Attitude 101: What Every Leader Needs to Know

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Attitude can make or break you and the people you lead. Good attitudes on a team do not guarantee its success, but bad attitudes guarantee its ruin. So saysNew York Timesbest-selling author and leadership expert John C. Maxwell in this highly practical primer,Attitude 101. Anyone who has tried to lead people with bad attitudes knows the frustration it can bring. With this concise and reader-friendly guidebook, you can master attitude issues. Learn to: Recognize how individuals' attitudes impact their performance Pinpoint problem feelings, behaviors, and thinking in yourself and others Identify six common attitude problems that undermine teamwork Discover the secret to changing a bad attitude Create new definititons of failure and success that will improve performance Adopt the attitude that helps a leader keep going to the next level Attitude is contagious! You want to make sure your team is catching the right one! TITLE PAGE......Page 2 COPYRIGHT......Page 3 CONTENTS......Page 4 PUBLISHER’S PREFACE......Page 5 PART I: THE IMPACT OF ATTITUDE......Page 7 1. HOW DOES ATTITUDE IMPACT LEADERSHIP?......Page 8 2. HOW DOES ATTITUDE IMPACT AN INDIVIDUAL?......Page 17 PART II: THE FORMATION OF ATTITUDE......Page 26 3. WHAT SHAPES A PERSON’S ATTITUDE?......Page 27 4. CAN AN ATTITUDE BE CHANGED?......Page 36 5. CAN OBSTACLES ACTUALLY ENHANCE AN ATTITUDE?......Page 45 PART III: THE FUTURE WITH THE RIGHT ATTITUDE......Page 54 6. WHAT IS FAILURE?......Page 55 7. WHAT IS SUCCESS?......Page 63 8. HOW CAN A LEADER KEEP CLIMBING?......Page 71 NOTES......Page 74 ABOUT THE AUTHOR......Page 82