Bootstrap Leadership: 50 Ways to Break Out, Take Charge, and Move Up

by Steve Arneson

Steve Arneson, one of America’s top leadership coaches, offers a complete blueprint for designing your own personal leadership development program—an approach proven successful in Steve’s work with executives at Fortune 500 companies like AOL, PepsiCo, and Capital One. Most of these ideas cost nothing to implement, nor do they require elaborate processes or infrastructure—they’re open to anyone with the desire to become a better leader. The fifty concise, to-the-point chapters are entirely self-contained and can be read in any order and at any pace—you can choose a chapter that speaks to a particular challenge or one that just seems intriguing. If you manage people, you owe it to yourself and your team to keep growing and developing as a leader. Bootstrap Leadership shows you how.

Genres: Self Help

320 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2010

Reviews

[Lenore Webb · Rating 3 out of 5]

She took a book (of course from the amount of books we always go through) as a present to her friend. It was Bootstrap Leadership by Steve Arneson. We felt this was a great gift to help with the new changes that will be facing this young man as he moves into the workforce. He has a desire to help create a community theater in his town and that will take quite a bit of leadership there. Steve Arneson gives us 50 ways to take charge and move up in Bootstrap Leadership. What I liked was that each chapter was fully contained. So you can flip from one to another in any order you would like to read. The other great thing was that the ideas cost next to nothing to get started. Just right for a broke college student to be able to go from. Personally I feel we all can learn from the line of leadership books. There are always ways we can grow stronger in our own lives. And also implement the ideas with our families, church lives and community organizations.

[Willie · Rating 4 out of 5]

I would recommend to those who are open minded and only those who really want to improve their leadership skills. I am reading this because it was a required book by management at where I work. It's actually a good book... I have 10 more chapters to go.. we are to read 2 chapters each week.