Review by Wallace Chappell of the book, Authentic Leadership: Courage in Action [San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass, 275 p.].

While the title, Authentic Leadership, is not inappropriate, a much more descriptive title might have been Leadership in Philosophical Context. This much more accurately characterizes the contents of the book and also leaves much less uncertainty about whether there might be an appreciative general audience for it - highly unlikely. In Authentic Leadership, Mr. Terry propounds an all-encompassing concept of leadership, one that he asserts pulls together into one piece of cloth all the major and well-acknowledged threads of thinking to date on leadership. Frankly, I am less sure of how well he succeeds at this. A panel of philosophers and leadership theorists would be better able to critique how all-encompassing his concept really is, how well grounded in philosophy, and ultimately how convincing it is as good theory.

In Authentic Leadership, Mr. Terry propounds an all-encompassing concept of leadership, one that he asserts pulls together into one piece of cloth all the major and well-acknowledged threads of thinking to date on leadership.