Leader Book Reviews Samples For Students

A leader has the capability to lead a group of people, or an organization, and the actions performed by this leader are the features of leadership. I understand that there are various types of leaders depending on the profession, and the people they lead. Leading can be in any of the forms such as transformational, transactional, charismatic, authentic, and servant leadership. With the decade history of various leaders and their methods of leading the group, I agree that with the change in the society, and organizations it is required to exhibit new leadership skills to make people follow the changes, ...

Chapter 9 talks about transformational leadership. The chapter claims that in the transformational leadership process, the leader engages with his or her followers. The leader also creates a connection that raises the level of motivation and morality in both the leader and the follower. This is evidenced in the case of Mohandas Gandhi who raised the hopes and demands of millions of his people and in the process, he got changed himself as well. The claims are effective because in transformational leadership, the leader leads by example. Followers in this case are likely to find it easier to identify with ...

In his very inspiring book, You Don’t Need a Title to Be a Leader, author Mark Sanborn presents to the reader how everyone stands to be a good leader in their lives by making a positive impact in the lives of many others in their own unique ways. He presents a number of unsung heroes and how they used something in their possession to make a difference in other people’s lives even when they were not recognized as leaders. It takes picking a piece of broken bottle from the side walk to be a hero or heroine. A number of children might be kicking objects ...

Leadership is the main concept in the modern business and private life. It helps to distinguish successful managers and those who needs to learn more in order to become effective. Today there are many experts in the leadership sphere. However, John Maxwell is the most experienced writer and teacher on the subject of leadership. He has lots of writings and books in which he presents wealthy information on how to become a leader and how to improve the existing personal leadership qualities. Maxwell’s leadership book series cover different issues including attitude, equipping, relationships and leadership.
Leadership 101 is a ...

The moral choices during war begin at the first choice of deciding whether to go into war. In this regard, war has different outcomes, which include victory or loss. These decisions affect the functioning of an individual during war because if the mind does not support the war, the body may not put in its full strength into the war. Greater deals of the choices that face an individual during war depict their leadership skills and the choices they would make as leaders. Going to war shows courage and bravery as well as a belief in a purpose while the opposite ...

Practicing Greatness Book Review

The book “Practicing Greatness: 7 Disciplines of Extraordinary Spiritual Leaders,” written by Reggie McNeal is one of the famous literary works on seven fundamental disciplines for religious leaders. The author portrays a complete picture of a spiritual leader, by reaching multiple aspects that comprise an individual. From his long years of experience as the leader of the Church, McNeal illustrated several practical examples to examine the positive and negative aspects of leadership. The seven key disciplines stated by the author are self-awareness, self-management, mission, decision-making, belonging and aloneness. McNeal describes perfecting the strengths of leadership in the chapter called self-development by ...

In many great companies, the Level 5 leader has been found to be the most important factor for the company’s factor. It is not because they are able to do a great job themselves. Rather, it is because they are able to bring together disciplined and talented people to do the task. The Level 5 Leader simply sets the way for all the others to do the work. Among the four stages or principles, the Level 5 Leader is the most important to understand and emulate in an education or school environment.
The Level 5 Leader is not ...

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Since human beings do not live on isolation, through relating with others be it at the workplace, institutions or even in streets, they respond naturally when called upon to help. Confusion normally clicks in an individual mind whenever called upon to help but the authors enhance a way to conquer these confusions in every undertaking. The most surprising idea that the book portrays is individual’s reaction to assist when called upon. The authors attribute that response to nature of human beings. As a future nonprofit leader, the book assists in drawing a line between professionalism and the call to help. For ...

Personal accountability in leading a foreign congregation

Personal accountability in leading a foreign congregation
The steady yet slow growth of the New Hope Church in America is an indication of commitment by the Korean-Americans to support the ministry's programs and cooperate in worship and fellowship. However, some negative notions imported from the Korean culture affect the success of the ministry's programs especially urban centers of America. Such notions such as the lack of sensitivity to community service are inherited by the new generation of believers from their elders. In the book “QBQ; the question behind the question” John Miller explains that a leader is responsible for initiating ...

