My friend, Zack Blair, recommended I read this one. After reading it, this is another book that should be required reading for everyone who aspires to lead in any capacity.
This book doesn’t focus on principles on how to lead, but rather focuses on you. It’s more of a self-assessment book. It teaches that we all have a dark side to our leadership that’s developed in our lives through our upbringing and experiences that will cause us to seek and pursue success for the wrong motives.
If these motives go unchecked and aren’t dealt with, ultimately, if we reach what we thought would be success, we won’t be satisfied, and the outcome is usually a moral fall, misuse of people, or some other less than ideal outcomes.
This book will help you identify your dark side and provide the steps to overcoming it.
Must read for any leader.
Final Grade: 10/10 Buy it Here
Some Highlights:
- Personal dysfunction, in one form or another, can often serve as the driving force behind an individual’s desire to achieve success as a leader.
- The problem arises from the fact that success is not something one can have or possess. True success is a state of being not having.
- • The “dark side” refers to our inner urges, compulsions, motivations, and dysfunctions that drive us toward success or undermine our accomplishments.
- The 5 Dark Sides of Leaders are: The Compulsive Leader, The Narcissitic Leader, The Paranoid Leader, The Passive Aggressive Leader, and the Co-Dependent Leader
- The sooner we stop denying our dark side’s existence the sooner we will stop blaming the devil, our parents, bad breaks, and every other possible reason for our struggles. Blaming others is one of the symptoms that denial is taking place. It is always easier to deny we have any problem if we can lay the blame for our shortcomings at somebody else’s feet.
- Any attempts to overcome the dark side apart from the application of spiritual truth about our true position and identity in Christ will end in failure.
