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Title: Walk the Walk
Subtitle: The #1 Rule for Real Leaders
Author: Alan Deutschman
Narrator: Jim Bond
Format: Unabridged
Length: 5 hrs and 8 mins
Language: English
Release date: 09-03-09
Publisher: Brilliance Audio
Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 5 votes
Genres: Business, Leadership
Publisher's Summary:
Today's business landscape is mired with hypocrisy and false promises. Leaders need to practice what they preach - even if what they preach takes them into possibly uncharted and unorthodox territory. What if top executives were completely clear about their organizations' first virtues, and those virtues represented a real change from what nearly all of the business community had always practiced?
Walk the Walk is a must-listen for anyone who aspires to be a leader or to understand leadership. Author Alan Deutschman explains that leaders striving to create change can rely on only two tools: what they say and how they act. But in today's skeptical world, few of us will believe what they say, especially when they're pursuing audacious goals and challenging our deep-rooted beliefs and practices.
Walk the Walk shows how aspiring leaders must inspire and teach us through their own actions. Deutschman's analysis is informed by his two-decades of experience as a journalist covering the most prominent business figures of our times. He portrays dramatic and illuminating examples of leadership - not only in business but also in politics, the military, education, and social change.
©2009 Alan Deutschman; (P)2009 Brilliance Audio, Inc.
Members Reviews:
Six Important Take-Aways From Walk the Walk
In Alan Deutschman's book Walk the Walk, The #1 rule for leaders he debunks the common phrase we all have heard "Do as I say, not as I do". All leaders and non leaders alike recognize the fundamental truth that individuals, families, teams, organizations and entire companies are best lead by example. As soon as your example and actions don't match your words your credibility as a leader is diminished regardless of your title.
Here are six important take-aways from Walk the Walk.
I. For a leader every moment is a teachable moment for the rest of the organization.
II. "the most crucial role of a leader is establishing and instilling the one or two values that will be most important to the organization..." Please note Deutschman states one or two, not six or seven values.
III. A lot of leaders practice lemmingship rather than leadership because their actions don't match the values the speak.
IV. "The general must make himself the eyes of his own army. John Keegan" It is not enough to depend on reports or information provided by those directly working for you. You must periodically go, see and be an example at the working level.
V. "Leaders must share the struggle...sharing the struggle, the risk, and the hardship..."
VI. "Leadership is about creating change, so its greatest challenge comes when change seems nearly impossible - when people feel helpless and their situation appears hopeless.
Even though a lot of us know the fundamental truths of leadership it is easy to slowly drift away from those truths. This book is a good refresher to remind you of sticking to the fundamental truth of leading by example. This book is worth your time because of the stories and illustrations used to drive the points home and I found it worthy enough to send copies to my clients.
Dr. James T. Brown PMP PE CSP
Author, The Handbook of Program Management
Five Stars
i love this book
Very Entertaining, interesting and hit the hit the nail on the head
This is a great book.
