Extraordinary Leadership

by Robin Sharma

In a constantly changing, hyper-competitive world leadership is more important than ever. Yet few people have what it takes to inspire, develop and guide others. On this CD Robin shares the leadership lessons that he gives to such clients as Nike, Microsoft and NASA. Learn: Nike and Dell s secret weapon for dominating their markets. What extraordinary leaders do every day. The most dangerous place for a leader. How to thrive in times of change. Five things you can do today to increase your Leadership Quotient.

Genres: Self Help, Leadership, Nonfiction, Business, Audiobook, Management, Personal Development

Audio CD

First published January 1, 2006

About the author

Robin Sharma is one of the world’s premier thinkers on leadership, personal growth and life management. The bestselling author of
The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari,
Who Will Cry When You Die? and
The Saint, the Surfer, and the CEO and four other books on self-transformation.

Robin Sharma is in constant demand internationally as keynote speaker at the conferences of many of the most powerful companies on the planet including Microsoft, Nortel Networks, General Motors, FedEx and IBM. He is a resident of Ontario, Canada. (Barnes and Noble)

Reviews

[Booklist54321]

A very awesome audio book given as a free gift at Audible.com. The Extraordinary Leadership book won't teach you how to organize, manage projects, boost sales, or identify markets. What Extraordinary Leadership does is give a morale boost. The author utilizes numerous positive psychological concepts appealing to the emotional, mood, attitude, and personality systems of the listener. He seeks to boost confidence, positive predictions, and reduction of stressful outlooks. Basically, Robin Sharma is the all around good-guy that people want to have at work. And those that are able to learn from his language style and behavior have the ability to improve their own positions as extraordinary leaders, or at least good minded people.

[Mohamed Hema]

I feel like it is kinda a podcast not an Audiobook, but it was interesting in general.

[Logesh Paul]

A really good short book you can listen on the commute (I listened to this when I was driving back to my hometown on my car) It was really worth the time.

Some highlights
- Nike philosophy is everyone's walking on this planet is an athlete similarly, Robin believes that everyone who consumes oxygen is a leader.
- Brain carves Novelty, we are happier when we are growing, we are happiest when we are challenging ourselves.

Best practices
- Leadership begins with you: Our life is constructed based on the daily activities we do, so make every day your best to be a better leader. Small daily consistent steps.
- Work when no one is watching: Make your customers feel special. Don't work for fame.
- Leaders put people first: Respect people. Build a great culture in the team (eg. Apple, Nike. People can copy your products but not the culture). Be authentic and stay humble.
- Nothing fails like success: Organization is vulnerable when it's successful. Love your customers.
- Do the uncomfortable at first: It will give you great self-confidence and energy for the rest of the day. Take risks, do the uncomfortable.
- Get the people right: the world will be alright. Celebrate people and values; growth will be on your way.
- Continuous learning: If you eat 3 times a day you are fed, if you read 3 times a day you would be wise. Reading elevates you! One idea from one book can change your life, you don't know which book has that idea. So keep reading!

[Taher Al Kiyumi]

Inspiring and packed with facts 🌿🧡

A great book to be inspired by and start fighting for your life again.

Nothing on the outside will ever make you feel good in the inside until you begin to work on your self.

[Anantha Narayanan]

A very small and good audio on effective leadership. The term if you are breathing oxygen you are a leader is the kind of emotion for better. also being a better human being increases the prospects of a better leader. liked these from his audio

[Vivek]

Hooter: Some positive reiteration of leadership principles by Robin Sharma

An extremely short book, rather a podcast I would call it where Robin shares / reiterates a couple of pointers on leadership with a positive outlook. Comes free with audible and its good to hear these self help gurus speak themselves considering most have made careers of motivational speaking.

Great pointers for anyone new to the world of understanding the difference between leadership and management.

[Noor Abu Hassan]

Very inspirational, I really enjoyed it, although of some repeated ideas, but this gave me a boost for the day.

[Anastasia]

Very short read with several good tips, but nothing earth shattering.

Great to listen to during the commute, especially in the morning, when you need a little extra push!

[Venkatesh K]

Wonderful book and page-turner and easy understanding of concepts and great learning of being a good leader it's not about having a major degree or certification, it's basically about how to be a good human being before he makes a good leader by ourself. One aspect I like about the book is the strategy that says love yourself and feel good about yourself and the things you do before you start appreciating your co-workers.

[Dr Shako Priya]

Inspiring. Explains all the qualities required for a successful life and profession.

[Bhavna Alke]

"Nothing fails like success."

[Kedar Chavan]

It helps in improving the quality of leadership
Which everyone should have in this running world .
Really a nice audio book to boost the leadership quality !👍🏼

[Mark]

This "book" is a fairly generic motivational speech not so cleverly surrounding an advertisement for the author's paid services and products. This might be useful for someone who has been in hiding for their entire adult life, but there is no reason for this book to exist in this age of information availability - there are far better resources that are readily available. The only redeeming factor is that it is mercifully short (just over 1 hour), but that is not enough to elevate this to 2 stars. Far and away, this is the worst listen in my (short) Audible listening experience.

[Drjackman]

This was a short and simple book. It was to-the-point. Robin doesn't spend a lot of time proving that he's right, he just puts his observations on the table. If you're looking for a book to give you a boost in your leadership attitudes and skills, then this is well worth your time. But, if you're looking to be a leadership guru, look somewhere else because that is not the intent of this book.

[Sam]

Nothing terribly unique here, but still good ideas to keep in mind. He seems to use an abundance of one-liners. You know the type that are meant to be simple inspirational statements. It doesn't become too tiresome because the entire program was just an hour, but I could see it becoming so if it were a longer program.

[Chad]

An excellent short book about leadership. Many of the things he speaks too mirror my own beliefs for leadership. A quick read and very insightful. Some great gems of wisdom. Definitely worth the time it takes to read.

[Stephen Smotherman]

This was a free audio book given as a gift at Audible.com... but it was still very good. Extraordinary Leadership is a very modivational book that I'll probably listen to about once a year. It's a quick read (2 hours or so), but packed with lots of action points that gets me up and going!

[Sean Martin]

Good motivating book. I felt it was very high level instruction. More of a book to point you in the right direction on what books to read. Quick and easy.

One of the best points made was to look at our children for principles on great leadership.

[Tony Ha]

What an amazing audiobook. Robin Sharma has helped us realize the importance of self-leadership, that in order to be a good leader for your team, you need to be a good for yourself first. Beautifully delivered, packed with lots of inspirational stories. Simply enlightening.

[Siddu]

A short and quick insight into the leadership and how to achieve. I really loved this book, have to read it again and understand it more and more. A good book for anyone, everyone and at anytime. Nothing more to be told.

[Rose]

A quick read, succinct and to the point.

[Sheena]

Great book on how to be a leader. Loved this one, had a lot of great little insights and tips.

[Conrad Toft]

Short but sweet and full of inspiration. It does what it says on the tin.

[Suresh Sankaran]

This is a free book on audible.com.

[Tamara McKinney]

Awesome listen!!!!

[Andrew Azmi]

Small book, but have a lot of extraordinary informarion .. great book to read in your weekend

[Firas]

Awesome audio book.

[Ilze]

Good, inspiring ideas, making You and Your team better. Thinking about You as at first Human being and then Leader/manager, makes better understanding about Your team as a human beings as well. :)

[Omar juraifani]

Nothing to know but it is good to inspiring you

[JJ]

This was short and sweet. Awesome Audible audiobook. Just a great pep talk on leadership that's also full of good info.