Built To Lead Wired To Connect

How can four people sit in the same meeting and leave with four different versions of what just happened? One walks out energized. Two walk out frustrated, for completely different reasons. The fourth is not convinced anything was decided.

Your DISC profile determines your response. It does not tell you how to lead the other three through theirs.

Built to Lead, Wired to Connect picks up right there. Using the Maxwell Method of DISC, every chapter opens with a story that puts the four styles in motion, then unpacks what it takes to lead a Dominant, Influencing, Compliant, or Steady colleague, to work alongside one, and how best to follow one.

That work has a way of turning the mirror around. Before long you stop asking what the other styles need from you and start asking what your greatest strength looks like to the people who have to work around it. What if the person hardest to lead is simply wired nothing like you? 

John C. Maxwell has a name for what is happening in that moment. His first law of leadership, the Law of the Lid, says that leadership ability determines a person's level of effectiveness. Whatever you are building, your leadership sets the ceiling on it. But you cannot lift a lid you cannot see. This book will show you yours.

You already know your profile. But do you know how to lead through it?

Written for leaders, with leaders. The stories in this book were contributed by Maxwell Leadership Certified Team Members who facilitate DISC training in organizations around the world. Their work on the front lines made this book possible.