The Serving Leader : Five Powerful Actions to Transform Your Team, Business, and Community

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jennings, Ken.

Contributor:

Stahl-Wert, John.

Series:

A BK business book

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Leadership.

Management.

Teams in the workplace.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (99 p.)

Edition:

2nd ed.

Other Title:

Five powerful actions to transform your team, business, and community

Place of Publication:

Oakland : Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2016.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

The Serving Leader Five Powerful Actions to Transform Your Team, Business, and Community, 10th Anniversary Edition, Revised and Expanded It's people who make organizations great, so how can leaders best help their people achieve that greatness? As Ken Jennings and John Stahl-Wert show in this new edition of their bestseller, you can't just demand greatness—you have to inspire it. The most effective leaders don't just stand in front of their people, they stand behind them too. As one of the characters in the book notes, “You qualify to be first by putting other people first.” This concept sounds paradoxical, but it leads to extraordinary outcomes—and The Serving Leader shows precisely how and why. While Jennings and Stahl-Wert use a compelling fictional story to outline the basics of Serving Leadership, all the characters in it are based on real people, the organizations depicted are based on real organizations—and the results they achieved are what really happened. This edition features a new foreword by Ken Blanchard, a new introduction, and a new chapter checking back in with Mike, the main character, to see what he has learned in the twelve years since he embraced Serving Leadership On one level this is the most practical guide available to implementing Serving Leadership; on a deeper level, it is a book about the personal journey of growth that real leadership requires. Great organizations are great because they're filled with people who freely choose to do their very best. It's a maddeningly simple concept yet stunningly hard to execute. Jennings and Stahl-Wert show leaders how to earn that kind of commitment.

Contents:

Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; Foreword; Introduction; Mike Wilson's Journal; The Fast Track Diverted; A New Assignment; Action: Upend the Pyramid; Action: Raise the Bar; Action: Blaze the Trail; Mending a Broken Track; Action: Build on Strength; Action: Run to Great Purpose; The Serving Leader; Mike Wilson's Updates; Resources for Further Reading; Acknowledgments; About the Authors

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

9781626566163

162656616X

OCLC:

935326849