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- Fundamentals of Level 5 Leadership and Servant Leadership
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Publisher's summary
What is ethical leadership? Is there a difference between leadership vs management? What is strategic leadership? What is the most effective leadership philosophy? Do you wish your company had leadership coaching and leadership courses, or are you frustrated with executive leadership? Do you long for more participative leadership? You are not alone.
So why does leadership suck?
It sucks because real leadership is hard, requires selfless service, and because the buck stops here. Servant leadership or Level 5 leadership is uncomfortable, humbling, self-denying, painful, and counterintuitive; nonetheless, participative leadership is the only kind of leadership that brings lasting results, genuine happiness, and true self-fulfillment.
The book is divided into four parts:
- Part 1: To serve or not to serve. Educational leadership requires servant leadership.
- Part 2: Do what's best for your organization. Discusses various aspects of organizational leadership and culture
- Part 3: Humility 101. Leadership principles of self-examination, apologies, authenticity, controlling and displaying emotions, and handling adversity are examined.
- Part 4: Specific management situations, focusing on business leadership competencies.
Here is the leadership training and leadership coaching you will learn from Miles and experience in Why Leadership Sucks?
- Why servant leadership is a superior leadership philosophy and a better long-term strategy.
- Develop executive leadership skills with practical action steps.
- Learn from real world examples from the author's educational leadership experience.
- Quotes on leadership help highlight and introduce sections within each chapter.
To discover why ethical leadership is frustrating and learn strategic leadership principles for your leadership journey, download a sample or purchase Why Leadership Sucks now.
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- Leadership Principles from a Life at Starbucks
- By: Howard Behar
- Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner
- Length: 4 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 260
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 206
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 208
Howard Behar is one of three top executives who have helped shape one of the most recognized companies in the world: Starbucks. A widely acclaimed leader, Behar, with his signature energy, smarts, high expectations, and belief in people, has become a symbol of the soul and candor of the Starbucks culture.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Top Level Leadership
- By ManifestingMango on 07-31-09
By: Howard Behar
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The High-Speed Company
- Creating Urgency and Growth in a Nanosecond Culture
- By: Jason Jennings, Laurence Haughton
- Narrated by: Jason Jennings
- Length: 6 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 28
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 27
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 27
Best-selling author Jason Jennings believes that urgency and speed are keys to the growth of any business. Leaders need to adapt and ignite their workplace cultures to prevent everyone from falling behind. Jennings draws on years of research and 11,000+ in-depth interviews with executives, business owners, and CEOs across the country to uncover how successful leaders build cultures that support constant innovation and growth.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Incredible testament to the spirit of positive growth and change
- By Alexandra d. on 04-05-23
By: Jason Jennings, and others
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The World's Most Powerful Leadership Principle
- How to Become a Servant Leader
- By: James C. Hunter
- Narrated by: Steve Menasche
- Length: 6 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 96
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 84
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 82
Although serving may imply weakness to some, conjuring up a picture of the CEO waiting on the workforce hand and foot, servant leadership is actually a robust, revolutionary idea that can have significant impact on an organization's performance. Author Jim Hunter champions this hard/soft approach to leadership, which turns bosses and managers into coaches and mentors.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Very practical, use-ful and life-changing
- By AS on 10-30-20
By: James C. Hunter
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Necessary Endings
- The Employees, Businesses, and Relationships That All of Us Have to Give Up in Order to Move Forward
- By: Henry Cloud
- Narrated by: Henry Cloud
- Length: 7 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 2,487
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 2,105
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 2,088
While endings are a natural part of business and life, we often experience them with a sense of hesitation, sadness, resignation, or regret. But consultant, psychologist, and bestselling author Dr. Henry Cloud sees endings differently. He argues that our personal and professional lives can only improve to the degree that we can see endings as a necessary and strategic step to something better.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Good One
- By Philips Adeniyi on 03-26-12
By: Henry Cloud
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First, Break All the Rules
- What the World's Greatest Managers Do Differently
- By: Marcus Buckingham, Gallup Press, Jim Harter - foreword
- Narrated by: Mel Foster
- Length: 9 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,323
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,071
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,060
