The book seems targeting a specific audience, leaders who are already successful and want to be more successful but due to some unconscious or unrecognizable behaviors they are kept away from where they want to be. As the author explains, “the higher you go in executive management, the more your problems are behavioral”. But how can it be possible for people in this group who are already successful to change their behavior? Moreover to change those specific habits and skills that got them where they are. The author identifies these 20 “bad habits” and referring to them I think that the book is useful for everyone not only for the targeted audience. Everyone can find him/herself in at least one of these “bad habits’” which may have always been there but we never thought of them.
Section 3 of the book, “How we can change for the better?” is also interesting. I should extract only the third point which, speaking for me, I never thought of it before, “Telling the world, or advertising.” I think it is a good point as it does not only help the others to monitor our change but makes us more responsible toward the others, makes us “keep the promise”.
Finally I think that this book should be advised to everyone that is part of an organization as a leader or as a subordinate.
Dear Ornela,
YanıtlaSilI liked your post and I agree with the issues you have mentioned in it.
I find the quote “the higher you go in executive management, the more your problems are behavioral” to be very true. The higher you are in the executive scale the more a targeted figure you become. Not only your decisions become the center of attention and importance but the approach you have towards these decisions as well.
Regards
S.K.