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Summary: This is a book that will immediately help you on the job.
Review: Hello Readers! I wrote The Leader's Guide because I wanted to help supervisors and aspiring supervisors immediately do their jobs better. I focus on what I know are the 15 essential skills for a leader in today's global environment. Since I categorize the skills in three ways (technical and analytical, relationship, and strategic), it's quite easy for an experienced or inexperienced manager to concentrate on those areas that need attention. Plus, since it's written in an easy-to-read style, the book is easily absorbed and its concepts can be used today--you don't need to wait until 2001! I know that you and your friends, family, and co-workers will benefit tremendously from reading my book, and I wish you the best of success as you approach your responsibilities of leading your subordinates; coordinating with clients, customers, and peers; and managing your organization. Your fellow leader, Randall Ponder
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Summary: Excellent Choice for a Quick-Start or Update on Leadership
Review: Highly recommend this book---it lays out what a supervisor or manager needs to know--period. Everything is presented in a logical order, and the author knows his stuff. Recommend you buy it for yourself and for employees---it's a cutting edge approach.
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Summary: This is a Wise Choice is you want to succeed.
Review: I am impressed with the substance, depth, and quality of The Leader's Guide. In one concise (but not lengthy) book, it tells you everything you must know to succeed as a supervisor or team member. Thanks for the outstanding effort, Mr. Ponder.
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Summary: A breadth of information, order with confidence.
Review: I can not say enough good things about The Leader's Guide.The author Ponder examines such leadership responsibilities as problem solving, communication, teamwork, project management and conflict resolution. It takes a lot for a book to impress me and this one does. Top executives, supervisors and beginning managers will all find this guide helpful. It's easy to read, the core message essential and everything in it reprsents the foundation of sound leadership. Ponder's work has the potential of making exceptional leaders out of the ordinary, teaching individuals how to best apply their individual talents to build optimum performance organizations. A handy reference that belongs on every executive's bookshelf. For that matter, I think students and parents alike would easily benefit from reading the material as it provides a breadth of useful information. Order it with confidence and be assured that it will deliver. Definitely an A1 investment.
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Summary: Just a survey, lacks depth
Review: I expected more from this book. It reads as a survey of other management literature rather than as a field guide for developing management skills. The major topics are all there, but there is no depth in either information or writing style. Stick to books with a tighter focus, such as "Teamwork" by Larson and "Rapid Development" by McConnell.
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Summary: This book was of no value to me or any of my managers.
Review: I feel the authors have overlooked the most essential skill in their view of leadership: the practice of integrity! All leadership starts with integrity and a strong ethical foundation. A better place to invest if you really want a book that can help you is to purchase Stephen Carter's influential book, Integrity; Leigh Steinberg's Winning With Integrity; or even Integrity Selling: How to Succeed in Selling in the Competitive Years Ahead by Ron Willingham (all available from Amazon.com!). Both readers and the authors of this book would benefit from first examining these titles.
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Summary: Quite an unusual yet amazing book
Review: I had my doubts that a well done skills-based book on management and leadership can be written, but here it is.
Step by step, Ponder lays the foundation to what every one of us leaders need to know--and be reminded of. Particularly like the chapter layout that is categorized around the skills themselves.
My teammates and I have read the book and we feel blessed that there is a professional book that is written for the layman that is easily read, makes sense, and written by someone who has been a manager, leader, and teacher of leadership.
Strongly recommend it for your teams--for $19, you'll recoup several times this amouont.
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Summary: Get this book...
Review: I have read most of this leader's guide and have found it refreshing and pertinent to what is really going on in job market with managers and their relationships with their people and company strategies. Its insight and advice is invaluable.
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Summary: An effective management tool!
Review: I live and work in Asia for a large US Corporation. I received this book as a gift this past Christmas. All of my direct reports and their employees are local national citizens of the country. I referenced the book a couple times in meetings and now my employees are asking for it! It's a great tool for me and my staff. Thanks Randall Ponder for an effective management tool!!!!
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Summary: Good Approach to the Subject
Review: I recommend this book because of its unique approach to teaching the skills of leadership and management. It is concise and has innovative ideas that are useful to managers and others at work. The book makes a successful effort at what we need to know as supervisors and team members.
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