Lion Taming: Working Successfully with Leaders, Bosses and Other Tough Customers

by Steven L. Katz

The lions, in Katz's taxonomy, are the people in any workplace with power, authority, and responsibility, and those trying to get more power and authority. For the rest of us, he offers guidance on communicating and working more effectively with leaders and bosses who are tough (not to mix the metaphor) customers. Katz's dust jacket biography notes that he's spent 20 years as "a right-hand executive and senior advisor" to leaders in business, nonprofits, politics, and government. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

290 pages, Hardcover

First published June 1, 2004

Reviews

[JD' · Rating 4 out of 5]

Since I can't run away and join the circus, I instead read a book on Lion Taming to better understand an individual in my life that I care about but is very much eating me alive.

What I learned from the book is that over-confidence is the least essential attribute.

The author Steven Katz writes the secret, "look back over 100 years of lion taming wisdom and you will hear that nothing is as valuable as patience..[it] must be inexhaustible."

[محمود قحطان · Rating 3 out of 5]

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[Bayan · Rating 3 out of 5]

العنوان والفكرة افخم من الكتاب نفسه تكرار كثير

[Usama Albastaki · Rating 2 out of 5]

لم تكن من كتبي المفضلة غي الادارة، ومن الكتب التي لن أرجع لقراءتها.
لا أعرف ان كان السبب من الكتاب الأصلي أو الترجمة..
لكن لو كنت أعرف موضوع الكتاب قبل قراءته ، لما قرأته.

[Valerie Sherman · Rating 2 out of 5]

Received a copy from the author years ago - there are some useful nuggets and comparisons in here, but it leans too much on the metaphor.

[James Pritchert · Rating 2 out of 5]

I met the author and he presented a discussion covering the principles set forth in this book. It was a difficult and worthwhile read. An interesting take on corporate survival presented by someone who was an actual lion tamer.