Building Personal Leadership: Inspirational Tools & Techniques for Work and Life

Joe Farcht
Genesis Publishing (2007)
ISBN 1600371655
Reviewed by Cherie Fisher for Reader Views (6/07)

“Building Personal Leadership” is an excellent choice for anyone who wants to improve their personal and professional performance.  The author, Joe Farcht, has years of experience teaching this subject, so he certainly has the expertise to write a book on it.  He is a certified Master Personnel and Executive Coach and an expert in the Myers-Briggs Personality Typing.  The author obviously loves what he does for a living and has built a wonderful life based on following his own principles. 

I really liked the approach that the author used in writing this book.  He really understands that to get people to perform at the top of their game they really need to understand their own motivating factors.  The first section of the book deals with your own personal goals and the importance of writing them down.  Once you understand why you are doing what you are then you can begin to hone your skills and work at your peak performance.  

The section on Time Management was my favorite as that is one of my biggest challenges at work.  For those of us that can do a better job at this, he already is ahead of us with a list of why our arguments about why it won’t work are useless.  I am really trying to use the skills from the section to better organize my time and work more effectively.   

“Building Personal Leadership” contains a lot of tools and techniques to improve performance on all levels.  The chapters address time management, self development, communication skills and putting together an effective team to name just a few.   I read it through quickly the first time and now I am going back to go through each chapter more thoroughly, following the exercises and really digesting the information before moving on.  By doing this, I am finding that I am making small incremental steps that will lead to big changes in the end. 

“Building Personal Leadership” is a very effective tool for improving work skills and efficiency.  As he points out “it is said that the Chinese definition of insanity is ‘doing the same things you have always done, you will get what you have always gotten.’”  Anyone interested in reading a book like this obviously wants to get out of the insanity and into being a top performer. 

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