After reading the Leadership Gap, I felt like Lolly was my own personal leadership coach. The leadership framework she presents in the book really brought to life the strengths and weaknesses anyone has experienced trying to lead other people. I’m more clear than ever on what I need to improve about myself to reach my full potential, easier said than done but I’m more confident having read Lolly’s advice.
Here are my three big takeaways from the book and why I recommend giving this a read:
1) All leaders face the same challenges. Whether you’re leading a small church group, run your department at work or lead a Fortune 100 business, you’ve got undeniable strengths and weaknesses to be aware of. The weaknesses are your leadership gaps, as Lolly calls them, are directly connected to what makes you a successful leader. The framework for identifying what you have and what you lack as a leader is universal as Lolly has spent one-on-one time with all different types of leaders and chronicled the patterns she’s seen first hand.
2) Lolly’s framework is highly actionable, which is refreshing. There’s useful theory in the book about why leaders act they way they do, but most importantly her suggestions are able to be put into action. The multitude of examples of all different types of leaders in the book brings life to each aspect of her framework. Learning how others have triumphed and failed due to their strengths and weaknesses as leaders makes her advice more accessible.
3) I greatly appreciated the simplicity and clarity of the writing used throughout out Lolly’s book too. I’m quickly turned off by business jargon, buzzwords and overly academic language, which was not the case with this read. I’m a fan of conversational books like Lolly’s, where the word-choice and sentence structure is focused on driving home the point of an argument in a smooth and concise way. It was clear from the beginning that it was Lolly’s goal to keep her advice and the leadership framework simple to remember. With all the information we’re taking in every day in 2017, I liked that Lolly named the entire framework RETHINK as it’s much easier for me to remember and reference on the fly.
If you’re looking to improve as a manager, politician, supervisor, business owner, executive or otherwise, than I highly recommend picking up a copy of the Leadership Gap. It quickly became one of those books I’ve referenced again and again, which isn’t common for me as I typically read books once.
- File Size: 1438 KB
- Print Length: 239 pages
- Publisher: Portfolio (May 30, 2017)
- Publication Date: May 30, 2017
- Sold by: Amazon.com Services LLC
- Language: English
- ASIN: B01MG4OCSP
- Text-to-Speech:
Enabled
- Word Wise: Enabled
- Lending: Not Enabled
- Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #95,405 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)
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