Book Description
What would legendary Boston Celtics coach and 16-time NBA champion Red Auerbach say is the most critical quality for a person to be successful? Would his advice differ from 10-time NCAA championship coach John Wooden's? What would each say to a young person just starting out in pursuit of their dreams? What is the best advice they were ever given?
It took author Christian Klemash more than two years of research, persistence, and original interviews, but now he's ready to pass on the best advice you'll ever get. Only the rare individual has had the opportunity to pick the brain of just one legendary sports coach—let alone thirty-four of the best sports coaches of all time. Klemash gives sports fans a once-in-a-lifetime chance to learn valuable life lessons from the most famous, intelligent, and victorious coaches ever. The legends span the sports world, from gold medal-winning gymnastics coach Bela Karolyi and three-time college football championship coach Tom Osborne to four-time World Series-winning baseball manager Joe Torre and hall-of-fame boxing trainer Angelo Dundee.
These coaches know how to teach top athletes about character and winning, how to manage pressure at crunch time, and how to bring out the best in their players when it matters most. How to Succeed in the Game of Life shares their insights into sports, life, and the most vital keys to sustain success.Featuring Exclusive Interviews with:
Red Auerbach, 16-time NBA World Champion
Bobby Bowden, College Football's All-Time Winningest Coach, 2-time National Champion
Scotty Bowman, 9-time Stanley Cup Champion
Bill Cowher, Super Bowl Champion
Tony Dungy, Super Bowl Champion
Dan Gable, 15-time NCCA Champion
April Heinrichs, Gold Medal Winning Coach of the U.S. Women’s Soccer Team
Bela Karolyi, The World’s Greatest Gymnastics Coach
Bill Parcells, 2-time Super Bowl Champion
Emanuel Steward, Boxing Trainer of 30 World Champions
Joe Torre, 4-time World Series Champion
Bill Walsh, 3-time Super Bowl Champion
Lenny Wilkens, NBA’s All-Time Winningest Coach, NBA Champion
John Wooden, 10-time NCAA Champion
And More!
Customer Reviews:
A Great Read.......2007-08-26
Wow!Could not put it down.An extraordinay self help book.Gave it to my kids they loved it.Don't miss this one
What a great read!.......2007-07-25
I took it on vacation with me and I couldn't put it down. A great book for aspiring athletes and coaches as well as your average Joe who works 9-5. The coaches discuss a variety of topics from their childhood to how they motivate their players. Any easy read for all ages.
Game of life.......2007-07-24
I've read through Game of Life and I enjoyed it very much. There are so many things to take from this book, not just into sports, but also some reflections on life. I would recommend this book to everybody.
Coaching advise from athletic coaches.......2007-06-27
A fun read, especially if yoiu're a sports fan. I read it in search of things that would help my own ability as a coach in my company. Much of it is light stuff but the easy read makes it fun nonetheless and there are few golden nuggets laced throughout the book.
Overcome Adversity.......2007-04-12
Anyone looking for inspiration, either for their own life or to share with others, will find a gold mine of quotes here. This book isn't just for sports fans.
Book Description
Here is the most comprehensive guide to leading a training session or workshop ever published. This ``soup-to-nuts" reference answers just about every question a trainer/facilitator might have about leading a successful training program, from motivating participants to measuring the results. Based on 25 years of workshop experience, the book features hundreds of professional tips and tricks, plus reproducible materials to use at every step of the training process.
Customer Reviews:
The Ultimate Training Workshop.......2007-01-26
This book has everything one needs to lead successful workshops and training programs, from agendas to evaluations. It gives strategies for designing workshops to meet the needs of the learners. It reviews models and theories of best practices. If you are in the business of providng workshops or training this book is an excellent resource. It has everything you need.
A mixed blessing.......2001-04-13
This is the most useful Training book I've come across in a long time. I find myself referring to it often. However, it is in desperate need of editing. It could easily be cut down by 1/3 - and that would make it much better.
Did anyone edit this book?.......2001-01-06
It is tragic to find wonderful research compiled into a book wrought with spelling, grammatical, and sentence structure errors. Unnecessary comments by the author makes reading even more tedious. A new edition with a good editor would make this book priceless.
Did anyone edit this book?.......2001-01-06
It is tragic to find wonderful research compiled into a book wrought with spelling, grammatical, and sentence structure errors. Unnecessary comments by the author makes reading even more tedious. A new edition with a good editor would make this book priceless.
