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Summary: Optimizing teamwork.
Review: John Maxwell understands what it takes to lead a productive team. The 21 Laws of Leadership are definitely worth reading and assimilating. I have used them in my company successfully. I have also integrated Optimal Thinking throughout my company, which has paid huge dividends. Give a copy of this book to every person with leadership potential in your company and a copy of Optimal Thinking:How to Be Your Best Self by Dr. Rosalene Glickman to every employee.
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Summary: Excellent for leadership
Review: This is one of the best books on leadership by the best author on leadership. It's a very easy read, chapters are short. Great info if you're leading or managing people.
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Summary: Just a good book to read
Review: I have read the 21 Irrefutable Laws Of Leadership and I have found it interesting to say the least. There isn't much to say except that it is a good book. Just reading it inspires thoughts and beliefs and a positive attitude. Many of the stories provide an excellent mental vision for a better understanding of the meaning or lesson. It uses some charts and pictures to display information. The only downside I would say about the book is that some of the stories seem to go on just a little too long but there are very few of them.
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Summary: Great
Review: This book is really great. It gives 21 laws/ways to help you be a great leader. If you really follow the laws- you'll find that it really works. Also, John uses examples w/ each of his laws to help give a clear understanding of the book. Even though I don't agree w/ 100% of the book, it pretty much correct and if you follow these laws, you're going to be a MUCH better leader. I even realized why school elections are popularity contests....but if you want to know why, you're going to have to read this fantastic book!
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Summary: A poorly written non-starter
Review: Nothing new here. Save your money. Look almost anywhere else. Maxwell's book is typical of "sound bite management" writings. Glib, self-serving, empty calories. He also, like so many others who are truly out of touch, perpetuates the idiocy of sports analogies--as if sports had anything to do with real life. Three very important differences make sports analogies utterly useless: 1) athletes (whether youth, college, or pro) are there because they WANT to be while the majority of us are here (in life or at work) because we HAVE to be--that's why they call it a job or work; 2) athletics are static--the same givens, same conditions, same rules and then repeated with endless variety--while life and work are dynamic--the givens, conditions, rules situations, tools, processes all change while you're involved and you have no referee or rule book to intervene; 3) sports are, after all, only a game, while life and work have consequences. I'm an athlete and love sports but what I learned playing sports helped me be a better player and sportsman. It didn't teach me real-world leadership and teamwork. For that I needed real-world experience. As a consultant and trainer myself, I've taught leadership, management, teamwork, and business skills all over the world to a number of Fortune 50 firms. One thing I've learned: nothing's irrefutable in life.
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Summary: These Laws Will Free You To Be A Great Leader..
Review: Most of the laws we live by are unwritten laws are passed down from generation to generation. For example, my parents made an unwritten law in our house that I was not to treat other people with a skin color different than mine any different than I did any other person. I watched by example how my parents reinforced that law in their dealings and friendship with those of another race and subsequently I grew up without any of the prejudices that others on my block or in my school or those of my friends had who couldn't understand my non-prejudice. This "Law of Inclusion" that I learned is being passed down to my children and hopefully they will take up that law and keep it going.
In reading this great book, my mentor John C. Maxwell, has taken the unwritten laws of leadership that make a person a better leader and wrote these down to pass on to the next generation of leaders and make the current crop better. As you read this book you will find certain laws more applicable to your situation than others. I don't feel that in order to be "The Leader" you must score a perfect 10 on each law. These laws are basic principles that leaders need to evaluate their level and see how to raise other levels. It is not a 1,2,3 Step book. Others reviewing this book either has problems with Dr. Maxwell or they are looking for a dumbed-down version of "How To Be A Great Leader In 3 Easy Steps Or Less". This book is not for those who don't want to do some introspection of their leadership. It will make you ask questions of yourself and those around you in leadership. Questions that must be answered in order to grow.
For my application I have used this book and video set in leadership training classes that I have taught. I can defiantly say it has been a great resource to equip leaders to a higher level and I would highly recommend this book and anything else you can get on the "21 Laws" to use for personal and professional growth as a leader.
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Summary: This book is the biggest joke I've ever read.
Review: After finishing telling you how a leader is defined by the influence he has over people and how that's the only defination of a leader, he then goes onto tell you that Robert Scott wasn't a leader despite the fact that people were willing to follow him to their deaths. He tells how it takes a leader to make a leader, illustrating his point with King David, who created many leaders, completely ignoring the fact that there was no leader to mentor or teach David. Honestly, if you know anything about Ray Kroc and McDonalds you'll give up on the book by the end of Law number 1. Just about every example he gives shows that the rest of his rules are just so much hogwash or purely self-referential. There is no guideline in here for growth. There are no tools here to become a better leader. There's just a bunch of lame examples that you can use as excuses to convince yourself that you're really a leader. If ever there was a book that deserves no stars at all, this is the book. If you want to understand why someone in your organization has acheived some high position despite an apparent lack of brain function, this is the book that will explain it to you. But if you want to grow as a leader and as a person, look elsewhere.
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Summary: Know the Laws
Review: John Maxwell has an excellent way of analyzing other people's success and failures. He has a terrific way of weaving stories and experiences into well tought out teaching points. I have used the same type of format for my personal journal and documenting my own lessons in life.
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Summary: 21 Laws of What?
Review: This book is full of nice little ancedotes and repetitious references to Maxwell's personal history at Skyline church but doesn't illuminate the reader on how to be a better leader. Mostly it's stuff like "let's consider the Law of Magnetism... you attract people who are like you." Wow! Great! and how do I use this Law? .... and how do I learn Magnetism?.... how does this work in leadership? ..... "and now for a little story about Abraham Lincoln...." So what do we learn from Mr. Maxwell's book? Not much unless you yearn for lots of nice stories about Henry Ford, Jack Welch, various NBA and NFL coaches ad naseum... oh and as the other reviewer mentioned some really dumb graphs.
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Summary: Good Encouragement for the Leader
Review: Maxwell's book is a good read for the person who is a leader (encouragement to keep doing the right things) or the person who is in the process of becoming a leader (learn how to become a leader). Anyone who reads the title will benefit in some way. Among the many excellent points Maxwell mentions include: 1. How leaders should think.
2. Leaders and followers share common values.
3. Leaders must make sacrifices.
4. Leaders must have impeccable timing.
5. Leaders must get outside of themselves and develop others.
6. Leaders must be secure enough to reproduce other leaders.
7. Character does matter!
8. A leader focuses efforts on a few priorities. These are just a few of the many excellent topics covered in the book. Highly recommended.
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