Description
Why have Tom Peters, Peter Drucker, and thousands of teachers, physicians, politicians, and others gone out of their way not only to praise Leadership Is an Art but also to press copies on their friends and colleagues?
Because this wise, gemlike book offers a new understanding of leadership. According to author Max De Pree, leadership isn't a science or a discipline. It is an art; as such it must be felt, experienced, created. De Pree shows how to do this, through the practices of heresies such as these:
โข "Leaders don't inflict pain; they bear pain."
โข "If you want the best things to happen in corporate life, you have to find ways to be hospitable to the unusual person."
โข "We talk about quality of product and service. But what about the quality of our relationships and the quality of our communications and the quality of our promises to each other?"
โข "The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between the leader is a servant."
โข "In baseball and business, the needs of the team are best met when we meet the needs of individual persons."
Leadership Is an Art is a design for success and for developing the generous spirit with- in ourselves.
ISBN:9780385264969
