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The Feiner Points of Leadership

2004 book by Michael Feiner

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 20, 2026
Entity authorityQ131686371 ↗
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The Feiner Points of Leadership: The 50 Basic Laws That Will Make People Want to Perform Better for You, first published in 2004, is a book written by Michael Feiner, the former Vice President and Chief People Officer at Pepsi-Cola and former professor of Columbia Graduate School of Business. It presents 50 laws for managing business problems based on the author's experiences. The book explores how leaders can positively influence their teams, foster collaboration, and build a productive, motivated work environment. Feiner's approach is based on the idea that leadership is not just about managing tasks but about inspiring and empowering others to achieve their best potential.

It was selected by the Toronto Globe and Mail as the Best Business Book of 2004.

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Editorial reviewA productive route into publication, performance and collection histories when the underlying object or edition remains clearly identified. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2004—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Feiner, Points and Leadership can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the arts & letters register because the source frames it as 2004 book by Michael Feiner. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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Attribution, date and provenance are strongest when supported by the original work, a catalogue record and documented transmission. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 20, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q131686371. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2004.

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This entry incorporates text from “The Feiner Points of Leadership” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.