52 Leadership Lessons : Timeless Stories for the Modern Leader

Based upon the LEAD NOW! Leadership Development Model, created from interviews, coaching, training, research, and feedback from more than 20,000 leaders worldwide over a period of more than three decades, the Award-winning Stewart Leadership Series is a tool kit for the time starved leader. 52 Leadership Lessons is a collection of entertaining and intriguing stories from nature, history, and business that inspire and drive critical and essential leadership principles for today's current and future leaders. Each story is directly tied into the 21 essential leadership dimensions of successful leadership. This book tells the story of each Lesson followed by the leadership application. The Lessons are labeled by the relevant Leadership Dimensions with which they are associated, and illustrate how to develop each dimension specifically. It is a powerful and motivational coaching toolkit for all executives, managers, supervisors, and future leaders.

These intriguing stories TEACH, INSPIRE, ENTERTAIN, and TRANSFORM as they illustrate essential leadership skills. These simple, powerful 52 Lessons will help you face your daily leadership challenges enabling you to take your organization to new levels of success to meet the demands of today's challenges!

Stories illustrate critical leadership needs... Timeless leadership principles are taught through engaging stories giving the lessons depth and easy application aimed at your successful leadership development.

A quick and easy-to-use RESULTS-BASED handbook for today's leadership challenges.

+ How do prescribed burns in the world's forests relate to today's leaders who desperately need STRATEGIC PLANNING?

+ How did a spider trapped in the space shuttle teach skills essential for today's leaders faced with MANAGING CHANGE?

+ How do baboons and impalas teach today's leaders successful TEAMWORK?

+ How did the discovery of penicillin apply to the vital skills necessary for results-driven INNOVATION today?

These captivating stories are linked to the LEAD NOW! Leadership Development Model and its 21 essential Leadership Dimensions - all described inside. You can easily add the 52 Lessons to your own tool kit of critical skills for YOUR future success.

Over the past 35 years, John has coached and trained tens of thousands of leaders worldwide. He managed executive and leadership development for 86,000 employees at Lockheed Corporation where he designed and taught the Lockheed Executive Institutes for 13 years. He started his own consulting firm in 1980 where he continues to research, consult, teach, and coach CEOs, presidents, executives, military, government, and business leaders.

John began his undergraduate studies at the University of Colorado, finished his bachelor's degree at Brigham Young University, and earned his master's degree in Organizational Communication where he wrote his thesis at Parliament in London. He began his doctoral work and teaching at Michigan State University, and continued doctoral studies under management guru Peter Drucker in Executive Performance and Leadership at Claremont Graduate School.

He was selected National Trainer of the Year by the American Society for Training and Development for two consecutive years and a three time speaker on Orals Coaching at the National Conference of the Association of Proposal Management Professionals. In addition to training and coaching all levels of management at Kennedy Space Center over an eight year period, John has worked with organizations including: Citibank, U.S. Air Force, Chevron, Lockheed Martin, Toshiba, CSL-Hong Kong, Xerox, GM, Kaiser Permanente, Telstra-Australia, U.S. Department of Energy, Boeing, and many other government agencies and commercial firms.

John has published many articles, manuals, and workbooks and has recently published the award- winning Stewart Leadership Series. His title book, Lead Now! A Personal Coaching Guide for Results-driven Leaders, won the Indie Excellence award in Leadership, and 52 Leadership Lessons was also nationally recognized.

He has worked or studied in all 50 states in the United States, 6 continents, and averages over 125,000 air miles each year. John builds successful common cultures in organizations, and speaks to thousands of professionals each year around the globe. He has led several multi-million dollar change efforts for international corporations in successfully realigning their operations and manufacturing processes, and has united diverse corporate cultures during multi-billion dollar mergers and consolidations, leading to significant gains in organizational performance and integrated cultures.