Dear Team 555:
Please comment on this post, stating the title of the leadership/management book approved for your review assignment and explaining in one paragraph why you selected this book.
Please do this by midnight tomorrow, Monday, February 2 – you should have your proposed titles approved by tonight.
Best wishes,
PC
Which of the Four Principles can you recognize in this sketch of the Navigator of the Whitewaters?
I read about half of my inital leadership book choice and have decided that it is unfavorable to critique and report due to the way it is written. It was more of a fictional biography of an individual who inherited a compnay rather than a leadership book.
The book I will read next and critique for the class report is “High Velocity Culture Change for Managers” by Pritchett and Pound. I have skimmed some of the chapters and it is a better fit for the assignment.
The book I’ve selected for the review is “Leadership 101″ by John C. Maxwell. This book contains such topics as “The develepment of a leader”, “The traits of a leader”, and “The impact of a leader”. It seems an interesting read thus far and has some interesting topics that I feel can be related to “masters of the Game”.
The book I selected is “You Don’t Need a Title To Be a Leader” by Mark Sanborn. The book title sounds interesting. This book has material to helps anyone become a leader at any level. It shows how we can each be a leader in our daily lives. It also explains the leader influence and inspiration come from the person, not the position. The book uses real examples involving both people and companies.
Should be an interesting study. PC
The book which I have selected for my book review is “Leading Minds: An Anatomy of Leadership”, by Howard Gardner. My primary reason for selecting this book is that it examines leadership on a broad scale rather than narrowing it’s focus to leadership within a strictly business context. This particular book also places a great deal of emphasis on the “story teller” characteristic inherent in successful leadership and analyzes it’s importance. The heart of the book is the collection of case studies that profile and discuss numerous leaders in various disciplines. This book will be particularly helpful to me as I had noted in some of our earlier Discussion Board sessions that it was not of great importance that a great leader also be a great story teller – this book may help to address this “blind spot” in my current mindset.
Should be interesting, Joshua – especially in light of the statement: ‘leaders are dreamers, doers and gret storytellers.’ PC
I have chosen the book “The Servant-Leader Within, A Transformative Path” by Robert K. Greenleaf. This book is a collection of essays about servant-leadership from Greenleaf’s other book (The Servant as Leader) I choose this book because it follows the idea that “truly” great leaders are motivated by a “yearning to help others”
This should provide for an interesting comparative review, Roy, E. PC