New Book Review: "Leading the Leaders"
New book review for Leading the Leaders: How to Enrich Your Style of Management and Handle People Whose Style Is Different From Yours, by Ichak Kalderon Adizes PhD, Adizes Institute, 2004:
This book is the third in a three-part series on "management" by Adizes, the first two being "The Ideal Executive: Why You Cannot Be One and What To Do About It" and "Management / Mismanagement Styles: How to Identify a Style and What To Do About It". After reading through the two follow-ups in this series, I now extend my earlier proclamation (that "The Ideal Executive" is the best on the topic of "management" I've ever read in my entire career) to include the entire series. As I mentioned in my review of the first book, its subtitle might be a bit misleading to many readers at first glance, but it doesn't actually speak to the failures of a given individual to become an "ideal" executive. After explaining the changes in industry jargon that took place over time to describe the role discussed by this series (initially called "administrator" and subsequently called "manager", "executive", and now, "leader"), the author explains that what hasn't changed is the fact that the entire managerial process is always personified in a single individual, but reality demonstrates that because *nobody* can serve an organization in this capacity, a complimentary team of people is necessary, each of whom exhibits various permutations of the "PAEI" code ("Producing", "Administrating", "Entrepreneuring", and "Integrating").