Where Have All the Leaders Gone?
February 9th, 2010
- ISBN13: 9781416532491
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
Product Description
Legendary auto executive Lee Iacocca has a question for every American: Where have all the leaders gone?
The most widely recognized business executive of all time asks the tough questions that America’s leaders must address:
• What is each of us giving back to our country?
• Do we truly love democracy?
• Are we too fat and satisfied for our own good?
• Why is America addicted to oil?
• Do we really care about our children’s futures?
• Who will save the middle class?
A self-made man who many Americans once wished would run for president, Iacocca saved the Chrysler Corporation from financial ruin, masterminded the creation of the minivan, and oversaw the renovation of Ellis Island. Since then he has created the Iacocca Institute for leadership at Lehigh University and the Iacocca Foundation, which funds research for a cure for diabetes. Lee Iacocca believes that leaders are made in times of crisis — such as today. He has known more leaders than almost anyone else — among them nine U.S. presidents, many heads of state, and the CEOs of the nation’s top corporations — and is uniquely suited to share his wisdom, knowledge, and wit about the leadership of America.
Author of the gigantic number one bestsellers Iacocca: An Autobiography and Talking Straight, Lee Iacocca famously doesn’t mince words and offers his no-nonsense, straight-up assessments of the American politicians most likely to run for president in 2008, including Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, John McCain, Rudy Giuliani, Joe Biden, Bill Richardson, Mitt Romney, and John Edwards.
Confessing that he has “flunked retirement,” Iacocca calls on citizens of all ages to vote, get involved, and choose our leaders carefully. Along the way, he shares stories about the prominent people he’s met and known, including the time he smoked cigars with Fidel Castro, what Bob Hope told him about how to live a long life, what Lady Sarah Ferguson said to him as they danced, why Bill Clinton woke him up in Italy, what Robert McNamara taught him about success, how Frank Sinatra sang for him personally, and whom Pope John Paul II asked him to pray for. We learn what he discussed with Warren Buffett, DaimlerChrysler CEO Dieter Zetsche, Ronald Reagan, Senator John Kerry, Congressman John Murtha, Prince Charles and Camilla, former Saudi ambassador Prince Bandar, rapper Snoop Dogg, financier Kirk Kerkorian, Ted Turner, Bob Dole, and many more.
Knowing that the times are urgent, the iconic leader shares his lessons learned and issues a call to action to summon Americans back to their roots of hard work, common sense, integrity, generosity, and optimism.
Where have all the leaders gone?
Lee Iacocca has the answer.
Where Have All the Leaders Gone?
February 9th, 2010 at 2:23 am
This book, like Gaul in Caesar’s Commentaries, is divided into three parts, but not very neatly. If you’re interested in only one part of it, make sure you’re interested enough to pay the book price for the part(s) you like.
This book is part rant. If you want to read Lee Iacocca’s rants about his view of leadership in the US, the sins of the current administration, or about how young people can’t be ripped away from their iPods long enough to show concern about anything, this is the book for you.
The book is part memoir. When Iacocca is making observations on the auto business, or sharing stories from the time when he as active as a senior executive and CEO, he’s both interesting and credible.
For me this was the most interesting part of the book and the part that had the most original material. But most of the authors experiences are over a decade old and I found the memoir to be mostly the “we had it tougher in my day and we did a whole lot better” variety.
This book is part business advice. It’s good advice, but it’s not original or even well and thoroughly reasoned.
I buy business books to learn something about business that will be helpful to me or my clients. There’s not enough of that in this book to justify the purchase price.
Rating: 1 / 5
February 9th, 2010 at 3:57 am
Absolutley nothing new to read – a super yawn more like a advertisement. From the author smoking a cigar on the cover – to whining about healthcare problems (hey Leader Big Man, get the darn cigar out of your mouth!)it’s just sad.
Rating: 1 / 5
February 9th, 2010 at 5:49 am
“Biased” does not begin to characterize the shameful leaning of this writing. Disapointing, too – not even Iaccoca’s personal anecdotes and musings can justify him having taken dictation from Howard Dean and Michael Moore to concoct this sorry excuse for political commentary.
Of what he has to say, we have heard it all from the Democrat slander machine and their servants the main stream press during the last presidential election, and had it renewed during the 2006 mid term election. You would expect that Iaccoca would give some fresh personal perspective, but he doesn’t. You hope that he would present a vision for moving forward, but all he does is invite you to be mad… that Democrats haven’t been assertive enough.
The pretense that he also scrutinises and critiques the leading presidential candidates is a sham. All Democrats are good in essence, all Republicans – not so good, mere puppets.
The most ridiculous aspect of this collection of regurgitated Democrat talking points is that Iaccoca pretends to have left Political Correctness at the door, and gives it to you straight – and here he succeeds only in embarassing hypocrisy. The fact that he camouflages his cussing does not make him a credible political analyst.
Rating: 1 / 5
February 9th, 2010 at 6:20 am
I read a friends copy of this book and I was most dissapointed. It is nothing but Bush bashing. Okay Lee, you don’t like Bush, so what does that have to do with leadership. This book is nothing but the rantings of an old out-of-touch liberal. Kind of like Al Gore will be when he’s 80. If you want to learn something about leadership, read John Maxwell not Lee Imacookoo. What a waste of time this book is!!
Rating: 1 / 5
February 9th, 2010 at 8:56 am
The first section of this book, some 124 bages, is a redundant, tiresome Bush-Bash. He could have stated his opinion in a page! Why beat this dead horse?
Rating: 1 / 5