Leadership for Dummies

Features

• Cover Type: Paperback with 384 pages
• Published by: For Dummies
• Edition: 1st Edition August 24, 1999
• Written in: English
• ISBN 10 Number: 0764551760
• ISBN 13 Number: 978-0764551765
• Book Dimensions: 8.9 x 7.2 x 1 inches
• Weighs: 1.2 pounds

Reader Reviews
This is an excellent how-to guide for left-leaning "touchy-feely" types who think, as the authors do, that "one of the reasons that violence in schools has increased among teenagers is that they spend too much time in church hearing that their behavior is considered evil and aberrant" (p. 325) and who write things like dress codes "are a vestige of the old-fashioned command economy and should be allowed to die the death they deserve" (p. 313). Equating attending church with high school killings is actually offensive, in addition to being flat wrong. And in the real world group identity is helped along precisely by things like dress codes - unless you are a zoned-out hippie. But then again, hippies all dressed alike. Interesting to see the degree of conformity among our diversity-mongers! Some of the authors' ideas are downright weird: "One of the greatest stumbling blocks to creating a diverse workplace is toleration....Toleration at the very least is condescension." (p. 313) That a major basis for modern Western political evolution of democracy would so glibly be consigned to the garbage can is a sign the authors are not very deep or serious thinkers. Accepting the right of others to do as they see fit does not imply one must agree with what they do or morally condone it - that's the essence of diversity. The authors seem to imply but like most people on the political left never come out and say, that we should accept as equally legitimate just about everything. It's that veiled nihilism parading as enlightenment that makes the text so useless. It is not connected to the real world!! The nucleus of the text is really quite simple, but there is considerable embellishment and fluff; a good editing could have pared this 350-plus page work down to a more merciful 100-125 pages. Comment | | (Report this)