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    Self-Improvement 101: What Every Leader Needs to Know
    Self-Improvement 101: What Every Leader Needs to Know
    Self-Improvement 101: What Every Leader Needs to Know
    Audiobook2 hours

    Self-Improvement 101: What Every Leader Needs to Know

    Written by John C. Maxwell

    Narrated by Sean Runnette

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    About this audiobook

    John C. Maxwell uses his decades of experience to teach you how to reach your full potential through a commitment to personal growth.

    Throughout this book, leadership expert John C. Maxwell provides the essential tips and tools to help any leader continue striving for excellence no matter what industry, business, or level of leadership.

    In Self-Improvement 101, you’ll learn:

    • the secret of becoming a lifelong learner,
    • where to focus your time for maximum growth,
    • what sacrifices are worth making to keep getting better,
    • how to overcome obstacles to self-improvement,
    • the key to turning experience into wisdom,
    • and why leaders need to be learners, among many other essential lessons.

    People never reach their potential by accident. Often, those who achieve the greatest success have the greatest desire to learn and grow.

    Self-Improvement 101 guides you on an essential journey to uncovering your own desire, commitment, and unyielding determination to improve your life--and to improve yourself.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins Leadership
    Release dateApr 14, 2015
    ISBN9780718076542
    Self-Improvement 101: What Every Leader Needs to Know
    Author

    John C. Maxwell

    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.

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    • 5/5
      Good knowledge something to work on every single day will benefit you in a long way
    • 5/5
      Really good book! Perfect for beginners in self improvement journey
    • 5/5
      Great and easy book to read. Everything John maxwell is incredible.
    • 5/5
      Second book I read that is so worth the money to purchase the physical book and study. Key principles of effective habits
    • 5/5
      It teaches a lot everybody should listen to this book
    • 5/5
      This book should be what a leader reads immediately he/she realizes that there is leadership in them
    • 3/5
      Leadership 101: What Every Leader Needs to Know is Maxwell's condensation of his major talking points in leadership. It's a short book filled with soundbites and a few anecdotes. But I gleaned a few things.

      Leadership is influence, and we all influence people throughout our day. Hence, we can all be leaders. Having more people in reach of your influence is a function of your development as a leader.

      Bill Hybels' book on leadership (he often partners with Maxwell) was influential in my life. Hybels requires everyone in leadership positions at Willow Creek to be actively reading about leadership. I have taken that to heart so that I include books on leadership (including biographies and memoirs) in my regular rotation. Maxwell espouses that continuous reading and learning as critical for leaders. In 1969, he sent letters to key leaders in whatever industry he was working in soliciting 30 minutes of their time for $100. He interviewed them and tried to learn what they knew.

      Maxwell endorses the Pareto principle: 20% of resources generate 80% of the results, so invest most of your time in the 20% of activities that generate the most revenue, the top 20% of your workforce, etc.

      Your influence will be measured by what happens after you leave, so not planning a succession means you are not succeeding. Maxwell learned that one the hard way, the first church he helped build fell apart after he left-- he hadn't prepared them to continue in his absence. I think this point falls under Covey's point to "begin with the end in mind."


      Volunteer organizations like churches are the most leader-centric organizations; the director/pastor cannot offer monetary incentives for productivity, so people have to be responding to the leadership-- there is some intrinsic reward here. Hence, the leader should work hard to develop people in his influence so that those people find it worthwhile to follow.

      I have to think: How does this apply to government (or a union situation), where workers may not face fear of firing and there are no monetary incentives or opportunities for advancement that can be offered? I think that's similar to the voluntary organization, the leader can motivate employees by investing in their own development as a reward. Perhaps that investment means they leave the organization for a better position, but that's just part of the cost of having employees' motives aligned with the goal of the organization.

      This book is short, hence I recommend it with 3.5 stars.
    • 5/5
      This simple, but direct book, gives the foundation of what a leader should be, how he/she should act, and how to continue to develop one's self to become the best leader a person can be. I highly recommend that this book be read and re-read many times.