Leadership For The Common Good

Author : Barbara C. Crosby
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 9780787978402
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.0X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Leadership for the Common Good written by Barbara C. Crosby and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2005-02-18 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When it was first published in 1992, the first edition of Leadership for the Common Good presented a revolutionary approach to community and organizational leadership in a shared-power world. Now, in this completely revised and updated edition, Barbara Crosby and John Bryson expand on their proven leadership model and offer new insights and guidance to leaders. This second edition is a practical resource for a new generation of leaders and aspiring leaders and includes success stories, challenges, and real-world experience.

Author : Christine Harman
Publisher : Upper Room Books
ISBN 13 : 0881779601
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book For the Common Good written by Christine Harman and published by Upper Room Books. This book was released on 2021-07-01 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the Common Good reminds us that the Holy Spirit gives each Christian one or more spiritual gifts to be used for the common good. It guides readers to discover their own particular gifts and learn to use their gifts to serve others. Examining key passages in Paul's writings, author Christine Harman leads readers through a personal spiritual gift assessment. She names 25 distinct spiritual gifts—such as discernment, hospitality, compassion, evangelism, or music—and helps people explore scripture references on each one. After identifying their particular gifts, clergy and laypeople will learn how to apply them for the good of their church, community, and the world. This book is ideal for both group study and self-discovery. The book also includes suggestions for how to build a ministry team based on the gifts of each individual. This book is the text for a Lay Servant Ministries advanced course on spiritual gifts. It also can be used for a small-group study.

Author : Bill Grace
Publisher : CEL publications
ISBN 13 : 1892042010
Total Pages : 25 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ethical Leadership written by Bill Grace and published by CEL publications. This book was released on 1998 with total page 25 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Barbara Kellerman
Publisher : Harvard Business Press
ISBN 13 : 1422163237
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bad Leadership written by Barbara Kellerman and published by Harvard Business Press. This book was released on 2004-09-27 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How is Saddam Hussein like Tony Blair? Or Kenneth Lay like Lou Gerstner? Answer: They are, or were, leaders. Many would argue that tyrants, corrupt CEOs, and other abusers of power and authority are not leaders at all--at least not as the word is currently used. But, according to Barbara Kellerman, this assumption is dangerously naive. A provocative departure from conventional thinking, Bad Leadership compels us to see leadership in its entirety. Kellerman argues that the dark side of leadership--from rigidity and callousness to corruption and cruelty--is not an aberration. Rather, bad leadership is as ubiquitous as it is insidious--and so must be more carefully examined and better understood. Drawing on high-profile, contemporary examples--from Mary Meeker to David Koresh, Bill Clinton to Radovan Karadzic, Al Dunlap to Leona Helmsley--Kellerman explores seven primary types of bad leadership and dissects why and how leaders cross the line from good to bad. The book also illuminates the critical role of followers, revealing how they collaborate with, and sometimes even cause, bad leadership. Daring and counterintuitive, Bad Leadership makes clear that we need to face the dark side to become better leaders and followers ourselves. Barbara Kellerman is research director of the Center for Public Leadership and a lecturer in public policy at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University.

Author : Robert B. Reich
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0525436375
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Common Good written by Robert B. Reich and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2019-01-15 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robert B. Reich makes a powerful case for the expansion of America’s moral imagination. Rooting his argument in common sense and everyday reality, he demonstrates that a common good constitutes the very essence of any society or nation. Societies, he says, undergo virtuous cycles that reinforce the common good as well as vicious cycles that undermine it, one of which America has been experiencing for the past five decades. This process can and must be reversed. But first we need to weigh the moral obligations of citizenship and carefully consider how we relate to honor, shame, patriotism, truth, and the meaning of leadership. Powerful, urgent, and utterly vital, this is a heartfelt missive from one of our foremost political thinkers.

Author : Howard Gardner
Publisher : Harvard Business Review Press
ISBN 13 : 1633690652
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Changing Minds written by Howard Gardner and published by Harvard Business Review Press. This book was released on 2006-09-01 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Think about the last time you tried to change someone’s mind about something important: a voter’s political beliefs; a customer’s favorite brand; a spouse’s decorating taste. Chances are you weren’t successful in shifting that person’s beliefs in any way. In his book, Changing Minds, Harvard psychologist Howard Gardner explains what happens during the course of changing a mind – and offers ways to influence that process. Remember that we don’t change our minds overnight, it happens in gradual stages that can be powerfully influenced along the way. This book provides insights that can broaden our horizons and shape our lives.

