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Summary: GREAT Inspirational Leadership Book
Review: Dr. Mercer books is greatly inspirational for
leaders. Offers practical information on what
geat leaders of successful companies did to make
it big. This book is even great for individuals
who want to learn the secrets of fabulous leaders
in American -- to better themselves. Real stories
from real people are inspirational and motivational
to read and reread time and time again. Bravo Dr.Mercer
for a read well done!!
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Summary: Horribly self-serving and simplistic
Review: This book offers very little help in leading successful change. The book's content really exists in one chapter that describes Mercer's three ingredients to successful change. These ingredients are very basic and intuitive concepts that are covered in a very cursory way. And all throughout the description of his three ingredients, Mercer is plugging his other books and seminars. It gets extremely annoying and detracts from the validity of what Mercer has to say. The one positive for this book is that there are several interesting case studies for change. However, they are riddled once again with Mercer's plugs. Here's just one example from the middle of a case study: "Employees pick up cues about the leader's optimism, attitudes, expressions, and way of handling situations. In fact, this is addressed in two of my books and audio books: (1) Spontaneous Optimism; Proven Strategies for Health, Prosperity & Happiness and also (2) How Winners Do It: High Impact People Skills for Your Career Success. My books and related business tools and speeches even delve into research and practical tips on how optimists tend to achieve much more career success than pessimists." Aside from being self-serving, if these tools and practical tips do exist, why are they not included in the book? I would strongly recommend not purchasing this book. There are much better books on change that you can spend your time and money on.
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