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Be a People Person: Effective Leadership Through Effective Relationships

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Written in the current prose of today's language, this book provides a wonderful glimpse at what happens to you when the steps in the book are followed. Maxwell provides a simple step by step walkthrough for life in general. His book can also be used as a guide to living and not just existing! Personally, this book has helped in my maturity as an individual in ways I would never have had I not read this book.

If you are a person of influence or desire to be...this is the book for you! John Maxwell is one of the greatest leaders of our time and he really knows how to convey leadership principles. If you desire to build strong and effective relationships this is a must for you. This book will also aid teachers, administrators, salespeople and anyone else who is faced with various personalities. In short, John has mastered the art of positive persuasion in the negative situation. Read...Grow...Thank GOD for John Maxwell.

Maxwell has written an excellent title on how to get along better with people, whether at home, work, church, neighborhood, community involvement, etc.

Among the points covered include:

1. Helping people to solve their problems.
2. Establish your worth according to God's value system.
3. Effective leaders are leaders who are disciplined in their daily lives.
4. How to become a person who people trust.
5. Characteristics of winning teams.
6. Tips for taking criticism.
7. Putting yourself in other people's shoes.
8. Loving difficult people.

Read and be encouraged to have better interpersonal relationships!

Maxwell causes you to have a real "gut-check" of the real you!!! Are you the type of person other people would want to follow? From piercing questions like: What makes me draw people? to can I handle critism from my closest friends? Maxwell reminds the reader that every person is different and what technique that works on one, will not work on someone else. This is must reading for anyone who deals with people at any level. Maxwell uses humor & stories of real life...no silly theories here. Written in a compact book that will not leave your hands until you are done; and then only to pass it on to a friend. Great Job Maxwell! You done good! Everyone can learn the skills of being a good leader, but it takes work. Be a person that people would be PROUD to follow.

This is a very short, yet very comprehensive book on how to improve your view on life, people around you, improve their view of you, the art of persuasion, the art of bringing the best out if yourself and others around you. best short self-improvement book i've ever read.

The book is full of practical advice and thought-provoking quotes and ideas. It may make you want to go out and strike up a conversation with a stranger on the street and apply the concepts. If you recognize that people are importnat and are seeking ideas of how to help them and be helped by them to produce better results, this book is a reliable reference. It is taught through a highly biblical tone as the Bible is quoted often and biblical stories drawn upon to illustrate concepts. If you prefer biblical illustration this book is great, if not you may get a bit frustrated with the constant references.

This book has been very helpful in my job as I work with teens daily

This is an earlier work of Maxwell's, but every word rings true today. One of the keys to being an effective communicator is understanding the other person's point of view. Knowing others' motivations and knowing how to get them to see benefits are covered here, much as they are in other books on communication. However, this book also covers subjects that you don't see in most books about communication such as:

What draws others to you?
Loving difficult people
Becoming a person people respect
How to handle criticism
Getting others to trust you

This book contains many of the concepts and ideas that Maxwell eventually expanded upon in more detail in later books. This is a Maxwell book that could become a classic.

Pro: It gives helpful advice on how to deal with difficult people from a Christian perspective.

Con: A lot of the advice is just a re-inerating of what is said in Dale Carnegie's book, "How To Win Friends And Influence People."

John Maxwell's insights into leading people perpetually astound me. He always finds such simple ways to explain what I know I should already be doing. In one of his earliest books, "Be A People Person," I (re)discovered some more great people principles.

"Be A People Person" perfectly describes this book: It's all about being a person who is trusted and accepted by other people. This, in turn, puts this people-person in a place to be an effective leader. So Dr. Maxwell talks about confidence, motivation, encouragement, empathy, trustworthiness, mentorship, and so many other people principles.

Because this was one of his earlier books, I see many of the seed thoughts that have become books in their own right later on. But that still didn't take away from the refreshing insights that I uncovered.

Unless you are a solitary hermit, there is so much to discover in this book to help you grow stronger and more effective relationships with family members, coworkers, and friends.