You Can Have a Leadership Game Plan for Your Life
1. John C. Maxwell, The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership: Revised and Updated 10th Anniversary Edition (Nashville: Thomas Nelson, 2007).
Level 1: Position
1. D. Michael Abrashoff, It’s Your Ship (New York: Warner Books, 2002), 4.
2. “Trouble Finding the Perfect Gift for Your Boss—How About a Little Respect?” Ajilon Office, 14 October 2003, http://www.ajilonoffice.com/articles/af_bossday-101403.asp, accessed 25 September 2006.
3. See Today Matters (Nashville: Center Street, 2004) for the twelve areas I focus on and the habits I use daily to manage my life.
4. Cartoon copyright © 2010; reprinted courtesy of Bunny Hoest.
5. John C. Maxwell, Leadership Gold (Nashville: Thomas Nelson, 2008).
6. Cartoon copyright © 2001 by Randy Glasbergen.
7. “Gallup Study: Engaged Employees Inspire Company Innovation,” Gallup Management Journal, 12 October 2006, http://gmj.gallup.com/content/24880/Gallup-Study-Engaged-Employees-Inspire-Company-Innovation.aspx; accessed 2 July 2010.
8. Marco Nink, “Employee Disengagement Plagues Germany,” Gallup Management Journal, 9 April 2009, http://gmj.gallup.com/content/117376/Employee-Disengagement-Plagues-Germany.aspx; accessed 2 July 2010.
Level 2: Permission
1. Janet Lowe, Jack Welch Speaks: Wit and Wisdom from the World’s Greatest Business Leader (New York: Wiley, 2007), 89.
2. Ibid.
3. “Active Listening,” U.S. Department of State, http://www.state.gov/m/a/os/65759.htm; accessed 28 July 2010.
4. Martin Kalungu-Banda, Leading like Madiba: Leadership Lessons from Nelson Mandela (Cape Town, South Africa: Double Story Books, 2008), 13–15.
5. Bill Hybels and Mark Mittelberg, Becoming a Contagious Christian (Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 1996), 57.
6. Warren Bennis and Burt Nanus, Leaders: Strategies for Taking Charge (New York: HarperBusiness, 1997), 52.
7. Matthew 7:12 (NKJV).
8. Hadith of an-Nawawi 13.
9. Talmud, Shabbat 31a, quoted in “The Universality of the Golden Rule in World Religions,” www.teachingvalues.com, 23 September 2002.
10. Udana-Varga 5, 1, quoted in ibid.
11. Mahabharata 5, 1517, quoted in ibid.
12. Shast-na-shayast 13:29, quoted at www.thegoldenrule.net, 23 September 2002.
13. Analects 15:23, quoted at ibid.
14. Epistle to the Son of the Wolf, 30, quoted at www.fragrant.demon.co.uk/golden, 23 September 2002.
15. Sutrakritanga 1.11.33, quoted at ibid.
16. Ibid.
17. Proverbs 27:6 (NASB).
18. Pauline Graham, ed., Mary Parker Follett: Prophet of Management (Baltimore: Beard Books, 2003).
Level 3: Production
1. Joel Weldon, “Jobs Don’t Have Futures, People Do,” The Unlimited Times (e-newsletter), http://cmaanet.org/files/shared/CONTROLLABLES.pdf; accessed 19 August 2010.
2. Walt Mason, “The Welcome Man,” in It Can Be Done: Poems of Inspiration, ed. Joseph Morris and St. Clair Adams (1921; Project Gutenberg, 2004), http://www.gutenberg.org/files/10763/10763-8.txt; accessed 19 August 2010.
3. Source unknown.
4. Jim Collins, Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap… and Others Don’t (New York: HarperCollins, 2001), 139.
5. Henry Ford in interview The American Magazine (July 1928), vol. 106.
Level 4: People Development
1. Drucker, Peter, On the Profession of Management (Cambridge, MA: Harvard Business Review, 2003).
2. George Barna with Bill Dallas, Master Leaders: Revealing Conversations with 30 Leadership Greats (Carol Stream, IL: BarnaBooks, 2009), 61.
3. James A. Belasco and Ralph C. Stayer, Flight of the Buffalo: Soaring to Excellence, Learning to Let Employees Lead (New York: Warner Books, 1994), 19.
4. Everett Shostrom, Man, The Manipulator (New York: Bantam, 1980).
5. “The Little Boy and Sugar,” Storytime for Children, Gandhi Memorial Center, Washington D.C., http://www.gandhimemorialcenter.org/for_children, accessed 8 April 2011.
6. George Barna with Bill Dallas, Master Leaders (Wheaton, IL: Tyndale, 2009), 62.
7. David Sedaris, Naked (New York: Back Bay Books, 1997), 215.
Level 5: The Pinnacle
1. Collins, Good to Great, 29.
2. Robert J. Thomas, “Crucibles of Leadership Development,” MIT Sloan Management Review 49, no. 3 (Spring 2008), 15.
3. Ibid, 16.
Portrait of a Level 5 Leader
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4. “John Wooden: A Coaching Legend.”
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6. “John Wooden: A Coaching Legend.”
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