The Difference Maker: Making Your Attitude Your Greatest Asset

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HarperCollins Leadership, Aug 27, 2006 - Business & Economics - 208 pages

What can make the difference in your life today? How can two people with the same skills and abilities, in the same situation, end up with two totally different outcomes? John C. Maxwell says the difference maker is attitude.

For those who have ever wondered what may be separating them from achieving the kind of personal and professional success they’ve always dreamt of, leadership expert Dr. John C. Maxwell knows that it is attitude that colors every aspect of your life.

In The Difference Maker, Dr. Maxwell teaches you how to:

  • Shatter common myths about attitude—what it can do for you and what it can’t
  • Overcome the five biggest attitude obstacles
  • Develop an impactful attitude on your career, family, and daily living

Your attitude affects everything in your life, and it's one of the few things that you can control. A good attitude doesn't necessarily make good things happen to you, but it sure does help. Or you can easily set yourself up for failure by harboring a bad attitude, undermining your own efforts to succeed.

The Difference Maker reveals the skills you need to not only make attitude your biggest asset, but shows you how to maintain that attitude for the rest of your life.

 

Contents

ONE Where Did You Get Your Attitude?
1
TWO What Your Attitude Cannot Do for You
17
THREE What Your Attitude Can Do for You
31
FOUR How to Make Your Attitude Your Greatest Asset
45
THE BIG FIVE ATTITUDE OBSTACLES
59
FIVE Discouragement
61
SIX Change
79
SEVEN Problems
99
EIGHT Fear
121
NINE Failure
147
TEN The Difference Maker in Your Life Can Help You Make a Difference in the Lives of Others
167
Notes
179
About the Author
183
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John C. Maxwell is a #1 New York Times bestselling author, coach, and speaker who has sold more than 33 million books in fifty languages. He has been identified as the #1 leader in business and the most influential leadership expert in the world. His organizations - the John Maxwell Company, The John Maxwell Team, EQUIP, and the John Maxwell Leadership Foundation - have translated his teachings into seventy languages and used them to train millions of leaders from every country of the world. A recipient of the Horatio Alger Award, as well as the Mother Teresa Prize for Global Peace and Leadership from the Luminary Leadership Network, Dr. Maxwell influences Fortune 500 CEOs, the presidents of nations, and entrepreneurs worldwide. For more information about him visit JohnMaxwell.com.

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