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A Manager's Guide to Using the Force: Leadership Lessons From a Galaxy Far Far Away
Part of the series Exploring Effective Leadership Practices through Popular Culture, Urick examines management theories related to mentorship and learning, transformational and transactional leadership, ethical decision making, bases of power, mindfulness, multi-tasking, and more. As you learn to apply these theories, you can become at one with the Force to find balance in your leadership style.
Each theory is viewed through the lens of various aspects of the Jedi approach to exerting influence. Through these examples, readers will become familiar and comfortable with academically supported leadership concepts to adjust their own behaviors, becoming more successful in the process. By examining leadership theories through the context of popular culture, the book encourages readers to think creatively about how they might adjust their own management approach. Readers will move from Padawan to Master quickly. May the Force be with you, Jedi Manager!
The series aims to bring examples, theory and methodology of leadership to life by analyzing academic concepts through popular culture examples that will appeal to a broad range of readers.
Each theory is viewed through the lens of various aspects of the Jedi approach to exerting influence. Through these examples, readers will become familiar and comfortable with academically supported leadership concepts to adjust their own behaviors, becoming more successful in the process. By examining leadership theories through the context of popular culture, the book encourages readers to think creatively about how they might adjust their own management approach. Readers will move from Padawan to Master quickly. May the Force be with you, Jedi Manager!
The series aims to bring examples, theory and methodology of leadership to life by analyzing academic concepts through popular culture examples that will appeal to a broad range of readers.
168 pages, Paperback
Published April 13, 2021
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April 26, 2022
The book was a short read. There was almost too much reference to the Star Wars movie. You tried to take away concepts but it was just a bit much rolled in.
June 30, 2021
Michael Urick's A Manager's Guide to Using the Force is the first in a new business book series, which uses pop-culture to demonstrate examples of modern business theory.
The chapters are arranged by topic, such as Mentorship, Teamwork, Values, Communicating, Failure, etc. Then, within each topic are sub-topics. He provides an example from the movies depicting a character and a situation and explains the business theory that applies. The example gives the positive output that occurs when the business practice is employed.
These are more high-level than in the weeds, but each section is notated so a reader who wants to learn more can look up the source material in the references section.
While this probably is targeted more to the student, early career, or an individual taking on management responsibilities for the first time. It is also a good read for someone like me who has been in business twenty years and has learned many of these, but not all. This book filled in some of the gaps I had.
The blend of formal business theory with enjoyable pop-culture references made the content more relatable then simply reading a business book that was all theory containing generic examples or examples from the author's experience that are not relatable to the reader.
The chapters are arranged by topic, such as Mentorship, Teamwork, Values, Communicating, Failure, etc. Then, within each topic are sub-topics. He provides an example from the movies depicting a character and a situation and explains the business theory that applies. The example gives the positive output that occurs when the business practice is employed.
These are more high-level than in the weeds, but each section is notated so a reader who wants to learn more can look up the source material in the references section.
While this probably is targeted more to the student, early career, or an individual taking on management responsibilities for the first time. It is also a good read for someone like me who has been in business twenty years and has learned many of these, but not all. This book filled in some of the gaps I had.
The blend of formal business theory with enjoyable pop-culture references made the content more relatable then simply reading a business book that was all theory containing generic examples or examples from the author's experience that are not relatable to the reader.
November 13, 2024
I am a nerd for project management and pop culture so that book hit the spot. But it also made me think about project management in different ways. It is about 100 p so I flew through it but I will read it again, slower, to take time to think it through more.
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