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This 6-page paper is a book review on John C. Maxwell's book about 21 qualities of a leader. The paper discusses many questions about the book, including the key and secondary points of the book, as well as what the author likely hoped would happen when readers read the book.
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C. Maxwells book The 21 Indispensable Qualities of a Leader: Becoming the Person Others Will Want to Follow. 1. What do you think the authors purpose, goal or objective was
for writing this book? Do you think he/she achieved this purpose? Clearly, this is in the realm of a "how
to" book, one that introduces "how to" leadership skills in the workplace and in life, and encourage others to follow.
But this involves more than a step-by-step path of becoming a leader. Maxwell points, throughout the book, to the importance of character in
a leadership role. Character, he notes, involves taking risks (and he opens this book by discussing the example of how Bill Lear ended up grounding his planes - Lear Jets
- when a few had crashed under mysterious circumstances). Basically, he notes, near the beginning of his book, "How a leader deals with the circumstances of his life tells you
many things about his character. Crisis doesnt necessarily make character, but it certainly does reveal it" (pp. 3-4). The main key to leadership therefore, involves character development.
Throughout the book, in fact, the key goal of Maxwell isnt necessarily how to grow and develop leadership, but rather, how to grow and develop
character. 2. What are the key themes that run throughout the book? How are they developed? Leadership and
character, as mentioned above, are obviously key themes in this particular book. Throughout the book, Maxwell interweaves both together (noting that you really cant have one without the other). But
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