International Business Statesman
Leadership Power
beyond smoke and mirrors
Instant PDF download. 108 pages. Eight chapters. Read it tonight.
beyond smoke and mirrors
Instant PDF download. 108 pages. Eight chapters. Read it tonight.
“Your present declares your courage.From Chapter Five, Plans to Achieve
Your past established your character.
Your future demonstrates your vision.
Your final exit is your heritage.”
Peter J. Daniels opens with a charge against his own genre. Many books on leadership, he writes, can appear to be masterpieces but are authored by theoreticians who have never led anything significant and have surmised and guessed their way to faulty conclusions. To write meaningfully about leadership power, an author must first have felt the hot fires of absolute responsibility and the weight and turmoil of possible catastrophe.
What follows is short, unsparing, and urgent. Daniels surveys a world of make believe that has permeated the corridors of international relations, politics, media, and religion, where the art of compromise substitutes what is right with what can be gotten away with. His verdict lands in a single line: the need for leadership is now. It falls to individuals to accept personal responsibility, first for themselves, secondly for their family, and thirdly for their country.
Across eight tightly argued chapters he shows how a leader is actually formed: how the awakening process begins, why time is the one immovable dimension, how to unmask the power manipulator quietly wrecking your board, how a tested formula for achievement is built, and what it means to walk, as Churchill did, with a sense of destiny.
Any book he has written is a must read for all who are willing to be honest with themselves and with God, those who really benefit mankind through his or her leadership. This one is the best of the stack.
Peter J. Daniels’s book, Leadership Power, should be required reading for anyone who has a position of leadership in business or in the Church. As I devoured this book, I was amazed by Peter’s ability to communicate.
Dr. Peter J. Daniels writes from a never-ending plethora of successful experiences. He still maintains the dynamism of youth and the insights of age. Read and reread this magnificent volume. You’ll add a powerful dimension to your life.
Eleven more, from pastors, publishers, and business leaders across four continents, are printed in the book itself.
The door of a great age of history is about to close, Daniels warns, and only a flickering light of hope remains. An unflinching survey of a leadership vacuum: institutions without credibility, decisions made by lobby groups behind closed doors, and Franklin D. Roosevelt’s four essential human freedoms long since forgotten. Even the flawed leaders of Scripture are put on the table, because facing facts means facing all of them.
How leadership actually begins in a person. Daniels maps three levels of sole responsibility leadership, short term, long term, and a sense of destiny, then sets out ten distinctives of leaders: they refuse distraction from the dominant cause, they accept immediate deprivation in exchange for future gratification, and they test every unexpected opportunity against hard questions before moving.
Time is the very essence of life itself and is irrecoverable. You can die with more money than you can spend and with many dreams unfulfilled, but when you die there is no more time available to you. A bracing chapter on obsolescence, information overload, and mastering the one dimension no leader can negotiate with.
Your board seems capable, yet decisions stall, obstructions multiply, and information leaks. Daniels tells how a president of one of the world’s largest confectionery companies asked him to lunch privately with his directors, and how one meal exposed a power manipulator and a stooge. Then he hands you the profile so you can identify your own.
The young Daniels spent days in the great city library hunting a tried and tested formula for goal setting and mission statements. Finding none, he made it his sacred quest to build one, testing it intensely in the realities of life and sharing the finished manuscript with his friend Paul J. Meyer. This chapter tells how the formula came together, and what it takes to plan an achievement rather than wish for one.
Churchill told his boyhood friend that Britain would one day be in great peril and it would fall to him to save the Empire. On the night he became Prime Minister he said he was walking with destiny. From that remarkable life Daniels draws the foundational structure for anyone prepared to exchange their life for a measurable result: the dream, the vision, the commitment, the goal, the mission, the destiny.
Leadership is impossible without the people who make it possible. Daniels tells how concern for the ordinary moms and dads of a booming industry led him to act as mediator, and how he and his son Graham wrote the survey that became the gold standard for assessing an entire business model. A chapter on carrying followers honestly rather than using them.
Martin Luther King Jr. on character, Thomas Jefferson on virtue and talent, Pareto on the eighty twenty principle of imbalance. Daniels weighs each, then issues his closing summons: it is time for existing and potential leaders to rethink the past with all its errors and start with a clean slate.
Six stages for those with reason and desire to follow a sense of destiny for their life, laid out in full inside the book.
Daniels writes as a man who has, in his own words, felt the hot fires of absolute responsibility and the weight and turmoil of possible catastrophe. His formula for achievement was not found in a library; he built it, tested it intensely in the realities of life, and shared it with his friend Paul J. Meyer, founder and chairman of the Success Motivation Institute. When an entire global industry turned volatile, he was the one called in to mediate, and the survey he wrote with his son Graham became the gold standard for assessing it.
The book’s praise pages carry fourteen named endorsements from figures including Pastor Kenneth Copeland, Rick Renner, and Dr. John Edmund Haggai, who describes him as writing from a never-ending plethora of successful experiences. In Copeland’s words, this one is the best of the stack.
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The opposite, by design. Daniels writes in the preface that many leadership books are authored by theoreticians who have never led anything significant, and that theory may be the language of the scholar, but pragmatism is the language of the leader. Every chapter draws on carried responsibility rather than classroom speculation.
Anyone who leads or intends to: in business, in the church, in the community, or in a family. Rick Renner writes in the praise pages that it should be required reading for anyone who has a position of leadership in business or in the Church, and the chapters serve the committee of one as much as the chairman of a board.
Yes, openly. Daniels writes as a Christian, quotes what Scripture says concerning the mantle of leadership, and examines even the flawed leaders of the Bible without flinching. The principles themselves are practical and drawn from a lifetime of business and public life.
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