Leadershift
by John C. Maxwell
Maxwell on eleven shifts leaders must make: soloist to conductor, goals to growth, perks to price, pleasing to challenging, maintaining to creating, ladder climbing to ladder building, directing to connecting, team uniformity to diversity, positional authority to moral authority, trained to transformational, career to calling. Standard Maxwell: clear, anecdotal, encouraging.
Read it if…
you are a Maxwell reader and want his thinking on adapting as you grow.
Skip it if…
you have read his other books; the material overlaps.
Three things you will actually use
- Leadership changes as you grow; shift deliberately.
- Build ladders for others.
- Moral authority outlasts position.
Do this first
Pick the shift you most resist and write what it would cost and gain.
Our verdict
Standard Maxwell.
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