Reddit reviews The Contrarian's Guide to Leadership

This guy here, is in my opinion the greatest President USC has ever had. He turned this University into what it is today.

I highly recommend new and old Trojans alike read his book to understand his style of leadership:
http://www.amazon.com/Contrarians-Guide-Leadership-Steven-Sample/dp/0787967076


"Under his stewardship, USC rose from 51st to 26th in U.S. News & World Report’s rankings of U.S. universities, and the number of its freshman applicants tripled. The university also became more selective, with acceptance rates dropping from 70% to 24%."

You both would hate most of the content in The Contrarian's Guide to Leadership, but Grey would enjoy the author's methodology of news intake --

• Step 1: Never read the news.
  
  
• Step 2: Have smart, trustworthy friends that do read the news.
  
  
• Step 3: Selectively encourage them to tell you about the news, and enjoy their preset personal filter of what's "important" to pass along.

I really enjoyed Contrarian's Guide to Leadership by Steven Sample.

Lots of good advice by a guy who's been leading people for awhile (was USC's president for just under 20 years).