Book Review: The Power of Leadership Skills

Title: The Power of Leadership Skills

Author: David Hathaway

Date: 2025

Quote: "What sets this book apart is its unique approach."

By "unique approach" is apparently meant that this book won't tell you one dang thing you've not read before. And it reads as if it was written by a computer, though, to be fair, general advice on how to frame a dreary middle management job as "leadership" read very much as if it had been written by a computer before word processors were invented. All of its sources (except for a painting, cited as a source of inspiration but not reproduced in the book) are online.

Usually books of this type can at least boast of a few new stories but the closest this book comes to telling new stories is to mention the names of people and companies that have been in the news recently.

And, before the end of the book, the author seems to have realized that the audience would be drifting away, adding a sort of intercalary chapter urging readers to "Take a Break and Write a Review."

This e-book is recommended to students in business management courses who want to list it as a book on corporate "leadership" that they've read. Since its advice is unoriginal and Delphic, it won't tell you how to succeed in business, but it could be fairly described as a summary of several cubic yards of similar books for which too many trees used to die.