The Art of Leadership, Michael Lopp
The Art of Leadership, Michael Lopp
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The Art of Leadership
Small Things, Done Well

Author: Michael Lopp

Narrator: Joe Scalora

Unabridged: 5 hr 23 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Ascent Audio

Published: 03/08/2021


Synopsis

Many people think leadership is a higher calling that resides exclusively with a select few who practice and preach big, complex leadership philosophies. But as this practical book reveals, what's most important for leadership is principled consistency. Time and again, small things done well build trust and respect within a team.

Using stories from his time at Netscape, Apple, and Slack, Michael Lopp presents a series of small but compelling practices to help you build leadership skills. You'll learn how to create teams that are highly productive, highly respected, and highly trusted. Lopp has been speaking and writing about this topic for over a decade and now maintains a Slack leadership channel with over 13,000 members.

The essays in this book examine the practical skills Lopp learned from exceptional leaders-as a manager at Netscape, a senior manager and director at Apple, and an executive at Slack. You'll learn how to apply these lessons to your own experience.

Reviews

A very good read. I'm not sure whether you agree, but IMHO books about management/leadership are rarely fun to read. They can be very informative, interesting, thought-provoking, but rarely "fun". TAoL is "fun". First thing - the language. It's very direct, informal. I'd call it: blog-post style. Somet......more

Goodreads review by Dmytro

I really enjoyed reading this leadership book. Picked up something for myself. few of my notes: 1. Tasting the soup by asking small, but critical questions is important part of leadership 2. Delegate until it hurts 3. Say the hard things. Actively hearing the hard things. 4. Build your org chat not based......more

Goodreads review by Timon

Incredibly entertaining read. Lopp is a master at telling engaging little stories that demand your attention. Unfortunately many of the chapters, while well-written, were a little too fluffy for my taste. I am a fan of advice that sounds equally good no matter whose mouth it's coming from. I fear th......more

Goodreads review by Jan

Déjà vu if you've read "Managing Humans"......more