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Summary: Leadership, Management, and flat out good writing.
Review: Anthony Schneider has given the world a new and important way to approach leadership. This book has everything, insight, humor, a deft eye toward pop culture and the wisdom it can lend, but most of all, the book keeps us reading and keeps us laughing, all due to Schneider's skill as a writer. This book is a must.
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Summary: This book surprised me
Review: Anthony Schneider's "Tony Soprano on Management" really changed my mind. I am very sceptical about drawing serious conclusions from pop culture, and find the show, anyway, pretty mindless. So I questioned the basic premise. But this book made a believer of me. Mr Schneider manages to draw wisdom, leadership exemplars and relevant people skills from an unlikely source. There's a nice tongue-in-cheek flavor, so that the book manages to give advice without taking itself too seriously. This is a useful book -- I found myself learning lessons that apply equally in the workplace, and in everyday life.
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Summary: a management guide with a sense of humor
Review: At last - a leadership book that really delivers. It's hip, slick, funny, easy-to-read, but really clever, and full of helpful insights. It made me wish that the small staff that I manage had more problems, I was so keen to adopt the Soprano style. Or maybe it's the Schneider style? His mantra - "self-knowledge leads to vision" has gotten me thinking deeply, and has led to some interesting self revelations.
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Summary: Smart, Funny, Revelatory
Review: At the end of this smart and funny book, Schneider gets serious and tells us why America and American companies need a new breed of leaders. A 2002 poll found that 3 in 4 of us think that corporate executives take improper actions. Meanwhile, many companies aren't performing well and the companies in the spotlight (Enron, Haliburton) are examples of what not to do. Uncle T. is a better example. He really is. He gets it right. Tony Soprano has vision and values (apart from clipping people), fealty to people, the ability to think fast and act decisively, even the way he's pushy with employees and business associates are guides for a new generation of leaders. Leader and future leaders, take note, this book is as good a roadmap as you're likely to find.
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Summary: Soundview Executive Book Summaries
Review: By focusing on what Tony Soprano does right and wrong, Schneider reveals marketing strategies that can help leaders in the real world become more effective. He also presents case studies, worksheets and tactics that can improve business. - Soundview Executive Book Summaries
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Summary: Corporate Counsel Magazine
Review: From Corporate Counsel magazine... Tony Soprano on Management is a fun read. Many business how-tos come spiked with New Age blather and silly diagrams breathlessly illustrating glorious new paradigms. Schneider avoids such nonsense. Instead, he uses vignettes from the series to make his points... Schneider notes that like most effective CEOs, Soprano works with a close, handpicked executive team... they have been chosen by Tony because their abilities complement one another... Schneider shows how Soprano carefully doles out perks to keep his team performing. http://www.law.com/jsp/cc/pubarticleCC.jsp?id=1080681918901 - - (...)
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Summary: Vanity Fair
Review: Get Anthony Schneider's Tony Soprano on Management-that's an order. Capisce? Vanity Fair (April, 2004)
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Summary: LOL and Learn Something at the same time
Review: Great book which will have you laughing all the way to your MBA. Full of insight into running a team, division, company or your family. Scneider hits a home run.
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Summary: I take it with me to work each day
Review: Having read the book, and read the "Let's rather talk about Italian-American firefighters" review (if you can call such irrelevant comment a review,) I feel compelled to write my own review, something I've never done before: This is a book you can really use. It's short, succinct, wise, witty, hip, helpful and altogether terrific. Not being a manager (yet) myself, I found the part about managing up particularly useful. And no matter what part of the totem pole you occupy, you will surely find all the stuff about personal relationships in the workplace tremendously applicable. Come on Italian-Americans, there's a stereotype out there - get over it.
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Summary: "Tony Soprano" is a must.
Review: I bought this book after I saw the author on Paula Zahn. You could tell he knew what he was doing. His book sounded good, and its better than good. I think that it is terrific---well conceived and very well written. It is insightful, crisp and a very easy read. It should be a must for every MBA course. Its right on for all new young CEOS, and I am sure that a lot of entrenched CEOs could also benefit from it. Besides, its a lot of fun.
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