Leadership Sopranos Style: How to Become a More Effective Boss

by Deborrah Himsel

Draws on the inspiration of the popular HBO series, The Sopranos, to introduce a new set of leadership principles that meet the challenges of today's modern-day corporate world and covers such topics as conflict management, coaching, giving and receiving feedback, and dealing with the competition. 100,000 first printing. $100,000 ad/promo.

Genres: Business

189 pages, Hardcover

First published December 1, 2003

Reviews

[Pablo Monlezun · Rating 3 out of 5]

Average. There´s a lot of people with a lot of good theories about leadership but (even I liked the show very much) I can´t see a mob boss like Tony as a real leader with values.

[Rob · Rating 4 out of 5]

Good book, but once you get it you get it and reading further just keeps drilling the points into your head, instead of presenting new information. I guess that's hard to avoid though, so I still rate this book high and recommend it to anyone who manages people.

Tony is a good manager for a lot of reasons. He's good with people, balancing the need to be tought with the need to nurture the person's inner needs. Tony often ends hard discussions with a hug and, the author points out, this serves the relationship. It says "we just went through something hard, but it's behind us now."

Tony's also pragmatic and understands that his business is about producing profit with minimal risk to himself. That's it. Well, that's EVERY business, right? Wrong! That's every owner. In real business middle managers are usually so removed from the profit motive that they don't really know WHY they come to work. Tony does, and he makes sure his people do as well.

Ultimately there's no difference between a criminal organization and a business - both are trying to profit with as little risk as possible. Since this is true, it serves us all to stop thinking about people like Tony Soprano as some miscreant and start realizing how difficult it must be to make $4 million a year without going to jail.

And then we should also start looking at the other side - we should stop revering people like Sam Walton, and start wondering what kinds of crimes he had to commit to make Wal-Mart the sucess that it is.

[JOSE LUIS · Rating 4 out of 5]

Lectura amena donde se estudia el tema de liderazgo usándo la figura de Tony Soprano como ejemplo, destacando sus fortalezas y debilidades y nos enseña como trasladar las primeras a cualquier empresa.

[Maxime Deleye · Rating 2 out of 5]

Expected more. Always the same: "This was good by Tony, but not too much." "This was bad by Tony, but do it a little bit." Just riding along on the success of the Sopranos.

[Jose · Rating 4 out of 5]

Muy entretenido