HarperCollins Leadership The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership Workbook: Revised and Updated

Book arrived in great condition, especially for the price. Only issue was it was a tad late getting to me by a few days over the expected arrival, but I don’t believe that was the seller’s fault.

We had to read this book for a leadership class. This review is from the short report I had to write:As the name implies, the book is Mr. Maxwell's take on several characteristics that an individual must develop to be a good leader. I wouldn't call it a groundbreaking work because the majority of these 'laws' are well addressed in other works. However, I found there are two commendable qualities to Mr. Maxwell's book: 1) he has done a very good job supporting each of his laws with real world examples of how leaders from all walks of life fulfilled each law and 2) he writes it in a way where he shows that these laws can be beneficial people of all walks of life (e.g, government, church, industry). And I agree with his strategy: good leaders are needed everywhere, not just in the professional realm where leader development seems to be most encouraged.There are a few laws that marry up well that l address below:The Law of Process: to sum up this law, one is not going to become a leader overnight. It is going to take assessing your capabilities, then committing to working a bit each day on improving. This law pairs well with the Law of Sacrifice. Based on the principle of cost of opportunity: to become a better leader, you are going to have to give up time to work on improving yourself. Your are not going to become a good leader without loosing opportunities in other areas of your life.The Law of Addition: Good leaders don't define success in what benefits them personally. They view success on how well they have done in building other people up within their circles of influence. This law pairs well with the Law of Explosive Growth: once you help build leaders, you make sure to inspire them to do the same for others. With every new generation, you achieve exponential results.The Law of Solid Ground: This law regards how important it is to build trust and be an agent of trust, to maintain integrity in what you do and make sure you have character. This law pairs well with the Law of The Picture, which basically is an expression of making sure you 'walk the walk' and ensuring that your actions are consistent with your words.To offer a critique, I believe the book missed the mark in a couple of areas:1) Here we have another book where the author is a little too preoccupied with making sure the number of laws that he has identified total up to some arbitrary number that he feels may have appeal to the readers. In the introduction, he even expresses that he figured out that two laws could be removed due to assumed incorporation into other laws, then conveniently comes up with two additional laws to maintain the total of 21 in a future revision.2) As demonstrated above in the pairing opportunities that I presented, I believe that there is more redundancy in these laws. A few seem to be re-statements or further expressions of other laws.

So if you’re someone who wants to build on your leader ship, this is definitely something to have in your arsenal to share with your group. Love the book I love the brand definitely recommend to have.

This book should be a requirement in High School AND College.

The book is okay. It's worth reading, and you can decide what to get from it