Becoming a Person of Influence
by John C. Maxwell and Jim Dornan
Influence as a progression: integrity, nurturing, faith in people, listening, understanding, enlarging, navigating, connecting, empowering, reproducing. It is a people-first model of leadership and one of Maxwell's warmer books.
Read it if…
you want to influence without authority through relationships.
Skip it if…
you want persuasion tactics; see Cialdini.
Three things you will actually use
- Integrity is the foundation of influence.
- Believe in people before they earn it.
- Empower and reproduce; influence multiplies.
Do this first
Listen to one person this week with no agenda and summarize what they said back to them.
Our verdict
Warm, people-first.
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