Leadership and Motivation: The Fifty-Fifty Rule and the Eight Key Principles of Motivating Others (The John Adair Leadership Library)

I purchased this book to help with research towards a management qualification.Its very easy to understand and thought provoking and encapsulates ideas and theories from the likes of Maslow and Herzberg to McGregors Theory X,Y.I find it gave me ideas on how to apply some of the theory to areas at work where improvements could easily be madeA must buy!!

Lots of books on Management make pretty dry reading - this was very readable. Although most of it is common sense it is full of useful information that can be applied in the work place. The John Adair Leadership Library: Leadership and Motivation: The Fifty-Fifty Rule and the Eight Key Principles of Motivating Others: 4

This book is more of a research history into motivation rather than teaching you how to be a better motivator. A large proportion of the book goes into explaining how modern theory of motivation was developed and by who and when..and what they thought etc etc ...but harding goes into how to impliment them in real life.To be fair to the author, he does state, early in the book, that he makes no apologies that this book goes into detail but the people who developed the theory.Basically, if you want a book to quickly teach you how to improve your motivation skills then this is not it. If you are interested in how the theory of motivation was developed in the last few decades, then this might be it.

A good book.A good motivatorA good practiceIt has the basics on what you need to be a good leader.

I found that this book gets right to the point and is very helpful for folks that are new to leadership roles. it provides smile but effective guidance

It was an interesting read, but relied too heavily on historic theories of motivation, including Maslow's hierarchy of needs, Hertzberg's motivators and hygiene factors, McGregor's Theory X and Y, Fayol's principles on management (PLOC) and Hackham and Oldham's work on job enrichment and job enlargement. The first part of the book argued the pros and cons of each of these theorists, whilst the second part of the book examined the application of Maslow and Hertzberg, despite their shortcomings. This book gave me a futher understanding of process and content theories of motivations. However sadly, this book did not give what I consider constructive tools to provide leadership and motivation. The only value I got from the book was the author's analysis of the nature verses nurture influences debate and how these influences affect leadership and motivation by what he describes as the 50-50 rule. If you have no knowledge of the subject and motivational theories, you will quickly get lost in the jargon. If you have considerable knowledge of the subject, you might find it sparking long forgotten memories on theories of motivation.

This book provides good insight on becoming an effective leader. Will recommend to read.