NOTE: Maximize Your Potential: Unleashing the Leader Within is the white-collar, or non-specific, version of Blue-Collar Leadership: Leading from the Front Lines and the content is nearly identical.
Mack Story wishes someone would have given him this book nearly 30 years ago when he started his career. It would have changed his life then. It can change your life now.
As you read MAXIMIZE Your Potential, you'll discover how you can separate yourself from the crowd quickly by learning how to master the traits high impact leaders value most. You will learn how to get noticed by the right people and how to get promoted for the right reasons. You will learn how to become recognized as a high impact individual worth following, and you don't need formal authority (position) because you will develop something much better: moral authority (influence).
Mack made this book easy to read by formatting it with 30 short, easy to read 3 page chapters. If you read a chapter per day (3 pages; 6-7 minutes), you will easily complete the book in one month even if you're a slow-reader. This format also makes it perfect for conducting book studies with your team.
MAXIMIZE Your Potential will help you better understand:
- how to make an impact right where you are,
- how to be recognized for your abilities,
- how to position yourself well for promotions,
- how to increase your influence with your leaders and teammates,
- how to become a high impact team player,
- how and why you should accept more responsibility,
- how to intentionally become more valuable to your company,
- how to become more valuable which will make you more successful,
- how to lead yourself well in order to create your preferred future.
MAXIMIZE Your Potential is great for anyone at any level in any industry, but the greatest value will be to those in any position who have received little or no leadership development. Of course, higher level leaders also need to know and understand what's in this book to multiply the potential of those on their team. This book is based on principles that apply to all people at all levels regardless of position or title.