Leading a Local Congregation Based On Stewardship and Institutional Development

“When a group of Individuals in any arena of life does well, one of the keys to understanding their success is to examine the leadership practices of the key leaders of that,”
“Lead Like Butler” focuses on the manner in which a team leader can influence success through the building of a strong value system. Its focus on the role of the leader is meant to point to the fact that no other figure in a group or convention is of more influence than its leader. The book holds the view that success in a group is based on building a value system which serves ...

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Introduction
In his book, “Supportive Leadership: The New Role of Leaders in the 21st Century”, Gunther H. Schust declares that the paradigms of management and leadership are changing in an increasingly globalized world. Schust points out that leaders could get the job done with blunt tactics of hiring and firing. However, the need of the hour is for leaders to professionally select employees, support them in their endeavors, challenge them in the work environment, make them further qualified and enable them to function seamlessly in a networked world. Schust (8) uses the new requirements of leaders to call for ...

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This book review examines how Tony Dungy deciphers the role of mentoring by leaders, in creating a lasting legacy of significance and integrity in the business or work of others. Written by a man all too familiar with the glories of NFL success, Tony Dungy experienced an early on and steadfast fulfillment of his own dreams and goals, whether as player or coach. In this collection of tightly woven symmetry Dungy voices a call for leaders to embrace a genuine interest in the people they manage, coach, nurture, and shepherd. Published by Tyndale House Publishers, a well-known Christian company, author Tony Dungy never struggles ...

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The book discusses the impact of centralization and decentralization of organizations. The authors show that while the lack of a leader may represent chaos, the lack of a traditional leader may be a good way for the organization to survive since there is no specific leader that the rivals can target in order to destroy the organization. The story of the Apache community is used to demonstrate the strength that exists in a decentralized organization. The Apache community was able to defeat the Spanish army because it did not have a centralized leadership. In the same manner, when MGM, a giant in the production industry, ...

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The book by Irwin (2009) Derailed: Five Lessons Learned from Catastrophic Failures of Leadership is wonderful leadership and management guidebook. It answers the paradox question that every leader in the 21st century is seeking an answer to, how to avoid a downfall after ushering a company into unimaginable heights of success. Though this question is hard and tricky to answer, Irwin used history of outstanding CEOs that have over the years fallen prey into the sucking abyss of derailment. As a result, their actions cost them a position in a company that in most cases were the founders. Not only ...

In the Name of Jesus is a story that provides information regarding Christianity and leadership. The objective of the author is to provide information on the manner in which leaders should behave. The content in this book is basically dedicated to the clergy but is also an informative book as regards those Christians who are in leadership positions. In the book, Nouwen examines three temptations that Jesus faced before the beginning of his ministry and compares those temptations with the temptations that leaders face in contemporary societies. Nouwen then looks at the challenge that Jesus provided to Peter after the ...

The book by James Hunter addresses fundamental principles needed for leadership. It is emphasized that to lead is never becoming the boss. Servant leadership is a robust, an innovative concept which may have a significant influence in the restaurant performance. As a servant leader in a restaurant, it is feasible to turn from boss and manager to mentor and coach. This helps in determining the mission, standards, values and accountability within the premise. Servant leaders never take a vote or take a poll regarding critical leadership fundamentals. Servant leader can always turn the restaurant structure upside down, provided the critical leadership fundamentals are in place. ...

“The Prince” is a book by Niccolo Machiavelli that features an honesty leader who is only ideal to the real world of politics. Machiavelli is trying to say that he can be that faultless leader. He at times said much truth about him beyond what the people did not want to hear nor accept. Niccolo Machiavelli wrote the book following his failure in the field of politics and of what his honesty in the politics. The author brings out an honesty position regarding the way he puts his ideas all through his book.
Looking into the background surrounding Machiavelli ...

This is a study by Jean Lipman-blumen shedding more light on disastrous leadership. It offers a deep understanding of the corporate scandal as well as political folly. The author argues that, bad leaders are not the ones to blame but rather the subjects led since they are the one who put them into power and allow them to cling there. After analyzing the story of Adolf Hitler of Germany and Jeff Skillinngs of Enron, she makes the conclusion that the followers of the toxic leaders are the victims who gave way to misguided leadership. This book gives a deep understanding to anyone ...

