In this pivotal book, business leader David Traversi examines the eight drivers common to all great leaders and offers advice on how readers can cultivate these powerful predictors of success and influence in their own professional lives. This description may be from another edition of this product.
Too often self-help books stimulate the reader while the pages turn, but after the back cover closes the session is over and on we go. David M. Traversi avoids that route in publishing a book, the result of his years as a motivational speaker and writer and coach, that on the surface is a primer for executive search teams to determine who among the hundreds of applicants for CEO jobs deserve to be termed 'leaders', but for...
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I received this book just after finishing up the book-DVD combination of Deepak Chopra's "The Seven Spirtual Laws of Success," and there is a very visible link in my mind between the two. This book fills an important niche and is unique in its class. It communicates all the stuff that CEOs like me do not want to hear, that is so popular in ecotopia--squishy stuff like "be in harmony with nature," etc. The book also avoids,...
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The Source of Leadership is no less than phenomenal. Phenomenal in how it exposes what many leaders would call subtle personal characteristics - or drivers, as Traversi describes them - as the real core of effective leadership. As I read the book, I reflected on all the very effective leaders with whom I have worked and, indeed, they possessed the drivers described in this book. For instance, Traversi identifies personal responsibility...
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I LOVE this book! The most refreshing book on leadership I have ever read, and I have read scores of them. My library includes a lot of the classics cited by Traversi, like Built to Last by Collins and Porras, The Leadership Engine by Tichy and Cohen, and The Leadership Challenge by Kouzes and Posner. Don't get me wrong...you have to read those. They define what the leader is supposed to be and do. Without them, you wouldn't...
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The Source of Leadership is the first book on leadership that I have read that goes far beyond the traditional leadership theory books that provide lists of character traits, and the varoius identified styles and leadership types. David Traversi identifies the state of leadership in today's society and then proceeds to show the reader how to incorporate the 8 drivers into his/her life to enable not just leadership ability,...
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