Principle-Centered Leadership will help you resolve these dilemmas and many others: How do we achieve and maintain a wise, renewing balance
between work and family and beween professional and personal areas of life, in
the middle of constant pressures and crisis? How do we unleash the creativity, talent,
and energy of the vast majority of the work force, whose jobs never require nor
reward such resources? How do we create team spirit and harmony among people and
departments that have been attacking and critizing each other for years, while
contending for scarce resources, playing political games, and working from hidden
agendas? How can we realize that the choice between hardball ("tough" management
that tries to force a better bottom line) and softball ("kind" management that
hopes for a better bottom line) is transcended by a third alternative that is
both tougher and kinder? How can we have a culture characterized by change, flexibility,
and continuous improvement and still maintain a sense of stability and security? How do
we get people and culture aligned with strategy, so that everyone in an organization
is as committed to the strategy as those who formulated it? How can all people
at all levels of an organization internalize the principles of total quality and
continuous improvement when they are so cynical, fatigued, and disillusioned with
all the past "programs of the month"? How can we create a complimentary team
based on mutual respect when so few value diversity and pluralism? How do we
turn a mission statement into a constitution-the supreme guiding force of an
entire organizatoin-instead of a collection of nebulous, meaningless, and
cynicism-inducing platitudes? How do we maintain control, yet give people the
freedom and autonomy they need to be effective and fulfilled in their work?
Principle-Centered Leadership covers:
Facing critical leadership challenges
The Law of the Harvest
The Critical Role of Trust in a Principle-Centered Culture.
The Foundation of Any Successful Organization.
Producing a Powerful Organization Culture.
Identifying and Improving Our Leadership Styles.
Leadership v. Management: Managing things, Leading People.
Cultivating The Elements of Trust in Business Relationships
Facing critical leadership challenges