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Title: A Higher Standard of Leadership: Lessons from the Life of Gandhi by Keshavan Nair ISBN: 1-57675-011-6 Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Pub Pub. Date: January, 1997 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.71 (7 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A good guideline for Upper Management
Comment: You don't have to know a thing about M. Ghandi to appreciate this book. Even so, to get his point across the author gives the reader examples of Ghandi's approach to life, and how we can apply it in today's society. I especially enjoyed the emphasis encouraging anyone in 'supervisory positions' to not be elitist, and to have to be more honest with their employees.Small business owners, and corporate managers would benefit greatly from reading this book because it reinforces values that, for the most part, have been forgotten. Nair's work is a more sophisticated version of the book "Who Moved My Cheese' Employees, as an anonymous gift, give this book to your supervisors.
Rating: 5
Summary: A Perfect Gift
Comment: This is a wonderful little book. I use it regularly in undergraduate and graduate courses I teach in leadership and decision making. It is a book that many students keep when the class is finished; and, it is not unusual for students to purchase additional copies to give to thier friends, colleagues, and managers.
Rating: 4
Summary: A Good Read!
Comment: Keshavan Nair emphasizes the need for leadership based on a fundamental moral standard, as taught and lived by Mohandus Gandhi. The Indian leader embodied a moral life centered on truth, non-violence and service to others. Nair argues that business leaders today need to follow these basic principles. He stresses that these principles - and the practices based upon them - make good business sense in the long run, as well as being crucial to the survival of society. The text combines Gandhi's experiences with Nair's exhortations on how to apply these principles in the workplace. However, Nair provides few examples of contemporary leaders who practice these principles. Thus, the book occasionally comes across as somewhat preachy, wishful, overly idealistic and out of touch with the everyday realities of business. Yet, we at getAbstract.com recommend it in the face of those realities as a counterbalance, as well as a good quick read that encourages thought.
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Title: Person to Person: Positive Relationships Don't Just Happen (4th Edition) by Sharon L. Hanna ISBN: 013099586X Publisher: Prentice Hall Pub. Date: 30 July, 2002 List Price(USD): $82.00 |
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Title: A Practical Companion to Ethics by Anthony Weston ISBN: 0195141997 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: August, 2001 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Caring: A Feminine Approach to Ethics and Moral Education, Second Edition, with a New Preface by Nel Noddings ISBN: 0520238648 Publisher: University of California Press Pub. Date: 02 June, 2003 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: The Lost Art of Listening: How Learning to Listen Can Improve Relationships by Michael Nichols ISBN: 1572301317 Publisher: Guilford Press Pub. Date: 03 May, 1996 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Our Souls to Keep: Black/White Relations in America by George Henderson ISBN: 187786465X Publisher: Intercultural Press Pub. Date: November, 1998 List Price(USD): $23.95 |
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