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# Reading the Room: Group Dynamics for Coaches and Leaders

**Brand:** david kantor
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- **What is this?** Reading the Room: Group Dynamics for Coaches and Leaders by david kantor
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Reading the Room: Group Dynamics for Coaches and Leaders

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    Understanding people no matter what your title or position
  

*by A***R on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on February 27, 2013*

The only thing that could be improved with this book is the title. I say that because the scope and advice of "Reading the Room" goes so far beyond face-to-face communications and applies to more than coaches and leaders. This book is profound - and that can be said of very very few books. It give deep insight into people and how to be an effective change agent. "Reading the Room" anchors in moral excellence and how to have real impact for the betterment of organizations, communities and family. I found myself learning principles that I can apply to virtually every area of my life. An amazing book.Without reading this book my comments might not make much sense. However this book really does give you the tools to understand yourself and the childhood forces that molded your current behavior - and the behaviors of those you live and work with. David Kantor weaves all of this through an engaging story, much like Patrick Lencioni does in his series of books. David talks about when as children our idealization of love gets damaged, as of course reality of anything always does, we spend the rest of our lives trying to repair love - seeking it, giving it, protecting it, withholding it. Love or anything involving emotions isn't popular in business - however how can it be denied that emotions in truth animate everything. EQ, Emotional Intelligence by Daniel Goleman, has proven that."Reading the Room is about what is involved in a whole, unified, fully integrated life, and leaders want to be loved. That's why they do what they do, even when their motives may look simply material or power centered. Love is connection. Connection is the bridging of difference, and difference is bridged through words, language, talk."Each chapter has a summary, listing of the insights gleaned and questions for discussion and application. "Reading the Room" is a work book and a text, a guide, counselor and profound business mentor all in one. Excellent read. Life changing and worth far more than I paid for it. I highly recommend this as mandatory reading for anyone in business but especially leaders and those that facilitate communication.

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    Badly Written, Indulgent, Sexist and borderline Misogynist.
  

*by C***E on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on June 9, 2017*

When I started this book, I thought, "the examples are dreadful." The "fictional case study" is poorly written-- all tell not show-- and uses stereotypes for characters. Compare it to Five Dysfunctions of a Team or Phoenix Project, where the authors create a compelling story to help us learn the core concepts. Not Kantor, who can't seem to decide between business fiction and wooden textbook examples, and writes with the grace of a middle grader.Throughout the book the characters are walking stereotypes: women (always in a womanly job like HR or spouse) are warm, emotional and supportive and men are the tough strong 'boys don't cry" and this is written in frigging 2012.  But his models were interesting  (if very poorly rendered- who uses powerpoint to design?) and there appears to be a body of research behind it. So although it's dull and meandering, I liked the taxonomy, so I suck it up and keep reading.And then I got to the last section, where he describes in near-pornographic details Howard's brutal sex with his russian girlfriend who is forced into it because she has visa issues and I'm "whoa. this is rape." There is ZERO reason to choose this example of inappropriate behavior and many reasons not to describe it. This book needs a trigger warning. It's written like that dirty old uncle who wants to tell you about how he used to go to stripper bars when he was a sales rep.It's boring and written like he wants to be shocking and doesn't know how. I prefer sexy stories in my fiction, which they know how to write. Kantor makes Dan Brown look like Hemingway. I think embezzlement was a sufficient villainous act for a business book about building an ethical company (which comes out of nowhere! First we have communication models, and suddenly we're talking about corporate ethics? This book is 1/3 meandering filler that probably should have gone into it's own book.) DID HE EVEN HAVE AN EDITOR?Instead of buying this book, go to his website, look at the models and move on. There is nothing in the book you need beyond that, and much you do not want.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    Invaluable help for leaders and individuals in professional and interpersonal settings
  

*by A***T on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on September 8, 2012*

I've been fortunate to know David Kantor for 15 years and have benefitted greatly from his wisdom and theoretical genius in group and individual settings.  And while theory is a necessity for serious learners, it's in practice that his work truly shines.  Reading the Room rightly (in my view) focuses on the structures and real dynamics of whole and imperfect humans as they face everyday encounters as well as high stakes (for them) dilemmas.  Digging into this work means one is committed to knowing the difference between quick fixes (so called) and developing a leadership sensibility and orientation that is more sustainable and effective over time.  Awareness, it turns out, it only partially curative. It takes paying attention, practice, reflection, and putting your head AND heart on the line to become a truly present and coherent leader and this work leads the way in service of those aims. David's work in Reading the Room provides an invaluable base of clear theory with practical examples that together can help individuals and groups in any context, work or personal, become more authentic and connected to the true forces that enable positive change to happen.

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