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Praise for Reading the Room
"If you believe, as I do, that tackling our toughest problems in
organizations and societies will require significant advances in the
human domain of how we think and interact, then you will find this
book a wonderful resource for a healthier future."Â-Peter Senge,
senior lecturer, leadership and sustainability, MIT Sloan School of
Management; and founding chair, Society for Organizational Learning (SoL)
"A must-read for anyone truly interested in gaining access to
and managing their own actions/behavior as well as all those we work
with, live with, and interact with. It will shift the way you, others,
and the world occur for you."Â-Michael C. Jensen, Jesse Isidor
Straus Professor of Business Administration, emeritus, Harvard
Business School
"David Kantor is one of the very few master innovators and
theorists in organizational leadership. In this combined story and
practice guide, Kantor helps leaders see the hidden dynamics of the
groups they lead, and the personal and social factors that shape their
relationships with those groups." Â-Art Kleiner, editor in chief, strategy+business
"Kantor addresses the fundamental issue that leaders are
surprisingly inept in conversation and in managing groups. Leaders and
managers at all levels should be learning these concepts in order to
improve their own ability to analyze what is going on and react
appropriately."Â-Edgar H. Schein, professor emeritus, MIT Sloan
School of Management; and author, Helping: How to Offer, Give, and
Receive Help
"An exceptional book in the true sense of the word. It stands
alone in its grasp of what it takes to succeed as a leader. It's not
simply about mastering the five forces, milking cash cows,
accelerating experience curves, or even spurring disruptive
innovation. It's about reading the room. Leaders who gain mastery of
what David Kantor has to teach in this book will achieve true success,
not just as leaders, but as people." Â-Diana M. Smith, chief
executive partner, New Profit Inc.; and author, The Elephant in the
Room: How Relationships Make or Break the Success of Leaders and Organizations
"There are only a few wise masters in the world when it comes to
any real understanding of leader-ship, and even fewer who share their
secrets. David Kantor is one of them, and in Reading the Room we have
brilliantly laid out before us both a unique lens and a highly
practical method that will change for good the way you lead, and more,
the way you think. Not to be missed!" Â-William Isaacs, author,
Dialogue and the Art of Thinking Together; and senior lecturer, MIT
Sloan School of Management
David Kantor, Ph. D., is a systems psychologist, organizational
consultant, and clinical researcher. Kantor was formerly the head of
Monitor Kantor Enterprises (MKE), a business unit of Monitor Group.
Kantor has been a professor at Harvard University, Harvard University
Medical School, and Tufts University Medical School. He also founded
and served as director of the Kantor Family Institute, a postgraduate
training center in Boston, and The Kantor Institute, a training center
for consultants, coaches, and leaders.
