Fear, pressure for productivity, overwork and a host of other forces are turning our workplaces into environments in which workers dread their jobs and performance suffers. Inspire! What Great Leaders Do responds to this crisis with a clear vision of what a positive, productive, inspiring organization would look like. The key to extraordinary long-term performance lies in a commitment to values and to people. The Higher Ground Organization excels by inspiring people to be at their best by fostering virtues that support their true strengths. Inspire! What Great Leaders Do also provides highly effective and practical tools for immediate day-to-day application. Senior Executives learn to implement Higher Ground Leadership principles system-wide while managers and employees feel empowered. Six essential values characterize the Higher Ground Organization: Courage, Authenticity, Service, Truth-telling, Love and Effectiveness (C.A.S.T.L.E.). The Higher Ground Organization fosters virtues that lead directly to more productive and fulfilling workplaces. These values form the anagram C.A.S.T.L.E. The great breakthroughs in business have occurred because someone had the Courage to do what they believed in. Authenticity transforms the working environment by inviting others to be genuine in return. Service means sharing, cooperating, being considerate of others, asking how may I serve you? Truth-telling grows the loyalty of employees, the business of customers and the respect of the market. Love transforms everyone it touches and inspires extraordinary performance. Applying these principles makes individuals and organizations more Effective. Endorsements for the book will be provided from: Dr. Stephen Covey, Tom Peters, Lester Thurow and Macolm Gladwell.
Book Details:
- Author: Lance Secretan
- ISBN: 9780470892763
- Year Published: 2004
- Pages: 272
- BISAC: BUS071000, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS/Leadership
About the Book and Topic:
Fear, pressure for productivity, overwork and a host of other forces are turning our workplaces into environments in which workers dread their jobs and performance suffers. Inspire! What Great Leaders Do responds to this crisis with a clear vision of what a positive, productive, inspiring organization would look like. The key to extraordinary long-term performance lies in a commitment to values and to people. The Higher Ground Organization excels by inspiring people to be at their best by fostering virtues that support their true strengths. Inspire! What Great Leaders Do also provides highly effective and practical tools for immediate day-to-day application. Senior Executives learn to implement Higher Ground Leadership principles system-wide while managers and employees feel empowered. Six essential values characterize the Higher Ground Organization: Courage, Authenticity, Service, Truth-telling, Love and Effectiveness (C.A.S.T.L.E.). The Higher Ground Organization fosters virtues that lead directly to more productive and fulfilling workplaces. These values form the anagram C.A.S.T.L.E. The great breakthroughs in business have occurred because someone had the Courage to do what they believed in. Authenticity transforms the working environment by inviting others to be genuine in return. Service means sharing, cooperating, being considerate of others, asking how may I serve you? Truth-telling grows the loyalty of employees, the business of customers and the respect of the market. Love transforms everyone it touches and inspires extraordinary performance. Applying these principles makes individuals and organizations more Effective. Endorsements for the book will be provided from: Dr. Stephen Covey, Tom Peters, Lester Thurow and Macolm Gladwell.
TOP SPEAKER: Lance Secretan gives 120 speeches, workshops and seminars every year. In addition, Higher Ground Leadership center has 11 faculty members on staff that provides hundreds of training and speaking events per year. The Leigh Bureau, the worlds top speaking bureau, manages Lance other clients include Larry Bossidy, Lester Thurow, Peter Drucker and Malcolm Gladwell. AUTHOR/FIRM SUPPORT: Lance and the Higher Ground Leadership center is fully backing the books promotion with activities including: email blasts to the centers 60,000 customers, mailings of the book to top clients and incorporating the book into every speaking engagement that Lance and his faculty give. ENGAGING SUBJECT: Lance and the Higher Ground Leadership center have a loyal following of clients and supporters all looking at workplace environment, culture and values as the key element in personal and organizational development.
About the Author
Lance Secretan is one of the world’s foremost thinkers about self-improvement and personal leadership, inspiring people at work and life. A master teacher, Dr. Secretan works with a gifted worldwide faculty changing the lives of people and companies and revolutionizing the way they think about personal leadership. He is an author, award-winning columnist, philosopher, corporate coach, and one of North America’s most sought-after keynote speakers, retreat leaders, and business advisors. Voted one of the nation’s top ten speakers, and one of the twenty-first century’s most influential, he addresses audiences around the world. One in five of Industry Week’s 100 Best-Managed Companies is among his clients. Lance was the Chairman of the Advisory Board of the 1997 Special Olympics World Winter Games and former Ambassador to the United Nations Environment Program. In recognition of a lifetime of caring about people and the planet, Lance was awarded the prestigious International Caring Award (the US equivalent of the Nobel Prize), whose other recipients include Mother Teresa and Jane Goodall. The International Management Council has also recognized his contribution to leadership with the McFeely Leadership Award.