Leadership The Hard Way: Why Leadership Can't Be Taught - And How You Can Learn It Anyway (j-b Us Non-franchise Leadership)

"If leadership is defined by the number and quality of followers, and by their ability to do better than they--or anyone else--thought possible, Dov Frohman's career is the epitome of leadership. This book portrays his style--pragmatic, unassuming, persistent--in a genuine and entertaining way. Reading it is like going along for the ride."
--Andy Grove, former CEO, Intel Corporation and author, Only the Paranoid Survive

"Dov Frohman and Robert Howard say that leadership cannot be taught--at least not in classes and slides--but it can be learned, especially in turbulent times, with brilliance and open-spiritedness.?Our best evidence is Frohman himself, whose fascinating decisions--as computer scientist and pioneer CEO--stud this stimulating, practical, elegant book."
--Bernard Avishai, contributing editor, Harvard Business Review and author, The Hebrew Republic: How Secular Democracy and Global Enterprise Will Bring Israel Peace At Last

"Leadership the Hard Way reads like a report from the front by a solider who is a hero. A must-read for leaders in today's tough and uncertain economy."
--George Stalk, senior partner, The Boston Consulting Group and author, Hardball: Are You Playing to Play or Playing to Win?

"In a highly personal style, yet with nuanced insight and useful principles, Frohman and Howard expertly navigate the necessary tensions of leading on the edge: how to be both an insider and an outsider, stay true to a vision yet listen to dissent, see things differently in order to do things differently. I could not put this book down."
--John Seely Brown, former chief scientist, Xerox Corporation and formerdirector, Xerox PARC; coauthor, The Social Life of Information and The Only Sustainable Edge

"Leadership the Hard Way" presents a method of living and working that can truly facilitate the learning of leadership. Their method shows how to go against the current, fight conventional wisdom, and embrace the unexpected. It is about trusting oneself and valuing intuition, principles, and imagination as much as hard skills and analysis. Frohman combines his counterintuitive ideas with experiences from his own backgroundfrom escaping the Nazis as a child to becoming a leading innovator in the semiconductor industryto show how readers can build their own leadership abilities. A leaders values and personality, he ultimately reveals, are the only sure source of stability in a world of continuous change.