Powerful Leadership: How to Unleash the Potential in Others and Simplify Your Own Life. (Bookshelf).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 chicken soup Chicken broth Folk medicine Jewish penicillin A fowl broth with a long tradition as a home remedy for URIs, which may be a nasal decongestant, inhibit growth of pneumococci in vitro, and stimulate immune responsiveness in WBCs Mainstream medicine A for the Soul series. The authors, professors at Brigham Young University Brigham Young University, at Provo, Utah; Latter-Day Saints; coeducational; opened as an academy in 1875 and became a university in 1903. It is noted for its law and business schools. , 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 concepts, "Stay on the Peaceful Path," is an exhortation to seek balance between leisure and work; it suggests that inner peace and calm can be enhanced through steps such as improved sleep patterns, "choosing to do only the important things," eating and exercising properly, etc. The authors even suggest that relaxation and meditation techniques can improve the immune system immune system Cells, cell products, organs, and structures of the body involved in the detection and destruction of foreign invaders, such as bacteria, viruses, and cancer cells. Immunity is based on the system's ability to launch a defense against such invaders. . Apart from a reader quiz near the end, the book has very few graphics, relying on lists and bullet points to get its message across. Stephan and Pace write well, and there's an active sense of humor Noun 1. sense of humor - the trait of appreciating (and being able to express) the humorous; "she didn't appreciate my humor"; "you can't survive in the army without a sense of humor" sense of humour, humor, humour evident throughout the book; it isn't preachy preach·y adj. preach·i·er, preach·i·est Inclined or given to tedious and excessive moralizing; didactic. preach or tendentious ten·den·tious also ten·den·cious adj. Marked by a strong implicit point of view; partisan: a tendentious account of the recent elections. , which makes it easy to digest. |
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