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Book Review
Session 2

By:-
V. Aditya Vikram Reddy
TPS-A; 26-058
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ABOUT THE BOOK

• Author : John Calvin Maxwell
• Publisher : Jaico Publishing House
• Price : 175/-
• Number of Pages : 138
• ISBN : 978-81-8495-149-3
• Year of Publishing : 2011
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

John Calvin Maxwell is an internationally recognized American author,
speaker, and pastor who has written many books, primarily focusing on
leadership. He was one of the only 25 authors and artists named to
Amazon.com’s 10th Anniversary Hall of Fame. Titles include The 21 Irrefutable
Laws of Leadership and The 21 Indispensable Qualities of a Leader have each
sold over a million copies.
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Part I : Impact of attitude

1. How does Attitude Impact Leadership?
2. How does Attitude Impact an Individual?
Part ii : Formation of Attitude
3. What Shapes a Person’s Attitude?
4. Can an Attitude Be Changed?
5. Can Obstacles Actually Enhance an Attitude?
Part iii : the future with the right attitude
6. What is Failure?
7. What is Success?
8. How can a Leader Keep Climbing?
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1. HOW DOES ATTITUDE IMPACT LEADERSHIP?

“Attitude is always a Player on your team”
• Attitudes have the power to lift up or tear down a team
• An attitude compounds when exposed to others
• Bad attitudes compound faster than the good ones
• Rotten Attitude Left Alone Ruins Everything
Attitudes are subjective:
 Inability to admit wrongdoing
 Failing to Forgive
 Petty Jealousy
 The Disease of me
 A critical spirit
 A Desire to Hog all the Credit
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2. HOW DOES ATTITUDE IMPACT AN INDIVIDUAL?

“Your Attitude and your potential go hand in hand.”

Seven Axioms For Our Attitude:

 Determines our approach to life
 Determines our Relationships with People
 It’s the only difference between our Success and Failure
 At the Beginning of a task will affect it’s End Result
 Can turn Difficulties into Opportunities
 Can Make us Uncommonly Positive
 It’s not Automatically Good because your Religious
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3. WHAT SHAPES A PERSON’S ATTITUDE?

“A Lot Goes into attitude --- But a lot More comes out of it”.
1. Personality – Who I Am?
2. Environment – What’s Around me?
3. Word Expression – What I Hear?
4. Self Image – How I See Myself?
5. Association with Peers – Who Influences me?
6. Exposure to New Experience – Growth Opportunities

Temperaments Of Different Types:-

 Choleric – Perseverance & Aggressive
 Sanguine – Positive & Bright side of Life
 Melancholy – Negative at Times
 Phlegmatic – Easy Come Easy Go
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PART II : FORMATION OF ATTITUDE

4. CAN AN ATTITUDE BE CHANGED?

“The key to having an good attitude is the willingness to change”

Choices to Change your Attitude:

 Evaluate Your Present Attitude

 Faith is Stronger than Fear
 Statement of Purpose
 Live One Day at a Time
 Change your Thought Patterns
 Develop Good Habits

“ Make A note of the changes and choose to have a right attitude”

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PART II : FORMATION OF ATTITUDE

5. CAN OBSTACLES ACTUALLY ENHANCE AN ATTITUDE?

“Battle you wage against failure is inside, not the outside”

Benefits of Adversity:

Creates Resilience
Develops Maturity
Provides Greater Opportunities
Prompts Innovation
Brings Unexpected Benefits
Adversity Motivates
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6. WHAT IS FAILURE?
“Every successful person is someone who failed, yet never regarded himself as a Failure”
Abilities needed to Failing Forward:

 Reject Rejection
 Failure As Temporary
 See Failure As Isolated Incidents
 Keep Expectations Realistic
 Focus On Your Strengths
 Vary Approaches To Achievement
 Bounce Back
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7. WHAT IS SUCCESS?
Right Attitude About Success:

Knowing Your Purpose

Growing to your Potential
1. Concentrate on your main Goal
2. Concentrate on Continuous Improvement
3. Forget the Past
4. Focus on the Future
Sowing Seeds that Benefit Others
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7. WHAT IS SUCCESS?
Wrong Attitude About Success:

Wealth
A Special Feeling
Specific and Worthwhile Possessions
Power
Achievement
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8. HOW CAN A LEADER KEEP CLIMBING?

“Leaders have to give up to go up”
Martin Luther King Jr
The Higher You Go , The More you Give Up.

“The Higher the Level of Leadership You want to reach,

the Greater the Sacrifices you will have to make”

“There is no Success without an Attitude of Sacrifice”

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METACOGNITION
 What is Attitude?
It is an Inward feeling expressed by behavior
Attitude is Contagious
Attitude can make or Break the People you Lead
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CONCLUSION
No Gaps and Limitations.

A Must Read for the following:

Discover the secret to change a Bad Attitude
Recognize how Attitude impacts performance
Identify Common Attitude problems
Pinpoint problems like feelings, behaviors and thinking
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