Introduction Culture and Leadership in New Zealand

Introduction
Culture has a great influence on leadership according to various researches that have been conducted. According to Hewison (2006), leadership characteristics are deep rooted in the unique context of each culture. There has been no generally accepted definition of leadership, but majority definitions focus on values, beliefs, attitudes, behavior across cultures and influence that people hold in leadership position hold. Cross cultural research have identified what constitute leadership and the behaviors across cultures. It has also been also identified the various theories used in description of leadership. Leadership in most of the cultures across the globe is dependent ...

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This book aims at giving encouragement to those that seek or take up leadership positions especially within the church context. Apostle Paul, of the Bible, is Mac Arthurs personality for study. Nevertheless, he has also explored on other leaders such as Nehemiah who was a great leader too. This book has articulated 26 leadership principles which are the core values for great leadership (MacArthur 67). These principles include: a leader is trustworthy, initiative, has sound judgment, speaks with power, empowers others, enthusiastic and optimistic, by no means compromises the absolutes, focused on objectives and not impediments, empowers by model, encourages loyalty, ...

Leadership is an attribute of a person with the capability of organizing a group of people or workers for a common goal or objective. In leadership, power pays less influence as compared with the influence. Leaders are visionary, with viable ideas and strategies aimed at achieving a given set of objectives predetermined in the activities. In today’s management leadership plays crucial roles in influencing the managerial processes to be adopted by an organization. Without key strategies of motivating workers or influencing them for a common mission, the organization performance trend is likely to be in a decreasing trend. Leaders in an organization are required ...

Senge, Peter M. The Fifth Discipline. New York: Broadway Business, 1997.
I was dreaming to read this book for several years and I found it excellent for clarity, content, and examples used by the author. I had moved through the book with lightning speed. I was able to remember main ideas due to the multiple details offered by the author which I found in the cases. Often, the authors of similar books draw banal examples. It was a nice surprise for me when I did not find any over-applied solutions in the book. I found the book very useful ...

Iron sharpens iron is a book by Orlando Saer that highlights on the principles required for a church leader or organization. It is mainly a leadership book that is aimed at guiding and mentoring leaders who aspire to make impacts in their groups whether small or big. The book is based on biblical principals and its title derived from a scripture in the bible. This mainly insists on the fact that people need to empower each other. A church leaders needs to have the ability to learn from the others, from their experiences, whether good or bad and to accept correction. The book ...

Book Report: 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership by John C. Maxwell

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Introduction
The book essentially describes the qualities of a true leader with practical insights about how to achieve those qualities in life. Divided into twenty-one chapters, Maxwell compounds his theories and ideas about leadership in the form of a law in each of these chapters. Each chapter includes of one or more examples, or ‘stories’ as Maxwell portrays them, that describe the successes and failures of different leaders in society and the rules they have applied to their own lives in order to achieve those successes. The reader is also given a series of tips and instructions so as to ...

Book Review: The Leadership Challenge by Barry Z. Posner and James M. Kouzes

First written in 1987 by two authors considered to be experts in the field of leadership, The Leadership Challenge has gone to become one the most trusted voices on the subject of leadership as well as an all time best seller leadership book. One of the reasons for this is that the authors, Barry Z. Posner and James M. Kouzes, in the true spirit of leadership, have churned out regular revisions to their original work, continuously adding to and improving upon content based on the ongoing changes in the corporate environment. The classic’s fourth edition has been released ...

Book Review – The Extraordinary Leader

Book Review – The Extraordinary Leader

The first edition of the book, which was published in 2002, drew rave reviews for the ground-breaking research on leadership. Their focus had been on balancing and maximizing the strengths as opposed to just correcting the errors. The second edition is completely revised with more global outlook and new chapters regarding the core topic of strengths.
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The book starts by listing the sixteen variables that form the significant unknowns upon which the leadership depends on. In order to demystify the leadership, they undertook an empirical research. Their empirical ...

