Equipping 101
What Every Leader Needs To Know
By
John C. Maxwell
Thomas Nelson, Inc., 2003
ISBN 0-7852-6352-7
112 pages
The Big Idea
Why You Need This Book
Part I: Equipping for Success
Part II: Equipping the Right People
Part III: Equipping for the Next Level
Equipping 101 offers valuable insight and practical tools in a pocket-sized format that delivers what you need to know on such topics as:
- The power of teamwork
- Why equipping is essential to a leader’s success
- The qualities to look for in potential leaders
- Ten steps for investing in others
- How to become an “enlarger” of people
- Investing in your team for the future
In this book, not only will you learn why equipping others to lead is the most powerful method for success, but you will also learn how to identify potential leaders, equip them, and then take them to a whole new level once they’ve been released to lead.
Leaders with an equipped team possess an edge that will take them to the next level. Fulfill your vision by equipping other leaders to make it happen!
WHY DO I NEED TO EQUIP OTHERS?
C. Gene Wilkes, in his book, Jesus on Leadership, observed that the power of teams not only is evident in today’s modern business world, but it also has a deep history that is evident even in biblical times. Wilkes asserts:
• Teams involve more people, thus affording more resources, ideas, and energy than would an individual.
•Teams maximize a leader’s potential and minimize his or her weaknesses. Strengths and weaknesses are more exposed in individuals.
• Teams provide multiple perspectives on how to meet a need or reach a goal, thus devising several alternatives for each situation.
•Teams share the credit for victories and the blame for losses. This fosters genuine humility and authentic community.
• Teams keep leaders accountable for the goal.
• Teams can, simply put, do more than an individual.
WHY DO WE STAND ALONE?
Knowing all that we do about the potential of teams, why do some people still want to do things by themselves? Here are a number of reasons