If you're a student of leadership like I am, I bet you've got bookcases filled with leadership books. Still, you're out here looking for the 'next big thing' - the leadership books that will take your game to the next level.

Right?

Listen, what can be said or written that hasn't been already? You've read about vision, planning, building relationships, giving feedback, delegating, and organizing so what's left? Guess you never looked at it that way, huh.

That's hardly a reason to get discouraged in your quest to become a great leader. Reading about leadership techniques and strategies is great. The same information can be conveyed by different authors, but for some reason you identify with it more when it comes from a particular author. By the same token, some people get more from reading real-life leadership stories than they do from leadership books that are really more like a manual.

Understanding the material you read is not the most important element here. What really matters is how you apply it in your own leadership career. So often we read great leadership books, get motivated by the lessons we learn then fail to turn those lessons into results in our own careers. When this happens, many of us go back to the drawing board and look for another leadership book rather than taking a good, hard look at ourselves.

"Whatever do you mean, Seth? Are you saying we're the reason we're studying and learning, yet not producing results?"

Not always. I realize things happen that are outside of your control. However, effective leaders have one thing in common and it's not something they learned from leadership books. Effective leaders let their character guide them. Their vision, the relationships they build, their decision making and the way they develop their people all come from rock solid character. If your character isn't guiding your actions, you will have difficulty applying what you learn from leadership books.

Why?

The techniques you learn from leadership books are all grounded in character. If you allow external influences to interfere with applying these techniques, you won't reach the level of success you desire. Is there a book that teaches character then? Not exactly. I do know of a few that teach you how to find the character that is already inside you, though. These leadership books teach you why your character has gone into hiding and what you must do to find it and start allowing it to guide your actions.

I wrote them because I've been where you are now. Once I unburied my character, everything changed. I believe in them so much that I'm giving you the first one...free. It's called "The Human Condition" and I believe you'll find it eye-opening, to say the least. Take your first steps towards breaking old patterns of thinking and installing new and empowering ones by downloading yourself a copy...here.