This is not for laymen. If you're studying for your PhD in leadership, maybe you should spend the time and read the 437 pages. Otherwise, don't waste your time. Read the summaries after each chapter and you'll get enough info. In sum, the studies and research on leadership are inconclusive so you don't really get concrete answers to what's a good leader, what training works, and so on.

If you've read the gurus on leadership, you'll be familiar with the concepts. I'll leave you with the authors definition. Leadership is the process of influencing others to understand and agree about what needs to be done and how to do it, and the process of facilitating individual and collective efforts to accomplish shared objectives.

VERY GOOD BOOK

For school..

A little heavy on just reporting about studies made on managers and leaders - but still very interesting because instead of trying to just define leadership it acknowledges that leadership is a spectrum and underlines all the different parts of that spectrum. I'm not done yet - but I doubt my review will change much.

I am on Chapter 4

Read FEB 2008

Reads very much like a text book, but a Good overview of leadership theories.

Counting it

This book outlines the common leadership theories and behavior along with emphasizing the importance of adaptability. Basically every concept is debated and research results have been inconsistent.

Began as a reading assignment for an MBA Leadership Development course, I read the assigned chapters and pdfs first and then filled in the rest. I read the chapters in the following order: 2, 3, 6, 11, 12, and 14| Preface, 1, 4[covered in a course pdf], 5, 7, 8, 9, 10, 13[covered in a course pdf], and 15. I largely agree with my professors decision to exclude the unassigned chapters, but those covered by a course pdf are important without the substituted course pdfs

Good academic book and useful for students who wish to read about the literature review of leadership theories and models

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This is not a book for simple folk. Even with my love for vocabulary I was looking up words to complete my required reading. It seems far too wordy for the information gathered from the text. While scholarly, I could have used about 1/3 of the text from each chapter to get the gist of what I needed for my class.