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Summary: Why can't I give a 0 star ?
Review: This is the crapiest anti-motivational book I ever got to read.
It is a story of Andrew who is a CEO and who meets with an old man one night in the train. The old man is a janitor and his father was a CEO (whatever)so the janitor, CEO's son (Gosh)starts
mentoring Andrew on how he should run his company.
If this janitor was smart enough to motivate a CEO how come he
ended up being a janitor in the first place?!?I thought, to be a writer you have to be born as a writer but only now I realized that anyone can be a writer and Patrick
Lencioni is the worst one from the ones I've read. Am I just being paranoid or is the today's literature following
today's music fate ?!?
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Summary: Good read for people who actually manage people
Review: This is the second book by Patrick Lencioni I've read (after the inevitable five dysfunctions of a team). It's not as good of a story, but its underlying message - the temptations, are a well deserved lesson. Being a people-manager for the past several years has been a challenging, fascinating and at times humbling experience. This book describes some of the mistakes I've made and some of the mistakes I've seen being made around me, and puts it all in a coherent framework. And that's all I really expect from a good management book - to be able to put your experience in some new frame of reference. This enabled me to take another look at my habits and conduct and, hopefully, improve some of them.
I recommend this book to new managers after going through one or two years of actually leading teams/groups of people. Unless you walk in a leader's shoes, the theory alone is of little help. You just won't have anything to hang on the structure described here.
Rating: 
Summary: great
Review: Very entertaining and easy to listen to. Very valuable information for anyone in a leadership position.
Rating:
Summary: The Five Temptations of a CEO
Review: what an excellent fable--so accurate for me at least and the self evaluation was a nice touch on bringing the reader into touch with how he/she may very well be perceived...and the author reassuring the reader with his rating of his own temptations. i read the book twice on a sunday, shared it with my senior management on monday and will include it as mandatory reading for them prior to our vision planning session a week later. it reminds me of the One Minute Manager; clever, simple, as in depth as you wish to take it and a poignant look at today's exec mgmt routine. morally challenging, ethically astute, and a current events for our competitive climate or how to build companies, rather, how to fail them. As a former member of TEC i also would have taken this book to that level for my peers.
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Summary: Insightful!
Review: Why do CEOs fail? According to Patrick Lencioni, they fall prey to common temptations that distract them from their only true responsibility: producing results. The temptations, like the tendency to focus on career status over corporate performance, boil down to very human weaknesses. You won't necessarily learn any real success secrets here, but the reminder to keep these dangerous propensities in mind and under control will be valuable to all executives. This book has gotten rave reviews for its powerful simplicity and vivid prose, but we think the slim volume would have been more effective if it were made even slimmer by cutting out the fable that frames the CEO advice. But nevertheless, we [...] recommend this book as fast and easy reading for CEOs or, likelier, for those still climbing the corporate ladder.
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