Maxwell's 7 Key Leadership Areas

PP. 50-1 of John C. Maxwell's book, The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership Follow Them and People Will Follow You, (Nelson Books, 1998), lays out seven key areas that "cause [leaders] to step forward as leaders."

Here they are:
1. Character--Who They Are.
2. Relationships--Who they know.
3. Knowledge--What they know.
4. Intuition--What they feel.
5. Experience--Where they've been.
6. Past Success--What they've done.
7. Ability--What they can do.

Six of them--character, knowledge, intuition, experience, past success, ability--fall into human capital. #3. "relationships" falls under social capital. What's not included is financial capital--money or access to money.

So you're a leader whether or not you have money.Maxwell's view of leadership fits with Burt's entrepreneurial capital argument, if you leave aside the finanaicial component.

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