A must for people in the workshop business!.......1999-03-05
"Ultimate" and "comprehensive" are the key words in the title that set this handbook apart from the others. They say it all - over 600 pages of checklists, diagrams, models, and examples covering every topic of the workshop business. And you are given permission to copy pages for personal workshop use! When paging through the book I began to play a game - he must have missed something! Well, whatever it is, I'm still looking...
Book Description
New. El Segundo 1988. Photos, packet of maps, includes Dustin Bibliography. THE CUSTER TRAGEDY by Fred Dustin is a required reading for any Custer Battle scholar. Includes reprint of rare pamphlet: "Echoes from the Little Big Horn Fight," which was written after Dustin had access to the Reno Court of Inquiry transcript.
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Have you been watching the slow collapse of the stock exchanges? Noticed the growing unemployment? Seen the mutual fund scandals and the collapse of huge corporations? Alarming, isnt it? What if I were to tell you that in one years time, the financial worldthe economic situationwould hit rock bottom? Would you laugh? Cry? Call me a raving lunatic? Or stop and wonder? Were being told were in an economic recovery, but it isnt real. And after this upcoming U.S. Presidential election, you can bet on one thing . . . the economy will drop. Hard. If youve felt times were traumatic recently, just wait. It will get much, much worse. But there is hope. In fact, this coming crisis isnt a bad thing at all. Globally, were going through a filtering process, explains the Amanuensis, author of the Sanctus Germanus Prophecies: The Events Leading up to the Year 2012 (The Sanctus Germanus Foundation) Its a clearing away of the bad to make room for prosperity and peace. Time will seem to accelerate, and our lives will get even crazier, but the insanity will actually be clearing the way. Yes, it will be painful. But its necessary and even desirable. And fortunately, the turmoil is also temporary. The world is going through a rebalancing. And humans are the most susceptible creatures to its huge swings before it arrives where it should be, where it will be, where it must be, continues the Amanuensis.
Customer Reviews:
Excellent - The only one on the market today revealing truth as it is........2007-09-24
A very courageous and accurate account of what is really going on in the world of politics and economy today. Dr. Mau explains the forces behind current world events - the causes and the consequences of manipulation of the ignorant-at-large humanity - placing them in the light of an occult knowledge. I read the book for the first time when it was published in spring of 2002 and then it was a prophecy that some would laugh at and mock. Today, it stands already as partially fulfilled prophecy - with the prices of precious metals nearly doubled since 2002 and the real estate markets collapsing. If you wish to become well informed about the play of the forces in the world today - you must read Dr. Mau's books. Both volumes 1 and 2 are a light torch of truth placed in the world of confusion, evident now to all. This is a must read for all concerned with their future.
The Latest and Greatest on What's Coming for Earth.......2007-07-07
I have bought 3 sets of the two volumes for myself and other friends in Boulder. (Here, we eagerly read the "New Age" / Old Wisdom books that ring truest.) I have not read anything in years that gave me the lift and support to keep me going on my Spiritual Path that Volumes 1 and 2 of Michael Mau's books do. They're the kick in the etheric pants that I have needed!
Interesting read, a real page turner!!!.......2007-06-10
This book turned out to be a real page turner. After reading about the author on the back of the book, I thought Michael Mau a New World Order guy given the fact he worked for the World Bank, United Nations, Foreign Service, etc. He does talk about a new world order but without the Dark Forces, who are souls that are into causing war for profit and making vaste sums of money to control people. He talks about time speeding up driving off the Dark Forces out of the earth plane by 2012 to leave only souls of a higher level. The souls that are left after 2012 will be led by a world leader to a new golden age. It sounds like a nice dream to me and I am hoping what he says comes true but I won't be holding my breath either. The most interesting part is the allegation that Jimmy Hendrix, Janis Joplin, and other musicians from woodstock were murdered in 1970 by the Dark Forces who thought these musicians too much of a threat to their future war plans. I recommend this book highly as it is a real page turner.
Excellent Guide for Lightworkers.......2007-03-18
I enjoyed this book and learned so much. This is a must read for lightworkers and anyone who is drawn to it.
