Failing Forward: Turning Mistakes into Stepping Stones for Success

by John C. Maxwell

Book Overview

Are some people born to achieve anything they want while others struggle? Call them lucky, blessed, or possessors of the Midas touch. What is the real reason for their success? Is it family... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0785288570
• Release Date: April 2007
• Publisher: HarperCollins Leadership
• Length: 209 Pages
• Weight: 0.52 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.3" x 0.5" x 5.5"

Customer Reviews

This is one of my favorites books for self-growth. It is easy to connect with and thought provoking. One thing that I really liked about the book is how each lesson is paired with a story of someone famous or a story about heartwarming. Nonetheless, the book's life stories will inspire everyone! Highly recommended

Excellent Book!!

I was blessed to find such an awesome book. It doesn't have many scriptures in it but it definitely gives you a different perspective on looking at your past.

Typical Maxwell

If you like John Maxwell, you will love this book. He is constantly positive and always practical. Lots of good quotes littered throughout the book. An encouragement of a book, that lets you feel like you can overcome when you feel like you have messed everything else. As is typical of Maxwell, it is a little concrete-sequential. Filled with outline points and steps for success and the like.

Good perspective on life

This book gives specific stories about people and how they bounced back from failure. It definately can help put your own trials into perspective. But it also gives practical advice on how to proceed from your failures. If we dont really learn how to learn from our failures, then we are setting ourselves up for more failures. This book will help clear up alot of mis conceptions regarding failure and success.

Failure is never final

This was is my first book by Maxwell, but it won't be my last. Maxwell mixes scriptures along with success principles and tells us that failure is never final. It's not how many times you fall, it's how many times you get back up and how much you learn from it.Some people have called this a hookie-pookie superficial feel good book. I strongly disagree, except that I can do more by feeling good than by feeling lousy.Maxwell is excellent. His words will inspire you but more than that, his words, when followed will instruct you as well.Outstanding book. Highly recommended.

Failing Forward: Turning Mistakes into Stepping Stones....

Having read several of this author's previous books I lookedforward to this one with great anticipation: it is even better thanexpected! Maxwell's thesis is that "The difference between those who are successful and those who are not lies in their perception of, and their response to, failure." He builds his case in a very convincing series of fifteen steps. At the end of each step (chapter) all of the preceding steps are relisted: I found this very helpful!No matter what your age, sex or occupation, this book will open your eyes. Get it!