Reality-Based Leadership: Ditch the Drama, Restore Sanity to the Workplace, and Turn Excuses into Results

R.C.

Short, useful, sometimes flawed. I’m of two minds about this book. On the one hand, I nodded along to about 75% of it. It is a very concise, useful treatment of practical ways to deal with real-life i…

Beth Hatch

We talk more about people than we do to people. We ourselves judge and the minute we start judging we’re not leading, we’re not serving, and we’re not even learning. We can’t expect people to add valu…

Kelle

After literally letting this book linger on my “currently reading” shelf for almost 9 years, I went back and re-read what I had started years ago and finished the entire book in a few hours. This book…

Ami Del

If you like to lick boots, you will love this book. There’s no sympathy for the worker. There’s only absoluteness in the language used. A book about leadership that dehumanizes the employees the r…

Marcia Call

I borrowed this book from a colleague last year and finally picked up this year to read it. I just hadn’t been in the mood for a business book, however, having cracked the cover I found it to be an en…

Holly

Lent to me by my new boss as we have had discussions detailing the very issues addressed in this book. In my years overseeing staff, I can say with 100% certainty on my part that people are the most d…

Tiffanie22

My supervisor shared a YouTube video of Cy talking about buy-in and I was intrigued by her thinking. I like the No-nonsense approach laid out in this book and will be referring to this book often for…

Latonya

By becoming a Reality-Based leader, this book will teach you how to ditch the drama, find peace at work, restore sanity in the workplace, and lead your team to results. The author is a straight shoote…

Tama

Anybody who know me shouldn’t laugh about this! I was introduced to Cy Wakeman by a college friend who is also a program director. I am not sure what was more important in this book, the reality based…