Attitude 101: What Every Leader Needs to Know
Written by John C. Maxwell
Narrated by Sean Runnette
4.5/5
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About this audiobook
Get a masterclass from John C. Maxwell for leaders on the power of attitude and how it can make or break you, and the people you lead.
Good attitudes on a team do not guarantee its success, but bad attitudes guarantee its ruin.
New York Times best-selling author and leadership expert John C. Maxwell acknowledges that anyone who has tried to lead people with bad attitudes knows the frustration it can bring.
In Attitude 101, Maxwell helps you learn to:
- Recognize how individuals' attitudes impact their performance
- Pinpoint problem feelings, behaviors, and thinking in yourself and others
- Identify six common attitude problems that undermine teamwork
- Discover the secret to changing a bad attitude
- Create new definitions of failure and success that will improve performance
It’s important that you adopt the attitude that helps leaders keep going to the next level of success. With this concise and reader-friendly guidebook, you too can master attitude issues.
Attitude is contagious, therefore, you need to make sure your team is catching the right one!
John C. Maxwell
John C. Maxwell is a #1 New York Times bestselling author, coach, and speaker who has sold more than 33 million books in fifty languages. He has been identified as the #1 leader in business and the most influential leadership expert in the world. His organizations - the John Maxwell Company, The John Maxwell Team, EQUIP, and the John Maxwell Leadership Foundation - have translated his teachings into seventy languages and used them to train millions of leaders from every country of the world. A recipient of the Horatio Alger Award, as well as the Mother Teresa Prize for Global Peace and Leadership from the Luminary Leadership Network, Dr. Maxwell influences Fortune 500 CEOs, the presidents of nations, and entrepreneurs worldwide. For more information about him visit JohnMaxwell.com.
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Reviews for Attitude 101
110 ratings7 reviews
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Great book that will teach you to have a great attitude for a successful life
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Very helpful ? I will definitely recommend it to Fri
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Brilliantly portrayed. "You make a living by what you get; you make a life by what you give." this right here touched me and many others wisdom in there. Thank you so.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Encouraging information that helped me changed my attitude. Easy to read or listen to.
- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5The bestselling author now has a 101 series dealing with small aspects. This book reads like a cut-and-paste from other books and is filled with feel-good soundbytes. This book could be called "The Power of Positive Thinking" and at times Maxwell sounds just like Joel Osteen. The difference between the two is that evangelicals roundly praise and promote Maxwell's books while criticizing Osteen's sermons for saying the identical thing. "Eliminate the following from your vocabulary: 'I can't,'; 'doubt'; (etc.)" You can be whatever you want to be if you just persist with the right attitude. With plenty of biblical tidbits and anecdotes to illustrate.
A definition: "Success is knowing your purpose in life, growing to reach your maximum potential and sowing seeds that benefit others."
Failure and adversity are key to success. Fail forward. The best literary works were produced by people in prison/exile. Obstacles are opportunities in disguise.
It is not that I disagree with much of what Maxwell says, but this is just another rah-rah book that lacks scholarship related to psychology that you can find in other works today. Hence, it's a "101" book but I can't rate it highly. I would disagree with Maxwell that focusing on a single goal is effective as opposed to focusing on the habits that get you there. Read some Tim Ferriss or James Clear.
Want to change your attitude? Then:
1. Evaluate your present attitude
2. Realize that faith is greater than fear
3. Write a statement of purpose
Write specifically what you want to accomplish each day.
Verbalize to an encouraging friend what you want to accomplish each day.
Take action on your goal each day.
4. Have the desire to change
5. Live one day at a time.
6. Change your thought patterns
7. Develop good habits
8. Continually choose to have the right attitude
If the above seem like common sense, then don't spend time/money on the book. 2.5 stars out of 5. - Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5This book was helpful as far as attitude insight goes. It is common sense writing. There are several suggestions on how to adjust your own attitude, and to see some insight into the attitudes of those around you in the workplace as well as in your personal life. I found it to be helpful.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5I probably would have appreciated the value of it more had I bought it to read myself, but I read it out of courtesy of the one who gave it to me. I did get something out it, so it wasn't a total loss. Maybe one day I'll read it again on my own terms, then who knows.