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Leadership Sopranos Style: How to Become a More Effective Boss
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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 658.4092
EAN: 9780793181506
Edition: 2nd
ISBN: 079318150X
Label: Dearborn Trade Publishing
Manufacturer: Dearborn Trade Publishing
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 189
Publication Date: January 01, 2004
Publisher: Dearborn Trade Publishing
Release Date: December 01, 2003
Studio: Dearborn Trade Publishing
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Editorial Review:
Conflicting loyalties. Terminations. A changing culture. New competitive threats. These phrases describe the challenges facing many of today's most successful businesses. They also describe the challenges facing another profitable organization-television's Soprano family. As the boss of the family, Tony Soprano knows the difficulties of being an effective leader in an environment of change, complexity, and crisis. He has experienced the struggle to find and keep talent. And as for loyalty fuhgetaboutit! When it comes to business, you need more than loyalty if you're gonna avoid swimming with the fishes. Today's environment can leave even the most efficient boss feeling powerless, unable to make decisions or implement them. Tony Soprano knows that if you wanna get things done, you can't continue to lead as you have in the past. Author Debbie Himsel has been exposed to virtually every leadership theory and development methodology. In Leadership Soprano Style, she makes a clear case that Tony Soprano is the Jack Welch of his particular industry-that his management style brilliantly illuminates a NEW set of leadership principles, and that underbosses around the world can learn a great deal from Tony, flaws and all. Himsel shares these principles with readers, using Tony as a catalyst for understanding the leadership tools and techniques that are necessary to whack the competition and win in business. Chapter highlights include:
* Who's the Boss: A Simple, Clear Structure.
* The Strategic Goal Is to Make Money.
* The War for Talent.
* Understanding Your Deeper Need to Kill the Competition.
* Sit-Downs and Other Conflict Management Tools.
* Coaching the Poobahs and the Goombahs.
* Give It to My Face: Receiving Feedback.
* Charisma: More Than a Flashy Tie and a Cheap Cigar.
* If Your Organization Were Part of the Mob.
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - I Got A Book You Cannot Refuse to Read!
Want an interesting and entertaining way to get a lot of business management points across to your employees; or perhaps you are looking for something to enhance your own leadership style? May I recommend that you get a copy a very knowledgeable but slightly unorthodox business book called "Leadership Sopranos Style: How To Become A More Effective Boss". It is not your typical dry and humorless regurgitations of old management mantras. This book, with tongue-in-check at times, explores the world ... Read More
Rating: - Finally, a Leadership Metaphor With Substance
Too many leadership books are so into becoming the next popular "quick airplane read" that they lack substance and espouse only one or two key ideas that are then endlessly reinforced in a story. Here, instead, a witty leadership development practitioner who knows what she's talking about (Himsel was on the INSIDE of several corporations versus some academic ivory tower) tells it like it is, reveals deeper layers of management know-how, and uses a "hook" that will most readers. The book covers more ... Read More
Rating:  - Tony's Coattails Show Some Wear
A great idea: get an immediately recognizable character in memorable situations to illustrate leadership principles.
Where does it break down? When you have to stretch to place thoughts into the fictional character's head that might not be there. When you have to overlook inconsistencies and deviations from your theory in use. When you have to apply cute language to charm the reader into ignoring a terrible truth: you're saying the same old stuff with new language.
Tony ... Read More
Rating: - You wanna promotion? Fuggedaboutit!
This book was really an enjoyable read. Even though I've never watched the show, I was able to get leadership examples from Tony Soprano's point of view in a humorous format. You might ask yourself, "a self-help book based on Tony Soprano?" But Deborrah Himsel pulls this off effectively. She's quick to point out that Tony is not an ideal role model, but that he is an effective leader. She adeptly translates his style into more typical layman's terms, and a lot of it makes sense. For example, if your vendor ... Read More
Rating: - Well Executed Book Employing a Poor Concept
I graded this book five stars for implementation of the book's concept (how to improve your leadership using Tony Soprano as an example) and one star for the book's concept of using the fictional Tony Soprano as the only example of good leadership. The result is a three star rating.
Before reading this book, I had only seen about 12 minutes of a single Sopranos show. As a result, I did not know much about what would be in the book. Ms. Himsel has done a fine job of recapitulating many of the ... Read More
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