The Social Leader: Redefining Leadership for the Complex Social Age by Frank Guglielmo & Sudhanshu Palsule

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Leading in today's world has changed from the traditional top-down approach to more of like a community. Today's modern age is characterize by changes brought about by three major forces, namely: digital technology, globalization, and changing mindsets and attitude. In this kind of world, leaders need to behave differently to successfully navigate the tides of changes.

In this book The Social Leader: Redefining Leadership for the Complex Social Age by Frank Guglielmo and Sudhanshu Palsule, the authors presented a compelling thesis of how different forces come up to influence the current world of Social Age. They argued that today's leaders should act more like a mayor facilitating a community rather than a general commanding troops. Overall this book intends to prepare leaders on how to be effective in the Social Age.

This book will benefit the readers through the following:

1. The book describes the current leadership landscape that is true not only in developed countries but also in the developing ones.

2. There will be a description on how organizations transform from a militaristic type to more of a community of diverse people with diverse needs.

3. It will help the reader understand himself as a social leader and how he can develop himself as such.

4. It will guide the leader on how to navigate through the challenges of the new social age.

One can really benefit with the ideas in this book when applied in real life situation. The book would be even better when there are citations as to what other support resources one can go into aside from this book. However, overall one would say that this book has made its fine points compelling enough to call for action to change in this new era.