Character Under Fire: By John Maxwell

What happens when bad character hides behind a name tag, a job title, or even a resume full of gold stars? In Character Under Fire, John Maxwell-former Navy SEAL and founder of Maximum Burger-rips the mask off toxic workplace behavior with precision, humor, and hard-earned insight. Blending the discipline of special ops with the chaos of customer service, Maxwell exposes a host of destructive personalities that silently sabotage team culture and kill momentum. Each chapter delivers vivid, real-world stories pulled from both the battlefield and the burger line-making this a leadership manual disguised as a wildly entertaining wake-up call.

But this book isn't just about the bad. It's about what strong teams can become when character leads the way. Maxwell challenges managers, supervisors, and frontline employees to stop tolerating mediocrity, quit enabling dysfunction, and start demanding more-from others and from themselves. Whether you're a rising team leader or a CEO tired of putting out fires, this book delivers the tools, the mindset, and the reset button you didn't know you needed. It's not just a read. It's a reckoning.