Book Title: "The Extraordinary power of leader humility"
Author: Marilyn Gist, PhD
+Author: Alan Mulally(Former CEO of Ford Motor Company and Boeing commercial airplanes) with a foreword and guest chapter.
Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Inc. (BK)
Edition: First edition.
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'Book Notes': aren’t book reviews, summaries, or recommendations. They’re closer to a "reading diary": one's personal experience of what a book stirs up in them as they move through it. Book Notes' sometimes include a few favorite lines or small extracts - not to “capture the book,” but to capture the moment. Occasionally, a passage lights something up inside the reader that’s unrelated (or only loosely related) to the book’s main subject. These notes also attempt to put that spark into words.
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The font size is not small, decent and good for faster read and reading in non-cozy settings like travelling.
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With change in technology the expectations and core qualities of a successful leader are changing. This book focuses on how 'Humility' is now one of these core qualities - from something of a guarded embarrassing or detested character, this 'Humility' is now much needed ingredient of a successful leader. In other words, as per author Humility is now a strength no longer a weakness.
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Leadership is an Alchemy. It is neither science nor art, but sometimes neither and again sometimes it is
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