Stories to inspire and drive successful leadership From the creators of the award-winning LEAD NOW! Leadership Development Model, 52 Leadership Lessons uses the power of storytelling to illustrate and illuminate essential leadership principles for success. In 52 short, easily digestible true stories and parables from nature, history, and business, you’ll gain a deeper understanding of the 21 essential leadership dimensions in the LEAD NOW! Model, with accompanying tips and reflection exercises to help you apply these lessons in your leadership. Discover: - How prescribed burns in the world's forests relate to today's leaders who desperately need strategic planning - What a spider trapped in the space shuttle can teach skills essential for today's leaders faced with managing change - What baboons and impalas can tell us about how successful teamwork? - What the discovery of penicillin can tell us about the vital skills needed for results-driven innovation - And 48 more! To be used as a standalone handbook, or as a companion text to other titles in the LEAD NOW! Series—including 52 Leadership Gems and LEAD NOW! — 52 Leadership Lessons is a book you’ll return to again and again for inspiration, guidance, and enjoyment on your leadership journey. "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 of revealing 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 Leavitt , former senior executive, leadership and organizationdevelopment, 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 fifty-two 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 handbookfor those who are in search of excellence in their personal and business lives." Irene Leung , CEO, 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 you CAN put down. . . and then pick up again, and again, and again! It illuminates the subject by creating mental images that are each a little stand-alone 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 , US Army colonel; former NASA space shuttleastronaut; former chief operations officer, United Space Alliance;former president, Lockheed Engineering and Sciences; formerpresident, Honeywell TSI John Parker Stewart is the founder and CEO of Stewart Leadership, which he started in 1980. He is globally recognized as a leadership coach, consultant, educator, speaker, and team performance specialist. Under his guidance, Stewart Leadership is recognized internationally for its feedback assessments, training tools, and solid, results-focused coaching services designed to guide teams and individuals to adapt, grow, and reach new levels of performance. John has coached and trained tens of thousands of leaders worldwide including CEOs, presidents, military, government, and business leaders resulting in significant, measured improvement in individual and team performance.John began his undergraduate studies at the University of Colorado, finished his bachelor's degree at Brigham Young University, and earned his master's degree in organizational communication where he wrote his thesis at Parliament in London. He began his doctoral work and teaching at Michigan State University, and continued doctoral studies under management guru Peter Drucker in executive performance and leadership at Claremont Graduate University. John started his career managing leadership and management development for 86,000 employees at Lockheed Corporation. He was selected "National Trainer of the Year" by the American Society for Training & Development (ASTD). In addition to training and coaching all levels of management at Kennedy Space Center over an eight-year period during the high-pressure space shuttle program, John has worked with Citibank, Chevron, Lockheed Martin, Toshiba, CSL-Hong Kong, Xerox, GM, Kaiser Permanente, Telstra, US Department of Energy, Shell, and other government agencies and commercial