A Book Review of Mastering Self-Leadership: Empowering Yourself for Personal Excellence

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A Book Review of Mastering Self-Leadership: Empowering Yourself for Personal Excellence

Authored by Chris Neck and Charles Manz and published by Pearson Education, Limited, the book Mastering Self-Leadership: Empowering Yourself for Personal Excellence presents itself as one of the most powerful guides to self-improvement for the purpose of enhancing one’s leadership capabilities. As commented by the authors, this is an offer of an awakening process that begins at an individual’s personal level. It presents the true belief that individuals capable of managing themselves in the best way stand better chances in managing others through leadership skills. In sum, it offers a comprehensive collection of tools and skills that truly empower an individual to personal excellence, brilliance, and perfection of leadership at personal and group levels.

It is worth noting that Chris and Charles approach the issue of leadership mush objectively. In their approach, they offer real-life and existent examples of ways to apply leadership skills and horn them to produce the best of them. Further, it is adequately considerable that the vast of these samples draw from across different professions and societal fields in which leadership skills are found and applied. To this extent, they cover active, passive, and other forms of leadership in the corporate world and other entrepreneurial fields. It is also evident that this book contains a collection of research provisions which add to its credibility. Borrowing largely from scholarly sources offered by renowned authores it endeavours to cultivate improved emotional intelligence, the application of social responsibility, and a broadly improved leadership skill in the overall.

In its presentation, the book journeys through ten chapters and two other sections named as Some Additional Thoughts and an Epilogue. The first three chapters form the foundation of the book. They lay the ground upon which the book gets written. Their titles include: The Journey, Mapping the Route or We Do Choose, and Rough Road, Detours, and Roadblocks or Leading Ourselves to do Necessary but Unattractive Tasks. In the first chapter, they define leadership, establish the sources from which it is pulled and end by establishing the fact that we all engage in individual leadership by leading ourselves. Thus, the book emphasizes on the relevance and need for self-leadership. This is followed by a peer into the factors we must consider when when choosing the paths of leadership to take. In this, the authors outline both external and internal; personal factors involved in the choice of leadership. Chapter three establishes the strategies relevant for enhancing self-leadership. In these, the ability to apply self-generated strategies is contrasted with existent world strategies to settle on the best interpretations of an.............