They actually have vastly different styles and backgrounds. Yet despite their differences, great managers share one common trait: They don’t hesitate to break virtually every rule held sacred by conventional wisdom. They don’t believe that, with enough training, a person can achieve anything he sets his mind to. They don’t try to help people overcome their weaknesses. And, yes, they even play favorites. In this longtime management bestseller, Gallup presents the remarkable findings of its massive in-depth study of great managers.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Content is dated
- By A. Yoshida on 09-09-19
By: Marcus Buckingham, and others
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Leadership Gold
- Lessons I've Learned from a Lifetime of Leading
- By: John C. Maxwell
- Narrated by: Henry O. Arnold
- Length: 7 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 55
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 42
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Story5 out of 5 stars 41
John C. Maxwell wants to help you become the smartest leader you can be by sharing Leadership Gold with you. After nearly forty years of leading, Maxwell has mined the gold so you don't have to. Each gold nugget is contained in one of 26 chapters designed to be a six-month mentorship from the international leadership expert. Each chapter contains detailed application exercises and a "Mentoring Moment" for leaders who desire to mentor others.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Good Stuff
- By Afzal Chaudhry on 06-26-20
By: John C. Maxwell
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Corporate Confidential
- 50 Secrets Your Company Doesn’t Want You to Know - and What to Do About Them
- By: Cynthia Shapiro
- Narrated by: Vanessa Daniels
- Length: 6 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 56
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 46
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 47
Cynthia Shapiro is a former human resources executive who's pulling back the curtain on the way that companies really work. In Corporate Confidential, she unmasks startling truths and what you can do about them. Shapiro pulls no punches, giving listeners an inside look at a secret world of hidden agendas they would never normally see: a world of insider information and insights that can save a career.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Bad advice
- By Colin Priest on 11-14-20
By: Cynthia Shapiro
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Herding Tigers
- Be the Leader That Creative People Need
- By: Todd Henry
- Narrated by: Joe Hempel
- Length: 6 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 199
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 162
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 161
Successful leaders of creative teams have mastered the difficult transition from doing the work to leading the work, and this book shows how. Todd Henry picks up where The Accidental Creative left off and provides an indispensable handbook of on-the-ground, tactical advice for new managers of creatives.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Todd Henry is always on point for brilliance
- By Amazon Customer on 11-11-18
By: Todd Henry
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Everybody Matters
- The Extraordinary Power of Caring for Your People Like Family
- By: Bob Chapman, Raj Sisodia
- Narrated by: Steven Menasche
- Length: 8 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 375
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 316
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 313
Starting in 1997, Bob Chapman and Barry-Wehmiller pioneered a dramatically different approach to leadership that creates off-the-charts morale, loyalty, creativity, and business performance. The company utterly rejects the idea that employees are simply functions to be moved around, "managed" with carrots and sticks, or discarded at will. Instead Barry-Wehmiller manifests the reality that every single person matters, just like in a family. That's not a cliché on a mission statement; it's the bedrock of the company's success.
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1 out of 5 stars
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A Much Better Read
- By Bob Burton on 12-14-18
By: Bob Chapman, and others
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The Earned Life
- Lose Regret, Choose Fulfillment
- By: Marshall Goldsmith, Mark Reiter
- Narrated by: Marshall Goldsmith
- Length: 8 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 165
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 136
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 137
Goldsmith implores listeners to avoid the Great Western Disease of “I’ll be happy when. . . .” He offers practical advice and exercises aimed at helping us shed the obstacles, especially the failures of imagination, that prevent us from creating our own fulfilling lives. With this book as their guide, listeners can close the gap between what they plan to achieve and what they actually get done—and avoid the trap of existential regret, the kind that reroutes destinies and persecutes our memories.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Brilliant Book 💛
- By Dr. Lilian Ajayi-Ore on 05-04-22
By: Marshall Goldsmith, and others
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The Masculinity Manifesto
- How a Man Establishes Influence, Credibility and Authority
- By: Ryan Michler
- Narrated by: Ryan Michler
- Length: 5 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 204
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 185
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Story5 out of 5 stars 184
Men are not the enemy, and masculinity, contrary to what much of popular culture would have you believe, is the solution to what plagues individuals, families, and society as a whole. In The Masculinity Manifesto, author and podcaster Ryan Michler focuses on how a man can wield his power and lead others well with influence, credibility, and authority. Ryan refuses to accept the gradual and intentional decay of masculinity, instead he chooses to tackle the questions others are afraid to address.
