52 Leadership Lessons: Timeless Stories for the Modern Leader

Based upon the LEAD NOW! Leadership Development Model, created from interviews, coaching, training, research, and feedback from more than 20,000 leaders worldwide over a period of more than three decades, the Award-winning Stewart Leadership Series is a tool kit for the time starved leader. 52 Leadership Lessons is a collection of entertaining and intriguing stories from nature, history, and business that inspire and drive critical and essential leadership principles for today's current and future leaders. Each story is directly tied into the 21 essential leadership dimensions of successful leadership. This book tells the story of each Lesson followed by the leadership application. The Lessons are labeled by the relevant Leadership Dimensions with which they are associated, and illustrate how to develop each dimension specifically. It is a powerful and motivational coaching toolkit for all executives, managers, supervisors, and future leaders.

These intriguing stories TEACH, INSPIRE, ENTERTAIN, and TRANSFORM as they illustrate essential leadership skills. These simple, powerful 52 Lessons will help you face your daily leadership challenges—enabling you to take your organization to new levels of success to meet the demands of today’s challenges! 
Stories illustrate critical leadership needs... Timeless leadership principles are taught through engaging stories giving the lessons depth and easy application aimed at your successful leadership development.
A quick and easy-to-use RESULTS-BASED handbook for today’s leadership challenges.
• How do “prescribed burns” in the world’s forests relate to today’s leaders who desperately need STRATEGIC PLANNING? 
• How did a spider trapped in the space shuttle teach skills essential for today’s leaders faced with MANAGING CHANGE?
• How do baboons and impalas teach today’s leaders successful TEAMWORK?
• How did the discovery of penicillin apply to the vital skills necessary for results-driven INNOVATION today?
These captivating stories are linked to the LEAD NOW! Leadership Development Model and its 21
essential Leadership Dimensions - all described inside. You can easily add the 52 Lessons to your own tool kit of critical skills for YOUR future success.

“With 52 Leadership Lessons, John Parker Stewart delivers powerful,impactful insights into the mysteries of leadership and all its complex dimensions. John has the uncanny skill to reveal what few are even able to articulate about leadership. His stories and analogies are simply unforgettable. This book contains a wealth of valuable truths. Anyone reading it will quickly understand the brilliance and practicality of John’s teachings.” Tom Levitt, former Senior Executive, Leadership and Organization Development, Lockheed, Toshiba, Unocal, and NationsBank

“Parents around the world use stories to teach their children how to be better people. As a world-class executive coach, John Parker Stewart uses the power of 52 great stories of nature, history, and business to portray to us a new model that forms the pillars of leadership—creating purpose, delivering excellence, developing self and others, and leading change. 52 Leadership Lessons is a stimulating and entertaining handbook for those who are in search of excellence in their personal and business lives.” Irene Leung, Chief Executive Officer, Senior Citizen Home Safety Association, Hong Kong

“John Parker Stewart pulls from over three decades of experience leading leaders in some of the world’s most effective companies. The wonderful feature of 52 Leadership Lessons is that it’s a book that you CAN put down . . . and then pick it up again, and again, and again! It illuminates the subject by creating mental images that are each a little standalone epiphany on leadership. They are assimilated quickly, understood at a visceral level, and retained. Each story is preceded by a list of related leadership topics, and followed immediately by a brief set of considerations for its application. Busy execs will find this book to be a treasure.” James C. Adamson, U.S. Army Colonel, former NASA space shuttle astronaut, former Chief Operations Officer, United Space Alliance, former President, Lockheed Engineering and Sciences, former President, Honeywell TSI 

“John Parker Stewart is a master at helping his clients discover their ‘inner leaders’ through humor and analogy. His 52 Leadership Lessons resonate with all of us and keep teaching long after they’re told.” Beth Britt, retired Vice President, Change Management and Communications, Duke Energy

“ 52 Leadership Lessons is a must-read for all managers who wish to continuously improve their management skills. It is an extremely compelling and timely book on leadership. John Parker Stewart has successfully condensed over 30 years of executive training and coaching to provide valuable insight. Through stories that illustrate the various characteristics of effective leadership and execution of team dynamics, he provides practical direction necessary to succeed in today’s competitive marketplace. I highly recommend this book to anyone who is interested in improving team leadership.” Brad Whitworth, Health and Safety Process Manager, United Parcel Service

“Some say teaching is best done through the telling of stories. That certainly applies to how one learns the essence of leadership. In his 52 Leadership Lessons, John Parker Stewart has captured the best of the stories he has shared with audiences around the world. As I read them in this book, I find I enjoy and learn from them as much as I did when John first told them to me in person when he taught me and coached me. They never get old and never lose their value or meaning.” Kenneth S. Reightler, Jr., former astronaut and Space Shuttle pilot, former President, Lockheed Martin Space Operations