Title – The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership
Author: John C. Maxwell
The 21 irrefutable laws of leadership – Follow them and people will follow you, is a must read (Leadership manual or reference guide) for all the leaders and people aspiring to be a leader. More than 1 million copies of this book have been sold and it has been rated as a bestseller by New York Times, Wall Street Journal and Business Week.
In his book John C Maxwell (American expert on leadership and a founder of various organizations) has shared his secrets of being a great leader via the 21 laws of leadership. He has shared his insights that he has gained from this thirty plus years of leadership roles from politics, business, religion, sports and military.
The book gives excellent cases for each of these laws that help in a better understanding of these principles. Thus it not only explains, ‘What to do?’ but also ‘How to do it?’ and with proven examples of how it has worked in the past with other people.
Being from an IT projects background I liked the way he has a provided a way to measure leadership like we measure project parameters. Based on the leadership scores he makes an interesting analogy that a person with higher leadership score will never follow a person with a leadership score less than him.
The cases of McDonald, Henry Ford, Princess Diana, Mother Teresa, and such other world leaders teach us how leaders have made an impact on this world and we too can make a similar impact by following what they did. The book not only provides the success stories but compares it at various points with the mistakes that have been committed by other people. This enables us to learn from other people’s mistake instead of learning it the hard way.
Some of the other interesting information that I acquired from the book is
1. How leaders manage their time?
2. How leaders motivate others?
3. How leaders influence others?
4. How leaders gain respect?
5. How leaders develop other leaders and lead the organization to explosive growth?
A must read according too me….
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