Necessary Endings: The Employees, Businesses, And Relationships That All Of Us Have To Give Up In Order To Move Forward (2011) - Plot & Excerpts
This, as the title might suggest to some, is a distressing book. Anyone who has ever been fired will have a hard time ingesting the idea that it is all for the best. You may, come to a conclusion later that you are in a better place, but it is still hard to connect what comes across as another person's unkindness as contributing to that state. Instead, if you're like me, you tend to think that the better place happened in spite of the negative development. Cloud argues that a leader must make these choices and accept them as a natural part of life. He goes through the steps of how to do it well and properly. However, as I have noted elsewhere, it still comes across as the lie we tell ourselves to make us feel better. I'm immediately adding this book to the Mount Rushmore of leadership books. It's Top 10 stuff. If you or your organization is stuck, this is how to become unstuck. It validates and expands upon Godin's "Linchpin" and "Switch" by the Heath brothers. These 3 books, along with Lencioni's "The Advantage" provide just about all the fodder needed to advance your organization from here to there. And as we all know, the best leadership books are really the best life books. I've never given a book a higher recommendation than I give to this one. Read it now. Read it often.
What do You think about Necessary Endings: The Employees, Businesses, And Relationships That All Of Us Have To Give Up In Order To Move Forward (2011)?
Can't I please give this more stars? 'So very usable...applicable.
—ilyreading1902
So repetitive! Too many metaphors in place of substance!
—fiza
Meh... good idea but very very repetitive.
—Emachines