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One of the most powerful elements of The Lord of the Flies is the universal applicability of the story. This series of events could have happened to any group of boys, from any developed nation on the planet, that ends up shipwrecked on an island together. This is why Golding does not give the reader much information about the boys' lives before they came to this island. Once they are shipwrecked and form their own society, all of the events that had happened earlier in their lives became irrelevant – all of their slates were wiped clean.
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In a military context, Platoon Leader: A Memoir of Command in Combat provides an in-depth, detailed look at one young officer's rise through the ranks, learning the basic tools of leadership along the way. Learning leadership principles taken from a military context are some of the most important and hard-earned lessons available; the stakes of military service are far higher than any civilian setting, including the corporate sector, and so that lends the lessons learned from this book an added weight. When author James R. McDonough fails, lives are lost; while that is a very small possibility in the business world, this ...

Blanchard, K. H., & Hodges, P. (2005). Lead like Jesus: Lessons from the greatest leadership role model of all times. Nashville, TN: W Pub. Group.
Lead like Jesus as written by Blanchard and Hodges (2005) identifies four main areas and goes on to elaborate how these areas can help one to build on his or her leadership skills. The authors see leadership as a process through which leaders assert their influence on the thinking process, the behavior and development of their followers in terms of both their personal and professional lives.
The book identifies Jesus as an exemplary leader but ...

Human Resource Development (HRD) is a function that helps employees develop their abilities and skill sets to suit the job requisite and to enhance the growth within the organization. It includes training, mentoring, coaching, succession planning among others. HRD focuses on the development of the superior workforce for the organizations to achieve their goals in service to their customers. While planning to attain these requirements at its best, in the past, the leaders of the organizations have looked at the employees as a channel to attain the established targets. Their focus was on giving strength to these channels in all the ...

Book Review of Prayer: The Timeless Secret of High-impact Leader by Dave Earley

The book “Prayer: The Timeless Secret of High Impact Leader” is for the individuals who takes the role of the leader in their lives. This book discusses the power of prayers and delves into the various insights of the prayers that help the leaders to lead.

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The book is introduced by its author with the crux captured in one statement that “prayer influences men by influencing God to influence them”1. The power of prayers is discussed as prayer disciplines of the leaders who have high-impact on people. The book has ten chapters, the first chapter discussing the power ...

Judgment in Managerial Decision Making

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Max Bazerman’s book, Judgment in Managerial Decision Making, has a lot of positives that could be captured from its main topic. The topic teaches readers different concepts and practices of leadership that exist in different settings (Bazerman & Moore, 2008). According to critics, whereas numerous leaders show distinct characteristics, great leaders have similar characteristics of success. Prominent leaders should inspire motivation and confidence in their followers. Above all, researchers suggest that community building and shared values are the basis or grounds for great leadership. This book offers insight to this topic of the concepts and practices of ...

Gary Yukl is a well-known professor of management and leadership, who has served as a faculty and board member of the leadership quarterly Journal published by the State University of New York in Albany. He has written several articles about leadership and its application and impact on business. The first version of the book leadership in organizations was published in the year 1981 and there were various other versions which were published after which the fifth version was published in the year 2002 where the pre-existing 19 chapters were consolidated into 15 chapters and a new chapter on ethical leadership and diversity ...

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Managing the dream is a book written by Warren Bennis, who is one of the most renowned leadership writers. The author explores all aspects of leadership from a theoretical and a practitioner point of view. The book is a perfect representation of leadership, which comprises of numerous essays that represents the author’s thinking towards what leadership entails. Bennis focuses on the core competencies of the aspect of effective leadership, at both the individual and group level in his book. Managing the dream is a tool for team leaders and managers who aspire to be effective in their leadership roles (Bennis, 2000). This paper ...

What Is Your Attitude Being a Manager?

