[Publib] Sustaining Leadership - 2 practical books, easy to read

[Stuart Basefsky]

The following two books (considered among "best business books of the 
year") are easy to read, very practical, but grounded on sound research.


While there is a lot of debate over what leadership is about, Samuel 
Bacharach, who has been on the Cornell faculty for over 30 years and is the 
McKelvey-Grant Professor in the department of organizational behavior, has 
written two volumes on leadership which hit the nail on the 
head.  According to him, if your organization is going to succeed, if 
you're going to succeed, you'll need two leadership capacities.  First, you 
need to be politically competent.  You need to know how to rally people and 
establish coalitions around your ideas.  You need to get them on your 
side.  Second, you need to be managerially competent in order to sustain 
momentum. You have to keep people on your side and go the distance.

His books, Get Them on Your Side: Win Support, Convert Skeptics, and Get 
Results (Adams Media, 2005) and Keep Them on Your Side: Leading and 
Managing for Momentum (Adams Media, 2006) while based on years of academic 
research, are written for the practitioner and have received wide 
acknowledgment.  In 2006 Canada's leading newspaper, the Globe and Mail 
maintained that Keep Them on Your Side was one of the best business books 
of the year.  In 2005 Fast Company declared Get Them on your Side to be one 
of the best books of the year.  These volumes present leadership as a 
series of learnable, doable tasks.  Bacharach firmly shows how leadership 
can be learned and implemented at all levels of the organization, even by 
those who are not charismatic.


Keep Them on Your Side: Leading and Managing for Momentum (Adams Media, 2006)
http://www.amazon.com/Keep-Them-Your-Side-Managing/dp/1593377290/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/104-3661751-7449525?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1174572276&sr=1-1


Get Them on Your Side: Win Support, Convert Skeptics, and Get Results 
(Adams Media, 2005)
http://www.amazon.com/Them-Your-Side-Samuel-Bacharach/dp/1593372787/ref=pd_bxgy_b_text_b/104-3661751-7449525?ie=UTF8&qid=11



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