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Summary: Woeful waste of Time
Review: This book was recommended to me by my mentee who is in business school. I had high hopes which remained just that... high hopes unfulfilled. There seems to be great potential in the beginning, but the author gets bogged down in retelling his own story (which he seems rather proud of despite accounts to the contrary in the introduction), and never truly gets his arms around 'the flow'. Just goes to show that some things you have to do, not read...
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Summary: disappointed...
Review: This book was suggested to me by a dear friend. Though, the concept of servant leadership is definitely strong, I am sure I don't want to read this book again to understand it...
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Summary: To Serve is To Lead
Review: This is a thoughtful book of Joseph Jaworski's heroic journey to find his professional destiny. Yes, he even offers a Joseph Campbell Model of the mythical journey. I enjoyed many of the resources and quotes offered. In addition Peter Senge offers a beautifully written comprehensive introduction that hits on the main points of the entire book.Perhaps the point that most resonated for me was the concept service and the desire to serve as being a critical aspect of leadership. So much about leadership is about strength, clarity, sometimes power. It is important that this strength, clarity and power be tempred by a desire to serve others and concepts larger than oneself. Enjoy.
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Summary: Read the books Jaworski refers to, not this one.
Review: While I was intrigued by the concepts presented in this book, I was so turned off by the author that I could barely get through it. Here's a guy who seems to have hit his mid-life crisis, while trying all his life to win his dad's affection AND escape his dad's shadow. Here's a guy who has lived such an egotististcal, materialistic, shallow, self-absorbed lifestyle that seeing an ermine doing its usual thing in a natural setting blows him away. Or having a conversation with a woman when he's not working on getting the 'physcial angle' is actually rewarding and enjoyable (see what can happen when you stop looking at women as objects??). Who views his wife leaving him 'suddenly' as a crisis, when his entire lifestyle seems to have forgotten her and left her to sustain their marriage and family while he was out carousing with The Boys. Joe, how many names can you drop in one paragraph? How many 'large new homes' can you buy when you're experiencing synchronicity? Was there anything else besides how gorgeous your new wife was that attracted you to her in the airport while you were experiencing the conciousness of mankind? This book seems to be a repetitive aggregation of everyone else's meaningful work on the topic --dialogue for the pure enjoyment of it. As Joe mentioned himself, it happens a lot when people get together, get to know and respect each other, and work towards a goal that is mutually meaningful. I could have gotten through the book it had been focused more on the leadership concepts rather than Joe. I would have given this book a rating of ZERO stars if that was an option. If this is all it takes to write a book, well, I'm going to get writing. Read Bohm's or Greenleaf's works instead.
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