Learning Leadership from Dogs : What can Bulldogs, Dachshunds, Komondors, Pekingese and Otterhounds (among other dogs) teach us about effective leadership?

The book provides a succinct and enjoyable experience of learning about leadership to multiple groups of readers, by using the world of dogs as an aid to understanding leadership concepts. The book will be interesting for multiple sets of readers (e.g. undergraduates, casual dog lovers, etc.). They will find it to be a practical and interesting book. There is no other book on the market that approaches leadership by using the context of dogs as an explanatory canvas. This familiar canine context will help in making these leadership concepts easy to comprehend. The reader will also learn a lot about several breeds of dogs, across the world, including breeds such as the Bulldog, Dachshund, German Shepherd, Mastiff and Otterhound, among others.

This book provides the reader with tips and insights on how they can become better leaders themselves. These insights and tips will be explained by utilizing the context of dogs, with examples featuring various dog breeds used throughout the book. This will emphasize what we can learn from these various dogs’ traits and characteristics. Some of the topics that the book will cover include concepts like ‘resilience’, ‘courage’, ‘patience’, ‘(in)dependence’, ‘respect’, ‘kindness’, ‘authenticity’ and ‘trust’. The various chapters in this book will provide the reader with insight on why it is important for human leaders to embody these various concepts and qualities.

For instance, a concept like ‘resilience’ is of paramount importance for leaders, because not every single plan or decision will be successful, but it is important to stay the course, as a Bloodhound would on the trail of an escaped convict. The book adroitly mixes findings and insights from numerous scholarly sources on leadership and juxtaposes them with examples featuring various dog breed traits and characteristics. The book will be useful for improving one’s knowledge on how to be a better leader, and will also improve one’s knowledge about the numerous varieties and kinds of dog breeds. The book is easy to comprehend and the scholarly concepts in it are explained without any complicated jargon.