We have no shortage of people who hold leadership positions in our world, but how many of those could we truly call "leaders", let alone virtuous leaders?The old adage "A Leader is followed when he/she is in the room. A Good Leader is followed when he/she is out of the room. A Great/Virtuous Leader is followed long after they are dead..." is true. In this book, David outlines the framework for becoming a virtuous leader, one that leaves a Legacy behind and truly makes an impact on the world.
Something I will absolutely try to remember to listen to periodically to the best chapters. I would greatly appreciate, and it probably already exists, a cliff notes of each chapter. His the topic and lesson.Focusing on the get right, live right, lead right, leave right was a really nice approach to the book. Gave me a totally fresh perspective on F3.One criticism would be holy smokes just a bit too much jargon and code words. I get it, that is an important part of F3. I just continuously felt like the words we already use a lot on F3 Fargo were plenty enough, and I got beaten down by additional new words like accelerate, dolphin, bullfrog, lizard, kimono, flesh anchor, concentrica, etc got just a bit extra and sometime hard to track and remember what each word was. Classic example “Dolphin daffodil D2X”Som incredible lessons in here I will use in future COTs: 1) Pass praise take blame 2) Virtuous leader makes himself dispensable - works himself out of a job by training his underlings or cohort to do his job. Don’t hoard and protect your knowledge instead make your trainees better than you Overall I am glad I committed to this. I don’t think I would have finished it if I was scrolling down that PDF, so I am happy Koala made an audiobook for me to listen to!
A "meaty" book that is to be used as the go to F3 handbook or an above average leadership book. Its design is to be read over an over within a group or during self reflection. It's a must have for your library for years of use.