Where Have All the Leaders Gone? | Lee Iacocca | An elder sage tells it like it is

Where Have All the Leaders Gone? | Lee Iacocca | A Leader's Thoughts

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Where Have All the...

	Where Have All the Leaders Gone? Lee Iacocca Scribner, 2007 - 192 pages average customer review:based on 219 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

An elder sage tells it like it is

Yes, many of the ideas in this book have already been expounded during the last 7 years, but coming from Iacoccca, it has more weight, because it shows that even corporate (or ex-corporate) leaders are sick and tired of the cloud hanging over this country ever since December 2000. The reviewers who gave this book only one or two stars just prove the old P.T. Barnum saying that "there's a sucker born every minute." The fact that most of them dismiss this book as "Bush bashing" reveals that they are not putting on their "thinking caps". They won't or can't see what the Current Occupant and cronies have done to this nation. They would rather allow themselves to be swept up by Limbaugh and his ilk than to do any real thinking (and researching) of their own. How sad that they've willingly given up their ability to be rational.

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A Leader's Thoughts

This book does its part to build enough outrage amongst those of us who would care to read this book and recognizes the reasons for the outrage.

I thought it was very well written and not in the least bit distracting from it's message that it is time to wake up and do something about the mess that we collectively find ourselves in, whether it be the fuel crisis or the lack there of, corporate greed, healthcare mess, free trade or the unbelievable debt. The book's message is simple. Heed to the Call to Action.

Every politician should read this book. But more importantly, every aspiring leader should commit some of the lessons to heart. Specifically, the one which conveys the 9 C's of leadership - Curiosity, Creative, Communicate, Character, Courage, Conviction, Charisma, Competence, Common Sense and last but the least, leadership in times of a CRISIS. I capitalized CRISIS, because I think we are in dangerous times on the brink of a bankruptcy of leadership.

Lee's emphasis on the solutions explains his mindset to solve problems right after recognizing what those are. Not all solutions are workable but he makes a compelling argument and also gives us a place to start.

I think this book should be mandatory reading for all corporate employees and the executive management should be held to the standards espoused by Lee Iacocca.

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This man still has more common sense than People half his age.

This book is excellent. Iacocca, who was and still is, a significant leader int he corporate world is asking some tough questions. HE does thsi while admitting that even some of the things he was involved in witht he Auto industry may not have ultimately had the impact on this country that was intended.

He is looking for a comeback of the greatness America knew just a few years ago and the rest of us should be too.

REAL "Straight Talk!"

Regardless of a reader's personal biases, whether political, religious, ethnic or other, this refreshing book can be profitably read by everybody. It should be required reading in every high school in the country! Thought provoking at a time when critical thinking seems to be a fading skill.

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Good but not GReat

I found the beginning of the book pretty entertaining.The author is very outspoken and speaking his mind plain straight.
He has obviously shown a lot of COURAGE by writing this book.
I strongly agree with most of the comments he makes about the recourse to judiciary system for any small misunderstanding, America's overly medicine pill consumption, and the IPOD "addiction"...I'm glad to find someone who think like me.
However, half way through the book, I found the author going off topic and a total shift of the subject from leadership to his personal prowesses as a CEO.
Overall, it is an average book.

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