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True North: Discover Your Authentic Leadership (J-B Warren Bennis Series)
by Bill George
from Jossey-Bass

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• Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0

• the need for authenticity
  "True North"- Discover your authentic leadership"- the mere title grabbed me .
  Perhaps there is an inherent desire for people to be truthful and to seek true direction.
  The book has an appeal for everyone. Everyone is in some way a leader. This book is most assuredly one for anyone.
  During a recent hospitalization my surgeon told me the title of the book he was reading .He said it was "fascinating" . He said he gets up at 5:45a.m. to read a portion each morning.
  When I was home and... more info

• No One Can Be An Authentic and Effective Leader By Trying To Be Someone Other Than Themselves
  One of America's most successful executives Bill George (Medtronic) and Peter Sims provide, in "True North," us with a manual on "how-to" discovering and build on our unique and authentic leadership story. Their approach is based on what is most important to you, your most cherished values, your passions and motivations, the sources of satisfactions in your life. Your "True North," according to the authors, is the internal compass that guides you successfully through life and helps you stay on track. When... more info

• True North
  One of the greatest books ever written on Leadership. Not just in leading others but a true book on how to lead yourself. If you cannot lead you, no one will follow you. True leadership is defined by your ability to turn those under you into leaders themselves. True North also helps define where you are in your every day process, how to recognize those distractions that sometime seem like opportunities, that really only take you off of your True Course and destiny.

• Trite Rehash of Common Sense Ideas
  This book can be boiled down to one piece of advice: be nice. That's it.
  That was the good part of the book. Everyone benefits when everyone is nice. To get that far, however, the reader must find his way through hackneyed sayings, inept metaphors, and blatant self contradictions.
  Here are two examples of the above, to be found in the first 5 pages of the book. 1) The central metaphor of the book is that the aspiring leader must follow his internal compass to find his "true north". Well, had Mr.... more info

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