Maxwell - Leadershift: the 11 essential changes every leader must embrace

CONTENTS

CONTENTS

ALSO BY JOHN C. MAXWELL

RELATIONSHIPS

Encouragement Changes Everything

Everyone Communicates,

Few Connect

Relationships 101

Winning with People

EQUIPPING

The 15 Invaluable Laws of Growth

The 17 Essential Qualities

of a Team Player

The 17 Indisputable

Laws of Teamwork

Developing the Leaders Around You

Equipping 101

Intentional Living

Learning from the Giants

Make Today Count

Mentoring 101

My Dream Map

Put Your Dream to the Test

Running with the Giants

Talent Is Never Enough

Today Matters

Wisdom from Women in the Bible

Your Road Map for Success

ATTITUDE

Attitude 101

The Difference Maker

Failing Forward

How Successful People Think

Sometimes You Win

Sometimes You Learn

Sometimes You WinSometimes

You Learn for Teens

Success 101

Thinking for a Change

The Winning Attitude

LEADERSHIP

The 21 Irrefutable Laws

of Leadership

The 21 Indispensable

Qualities of a Leader

The 360 Degree Leader

Developing the Leader

Within You 2.0

Good Leaders Ask Great Questions

The 5 Levels of Leadership

Leadership 101

Leadership Promises for Every Day

2019 by John C. Maxwell

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This book is dedicated to Ed Bastian.

The day I met you, I could see you were a leader of the highest caliber. Fortune has called you one of the worlds greatest leaders. As chief executive officer of Delta Air Lines, you lead one of the worlds most admired companies. For more than a decade, I have watched you lead with integrity, respect, perseverance, and a servants heart in the midst of extraordinary global change. I know of no one better at leadershifting than you. Thank you for your friendship and the way you model leadership to the world.

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I want to say thank you to Charlie Wetzel and the rest of the team who assisted me with the formation and publication of this book. And to the people in my organizations who support it. You all add incredible value to me, which allows me to add value to others.

Together, were making a difference!

Change or die.

THOMAS EDGLEY

I ve been wanting to write a book on the idea of leadershifts for a long time because a lot has changed in the decades Ive been studying and practicing leadership. In the 1970s when I was new to my career, I could find very few books on leadership. Back then, management ruled the business world and Peter Drucker was the king. That started to change toward the end of the 1980s, as a few authors were starting to write leadership books. People eagerly bought and read them. Why? Because they could feel that life was moving faster, change was becoming normal, and they needed a way to navigate the worlds complexities, which were becoming more challenging.

People need to learn leadership to be successful. The principles of management, which had been taught for years, depended on stability and known factors. As expressed by Eric J. McNulty, director of research at the National Preparedness Leadership Initiative:

Management systems and processes tend to be linear. They assume that similar inputs will result in similar outputs. In many situations, this holds true. Leadership, however, requires a more nuanced view of the world because it involves people: what motivates them, what their interests are, and how engaged they become. Mechanical systems may be linear but as soon as the human element becomes involved the system becomes both complex and adaptive.

Where management took stability for granted, leadership provides principles that work in the face of the unknown. Back in the eighties, people were looking for leaders to guide them, and people running organizations recognized the need to become leaders themselves. As they began to apply leadership principles to their world, they thrived. Thats why for the last thirty years, leadership has ruled the business world.

FAST IS FASTERFORWARD IS SHORTER

As fast as the pace was in the 1980s, when I look back it seems slow by todays standards. Life moves much faster now. The rate at which we must deal with change and uncertainty can seem insane.

For several years one of my organizations, the John Maxwell Team, has asked me to do short videos they post daily called Minute with Maxwell. My team will set me up in front of a camera and then give me a word or phrase, asking me to react to it or teach on it for a minute or so. Its fun and the video gets posted online as a kind of mentoring moment. Recently, for one of these sessions, the phrase they gave me was fast forward. What immediately came to my mind were the words faster and shorter. Heres what I mean.

The future seems to be coming at us faster than ever. It is not going to slow down. Would anybody seriously consider the idea that tomorrow will be at a slower pace than today? Technology, social media, and the rate of change will never allow that to happen. To go forward, we need to move faster. And as leaders, we need to stay ahead, we need to see more than others, and we need to see before others.

Because of the pace of change, we also need to be flexible. Do you remember the old Mother Goose rhyme Jack Be Nimble?

Jack be nimble,

Jack be quick,

Jack jump over

The candlestick.

The more nimble, adaptable, and flexible we are, the more quickly we can move and change.

Traditionally, in athletic races, the first three finishers are recognized, and all three receive prizes. Today, outside of sports, it seems as though only winners get recognized and rewarded. As the saying goes, coming in second means youre the first loser. Thats why speed and agility are so important.