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Title: The Serving Leader: 5 Powerful Actions That Will Transform Your Team, Your Business, and Your Community (Ken Blanchard Series) by Ken Jennings, John Stahl-Wert, Ken Blanchard, Kenneth H. Blanchard ISBN: 1-57675-265-8 Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Pub Pub. Date: August, 2003 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (8 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: What MBA's Dont Know
Comment: A few weeks ago I watched an interview with Jack Welch, former CEO of GE. He indicated that we need to focus on people and not the numbers, and insisted that business schools should start teaching mangement based on people.
Ken Jennings and John Stahl-Wert captured, in my opinion, exactly what Jack Welch was talking about. Leading by serving others.
Ken and John presented the keys to serving leadership in a powerful story that was impossible to put down. Even though there are a lot of good leadership principles here, it's not like reading a leadership text book.
Kudos Dr. Jennings and Dr. Stahl-Wert! Keep getting the word out.
Rating: 5
Summary: Creating Leadership Traits & Standards for the Millennium
Comment: Reviewer: WC Emeka Obiozor....Journalist/Author/Special Educator
Ken Jennings and John Stahl-Wert's Serving Leader is an amazing and unique testimony of powerful actions and skills every person in a leadership position desires to acquire and utilize in transforming his team; be it business enterprise or non-profit community organization.
The book presented valuable leadership traits and standards using heart-warming tales of an estranged son, his dying father and unique landmarks of innovative leaders in different businesses and community-oriented organizations to illustrate the dynamic five principles of a serving leader.
The authors painstakingly gave us insights into different environments - offices, schools, homes, industries, and other work areas where authentic leaders chosen by followers are in charge principally to build the team, the business, and the community. Thus, a teachable and learnable instrument is offered that provides practical sense for what leadership and service principles for teams and organizations are based upon.
Having come from two distinctive backgrounds, the authors utilized their professional skills in leadership coaching and community building to promote the uplifting of the value of people in organizations and achieving organizational success.
Jennings is the founder and managing partner of Venture Works - engages in the areas of leadership development, strategy, and the management of change. Stahl-Wert presides over the Pittsburgh Leadership Foundation (PLF), a 25-year old faith-based intermediary organization in Pittsburgh-Pennsylvania, which specializes in bringing together leaders from the business, government, and social sectors to address human problems.
Distinctive information from the Serving Leader deals with the dreams and aspirations of most contemporary leaders to make their organizations work better. The authors packaged this book to provide today's servant leadership experiential opportunities "to see communities restored, lives improving, kids learning to read, prostitutes breaking the drug and economic chains that hold them, neighborhoods gaining local jobs."
I admired greatly the paradoxes of effective leadership displayed in the book, especially, how the authors blended passages from the Holy Scriptures to drive home important points and facts.
There were significant spotlights the book discussed in the process of pursuing the ideals of innovative leadership, such as - creating a working rapport among staff and management, coaching and mentoring activities that focus on staff strengths and address weaknesses, as well as mending fences and making up in a relationship. Highlights on father's role in giving and sharing love, directing, redirecting and influencing the lives of his child; enforcing school rules - belief in student's capacity for strength and determination, and getting them to rise up to expectations; was another unique aspect of this book.
As the authors would say, "They have to stay on the wire to succeed...because life is a high-wire act." This is very true.
Business executives, school administrators, policy makers, public and private sector, non-profit and community organizations would find this book useful.
It's definitely a good guide to addressing the weaknesses and strengths of leadership, exploring what leaders actually do in their organizations or are expected to do to support individual teams and run successful organizations.
Rating: 5
Summary: It rings true
Comment: I have read various of these kinds of business books--parables with something to teach--and I usually don't like them. The characters aren't real and the world they live in isn't real. This was a great surprise--I identify with Mike in the story, he could be me, and what takes place has all the feel of life as life is. This book encouraged me so strongly!
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Title: Servant Leader : by Ken Blanchard ISBN: 0849996597 Publisher: J Countryman Books Pub. Date: 13 March, 2003 List Price(USD): $14.99 |
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Title: Managing in the Next Society by Peter F. Drucker ISBN: 0312289774 Publisher: Truman Talley Books Pub. Date: July, 2002 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: The Leadership Pill: The Missing Ingredient in Motivating People Today by Ken Blanchard, Marc Muchnick ISBN: 074325001X Publisher: Free Press Pub. Date: 09 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Full Steam Ahead! Unleash the Power of Vision in Your Company and Your Life by Ken Blanchard, Jesse Stoner ISBN: 1576752445 Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Pub Pub. Date: March, 2003 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: The Referral of a Lifetime: The Networking System that Produces Bottom-Line Results . . . Every Day! by Timothy L. Templeton, Lynda Rutledge Stephenson, Tim Templeton, Kenneth H. Blanchard ISBN: 1576752402 Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Pub Pub. Date: May, 2003 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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