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ncrozier's review against another edition
2.0
Had some interesting anecdotes, but didn't really provide advice, and referred to the same eople over and over.
rajibrborah's review against another edition
1.0
1) This book was published in 2016.
Hilary Clinton was one of the 12 people cited as being an example of a superboss.
Donald Trump was the only person who was cited as being an example of a bad boss.
(Disclaimer: I only read the first 40% of the book)
2) I desperately wanted to like this book when I picked it up.
The same generalities are repeated through out the book - I believe the same thing could have been written in 10-20 pages.
This is the first book that I have marked as 'read' on goodreads without reaching till the last page - it was getting so repetitive that I guess reading 40% was equivalent to reading the whole.
3) I personally like story-telling to emphasize ideas and concepts.
While this book is full of anecdotes - but most of them are rather bland to leave any impression.
Hilary Clinton was one of the 12 people cited as being an example of a superboss.
Donald Trump was the only person who was cited as being an example of a bad boss.
(Disclaimer: I only read the first 40% of the book)
2) I desperately wanted to like this book when I picked it up.
The same generalities are repeated through out the book - I believe the same thing could have been written in 10-20 pages.
This is the first book that I have marked as 'read' on goodreads without reaching till the last page - it was getting so repetitive that I guess reading 40% was equivalent to reading the whole.
3) I personally like story-telling to emphasize ideas and concepts.
While this book is full of anecdotes - but most of them are rather bland to leave any impression.
meags1's review
2.0
Every time I read a book like this I am like, this would make a good Economist supplemental issue.
Because its goddamn miserable as a book.
Because its goddamn miserable as a book.
jpoletto's review
2.0
This is a book I wanted to like :D, Its not bad but...
Unfortunately I got the feeling that the book never left the preface, there's a lot of great information but the structure just didn't work for me. Every chapter the author goes all over the place mentioning quotes and short stories about what Superbosses do.
Literally, you could find a thousand times the author says "Superbosses do this, Superbosses do that"
I would rather go deeper in the minds of each one of the Superbosses mentioned.
Unfortunately I got the feeling that the book never left the preface, there's a lot of great information but the structure just didn't work for me. Every chapter the author goes all over the place mentioning quotes and short stories about what Superbosses do.
Literally, you could find a thousand times the author says "Superbosses do this, Superbosses do that"
I would rather go deeper in the minds of each one of the Superbosses mentioned.
sethd's review
3.0
This was a bit disappointing. I heard him on the Coaching for Leaders podcast and was excited to read the book but felt it suffered from wandering anecdotes. There is a lot of good stuff in here, but I think it could have been a bit more focused in the message and then used the anecdotes to support.
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