Leadership Gold
In Leadership Gold, John C. Maxwell condenses a lifelong journey of studying and practicing leadership
into 26 simple lessons. The underlying message within each chapter is simple: leadership matters.
Growing as a leader maximizes your talents, leverages your relationships, and magnifies your successes.
In this essential book, John introduces you to the biggest, most important principles he’s uncovered
about influence. Leadership Gold wastes no time wading through peripheral issues. Instead, the book
cuts to the heart of what it takes to attain influence and to lead with excellence.
Chapter 1 – If It’s Lonely at the Top, You’re Not Doing Something Right
Chapter 2 – The Toughest Person to Lead Is Always Yourself
Chapter 3 – Defining Moments Define Your Leadership
Chapter 4 – When You Get Kicked in the Rear, You Know You’re Out in Front
Chapter 5 – Never Work a Day in Your Life
Chapter 6 – The Best Leaders Are Listeners
Chapter 7 – Get in the Zone and Stay There
Chapter 8 – A Leader’s First Responsibility Is to Define Reality
Chapter 9 – To See How the Leader Is Doing, Look at the People
Chapter 10 – Don’t Send Your Ducks to Eagle School
Chapter 11 – Keep Your Mind on the Main Thing
Chapter 12 – Your Biggest Mistake Is Not Asking What Mistake You’re Making
Chapter 13 – Don’t Manage Your Time, Manage Your Life
Chapter 14 – Keep Learning to Keep Leading
Chapter 15 – Leaders Distinguish Themselves During Tough Times
Chapter 16 – People Quit People Not Companies
Chapter 17 – Experience Is Not the Best Teacher
Chapter 18 – The Secret to a Good Meeting Is the Meeting before the Meeting
Chapter 19– Be a Connector, Not Just a Climber
Chapter 21– Influence Should Be Loaned But Never Given
Chapter 22 – For Everything You Gain, You Give Something Up
Chapter 23 – Those Who Start the Journey with You Seldom Finish with You
Chapter 24 – Few Leaders Are Successful Unless a Lot of People Want Them To Be
Chapter 25 – You Only Get Answers to the Questions You Ask
Chapter 26 – People Will Summarize Your Life in One Sentence—Pick It Now
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