The Radical Edge: Stoke Your Business, Amp Your Life, and Change the World First Edition

As a fan of Steve Farber's first book "The Radical Leap," I was so excited to get my hands on "The Radical Edge ..." and I was not disappointed. Where "The Radical Leap" introduced me to Love, Energy, Audacity, and Proof for my own and my clients' leadership, "The Radical Edge" has given me ideas for literally changing the world. In the book we meet compelling new characters and revisit some old friends, who offer fresh perspectives about all aspects of life.The end of the book also presents a template for setting up my own customized "Wake-Up Pad" to create my own radical edge.Changing the world is the responsibility of Extreme Leaders ... and I'm especially inspired by Steve's admonishment in this book to "never-never, ever try to do it alone."With that said, I'm hoping to create a both an actual and a virtual community similar to the one described in the book as "a network of extraordinary people who get together ... to encourage, inspire, and cajole each other to keep on keepin' on .... to change the world ... to expand the rightness of things ... to help each other to help each other."Make sure you allow yourself some uninterrupted time to read through the entire book - and then make the time to create your own WUP ... and build your own SKATE! team. Don't wait - get this book NOW!!!

Farber's style and the mix of characters were, for me, incongruent with the important message of the book. There is not doubt that Farber has some key points to make. His message is very important. However the book is fiction and the characters are a little too unreal. For some reason, the story just did not seem real. In my opinion, the lessons would have been better presented in a straightforward manner.The best line in the book was, "If you live in this world without ever attempting to change it, you will have sold a ruby for the price of Spam."While I did not like the style or the means of presenting the concepts or the ideas, I totally agree with his philosophy. We all need to do whatever we can to change the world.

Start with Farber's The Radical Leap and then move on to The Radical Edge. Some of the same beloved characters reappear and you will not want to miss out on falling in love with them in their first appearances! As always, many valuable lessons learned from another dynamic, well-thought, self-reflective book from Steve Farber!

Don't read this series of books if you don't like people.

One of the most boring books I read this year. Maybe I'm too much a, get to the point" type of reader. I don't really enjoy, "what I had for breakfast" writing.

I loved the book. It tells the story but does it in a way that teaches principals of leadership. Great way of teaching people on how to improve and grow.

This weekend I picked up Steve Farber's The Radical Edge.I really enjoyed the simplicity of this book. I'm finding that I enjoy the Leadership Parable format a lot more than the principle driven books. Steve Farber, Pat Lencioni, Ken Blanchard are all writing in this same vane and it's very enjoyable. As the reader I am found myself very engaged with the characters and with the drama that surrounds their lives.I found that this book really focuses on the person more than the organization the person works in. I think that is an important principle because as a leader if you don't know who you are then you are just going to vacillate in your leadership, following the whims and fancies of the day. But if you really know who you are and what you want to do and where you want to do it, you will succeed.This book has a lot of simple principles that I think are helpful and easy to initiate. The principle of the WUP (Wake-Up Pad) is great and something that I have been trying to do. Basically record what's going on around you. I'm not very good at it, but this blog and the journal that I've been using have helped.I'm considering reading it again just to really cement the concepts in my brain. But I would highly recommend this book to anyone trying to be a better leader.