At a glance
- Age
- 79
- Born
- February 20, 1947
- From
- Garden City
- Nationality
- United States
Biography
If you've come across a numbered list of leadership principles somewhere online, there's a reasonable chance it traces back to John Maxwell. His best-known titles — The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership and The 21 Indispensable Qualities of a Leader — take the subject and break it into components readers can work through one at a time. Several of his books have reached the New York Times Best Seller list.
Born in Garden City in February 1947, Maxwell is an American author and speaker who also works as a pastor. Leadership is the through-line in his writing; it is the subject he returns to across his catalogue rather than one theme among many.
That focus is much of why his material circulates the way it does. Speakers, managers and readers looking for something structured tend to find it in his books, and the framing of leadership as a set of identifiable laws and qualities is what most people encounter first. His work is collected at johnmaxwell.com.
Born in Garden City in February 1947, Maxwell is an American author and speaker who also works as a pastor. Leadership is the through-line in his writing; it is the subject he returns to across his catalogue rather than one theme among many.
That focus is much of why his material circulates the way it does. Speakers, managers and readers looking for something structured tend to find it in his books, and the framing of leadership as a set of identifiable laws and qualities is what most people encounter first. His work is collected at johnmaxwell.com.
