Powerful Leadership: How to Unleash the Potential in Others and Simplify Your Own Life.

AuthorMarshall, Jeffrey
PositionBookshelf

Powerful Leadership: How to Unleash the Potential in Others and Simplify Your Own Life. By Eric G. Stephan and R. Wayne Pace. Financial Times/Prentice Hall, 258 pages. $27.

Powerful Leadership fits squarely in the niche of professional self-improvement books, tying advice and appeals about how leaders should operate with the kind of warm and fuzzy blandishments doled out in books like the Chicken Soup for the Soul series. The authors, professors at Brigham Young University, present a framework for creating an ideal modem leader who's in touch with his or her emotions.

Certainly, there's nothing revolutionary about the ideas they present -- which essentially call for a leader who is non-controlling, supportive, involved, quick to praise, ethical and at peace with himself or herself. They package these concepts into seven "essential changes" that the unenlightened leader needs to make.

The softest of these...

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