A manager in any field is deemed to have all the required attributes of being a manager. The manager is responsible for planning and then directing the duties allocated to individuals. They are expected to act in an effective manner through coordinated monitoring the work done and carrying out the necessary and sufficient correction of the failed actions. This is done when it is deemed necessary. Ideally, the management posts fit the individuals who have supervisory abilities. In most areas, the managers are expected to have the proceedings in the organization or firm that they are allocated the responsibilities. That ...

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This is a review of the book written by John, C. Maxwell attempting to revise the idea that leadership skills can only be exercised from the top. The book proposes a 360-degee influence of leaders in all directions; vertically upwards, downwards and laterally. In order to enforce the point, the author offers some helpful guidelines in the book. He discusses the common myths associated with leadership, the challenges of leading from the middle level and how the middle level manager can exert his influence in all directions of the organization, in a concise yet effective manner.
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The Five Dysfunctions of a Team, a best seller by Patrick Lencioni who is a renowned speaker and consultant, was published in the year 2002 and since it’s publication it has helped many organizations in minimizing internal politics and cut throat behavior among employees of an organization. It has been helpful to the organizations in such a way that its effects were seen beyond the companies; in schools, government organizations, non government organizations, judiciary and political arena.

The author has successfully tried to explore the elementary reasons behind the internal politics and provided effective tips to prevail over basic human tendencies that ...

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The books are considered the best friends one can have. The literature brings light and life to our bodies those will be dead otherwise. The political science is running as a synonym for corruption in the communities. However, the politics have a different literally, and academic meaning attached to it. The political science is a practical practice of social service. The element of trust also has to prevail between the elected government and the concerned masses (Grey, 180). The readiness for having political career starts from personal and professional development that one can experience on his or her own. The politics is a ...

Summary : Managing business ethicsLinda K. Trevino & Katherine A. Nelson. Wiley; 5th edition

Chapter 4 – Addressing individuals’ common ethical problems

Ethical issue when people work together (privacy, discrimination, sexual harassment or simply how people get along. Key is fairness meaning equity, reciprocity, impartiality
- Equitable is when something is divided between 2 people according to the worth & inputs of the 2 individuals. Most people think it’s unfair when 2 people have performed the same duty but receive a different share of the reward
- Reciprocity: “if you do this for me I’ll do this for you”. Most ppl think it’s unfair if ...

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The book Charles I: A Life of Religion, War and Treason by Christopher Hibbert take a closer look of the life of King Charles. The book is a biography of King Charles from the begging of his life a simple boy to what he came to be know globally and finally to his shame (treason). Christopher uses his creative mind in his book shed some light on how the kind grew from a simple boy who knew nothing and was very weak in character to a strong man who took the nations to a civil war. The books also take a look at the person who had ...

The Five Dysfunctions of a team is a powerful book that offers a practical framework for people particularly the readers to form successful and formidable teams within an organization. Patrick Lencioni is the author of the book. He is the president and founder of the Table group, a consulting firm that focus on organization health and executive team management. The book published in the United States by Jossey-Bass Publishers in 2002.

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Five dysfunctions of a team have two parts the fable, which is a fictional tale with short vignettes and demonstrations. The second part entails the models that serve as a guidebook for strategies and achieving ...

The book is an exhaustive illustration of the above thesis subject since it exploits Khan’s military skills. The text equally elucidates the lustrous western perception of the Mongolis as savages because they brought civilization to its knees. The Mongals dealt ruthlessly with the ruling classes whilst they were overly friendly and liberal with the common masses that comprised of the peasants, tradesmen and extra. They levied little taxes to them; they treated with much tolerance and accommodation of divergent aspects of the locals’ culture and religion. Khan is also showcased as a ruthless barbaric blood thirsty individual that leads a ...

Book Review: The Cold War by John Lewis Gaddis

Introduction

The eventual collapse of the agreement between the USSR, Britain and the United States in 1945 after the end of the World War II set the platform for the cold war. An anti-communist policy, commonly called the Truman doctrine, declared in 1947 by President Truman of the USA spoke clearly of the atmosphere that would prevail (Gaddis 30). The resulting tension between the communist and capitalist ideologies is what came to be known as the Cold War. Since it never resulted into armed confrontation or “blistering” conflict it was referred to as the cold war. Therefore the Cold ...

