The 5 Week Leadership Challenge by Patrick R. Leddin

THE FIVE-WEEK LEADERSHIP CHALLENGE by Patrick R. Leddin contains “35 Action Steps to Become the Leader You Were Meant to Be.”  Leddin divides this text into five weeks which explore these action steps for leaders: Gain Perspective; Discover Purpose; Determine Priorities; Create Plans; and Inspire Performance. Next, each week, has an idea for each day (like Clarify Focus or Rethink Failure) and these are each introduced with a memorable personal story and “lesson” (like jumping from an airplane and heading for the trees, but learning to take a calculated risk). In his introduction, Stephen M. R. Covey (7 Habits of the Highly Effective People) describes Leddin’s text as a “leadership workbook, which dares and inspires the reader to improve themselves throughout the journey.” I especially liked the questions and action step challenge at the end of each day’s entry and Leddin recommends using THE FIVE-WEEK LEADERSHIP CHALLENGE “as a journal that you can revisit time and again.” I agree; this book is one that readers will want to write in as they record their own reflections. An interesting choice to consider as we start back to school.