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Summary: Leadership Jazz: Moral Leadership
Review: In the book "Leadership Jazz" by Max Du Pree he mentions the following statement "...one way to think about leadership is to consider a jazz band. Jazz-band leaders must choose the music, find the right musicians, and perform-in public. But the effect of the performance depends on so many things- the environment, the volunteers in the band, the need to everybody to perform as individuals and as a group, the absolute dependence of the leader on the members of the band, the need of the leader for the followers to play well." Du Pree, with this approach, starts to tell us his confession about leadership. In opposite from "The Leadership Challenge" by Kouzes & Posner that uses a scientific approach, "Leadership Jazz" uses personal experiences to define leadership. Moreover, Du Pree drives us into a profound essence of to be a leader. In order to emphasize the importance of the word leadership, Du Pree uses certain terms or ideas that can be learned in to be an effective leader. At first,
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Summary: A Must Read
Review: Leadership is an intangible quality that cannot be given by a CEO, learned in a book, or taught in a class. According to Max De Pree, chairman of the board of directors at Herman Miller and author of Leadership Jazz, leadership is something that is born in the heart. De Pree analyzes the topic of leadership through the analogy of a jazz band. To illustrate his point, De Pree states that while jazz band leaders must choose the music, find the musicians, and perform in public, so much of their performance depends on the environment, the volunteers playing, the need for everybody to perform as individuals and in the group, the dependence of the leader on the band, and the need for followers to play well. It is through descriptive analogies such as these, his professional and personal experiences as well as his own conventional wisdom, that De Pree reveals the secrets of effective leadership to readers. Throughout the book, De Pree asserts that leadership is not defined by a single event or act on any one person's part. Leadership is actually a process that begins by acknowledging the potential, or authenticity of each person in the workforce; allowing those individuals to live up to their potential and in doing so, making yourself vulnerable to the consequences; finally, connecting your voice and your touch to become an effective leader. As the author points out, the end result of this process is a vibrant, effective, efficient, and durable organization.
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Summary: A Great Book for Leaders & Managers Looking for New Skills
Review: Like "Leadership is an Art" this book looks at innovative ways to communicate with workers and to add new ideas to the workplace. "Leadership Jazz" is based on using the skills of the Jazz Musician to get new thoughts and motivations across to your workers. These skills include; improvisation, innovation, freedom, and inspiration. A great book, I highly recommend it.
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Summary: Leadership ?
Review: Like "Leadership is an Art" this book looks at innovative ways to communicate with workers and to add new ideas to the workplace. "Leadership Jazz" is based on using the skills of the Jazz Musician to get new thoughts and motivations across to your workers. These skills include; improvisation, innovation, freedom, and inspiration. A great book, I highly recommend it.
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Summary: A Great Book for Leaders & Managers Looking for New Skills
Review: Like "Leadership is an Art" this book looks at innovative ways to communicate with workers and to add new ideas to the workplace. "Leadership Jazz" is based on using the skills of the Jazz Musician to get new thoughts and motivations across to your workers. These skills include; improvisation, innovation, freedom, and inspiration. A great book, I highly recommend it.
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Summary: Ok Leadership
Review: The Max Dupree book was ok I guess. I read this book for a Communication leadership class and it has some good points and a few that were no good. Dupree writes the book so that about anyone can read and understand but is no thriller. It is based on some solid leadership principles but not all of them. It does give some insights on how to be a more effective leader in the future. It does however have too much emphsis on the "touchy-feely aspect to leadership in my opinion. I probably would not have read the book had I not been assigned but it was not bad but not that good either. What I am most confused about is the use of she and not he, What is up with that?
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Summary: Ok Leadership
Review: The Max Dupree book was ok I guess. I read this book for a Communication leadership class and it has some good points and a few that were no good. Dupree writes the book so that about anyone can read and understand but is no thriller. It is based on some solid leadership principles but not all of them. It does give some insights on how to be a more effective leader in the future. It does however have too much emphsis on the "touchy-feely aspect to leadership in my opinion. I probably would not have read the book had I not been assigned but it was not bad but not that good either. What I am most confused about is the use of she and not he, What is up with that?
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Summary: In the words of my students, "Pure garbage!"
Review: This book is an insult to females everywhere! Depree uses this awful analogy that leaders are female and they should touch, feel, love, and harmonize with everything. It's also nothing more than political correct trash. I am a college professor, (marketing and management,) and I was forced to read this and teach it to my students. Every last one of them and myself agreed --- this book is terrible!
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Summary: Leadership ?
Review: This is a very poorly written book. The author terms without defining them, leaving the reader wondering what it is he is talking about. His writing is cliche-ridden. He insists on using 'she' instead of 'he', showing the worst kind of condescending political correctness. And the Christian bias is very blatant, enough so to be offensive to non-Christian readers.
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