Energy Leadership: Transforming Your Workplace and Your Life from the Core

by Bruce D. Schneider

Book Overview

In Energy Leadership, renowned coach Bruce D. Schneider teaches how to understand the most important personal resource of all -- energy, and shows how to harness it to achieve success in the... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0470186364
• Release Date: November 2007
• Publisher: Wiley
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.6" x 1.2" x 5.8"

Customer Reviews

Very helpful book

As a coach I have not found a better description of the coaching process, how it works and how effective it can be. Dr. Schneider is brilliant in understanding and showing how people relate to one another. The book is a must read for anyone who wants to improve their skills in human interaction. Just a few of the basic techniques he illustrates can improve a person's interpersonal skills greatly.

Tranformational!

Energy Leadership goes way beyond lessons to help you be a better leader in the workplace. For me, it captured my imagination and opened my mind to exploring a new way of being and showing up in life - both at work and everywhere. The seven levels of energy that exist within us and how they show up and affect our lives masterfully unfolds through a fascinating story. The book provoked a number of Ahah moments and a greater understanding of my own energy, where it was stuck and what can happen when I choose to get unstuck. It is chock full of lessons for living a purposeful and passionate life. I highly recommend it!

Extraordinary Resource!

This very thought provoking resource is extraordinary! It was unique and enlightening as it opened my eyes to the seven levels of energy and how we function within those levels. More importantly, it supported me in understanding and recognizing the Big Four Energy Blocks in myself and others, as well as strategies for overcoming the blocks successfully. The understanding of necessary actions that anyone can use to propel them forward towards maximum performance, improved leadership and true win, win scenarios were transforming both for self, daily life and the work place. A true brilliant work.

Completely Useful Case Study

Throughout my education, including my MBA, teachers used case studies to demonstrate how visionaries and leaders transformed their small organizations into successful businesses, or failed to recognize their weaknesses that led to the downfall of their corporation. Energy Leadership not only provides this standard perspective, but provides insight into how any entrepreneur can motivate themselves to become the best possible leader. I use this knowledge every day while running my own company, and in all of my personal relationships.

Worth the Wait

It's been nearly a decade since Bruce wrote his first book, Relax, You're Already Perfect. I loved that book and I love Energy Leadership even more. It was definitely worth the wait. I've already seen the power of this coaching process in my personal life, and was hoping that the book did justice to it, and it does. It is a wonderful story, fun to read, and offers a ton of valuable information. The thing I like most about it, though, is that I can see how people from varying levels of awareness will each get a message just for them. There are many obvious "gems" and countless others that are woven throughout the text that may not be easily recognized at first. I think that's brilliant, as the book meets people exactly where they are, and then, when they read it again, they'll see more messages, and the cycle will continue. I recommend this book to everyone. Don't be fooled by the title, as it's not just for the workplace. Energy Leadership offers a way of life.