West Point: Going Beyond Leadership of Character: How to be a Great Leader (and live a virtuous life) - Hardcover

Norman Thomas Remick

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0967487927 ISBN 13: 9780967487922

Publisher: Rovani, 2008

Synopsis

Did you know there are actually two steps to becoming a great leader? Did you know that being a leader of character is only Step 1 of what you must be before people will call you a great leader? What is the second step? Step 2 is the practical human relations art of winning the hearts of your followers, as well as, your superiors. This book, the only one of its kind, gives you real life tips on how to implement the five key factors involved in winning the hearts of your followers and superiors. And, those tips are presented in an enjoyable, easy-reading, page-turning, Will Rogers, Paul Harvey, down-home style.
If you like stories, especially when they are about lessons and powerful messages that you can put to work in your own life immediately, you'll love this book. It is richly endowed with little-known stories of well known people like Washington, Lincoln, Reagan, Kennedy, Grant, Lee, Eisenhower, Churchill, Patton, and others, as well as with intriguing stories of regular people, all to illustrate the practical human relations art of winning the hearts of your followers and leaders.

The book is arranged in such a way that each chapter is a stand-alone tool for one of the book's five key leadership and human relations concepts, each of which you can read today and put to work tomorrow. The author seems to come alongside like a high-priced mentor to take you through a one-on-one real life leadership experience. Remick's blend of practical tips, historical knowledge, and 30-and-a-butt years of lifetime, firsthand leadership and human relations experience in the hard, real, sometimes cruel world instructs you on how to elicit the best possible performance from those you are in charge of and responsible for. In turn, that will build your personal bottom-line, which is always what's evaluated by the powers-that-be above you that decide who goes up the ladder of success and who stays down on the lower rungs.

While this is not a history-making breakthrough like the author's other current book, 'Understanding West Point', it is, neverthless, a groundbreaking presentation for a book on leadership in which the author, as a biographer of Thomas Jefferson, efficaciously analyzed, simplified, and redeployed psychology and philosophy to the task of leadership, following the model of how Jefferson did so with the philosophy of England's John Locke and others in writing the 'Declaration of Independence.'

Remick says: 'Some of the KEY concepts and techniques in my book fly in the face of elite, conventional, overly complicated leadership culture in America, and may rankle some of the so-called gurus of the leadership industry, and even arouse some jealously.'

To those comments I would say to Mr. Remick, perhaps they will, but who cares; your book works to create exceptional leaders. That's the most important thing. To the potential reader I would say, you cannot afford to ignore these tips and techniques that the author, with considerable aplomb and literary engineering, has distilled for your convenience into a cogent, instructive, entertaining handbook, especially when others who put this book into action will be passing you and leaving you in the leadership dust?

This is a book which people at all leadership levels and in all vocations must read and put into action.

About this title

About the Author

The author did his undergraduate work for his degrees in Engineering (Rutgers College of Engineering) and Management, and graduate work in Business Studies (Montclair). He reached the VP level in industry before entrepreneuring and owning a special company for nineteen years in England that manufactured and marketed microwave components for space, military, intelligence, and domestic radar applications. Now, besides his serious avocation of authorship, he is one of only a handful of individual investors in New Jersey who successfully competes against the large investment houses in real estate related securities. Mr. Remick is a pilot, skier, and avid supporter of Army football and cadet athletic programs at West Point.

Review

Review #1 -- A FEW OF THE MANY WAYS THIS BOOK OF GUIDANCE WILL HELP YOU --
1. BECOME THE LEADER OTHERS ONLY DREAM ABOUT BECOMING. - Reveals THE FIVE WAYS of making people respect you the person, not just your rank, title, or position, and therefore actually want to follow you, willingly and voluntarily.
2. WIN FRIENDS - Helps you to quickly and easily win friends, become more popular, and make people like you.
3. GET PROMOTED - Teaches you how to make your superiors in the chain of leadership want to promote you before promoting others.
4. MAKE MORE MONEY - Gives you increased earning power.
5. UNDERSTAND LIFE - Makes psychology and philosophy incredibly clear and simple so they will be useful in dealing with life's problems and impressive to others in conversation.
6. CONQUER WORRY AND FEAR - Teaches you how to handle worry, fear, and anxiety, and how to help other people do the same.
7. TEACH YOURSELF AND OUR CHILDREN WELL - Gives you information, knowledge, and a treasure of great moral stories (that they don't teach you in school) that enable you to go beyond even leadership of character through moral imitation.
-- For Amazon.com

Review #2 -- From The Bayonnet (newspaper of Ft. Benning, Ga.), by Maj. M. Archambault --
Leaders in any field arguably spend more time reading about the art of leadership than reading about anything else. This book does not waste your time with flowery prose and literature. Getting right down to the task of teaching, Remick avoids the scores of cliches that other authors make the mistake of using and catagorizes human relations for you into five key principles that cover everything, devoting a chapter to each principle. He then offers riveting examples of how to implement each key principle, doing so by entertaining you with captivating, page-turning first-hand yarns and gripping, little-known anecdotes about some of the great leaders in history. This is a book that all leaders should have at the front of their bookshelf to use as a continuous lifelong reference and as a constant reminder of, not just how to be a great leader, but how to live a virtuous life.
Norman Thomas Remick, a business entrepreneur, is also the author of Mr. Jefferson's Academy: The Real Story and of Understanding West Point -- --The Bayonet Maj. M. Archambault

Leaders in any field arguably spend more time reading about the art of leadership than reading about anything else. This book does not waste your time with flowery prose and literature. Getting right down to the task of teaching you, it consolidates human relations into five key ideas for you, devoting a chapter to each key. It then gives you examples of how to implement each key through the use of both page-turning, first-hand yarns and little-known anecdotes about some of the world's all-time greatest leaders. This is a book that every leader should have up front on their shelf as a life-long leadership reference and reminder of, not just great leadership, but how to live a virtuous life. --The Bayonet Maj. M. Archambault

For military professionals, it is arguable the art of closing with the enemy runs a close second to the amount of time officers and NCO's spend studying leadership. Norman Remick contributes to this edifice withDedicated to West Point: Going Beyond Leadership of Character.

Going Beyond lives up to the adage of not judging a book by its cover. Diminutive at 160 pages, Remick's book does not mince words or lose the reader with flowery prose. He organizes his ideas about leadership around five keys every leader should practice. These are not new or revolutionary ... but Remick's approach and style help reinforce what every good leader needs to know.

Dedicating a chapter to each key, Remick balances the use of personal yarns with historical anecdotes. The historical examples educate and inspire the reader, while his own tales maintain relevance to leaders in any organization, in any circumstance, and from any background.

The downfall of most leadership books is to misuse parables in illustrating points, and these are often shallow cliche' which disrupt the flow of the text. Remick avoids this pitfall by the normative tone he maintains throughout his book. Combined with conversational style, he puts the reader in a comfort zone. He takes special care to underscore his salient points. So,Going Beyondis also excellent for quick referencing and use during professional development classes.

I recommend this book to leaders at all levels in the chain of leadership. Going Beyondis not only appropriate to leaders in all walks of life, it is germane to living a virtuous life. Any lifelong student of the profession of leadership ought to have this book on their shelves.

Norman Thomas Remick, a business entrepreneur, is also the author of Mr. Jefferson's Academy: The Real Story and ofUnderstanding West Point: Leaders of Character, Thomas Jefferson. --The BayonetMaj. M. Archambault

Edition details

• Publisher: Rovani
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0967487927
• ISBN 13: 9780967487922
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 160