Reviews for Monographs in Leadership and Management: Out of the Box Leadership Vol 1

The average rating for Monographs in Leadership and Management: Out of the Box Leadership Vol 1 based on 2 reviews is 3.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2014-10-07 00:00:00 Steven Bayers This was an excellent book on leadership, whether on the battlefield or in a board room. In fact, I actually gleaned some parenting skills from it (though I'm not certain that's what General Zinni intended). My only nit-pick is that in every single generic example of leadership that he used Gen Zinni said "HE." Not once did he use "SHE," which I found bothersome because I know he has worked with many excellent women leaders throughout the course of his career. It just made me feel a bit excluded from his book - as if leadership didn't apply to me, a woman. I know that's not the case, and I know that wasn't his intent at all, I'm just saying that's how it struck me, and that's why I'm calling it a nit-pick (I would have given it 4 stars even if he had thrown a "she" in there a few times. I don't let nit-picks sway my ratings).

Review # 2 was written on 2014-06-02 00:00:00 Ig Moore Good book, but once you get it you get it and reading further just keeps drilling the points into your head, instead of presenting new information. I guess that's hard to avoid though, so I still rate this book high and recommend it to anyone who manages people. Tony is a good manager for a lot of reasons. He's good with people, balancing the need to be tought with the need to nurture the person's inner needs. Tony often ends hard discussions with a hug and, the author points out, this serves the relationship. It says "we just went through something hard, but it's behind us now." Tony's also pragmatic and understands that his business is about producing profit with minimal risk to himself. That's it. Well, that's EVERY business, right? Wrong! That's every owner. In real business middle managers are usually so removed from the profit motive that they don't really know WHY they come to work. Tony does, and he makes sure his people do as well. Ultimately there's no difference between a criminal organization and a business - both are trying to profit with as little risk as possible. Since this is true, it serves us all to stop thinking about people like Tony Soprano as some miscreant and start realizing how difficult it must be to make $4 million a year without going to jail. And then we should also start looking at the other side - we should stop revering people like Sam Walton, and start wondering what kinds of crimes he had to commit to make Wal-Mart the sucess that it is.