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Manufacturer: Kaplan Business
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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 658.4092
EAN: 9780793185689
ISBN: 0793185688
Label: Kaplan Business
Manufacturer: Kaplan Business
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 192
Publication Date: 2004-04-01
Publisher: Kaplan Business
Release Date: 2004-04-01
Studio: Kaplan Business
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The business world is ready for an entirely new approach to leadership, and Steve Farber has written the perfect book to energize business leaders and help them make the leap into extreme leadership. In fact, taking a giant "L.E.A.P" forward is exactly what Farber prescribes. What exactly is an extreme leader? One who cultivates love, generates energy, inspires audacity, and provides proof. In his exciting and innovative new business parable, The Radical Leap, Farber explores an entirely new leadership model, one in which leaders aren’t afraid to take risks, make mistakes in front of employees, or actively solicit employee feedback. His book dispenses with the typical, tired notions of what it means to be a leader. Farber, former Vice President and Official Mouthpiece of the Tom Peters Company, has written a business parable like no other, filled with vivid, fully realized, and eccentric characters, crazy plot twists, honest and believable conversations about leadership, and most importantly, an innovative program for leaders to inspire and engage their companies. In The Radical Leap, we meet Steve, a leadership consultant who is intrigued and challenged by an enigmatic man named Edg, from whom he learns the concept of L.E.A.P. Steve is then asked to help a friend, Janice, overcome conflicts at the biotech company where she works and bring back the company’s inspiring former CEO. The company is revitalized, having undergone a radical and successful transformation. Farber’s book reveals the questions leaders must ask themselves in order to truly become extreme leaders, including · Why do I love my business, my employees, and my customers, and how can I show them how I feel?
· What effect do my actions have on the energy of the people around me? (OR, What are the unnecessary, time-consuming, bureaucratic policies and procedures that suck our energy?)
· How are we going to change the world of our company, our employees, customers, marketplace, and industry?
· What have I done today to show my commitment to my colleagues and customers?
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Summary: Refreshing, inspiring and entertaining..
Comment: If Steve Farber doesn't get you excited about leadership in this fun well written story, you may want to check for a pulse. You may need medical attention. Steve writes this short read with genuine enthusiasm. The characters are easy to connect with, the parables feel real and it is just plain fun. Personally, I love the OS!M concept, building a great business requires risk, risk can cause fear. Embrace OS!M from time to time and you may find your able to go places you never thought possible. If you dig this little book, I'll bet your co-workers dig you. Not much on practical advice, but very engaging and entertaining. Just order it! Any comments are welcome.
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Summary: NOT your ordinary Leadership book
Comment: Yes, another leadership book and no, not another BORING leadership book. This 180 or so page book brings some great laughter and some thought provoking questions to challenge any leader at every level, formal or informal. It is a quick read but at the same time requires the reader to really stop; think and reflect.
Steve does a great job narrating a fictional story to send his message home. The acronym LEAP, standing for Love, Energy, Audacity, and Proof, is the foundation of Steve's message. This is some of the same "leadership stuff" we hear and read everyday but with a marvelous twist of humor and real down to earth, from the heart, advice.
At the end of the book is a great 13 page guide to the Radical LEAP, with great questions for the reader to reflect upon.
This book is sure to be used as a reference for all leaders in their own internal reflection and how they see themselves fitting into their organization and world.
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Summary: Simple story with a very deep meaning - not for the close minded
Comment: I have to admit I bought this book on a whim because I liked the title. I bought the second copy to loan to all my friends who kept asking to borrow it. The story flows well and leads you to some very deep thinking. Farber does an excellent job of tying in a fiction story (at least I assume it is fiction) with some excellent concepts in leadership. I would recommend this book to anyone who is wiling to Know thyself and look into what it takes to be an extreme leader. It isn't for everyone so don't feel bad if you decide not to take the plunge. It goes beyond the traditional approach to being a leader. Be ready to face some OS!M and grab them and make them yours. Achieve greatness by applying these principles. An excellent read and that will keep you up at night and coming back to it time and time again.
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Summary: Motivation with a capital M
Comment: If you're looking to recharge your corporate batteries--or trying to acquire your first set--this book is for you. Farber tells the story, his story perhaps, of a management consultant who has lost his passion for the work. He's going through the motions until he encounters a series of oddball business visionaries who utterly transform his spirit. What makes these visionaries so odd is their fundamental approach to work: they infuse it with love. The LEAP in The Radical Leap stands for ...
cultivate Love
generate Energy
inspire Audacity
provide Proof
That's an approach to leadership that's as inspiring as it is daring. I wonder how many of us have the courage to follow Farber's way? The Radical Leap requires leaders to have a vision, bare their souls, relish their mistakes, invite risk, challenge conventional wisdom and express love always. Wow.
Farber was smart to write this as a novelette. If he had laid out his ideas in a typical self-help book, they would have sounded pie-in-the-sky. But as Farber relates his own transformation in narrative form, encountering a variety of hiccups along the way, his gives his ideas a concreteness that makes them seem not only realistic, but implementable.
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Summary: Leap into Leadership
Comment: The Radical Leap that gets us to think about leadership - or extreme leadership, to use Farber's term. What exactly is an extreme leader? One who cultivates love, generates energy, inspires audacity, and provides proof. (Hence the acronym, LEAP in the title of the book.)
Along with compelling conversation about these four key points, the book has more plot twists, the characters are more interesting, and the language is a bit edgier than the typical business parable by Patrick Lencioni, Ken Blanchard or Spencer Johnson.
It was named one of the Top 10 Best Business Books for 2004 and received the Acclaimed Reader's Choice Award from Fast Company magazine.
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