John Gardner

Drawing on an intensive five-year field study of organizations and hundreds of interviews with contemporary leaders, the author of Excellence presents a brilliant examination of leadership as it is practiced--or malpracticed--in America today. Gardner has served seven presidents in various leadership capacities.

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Dana Kraft

I read some interesting essays by John Gardner, so I decided to check this book out even though it's a bit dated (1990). There are some interesting stories and examples in here. Interesting in that none of them include the CEO hero-worship that seems to pervade so many business books these days. However, I don't think it's very well organized, and the writing style is pretty dry. Lots of "Another example of this is..." and "The seventh key attribute of a good leader is..." It's worth a scan if you're looking for examples of leadership development outside of high-tech, but other than that, look elsewhere.

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