Leadership, Eh?: How to Lead, Laugh & Win in the Game of Business & Life

Committed to helping business leaders succeed, ACT One's real-time book “ Leadership Eh? How to Lead, Laugh & Win in the Game of Business & Life” has.
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Offstein breaks honor down in such a way that you fully understand it and want to apply it in your own life. I would recommend this book to people who are interested in becoming a productive, successful, and most importantly, honorable leader. This is a great leadership book.

I first approached this book with a bit of skepticism, as I thought its focus would be upon the "grandiose" merits of the West Point experience which I shared elbow-to-elbow with the author, my classmate.


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I was greatly relieved to discover that this work is actually a testimonial to the necessity to BE a good person and leader, so important and foreign in a day and age where corrupt individuals realize incredible personal gains while simply paying lip service to such lofty ideals as honor. This book explains both the origin of corporate corruption and the way a leader SHOULD behave to ensure that this phenomenon does not continue to grow in scope.

I was happy to see that Dr. Evan Offstein was able to distance himself from our shared Cadet experiences and approach the book in an organized, thoughtful, and systematic fashion. He explains that good leadership begins with an honorable character and THEN extends into the leader's expertise and skill sets.

I always struggled to quantify the almost intangible quality which caused me and my West Point classmates to react in horrified disbelief when we encountered corrupt individuals with an almost limitless propensity to harm and defraud employees and stakeholders.

Evan has finally defined this lineament: The book is straightforward, easy to read, and informative without possessing an air of pretense or superior knowledge. In keeping with one of the themes of this book -- being big about small things -- I feel a need to be completely honest about four things: I did get into the heart of the book, I was deeply challenged.

There are two reasons why I almost didn't make it into the heart of the book. I found myself, first of all, struck by the degree to which Offstein sounds, at the beginning of the book, as if West Point is the greatest institution that has ever existed. Offstein is talking in this book about the importance of honor in leadership, and offers example after example of how West Point models and promotes a kind of honor that Offstein wants to commend to a wider world.

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In so doing, he sometimes sounds like a poster child for West Point, such as when in the first chapter he describes West Point as standing both geographically and methaphorically "on high ground. In the heart of the book, he offers example after example of how these values are put into actual practice at West Point, in some truly impressive ways. But when I read the first chapter, and heard about this metaphorical "high ground" that West Point sits on, I wasn't convinced.

I became convinced later on.

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The second reason why I almost didn't make it into the heart of the book was because I also found myself struck by Offstein's fairly critical comments about leadership books, seminars, and pundits. Offstein suggests, for example, that the pundits "are emphasizing motivation rather than morals" and "communication rather than conscience" and "influencing others instead of integrity.

Maybe that's because I just happen to be reading the good ones! The tone of these comments sounded a tad on the arrogant side, as if Offstein was saying, "all those other books are wrong, and I'm right. So by the time I had finished the introduction and the first chapter, I was feeling somewhat skeptical -- despite some tantalizing hints of good things to come.

But then -- somewhere around page 28 or 29 -- the book really started to come alive for me.

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The heart of Offstein's book is a wholesale proposal for leaders to not only act with honor and, I would add, integrity , but to be people of honor and integrity in every facet of their lives. Offstein boldly discusses the ways in which we dishonorably tend to rationalize less-than-honorable actions. He points to the West Point Code of Honor "A cadet will not lie, cheat, steal, or tolerate those who do" as the "backbone" of a character-building program that West Point promotes which is intended to create and, apparently, succeeds in creating leaders with honor.

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This, Offstein argues, is what is desperately missing in our contemporary culture: Offstein utilizes a seemingly endless supply of examples and anecdotes to demonstrate how the "backbone" is fleshed out in a wide variety of situations. The results, I must say, are truly impressive. Personally, I found the central chapters in the book to be deeply challenging. Offstein presses his points firmly and aggressively. If other readers are anything like me, they will find their own honor being tested and, hopefully, refined through the process of reading this book.

There came a point at which Offstein's comments struck home.

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Instead of thinking about leadership in general, I found myself suddenly thinking about me. I found myself wondering about specific behavior practices that I engage in, both consciously and unconsciously. I found myself wondering to what degree I truly seek the high ground to the extent that I could.

I discovered, in the process, that I have a ways to go in my own efforts to lead with integrity. Offstein writes in the preface about what a humbling experience it was to write this book. Very plainly, while I'm on the right track to reach the high ground, when I look in the mirror, I still realize that I've got a ways to go. The journey, as it is for many, is on-going. It provides something of a "measuring stick" by which the rest of us are invited encouraged? ETFs Up and Down. Letters to the Editor. The Real Estate Market.

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