Lead to Succeed

"If you follow the simple but profound wisdom in this book, you will take leadership to a level you've never experienced."
-DAVID GREEN, founder and CEO of Hobby Lobby
What makes a leader stand out? What are the keys to truly making a difference? And how can you become the influencer you were created to be?
In Lead to Succeed, Stan Toler empowers you to reach your organizational and personal goals. He cuts through the mystery and confusion and provides clear guidelines to help you accomplish vital leadership tasks, including
• defining your vision, developing your plan, and communicating clearly to help people buy in to your shared goal
• overcoming common leadership challenges to create a culture of success
• building strong relationships and effective teams that make working hard worthwhile


You'll find all the tools, tips, and practical guidance you need to help individuals and groups reach their highest potential and fulfill their God-given purpose.
Discover clear guidelines to help you reach your organizational and personal goals as a leader.
Stan Toler (1950-2017) spoke in over 90 countries and wrote over 100 books with sales of more than 3 million copies. For many years, Toler served as vice president and instructor for INJOY, John C. Maxwell's institute for training leaders to make a difference in the world.
FOREWORD by Ken Blanchard
The True Measure of Leadership Success
In all my years of writing and participating in countless seminars and speaking engagements, and meeting some of the best leaders whom I deeply admire and respect, I've never met a leader that measures to the level of success like Jesus.
In my book Lead Like Jesus, I explore what it means to lead like Jesus through two internal and two external domains. The motivations of our heart and our leadership point of view can, at first, be things we keep inside and even mask over if that suits a private purpose. Our public leadership behavior and habits as experienced by others will determine how they follow. When the heart, head, hands, and habits are aligned, extraordinary levels of loyalty, trust, and productivity will result. When they are out of alignment, frustration, mistrust, and diminished long-term productivity are the result.
Leadership success is first a matter of the heart. Whenever we have an opportunity or responsibility to influence the thinking, behavior, or development of others, the first choice we are called to make is whether to see the moment through the eyes of self-interest or for the benefit of those we are leading.
As you consider what it takes to be an outstanding leader, a primary question you will continue to ask yourself is: "Am I a self-serving leader or a servant leader?" It is a question that, when answered with brutal honesty, will go to the core of your intention or motivation as a person who leads others.
One of the quickest ways you can tell the difference between a self-serving leader and a servant leader is how they handle feedback, because one of the biggest fears that self-serving leaders have is to lose their position.
Self-serving leaders spend most of their time protecting their status. If you give them feedback, how do they usually respond? Negatively. They think your feedback means you don't want their leadership anymore.
Servant leaders, however, look at leadership as an act of service. They embrace and welcome feedback as a source of useful information on how they can provide better service. Self-serving leaders who are addicted to power and recognition, and who are afraid of loss of position, are not likely to spend any time or effort serving or developing others.
Outstanding leadership starts on the inside. How do you define success as a leader? Do you measure success by outcomes that bring personal gain or through the outcomes that you help others achieve? Consider how Jesus led his coworkers-his disciples-known as twelve ordinary men who bec