Leadership 101: Inspirational Quotes and Insights for Leaders

From Publishers Weekly
This diminutive tome is a particularly sketchy treatise on the already vague subject of leadership, stitched together with excerpts from The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership and other Maxwell books and featuring an ad at the back directing readers to a Web site where they can buy one of the author's longer works. Maxwell's themes-don't just pull rank, don't sweat the small stuff, establish rapport with co-workers, "empower" underlings-are commonplaces of leadership lore, couched in aphorisms ("The boss says 'I'; the leader, 'we'"), pseudo-statistics ("Twenty percent of your priorities will give you 80 percent of your production") and bromides ("If you lack vision, look inside yourself"). But in distilling this wisdom, the nitty-gritty that might make it useful has been boiled off, leaving readers to grapple unaided with bullet-pointed truisms like "Deal wisely with difficult people." Perfunctory leadership profiles of usual suspect Theodore Roosevelt, Princess Di, executives and football notables scarcely flesh out the meager intellectual content of this book, which seems, more than anything, like a $10 congrats card for the recently promoted.Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.


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This inspiring and entertaining book offers readers a quick and ready source of powerful nuggets of truth about leaders and leadership that will help you achieve all that God has planned for you.


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Maxwell offers powerful inspiration that will challenge readers to reach for excellence in leadership. Quotes from well-known leaders, past and present, provide a quick and ready source of powerful nuggets of truth about leaders and leadership that will help readers achieve all that God has planned for them.


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