The Secret- What Great Leaders Know--And Do Description:

The Secret: What Great Leaders Know--And Do review:
5 stars (Secret Revealed) - This book is a very easy and enjoyable read. It delivers everything promised including the SECRET. I would recomend it whether you own or manage a business or just belong to a local civic organization.
4 stars (Enjoyable Story Filled With Solid Leadership Lessons) - In "The Secret" Ken Blanchard and Mark Miller provide readers with a simplistic and enjoyable story that explains valuable lessons in leadership. This is not a gripping novel nor is it an in-depth explanation of leadership theory and practices. It is a palatable, memorable, and practical explanation of a serving model of leadership.



SERVE is an acronym for Seeing the future, Engaging and developing others, Reinventing continuously, Valuing results and relationships, and Embodying the values. Through the life of the books characters you'll see these principles lived out. Blanchard's found an ingenious formula for sharing keys to effective leadership, management and life. It is a great method of getting the non-technical person to read a business book. "The Secret" is another quality offering by Ken Blanchard.
4 stars (Some powerful leadership wisdom in a small package) - "The Secret" is a message about leadership woven into a story of a leader struggling with her team's performance. When she applies for the Company mentor program, she is paired with the Company President, who imparts some simple, but powerful wisdom about what great leaders do.



There are hundreds of good books on leadership, but some of the best are those which take advantage of application opportunity and relay the concepts within a storyline that demonstrates how they are applied. This book does a credible job of that, although the story is at times a bit contrived.



The essential message is the SERVE model of leadership. The model is simple, yet effective. Buy the book and find out what the "secret" of great leadership is. I recommend this book for anyone who leads people or coaches those who do.