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The Power of Vulnerability: How to Create a Team of Leaders by Shifting INward
AXIOM AWARD WINNER IN HUMAN RESOURCES & EMPLOYEE TRAINING In The Power of How to Create a Team of Leaders by Shifting INward authors Barry Kaplan and Jeffrey Manchester have leveraged their decades of experience and created a guide to finding success and fulfillment for teams and individuals. Based on their work through Shift180 with executives and their teams, The Power of Vulnerability offers a new approach to transforming corporate culture so that you can thrive at work and in life.
Work is often a source of dissatisfaction for people because in their desire to get ahead, they often lose touch with their values and internal sources of power. The authors teach readers how
-- Create a sense of safety
-- Encourage exploration
-- Develop an INpowered team that transcends organizational hierarchy
-- Foster communication
-- Be authentic
Manchester and Kaplan can help you find INpowerment so that you and your colleagues can create a fulfilling, supportive, and open corporate culture. This fulfillment creates loyalty and long-term employee commitment to organizations.
The Power of Vulnerability includes everything that you need to unlock the potential of yourself and your organization. Get INpowered. Start a cultural revolution. Begin your journey today.
Work is often a source of dissatisfaction for people because in their desire to get ahead, they often lose touch with their values and internal sources of power. The authors teach readers how
-- Create a sense of safety
-- Encourage exploration
-- Develop an INpowered team that transcends organizational hierarchy
-- Foster communication
-- Be authentic
Manchester and Kaplan can help you find INpowerment so that you and your colleagues can create a fulfilling, supportive, and open corporate culture. This fulfillment creates loyalty and long-term employee commitment to organizations.
The Power of Vulnerability includes everything that you need to unlock the potential of yourself and your organization. Get INpowered. Start a cultural revolution. Begin your journey today.
256 pages, Hardcover
Published January 9, 2018
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March 19, 2020
It didn't take me long to realize this book is just a waste of my time. There are a lot of really good books out there on business leadership. This isn't one of them.
Don't get me wrong, most of the principles I have seen here aren't actually bad. It is just that... good leadership is not rocket science. Pick up pretty much any book on leadership and the core ideas will be the same. The difference is that a good book on leadership will present a principle in an easy to remember formula, it will sprinkle it with real-life examples, and then present practical ways to apply it in your situation. After all, where most fail in leadership isn't in the knowledge but in the application. From the 20% or so that I read, I saw in this book a different formula. It would present a principle, then instead of presenting a real-world example of someone who used this principle to overcome some problem, it would give an unverifiably vague yet self-aggrandizing example of how they used this principle to "fix" someone who used their services. Then, instead of offering practical ways the reader might apply the principle in their own situation, you would get some Oprahesque mumbo jumbo that doesn't mean anything. I mean:
Is this supposed to mean something? Is it supposed to be profound? I am sorry. I hate to leave such a poor review when I was given a free copy specifically for the purpose of reviewing it, but I can't lie. This book is nothing more than clutter in an already overcrowded genre.
Don't get me wrong, most of the principles I have seen here aren't actually bad. It is just that... good leadership is not rocket science. Pick up pretty much any book on leadership and the core ideas will be the same. The difference is that a good book on leadership will present a principle in an easy to remember formula, it will sprinkle it with real-life examples, and then present practical ways to apply it in your situation. After all, where most fail in leadership isn't in the knowledge but in the application. From the 20% or so that I read, I saw in this book a different formula. It would present a principle, then instead of presenting a real-world example of someone who used this principle to overcome some problem, it would give an unverifiably vague yet self-aggrandizing example of how they used this principle to "fix" someone who used their services. Then, instead of offering practical ways the reader might apply the principle in their own situation, you would get some Oprahesque mumbo jumbo that doesn't mean anything. I mean:
We yearn for a return to our instinctive and natural soulful connections—to our own passion and the authentic being of others. Because this is where unlimited power resides.
Is this supposed to mean something? Is it supposed to be profound? I am sorry. I hate to leave such a poor review when I was given a free copy specifically for the purpose of reviewing it, but I can't lie. This book is nothing more than clutter in an already overcrowded genre.
August 15, 2019
Vulnerability comes across as weak especially to most men. Hence, it's truly amazing that Barry Kaplan and Jeffrey Manchester wrote this to show us the power of being vulnerable brings to us an array of meaningful connections.
The book is filled with cases of consultation work both authors did with clients and that truly helps us to gain a clearer perspective of how being vulnerable can be powerful. The best way to read this is with curiosity and with an exploratory mind. We will have to set our preconceptions aside and gain wisdom from these two experts who have not only being coaches to CEOs, they have also been on this journey of discovery themselves. They walk the talk.
It's an absolute eye-opener for me!
The book is filled with cases of consultation work both authors did with clients and that truly helps us to gain a clearer perspective of how being vulnerable can be powerful. The best way to read this is with curiosity and with an exploratory mind. We will have to set our preconceptions aside and gain wisdom from these two experts who have not only being coaches to CEOs, they have also been on this journey of discovery themselves. They walk the talk.
It's an absolute eye-opener for me!
January 16, 2018
This is A Goodreads win review. I was thinking about how this book would be good for my Pastor because he is very active in Community things and this has a philosopy he teaches. This is a teaching book that talks about finding success and fulfillment for teams. i know myself from 42 years of working the workplace can be a stressful place when the power above you has no clue how to manage anything. This book teaches for a safer place to be, and not to doubt yourself, have better communication , and be authenic.
July 16, 2018
I really was hoping that this book would help me with team building but I am not sure that it was for me and or my team. I do however, believe that in the right setting in a company, it could really be a great and productive addition. It just really wasn't something that struck a cord with me. I believe that the first few chapters were written to get me interested and to "buy in" but then it seemed to loose me.
Perhaps, I will attempt to re-read it and see if I can get more out of it and figure out a way to put some of it to use in the work place for me.
Perhaps, I will attempt to re-read it and see if I can get more out of it and figure out a way to put some of it to use in the work place for me.
July 30, 2018
I received an ARC as part of a Goodreads giveaway. Did not finish.
Disclaimer: I'm a bit of a leadwarship junkie. I've read all of the big names, taken classes, and enacted many well-known strategies in my workplace.
If you have never read anything on leadership, this would be a good read. If you are well-read on the subject...nothing new to see here.
I'd recommend works by Michael Hyatt for more development.
Disclaimer: I'm a bit of a leadwarship junkie. I've read all of the big names, taken classes, and enacted many well-known strategies in my workplace.
If you have never read anything on leadership, this would be a good read. If you are well-read on the subject...nothing new to see here.
I'd recommend works by Michael Hyatt for more development.
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August 19, 2020A bit disappointed. I wondered why it took me so long to finish this, why i had so little motivation but it’s mostly words that don’t hold much power. The beginning of the book was good but it’s mostly rambling.
July 16, 2018
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