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Lead, Follow, or
Get out of the Way
Lundy, J.
(1986) Lead, Follow, or get out of the Way. The Berkley
Publishing
Test your leadership quotient, turn goals into results, and
inspire success in yourself and others.
This book outlines the steps it
takes to becoming a leader that has the proper balance of a
participative style without the fear of losing the authority or aura
of command it takes to achieve short and long-term results.
The book includes questionnaires that will test your leadership
qualities, ten commandments for maintaining good interpersonal
relationships, laws for good communication, and a checklist for
outstanding leaders.
This book is an easy to read and
easy to follow step by step method for becoming a good leader in
today's business world. Some of the steps explained even
border on common sense methods that everyone would expect to use as
a manager, but as is explained, these are often forgotten about or
discarded.
The book starts off with challenges
that people will face who wish to become leaders. In this
first chapter the debate over authoritarian and participative
management style is discussed as is the subordinates' views on their
leaders. Characteristics of leaders that the subordinates
desire are listed in the attempt to give the other perspective.
The next two chapters discuss ways
to avoid "Getting off to a Poor Start" and "Syndromes
that get in the way". Here, myths of what makes a good
manager are covered as well as five syndromes that are commonly
experienced that prevent managers from leading their employees
effectively.
The remaining chapters cover
communication and participation as a suggested style of leadership.
Essentially this book is a manual for participative leadership with
the addition of leadership fallacies and myths that are commonly
experienced. It is a very easy read as well as providing many
examples from corporate America. The book is also fairly
interactive with its questions and questionnaires which require one
to take some time from reading to contemplate his/her own styles of
leadership.
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