''The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership: Follow Them and People Will Follow You'' is a 1998 book written by John C. Maxwell and published by Thomas Nelson. It is one of several books by Maxwell on the subject of

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. It is the book for which he is best-known. The book was listed on ''The New York Times'' Best Seller list in April 1999 after marketing company

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manipulated the list by making it look like copies of ''The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership'' had been purchased by thousands of individuals when, in actuality, ResultSource had simply made a bulk order of the book. The book had sold more than one million copies by 2015. Christian businessperson John Faulkner was inspired to found Christian business magazine ''TwoTen'' when he read ''The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership''. Professional basketball player

Harrison Barnes Harrison Bryce Jordan Barnes (born May 30, 1992) is an American professional basketball player for the Sacramento Kings of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played college basketball for the North Carolina Tar Heels before being sele ...

read and spoke positively of the book. US swimmer Annie Chandler Grevers wrote of Maxwell's book, "it's cheesy, but ... it did me some good". Columnist

Michael Hiltzik Michael A. Hiltzik (born November 9, 1952) is an American columnist, reporter and author who has written extensively for the ''Los Angeles Times''. In 1999, he won a beat reporting Pulitzer Prize for co-writing a series of articles about corrupti ...

of the ''

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'' criticized Maxwell for including in the book "the insidious subtext ... that

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have nothing to do with your failure", an assertion that Hiltzik argues research studies have demonstrated to be false. John Maxwell Team mastermind groups have developed from the principles in this book.

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