{"id":232,"date":"2019-10-11T02:34:50","date_gmt":"2019-10-11T02:34:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chrisharden.com\/?p=232"},"modified":"2019-10-11T02:34:58","modified_gmt":"2019-10-11T02:34:58","slug":"book-review-leadership-effectiveness-training","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chrisharden.com\/index.php\/2019\/10\/11\/book-review-leadership-effectiveness-training\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Review: Leadership Effectiveness Training"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I just completed&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B001RIS5E2\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=chrisharden-20&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;creativeASIN=B001RIS5E2&amp;linkId=cdeb84eb76afaff0ec458a8b2a0dba34\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Leadership Effectiveness Training<\/a>&nbsp;by Thomas Gordon.&nbsp;It was recommended reading for leaders at my company.&nbsp;It\u2019s a book from the late 70&#8217;s that seems to have shaped modern leadership thinking.&nbsp;I found in it many things that I just grew up learning about leadership, but I did not know from where they came. My favorite portion of the book is Gordon&#8217;s one page&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gordontraining.com\/free-workplace-articles\/a-credo-for-your-relationships-with-others\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">credo<\/a>, which I printed and placed on my wall as a reminder of the leader and person I want to be (and for daily inspiration).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media.licdn.com\/dms\/image\/C4E12AQFS43mwERyOhw\/article-inline_image-shrink_1500_2232\/0?e=1576108800&amp;v=beta&amp;t=_WFaIxQU7ODmd72odxo-897hrqLpvl7dUO64ZQK4zEE\" alt=\"No alt text provided for this image\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This book is about a 2.5 stars out of 5 these days, simply because most of what it communicates has now been adopted by modern managers. Had I read it back in the 70&#8217;s or 80&#8217;s, I might have given it a full 5 stars, based on the older mindsets of the time that it describes. It has lots of meat and a little bit of potatoes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I tend to listen or read business or technical books all the time. You can see&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8230; more of my Audible book reviews&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.audible.com\/listener\/Chris-Harden\/A1Y2BUG1K51QSM\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8230; more of my Kindle\/Paperback reviews&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/profile\/amzn1.account.AGHKW5YBKRHDNIXE66PHFRWCWDCQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8230; books I have authored&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/s\/ref=dp_byline_sr_ebooks_2?ie=UTF8&amp;text=Chris+Harden&amp;search-alias=digital-text&amp;field-author=Chris+Harden&amp;sort=relevancerank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">here<\/a>. (Except the scripture book, not mine.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just completed&nbsp;Leadership Effectiveness Training&nbsp;by Thomas Gordon.&nbsp;It was recommended reading for leaders at my company.&nbsp;It\u2019s a book from the late 70&#8217;s that seems to have shaped modern leadership thinking.&nbsp;I found in it many things that I just grew up learning about leadership, but I did not know from where they came. My favorite portion of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":233,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-book-reviews"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chrisharden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/0-22.jpg?fit=900%2C549&ssl=1","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chrisharden.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chrisharden.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chrisharden.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chrisharden.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chrisharden.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=232"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/chrisharden.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":234,"href":"https:\/\/chrisharden.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232\/revisions\/234"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chrisharden.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chrisharden.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chrisharden.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chrisharden.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}