Review of Certainty (Mears)
The MSI Press managing editor recently wrote a review of our affiliated book, Certainty : Certainty: How Great Bosses Can Change Minds and Drive Innovation deserves reading—more than once. Here, Mike Mears, a highly experienced leader and leader-trainer with a unique and fascinating background, presents a clever, very well written, highly readable, and engaging mix of an imagined story of a prehistoric man along with anecdotes about real people from real life to deconstruct firmly held myths about how leadership works and what leaders should do—myths resulting in practices that achieve the opposite of what they purport. The expansive diapason against which Mike sets his myth-busting suggestions (that really do work) ranges from years BC until years past today. Mike paints his picture with cartoons—simple, to the point, and eliciting a smile or ah-hah; tables and charts—clear and helpful; and appendices—useful for application to any leader’s work environment. What one disc...