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Summary: Where has this book been?
Review: Monday Leadership is the best book I have read on management. It is simple, short, and relative. I need a mentor like Tony myself and unfortunately I have never had one in my twenty year business career. Monday is earmarked and torn because I cannot get some of the sessions out of my mind ... I am there myself.Thanks to Tony for sharing his wisdom.
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Summary: Common sense goes a long way
Review: Monday Morning Leadership is a quick easy read that guides the reader through the practicalities and meaning of leadership. Buy it and give it to your staff. While you're at it, get a copy of Optimal Thinking: How to be Your Best Self to OPTIMIZE thinking, leadership and performance throughout your organization.
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Summary: Worth Buying!
Review: Monday Morning Leadership is a quick read that any leader from business to education can read for knowledge, but maybe more importantly - reflection! The personal story leads the reader through his own personal re-discovery of strengths and weaknesses in business and personal life. The mentor, Tony, leads "Jeff" through 8 mentoring sessions that guide Jeff through his personal discovery of his own leadership style. These sessions with Tony helps him to re-discover changes that he can make to be the leader he once was, or could be - only new and improved with Tonys reflective questioning guidance.
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Summary: Monday Morning Leadership
Review: Monday Morning Leadership is a quick read that any leader from business to education can read for knowledge, but maybe more importantly - reflection! The personal story leads the reader through his own personal re-discovery of strengths and weaknesses in business and personal life. The mentor, Tony, leads "Jeff" through 8 mentoring sessions that guide Jeff through his personal discovery of his own leadership style. These sessions with Tony helps him to re-discover changes that he can make to be the leader he once was, or could be - only new and improved with Tonys reflective questioning guidance.
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Summary: Concentrated wisdom!
Review: Monday Morning Leadership is surprizingly simple yet amazingly profound! The lessons are presented in style and manner you can immediately apply to your business situation. You will read this book and immediately think of five people on your team you want to have read this book. It is concentrated wisdom!
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Summary: Wonderful!
Review: Mr. Cottrell gives enlightenment to those of us who are baffled by change in the workplace. Whether the change is in personnel or organizational in particular. Thanks for the identification process.
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Summary: Easy to apply Leadership lessons
Review: One could almost say this book is "Tuesday's With Morrie" meets "Leadership and the One Minute Manager". Monday Morning Leadership is David Cottrell's story of his struggles at work and the lesson's he receives from his mentor, Tony. Tony is a very successful and wise former turnaround specialist who is now an author and business coach. David spends eight Monday mornings with Tony learning easy to apply leadership theories. One of my favorites is the difference between drivers and passengers in the car. Most of all, I appreciated that Tony only ask of one thing for David to be his mentor, that he too passed these lessons on. And with this recommendation, I too shall pass it on.
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Summary: Monday Morning Leadership
Review: Our management team read this book and loved it! The length is perfect (short) but it contains valuable insite for all management levels: good reminders for the experienced and items to consider for those getting started.
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Summary: The Best
Review: The best book on leadership I have ever read. It is not Peter Drucker type stuff, just common sense that has practical application.
I highly recommend for all.
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Summary: Become an Effective Manager in Eight Lessons!
Review: The best business books are brief, clear and pertinent. Monday Morning Leadership fits all of those requirements.
You can read the whole book in a few minutes . . . and think about and apply what you learned for a lifetime.
The format is around a man who's struggling as a manager. His operation isn't performing well. His boss isn't happy. He's not happy. He doesn't have time to be with his family or to do what he likes to do. It looks like his career has peaked . . . and his job may be in jeopardy. What to do?
If that sounds familiar, almost everyone has had that experience who has taken on a management role.
Jeff decides to do something about it. He contacts an old family friend, Tony Pierce, who has had a very successful business career. Tony has agreed to meet with Jeff for eight weeks on Monday mornings.
In their eight sessions, Jeff learns the following lessons:
1. He has to accept total responsibility for results without excuses and to think like a leader rather than a manager or follower.
2. Be sure everyone knows what the main thing is that they have to accomplish and keep their faith in you as a leader.
3. Get closer to your people and help your top performers improve.
4. Act with integrity and prepare for how to handle problems before they occur.
5. Improve the team you have by only hiring high performers.
6. Manage your time carefully by looking for ways to save minutes wherever you can and by being more effective at whatever you do.
7. Encourage, recognize and respect your people.
8. Advance your learning by reading, being open to trying new things, listening, helping others, setting goals and always being professional and positive.
Those points make it sound like you don't need to read the book. You already knew most of those things, didn't you? But the story will embed the learning into your mind in powerful ways. Don't miss it!
I was especially impressed by Mr. Cottrell's ability to turn a phrase. The book abounds with aphorisms that you will find yourself remembering and possibly quoting as you coach your replacements. Many of the best ways are repeated on pages 97-101. Here's one of my favorites: "People quit people before they quit companies." Key principles are also summarized on pages 102-103.
This book would also make a great gift to some you know who is just starting out as a manager. The gift will be even more meaningful if you offer to coach that person as well.
Make a difference!
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