Leadership gold : lessons I've learned from lifetime of leading / John C. Maxwell

If it's lonely at the top, you're not doing something right -- The Toughest person to lead is always yourself -- Defining moments define your leadership -- When you get kicked in the rear, you know you're out in front -- Never work a day in your life -- The Best leaders are listeners -- Get in the zone and stay there -- A leader's first responsibility is to define reality -- To see how the leader is doing, look at the people -- Don't send your ducks to eagle school -- Keep your mind on the main thing -- Your biggest mistake is not asking what mistake you're making -- Don't manage your time - manage your life -- Keep learning to keep leading -- Leaders distinguish themselves during tough times -- People quit people, not companies -- Experience is not the best teacher -- The Secret to a good meeting is the meeting before the meeting -- Be a connector, not just a climber -- The Choices you make, make you -- Influence should be loaned but never given -- For everything you gain, you give up something -- Those who start the journey with you seldom finish with you -- Few leaders are successful unless a lot of people want them to be -- You only get answers to the questions you ask -- People will summarize your life in one sentence - pick it now

A leader among leaders, the author promised himself early in his career that he wouldn't write this book until he was sixty. And now it's finally here. It took him a lifetime to write, and it delivers his most valuable lessons from forty years of leading. It also offers tried-and-true business lessons.