Be a People Person: Effective Leadership Through Effective Relationships
John C. Maxwell
Language: English
Pages: 192
ISBN: 0781448433
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
You can bring out the best in people!
In Be a People Person, America's leadership expert John Maxwell helps you
- Discover and develop the qualities of an effective "people person."
- Improve your relationships in every area of life.
- Understand and help difficult people.
- Overcome differences and personality traits that can cause friction.
- Inspire others to excellence and success.
Being a leader means working with people, and that's not always easy! Whether in your office, church, neighborhood, or elsewhere, your interpersonal relationships can make or break you as a leader. That's why it's so important to be a "people person" and develop your skills in tapping that most precious of all resources: people.
Loaded with life-enriching, life-changing principles for relating positively and powerfully with your family, friends, colleagues, and clients, Be a People Person is certain to help you bring out the best in others—and that's what effective leadership is all about.
purpose and the character which inspires confidence.” President Harry Truman: “A leader is a person who has the ability to get others to do what they don’t want to do and like it.” An outstanding leader, Fred Smith: “Leadership is influence.” That is simple but profound; a person may have a position of leadership, but if he is not affecting the thoughts and actions of others, he is not a leader. From the Bible we learn that true leadership comes from serving others. And in Matthew 15:14 we
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is a slave. Only a person who takes risks is free. I love the story about the old farmer, ragged and barefooted, who sat on the steps of his tumbledown shack, chewing on a stem of grass. A passerby stopped and asked if he might have a drink of water. Wishing to be sociable, the stranger engaged the farmer in some conversation. “How is your cotton crop this year?” “Ain’t got none,” replied the farmer. “Didn’t you plant any cotton?” asked the passerby. “Nope,” said the
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IT TO WORK People Principles • The key to developing charisma: Be more concerned about making others feel good about themselves than you are in making them feel good about you. • Traits of a person with charisma: Concern—What they show. Help—What they offer. Action—What they provide. Results—What they produce. Influence—What they do. Sensitivity—What they follow. Motivation—What they give. Affirmation—What they share. • Charisma is a