A quality guide for busy executives seeking self-improvement.
Two experts in teaching leadership skills and organizational development offer tips, exercises and opportunities for self-assessment.
Leadership takes a variety of talents—intelligence, certainly, but also other abilities, such as foresight, listening, delegating, strategic thinking and organizational savvy. While this may seem obvious, the vast number of bad bosses in existence is a testament to the fact that many lack at least one, if not more, of these essential skills. The authors have condensed their expertise into this easily digestible volume divided into four leadership quadrants—Create Purpose, Deliver Excellence, Develop Self and Others, and Lead Change—with chapter-length subsections in each quadrant. Each chapter contains a series of tips, a self-assessment section and a place for note taking, as well as answers to specific questions related to the chapter. Fortunately for busy executives strapped for reading time, this book replaces blocks of text with short, punchy, numbered tips written in plain English, allowing harried executives to stop reading at any point and pick up later where they left off. The self-assessment section provides a quick way for leaders—if they’re honest with themselves—to see how they rate in terms of taking important actions. In the Action Planning Notes section, the book contains plenty of white space for readers to scrawl whatever thoughts, ideas and inspirations come to mind. The book’s digestible size enables it to be easily slipped into a pocket or briefcase without trouble. Some of the information presented may seem obvious—i.e., take care of your customers, avoid jumping to conclusions, listen without judgment—but plenty of leaders still need the type of advice expertly laid out here.
A quality guide for busy executives seeking self-improvement.Pub Date: Aug. 8, 2012
ISBN: 978-1930771406
Page Count: 264
Publisher: N/A
Review Posted Online: July 3, 2013
Review Program: Kirkus Indie
BOOK REVIEW
This is not the Nutcracker sweet, as passed on by Tchaikovsky and Marius Petipa. No, this is the original Hoffmann tale of 1816, in which the froth of Christmas revelry occasionally parts to let the dark underside of childhood fantasies and fears peek through. The boundaries between dream and reality fade, just as Godfather Drosselmeier, the Nutcracker's creator, is seen as alternately sinister and jolly. And Italian artist Roberto Innocenti gives an errily realistic air to Marie's dreams, in richly detailed illustrations touched by a mysterious light. A beautiful version of this classic tale, which will captivate adults and children alike. (Nutcracker; $35.00; Oct. 28, 1996; 136 pp.; 0-15-100227-4)
Pub Date: Oct. 28, 1996
ISBN: 0-15-100227-4
Page Count: 136
Publisher: Harcourt
Review Posted Online: May 19, 2010
Kirkus Reviews Issue: Aug. 15, 1996
BOOK REVIEW
BOOK REVIEW
An extravaganza in Bemelmans' inimitable vein, but written almost dead pan, with sly, amusing, sometimes biting undertones, breaking through. For Bemelmans was "the man who came to cocktails". And his hostess was Lady Mendl (Elsie de Wolfe), arbiter of American decorating taste over a generation. Lady Mendl was an incredible person,- self-made in proper American tradition on the one hand, for she had been haunted by the poverty of her childhood, and the years of struggle up from its ugliness,- until she became synonymous with the exotic, exquisite, worshipper at beauty's whrine. Bemelmans draws a portrait in extremes, through apt descriptions, through hilarious anecdote, through surprisingly sympathetic and understanding bits of appreciation. The scene shifts from Hollywood to the home she loved the best in Versailles. One meets in passing a vast roster of famous figures of the international and artistic set. And always one feels Bemelmans, slightly offstage, observing, recording, commenting, illustrated.
Pub Date: Feb. 23, 1955
ISBN: 0670717797
Page Count: -
Publisher: Viking
Review Posted Online: Oct. 25, 2011
Kirkus Reviews Issue: Feb. 1, 1955
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