The Serving Leader: Five Powerful Actions to Transform Your Team Business and Community (The Ken Blanchard Series - Simple Truths Uplifting the Value of People in Organizations)

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The Serving Leader Five Powerful Actions to Transform Your Team Business and Community 10th Anniversary Edition Revised and Expanded Its people who make organizations great so how can leaders best help their people achieve that greatness? As Ken Jennings and John Stahl-Wert show in this new edition of their bestseller you cant just demand greatnessyou have to inspire it. The most effective leaders dont just stand in front of their people they stand behind them too. As one of the characters in the book notes You qualify to be first by putting other people first. This concept sounds paradoxical but it leads to extraordinary outcomesand The Serving Leader shows precisely how and why. While Jennings and Stahl-Wertuse a compelling fictional story to outline the basics of Serving Leadership all the characters in it are based on real people the organizations depicted are based on real organizationsand the results they achieved are what really happened. This edition features a new foreword by Ken Blanchard a new introduction and a new chapter checking back in with Mike the main character to see what he has learned in the twelve years since he embraced Serving Leadership On one level this is the most practical guide available to implementing Serving Leadership; on a deeper level it is a book about the personal journey of growth that real leadership requires. Great organizations are great because theyre filled with people who freely choose to do their very best. Its a maddeningly simple concept yet stunningly hard to execute. Jennings and Stahl-Wert show leaders how to earn that kind of commitment.