{"id":1772,"date":"2010-02-03T14:00:55","date_gmt":"2010-02-03T19:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.achievemax.com\/bookreviews\/?p=1772"},"modified":"2012-10-22T17:00:25","modified_gmt":"2012-10-22T21:00:25","slug":"toy-box-leadership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.achievemax.com\/bookreviews\/toy-box-leadership\/","title":{"rendered":"Toy Box Leadership"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"ToyToy Box Leadership: Leadership Lessons from the Toys You Loved as a Child<\/a>\"\"
\nby Ron Hunter, Jr. and Michael E. Waddell<\/p>\n

I first came across this book several months ago during a flight delay in the Atlanta airport. I was so impressed with the content that I wrote an article for our blog. It wasn’t a book review\u2014it was more focused on the lesson it taught me as I almost passed up this most enjoyable book by making an inaccurate assumption based on the title.<\/p>\n

While the article was NOT a book review, it did contain a great deal of background material which I feel you’d find enlightening about both the content and the authors. Click on Toys as Mentors<\/a>\u00a0to view that article.<\/p>\n

If you could revisit your childhood, you would discover that you were exposed to many leadership principles while playing with your favorite toys. You may not have realized it at the time, but the co-authors of Toy Box Leadership<\/em> will assist you in recapturing those principles in ten short but delightful chapters.<\/p>\n

Each chapter is devoted to a particular childhood toy we all loved and enjoyed as we were growing up. The subtitle of each chapter then identifies the leadership trait that is so clearly represented by each toy. For instance:<\/p>\n