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Leaders
- Myth and Reality
- Narrated by: Jason Mangone, Paul Michael
- Length: 17 hrs and 4 mins
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Summary
Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Leaders by General Stanley McChrystal, Jeff Eggers and Jason Mangone, read by Paul Michael.
Retired four-star general Stan McChrystal has studied leadership his whole adult life, from his first day at West Point to his most recent work with the corporate clients of the McChrystal Group. In this follow-up to his best sellers My Share of the Task and Team of Teams, McChrystal explores what leadership really means, debunking the many myths that have surrounded the concept. He focuses on 13 great leaders, showing that the lessons we commonly draw from their lives are seldom the correct ones.
These include:
Founders: Walt Disney built his empire thinking he was a man of the people but was actually a bit of a tyrant to the working man. Coco Chanel hid her humble background to pretend she was an aristocrat but was obsessed with making clothes for the common people.
Zealots: Maximilien Robespierre whipped his revolutionaries into a frenzy through his writing while Abu Musab Zarkawi moved on the front lines of the battlefield, winning over his followers through his personal charisma.
Power brokers: Margaret Thatcher and Boss Tweed, whose respective reigns depended on the networks they cultivated.
Other leaders profiled include geniuses Albert Einstein and Leonard Bernstein, reformers Martin Luther and Martin Luther King Jr. and heroes Harriet Tubman and Zheng He.
Ultimately, McChrystal posits that different environments will require different leaders and that followers will choose the leader they need. Aspiring leaders will be best served not by cultivating a standard set of textbook leadership qualities but by learning to discern what is required in each situation.
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- Uche
- 03-02-19
Exceptional Insight to Leadership
Having read the other 2 books by General McChristal, I admired his style of leadership & thought he had a good handle on leadership, but he used this book to suggest otherwise by questioning his leadership credentials and results. Now that takes serious guts & deep reflection.
This book book is simply remarkable!! It covers a good blend of leaders and to my pleasant surprise didn't just include the typical white male. African, Chinese & Arab leaders were explored. Most importantly, women were also featured in order to give this piece a well intentioned all-round view of the topic. I like that the authors were clear from the beginning that there's no such thing as good or bad leadership rather, emphasis was placed on the effectiveness of leadership. The ultimate conclusions of this piece was quite humbling & unexpected.
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- Miss N. J. Lee
- 09-01-24
Leaders
This has been a fascinating listen. Some of the people described may not automatically spring to mind as great leaders. However, when I listened to this audiobook, I understood why they had been chosen. Very interesting if you like history.
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- Amazon Customer
- 06-11-18
The best I’ve listened to this year
An in-depth look at what leadership is/thought to be and differing approaches to it. So many lessons gleaned from it. A thoroughly enjoyable read. If any criticism it’s that coverage of some of the examples was maybe not thorough enough but I can see why they did that for brevity.
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- Anna
- 22-06-19
4/5 - decent story, good narration @1.25 speed
Disagree with the selection of some of the characters. There were more types of leaders to chose from. Why not talk about someone who failed? Or an example of someone who was a bad leader? Good listen overall and maybe a follow up book required.
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- A. Dugan
- 16-12-23
This book is for the dumb and uneducated
No insight at all, bland repetition of existing biographies. The military branding is a bad misdirection.
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