Emperor of China: Self-Portrait of K’ang-Hsi

China has a lot of history that many illustrious and prolific historians like Jonathan Spence have tried to explain in their books. Jonathan Spence is the author behind the fiction named the Emperor of China: Self-Portrait of K’ang-Hsi. This is a very exciting fiction was written in the year of 1974. Jonathan has used the letters and historical records that K’ang Hsi had written in describing the later years of K’ang-Hsi, who is considered the great leader of that time. The book has been divided into chapters. ‘In Motion’ is the first chapter; this chapter depicts ...

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Tilman Allert the author of “The Hitler Salute: One the Meaning of a Gesture” is a sociology as well as social psychology professor at the UF the (University of Frankfurt). “The Hitler Salute: One the Meaning of a Gesture” is the Tilman’s first book to written in English. In the book, Allert Tilman employs the Nazi transformation, the greeting, one of the ordinary human interactions to reveal how National Socialism initiated submission, as well as conformity of the entire society.

The Hitler salute as made mandatory in the year 1933 and became a daily reflex within few months, quickly the ...

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This document includes the concepts and themes of leadership as presented in the book namely Transformational Leadership by Bernard M. Bass and Ronald E. Riggio. In addition, the principles of managements as discussed by Andrew J. Dubrin have also been incorporated in the paper. In this document, there is an argument presented by these gentlemen on leadership by using separate cases of different leaders around the world.
For instance, the case study presented by Bernard M. Bass and Ronald E. Riggio are Herb Kelleher as CEO and founder of Southwest Airlines’ success story while on the other hand, ...

Summary of the Art of War by Sun Tzu

The Art of War highlights several ideal points which could easily be used in the process of risk management and military capabilities. It is one of the finest books written on military treatise that has been translated from the Chinese languages into various other languages globally. This book by Sun Tzu remained anonymous to England till the 1872 and entered the scene when a French priest with the name of Joseph Amiot, who was residing in China, translated it.

However, the translation was poorly produced. Nevertheless, in 1908, Capt. Callthrop re-wrote it. He came up with a better piece of this ...

Arthur H. Miller's Leadership, though published in 1920, bears the earmarks of any truly leader-oriented manual,and it is as relevant now as it was nearly one hundred years ago. In Miller's preface, he states that "in any group of men there are leaders and followers" (ix). Miller purports that he can efficiently and effectively convey great leadership methods without much babble into the psychological reasons. He gets down to business. Good leadership is following through with what has been well-planned. Taking on the broad scope of leadership seems undaunting to Miller as he immediately begins to define leadership ...

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In his book “Overthrow: America's Century of Regime Change from Hawaii to Iraq”, Stephen Kinzer examines the various overthrows the government of the United States has undertaken since 1893. According to Kinzer, the invasion of Iraq was not an isolated case. It was just a continuation of the list of very countries America has invaded and aided its overthrow. Kinzer examined 14 overthrows that the U.S government has been involved in the last 110 years (Kinzer 8). According to him, the intension of most of the overthrows are not what the government tells the public, both the American citizens ...

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Efficient teamwork is an important prerequisite of a company’s productivity (Maddux, 1994, p.8). This statement can be substantiated by the fact that synergistic effects arise, when several individuals and entities start to work together. However, as it was emphasized by P.Lencioni (2010), the team-building and subsequent effective functioning of the team requires meeting two criteria (pp.9-10).
Firstly, the group of people shall constitute a team by sharing goals, as well as rewards and responsibilities, stemming from the achievement of these goals (Lencioni, 2006, p.9). Secondly, the members to a team shall be ready to invest significant time and ...

The Book Steel my Soldiers Hearts

The book steels my soldiers hearts is the embodiment of military genius. It is the personification of military prowess at work and the perfect combination of military strategy and art. In other words the book involves military strategy being combined with art and a genius to provide the best available military team at a time of war. The setting of the book is during the Vietnam War, one of the most brutal wars in the history of modern warfare. The book is about Lieutenant David Hackworth. David Hackworth had just written a tactical masterpiece for the pentagon in terms of well thought ...

