Category : Book Reviews
by Ronald Heifetz, Alexander Grashow, & Marty Linsky
Harvard Business Press, 2009
ISBN #978-1-4421-0576-4
Reviewed by Ian Cook
Dealing with change and problem solving–these tasks are at the core of what leader/managers do. But there are two distinctly different types of challenges that precipitate change and bring on problems for managers. The authors of this enlightening book lay these [...]
by Kevin Cashman
Berrett-Koehler, 2008
ISBN #978-1-57675-599-0
Reviewed by Ian Cook
At the point our body and our senses (eyes, ears, touch, etc.) meet the world lies a crossroads. At this very point we experience a constant, two-way flow from the…
Outside in–situations, actions and events in their environment
Inside out–how we feel, interpret, process these situations and decide on our [...]
by Rob Goffee & Gareth Jones
Harvard Business School Press, 2006
ISBN #1-57851-971-3
Reviewed by Ian Cook
People want to be led by a person, the authors contend, not by someone with a fancy job title or a manager who has amassed a vast chunk of organizational turf. Employees will choose to follow only a real, live, breathing human [...]
by Kerry Patterson, Joseph Grenny, David Maxfield, Ron McMillan & Gareth Jones
McGraw-Hill, 2008
ISBN #978-0-07-148499-2
Reviewed by Ian Cook
If you are like me, and like most of the managers we all know, you have a default strategy for influencing people around you. You TELL them what they should do! You SHARE your wisdom and advice, often drawn [...]
By Carol S. Dweck
Random House, 2006
ISBN #1-4000-6275-6
Reviewed by Ian Cook
John McEnroe reached great heights in the world of professional tennis but, by his own admission, he did not fulfill his potential. Whenever he lost, it was not his fault. Even his defeat at the 1984 French Open he blamed on sound coming from the headset [...]
By James M. Citrin
Rodale, 2007
ISBN #978-1-59486-358-5
Reviewed by Ian Cook
Ground-breaking tennis great Billie Jean King won 20 Wimbledon titles, 13 US Opens, the French and Australian Opens, and was ranked the world’s No. 1 woman tennis player seven times. She went on to do pioneering work on Title IX legislation for women’s access to athletics resources [...]
By David Rock
HarperCollins Publishers, 2006
ISBN #978-0-06-083590-3
Reviewed by Ian Cook
Managers are default programmed to solve problems. That’s what they are paid to do. That’s what they are good at. And that is how they see themselves, at a subconscious level. So, when an employee comes with a problem, the manager’s knee-jerk reaction kicks in (pun intended)–right [...]
by Bill George with Peter Sims
John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2007
ISBN #978-0-7879-8751-0
Reviewed by Ian Cook
How do you become and remain an authentic leader?
This was the question Bill George posed in his in-depth study of 125 leaders drawn from corporations to not-for-profits, to the arenas of politics and academia. George was CEO and then Chairman, from [...]
By James M. Kouzes & Barry Z. Posner
Jossey-Bass, 2006
ISBN #978-0-7879-8296-6
Reviewed by Ian Cook
As a leader, would you say one of your goals is to leave a legacy? Based on their observations of leaders over the last twenty years, Kouzes and Posner expect your answer is probably “yes.”
By “legacy,” we don’t mean just the big footprint [...]
By John H. Zenger & Joseph Folkman
McGraw Hill, 2002
ISBN #0-07-138747-1
Reviewed by Ian Cook
“Good leaders…neither they nor their leaders appear to recognize the substantial contribution they could make by moving from being merely good to great”
This is just one of the many intriguing new perspectives this book brings to the subject of leadership. Whether you are [...]
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