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The Leadership Pill
Kenneth Blanchard & Marc Muchnick · 2003
🎙 Narrated by Walter Bobbie
62/100
👎 Skip It
The pill-as-metaphor is cute and easy to discuss with a team, but this is thin gruel compared to Blanchard's better-known parables — it leans hard on a simple gimmick and the 2003-era workplace references show their age. Walter Bobbie's narration is solid per AudioFile, but the content itself doesn't earn much more than a skim.
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🎙 Narration: good Reviewed directly by AudioFile Magazine; Walter Bobbie gives it a professional, clean read.
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Verdict receipt0–100
Faith & family safety95
Substance / usefulness55
Craft & writing68
Originality55
Evidence & accuracy65
Hype vs delivers60
Age-fit78
Human-eye read65
Penny’s verdict62
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