Author : Kenman L. Wong
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
ISBN 13 : 0830868410
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Business for the Common Good written by Kenman L. Wong and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 2011-01-28 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is business just a way to make money? Or can the marketplace a venue for service to others? Scott B. Rae and Kenman L. Wong seek to explore this and other critical business issues from a uniquely Christian perspective, offering up a vision for work and service that is theologically grounded and practically oriented. Among the specific questions they address along the way are these: What implications does the Christian story have for the vision, mission or sense of purpose that shapes business engagement? What parts of business can be affirmed and practiced "as is" and what parts need to be rejected or transformed? What challenges exist as attempts are made to live out Christian ideals in a broken world characterized by tight margins, fierce competition and short-term investor pressures? How do Christian values inform specific functional areas of business such as the management of people, marketing and environmental sustainability? Business can be even more than an environment through which individual Christians grow in Christlikeness. In this book you'll discover how it can also be a means toward serving the common good. The Christian Worldview Integration Series, edited by J. P. Moreland and Francis J. Beckwith, seeks to promote a robust personal and conceptual integration of Christian faith and learning, with textbooks focused on disciplines such as education, psychology, literature, politics, science, communications, biology, philosophy, and history.

Author : Robert Kegan
Publisher : Harvard Business Press
ISBN 13 : 1422129470
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Immunity to Change written by Robert Kegan and published by Harvard Business Press. This book was released on 2009-02-15 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unlock your potential and finally move forward. A recent study showed that when doctors tell heart patients they will die if they don't change their habits, only one in seven will be able to follow through successfully. Desire and motivation aren't enough: even when it's literally a matter of life or death, the ability to change remains maddeningly elusive. Given that the status quo is so potent, how can we change ourselves and our organizations? In Immunity to Change, authors Robert Kegan and Lisa Lahey show how our individual beliefs--along with the collective mind-sets in our organizations--combine to create a natural but powerful immunity to change. By revealing how this mechanism holds us back, Kegan and Lahey give us the keys to unlock our potential and finally move forward. And by pinpointing and uprooting our own immunities to change, we can bring our organizations forward with us. This persuasive and practical book, filled with hands-on diagnostics and compelling case studies, delivers the tools you need to overcome the forces of inertia and transform your life and your work.

Author : Ruth Wageman
Publisher : Harvard Business Review Press
ISBN 13 : 1633692043
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Senior Leadership Teams written by Ruth Wageman and published by Harvard Business Review Press. This book was released on 2008-01-24 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An organisation's fate hinges on its CEO—right? Not according to the authors of Senior Leadership Teams. They argue that in today's world of neck-snapping change, demands on leaders in top roles are rapidly outdistancing the capabilities of any one person - no matter how talented. Result? Chief executives are turning to their enterprise's senior leaders for help. Yet many CEOs stumble when creatinga leadership team. One major challenge is that senior executives often focus more on their individual roles than on the top team's shared work. Without the CEO's careful attention to setting the team up correctly, these high-powered managers often have difficulty pulling together to move their organisation forward. Sometimes they don't even agree about what constitutes the right path forward.The authors explain how to determine whether your organisation needs a senior leadership team. Then, drawing on their study of 100+ top teams from around the world, they explain how to create a clear and compelling purpose for your team, get the right people on it, provide structure and support, and sharpen team members' competencies - and your own. Timely and practical, this book enables you to create and sustain a leadership team whose members learn from one another while collaborating to pursue your company's objectives.

Author : Bill Grace
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780984578603
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sharing the Rock written by Bill Grace and published by . This book was released on 2012-04-01 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this revolutionary book Bill Grace presents an innovative leadership model designed to cultivate a world-view suited for today's interconnected global society. He offers a framework for people aspiring to live for the good of others because they know that is ultimately the only way to thrive. Through concrete exercises, this book helps readers to determine their deepest values, which Bill proves are the heart and soul of leadership. He then demonstrates how living by these ideals allows the advancement of the common good. Readers learn a practical model for integrating ethics into everyday life and how to make choices based on concern for all. Bill's ground-breaking approach emphasises attention to justice, care, and inclusiveness, and stresses the urgent need to adopt these practices immediately. The book presents seven principles at the core of this new leadership model. These include traditionally valued leadership traits, such as commitment and vision, and expand on them to include such important practices as seeking out the perspectives of the marginalised, welcoming unpopular points of view, and cultivating the leader's genuine expression and voice.