Book Description
Today’s best leaders know how to lead up, a necessary strategy when a supervisor is micromanaging rather than macrothinking, when a division president offers clear directives but can’t see the future, or when investors demand instant gain but need long-term growth. Through vivid, compelling stories, Michael Useem reveals how upward leadership can transform incipient disaster into hard-won triumph. For example, U.S. Marine Corps General Peter Pace reconciled the conflicting priorities of six bosses by keeping them well informed and challenging their instructions when necessary. Useem also explores what happens when those who should step forward fail to do so—Mount Everest mountaineers might have saved themselves from disaster during a fateful ascent if only they had questioned their guides’ flawed decisions.
Leading Up is a call to action. It asks us to get results by helping our superiors lead and by building on the best in everybody’s nature, and it offers a pragmatic blueprint for doing so.
Customer Reviews:
Leading up to your boss is as important as leading your subordinates.......2007-09-21
If you ran a Google search on leadership, you would find 167 million hits. These include books, courses, consultants and companies that teach leaders and would-be leaders how to lead their team members and companies to success. Many offer excellent advice and techniques on leadership. Very few, however, examine how a person can lead his or her boss. In examining the successes, and failures, of sixteen individuals from business, politics, war and religion, Michael Useem has elegantly shown how subordinates can change the course of history by leading their leaders (Leading Up: How to Lead Your Boss So You Both Win 2001).
Starting with the Civil War, Useem presents a birds' eye view of how Joseph Johnson, the commander of the Confederate Army, lost the confidence of President Davis and ultimately lost his command of the army by not keeping the President appraised of the battlefield situation. Useem counterbalances Johnson's unwillingness to appraise his boss with his replacement's insistence of keeping the President informed, even by inviting him to witness the progress of the encounters. His replacement was Robert E. Lee.
Useem describes how David Pottruck of Charles Schwab & Co. was able to persuade his boss, Charles Schwab, that internet trading was the new revolution and the company had to move in that direction to preclude financial ruin and reestablish its dominance in the industry.
He relates how Romeo Dallaire's attempts to convince UN Secretary General Boutris Boutris-Gali to send additional UN troops to Rwanda fell on deaf ears, resulting in the slaughter of 800,000 Rwandans. Had Dallaire flown to the UN headquarters in New York, he may have led up to Boutris-Gali, convinced him of the imminent danger and saved hundreds of thousands of innocent lives from being massacred.
Robert Ailing, Eckerd Pfeiffer and Thomas Wyman, the powerful CEOs of British Airways, Compaq and CBS respectively, found themselves out of their jobs by not leading up to their boards of directors.
Peter Pace of the US Marine Corps led six bosses by serving each one as if they were his only boss. Sandy Hill Pittman, by not questioning her guide leading the team up to the summit of Mt. Everest, was unable to save his life. Charlene Barshefcky was able to lead President Clinton to accept the free trade agreement with China. Domingo Cavallo, the head of Argentina's economy, was able to lead his President to align the country's inflation raged national currency with the US dollar, ending years of turmoil.
Perhaps the most profound examples of leading up were conducted by Abraham, Moses and Samuel, the biblical sages, who were able to lead up to God to convey the needs of their followers, sometimes reversing God's decisions despite rampant hedonism within the community. They were the ultimate practitioners of leading up.
As diverse as these examples are, the unifying concept is that no matter where in the chain of command a person is, he or she not only needs to lead up to the boss, particularly when the bosses' judgment is wrong or the facts are inadequately delivered, but also to lead down to subordinates. Concurrently, bosses need to be cognizant of voices within the organization who warn of imminent danger that could be detrimental to the company and possibly innocent lives. Michael Useem has presented a superbly researched and elegantly written work that deserves your attention, especially if you are a leader, intend to be a leader or are under the influence of a leader.
Some memorable quotes from the book follow:
"Your effectiveness in leading up therefore depends in part upon your success in leading down. If you have not done the latter well, your board is likely to know it".
"Executives always sit on a three-legged stool, supported by directors, investors, and employees. If the stool lacks either investor or employee support, the directors will find it difficult to keep it upright with their leg alone". pg 150
"I didn't realize this at the time, but the more I tried to give them and take care of them, and the more they realized I was taking care of them the more they gave me". Peter Pace pg 175
The "ups" and "downs" of effective leadership .......2007-08-21
I read this book soon after it first appeared (in 2001) and recently re-read it, curious to know how well its core concepts and insights have held up. My conclusion? Very, very well. At the outset, for those who have not as yet read Michael Useem's brilliant book, it would be helpful to understand what he means by "leading up." As he explains, "Leadership has always required more than a downward touch: It needs to come from below as well as from the top, and leaders today must reach up as never before. As organizations decentralize authority, they put a premium on a manager's capacity to must support above as well as below...The challenge is to help both those below us and those above achieve what we all want accomplished. If we expect our subordinates to furnish us with unvarnished information, unbiased advice, and unswerving support at the times when it really counts, we need to have cultivated a culture that encourages and rewards them for doing so."
