5 Levels of Leadership by John Maxwell
“The Five Levels of Leadership, Proven Steps to Maximize Your Potential by John Maxwell”
A Book Review/Critique Presented to:
Attorney Araceli Linatoc
In partial fulfillment of the requirements in MPA 627
Leadership and Organizational Change
By:
Lawrence Lerias
MPA Student
October 2013
CONTENTS :
About the Author, John Maxwell
Level 1: Position
Level 2: Permission
Level 3: Production
Level 4: People Development
Level 5: The Pinnacle/Personhood Level
Analysis
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
The author of this book-The Five Levels of Leadership, Proven Steps to Maximize Your Potential, John Maxwell, is an internationally recognized leadership expert, speaker and author. He has written more than 60 literary works which sold for more than 20 million copies. The author routinely lectures to Fortune 500 companies, government leaders, and churches. He has released a number of video lectures on leadership and training.
In this book, The 5 Levels of Leadership, the author discusses leadership as a step-by-step process with 5 discernable levels. For the author, leadership is defined as influence, if people can increase their influence on others, they can lead more effectively. He argues that the “true measure of leadership is influence, nothing more and nothing less.” The author further adds that leadership is a verb not a noun, and that the challenge of leadership is to create change and facilitate growth.
According to John Maxwell, each of the levels build on the previous one, and that a leader can only progress to the next level once he have mastered the previous one. He avers, that as a leader go higher it is easier to lead because his influence grows as well as the leadership becomes more service oriented. Maxwell says it takes a long time to get to the top level—and many never do. At the same time, leaders can go down very quickly. But if the leader have developed the right kinds of
A Book Review/Critique Presented to:
Attorney Araceli Linatoc
In partial fulfillment of the requirements in MPA 627
Leadership and Organizational Change
By:
Lawrence Lerias
MPA Student
October 2013
CONTENTS :
About the Author, John Maxwell
Level 1: Position
Level 2: Permission
Level 3: Production
Level 4: People Development
Level 5: The Pinnacle/Personhood Level
Analysis
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
The author of this book-The Five Levels of Leadership, Proven Steps to Maximize Your Potential, John Maxwell, is an internationally recognized leadership expert, speaker and author. He has written more than 60 literary works which sold for more than 20 million copies. The author routinely lectures to Fortune 500 companies, government leaders, and churches. He has released a number of video lectures on leadership and training.
In this book, The 5 Levels of Leadership, the author discusses leadership as a step-by-step process with 5 discernable levels. For the author, leadership is defined as influence, if people can increase their influence on others, they can lead more effectively. He argues that the “true measure of leadership is influence, nothing more and nothing less.” The author further adds that leadership is a verb not a noun, and that the challenge of leadership is to create change and facilitate growth.
According to John Maxwell, each of the levels build on the previous one, and that a leader can only progress to the next level once he have mastered the previous one. He avers, that as a leader go higher it is easier to lead because his influence grows as well as the leadership becomes more service oriented. Maxwell says it takes a long time to get to the top level—and many never do. At the same time, leaders can go down very quickly. But if the leader have developed the right kinds of