Maxwell Leadership

Dr. John C. Maxwell has been a public speaker and motivational teacher for more than 50 years. In his new book, The 16 Undeniable Laws of Communication, he shares everything he’s learned from a lifetime of communication. This blog post comes from the book’s second chapter, “The Law of Observation.” In his 2015 letter to shareholders of Berkshire Hathaway, Warren...

Dr. John C. Maxwell has been a public speaker and motivational teacher for more than 50 years. In his new book, The 16 Undeniable Laws of Communication, he shares everything he’s learned from a lifetime of communication. This blog post comes from the book’s fourth chapter, “The Law of Preparation: You Cannot Deliver What You Have Not Developed.” As a...

This blog post has been adapted from Dr. John C. Maxwell’s personal growth and significance guidebook, Becoming a Person of Influence. In it, Dr. Maxwell outlines the 10 pillars of influence, including nurturing others, having faith in them, and understanding them. You can pick up a copy here. “Few things will pay you bigger dividends than the time and trouble you take...

Why do you communicate? Clearly, that question has a million answers. You might communicate to express a need, to share your feelings, to defend a belief, and to comfort a loved one – all before lunch today. But when we communicate with an audience for the audience, we’ve got one of two things on our minds: ourselves or our audience....

This blog post has been adapted from Dr. John Maxwell’s communication resource, Everyone Communicates, Few Connect. John Maxwell has been one of the world’s foremost communication experts for more than 40 years, and this guidebook for relational and presentational connection contains invaluable insights. You can pick up a copy here. People who connect are always searching for common ground. That...

In 1956, defense lawyer Emile Zola Berman traveled from New York City to Parris Island, South Carolina, with a near-impossible task. Staff sergeant Matthew McKeon had prescribed a routine training exercise that resulted in the drowning deaths of six recruits. Berman was tasked with defending him. It was a complicated case, but not altogether unusual. What made it near-impossible is...