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Title: Leading Up : How to Lead Your Boss So You Both Win by Michael Useem ISBN: 1-4000-4700-5 Publisher: Three Rivers Press Pub. Date: 25 March, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.1 (10 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Excellent resource for companies with communication problems
Comment: I was really disappointed to read several of the other reviews that felt this book was so poor. I found the style of the book to be quite helpful. The historical analysis of events were interesting and useful to me in my everyday business interactions. My company needs to be able to "Lead Up", let the boss know what is going on without fear, and "Lead Down", to bring in the ideas from all quarters of the company.
Our company is currently in crisis and the book is giving me ideas about how to get inforamtion and ideas up and down the chain of command. There is nothing worse than the image of employees ideas rotting on the shelf while the business goes under. This book encouraged me to speak my mind, lead up, lead down and in general be a better leader.
The book also addresses the leadership culture that promotes leading up and leading down.
The only reason I can think that other people did not get much out of this book is that they already knew about these concepts, or they did not identify with the stories/analysis.
Rating: 2
Summary: Unsubstantiated anecdotes
Comment: This book is just a collection of somewhat amusing anecdotes, with off-the-cuff musings about what these anecdotes might mean. This type of book is generally not useful, because there is no way to tell whether the anecdotes are accurate and certainly no validation of the tatke-aways. The only time they are useful is when the author happens to be unusually perceptive and insightful - unfortunately, this author is unusually not-perceptive and not insightful at all. Bad book.
Rating: 1
Summary: Trite, Superficial and Without Merit
Comment: Skip this book. It is utterly without redeeming value. This book could easily been written on a very short stack of 3x5 cards. Unfortunately, it is about 200 pages too long. I was amused by the fact that it had end notes and an index, like anyone is going to use this clunker as a reference. You will find a lot more management wisdom in an average Dilbert cartoon. Did I already mention trite and superficial???
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Title: The Leadership Moment : Nine True Stories of Triumph and Disaster and Their Lessons for Us All by Michael Useem ISBN: 0812932307 Publisher: Three Rivers Press Pub. Date: 02 November, 1999 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: The Heart of Change: Real-Life Stories of How People Change Their Organizations by John P. Kotter, Dan S. Cohen ISBN: 1578512549 Publisher: Harvard Business School Press Pub. Date: 01 August, 2002 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Leading Change by John P. Kotter ISBN: 0875847471 Publisher: Harvard Business School Press Pub. Date: 15 January, 1996 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Upward Bound : Nine Original Accounts of How Business Leaders Reached Their Summits by Jerry Useem, Paul Asel, Michael Useem ISBN: 1400050480 Publisher: Crown Business Pub. Date: 16 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.00 |
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Title: Leading Quietly by Joseph L. Badaracco Jr. ISBN: 1578514878 Publisher: Harvard Business School Press Pub. Date: 11 February, 2002 List Price(USD): $26.95 |
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