Book Review: The Offsite
April 24, 2008 by Miki Saxon
Post from Leadership Turn
Much of the best leadership advice is classic and often lays the groundwork for more modern interpretations. This isn’t always good, but it certainly works in The Offsite, which bills itself as A Leadership Challenge Fable.
In it, Robert H. Thompson presents the philosophy taught in Jim Kouzes’ and Barry Posner’s 1987 The Leadership Challenge, which defined the 5 Practices of Leadership as
Model the Way
Inspire a Shared Vision
Challenge the Process
Enable Others to Act
Encourage the Heart
So why read Thompson’s book?
Because in a short 200 pages, Thompson takes you to a company’s offsite meeting, filled with people you know (including …read more