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Leadership Reconsidered: Becoming a Person of Influence

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Tucker leads discussion about some of the current trends in leadership teachings in the form that she would teach to a college class. The topics are interesting as they relate to leadership. She questions and criticizes much of the trendy assumptions about leadership and leads readers to examine what they have been taught. Tucker does not bring the book around to a conclusion to offer readers that would be instructive about leadership. The latter half of the book is a collection of essays that seem to stray from the previous them of leadership discussions. She includes chapters on gender and her own family's history. Then the latter third of the book is about legacy as a priority over leadership. This again is interesting but not very instructive if a reader is hoping to gain insights about leadership.

Throughout this book, I was unable to discern Tucker's worldview, personal beliefs or main purpose for this book. It lacks cogency and purpose.

This was a sadly disappointing book on leadership. It almost appears as if the author is simply trying to sell a book for personal gain by touting herself as an expert on a subject which she ultimately seems to understand only partially.
Faulty conclusions, logical fallacies, and political issues fill the book making it an unwise use of time for anyone really interested in understanding what it means to become a person of influence. The author spends as much time complaining about gender inequality, social issues, and climate change as she does discussing other subjects she deems relevant to leadership. A person of leadership and influence doesn't sit around whining about the unjust treatment they have received in their lifetime. Instead, they choose to lead and influence others to change the status quo and to prevent others from going through their experience.
There are some helpful thoughts but it is not worth the time it will take to sift through the mounds of refuse necessary to find those thoughts. The main premise of the book seems to be that leadership cannot be taught. However, leadership can be taught but not if you first do not understand it yourself, the very problem this author possesses.