Opening paragraph: State the title, author(s), and date of the book. Summarize what the book is about. How is it related to leadership? Why did you select this book?
The book I chose was entitled, Too Many Bosses, Too Few Leaders: The Three Essential Principles You Need to Become an Extraordinary Leader written in 2011 by Rajeev Peshawaria. The book gives you a guideline on what it takes to be a successful and effective leader. He believes that for leaders to be successful they must follow these three principles:
1. Identify sources of unlimited emotional energy to fuel themselves (energize yourself)
2. Enlist a few co-leaders and align their energy toward a shared purpose (energize the core team of co-leaders)
3. Galvanize the energy of large numbers of people to create sustainable collective success (energize the whole enterprise).
He talks about what is wrong in organizations today and as a leader progresses their leadership should become a task of implementing and sustaining the corporate culture.
Peshawaria believes that leadership is “the art of harnessing human energy toward a creation of a better future.” That is the basis of principle one. The second principle is based on the acronym RED (role, environment, development) and how crucial those …show more content…
Peshawaria states you must define your purpose and values before you start to energize yourself. They are: What few things are most important to me, do I want to, what results do I want to bring about, how do I want people to experience me, what values will guide my behavior, and what situations cause me to feel strong emotions? Those questions alone has me re-looking my definition of leadership. He seems to think we got the definition wrong because we are basing it off the fact that leadership is based on positions of power and can be taught through models and
The book I chose was entitled, Too Many Bosses, Too Few Leaders: The Three Essential Principles You Need to Become an Extraordinary Leader written in 2011 by Rajeev Peshawaria. The book gives you a guideline on what it takes to be a successful and effective leader. He believes that for leaders to be successful they must follow these three principles:
1. Identify sources of unlimited emotional energy to fuel themselves (energize yourself)
2. Enlist a few co-leaders and align their energy toward a shared purpose (energize the core team of co-leaders)
3. Galvanize the energy of large numbers of people to create sustainable collective success (energize the whole enterprise).
He talks about what is wrong in organizations today and as a leader progresses their leadership should become a task of implementing and sustaining the corporate culture.
Peshawaria believes that leadership is “the art of harnessing human energy toward a creation of a better future.” That is the basis of principle one. The second principle is based on the acronym RED (role, environment, development) and how crucial those …show more content…
Peshawaria states you must define your purpose and values before you start to energize yourself. They are: What few things are most important to me, do I want to, what results do I want to bring about, how do I want people to experience me, what values will guide my behavior, and what situations cause me to feel strong emotions? Those questions alone has me re-looking my definition of leadership. He seems to think we got the definition wrong because we are basing it off the fact that leadership is based on positions of power and can be taught through models and