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John C. Maxwell
No Limits
Blow the CAP Off Your Capacity
Center Street, 2018
What's inside?
Build your capacity in multiple areas to achieve your goals and expand your life.
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- Engaging
- Inspiring
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Recommendation
Prolific leadership author John C. Maxwell targets a list of 17 core leadership capabilities – including creativity, discipline and character– and details how you can maximize your potential in each area. His primary message is that your personal abilities are unlimited, but you must work your way out of the mental limits – or “caps” – you’ve set for yourself. Maxwell assures you that when you eliminate the ways you tamp down your core capacities and stop holding yourself back, you can move from supposed limits to limitless potential.
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About the Author
Author, speaker and pastor John Maxwell also wrote Developing the Leader Within You; The 5 Levels of Leadership; The Self-Aware Leader, and many other titles. Business Insider and Inc. have referred to Maxwell as the world’s most influential leadership expert, and his books sell in the millions
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