National Book Lovers Day is celebrated on August 9 every year in the United States. This is an unofficial holiday observed to encourage reading and literature. In fact, people are advised to put away their smartphones and every possible technological distraction and pick up a book to read.
In honor of National Book Lovers Day, I offer a summary of Max DePree’s leadership masterpiece Leadership is an Art. This is the book’s 30th anniversary of its 1989 publication. It is an oft-quoted book among leadership books.
I picked it up in a Half-Price Bookstore in Tumwater, Washington while on a trip to speak to the State of Washington’s Department of Retirement Services. I read it at Angle Lake Park in Seattle (pictured above)—a great setting!
Click here to enjoy a summary of Max DePree’s Leadership is an Art