The Corner Office: Indispensable and Unexpected Lessons from CEOs on How to Lead and Succeed Paperback – April 24, 2012

An easy read with great advice. Realizing the role is lonely and the leadership key is to be servant to those to ensure their success. One of my favorite parts was discussing how we advance into these roles. The drive to produce and be naturally seen as a leader for your performance within your team is flipped on its head, because what you have done previously will not work anymore when you arrive at an official position of leadership. The idea of selflessness and a resource to help others achieve their success takes on a whole new role, but foundationally remains the same. If you are new or seasoned manager or Cxx a great read.

I recommend this book. Most of us are not CEOs and many times do not look kindly at the CEOs we know. We see a lot of abuse of power and authority. We see incompetence lack of leadership and poor judgement. This book gives perspective from their side and those of them who saw the light and became or tried to be leaders.Give me a good leader and I will follow them and support them all the way and whatever it takes. Unfortunately our world is filled with CEOs who do the empty talking but provide no leadership whatsoever.We also need to look carefully at our own lives. Am I a leader in my own home? Am I a leader in my church. Am I a leader in my community? Do I help and enable others to be leaders and become a good follower to a good leader. You might want to reflect on some of these things while reading the book.

"The Corner Office" draws on the CEO interviews that Bryant has been doing for two-plus years for a weekly NY Times column of the same title. But the book is NOT just a reprint of his columns. Instead, Bryant sifts, sorts, and summarizes key takeaways of what his CEO subjects have variously told him. In each of the book's three major parts, Bryant sets out the career-changing practices and attitudes he has observed, illustrating them with real-life stories, quotable quotes, and "what seems to have worked for me" pointers from his subjects. Great reading for any manager, whether or not she aspires to the corner office.

Loved this book because of all the perspectives it offered from the leaders of different organizations. It reminds people to be mindful from where they came from and not seperate themselves from the people working below them. It's easy to isolate yourself in the "corner office" and push an agenda that you think is possible without remembering the actual work and people that goes into it. This book describes the best characteristics & qualities of people who have been successful leaders.

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I loved reading this easy-to-read and nicely organized book about leadership! The experiential and inspirational insights align with some of my own ideas on what makes a great boss. It was a pleasure to read about today's leaders' triumphs and failures. I've actually met Kip Tindell, who is quoted several times in the book, while working at The Container Store in Oak Brook and Chicago, IL. As a member of the sales team, I was informed about many aspects of the company's people and goals during daily morning or evening meetings. I loved working at The Container Store and felt valued for my opinions and contribution, but my heart was in working with young children.

This book must be for teenagers, because the prose is very immature. I read the first few chapters and just couldn't go any further. Each sentence read like something that I would have written in 8th grade.

While the focus is on CEO's, this book is really a wonderfully practical guide to leadership. I highly recommend it to anyone who wants to delve into the mysteries of "what is leadership?" Through interviews with dozens of successful CEO's, Bryant distills some basic truths of what it takes to lead. Unlike many books on leadership that are academic exercises, Bryant finds the common traits and characteristics of the men and women who do sit in the "corner office", from passionate curiosity to fearlessness. I marked up and bookmarked my copy extensively and plan to make it one of my core resources in helping to develop leaders.