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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.(Sept. 10) Copyright 2003 Cahners Business Information.
MARCH 2011 - AudioFile
Renowned leadership expert John C. Maxwell condenses his tried-and-true methods for sharpening one’s leadership skills in a succinct program derived from his book THE 21 IRREFUTABLE LAWS OF LEADERSHIP. In a composed presentation, narrator Sean Runnette outlines the rudiments every leader needs to know. Runnette takes listeners through personal examples and profiles of famous leaders and other personalities as he stresses mastery of the key skills necessary for becoming a good influencer, motivator, delegator, and empowerer. LEADERSHIP 101 is invaluable for those who aspire to professional or personal leadership. E.O. © AudioFile 2011, Portland, Maine
