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Title: George Washington on Leadership
ISBN: 0465003028
Author:
Richard Brookhiser
Publicate Date: 2008-05-12
Publish: 2008-05-12
List Price: $26.00
Average Customer Rating: 4.0
Format: Hardcover
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1: pleasant informative book
Richard Bookheimer's book, "George Washington on Leadership" is very well written. I found two items of which I might have a material dispute. Otherwise, I think that everything was quite accurate factually. Bookheimer seemed to have more of a tendency to fall on the historical side of the fence than on the leadership / management side of the fence. All in all, I found this to be an outstanding book. It revealed to me faces of the father of our country that I had never before read, or have forgotten. I'd read this type of book again, being interested in history and leadership. Not the greatest scholarly approach, but, he makes up for whatever is less than meritorious in scholarship through readability, which is an essential feature for most managers. A-. Well worth the purchase price!!!
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2: Nice Book
The author gives little stories about George Washington and the difficult challenges he faced building the new nation. The book shows the amount of trouble Washington went through, and how much he sacrificed for his country.
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3: Content does not live up to title
Washington is one of our greatest leaders -- maybe our greatest over Lincoln, Grant, FDR and Eisenhower.
That's a given, but the content of this book does not live up to its title.
Leadership is the ability to get people to put aside their normal competitive instincts and work together toward a common goal. A winning coach or military officer; a successful CEO and, yes, a winning guerilla chieftan are examples of EFFECTIVE leaders.
The question then is: What behaviors in these men make people want to follow them?
The 7 Leadership Lessons" on the back of the dust cover provide little or nothing practical for someone hoping to improve his or her effectiveness as a leader. They're too broad, too vague.
The author seems muddled in his concept of leadership. Yes, Washington held a leadership position before, during and after the Revolution, but this books does little to tell us why he was EFFECTIVE as a leader.
The subject of leadership needs lots of attention -- especially today.
This book does little to advance the debate.
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4: History polished...
A fine account of Washington's trials & tribulations during the birth of our Nation as culled from his (and other's of that time) writings; an inside look at the leadership "chess moves" facing political statesmen. This account ranks up there with Machiavelli's "The Prince"...
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5: Learning more about History
I am well pleased with the book I purchased, as well as convenience
in ordering. This is not my first purchase, and have been very
pleased with other items I bought.
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