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Where Have All the Leaders Gone?
Lee Iacocca
Scribner, 2007
A five-star review means I would read over and over
+ Where Have All The Leaders Gone?
+ A Deserving 5-Star Rating
Mr. Iacocca is now on my short list of the ideal lunch date. What a fascinating, intelligent and entertaining guy! I feel depressed that big business in America is no long controlled by people with his level of integrity. This book's hidden gem is that it presents great business lessons. Of course ...
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A Power Governments Cannot Suppress
Howard Zinn
City Lights Publishers, 2006
Validates my choice to oppose Cheney & attack on Iran
+ Master Teacher Zinn
+ a powerful message
+ a fantastic "must" read!
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The leadership of civilization building: Administrative and civilization theory, symbolic dialogue, and ...
Richard J Spady
Forum Foundation, 2002
Astonishing Powerful, Easy to Read, MUST Be Reprinted
This book was recommended to me by Joseph McCormick, former Army Ranger, world-class philosopher, and one of the founders of Reuniting America, 110 million strong and totally transpartisan in nature. We both agree with Peter Peterson's views in Running On Empty: How The Democratic and Republican ...
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Finding Our Way: Leadership for an Uncertain Time
Margaret J Wheatley
Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2007
Visionary
+ Deep Leadership
+ Reaching toward holism
+ refreshing honesty
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How to Change the World: Social Entrepreneurs and the Power of New Ideas, Updated Edition
David Bornstein
Oxford University Press, USA, 2007
Single best book I have read in past five years
+ Social Entrepreneurs Make the World a Better Place
+ Entrepreneurship at its Best
+ Excellent resource
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The Knowledge Executive
Harlan Cleveland
Plume, 1989
Priceless--Order the Out of Print Service
+ The Dean of Real Intelligence and Real Education
This book was a catalyst in changing my own focus from that of reforming the classified intelligence community, to that of creating a "virtual intelligence community" that served as an on-going educational program for government and business leaders. "If there was ever a moment in history when a ...
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A Complaint Free World: How to Stop Complaining and Start Enjoying the Life You Always Wanted
Will Bowen
Doubleday, 2007
Highly Recommended
+ Great challenge to change your life
+ A NEUROSCIENTIFICALLY USEFUL TOOL
+ Life-changing
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The Pathology of Power - A Challenge to Human Freedom and Safety
Norman Cousins
W.W. Norton and Company, 1987
THE PATHOLOGY OF POWER traces the way national power enlarged and institutionalized, especially as the result of perceived external dangers. That power then spills over into other government operations, of which the surreptitious sale of arms to Iran and the funneling of funds to the Nicaraguan Contras are examples.
This book is written out of indignation and concern, because Cousins believes ...
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The 360 Degree Leader: Developing Your Influence from Anywhere in the Organization
John C. Maxwell
Thomas Nelson, 2006
360 Degree Leader Developing Your Influence from Anywhere in the Organization
+ Starting over
+ Great book for anybody in a leadership position
+ 360 Degree Leader Review (Nursing Leadership)
+ Good book on the "how to's" of being a leader
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Vice: Dick Cheney and the Hijacking of the American Presidency
Lou Dubose, Jake Bernstein
Random House, 2006
23 Documented High Crimes That Should Put Cheney in Irons Immediately
+ An Absolutely MUST READ
+ Profiling the biggest Dick in history
+ Cheney: Secretive and paranoid
+ Must read
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Leading Minds: An Anatomy Of Leadership
Howard Gardner, With *, ...
Basic Books, 1996
The leader as creator and embodiment of 'the story'
+ A bright set of studies, but the framework is somewhat vague
+ Scholarship of Leadership
+ Intelligence: Not Beyond Good and Evil
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Transforming Leadership
James MacGregor Burns
Grove Press, 2004
A Walk Down Memory Lane
Burns has a unique way of weaving the events of History and Leadership Theory by presenting a logical praxis. It is in this unique capability that the reader will find him or herself finding not only a fair and balanced articulation of the events as they occurred but the leadership ramifications ...
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The Powers to Lead
Joseph S. Nye
Oxford University Press, USA, 2008
Superb Mix of Scholarship & Pragmatism
+ The skills effective and ethical leaders need to attract followers and achieve a group's objectives
Anything by Joe Nye stops my work and receives my undivided attention. This is an absolute gem of a book, a mix of world-class scholarship and world-class pragmatism. It goes to the top of my leadership list on Amazon.
The book opens with the observation that two thirds of US citizens believe ...
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All Rise: Somebodies, Nobodies, and the Politics of Dignity (BK Currents (Hardcover))
Robert W Fuller
Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2006
My 12 year old gets it, why is it so difficult for me?
+ Manfiesto for Transpartisan Democracy and Moral Capitalism
+ A special recommendation to managers and businesses.
+ READ THIS BOOK!!!
+ All Rise for a Better Society
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The Source of Leadership: Eight Drivers of the High-impact Leader
David M. Traversi
New Harbinger Publications, 2007
How to drive what's inside you to lead others in a meangingful way
+ And now for something different
There are hundreds, maybe thousands of books that purport to be the key to becoming a leader. But what is a leader? Yes, it is obvious that someone like Winston Churchill in the Second World War was a leader. So was George Washington. The leadership supplied by world leaders in government, ...
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