illustrate the law.
• Leadership Insight and Reflection: Draw important personal conclusions about the impact of this law on your life.
• Taking Action: Assess yourself in this law and develop specific action steps to grow or make important changes.
• Group Discussion Questions: Explore the core issues and share your insights through a guided discussion with your group.

This workbook isn’t designed to be merely a theoretical exercise. It’s meant to help you become a better leader. And while you can easily go through this study on your own, there’s nothing more transformational than learning with other like-minded people. So, gather a group of any size and see what happens as you help each other become the kind of leaders that people want to follow.

Ratings and reviews

GROWTH = CHANGE to add growth, lead FOLLOWERS, to multiply, lead LEADERS Leadership as a form of service; modeling the leadership and impacting the culture of an organization. The Law of Addition: Leaders add value by serving others. The Law of Pictures: People do what people see. MORE LESSONS LEARNED: 1. Leadership requires the ability to do more than one thing well Instinctively, successful people understand that focus is important to achievement. But leadership is very complex. - "What is the one thing i need to know about leadership?" - "The one thing you know about leadership is that, there is more than one thing you need to know about leadership". 2. No one does all 21 laws well Despite the fact that we must do 21 things well to be excellent leaders, it is reality that none of us does all of them well. - 5 of the laws below average. result: develop a leadership team. Once you've discovered in which laws you are average or below, begin looking for team members whose skills where strong where yours are weak. They will complement you, and vise versa and the whole team will benefit. SOME THINGS NEVER CHANGE Leadership is leadership, no matter where you go or what you do. Time change. Technology matches forward. Cultures differ from place to place and all the stuff but leadership principles are unchanging and stand the test of time. Four (4) Ideas: 1. The laws can be learned. Some are easier to understand and apply than others, but everyone of them can be acquired. 2. The laws can stand alone. Each law complements all the others but you don't need one in order to learn another. 3. The laws carry consequences with them. Apply the laws, and people will follow you. Violate or ignore them, and you will not be able to lead others. 4. These laws are the foundation of leadership. Once you learned the principles, you have to practice them and apply them to your life. *The greater the number of laws you learn, the better leader you will become. xxi

I'm a growing leader myself and I found this book to be one of the most effective and motivating books on leadership I've read so far... totally recommend this to who ever wants to not just grow inside your business but in your personal life as well.

John C Maxwell books are a must have if you are looking to develop your leadership skills.

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.