Leadership Is an Art
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First published in 1989, Max DePree’s timeless words now bring his practical philosophy to a new generation of readers. More than ever, he provides necessary insights and guidelines to leaders in every meadow.
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Max Depree basic theme is that although there are leadership principles to be learned, there is a certain mysticism about leadership that is more clannish than scientific and more a weaving of relationships than a amassing of leadership.
Depree talks about diversity, issues of the heart and spirit, integration, being vulnerable and empowerment, but he does so as a business man who realizes that the purpose of a business is to make a profit. Depree learned that by taking care of his employees, and building them owners in the process he can achieve greater employee loyalty, more creativity, and hence, greater prophets. The danger is that non-businessman (i.e., politicians and pastors) will take these noble thoughts and abdicate their leadership.
Reader’s Rating: 3 / 5
As I was reading this book, I heard the leader language to me and reading the words on the page. Unfortunatly, this leader is not a excellent tale teller. His sentences are fleeting and undescriptive. Don’t get me incorrect, I know that leadership is not the most exciting topic to write about; but, DePree didn’t make it very exciting to read about either. DePree states in the introduction that, “the book is not filled with anecdotes.” It is my experience that when a book does not include effective examples of its main thoughts,(additional than examples within the company that the leader works for) it becomes more of a textbook than an entertaining read. But, DePree seems to be a very intelligent man with many excellent insights into the aspects of leadership. In my personal opinion, the book is filled with intelligent thoughts about leadership, but could use a bit more “color.”
Reader’s Rating: 3 / 5
“Leadership is an Art” is double-spaced, large type and only 148 pages long and yet it is so thin on content that it still feels like the leader is struggling to fill the pages. The five pages of the introduction take in basically everything the leader has to say while the rest of the book is filled with redundant anecdotes and pointless religious musing. The few actual points the leader does make seem so common sense to me (treat the people who work for you with respect, what a concept) that it really kind of disturbs me that so many people seem to find his thoughts revolutionary.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
This Book was fantastic every single section had a buitifull tale to go along with it. The lessons about leadership were right on. A couple of the sections were draged out, but additional than that this book had right meaning. This is the kind of leader all buisness need.
Joel DePree Johnson Wales University
Reader’s Rating: 4 / 5
Despite what appears to be the vast majority of opinions on this book, I establish this book very hard to get through. What De Pree writes as “authoritative” leadership concepts, I see as nothing more than common sense. Perhaps I have been blessed to work in a company that touts similar values and beliefs or perhaps I am just a person that already believes that it is the diversity of people that is what makes a company successful. But I establish dredging through De Pree’s long lists of leadership principles exhaustive and frustrating. I didn’t find this book revolutionary (which is how he seems to write it) or even particularly appealing. “Man’s Search For Meaning” is a FAR more compelling leadership read….
Reader’s Rating: 2 / 5