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The search for a good leadership book continues

"[L]eadership requires disturbing people - but at a rate they can absorb."

Jacie do yourself a favor and return this to the library ☠️

This book is enforcing a very self-important vibe/feeding into the narrative that “it’s me against the world!”

Not here for it but I’ll finish it

"The authors barely acknowledge that sexism, racism, and all the other "isms" also make leadership "dangerous"--they write from a place of privilege." From a review here

Hoping to god i finish this today, I'm so ready to take a four week break from reading theory

✨Grad School✨

I really enjoyed the quote, "Leadership takes the capacity to stomach hostility so that you can stay connected to people, lest you disengage from them and exacerbate the danger."

"You will be characterized as being out of place, out of turn, or too big for your britches".

It's different and dated. Not so much about giving clear direction, but it's more a guide to maneuver in a politically savvy way when authority is not clearly established. It's about raising issues on an appropriate time, in the right style, without personifying it and thus not getting burned.

Worthwhile aspects so far:
- pitfalls of transformational leadership
- change mgmt & it’s typical lack of historic perspective
- necessities for sustainable change
- Technical be Adaptive leadership, and why people address challenges Technically
- loss, disloyalty and incompetence as feelings to address in adaptive change

"The lone warrior myth of leadership is a sure route to heroic suicide. Though you may feel alone at times with either creative ideas or the burden of final decision-making authority, psychological attachments to operating solo will get you into trouble. You need partners."

Like most nonfiction books, the last chapter is the best—meaning that instead of being putrid, it’s merely terrible.

“Hold steady! But also adapt!” Ugh. A curse on this book and everything it stands for.

This was the section on sex. Painful. What in the fuck does this have to do with leadership?

End of Part II. Still hate this book, but grudgingly respect their wry observation that leadership is the art of disappointing people at a rate they can absorb.

Hate hate hate hate hate this book

This book makes me feel so dirty; like I’m whoring out my ability to read and I’m not even getting paid for it.

Oh, brother.

Just missing the best part

Honestly hated it. I realize now that I despise being told what to do and how to act so that I end up "successful" at life in general. But again, thats what I currently feel. Who knows, maybe down the line I'll love this book when im in my 70's and want to become a leader for the next 3 years I have left.

Reading for class, and I expected to be immediately bored, but there are some really interesting and helpful things in this book. A good use and amount of examples given.

So informative

One of my favorite and the most serious treatments of leadership I’ve had the pleasure of reading.

Reading for a leadership class at work.

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So far this is great! I will be sharing it with friends who are in ministry, especially.

I'm reading this for homework. It was unobjectionable until I got to the part about Augusto Pinochet, the controversial but effective change manager. I'm flabbergasted.

This is going to be a long, boring read. Not excited. Typical leadership drivel.

I am reading this book for a leadership program in education. It's not the typical book I would read, but it is interesting.