Derailed
Just got through reading “Derailed” by Tim Irwin. If you are in any type leadership role, whether corporate or in you should take some time and read it.
I liked the CEO examples that were used to illustrate Mr. Irwin’s points. Character is a huge in leadership. You can be brilliant, but without character, you will derail your career, ministry, and possibly your life.
Tim shares some things we all need to be aware of as leaders that can help keep you from derailing. I don’t want to give away the book, but the points are nicely broken down to bring things down to a more human level.
The only down-side is that he used all corporate CEOs for examples. Would have been cool to get a couple of Christian examples of a derailing leader, but still a decent book.
Kevin
Yes, ‘Derailed’ by Tim Irwin is a good leadership book with some good insight into the fact that human character is a significant thing in the process of achieving success in life by the loss of which, even, a brilliant and successful leader, also, will derail from his/her career, social reputation and possibly his/her life.
January 20, 2010 at 2:08 pm