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Attitude 101: What Every Leader Needs to Know (101 Series) | 
 enlarge | Author: John C. Maxwell
Publisher: Thomas Nelson
Category: Book
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Rating:  15 reviews
Sales Rank: 33178
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1
Pages: 96
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Dimensions (in): 6.4 x 4.5 x 0.5
ISBN: 0785263500
Dewey Decimal Number: 153.85
UPC: 020049024140
EAN: 9780785263500
ASIN: 0785263500
Publication Date: January 3, 2003
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As stated in the preface to this concise primer, any weekday edition of The New York Times contains more information than the average person living in 17th-century England was exposed to in a lifetime. In acknowledgement of the modern world's information glut, leadership expert John C. Maxwell has produced Attitude 101, a 99-page companion volume to one of his previous bestsellers, Leadership 101. In this new book, Maxwell examines the importance of attitude in determining a leader's success or failure, the forces that shape a person's attitude, and the seven choices necessary if one is to change his or her attitude. Fans of Maxwell's earlier books will enjoy his pithy advice, and will no doubt look forward to the third and fourth volumes in this series (Relationships 101, Equipping 101), both available in 2004. --David Bombeck
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John Maxwell firmly points to attitude as the key in making or breaking a leader. Leadership has less to do with position than it does with disposition, because it will influence the way the followers think and feel. Great leaders understand that the right attitude will set the right atmosphere, which enables the right responses from others. Maxwell addresses what shapes a person's attitude and whether or not attitude can be changed. He addresses the common feeling of failure and shows how to overcome obstacles. Understanding success as a journey rather than a destination, he explains, is the key to good leadership. He concludes Attitude 101 with practical ways readers can take their attitude to the next level.
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 You got to have your head straight if you want to lead!!!!!!!! September 7, 2008
Mr. Robert C. Bonds (McAllen,TX-Rio Grande Valley)
This is one of a series of easy to read leadership books by John Maxwell. If your attitutde is not right despite all of your other efforts you will never be an effective leader, in fact you may not be able to lead at all.
Just like his Ethics 101, Attitude 101 is about one of the core values of leadership. I highly recommend this book and everyone in Maxwell's 101 leadership series. All of the books in that series should be part of one's leadership library.
This is book that makes good use of waiting time in an airport or a typically boring plane ride.
 Attitude, good or bad, is like DNA.. It doesn't change with time or by reading books. February 3, 2008
Maurice Karam
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
This book says that good attitude is better than negative attitude in the workplace, to which i agree.. Don't we all? without needing to read the book?
Authority On Leadership Sees Attitude As Key September 16, 2007
Mark B. Cohen (Philadelphia,PA USA)
The author, leadership authority John Maxwell, says "Attitude is always a 'player' on your team....Your attitude and potential go hand in hand....A lot goes into an attitude--but a lot more comes out of it!....The key to having a good attitude is the willingness to change....The greatest battle you wage against failure occurs on the inside, not the outside....Every successful person is someone who failed, yet never regarded himself as a failure....Attitude determines how far you can go on the success journey....Leaders have to give up to go up."
Maxwell's book is full of commonsense aphorisms that are both thoughtful and appropriate. Taken together, along with personal reflections and apt quotations from people who are famous and/or insightful, they provide an excellent roadmap to analyzing the attitudes that people have, and taking practical steps toward improving them.
Attitude impacts leadership. "Attitudes have the power to lift up or tear down a team....An attitude compounds when exposed to others....Attitude is catching....Bad attitudes compound faster than good ones....Attitudes are subjective so identifying a wrong one can be difficult."
"Common rotten attitudes that ruin a team" include "an inability to admit wrongdoing....failing to forgive....petty jealousy....the disease of me...a critical spirit....a desire to hog all the credit....Rotten attitudes, left alone, ruin everything."
Clara Barton, when asked to recall a wrong that was done to her, replied "I distinctly remember forgetting that." NBA basketball great Bill Russell said "The most important measure of how good a game I played was how much better I made my teammates play." These are examples of exemplary attitudes. The visionary Thomas Jefferson believed in the importance of attitude himself, saying "Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude."
"Attitude determines success or failure," the author believes. He has seven attitude axioms: "Our attitude determines our approach to life...Our attitudes determines our relationships with people....Often our attitude is the only difference between success and failure....Our attitude at the beginning of a task will affect its outcome more than anything else....Our attitude can turn our problems into blessings....Our attitude can give us an uncommonly positive perspective....Your attitude is not particularly good because you are a religious person."
The author believes that attitudes are shaped by the interrelationship between one's personality, environment, expression, feelings,self-image, opportunities for growth, associations with others, phiysical appearance, marriage, job and family. "People don't care how much you know until they know how much you care, " he says.
To change one's attitude, one should evaluate your present attitude, realize that faith is stronger than fear, write a statement of purpose, including what you desire to accomplish each day, verbalizing to an encouraging friend what you intend to accomplish each day, and taking action on your goal every day. One must have the desire to change, to fall in love with the challenge of change and watch the desire to change grow. One must live one day at a time,change your thought patterns, develop good habits, and continually choose to have a right attitude.
Attitudes can be strengthened by the overcoming of obstacles, by regarding failure as an event and not as a description of one's character, by seeing success as a journey and not as a destination, and by recognizing that leaders have to make sacrifices in order to go where they want to go. Martin Luther King and Wal-Mart founder Sam Walton are both exemplified in this book; King is viewed as typical of the best possible type of leaders because he so devoted his life to the service of others.
This is an excellent book for persons, organizations, corporations, and groups stuck in a rut and needing renewal. The simple writing here contains many simple truths, with an emphasis on the belief that there is a large element of personal control in one's destiny. Those who read this book will find the investment of time to be well spent.
Attitude adjustment July 23, 2007
Reading my way thru life (VA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
"Your attitude and your potential go hand in hand." -From the book.
This is a great book, packed with good advice! First of all, I liked the size of this. It's a small book of 97 pages. The publishers preface says that this is a companion book to "Leadership 101, Relationships 101, and Equipping 101, and is a short course on attitude."
Subtitled to leaders and what they need to know, but it's for all of us. As always, to change the world, we need to begin at home with ourselves -This is a good way to learn more about attitudes and how to change ours and then (hopefully) the positive change will be contageous. The short examples are highly effective in getting the points across.
This is a beneficial little book. I doubt you could read this and not want to make some changes in yourself. This is a great book to keep by your bedside for some inspirational reading before bed. The small size makes this (I think) even more attractive to read, knowing that you don't have to plow through some thick volume to get the benefits of the message.
This would be great for companies/employers to hand out to their employees for christmas gifts, or even new hire gifts. Which would let your people know that you care enough about your business and their part in it to educate them on how to be a better person/worker/leader. It could make a big difference in someone's life.
 Pretty good read! September 10, 2006
Farnoosh (USA)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I am glad I read this book - it doesn't tell you things you didn't know (At least not to me) but it puts it in such a light that it really has a more permanent impact. The writing style is easy to read, and almost rhytmic & poetic. It's a quick read, a good read for emerging leaders, or for anyone who wants to better understand true secrets to success......I recommend it if you come across it!
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