An excellent book. I started this book with the idea that it would be preachy but it is not and it has some wonderful and useful information about leadership. I learned that a good manager needs to have a clear view of the future and makes sure that his team shares it. He needs to know that his team memebers are more valuable to the project than they were a year ago. A good manager encourages his team to be partners in the project and not just workers on the project at hand. A good manager More...

Good parable for finding your way in leadership. The start was uncomfortably close to home and gave me a lot to think about. That said, it suffered from the 'instafix!' some of these books have. While I do think the principles can help, I don't think that they would be as immediately embraced and applied. One thing that I've found most difficult is bringing these ideas into practice. And most books skim over that part... as this one did. Though the end did provide suggestions for other ways of p More...

Great book, beginning was excellent but ending needed to be more generic IMO.