Strong on visual part, weaker on the leadership side. If this is your first book from the series then probably you could bump the rating to 4 out of 5.

I've read Visual Meetings and skimmed Visual Teams before and the best parts of this book are largerly repeated from the previous ones. Somethimes they are covered in more detial or presented from a different (executive/managerial) angle, but still these are the same tools and the same examples (each of the books in this series uses exactly the same stories to show tools in action). The leadership aspect of the book sometimes feels forced or empty, as author needs to simplify many things, but occasionally it deliveres valuable advice.

Print and paper quality is better than in Visual Meetings, so reading experience is nicer. Author starts to acknowlege digital and remote reality, but still many parts of the book feel dated - stories, technology, leadership and organizational models. However, the communication principles, visual tools, and psychology of transformational changes are as valid as ever. I'd recommend reading one book from the series - the core is the same in each, so it doesn't matter much which one - but not sure if Visual Leaders would be my top pick. ( )