Leadership Volume V, 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:

LEADING AT A HIGHER LEVEL by Ken Blanchard: Blanchard, a leading management consultant and author of The New York Times best seller The One Minute Manager, and his colleagues at the Ken Blanchard Companies have spent over 25 years helping leaders and organizations become great and remain great. Finally they have brought all of that knowledge together and distilled it into Leading at a Higher Level.

THE STARFISH AND THE SPIDER by Ori Brafman & Rod Beckstrom: A spider has legs, a central body and a tiny head. Chop off the spider’s head and it dies. That’s what happens in a centralized organization with a clear leader in charge. A decentralized organization is more like a starfish — no head, only a decentralized network of cells. This book addresses the differences between the two organizational styles and why a smart business model contains parts of both.

THE WIZARD AND THE WARRIOR by Lee Bolman & Terrence Deal: Great leaders must act both as wizard, calling on imagination, creativity, meaning and magic, and as warrior, mobilizing strength, courage and willingness to fight as necessary to fulfill their mission. Bestselling authors Lee Bolman and Terrence Deal give leaders the insight and courage they need to take risks on behalf of values they cherish and the people they guide.

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®.