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Too often self-help books stimulate the reader while the pages turn, but after the back cover closes the session is over and on we go.
David M. Traversi avoids that route in publishing The Source of Leadership: Eight Drivers of the High-impact Leader , the result of his years as a motivational speaker and writer and coach, that on the surface is a primer for executive search teams to determine who among the hundreds of applicants for CEO jobs deserve to be termed ‘leaders’, but for the average leader, Traversi has written an extremely user friendly manual that allows the reader to open the potential of personal lives to be everything each of us can be. It is stimulating reading and an enormously helpful guide for self-improvement.
Traversi talks about the ‘persona’ and the ’shadow’ aspects of our personalities: the ‘persona’ is what we present to the world while the ’shadow’ contains the ‘personality and behavior energies that have been repressed from consciousness, usually since childhood.’
Once he has aided the reader in determining self-evaluation he begins his steps to empower and explore the myriad possibilities within each of us that not only direct toward discovering the secrets of Leadership, but in reality lead us down a well-constructed path toward fulfilling the potential in each of us.
His chapters by name tell the process direction: Presence, Openness, Clarity, Personal Responsibility, Intuition, Creativity, and Connected Communication: it becomes apparent that the method is first, self evaluation and then transposing those newfound traits into the qualities needed in ‘high-impact leaders.’
Traversi’s layout of his information is clear, unencumbered, and supported by not only excellent definitions but also by examples of each added trait as demonstrated in ‘case reports.’ The importance of this volume in aiding recruiters to identify true leaders is a given. What impresses this reader is the usefulness of the book in seriously testing and diagnosing and treating the individual to succeed in living in the present and altering attitudes and habits to open windows to a far more successful mode of living, communication, working - and leading!
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