"John Hawkins has done a great service by defining leadership from the inside-out in clear, simple terms. His book is essential reading for anyone who seeks to influence an organization or business of any kind. Each chapter opens with a powerful vignette about a person who has experienced a leadership challenge of some type. He treats subjects such as sustaining one's influence, integrity, adversity and transcendence.

The author writes with the simplicity of a Ken Blanchard, the clarity of a Stephen Covey and the insights of a Warren Bennis. The book has the unusual advantage of being both suitable for a primer on leadership and a text for advanced leadership reflection. There are no wasted words. I could not put the book down until I finished it.

I have already passed on copies of this to colleagues and will be using this book for an upcoming leadership retreat for staff development. This book is a gem. Can you tell that I am excited about?!"

Ross Rains
President
The Navigators of Canada

"Most of us are leaders, in that someone is following us.  Leadership As A Lifestyle raises the issues of why, where and how we are leading.  John Hawkins writes out of the overflow of a life invested in developing leaders who will seek to impact the world for good more than for gain.  This is a book that will help you evaluate where you have been and where you are going as a leader."

Dr. Gary D. Chapman
Author of the best selling book, The Five Love Languages

"Leadership As A Lifestyle goes beyond management theory and addresses the core, unchanging issues of what it takes to exercise influential leadership in the many roles we in which we find ourselves.  John presents a view of leadership that matches life as it really hits us day to day, not in neat segregated compartments to be managed, but as an integrated whole that requires us to examine ourselves independent of our positions and titles.  This book rings true to the heart and its validity is confirmed in the lives of the men over the years who have felt the impact of John's living out the principles outlined in Leadership As A Lifestyle with them."

Randal R. Boyts, President
Capital Analytics, L.P.
Dallas, Texas

"John Hawkins writes with passion and conviction that leadership is a way of life.  It is a life dependent upon a well-formed character and a sense of high vocation.  I found this book to be a positive, invigorating challenge for all leaders."

Dr. William H. Willimon
Dean of the Chapel
Duke University

"John Hawkins' book, Leadership as a Lifestyle, has the extraordinary ring of truth, because it convincingly blends and balances high-minded ideals founded in a transcendent God with the daily tough realities of organizational leadership, and does so in such a way that each elevates the other.  I treasure this book as a rare achievement by the author and a sparkling gem among the leadership books on the market today."

Dr. Larry Donnithorne
Author of The West Point Way of Leadership

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