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- Totalitarian movements are mass organizations of atomized, isolated individuals. (Chapter 10)
- It was recognized early and has frequently been asserted that in totalitarian countries propaganda and terror present two sides of the same coin (Chapter 11)
- Totalitarian propaganda raised ideological scientificality and its technique of making statements in the form of predictions to a height of efficiency of method and absurdity of content because, demagogically speaking, there is hardly a better way to avoid discussion than by releasing an argument from the control of the present and by saying that only the future can ...

Hitler’s Table Talk is written in a way to make you feel as if you are having a direct conversation with Hitler over the dining room table. Or maybe it is more like being lectured by him because the talk offered in the book are monologues. The date and time of day is noted as well as who is with him during his talk. His conversations in the book explain the beliefs he holds dear such as the superiority of the Aryan race and who he considers to be a part of that race. He discusses his feelings on breeding pure ...

The Village is a well acclaimed book written by well known military writer Mr. Bing West. The book is based on the Vietnam War. This book paints a complete picture of the Vietnam War and the mental, physical, psychological conditions of fighting soldiers during and after of the war. Since Mr. Bing west has worked on the several important posts of American defense and has served as marine infantry officer during Vietnam War itself, the writer is well aware of the war conditions, policies of the war and the state of mind of soldiers. Bing in this book has portrayed the ...

Before reviewing this book, it’ important to get some things out of the way regarding slavery and its importance as an institution and the impact that it has had on American history. Slavery more than any other single thing has shaped the history of the United States, it has created a divided country one where whites are superior to blacks and all of this was done in the name of creating wealth for one group on the backs of the other. There is a reason why stories like Nat Turner’s are so incredible is because they are the ...

This manuscript offers a succinct analysis is the book- Life of George Bent:

The Life of George Bent was written more than half a century ago from the letters of George Bent written to George Hyde. However, with the advent of the First World War, the publication of this manuscript was impossible leading to the discarding of the manuscript. It was not until recently that the manuscript was discovered and considered worth publishing upon some editing. George Bent was the Colonel Bill’s (William) son who operated the Bent’s Fort together with his brother Charles in Colorado. Bent’s mother on the other hand was Owl Woman, the daughter of the ...

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The book “Churchill: Visionary. Statesman. Historian” written by John Lukacs published in 2004 depicted the life of British Prime Minister Winston Churchill from the time of the Second World War towards the end of his career and death. Several chapters were assigned for Churchill’s relations with other World War II leaders and politicians who challenged his policies. Other sections were attached to how the world saw Churchill, the criticisms that continued to plague his life until his death. Churchill was former British soldier, writer, historian and journalist before he became the prime ...

Book Review: Realistic Visionary A Portrait of George Washington

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Realistic Visionary: A Portrait of George Washington by Peter Henriques tries to explain the first president of the United States of America as a person and not a symbol as most books have done. It is because it focusses on both his public and private life. The author looks at the reputation of George Washington as he tries to merge them with the facts about him. The book describes the first president as a war hero who is very serious and uptight. It means that the book explains the character of the president and relates it with the way he ...

Analysis of Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

The novel Heart of Darkness develops its storyline around Charles Marlow describing his experience as an ivory dealer. He transports ivory using the Congo River located from Central Africa. The events in the novel happen between two societies that are completely different, the civilized and uncivilized communities. As such, imperialism and colonialism take charge of the story filled with evil. The characters, setting, events and storyline revolve around developing the events of imperialism and colonialism in the novel. This analytical essay looks into the above elements of the story.
The story develops the themes of hypocrisy of imperialism ...

Spanning the years from 1940 to 1965, the story in the last lion commences shortly after Winston Spencer Churchill became the prime minister. This is the time when his tiny island nation stood in solitude against the overwhelming power of the Nazi Germany. As conjured up by William Manchester and Paul Reid, Churchill was a man of lighting fast intellect, indomitable courage, and an irresistible will to action. The thesis of the author is built around the brilliant recount of how Churchill organized his nation’s military response and defense, and personified the so called never surrender ethos. He compelled ...