Leadership Is Common Sense

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Summary: Heartwarming story and inspiring
Review: I read this book after seeing the author talk about the book on several talk shows earlier this year. Mr. Cain is the epitome of the American rise to success story. His life story is one of hard work coupled with the burning desire to succeed. The obstacles he has faced will ring familiar to many. He has also included the "three plus three" leadership guide that drives his life and that has inspired me in my life. If you want more out of life, inspiration to move on and change, or if you want to improve your leadership skills read this book

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Summary: Previous Reviews
Review: In reading the reviews of this book, I see that some people are writing reviews without reading the book. In fact, the do not even know who wrote the book. They are just more interested in downgrading a person and their ideas.

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Summary: More Empty Phrase-making from Jack Kemp
Review: The title may be the best thing about Jack Kemp, not that "leadership" or "common sense" have anything to do with the former Congressman and HUD chief. This book reads like a sloppy collection of Kemp speech notes, culled from years of underwhelming speeches to confused Republican audiences -- confused because they came to hear a celebrated "conservative" speaker who says nothing conservative. Even on taxes, Kemp betrays the conservative philosophy: he argues that lower rates will net the government treasury more loot as the dollar turns over more often (a theory not yet substantiated). The conservative position has always been, and remains, that government needs to do with a very modest budget and treasury, and that tax cuts are good and right because the money in question belongs to its earner and no one else. Fiscal budgetary conservatism has never been Kemp's bag. In this book he argues against debt-reduction and warns that deficits are no big deal. Borrowing money and netting the treasury more money are, you see, ways to ensure that fat-cat bureaucrats like Kemp, who headed HUD from 1989-1992, get to spend lots of "public" money on their pet projects. Instead of elmiminating the neighborhood-wrecking agency -- a truly conservative idea -- Kemp bloated its already-exhorbitant budget by another 40%, leaving suburb-wrecker Henry Cisneros a well-oiled monster of a liberal attack dog. Race is another favorite topic. The irony is he demostrates with every sentence that he simply knows nothing about race. His words and ideas betray his complete ignorance of history, anthropology and sociobiology. For liberal Republican Kemp, "race" is synonymous with "color." It's a good thing he is not a serologist.