Make It So: Leadership Lessons from Star Trek: The Next Generation
by Wess Roberts
Star Trek: The Next Generation (Real World meta — ), Star Trek (1996.08)
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T he fast-changing business world of today is far different from just a few years ago. Success in today's marketplace requires new leadership techniques, new thinking, and an eye on the future . . . . In Make It So: Leadership Lessons from Star Trek: The Next Generation®, Wess Roberts and coauthor Bill Ross take their inspiration from today's most striking and most popular vision of the future -- Star Trek -- an unprecedented television, feature film and publishing phenomenon. From the show more top-rated television series Star Trek: The Next Generation, Roberts and Ross find a new symbol for successful leadership: Captain Jean-Luc Picard. As entertaining as it is useful, Make It So captures the mythos of Star Trek: The Next Generation as it delivers dramatically rich lessons on leadership, including the importance of the ability to focus on a single "mission," effective communication, teamwork, honor . . . and other important concepts. The examples are taken from the on-screen adventures of Captain Picard and the Starship EnterpriseTM, but the lessons and the benefits are real -- and can be applied to everyday situations where the goal is the kind of high-performance organization embodied by the crew of the U.S.S. EnterpriseTM 1701-D. Sure to appeal to Star Trek enthusiasts and serious students of leadership alike, Make It So is the most exciting business book on the shelves -- the one book that shows the future of modern leadership while giving managers the tools they need for success today! show lessTags
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My daughter, who works at the local library, rescued this from the trash bin since she knows what a Star Trek nerd I am. I sure wish I had read this book before the time my boss was kidnapped by a rival company and tortured to reveal our business secrets. We launched a daring and ultimately successful rescue attempt. He eventually recovered, but he was kind of weird around the office for a few months afterward.
Seriously, this is a dumb idea for a business leadership book. It was kind of fun to read the recaps of 9 Star Trek:TNG episodes, especially since I read this book just now, many years since TNG went off the air. By really, business leadership lessons?
Seriously, this is a dumb idea for a business leadership book. It was kind of fun to read the recaps of 9 Star Trek:TNG episodes, especially since I read this book just now, many years since TNG went off the air. By really, business leadership lessons?
Being a Star Trek fan, I have often admired the leadership skills displayed in the TV series. Author Wess Roberts cleverly employs several episodes from ST:TNG to illustrate solid leadership and management techniques that every person can learn from. Delightfully done.
Interesting descriptions of events recounted by Picard. However, leadership lessons are blatantly simplistic and uninteresting.
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- Canonical title
- Make It So: Leadership Lessons from Star Trek: The Next Generation
- Original publication date
- 1995
- Epigraph
- "Legacy"
Superintendent's note. A man's learning, experiences, and wisdom need not die with him, but may live forever if recorded as his legacy
Superintendent, Starfleet Academy - Dedication
- This book is for Justin, Jaime, and Jeremy with every confidence that they will always engage wisdom whenever and wherever they lead in their generation. And for Cheryl, who has always led well.
It is also for Susan, ... (show all)Bill's Number One, and the rest of the crew he calls family. - First words
- Introduction: I find myself greatly surprised to have just been subjected to the most intensive investigation of my character and fitness to command that I have ever experienced in my thirty-nine-year career as an officer in... (show all) Starfleet.
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)Make it so!
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