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.
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.
