Leading With A Limp - A Primer on Broken Leadership: Book Review
Dan Allender 's book Leading With A Limp: Take Full Advantage of Your Most Powerful Weakness confounds me. It took me a while to work my way through it--a few steps at a time while I was working on other books and projects. As a result, I think I have two views of the book, which makes sense because honestly Leading With A Limp feels like reading two different books. First, I have to say that there are enough quotes on leadership in Leading With A Limp to fill up a hundred of those inspirational posters you put around your office. Allender is that good. Here are a few that lit my fuse so to speak: A good leader will, in time, disappoint everyone. Leadership requires a willingness not to be liked, in fact, a willingness to be hated. Leadership will always require one person to stand closest to the edge and say, "Let's jump." The difference between a manager and a leader is the internal urge to alter the status quo to create a differen...