THE LEADERSHIP HANDBOOKBY JOHN MAXWELL

TRUTHS ABOUT THE TOPLaying down the skinny, dispeling myths

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WHAT IT’S LIKE AT THE TOP

No One Ever Got to the Top AloneFew leaders are successful unless a lot of people want them to be. No leaders are successful without a few people helping them.

Making it to the Top is essential to Taking Others to the TopA leader’s credibility begins with personal success. It ends with helping others achieve personal success.

Taking People to the Top is more fulfilling than Arriving aloneA boss says ‘Go’. A leader says ‘Let’s Go’. The purpose of leadership is to take others to the top.

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MUCH OF THE TIME, LEADERS ARE NOT AT THE TOPGood leaders who remain connected with their people stoop --- that’s the only way to reach down and pull others up.

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LEAD ≠ LONELYIf it’s lonely at the top, you’re not doing something right.Some advice for lonely leaders.

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1.AVOID POSITIONAL THINKINGDo not rely on your title to convince people to follow you.

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“Leadership is relational as much as it is positional. An individual who takes a relational approach to leadership will never be lonely.

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2.REALIZE THE DOWNSIDES OF SUCCESS & FAILURESuccess can be dangerous – so can failure.

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SUCCESS AND FAILURE : DON’T GO INTO EXTREMES

Success: You start to separate yourself from others you view as less successful. “I don’t need to see them”

Failure: You start to withdraw from others. “I don’t want to see them”

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3.UNDERSTAND THAT YOU ARE IN THE PEOPLE BUSINESSYou must like people or you will never add value to them.

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Want to be a great leader?

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LOVE PEOPLE

4.BUY INTO THE LAW OF SIGNIFICANCE“One is too small a number to achieve greatness.”

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“ No accomplishment of real value has ever been achieved by a human being working alone.

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Everybody can be great

because anybody can

serve. ~ Martin Luther King Jr.

Servant Leadership

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LEAD!Take courage. You aren’t alone.