The people who work for you, whether few or many, are capable of doing much more to advance your enterprise, for your own - as well as their own - great gain. As a matter of fact, most of them would like to do more than they're doing, contribute more powerfully, and make a greater difference. No kidding! For the most part, human beings carry around an unspoken yearning to get to the end of their workday - not to mention their work life - feeling that it was actually worth it. You can make this happen! As a leader, you can make the difference that allows the folks whose paychecks you sign to make their difference. Not only can you make this happen, but as the leader, you're the one - yes, this too is verified by research - who decides whether or not it does happen. Leadership makes the difference! May this story and the work tools that come along with it encourage and equip you to start today.

Ten Thousand Horses: How Leaders Harness Raw Potential for Extraordinary Results

Business & Money

Stahl-Wert, John

Management & Leadership

ReadHowYouWant

First presented as an idea 30 years ago, servant leadership is based on selflessly serving one's team, organization, or community rather than power, domination, or self-interest. ""The Serving Leader presents the simple truth of this idea in a fresh parable about a dying father reunited with his estranged son and only child. This second book in the ""Ken Blanchard series of short inspirational empowerment texts offers a practical ""action approach"" to servant leadership. The five lessons Mike learns from his father - upend the pyramid, raise the bar, blaze the trail, build on strength, and run to great purpose - can be applied equally to life and work. ""The Serving Leader's moving story, memorable characters, and strong insights make it as exciting as it is educational.

The Serving Leader: 5 Powerful Actions That Will Transform Your Team, Your Business, and Your Community (The Ken Blanchard Series - Simple Truths Uplifting the Value of People in Organizations)

Jennings, Ken

Berrett-Koehler Publishers

Mike Wilson is a respected consultant charged with the task of building a new practice area in leadership development. During the new project, he learns that his father is very ill and wants his only child to come home and help him with ""a few projects."" Mike's father is a well-known, retired CEO, and Mike gets his boss's blessing to take as much time as he needs. Unbeknownst to him, Mike's father and boss, longtime friends, have plotted this visit to help Mike learn some needed leadership and life lessons. So begins this compelling narrative that combines a very human story with the classical Greenleaf theory of servant leadership. The second book in the acclaimed Ken Blanchard series (called ""powerful testimony"" by Brad Orr, CEO of John Burnham &amp; Co) is both a practical guide for effective leadership and a book about the personal journey of growth that real leadership requires.

The Serving Leader: Five Powerful Actions that Will Transform Your Team, Your Business, and Your Community

Matt James is in trouble. Recently promoted to head his division, he’s delivered two years of divisional losses in clients, market share, and profits. He knows his workers are talented and creative, but they don’t respond to his efforts to lead them, and he’s on the brink of being fired. In desperation, he reaches out to an old mentor, David Butler, who now works with wild mustang horses and hard-to-place foster children on a ranch in Colorado. David agrees to work with his former student but only on the condition that Matt comes to him—to the ranch. Matt has no idea what the ranch could possibly have to do with his problems, but David assures him that if he spends some time there, he’ll learn exactly what he needs to know. Through David’s unorthodox tutelage, Matt discovers that leaders who succeed in engaging their workers do so because they see their day-to-day work as an opportunity to build an organizational culture of engagement. The engagement model is illuminated as Matt comes to understand its components piece by piece—and ultimately discovers how to engage those on his team and in his life. In this inspiring leadership fable, John Stahl-Wert and Ken Jennings draw on their years of experience as consultants and chief executives, as well as on findings from Gallup’s groundbreaking Q12 survey of 4 million workers from 360,000 workgroups, to lay out an innovative leadership model that will turn employees from dutiful drones to committed contributors. But Ten Thousand Horses is also a story of personal transformation. Beyond specific practices and techniques, Matt must learn a whole new way of relating to his employees—because, as he discovers, leading an engaged workforce is as much about who you are as what you do.

The Serving Leader Five Powerful Actions to Transform Your Team, Business, and Community, 10th Anniversary Edition, Revised and Expanded It’s 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 can’t just demand greatness—you have to inspire it. The most effective leaders don’t 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 outcomes—and 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 organizations—and 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 they’re filled with people who freely choose to do their very best. It’s a maddeningly simple concept yet stunningly hard to execute. Jennings and Stahl-Wert show leaders how to earn that kind of commitment.

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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Ten Thousand Horses: How Leaders Harness Raw Potential for Extraordinary Results

The Serving Leader: 5 Powerful Actions That Will Transform Your Team, Your Business, and Your Community (The Ken Blanchard Series - Simple Truths Uplifting the Value of People in Organizations)

The Serving Leader: Five Powerful Actions that Will Transform Your Team, Your Business, and Your Community

Ten Thousand Horses: How Leaders Harness Raw Potential for Extraordinary Results

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)