Leadership Is An Art

Max De Pree was the CEO of Hermann Miller the iconic furniture company founded by his father and and champion of designers such as Isamu Noguchi & Charles and Ray Eames. First published in 1987, Leadership is an Art has sold over 800,000 copies.

De Pre wrote that, ‘The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between the two the leader must become a servant and a debtor.’

At less than 150-pages this is one of the richest and most useful leadership books around.