Where have all the leaders gone?This book, like Gaul in Caesar's Commentaries, is divided into three parts, but not very neatly. If you're interested in only one part of it, make sure you're interested enough to pay the book's price for the part(s) you like. This book is part rant. If you want to read Lee Iacocca's rants about his view of leadership in the US, the sins of the current administration, or about how young people can't be ripped away from their iPods long enough to show concern about anything, this is the book for you. The book is part memoir. When Iacocca is making observations on the auto business, or sharing stories from the time when he as active as a senior executive and CEO, he's both interesting and credible. For me this was the most interesting part of the book and the part that had the most original material. But most of the authors experiences are over a decade old and I found the memoir to be mostly the "we had it tougher in my day and we did a whole lot better" variety. This book is part business advice. It's good advice, but it's not original or even well and thoroughly reasoned. I buy business books to learn something about business that will be helpful to me or my clients. There's not enough of that in this book to justify the purchase price. To see what other folks thought of this book, or to purchase it from Amazon, click here.
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