Good and nice book to read. However, it will not give a quick tip to become a great leader. Ultimately you will realize you are a leader if you have followers. There is no 2 minutes leadership skills available to train. Why should one read this book? To open your horizon is all this book can offer. Like most HBR articles and collections this is doing no more. There are all kinds of leaders in the world. Morality and leadership again are not related. In the political circles we know there are corrupt leadership at various levels. Yet, there are highly moral leadership as well. Couple of articles like the one on Manager and Leader can arouse your mind. This clearly distingguishes those differences. From most part there are some salient points that are clearly coming out if you analyze each of these text deeper.
- Every Leader has a viewpoint or focus
- Every Leader has followers
- Every Leader has an ability to influence
Beyond this I guess any discussion on leadership is dissection of facts, which will definitely open your mind and may make you immune to surroundings and styles of leadership. I guess that is what for most we learn from life anyway.
Overall good read if you just look at it from a perspective of gaining additional viewpoints. Not recommended if you look at it as a self help and leadership guide.
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