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Title: Authentic Leadership: Rediscovering the Secrets to Creating Lasting Value by Bill George ISBN: 0-7879-6913-3 Publisher: Jossey-Bass Pub. Date: 25 July, 2003 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $27.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.7 (30 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: There is a better way to lead: Ethical Leadership
Comment: This books describes timeless leadership princibles by a man who, as he descibes, has spent his entire life learning and working to become a better leader.
Bill George has written an inspiring book for all who aspire to be good leaders. He states his case for authentic leadership: values centered and performance oriented, using a candid and open style. He writes about his many experiences in a leadership role: as CEO of Medtronic, and with Litton, and Honeywell - describing challenges leaders face and how they deal with them.
Personally, I like to read and understand more leadership - what is being a good, effective leader. This book appeals to me because it seems to confirm what I feel is important about being a good business leader: "Good leaders are people of the highest integrity, true to their core values, with the courage to build enduring organizations to meet the needs of all their stakeholders, and who recogize the importance of their service to society" (Bill George).
I recommend this book to all who wish to understand more about leadership, and what it is to be a good leader.
Rating: 5
Summary: Bill George Challenges Conventional Wisdom
Comment: In this first book by Bill George, the reader is confronted with many ethical dilemmas that he has faced as a corporate leader and that challenges conventional (US) business thinking. Are we too fixed on quarterly earnings? Is shareholder value really the most critical measure to assess a leader's success? Is leadership style important? Can a leader be effective and still have a life outside work? By describing in detail how he struggled with these and many other dilemmas throughout his career and life, George gives his readers a refreshingly and couragously honest insight into his quest to become an authentic leader.
Bill George sends an evocative message, that should be read by all leaders. As a learning and aspiring leader, I hope that this will be the first in a long series of inspirational and thought-provoking works by him.
A minor critical observation is that Bill George at times spends longer than necessary on those points where he wants to mention a long list of people that have influenced him. Yet, one could argue that this attention for those around him is a true sign of authenticity.
Rating: 4
Summary: Insightful!
Comment: Few companies got more marketing mileage out of their culture than Medtronic. Its former CEO, author Bill George, is proud of his company's squeaky clean corporate record. Despite all the clichés he may muster, despite his occasional preachiness, perhaps no CEO has written a more lucid or insightful series of reflections on the challenge of managing a corporation in twentieth century America. Read this book and you will learn some obvious lessons and some new ones: that leaders should be honest, that they will be tempted to cut corners in pursuit of short term profits but really ought to resist that temptation, that devotion to customers is at least as important as devotion to shareholders (provided you make your numbers every quarter) and that managers at Enron and WorldCom did the wrong thing, but we can learn a lesson from them. We acknowledge that Bill George may be as close as American executive ranks have come to producing a moral philosopher.
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Title: The Leadership Challenge, 3rd Edition by James M. Kouzes, Barry Z. Posner ISBN: 0787968331 Publisher: Jossey-Bass Pub. Date: 25 July, 2003 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: The Innovator's Solution: Creating and Sustaining Successful Growth by Clayton M. Christensen, Michael E. Raynor ISBN: 1578518520 Publisher: Harvard Business School Press Pub. Date: September, 2003 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: Re-imagine! by Tom Peters ISBN: 078949647X Publisher: DK Publishing Pub. Date: October, 2003 List Price(USD): $30.00 |
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Title: Why Smart Executives Fail: And What You Can Learn from Their Mistakes by Sydney Finkelstein ISBN: 1591840104 Publisher: Portfolio Pub. Date: 29 May, 2003 List Price(USD): $26.95 |
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Title: The First 90 Days: Critical Success Strategies for New Leaders at All Levels by Michael Watkins ISBN: 1591391105 Publisher: Harvard Business School Press Pub. Date: 18 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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