Developing the Leader Within You
by John C. Maxwell
Maxwell's first major leadership book, revised in 2018: influence, priorities, character, change, problem-solving, attitude, serving people, vision, self-discipline, growth. It is foundational Maxwell, anecdotal and aphoristic, and the chapters on priorities and self-discipline are the strongest.
Read it if…
you are new to leadership books and want a broad, accessible foundation.
Skip it if…
you have read any other Maxwell; the overlap is large.
Three things you will actually use
- Leadership is influence, nothing more, nothing less.
- Priorities: the twenty percent that produces eighty.
- Character is the foundation; competence is the building.
Do this first
List everything you did last week and mark what only you could do; delegate or drop the rest.
Our verdict
Foundational and accessible.
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