Insights on Leadership: Service, Stewardship, Spirit, and Servant-Leadership edited by Larry C Spears

Insights on Leadership: Service, Stewardship, Spirit, and Servant-Leadership edited by Larry C Spears

About the Book:-
Hardcover, 416 pages
Publisher: Wiley, John & Sons, Incorporated, Oct 1997
ISBN-13: 9780471176343
ISBN: 0471176346


Firnando Chau Review


Table of Contents:-
Preface
Foreword: Servant-Leadership from the Inside Out
Introduction: Tracing the Growing Impact of Servant-Leadership
1 Servant-Leadership
2 Servant-Leadership Revisited
3 Work as a Calling
4 Servant-Leadership: A Passion to Serve
5 On the Path to Servant-Leadership
6 Trust: The Invaluable Asset
7 Accountability as Covenant: The Taproot of Servant-Leadership
8 From Leadership to Citizenship
9 Dharamshala Dreaming: A Traveler's Search for the Meaning of Work
10 Quiet Presence: The Holy Ground of Leadership
11 Quaker Foundations for Greenleaf's Servant-Leadership and "Friendly Disentangling" Method
12 Servant-Leadership and Enterprise Strategy
13 Within Our Reach: Servant-Leadership for the Twenty-first Century
14 Followership in a Leadership World
15 Healing Leadership
16 Leading from Within
17 The Killing Fields: Institutions and the Death of Our Spirits
18 Lives in the Balance: The Challenge of Servant-Leaders in a Workaholic Society
19 Servant-Leaders Making Human New Models of Work and Organization
20 Seeking the Soul of Business
21 The Integration of Business Ethics and Spirituality in the Workplace
22 Destiny and the Leader
23 Servants, Egos, and Shoeshines: A World of Sacramental Possibility
24 Putting Servant-Leadership into Practice
25 Servant-Leadership in a Christian Organization: The Sisters of St. Joseph Health System
26 Bearing Witness
27 A Leverage Force: Reflections on the Impact of Servant-Leadership
28 Finding Your Voice
29 The Inside-Out Proposition: Finding (and Keeping) Our Balance in Contemporary Organizations
30 What Is Our Work?
Afterword: Understanding Robert K. Greenleaf and Servant-Leadership
Acknowledgments
About the Editor and The Greenleaf Center for Servant-Leadership
Notes
Permissions and Copyrights
Recommended Reading
Index




Synopsis (1997)


"It is one of the great ironies of our age that we created organizations to constrain our problematic human natures, and now the only thing that can save these organizations is a full appreciation of the expansive capacities of us humans." -Margaret J. Wheatley from "What Is Our Work?" Leadership without hierarchy? Organization in a whirlwind of change? Community and shared responsibility in a global village? Soul in a free-enterprise world? Robert Greenleaf's visionary theory of Servant-Leadership continues to engage many of the best minds in and out of business. Greenleaf's prescriptions for employee empowerment and organizational change continue to achieve nothing short of miraculous results in organizations worldwide. As one enthusiastic observer wrote in Fortune magazine. "Once the consensus is forged. watch out: With everybody on board. your so-called implementation proceeds 'wham-bam.'" In this sequel to the critically acclaimed Reflections on Leadership. many of today's most respected business thinkers share their insights into key aspects of Robert Greenleaf's revolutionary thinking. Over the course of 33 essays, a dream team consisting of such luminaries as Stephen Covey, Ken Blanchard, Peter Block, Margaret Wheatley, John Schuster, and James Autry explore how Greenleaf has influenced today's business leaders and discuss a range of leadership principles at the heart of his philosophy. including stewardship, the spirit of the workplace, and the concept of healing leadership. A source of inspiration and instruction. Insights on Leadership is required reading for senior executives, community leaders, and managers in for-profit and nonprofit organizations.


About the Author


Larry C. Spears has been Executive Director of The Greenleaf Center for Servant-Leadership since 1990. He is also a writer, editor, and speaker who has published over 300 articles, essays, and book reviews. Mr. Spears is the editor of the acclaimed Reflections on Leadership: How Robert K. Greenleaf's Theory of Servant-Leadership Influenced Today's Top Management Thinkers (Wiley) and coeditor of On Becoming a Servant-Leader and Seeker and Servant.

Don't Sweat the Small Stuff... and it's all small stuff by Richard Carlson, Ph.D.

