{"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

I just completed Leadership Effectiveness Training<\/a> by Thomas Gordon. It was recommended reading for leaders at my company. It\u2019s a book from the late 70’s that seems to have shaped modern leadership thinking. 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’s one page 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

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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’s or 80’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

I tend to listen or read business or technical books all the time. You can see…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

… more of my Audible book reviews here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

… more of my Kindle\/Paperback reviews here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

… books I have authored here<\/a>. (Except the scripture book, not mine.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I just completed Leadership Effectiveness Training by Thomas Gordon. It was recommended reading for leaders at my company. It\u2019s a book from the late 70’s that seems to have shaped modern leadership thinking. 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 […]<\/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,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-book-reviews"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t