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In my opinion, Maestro is the best book on the essence of leadership that I have read in recent years. Nierenberg provides the material in the form of a business narrative, a sub genre that writers handle effectively (he does) and the basic situation is quite simple: a senior-level executive is struggling without much success to be an effective leader. He overhears his daughter's violin teacher, Robert, raving about the new conductor of the local orchestra in which he plays. "He's got this rare ability of getting headstrong and independent people like us [i.e. members of the orchestra] to set aside our differences and work toward making the music come alive." Robert invites the executive to attend a rehearsal and observe the conductor at work. It would be inappropriate for me to reveal (or even summarize) what happens after that. Suffice to say that, over time, the executive gains an understanding of what effective leadership is...and isn't.

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