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5 out of 5 stars
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One of the Best books of 2022!
- By Paul on 11-26-22
By: Ryan Michler
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Die Empty
- Unleash Your Best Work Every Day
- By: Todd Henry
- Narrated by: Todd Henry
- Length: 5 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 827
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 722
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Story4 out of 5 stars 708
Most of us live with the stubborn idea that we'll always have tomorrow to do our most important and valuable work. We fill our days with frantic activity, bouncing from task to task, scrambling to make deadlines and chase the next promotion. But by the end of each day we're often left asking ourselves "did the work I do today really matter?" We feel the ticking of the clock, but we're stuck in first gear, unsure of the path forward and without a road map to guide us.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Deeeeep sigh. And a tired one at that.
- By Oliver Nielsen on 12-25-13
By: Todd Henry
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Nothing to Lose, Everything to Gain
- How I Went from Gang Member to Multimillionaire Entrepreneur
- By: Ryan Blair, Don Yaeger
- Narrated by: Johnny Heller
- Length: 6 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 220
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 193
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 190
Ryan Blair knows about building a business from the ground up. Like many entrepreneurs he had no formal business education. But he had great survival instincts, tenacity, and, above all, a "nothing to lose" mindset.Blair's middle-class childhood came to an abrupt end when his abusive father succumbed to drug addiction and abandoned the family. Blair and his mother moved to a bad neighborhood, and soon he was in and out of juvenile detention, joining a gang just to survive. Then his mother fell in love with a successful entrepreneur who took Ryan under his wing.
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3 out of 5 stars
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I wouldn't read it again
- By Blahhhhhh on 01-07-13
By: Ryan Blair, and others
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The 8th Habit
- From Effectiveness to Greatness
- By: Stephen R. Covey
- Narrated by: Stephen R. Covey
- Length: 14 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,889
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,125
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,128
The 8th Habit is the answer to the soul's yearning for greatness, the organization's imperative for significance and superior results, and humanity's search for its "voice". Profound, compelling, and stunningly timely, this groundbreaking new audiobook of next level thinking gives a clear way to finally tap the limitless value-creation promise of the Knowledge Worker Age.
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1 out of 5 stars
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A Real Disappointment
- By Mark on 03-08-07
By: Stephen R. Covey
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All In
- How the Best Managers Create a Culture of Belief and Drive Big Results
- By: Adrian Gostick, Chester Elton
- Narrated by: Adrian Gostick, Chester Elton
- Length: 6 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 147
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 125
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Story4 out of 5 stars 123
To have any hope of succeeding as a manager, you need to get your people all in. Whether you manage the smallest of teams or a multi-continent organization, you are the owner of a work culture and few things will have a bigger impact on your performance than getting your people to buy into your ideas and your cause and to believe what they do matters. Based on their extensive consulting experience, the authors present a simple seven-step road map for creating a culture of belief.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Interesting Theories in Management
- By Nancy on 07-28-12
By: Adrian Gostick, and others
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- 08-09-14
Bible not leadership lessons
What would have made Why Leadership Sucks better?
This book, like most religious works, is a list of should's and ought's without much "how when it's tough." I have no problem with the author or his message. I would appreciate packaging that clearly presents this as being a work based on one man's faith and not research.
What could Miles Anthony Smith have done to make this a more enjoyable book for you?
Warned those who have had enough Bible for one lifetime that there are more references to Jesus than Buffett (or anyone else).
Who would you have cast as narrator instead of Miles Anthony Smith?
James Earl Jones
If you could play editor, what scene or scenes would you have cut from Why Leadership Sucks?
I'm not the target audience. I respect deeply religious people who take their cue's from Jesus and the Bible. For those of us looking for different leadership role models, help save our time and money focusing on different courses.
Any additional comments?
I respect everyone's beliefs and am 100% OK with anything Mr. Smith wants to believe. I would appreciate if Audible.com would classify this as religious and not business because there is more applicable to salvation than servant leadership.
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