52 Leadership Lessons: Timeless Stories for the Modern Leader

by John Parker Stewart

Stories to inspire and drive successful leadership

From the creators of the award-winning LEAD NOW! Leadership Development Model, 52 Leadership Lessons uses the power of storytelling to illustrate and illuminate essential leadership principles for success.

In 52 short, easily digestible true stories and parables from nature, history, and business, you’ll gain a deeper understanding of the 21 essential leadership dimensions in the LEAD NOW! Model, with accompanying tips and reflection exercises to help you apply these lessons in your leadership.

- How prescribed burns in the world's forests relate to today's leaders who desperately need strategic planning
- What a spider trapped in the space shuttle can teach skills essential for today's leaders faced with managing change
- What baboons and impalas can tell us about how successful teamwork?
- What the discovery of penicillin can tell us about the vital skills needed for results-driven innovation - And 48 more!

To be used as a standalone handbook, or as a companion text to other titles in the LEAD NOW! Series—including 52 Leadership Gems and LEAD NOW!—52 Leadership Lessons is a book you’ll return to again and again for inspiration, guidance, and enjoyment on your leadership journey.

252 pages, Paperback

First published August 17, 2012

Reviews

[Dr. Byron Ernest]

This book was truly 52 lessons that made me think about my own leadership and how to practice continuous improvement and honing of those skills. This is a book that prompted reflection and thought on my own leadership style and that style’s impact on those I lead. The stories in this book and the thoughts provoked enable the leader not to observe leadership, but to hone and develop leadership skills. These lessons increased my awareness of how I am perceived, and how I can make adjustments. As leaders we have scores of experiences from which to draw learned knowledge.

~ Dr. Byron L. Ernest