Everything We Know About Leadership: Is Less Than We Still Have To Learn

author: Jeff Golden

name: Wayne

average rating: 4.00

book published: 2013

rating: 3

read at: 2014/05/22

date added: 2014/05/22

shelves: non-fiction-business

review:

'Everything We Know About Leadership: Is Less Than We Still Have To Learn' is a distillation of 30 years of the ALF program. American Leadership Forum was started to combat the back room deals of government and establish a dialogue between leaders with different viewpoints and agendas.



The book briefly discusses the origins of the program, then gives a framework for what occurs in a year of the ALF program. Breaking down barriers and establishing trust are key, and are not always easy in this particular environment, but there is groundbreaking community building as a result. The book is full of testimonials from ALF Senior Fellows to illustrate the successes and failures. There are more successes than failures, but I applaud a book which recognizes there can be challenges among leaders with disparate roles and backgrounds. In a time when dialogue seems possible among groups that disagree, it's encouraging to know there is a group that is trying to build bridges instead of walls.



The book is written by Jeff Golden with collaboration from among many in the ALF program. Now that I know more about the ALF program, this seems only natural and right. Interesting and encouraging.



I was given a review copy of this ebook by American Leadership Forum and Netgalley in exchange for an honest review. Thank you for allowing me to review this book.





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