Book: The Feiner Points of Leadership by Michael Feiner

The Feiner Points of Leadership is one of the interesting and application oriented books I have read. I would recommend the book to my friends and colleagues who aspire to be a good leader. This book should be read by all the leaders and managers to be successful. It exemplifies some of the important skills manager or leader should practice at the same time it explains the mistakes one should avoid being a successful and effective leader. Michael Feiner’s experience in PepsiCo, given examples and instances in his tenure makes it easier to understand the facts in detail. These examples also helps retain all the points and laws explained in the book.
After reading this book, I could relate it to my own managers I have worked for. I also could analyze the reasons behind their successes and failures. Leadership always misunderstood as the relationship with the people who are working for you but this book tells you every relationship in the organization is important no matter if it is with your subordinate, or with bosses, or with peers.
First part of the book states about leadership. What it is all about and how it has been misunderstood. We usually think that, leadership is only about telling people to do the things. But leadership is taking all the people together asking them about their views and completing task successfully. Usually we see the leader as a great speaker or motivator, but leader has to do a lot of the things beside this which are important.
To show difference between managers and leaders author has given really good contradicting examples which help you understand the difference. While reading this part of the book I was able to relate it to my own experiences. One of my supervisors I have worked for was really well at technical, planning and details oriented things. I always admired him