Book Club Structure

• The Book Club is virtual/held online.
• Current PMI-OC members may participate in the Book Club sessions for free.
• Non-members may participate in the Book Club sessions for a $10 fee for each session.
• Participants must acquire their own copy of the book.
• The Book Club meetings are held once every other month (except for a December break) on the third Thursday (Next Meeting Date: August 21st 2025).

Book Club Meeting Structure

• Each meeting will have a facilitator to guide discussion.
• Each meeting should be expected to last one hour.
• No more than 300 pages should be read per Book Club session.
• Books with more than 300 pages may be pruned down or divided into sections and those sections may be discussed over a period of 2 or more sessions.
• After each meeting, we request that participants provide 3-5 takeaways/lessons that they learned from the book to us (book-club@pmi-oc.org) so we may collate all of the takeaways into a singular set of notes to describe the value of the book in the Books Read Journal.

How to Participate

• Participation requires registering for the book club session on the PMI-OC website.
• Participants must have read the book/book section under selection.

Books

• Selection Requirements

  • Should cost no more than $35.
  • Should fall under one or more PMI Talent Triangle categories.

• Selection Process

  • Books are selected by registrants filling out a survey where they vote on their top 3 choices for the next read.
  • The survey is sent out to registrants a week before the event registration cutoff date to allow time for those registered to vote on the next book.
  • Survey participants may also nominate additional books to add to the survey in the future.
  • The top choice for the next book is revealed at the upcoming Book Club meeting.

PDUs

• We will report 1 PDU for attending the meeting. The type of PDU reported will be based on the book content.
• Participants may also self-report PDUs to PMI based on time they spend reading (with 1 PDU per hour read)
  • Click here for a general description of PDUs on the PMI website.
  • Click here for the Continuing Certification Requirements Handbook, where you will find more details on PDUs and how to self-report PDUs.

If You Have Questions/Need Help

• If you have any questions or need help, please reach out to the Book Club Team at book-club@pmi-oc.org.

Synopsis from Amazon

In this inspiring guide to successful leadership, New York Times bestselling author John C. Maxwell shares his tried and true principles for maximum personal growth.

Are there tried and true principles that are always certain to help a person grow? John Maxwell says the answer is yes. He has been passionate about personal development for over fifty years, and for the first time, he teaches everything he has gleaned about what it takes to reach our potential. In the way that only he can communicate, John teaches . . .

• The Law of the Mirror: You Must See Value in Yourself to Add Value to Yourself
• The Law of Awareness: You Must Know Yourself to Grow Yourself
• The Law of Modeling: It's Hard to Improve When You Have No One But Yourself to Follow
• The Law of the Rubber Band: Growth Stops When You Lose the Tension Between Where You are and Where You Could Be
• The Law of Contribution: Developing Yourself Enables You to Develop Others

 

This third book in John Maxwell's Laws series (following the 2-million seller The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership and The 17 Indisputable Laws of Teamwork) will help you become a lifelong learner whose potential keeps increasing and never gets "used up."

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