Thus there are two separate but related leadership challenges: To create a culture in which both "leading up" and "leading down" are among the most important core competencies, and, to do everything humanly possible to develop those skills in those at all levels and in all areas of the given enterprise. In this book, Useem explains with meticulous care how to achieve both objectives. At this point, I presume to share two opinions of my own with which Useem presumably agrees. First, that mutual trust is the "glue" that holds all organizations together. Healthy relationships are nourished and sustained by it. Also, that both "leading up" and "leading down" must be among the core competencies of greatest importance and highest priority. Everything humanly possible must be done to develop the skills they require to generate and sustain a continuous flow of "unvarnished information, unbiased advice, and unswerving support at the times when it really counts."
In this volume, Useem focuses on eight quite different real world situations to demonstrate what the consequences can be when there is a presence or absence of "leading up" and "leading down." For example, in Chapter 1, he explains how General Robert E. Lee kept his Commander in Chief (Jefferson Davis) fully informed whereas General George B. McClellan did not. In fact, McClelland scorned President Lincoln as "not a man of strong character." At the same time, General Joseph E. Johnston viewed his own Commander in Chief, Davis, with equal scorn and was eventually replaced, as was McClelland. As Useem suggests, the "leading up" business lesson to be learned is that "the vital bond between commander and commander in chief, between manager and executive, is an enduring and enriched relationship. For that, an open flow of information and an open display of respect are essential." Lee and Ulysses S. Grant exemplify that; Johnston and McClelland do not.
In Chapter 7, "Designing a Future Your Boss Can't Quite Envision," Useem explains how Charlene Barshefsky negotiated the U.S. trade agreement with China on behalf of president, Bill Clinton, and how Domingo Cavallo stabilized the Argentine currency on behalf his president, Carlos Menem. Obviously, these are quite different situations in terms of ultimate goals as well as perils as well as opportunities. Each situation required different strategies and tactics. However, there is a "leading up" business lesson to be learned from both: "Building the lateral backing that your superiors need to implement a contentious but otherwise sensible initiative is an essential precondition for ultimately making it happen. The indispensable elements for success: a judicious combination of compelling concepts, detailed prescriptions, and retail persuasion."
If anything, this book is even more relevant and more valuable now than it was when first published several years ago. Thank you, Michael Useem.
weLEAD Book Review from leadingtoday.org.......2004-12-22
Leaders are not just bosses. In fact, some of the most effective leaders in an organization may be those leading the boss! Leading up is about helping your superiors lead and do their job better. Everyone can lead up. Even if you are a CEO you will need to lead your board and stockholders.
Michael Useem, the author of Leading Up, is professor of management and the director of the Center for Leadership and Change Management at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. His writing style uses detailed cases from military history, politics, business and even stories of Biblical figures to emphasize the need to lead up. I found some of the stories a bit long and detailed, going beyond what some readers might desire in order to grasp the point being made. However, if you enjoy this presentation style, the cases are well written and provide fascinating insights into actual historical events.
Professor Useem says that business has often looked to the military model for lessons in leadership "because of the seemingly impervious top-down authority system." Using actual military stories, the author demonstrates that the military model can also offer invaluable lessons that are just the opposite. Encouraging your subordinates to say what is positive or negative about a plan before you impose an order can often avoid costly errors, or even save lives. Creating a culture that stimulates and rewards upward leadership is critical in today's complex environment where no single individual can possibly have all the answers. Useem says, "The military might appear to be the last place on earth where upward leadership is tolerated, but in fact such leadership is obligatory." Encouraging upward challenges can keep a leader on course regarding adherence to principles.
The book also forcefully demonstrates that redefining an institution's reality is one of the greatest tests of leading up. Changing well-established worldviews is certainly a difficult task, but the very fact that it is so difficult underscores the "overriding importance of achieving it." Often the redefining of a superior's misplaced perceptions, or clarifying a superiors' understanding of a situation requires extraordinary steps. This is one of the greatest challenges to leading up.
