I read this book because it was recommended by the new president of my company and because it had really high reviews. It had the same generic leadership advice as every other book written on the topic at least since I was born; don't treat people badly, treat them good. Groundbreaking...

He never explains why we should want to be the type of leader he describes, which is kind of ironic because his other big book was "Start with Why". He walks through examples where companies seized short term profits at the expense of long term sustainability, but in these instances the leaders were incentivized to do exactly that. So why should they consider that a failure?

There's plenty of junk math/misleading statistics in the book. And if he's going to spend so much time talking about brain chemistry, he should have co-written with an actual scientist. Though I doubt any scientist would let him have make the stretches that he did.

Towards the end of the book he completely loses focus. There's a 20 page rant on how these dang millennials just won't put their phones down. Nothing wrong with ranting against millennials, but why is that in a book on leadership?

I wouldn't recommend this book to anyone.