How can I lead my team to better performance while being true to my values and integrity? Weaving brain chemistry, Gandhi’s three purposes of work, management theory, history, philosophy, and literature with the scientific method, Stephen Sloan offers a balance of compassion and accountability he calls humane leadership. This book is designed for leaders seeking better results and more fulfillment. This will transform the way you lead yourself and your team. With clear mental models and tools, it teaches practical approaches to having delicate yet powerful performance improvement conversations. The core model outlines how motivation, opportunity, clarity of expectations and ability drive performance. Learn how to create a collaborative setting where you and your team can evaluate these variables and design improvement experiments together. To ground your experiments, this book offers 12 wisdom jig thinking tools to shift your mindset and help you earn influence with others, structure time, and manage risk. Also included are scripts to address 15 common performance challenges with curiosity and clarity. By outlining how to lead from values of fair strength, generative care, and wise balance, Sloan hopes to transform our standards of leadership: how we lead ourselves, how we empower others, and how we choose who we allow to lead us.
Innovative advice for leading with grit and humanity This inspirational guide by Robin R. Ganzert, PhD, president and CEO of one of the most renowned charities in America, will equip you with the leadership tools you need to increase your ...
The Peoplepact: Achieving Exemplary Performance Through Humane Leadership
Most people think we have to make a binary choice between being a good human being and being a tough, effective leader. But this is a false dichotomy. Being human and doing what needs to be done are not mutually exclusive.
This book is essential reading for anyone in a position of authority or influence over people and for anyone who needs to come to terms with the demands of a globally integrated and hypercompetitive world driven by digital technology, ...
Author Tom Lutz brings over 35 years experience in Human Resources Management to bear in Dare to Lead guiding those in leadership positions on how to get people to work together effectively.
A 'bad' company, on the other hand, may do well but its success is unlikely to be sustainable. Humane Capital explores the steps that businesses need to take in order to become a 'good' organization that can achieve long-term results.
The Humane Leader
Between the two of us, we have more than 50 years of classroom and school experience. As practitioners and observers of changes in public schools, we have been researching and writing about our observations and findings for only the ...
This book offers practical insights into how it can be solved. The paradigms presented in the book present a thought-provoking, inspiring, and challenging task for all current and future leaders.
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