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Leading Minds: An Anatomy of Leadership
Howard Gardner · 2011
🎙 Narrated by Peter Johnson
87/100
👍 Worth It
Howard Gardner's cognitive take on leadership — how leaders craft stories that reach the "unschooled mind" — is genuinely rigorous, and the eleven historical profiles (Oppenheimer, Eleanor Roosevelt, Thatcher and more) give it real range and staying power. It reads more academic than your typical airport leadership book, but that's a feature here, not a flaw. Peter Johnson's narration is clean and professional, making the denser material easy to follow.
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🎙 Narration: good Peter Johnson's Audible Studios narration is professional and clear, well-suited to the book's academic tone.
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Verdict receipt0–100
Faith & family safety88
Substance / usefulness90
Craft & writing86
Originality82
Evidence & accuracy88
Hype vs delivers80
Age-fit82
Human-eye read86
Penny’s verdict87
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