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9 Things a Leader Must Do: How to Go to the Next Level--And Take Others With You
9 Things a Leader Must Do: How to Go to the Next Level--And Take Others With You
9 Things a Leader Must Do: How to Go to the Next Level--And Take Others With You
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9 Things a Leader Must Do: How to Go to the Next Level--And Take Others With You

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Why do some leaders get and accomplish what they want as a matter of routine, while others seem to regularly experience frustration and setbacks?  Why do some leaders achieve their goals and reach new heights, while others barely "hang in there" and survive?  Based on his groundbreaking psychological study of the ways that successful individuals think and behave, Dr. Henry Cloud presents a simple yet profound roadmap to help leaders-and those who want to become leaders-arrive at greater levels of personal growth and corporate influence than they previously thought were possible.  The good news for all of us is that leadership success is not limited to vague notions of "charisma" nor traditional advantages like graduate degrees and connections, but much more to a pattern of thinking and moving forward that learns from mistakes and stays focused on goals.

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PublisherThomas Nelson
Release dateOct 3, 2006
ISBN9781418560102
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Henry Cloud

El doctor Henry Cloud es un conferencista de gran popularidad. Junto al doctor John Townsend es anfitrión del programa de radio New Life Live!, además de ambos ser fundadores de la Clínica Cloud-Townsend y de la organización Cloud-Townsend Resources. Es autor de varios libros premiados con el reconocimiento Medalla de Oro, entre ellos Límites y El poder transformador de los grupos pequeños. El doctor Cloud, su esposa y sus dos hijas radican en el sur de California.

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    Great book specially if you want to apply Christian and leadership concepts to your professional life.
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    Airy like a meringue. Sure, people should do these things. But I have no idea why the word "leader" is in the title. On the gripping hand, being a meringue it was a very quick read and therefore I wasted little time.
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    At first I felt the "deja vu leader" that is repeated throughout the book might as well be "successfull leader" but it truly makes the point of the leaders that Cloud encounters and how they continually carry these same traits. Many people who deal with successful people frequently will say the same thing. This book really embodies the point of similarity things done among successful leaders and breaks down very important traits along with stories to aid remembering people in difficult situations who reacted the way a leader should.
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    The concepts presented I thought were very very good.
    Liked this book and would highly recommend it to those who are leaders - family , business , church , football team etc

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9 Things a Leader Must Do - Henry Cloud

9 Things

a Leader

Must Do

DR. HENRY CLOUD

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9 Things a Leader Must Do

Copyright © 2006 by Henry Cloud

Published by Integrity Publishers, a division of Integrity Media, Inc., 660 Bakers Bridge Avenue, Suite 200, Franklin, TN 37067

Helping people worldwide experience the manifest presence of God.

Published in association with Yates & Yates, LLP Attorneys and Literary Agents, Orange, California.

All rights reserved. No portion of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means—electronic, mechanical, photocopy, recording, or any other—except for brief quotations in printed reviews, without the prior permission of the publisher.

Some of the names used in illustrations in this book are not actual names; identifying details have been changed to protect anonymity. Any resemblance to persons alive or dead is purely coincidental.

Unless otherwise marked, Scripture quotations are taken from The Holy Bible, New International Version®. Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984 by International Bible Society. Used by permission of Zondervan. All rights reserved.

Cover Design: The DesignWorks Group

Interior Design: VisibilityCreative

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Cloud, Henry.

9 Things a Leader Must Do/Henry Cloud.

p. cm.

Summary: A simple roadmap to help leaders, and those who want to become leaders, arrive at greater levels of personal growth and corporate influence--Provided by publisher.

ISBN-13: 978-1-59145-484-7 (hardcover)

ISBN-10: 1-59145-484-0 (hardcover)

1. Leadership--Religious aspects--Christianity. 2. Leadership. 3. Leaders--Religious life. I. Title. II. Title: Nine things a leader must do.

BV4597.53.L43C56 2006

158’.4--dc22

2006021309

Printed in the United States of America

06 07 08 09 LBM 6 5 4 3 2 1

CONTENTS

Foreword by John C. Maxwell

Introduction: Déjà Vu Leaders

9 THINGS A LEADER MUST DO

1. Excavate Your Soul

Thing One: Déjà vu leaders explore their deep hearts and invest in their inner desires and drives

2. Yank the Diseased Tooth

Thing Two: Déjà vu leaders do not allow negative things to take up space in their lives

3. Play the Whole Movie

Thing Three: Déjà vu leaders evaluate their decisions in the present based on how they will affect the future

4 Put Superman out of a Job

Thing Four: Déjà vu leaders continually ask themselves, What can I do to make this situation better?

5. Embrace Your Inner Insect

Thing Five: Déjà vu leaders achieve big goals by taking small steps over time

6. Earn a Black Belt in Hate

Thing Six: Déjà vu leaders develop the ability to hate the right things well

7. Forget about Playing Fair

Thing Seven: Déjà vu leaders give back better than they are given

8. Quit Self-Exaggerating

Thing Eight: Déjà vu leaders do not strive to be or to appear more than they really are

9. Ignore the Popularity Polls

Thing Nine: Déjà vu leaders do not make decisions based on the fear of other people’s reactions

Conclusion: Becoming a Déjà Vu Leader

FOREWORD

One of the things I admire about Henry Cloud is his passion for helping others. His books and speaking have improved the lives of so many people. He is successful and he reaches out to others to help them become successful— emotionally, spiritually, and professionally.

I have been studying and teaching leadership my entire adult life. I can see that as one of the foremost experts on relationships, Henry brings a unique and compelling perspective to the topic of leadership. His observations come from the heart and are rooted in his interaction with people—many of whose stories he shares in this book.

I especially appreciate that Henry looks at leadership from the inside out and includes his signature message of taking ownership for who we are and how we interact with others. And he provides specific actions we can take to grow and improve in each of the nine areas he presents.

As you read with an open heart and mind, I pray that with God’s help you will go to the next level—and take others with you. That, after all, is what leadership is all about.

John C. Maxwell

INTRODUCTION

DÉJÀ VU LEADERS

It seemed like I was stuck in a rerun of The X-Files or The Twilight Zone. I would be in a business meeting or a consulting situation or the company of other individuals who had in some way distanced themselves from the pack when it came to success in business. I would think, Wait a minute…I’ve met this person before. But I knew I was meeting the individual for the first time.

But the experience kept repeating itself. Each time it had that familiar ring of I know you from somewhere in the presence of a new acquaintance. At least they reminded me of someone I had known before. But who could it be?

Then one day I noticed something. I was working on a business deal, and a particular situation came up. One of my friends in the deal said he would take care of the thing we were discussing. He offered a way of handling it, and we moved on to the next issue. But I had that same feeling of déjà vu about what was going on. Why does this seem so familiar? I asked myself.

Then it hit me. What I felt had nothing to do with my friend or with anyone else in the room. It had to do with what my friend did. It was the way he handled the situation. That’s what I had seen before. I had seen someone else do that same thing only a week earlier. The man I was with at the moment and the person I had been with the week before, in similar circumstances and facing a similar dilemma, had responded in exactly the same way. It was as if all these people were the same person, in a way.

But here is the interesting thing, and the thing that added to the confusion: All these people were very different from one another. A good number of them were in business or other arenas of leadership, but they had different backgrounds, different personalities, different economic circumstances, and different abilities. However, they were

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