What is the difference between a competent leader and am extraordinary executive? This is the question Richard Davis proposes to answer in The Intangibles of Leadership. Davis argues that intelligence, pedigree and training are all important…but there is more to it than that. Davis cites research, case studies and his own experience as a management [...]
Transformational leadership involves the ability to inspire and motivate followers to take action toward the desire goal or behavior. We all know that inspiration is a vital part of effective leadership, most of us just don’t know what it means to inspire someone. Instead, we sell them on the desired actions or levels of performance [...]
I’m going to recommend that you read “Multipliers: How the Best Leaders Make Everyone Smarter,” by Liz Wiseman and Greg McKeown, despite the fact that it has a few serious flaws. Don’t be fooled by the title, the authors do NOT offer research support for their claim that leadership can make folks smarter. In fact, [...]
Citing Zappos as great examples of employee engagement or customer service is almost cliché. So when the people behind Tony Hsieh’s new book Delivering Happiness offered me a review copy, I was a little hesitant. But I’m glad I accepted. The book is half-biography of Tony and half a biography of Zappos. It traces Tony’s [...]
In the world of business books, there are inspirational books and valuable books. Inspirational books give you a shot of motivation to get you working on your business again. Valuable books are the ones you turn to again and again. When Thomas Nelson offered to send me a review copy, I thought that a book [...]
Charlene Li made a splash a few years ago when she co-authored Groundswell. Through Groundswell, many leaders saw the need to make their organizations more open using social media. But just how to do it remains a mystery. In Open Leadership, Li seeks to teach her readers how to demonstrate open leadership and transform their [...]
In his classic work, Good to Great, Jim Collins makes the case for how organizations and leaders must confront the brutal facts. Years later, most of us are believers, but fewer are practitioners. One of the reasons for this is a lack of know-how. To help solve this dilemma, Jeff Hayzlett brings us The Mirror [...]
At first glance, it may seem odd to post a review of The Referral Engine, a marketing book on a leadership website. However, most of our readers are leadership coaches and consultants. So when John Jantsch offered me an advance copy, I realized that the contents of his new release would be beneficial for all [...]
Few business parables are well written. Fewer still explain solid leadership principles. Greater Than Yourself: The Ultimate Lesson of True Leadership does both. Steve Farber, author of The Radical Leap and The Radical Edge, returns with a new fable. In Greater Than Yourself, Farber explores what it takes to build and develop the people underneath [...]
What can we learn from failure? According to Dr.Tim Irwin, plenty. Irwin presents the findings of his research on leadership failures in Derailed: Five Lessons Learned from Catastrophic Failures of Leadership. In Derailed, Irwin explores case studies of six well-known CEOs who, despite all the normal predictors of success, eventually succumbed to derailment and resigned or were [...]
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