Leadership Volume III, Soundview Executive Book Summaries
What makes a good leader? Is it skill, experience, attitude or personality? The answer is "all of the above." Being a good leader takes a combination of all of these characteristics.
The Soundview Best of Leadership Collection gives you the resources you need to be a better leader in your business and community. These summaries cover a wide range of topics essential for every good leader: management techniques, motivation, communication skills and much more.
A Soundview Summary covers the book's main points and highlights and gives you a working knowledge of its contents. A Summary isn't merely a digest or excerpts strung together. It's a seamless document that reads (and holds your interest) like a magazine article. Summaries not only save you time and money. They keep you abreast of the latest ideas and techniques, and they help you decide whether a book is worth reading in its entirety.
5,000 word summary of each title in text format.
20-minute audio summary of each title.
Captures all of the key points of the original book.
All titles have been chosen by Soundview Executive Book Summaries as among the best 30 books of the year in which they were published.
Featured Leadership Summaries in this Collection:
WHY GREAT LEADERS DON’T TAKE YES FOR AN ANSWER by Michael Roberto: Harvard Business School’s Michael Roberto shows company leaders how to stimulate honest, constructive dissent; use it to improve decisions; then align their entire organization behind those decisions. Drawing on extensive research, Roberto shows how to promote candor, leverage an organization’s wisdom, and build consensus that leads to effective action. He also presents examples from history while exploring how real organizations make real decisions, as well as how the decision process unfolds throughout the organization — not just in the executive suite.
A LEADER’S LEGACY by James Kouzes and Barry Posner: “A Leader’s Legacy” is a compilation of powerful essays that explore the question of leadership and legacy. These essays are grouped into categories covering significance, relationships, aspirations and courage. The authors examine critical questions all leaders must ask themselves in order to leave a positive and lasting impact.
THE LEADER OF THE FUTURE II edited by Frances Hesselbein and Marshall Goldsmith: Ten years after the bestselling “The Leader of the Future” hit the stands, comes this collection of essays from thought leaders of yesterday and today. Read Peter Drucker’s thoughts on executive leadership, R. Roosevelt Thomas Jr.’s theory of diversity management, General Eric K. Shinseki’s metaphor of one-eyed kings, Marshall Goldsmith’s words on leading new age professionals, and much more.
Soundview works closely with the leading business book publishers to offer summaries of the 30 best business books of the year to its more than 100,000 worldwide subscribers. Soundview offers summaries in print, audio and digital formats for delivery by mail and online. They now offer topic-based summary collections designed for the iPhone® and iPod Touch®.
