{"id":225,"date":"2025-07-10T06:42:59","date_gmt":"2025-07-10T06:42:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/firdausaris.com\/blog\/?p=225"},"modified":"2025-07-10T06:43:04","modified_gmt":"2025-07-10T06:43:04","slug":"book-review-the-motive-why-so-many-leaders-abdicate-their-most-important-responsibilities-by-patrick-lencioni","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/firdausaris.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/10\/book-review-the-motive-why-so-many-leaders-abdicate-their-most-important-responsibilities-by-patrick-lencioni\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Review: The Motive: Why So Many Leaders Abdicate Their Most Important Responsibilities by Patrick Lencioni"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/51771754-the-motive\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/51771754-the-motive\">The Motive: Why So Many Leaders Abdicate Their Most Important Responsibilities<\/a> by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/author\/show\/11503.Patrick_Lencioni\">Patrick Lencioni<\/a><br><br>My rating: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/show\/7722283310\">4 of 5 stars<\/a><br><br><br>&#8220;The Motive&#8221; by Patrick Lencioni argues that many leaders fail because they view leadership as a reward rather than a responsibility. The book contrasts two types of leaders: those who are responsibility-centered, willing to do the hard, often uncomfortable work of managing people, holding others accountable, and providing claritty, and those who are reward-centered, who avoid these tasks and focus on status or perks. Through a fictional story about a struggling CEO named Shea, Lencioni shows that real leadership requires humility, courage, and the commitment to serve others, not just enjoy the benefits of the title.<br><br><br><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/list\/42336618-firdaus-aris\">View all my reviews<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The Motive&#8221; by Patrick Lencioni argues that many leaders fail because they view leadership as a reward rather than a responsibility. The book contrasts two types of leaders: those who are responsibility-centered, willing to do the hard, often uncomfortable work of managing people, holding others accountable, and providing claritty, and those who are reward-centered, who avoid these tasks and focus on status or perks. Through a fictional story about a struggling CEO named Shea, Lencioni shows that real leadership requires humility, courage, and the commitment to serve others, not just enjoy the benefits of the title.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-review"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/firdausaris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/firdausaris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/firdausaris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firdausaris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firdausaris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=225"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/firdausaris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":226,"href":"https:\/\/firdausaris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225\/revisions\/226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/firdausaris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firdausaris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firdausaris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}