John C. Maxwel: Developing The Leader Within You

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John C. Maxwell: Developing the Leader Within You Chunece Jones Olivet Nazarene University BSNS 612 Graduate Strategies for Success August 6, 2011 John C. Maxwell is an internationally known speaker, leadership expert, coach and author who have written over 20 books. “Three of Maxwell books such as The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership, The 21 Indispensable Qualities of a Leader and Developing the Leader Within You have each sold over a million copies” (johnmaxwell). In the book Developing the Leader within You, John Maxwell discusses 10 traits that a person needs to focus own to become an effective leader in any leadership role. He gives a sensible course of action that any person can put into practice right away. In the book “How to Develop the Leader Within You” Maxwell’s purpose is to get people to see that leadership is not just a natural born skill but it is a learned talent. John teaches 10 principles, influence, priorities, integrity, creating positive change, problem solving, attitude, people, vision, and self-discipline and staff development. Immediately, if you apply these skills he believes you will become a more effective leader. The writer will cover only three of the principles, which are influence, attitude and problem solving which she incorporates everyday in the classroom with junior high students. What is Leadership? The writer defines leadership as the ability to get others to complete assignments. For example, when she worked for Sprint there was a monthly quota to meet in new phone activations. The store Manager held meetings on the first of every month to inform employees about how many activations they each needed to meet their monthly quota. Once the task of meeting quota is achieved, the manager/leader has gotten the team to complete an assignment. John Maxwell states that if you asked 10 people to define leadership all

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