{"id":740,"date":"2013-12-05T11:50:29","date_gmt":"2013-12-05T19:50:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/?p=740"},"modified":"2013-12-05T11:50:30","modified_gmt":"2013-12-05T19:50:30","slug":"book-stuff-on-leadership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/book-stuff-on-leadership\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Stuff on Leadership"},"content":{"rendered":"

I intended for my last<\/a> two<\/a> posts to cover the main points of my STAR West keynote, but I neglected to mention a few of the books I referenced in my talk (which not coincidentally, are some of my most recommended books for those studying leadership.<\/p>\n

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I first read Leadership on the Line as part of a class I took several years ago, and many of the concepts have stuck with me. My favorite quote (slightly paraphrased) is, \u201cLeadership is disappointing people at a level they can tolerate [absorb]\u201d. Too many people try to lead by pleasing everyone. Good leaders are comfortable making decisions that not everyone agrees with, and know that teams are more productive when there is a slight level of discomfort or apprehension (as opposed to the extremes of complacent or overwhelmed).<\/p>\n

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I am a huge Patrick Lencioni fan. Lencioni writes business novels \u2013 stories about business that explain some of the principles and ideas he believes in. His Getting Naked is a peek into how he runs his consulting business, and mirrors the way I approach leadership and influence. Humility and learning in context are great approaches for anyone diving in to a new project, and I have found every one of Lencioni\u2019s novels to be a page turner. Lencioni (in his one non-business novel publication) is the first person to clue me in on the fact that product quality is directly related to team health \u2013 something I\u2019ve been reading more about over the past few years, and something I believe in whole-heartedly.<\/p>\n

\"image\"<\/a>In my experience, there are a lot of parallels between good leadership, and good consulting (bearing in mind, that the definition of a consultant has changed remarkably over the past several years).<\/p>\n

I could write a whole post on how this book relates to leadership. And, in fact, I did (and if you\u2019ve read this far in this post, go read that post now<\/a> for more info).<\/p>\n

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Several years ago, I had an opportunity to hear Peter Spiro speak, and to also have dinner with Peter and his daughter while on a business trip (we were both speaking at the same internal conference). In his talk, and at dinner, he recommended The Feiner Points of Leadership. I read the book (and have re-read it several times), and I always seem to find ideas I can use (and ideas that are weirdly relevant to whatever I\u2019m going through). The writing is conversational, and the advice is practical (opposed to the theoretical hand-waving in most leadership books). <\/p>\n

There are at least a dozen other leadership books on my bookshelf that I like<\/em>, but if you were to see my beat-up ragged copies of these books, you would know they\u2019re the most used (and most loaned) books in my personal library. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I intended for my last two posts to cover the main points of my STAR West keynote, but I neglected to mention a few of the books I referenced in my talk (which not coincidentally, are some of my most recommended books for those studying leadership. I first read Leadership on the Line as part…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-allposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/740","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=740"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/740\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}