Title: A simplistic and misleading attempt.
Product review: With a title that includes "Complete Idiot" in it, I realize that this is a primer on the subject. Unfortunately, it's a baaad primer. Dubrin writes as though leadership can be reduced to a simple set of steps that almost anyone can master. I could almost hear someone on a late-night infomercial hawking: "You too can be a leader! Make more money; wield more power; have more people looking up to you!" Leadership is for the benefit of the followers, not the enrichment of the leaders. Leadership is something that one does for others, not for oneself. Dubrin's attempt at simplification is misleading at best. Covey's "Priniciple Centered Leadership" or almost any book on the subject by Warren Bennis will provide a far better introduction to this important quality.
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