The Hybrid Leader

Trudy Bourgeois
Oakhill Press (2006)
ISBN 1886939756
Reviewed by Kathleen Dowdell for Reader Views (6/06)

“The Hybrid Leader” takes us inside corporate America in order to give us good insight into why 80 percent of all American people wake up on Monday mornings and don’t want to go to work! How can we change this? Trudy Bourgeois, author of “The Hybrid Leader,” offers tips to change outdated work practices that are no longer realistic in today’s global environment. She makes it clear that organizations must embrace their employees in totality. That means valuing each employee’s work life, home life, and social life. The days of working a life time for one company are gone. A work culture that embraces flexibility will positively impact productivity, work quality, and retention.

In the chapter “It’s Time for a New Leadership Style” Bourgeois points out what employees need and want in a leader. She explains leadership styles, how men and women’s leadership styles are different but when combined, can make a powerful team with successful project outcomes. She believes in fueling personal growth to achieve maximum results and that each person is responsible for their own destiny that can produce a hybrid leader. One chapter lists six “action steps” that can help guide you in the direction of becoming a hybrid leader.

This book is a must read for both employees and employers. It’s a take charge book that accurately addresses the problems that corporations face today and it offers solutions to dramatically change business as we know it. As a successful performance strategist who teaches how to create environments in which every employee is engaged by way of authentic relationships and best practices, Trudy Bourgeois shares her expertise in this book in a truly remarkable way.

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