A Critical Review of the Book: "The Leader Who Had No Title" Authored By Robin Sharma

There is a book written and is now being popularized across the
world. The name of the book is The Leader Who Had No Title: A Modern
Fable on Real Success in Business and in Life and is written by Robin
Sharma. Robin Sharma, the author, has since went on a worldwide
campaign with the book announcing to the world that we are now leaving
in an era of leaders with who have no title.The message of the book at
the most basic level is good and provide a reasonable appeal for
people to be masters of their destiny either for leading their own
lives as entrepreneurs - unconnected with the cruel cultures of
impersonal companies or either even though people do not go out on
their own as entrepreneurs they can still can remain in this large
impersonal companies and seek peace not from companies and their
bosses but from within their hearts. And the peace coming from their
hearts will serve as an antidote to a hostile cruel work life of being
under the boss.But one thing which weakens this profound message in
the book is the constant reference by the author to "great CEOs of
great companies". The author talks about great CEOs of big companies
and the author's message are that readers should follow the examples
of these CEOs - lead like them. That is the problem in the book and
the seminars the author conducts. It seems as if this is the story of
a dog chasing its own tail. Let me explain; the author starts by
explaining that the old leadership of command and control is dead -
and this is the leadership style of CEOs. And then how then afterwards
the author will refer his readers to traits of great CEOs when he has
already cancelled them off?Like all other recent books of Robin Sharma
the "The Leader Who Had No Title: A Modern Fable on Real Success in
Business and in Life" is an extension of his most successful book -
The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari. It is presented like a drama where you
have teachers who teach and guide a discouraged bookshop worker -
ultimately transforming this bookshop worker into a big star within
the bookshop.The message of the book might mislead, because it seems
as if you can assimilate the wisdom and guidance of great teachers
then automatically you are transformed instantly to a better person.
In real life that is not so. There is often an interval time from the
time you have immersed yourself in some great teaching to the time you
become better. It is sometimes a slow evolutionary process. The
Harvard study on the making of an expert can be brought into the
picture here, the study reveals that it takes about ten thousand hours
to become an expert - which on average on an average person including
the normal common daily things we do - sleeping, time with friends,
these ten thousand hours can be ten years in a person's life.