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The Leader Within: Learning Enough About Yourself to Lead Others
by Drea Zigarmi, Ken Blanchard, Michael O'Connor, Carl Edeburn
from FT Press

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 3.0 / 5.0

• Some gems, but over-complicated by "academic" jargon
  This book is not bad per se. It covers useful points such as knowing yourself to lead, differentiating between your natural predispositions and your projected self, DISC model to help understand your predispositions, a small smattering of useful stories to illustrate the complexities in personality and behaviour (more would've been great) etc.
  Unfortunately, it is shrouded in academia speak so it's almost like reading a university text book or an academic journal. A simplified version of this book -... more info

• Leadership Analysed From Within Oneself
  I found this book to be very helpful for any one looking to improve their leadership skills. The authors ably and logically point out 'who you are (inside) governs, to a large a large extent, how you act and react (outside)'. This book helps with one's inner development that would pave the way to acquiring the skills necessary to be a leader.

• Leading others by understanding yourself
  Ken Blanchard is the draw in this group-authored book, even if he doesn't get top billing. The author of The One-Minute Manager and his co-writers Drea Zigarmi, Michael O'Connor and Carl Edeburn explain how to understand and shape your personality to become the kind of leader or manager you want to be. Their book is not a tract on cognitive science but rather a business text with useful exercises and insights - in particular, the notion of personality as layered, complex and malleable rather than hard and... more info

• This is a useful book
  This book can be useful to any man or woman who already is, or wants to become, an effective, if not wise, leader of other people.
  The book is well named; it is about self-knowledge as a prerequisite to effective leadership of others. It is written to be used, more than read and returned to a shelf. My copy is well-marked with notes and highlighting. If you're looking for a cleverly written and poetically worded book, this is not it. This sits between a textbook and an everyday quick reference... more info

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