Sometimes a subordinate must exercise the courage to ask the boss to elaborate and clarify inadequate instructions or an unclear strategy. Often a superior does not specifically seek this type of leading up. Nevertheless, such challenges can often make the difference between failure and success.
If you enjoy reading detailed, but interesting leadership stories, accompanied by succinct lessons in leading up, then this is a book for you. If you are looking for a quick read of principles and leadership philosophy, you will not find that in this work.
Review by Dr. J. Howard Baker
Good book.....you should pick it up...........2004-12-16
Typically when someone thinks about leadership, they believe the flow of power and authority to take a downward course. Although leadership usually gets delegated in such a manner, in Michael Unseem¡¦s book, Leading Up, he recommends that leadership must come from below as well as from the top. During the course of this book, examples taken as far back as biblical times are used to compare and contrast between individuals who were constantly in tune with their superiors to those individuals who were not in close communication with their superiors. I will be discussing the decisions that David Pottruck and Thomas Wyman made during their roles of senior company executives that caused them to dominate or disintegrate in their industry. By and large, based on the experiences of various individuals in this book, it is vital that a person become comfortable with and communicate to their superiors for the overall success of all parties involved in any endeavor.
STRENGTHS
X Keep your superiors well informed of what you have done, what you are doing and what you plan to do.
X Persuade your boss of a new course with a path that is right, a rationale that is airtight, and a determination that is steadfast.
X Step up to a moment when you can make the difference even if your superiors fail to see it and the risks are grave in seizing it.
X Even if you are CEO, remember that your directors and investors are your bosses, and never surprise any of them
X Convey intents downward and interests upward, transforming what your superior and subordinates want into what all deserve (Useem 281)
WEAKNESSES
I felt that the author did a good job using actual examples and consequences of existing CEO¡¦s and various other individuals. The one thing that bothered me about Mr. Useem¡¦s presentation in this book was in the example of Romeo Dellaire. ¡§If your superiors need to appreciate a grave threat to the institution but are simply not getting it, you may find it essential to transcend the normal channels of communication to drive home a message that they must come to appreciate¡¨ (Useem 88). Useem stated this as the lesson in leading up. I believe that there is only so much of a circumstance that is under your control and if one was to challenge authority in an unprofessional manner it will not resolve the matter at hand regardless of consequences by staying steadfast. Useem needed to constructively break down what he meant by that lesson. Or he should have given a means to make that lesson applicable.
RECOMMENDATION
I felt that the book was very informative. Although during certain instances in the book, the flow of information tends to slow down because of some of the examples. Despite this flaw, I highly recommend this book to anyone who is considering a career in business or management. This book makes one realize how important communication between channels is in this growing era of decentralized management. Without proper teamwork efforts of keeping internal affairs efficient, any corporation can diminish and loose its competitive advantage.
Excellent resource for companies with communication problems.......2003-05-13
I was really disappointed to read several of the other reviews that felt this book was so poor. I found the style of the book to be quite helpful. The historical analysis of events were interesting and useful to me in my everyday business interactions. My company needs to be able to "Lead Up", let the boss know what is going on without fear, and "Lead Down", to bring in the ideas from all quarters of the company.
Our company is currently in crisis and the book is giving me ideas about how to get inforamtion and ideas up and down the chain of command. There is nothing worse than the image of employees ideas rotting on the shelf while the business goes under. This book encouraged me to speak my mind, lead up, lead down and in general be a better leader.
The book also addresses the leadership culture that promotes leading up and leading down.
The only reason I can think that other people did not get much out of this book is that they already knew about these concepts, or they did not identify with the stories/analysis.
Book Description
A true life, how it was done, play by play book, that's full of ups and downs and ultimately culminates with a 20,000% return in real estate. This is a perfect book for anyone starting out or thinking about making a move into a career on Wall Street or an investor in real estate. It's a put it all on the line and let it ride motivational and informative story about starting on Wall Street at a young age of 19, and working up to the major firms and becoming a million dollar producer, then having the 2000 tech wreck take a business apart. After a 10 year build up, with major cycles along the way and finally reaching the million dollar production level comes a complete loss on Wall Street and a total change of direction from tech stocks to real estate. Starting with no cash, only the equity in a home this book proves it's possible to leverage up and grow a business and succeed through sheer force of will. Learn how to zone in on what you really want and get there step by step. Take a bird eyes look at deal analysis and find out what it takes to make them happen.
