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On Leadership

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This book is exactly what it says it is: a short course on leadership. While it is a short course, it is not a beginner's course. The topics covered are deep, each sentence is densely packed with thought-provoking ideas, and the language used to describe them is precise (and often in the form of a question). This book is not prescriptive; it asks more questions than it answers.

March describes leadership as an extension of everyday life, and as such, something we can relate to through everyday kinds of problems and everyday kinds of thinking. He rejects the idea of a heroic leader as a successful leader (War and Peace) and points to the need for the poet leader, or romantic leader (Don Quixote).

The book is fascinating but a little too short. It would have been great if March had supplemented some of the questions he asks at the end of each chapter with one or two short essays from his students or himself. These questions are very interesting and I would have liked to see some attempts at answering them even though I understand there is no 'right answer'.

excellent book and very interesting. Specially if you want to foster discussions around leadership using the workshop methodology. You can encourage the participants to read the books mentioned (Don Quijote, War and Peace..etc) and then you help them to open the window of their own vision about what leadership implies. By doing this, they will learn that leadership in business environment represents just a small part of what being a leader means.

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estíbalitz

A Book on leadership in the context of human life. one of the best books on leadership that I have ever red.