The Leader-Manager: Guidelines for Action

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Summary: Excellent book for those in consulting business
Review: I have seen many books on leadership and management but this book provides some very concise information and guidance for project managers in the consulting business. It is great at distinguishing between leadership and management.

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Summary: Creativity and Credibility
Review: Of all general leadership approaches, this is the most useful one I've ever seen; it's a book I've recommended many times to people with high responsibility.
Hitt presents his ideas, how a credible, solution-oriented manager, who estimates his/her employees, should behave. Using some examples, he shows what typically goes wrong in management (managers not talking to their employees in crisis, instead of using their full creative power, e.g.) and how one could do better.
Yet it is not an anti-authoritarian approach, but rather an instruction for the manager. Its useful for both, industry managers, and army commanders.