REVIEW: David Horsager — Trusted Leader: 8 Pillars That Drive Results (BOOK)

David Horsager is a triple threat: bestselling author, CEO of a premier management and consulting company, and expert in residence at High Point University. Naturally, advice coming from someone of his stature is innately a privilege, concurrent to being something of a public service on his end. But Horsager’s generosity doesn’t stop there. Rather than simply printing a book for one, specific kind of audience, Horsager seems interested in communicating his ideas and leadership styles across as wide a margin as humanly possible. The result is his latest release, effectively titled Trusted Leader: 8 Pillars That Drive Results where through both analogous storytelling and specific descriptions and rundowns of implementing strategy he lays the groundwork for an evidence-based, fluid new kind of corporate synchronicity.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR: https://davidhorsager.com/

Horsager possesses the contemporarily appropriate sentimentality of the standard professional, while retaining a polished and articulate disposition that never comes across as high-handed or classist. He lays down the facts in a manner that is simple yet still possessing of certain decorum. However the latter is peppered with educated, semi-deprecating humor — only further enhancing his appeal as both literary mentor and professorial storyteller.

Ultimately, Horsager argues, it’s all about maintaining character concurrent to success. In fact, he argues, maintaining personal character in no way serves as a detriment to said success, but in fact allows it to be fruitful and to multiply. Using terms such as ‘trustworthy’, ‘competency’, and ‘commitment’, Horsager states that maintaining one’s entrepreneurial dreams is dependent upon collaboration and compromise.

As a result, he puts to bed the old stereotype of the CEO being at the top of the chain, devoid of responsibility. If anything, he argues, the CEO is the definition of responsibility and functions as the glue holding together the corporate structure as much as the employees working within the various, hierarchal levels of the organization. Such a mentality is something of a welcome relief after years of the ‘Boss from Hell’ trope, as well as pulling back the curtain on what many have felt is a long held truth. Fear doesn’t equal respect, rather trustworthiness, decency, and a sense of fundamental responsibility will continue to carry the day — personally as well as professionally, the former and the latter also sharing a symbiotic relationship with respect to both outcomes.

AMAZON: https://www.amazon.com/Trusted-Leader-Pillars-Drive-Results/dp/1523092998

Someone with Horsager’s credentials saying this only further cements the obvious, things are beginning to shift for the better — as a result, so are the opportunities, innovations, and evolutions companies big and small will find themselves able to access.

Colin Jordan