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Title: Very refutable
Review: This hugely popular leadership guru has an ego to match, telling stories about how great he is at creating new leaders and inspiring people at his conferences. And when he's not telling stories about himself, he's telling stories that have very little to do with the laws they are supposedly propping up. During the second and third listen through the tapes, I kept thinking, "That has almost nothing to do with what he's saying."Perhaps he deals with it in other books, but Maxwell never lets on to what leadership really is. He claims it's "influence," but why not just talk about influence then? And what are the goals of leadership? By not addressing the goals of leadership, Maxwell merely feeds on the narcisicism of his readers, who long to be "leaders" themselves because being a leader is cool.Stick to Max De Pree's Leadership in an Art for some truly thoughtful and humble reflections from a man who really was a great leader.
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