Customer Reviews:
MOTIVATING!.......2006-11-15
This is a motivating book about how a Wall Street lover moved to become a real estate guru. This is not a bad read and should be in anyone's library. Please note one key component is his capital, he had something to start with. If you have nothing to start with, you might want to look at asset buildling slowly or partnering up.
Other supplementary titles:
Complete Guide to Real Estate Tax Liens and Foreclosure Deeds: Learn in 7 Days
A 20,000% Gain in Real Estate: A True Story About the Ups And Downs from Wall Street to Real Estate Leading Up to Phenomenal Ret.......2006-09-30
The book was descent, far from the best book I've read on the subject of real estate investing. However, the author does an excellent job in sharing the tactics that he used to purchase commercial property by using as much
leverage as possible,with a partner. I highly recommend this book and "2 Years to a Million in Real Estate
by Matthew A. Martinez. A MUCH better read and contains allot more information on the same type of concepts
Break out the Calculator.......2006-09-17
$15,000 to $3,000,000 is 20,000% on the button
And $3 million is lowballing it. It's more like $5 million.
Kevin Kingston.
Phenomenally Motivating Story!.......2006-08-01
I read this book a few times and have used the principles outlined to do a couple of deals myself. Similar to the author I used the equity in my house to purchase 2 apartment buildings and now have more equity in those two buildings than I can believe. This is the book that pushed me to do it and I would highly recommend reading it!
I was on the fence about using a credit line to invest in the stock market or real estate, boy am I happy I read this book. It was just what I needed at the right time and helped me realize the importance of cash flow, leverage and principal pay down.
Disregard the authors math.......2006-08-01
First, the title must just be for eye-catching purposes, because no matter how you value his portfolio, he made nowhere close to a 20,000% return on his initial investment. And be forwarned, when he says its a story '... from Wall Street to Real Estate...' he means it. 40 pages of this 124 page book are about his stockbroking career. Having said that, it is a great book about what to look for, even though he himself even says it will probably be next to impossible to find these type of returns in todays market, and how he did it.
Book Description
First published in 1949 in the aftermath of Partition, and now available for the first time in paperback, Stern Reckoning documents in great detail the riots, massacres, casualty figures, and political occurrences that added up to the division of India into two countries, India and Pakistan.
It has, in the forty years since its publication, become a well-known source work for historians of modern India as a representative of the political and historiographical perspectives of the time it documents.
Customer Reviews:
Excellent Record of the events leading to and after Partitio.......1999-09-07
Khosla dispasionatly details the story of the Partition. The book is based upon a commission that was appointed by the government of India exactly after partition. Its an accurate record of one of the largest genocides in this century. A must read for anyone of Indian decent.
Book Description
Fundraisers at all levels discover the art of leading up
Fundraisers know that in order to be successful in their demanding profession, they have to get things done. And to get things done, they need to exercise leadership from whatever rank or position they hold—often from the middle. This concept is called "leading up." Recognizing that all fundraisers must be leaders, Leading Up teaches professionals the skills and traits they need to be successful in their philanthropic roles.
Leading Up centers around author Lilya Wagner's unique model, which exemplifies the concept of leading up. Here, fundraisers will discover: how to get things done when they're not in charge; how to motivate others when they don't have formal authority; how to convince or persuade their colleagues and superiors about their need for action and involvement; and how to lead when they're not recognized leaders by virtue of power or position.
Focusing on problem-solving concepts, Leading Up is packed with thought provoking questions, exercises, and practical application steps that allow professionals to practice and implement the principles they've just learned. The book also includes inspirational quotes on leadership from recognized and successful professionals and leaders.
Leadership qualities have to be learned and practiced by all who wish to achieve success in fundraising, whether boss or not. Leading Up provides readers with the groundwork they need to not only build up their causes and organizations, but also influence a professional field that is still developing.
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Leading Up centers around a model created by the authors that exemplifies the concept of leading from the middle. The model is based on achieving a balance among organizational leadership requirements; positional leadership responsibilities, needs, assignments, demands; and the development and use of personal leadership traits. It includes thought questions, exercises, and practical application steps that allow the reader to apply the principles discussed.
Customer Reviews:
Don't waste your money.......2006-10-23
Don't let the jacket copy and chapter titles tempt you. Leading Up by Lilya Wagner raises a myriad of questions, but supplies no concrete advice or examples on how mid-level fundraisers may implement leadership. Wagner says the same things over and over largely by quoting other sources. The result is a confusing array of leadership definitions, characteristics, and skills, but zero inspiration and ample frustration.
