Hi Everyone. I'd be interested in picking up some literature about leadership styles or related subjects. Does anyone have a recommendation or two for titles I might want to check out? Thanks!
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"The Godfather," Mario Puzo.
Is that really your recommendation? I was thinking something more along the lines of Seven Habits of Highly Effective People.
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Hi Everyone. I'd be interested in picking up some literature about leadership styles or related subjects. Does anyone have a recommendation or two for titles I might want to check out? Thanks!
The best book on leadership is
Leaders : Strategies for Taking Charge
by Warren G. Bennis, Burt Nanus
Just today Amazon said they shipped me. ...
Harvard Business Review on Managing Your Career
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1591391318/104-1518200-1063966?_encoding=UTF8&v=glance
I also considered getting...
The Leadership Challenge, 3rd Edition
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/t...f=sr_1_1/104-1518200-1063966?v=glance&s=books
Not sure about the books by John C. Maxwel. They seem to get good reviews though.
I will say that I found the topic to be divided into two categories
a) lightweight fluff books
b) serious books.
Most books fall into the former.
You could try Drucker's books. More management based but they might be useful.
Harvard Business Review on Managing Your Career
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1591391318/104-1518200-1063966?_encoding=UTF8&v=glance
I also considered getting...
The Leadership Challenge, 3rd Edition
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/t...f=sr_1_1/104-1518200-1063966?v=glance&s=books
Not sure about the books by John C. Maxwel. They seem to get good reviews though.
I will say that I found the topic to be divided into two categories
a) lightweight fluff books
b) serious books.
Most books fall into the former.
You could try Drucker's books. More management based but they might be useful.
I still think my choices are good.
Macheavelli is all about pretending to be one thing whilst actually being another. Ideal stuff for the aspiring CEO who has to talk about "mission statement" and "values" and "giving your best for the company" while he negotiates the terms that allows him to bail out rich leaving a mess behind for shareholders who bought the pitch and never saw that the gains he created were temporary as firing employees and front end loading marketing/stuffing the channnels show up on the P&L faster than the rate at which customers will leave. Eventually the crows come home to roost.
Von Clausewitz talks about "raising the level" as being part of good Generalship. He never actually comes out and says it but after a while you get what he means, he is talking about executing a few soldiers to inspire the requisite fear in the others and says that if you do this a line that would not otherwise hold will hold. Also ideal stuff for the aspiring corporate terminator.
Macheavelli is all about pretending to be one thing whilst actually being another. Ideal stuff for the aspiring CEO who has to talk about "mission statement" and "values" and "giving your best for the company" while he negotiates the terms that allows him to bail out rich leaving a mess behind for shareholders who bought the pitch and never saw that the gains he created were temporary as firing employees and front end loading marketing/stuffing the channnels show up on the P&L faster than the rate at which customers will leave. Eventually the crows come home to roost.
Von Clausewitz talks about "raising the level" as being part of good Generalship. He never actually comes out and says it but after a while you get what he means, he is talking about executing a few soldiers to inspire the requisite fear in the others and says that if you do this a line that would not otherwise hold will hold. Also ideal stuff for the aspiring corporate terminator.
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Maybe I'll get this too. (I think Bennis' stuff is generally pretty good. )
The second best I would recommend is
John P. Kotter on What Leaders Really Do
My third recommendation is
The Effective Executive
by Peter F. Drucker
Bennis and Kotter are considered the two leading authorities on leadership.