Leadership Book Selection

Leadership Book Analysis

Write an analysis that applies 10 key concepts of the selected book to your experiences in the workplace / community / classroom / family.

• Use specific examples from your experience (you can change the names if you like).
   
• Use APA style for any cited sources in the paper.
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• What did you learn? Ah ha’s?
   
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Criteria: Microsoft Word only, double-spaced, 12 point font, cite all sources using APA.  

Grammar and Spelling Count!!!!   -.5 per error, I stop grading at 20 such errors.

Cover and reference pages required …. 10 pts.

Rubric: 10 key concepts from book, 4 points each … 40pts.

10 related personal experiences, 2 points each …. 20 pts.

Related Ah Ha for each key concept, 2 points each … 20 pts.

What did you learn summary paragraph… 10 points

Book list - 9 from which to select: Choose 1 book from the list 

TITLES  

• The Speed of Trust by Stephen M.R. Covey  
   
• It’s The Manager: The Largest Global Study of the Future of Work by Jim Clifton & Jim Harter  
   
• Everyone Deserves a Great Manager: the 6 Critical Practices for Leading a Team by Scott Miller  
   
• Bad Leadership: What is it, How it Happens, Why it Matters  by Barbara Kellerman  
   
• Nine Lies About Work: A Freethinking Leader’s Guide to the Real World by Marcus Buckingham & Ashley Goodall  
   
• Leading Teams: Setting the Stage for Great Performances by J. Richard Hackman  
   
• Crucial Conversations: Tools for talking when stakes are high by Kerry Patterson, Joseph Grenny, Ron McMillan, Al Switzler
   
• Pre-suasion: A Revolutionary Way to Influence and Persuade by Robert Cialdini
   
• Leadershift: 11 Essential changes every leader must embrace by John Maxwell (not the workbook)