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Book Review: The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership: Follow Them and People Will Follow You

Topic: LeadershipFeaturing Shelly WalkerPublished April 16, 2008
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This book review is part of a series that covers the topic of Leadership. Leadership Skills are the tools and traits acquired to facilitate guiding or a directing a group, most commonly toward a shared goal. Todd McDonald is the Official Guide to Leadership. The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership: Follow Them and People Will Follow You, by John C. Maxwell, is a valuable resource for people interested in Leadership Skills Training and it is available through Amazon and Barnes and Noble.

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In The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership, John C. Maxwell combined insights learned from his 40-plus years of leadership successes and mistakes with observations from the worlds of business, politics, sports, religion, and military conflict. Some highlights of the revised edition of this New York Times bestseller, which has sold more than a million copies, are:

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  • All-new recording of the revised and updated text read by the author.
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  • Every chapter has been revised.
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  • 2 chapters - "The Law of Addition" and "The Law of the Future" - are entirely new.
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  • 5 chapters are 75% revised.
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  • Application pieces follow every chapter.
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  • Leadership evaluation is included.

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This book review is part of a series that covers the topic of Leadership. Leadership Skills are the tools and traits acquired to facilitate guiding or a directing a group, most commonly toward a shared goal. The Official Guide to Leadership is Todd McDonald.

Todd McDonald has been in the human resource and training industry for over 20 years. He served as Executive Vice President for American Media Inc., where he worked for 10 years. In his tenure with AMI, he worked in multiple capacities including management of the product development, human resource, training, marketing, and sales areas. In 1999, Todd left AMI and founded ATW Training & Consulting.nn

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