Don't Sweat the Small Stuff... and it's all small stuff by Richard Carlson, Ph.D.

Paperback: 272 pages

Publisher: Hyperion; 1 edition (January 2, 1996)

Language: English

ISBN-10: 073380084X

ISBN-13: 978-0786881857

Amazon.com Review

Got a stress case in your life? Of course you do: "Without question, many of us have mastered the neurotic art of spending much of our lives worrying about a variety of things all at once." Carlson's cheerful book aims to make us stop and smell--if not roses--whatever is sitting in front of our noses. Don't Sweat the Small Stuff... offers 100 meditations designed to make you appreciate being alive, keep your emotions (especially anger and dissatisfaction) in proper perspective, and cherish other people as the unique miracles they are. It's an owner's manual of the heart, and if you follow the directions, you will be a happier, more harmonious person. Like Stairmasters, oat bran, and other things that are good for you, the meditations take discipline. Even so, some of the strategies are kind of fun: "Imagine the people in your life as tiny infants and as 100-year-old adults." The trouble is, once you start, it's hard to stop.

From Library Journal

Stress consultant Carlson reads his self-help guide with conviction, his gentle voice clear and persuasive. He presents common-sense advice for living a less hectic and more meaningful, loving life. His essential message is that we get caught up in minutiae, "the small stuff," and never get around to doing what makes us or our loved ones happy. He advises readers to engage in such small acts as paying someone a compliment daily, putting a lid on keeping track of who does what around the house, and writing a letter to a friend. Carlson urges small daily changes and uses examples of improvement from his own life to show how the advice works, making the book ideally suited to the audio format. Tape quality is excellent. Recommended for public libraries.?Nancy R. Ives, SUNY at Geneseo

Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Product Description

Braille edition of the popular bestseller. "Let go of the idea that gentle, relaxed people can't be super-achievers," advises Dr. Richard Carlson in his widely popular self-help book, DON'T SWEAT THE SMALL STUFF. In 100 chapters--each only a few pages long--Dr. Carlson shares his ideas for living a calmer, richer life. This book has been on the New York Times bestseller list for 38 weeks and is No. 3 on USA TODAY's Best-Selling Books list. Two small volumes in braille.

About the Author

Best-selling author Richard Carlson, Ph.D., creator of the popular Don't Sweat the Small Stuff series and the just published Don't Get Scrooged, died suddenly of cardiac arrest enroute to New York on December 13. Carlson, 45, published his first book in 1985 and went on to publish more than 20 books that remain popular in English and in translation in 130 languages and 35 countries. Richard Carlson grew up in Piedmont, CA. He received his undergraduate degree from Pepperdine University and his Ph.D. in psychology from Sierra University. He was in private practice as a psychotherapist when he started to publish books about psychological and spiritual health. As his books started to attract a large audience, he began writing full time so he could teach more people how to live with presence and ease by cultivating gratitude and generosity. Dr. Carlson was a large supporter of and participant in the National Center for Family Literacy and at the time of his death he was working on a project with them called for "A Penny a Book" from publishers, authors and literary agents to promote literacy. Dr. Carlson is survived by his wife and life partner of 25 years, Kris Carlson, his co-author on Don't Sweat the Small Stuff in Love and the author of Don't Sweat the Small Stuff for Women, his loving daughters Jasmine and Kenna, sisters, Kathleen Carlson Mowris of Olympic Village, CA and Anna L. Carlson of La Selva Beach, CA, and his parents, Barbara and Don Carlson of Orinda, CA. A private memorial service will be held next week. Donations in lieu of flowers can be made in Richard's honor to local food banks, Challenge Day, Girls Inc. or Children Inc.

From AudioFile

Learning to live in the present, increasing stress tolerance, living each day as if it might be the last, and accepting imperfections consistently are a few of the lessons taught by Dr. Richard Carlson. Calm, convincing, confident and effective, Dr. Carlson stresses the importance of keeping life in perspective, allowing the important things to gain priority, resulting in a more satisfying and centered outlook. Carlson focuses on eliminating many of the complications unknowingly created by the average person. He emphasizes simplicity in daily living by abandoning externally caused stress. Listeners may want a "second listen" of this single-cassette program to ensure long-term results. B.J.P. (c)AudioFile, Portland, Maine 

Mars and Venus in Love by John Gray

Mars and Venus in Love: Inspiring and Heartfelt Stories of Relationships That Work - Paperback (Nov. 12, 2002) by John Gray