Twenty-First-Century Leadership to Fight the Code Red for Business aims to equip a cadre of leaders with the tools they need to stop using fossil fuels for energy, electricity, and transport to reduce their carbon footprint. Inspired by 21 Lessons for the 21st Century by Yuval Noah Harari, the book offers an important addition to the canon of literature for leaders who want to cultivate a sustainability mindset. In straightforward prose, the author outlines what’s at stake amid the climate crisis and the social, physical, and economic calamities that will follow if leaders don’t act. The book also highlights three disruptors—technology, geopolitics, and governance—that need strategic action. The four key traits that set apart a twenty-first-century leader include: • an appreciation for mobilizing science as part of business strategy; • an urgent need to make an impact on the code red for business; • a sustainability mindset that prioritizes the planet and people over profit; • a willingness to embed the Twenty-First-Century Board Leadership Model in the business’s agenda. We can either ignore science, as the nineteenth-century-mindset leaders have done by making profit their foremost priority, or become relevant, twenty-first-century, science-led, sustainability-mindset leaders dedicated to saving the planet.
Leadership and engagement expert Mark C. Crowley shows how trading in the old business playbook for heart-led leadership strategies will create purpose-driven, dedicated employees and higher levels of performance. Revised and updated to address the needs of those managing Gen Z and millennial employees in addition to the latest global research on employee engagement. In this thoroughly revised and updated edition of his now classic book, visionary Mark C. Crowley provides the roadmap workplace leaders the world over are seeking: How to most successfully and sustainably inspire and manage other human beings in the post-pandemic era. · Nearly 50 million workers quit their jobs in the U.S. alone in 2021—a record number likely to be exceeded in 2022. · While we might imagine that an opportunity to earn greater pay is the key driver of this “Great Resignation,” research shows two-thirds of the reasons people leave jobs boil down to issues related to their engagement and overall well-being. · More specifically, people quit when they feel they aren’t valued, respected, appreciated, coached—or cared about personally—by their manager and organization. · Thanks in large part to the COVID pandemic and a global reset of what matters most to people in their lives, human beings have profoundly evolved in what they need and want in exchange for their work. · Consequently, a radical change in employee expectations demands that organizations and managers rapidly pivot by embracing leadership practices that match the moment. · The remedy to the Great Resignation is to adopt more humane ways of managing people knowing they inherently lead to infinitely greater engagement not to mention optimal employee performance. · In this new and updated version of his seminal and visionary book, Mark C. