Attitude 101: What Every Leader Needs to Know (101 Series)

This little book is gold! I was surprised by Maxwell's Christian world-view, uncompromised, yet I feel he was able to reflect successfully to a secular audience (I, too, am a Christian). He makes the occassional references to scripture, uses a lot of quotes and stories, and provides his own insights on attitude. His basic premise is that attitude is everything and infiltrates into every area of our lives. Having been diagnosed with "clinical depression", I found his words encouraging and feel elated when I know that a matter of my success in life has a lot to do with attitude and how I handle adversity. In fact, Maxwell gives a very interesting maxim which I would like to make a part of my arsenal: "To go up, you have to give up." These may be hard words for someone who's not ready, but I guarantee you, after reading his book, you will agree just as I do. This book makes it clear that success is knowing your purpose and growing to your potential. This book is easily five stars. I look forward to more of his work, both in this series and any other forthcoming and previous works.


Grow Your Attitude Daily to Accomplish More!!!!!   May 30, 2003
Professor Donald Mitchell (Thanks for Providing My Reviews over 96,000 Helpful Votes Globally)
23 out of 25 found this review helpful

Everyone would benefit from reading this little, but powerful, book and carrying it around in a pocket to reread, as appropriate, daily. Many sections could be reread in just a few minutes. The whole book can be read by most in less than two hours.

I highly recommend this as both a book for you to read and reread, and as a book to share with others through gifts. Attitude 101 is a thoughtful high school or college graduation gift, for example, that will provide benefits for decades.

The book addresses several key dimensions of personal attitude: Its impact; its formation; and how your future is affected by your attitude. Examples come poignantly from the Bible, sports, inventors, celebrities, writers, politics and Dr. Maxwell's own life. Many of the stories added to my knowledge. Did you know that David had five stones with him to face Goliath not because David feared he would miss . . . but because Goliath had four giant sons whom David might also have had to face?

Whatever is missing from your attitude . . . this little book can help you find it and apply a remedy. On different days, you will have varying needs to improve your attitude. Rereading the right sections in this book will help you develop a better attitude and keep it focused on moving you forward just when and where you should be going.

As Dr. Maxwell says, success is:

"Knowing your purpose in life,
Growing to reach your maximum potential,
Sowing seeds that benefit others."

The book combines all of the elements you've probably come to like about his books on leadership, teamwork, thinking and purposeful living. Seeing it all together in a brief form makes the message clearer somehow. I liked that.

His epigrams are wonderful. Here's another of my favorites for helping others form good attitudes:

"Value people.
Praise efforts.
Reward performance."

Particularly meaningful to me were the reminders that temporary setbacks (what some see as "failures") are good ways to learn how to be more effective. If we can combine lots of attempts with an ability to emotionally forget how they made us feel when the attempts didn't work, we can accomplish a great deal.

The book ends with how leaders can grow their potential. The Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. is the example. Leaders become greater by giving up more in serving others.

May God bless you, Dr. Maxwell, and all those who read and apply this wonderful book!


Attitude determines Altitude   March 24, 2004
Reading Mom (West Virginia, USA)
6 out of 7 found this review helpful

This is a great book. I am a big Maxwell fan, and I loved reading this book. It is a compilation of chapters from some of Maxwell's other bestsellers. This book serves as a great reminder of how important our attitude is in every area of life.


Attitude adjustment   July 23, 2007
Reading my way thru life (VA)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful

"Your attitude and your potential go hand in hand." -From the book.

This is a great book, packed with good advice! First of all, I liked the size of this. It's a small book of 97 pages. The publishers preface says that this is a companion book to "Leadership 101, Relationships 101, and Equipping 101, and is a short course on attitude."

Subtitled to leaders and what they need to know, but it's for all of us. As always, to change the world, we need to begin at home with ourselves -This is a good way to learn more about attitudes and how to change ours and then (hopefully) the positive change will be contageous. The short examples are highly effective in getting the points across.

This is a beneficial little book. I doubt you could read this and not want to make some changes in yourself. This is a great book to keep by your bedside for some inspirational reading before bed. The small size makes this (I think) even more attractive to read, knowing that you don't have to plow through some thick volume to get the benefits of the message.

This would be great for companies/employers to hand out to their employees for christmas gifts, or even new hire gifts. Which would let your people know that you care enough about your business and their part in it to educate them on how to be a better person/worker/leader. It could make a big difference in someone's life.