The middle of the book, which promises a new model for leadership, instead gives such elementary information as descriptions of tasks fundraisers must accomplish and titles fundraisers may have. Wagner cites no case studies with answers or examples from fundraisers successfully leading those in higher positions or on their boards. The only transformation this book will produce is in your wallet. If you are a college sophomore majoring in fundraising, this book may be required reading. I'll give you my copy.
Great Personal Resource Book for Every Fund Raiser .......2006-08-05
Dr. Wagner's book is a great personal resource for every fund-raising professional--particularly for those new to the field. The author takes one through a self-exploration process and includes the insights and views of other professionals. At the end of each chapter is a series of questions that allows one to reflect on the issues raised in the chapter, in addition to some case histories to consider plus tips on developing your skills.
Dr. Wagner's extensive experience in fund raising and her teaching ability is evident by the way she has laid out each chapter that builds on a sound foundation. From one who has been in fund raising, this is a useful tool that would help any fund raising professional take the next steps for developing their leadership potential and skills.
Ideas for Thinkers.......2006-07-26
Leadership is a funny thing...many of us have had those jobs that we dread going into each day. It is usually the dynamics that are generated from the top-down that create the environment that destroys our spirit and willingness to strive harder for the good of the organization. When we move on we often take the very ideas and energy that could have made that organization more successful, but our contribution was not wanted, much less solicited, often due to poor leadership styles.
Folks often say, "[y]ou won't get rich working in non-profits", but to some of us that is not why we are there. The richness we seek is registered in many different ways, it could be our excitement at goals reached, often times as a team, or other intangibles that keep up going and the job worthwhile. The very nature of many nonprofits is people helping each other in accomplishing something that they share a belief or stake in.
No one author can address all the unique situations that leaders (directors, managers, bosses, etc.) encounter. When an author can introduce and expand on an idea that works towards teaching leadership that helps fulfill the need of the organization and the individual then it is going to be of interest to many of us who believe in that "team" approach. Working relationships becomes symbiotic, and contributing staff help move the success forward to completion of a goal.
There are too many well-educated and intelligent people out there that aren't given an opportunity to assist their organization in growth, often because of the style of leadership of the ranking individual who may be called a number of titles that fall under the idea of leading.
In this instructive little manual we have a workbook, we have examples, we have ideas and a great bibliography for further reading. I found Dr. Wagner's book a very worthwhile read. If you want some help in learning how to make your ideas heard and count, then I suggest you read this book.
Five Stars.......2006-07-19
Strong leadership is the key to the success of any organization and Dr. Wagner provides her readers with thought provoking material that serves as a guide to determine what your best leadership practice are and how to apply them to the fundraising profession. The author brings the reader full circle - from presenting the concept of leading up, or leading from any level, to how to use these principles on a daily basis. I found this both extremely helpful and motivational. It is a "must have" for every professional fundraiser!
Leading Up is a Big Thumbs Up.......2006-07-17
Dr. Wagner's book on leading up should be read by all fund raisers and nonprofit managers alike. Working from the middle as a fund raiser is common but our work is usually of the highest importance. The work will help you learn how to balance it all.
Written by a past winner of the Skystone Ryan Prize for research on fundraising and philanthropy, and one of today's leading fund raising practitioners, the book is a valued part of my personal library.
Books:
- How To Write A Proposal That's Accepted Every Time
- How To Write A Proposal That's Accepted Every Time
- I Hate Red, You're Fired!: The Colorful Life of an Interior Designer
- Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq's Green Zone
- Insider Secrets to Financing Your Real Estate Investments: What Every Real Estate Investor Needs to Know About Finding and Financing Your Next Deal
- Journey to the Emerald City: Achieve A Competitive Edge by Creating A Culture of Accountability
- Killing Yourself to Live: 85% of a True Story
- Leading Change
- Love 'Em or Lose 'Em: Getting Good People to Stay (3rd Edition)
- Manufacturing the Future: A History of Western Electric
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- Labeling People
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Quiet Strength: The Principles, Practices, & Priorities of a Winning Life
Quiet Strength: Mens Bible Study
Beyond Basketball: Coach K's Keywords for Success
Leading with the Heart: Coach K's Successful Strategies for Basketball, Business, and Life
You Haven't Taught Until They Have Learned: John Wooden's Teaching Principles and Practices
