Eastbook: The Tao of Leadership by John Heider

John Heider
The Tao of Leadership: Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching Adapted for a New Age

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This is one of the best interpretations of Lao Tsu Tao Te Ching (one of the key Taoist treatises) that I have ever read. The way I judge it, is as follows. It is easy to read Tao Te Ching very many times. The book has only 81 short verses. However the amount of wisdom hidden in its words is enormous.

Each time I read a new interpretetion (or re-read an old one anew) new facets of this wisdom open up. The more I get to understand, the better is my judgement of the book. John Heider's Tao of Leadership is two thumbs up.

Heider mostly speaks about leadership in a group of people, although the same principles may be applied to other areas of business, for example, distribution management. A supplier should not try to force its distributor into the pre-specified modes of operation that supplier deems as most appropriate. Rather, a supplier should facilitate the desired activities of its distributor, in a high-trust atmosphere. This is the only way of achieving the absolute requirement of the today's global economy: "quality at low cost" (Stephen Covey in his foreword to Insights on Leadership.)

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