A searching and cleareyed leadership blueprint for the 21st century.
An author and associate professor provides an in-depth breakdown and study of executive-level leadership in the business world.
White (Leadership and Professional Development, 2012) opens her work with a simple question: why another business leadership tome to add to the towering pile already in print? And her answer is astonishing: “There is not a book that blends into one whole the what, when, how, and why of leadership and professional development for emerging leaders and shares the secrets of executive-level leadership.” There are literally thousands—perhaps tens of thousands—of volumes that do exactly this, and since White must know that, readers must search elsewhere for justification for the guide’s existence. They won’t have to look far: White is a very open and engaging writer, and she presents readers her concept of “motiva-cation”—a blend of motivation and education—as a series of elaborations on the system she has devised, the Johnson White Leadership Model. The JWLM is organized around three “modules”: Focus, Action, and Great Leadership. White—who worked at IBM in marketing, sales, and training—moves straight to the details of each one and how they interrelate. In this scheme, Focus examines the inner person and the ability to sell oneself; Action addresses interpersonal elements such as character and self-expression; and Great Leadership brings together these threads and directs them outward, concentrating on team building and thinking on the organizational level. White walks her readers through all of these larger categories and refreshingly grounds them in both a wide array of business writings by contemporary authors (and not so current: the great Dale Carnegie gets his due) and some very nuts-and-bolts analysis of modern corporate culture—differentiating, for instance, among sponsors, mentors, coaches, advisers, and role models. The author rounds everything off with a very approachable personal tone. White, a business instructor at Morehouse College in Atlanta, mentions early on that the book is suitable for seminar and academic use, and its complexity bears this out. Business students should find a great deal to interest and challenge them in these pages.
A searching and cleareyed leadership blueprint for the 21st century.Pub Date: Feb. 1, 2017
ISBN: 978-1-5127-7101-5
Page Count: 338
Publisher: Westbow Press
Review Posted Online: July 19, 2017
Review Program: Kirkus Indie
Worthwhile reference stuffed with facts and illustrations.
A compendium of charts, time lines, lists and illustrations to accompany study of the Bible.
This visually appealing resource provides a wide array of illustrative and textually concise references, beginning with three sets of charts covering the Bible as a whole, the Old Testament and the New Testament. These charts cover such topics as biblical weights and measures, feasts and holidays and the 12 disciples. Most of the charts use a variety of illustrative techniques to convey lessons and provide visual interest. A worthwhile example is “How We Got the Bible,” which provides a time line of translation history, comparisons of canons among faiths and portraits of important figures in biblical translation, such as Jerome and John Wycliffe. The book then presents a section of maps, followed by diagrams to conceptualize such structures as Noah’s Ark and Solomon’s Temple. Finally, a section on Christianity, cults and other religions describes key aspects of history and doctrine for certain Christian sects and other faith traditions. Overall, the authors take a traditionalist, conservative approach. For instance, they list Moses as the author of the Pentateuch (the first five books of the Hebrew Bible) without making mention of claims to the contrary. When comparing various Christian sects and world religions, the emphasis is on doctrine and orthodox theology. Some chapters, however, may not completely align with the needs of Catholic and Orthodox churches. But the authors’ leanings are muted enough and do not detract from the work’s usefulness. As a resource, it’s well organized, inviting and visually stimulating. Even the most seasoned reader will learn something while browsing.
Worthwhile reference stuffed with facts and illustrations.Pub Date: Sept. 1, 2005
ISBN: 978-1-5963-6022-8
Page Count: -
Publisher: N/A
Review Posted Online: May 23, 2010
Review Program: Kirkus Indie
This a book of earlier, philosophical essays concerned with the essential "absurdity" of life and the concept that- to overcome the strong tendency to suicide in every thoughtful man-one must accept life on its own terms with its values of revolt, liberty and passion. A dreary thesis- derived from and distorting the beliefs of the founders of existentialism, Jaspers, Heldegger and Kierkegaard, etc., the point of view seems peculiarly outmoded. It is based on the experience of war and the resistance, liberally laced with Andre Gide's excessive intellectualism. The younger existentialists such as Sartre and Camus, with their gift for the terse novel or intense drama, seem to have omitted from their philosophy all the deep religiosity which permeates the work of the great existentialist thinkers. This contributes to a basic lack of vitality in themselves, in these essays, and ten years after the war Camus seems unaware that the life force has healed old wounds... Largely for avant garde aesthetes and his special coterie.
Pub Date: Sept. 26, 1955
ISBN: 0679733736
Page Count: 228
Publisher: Knopf
Review Posted Online: Sept. 19, 2011
Kirkus Reviews Issue: Sept. 1, 1955
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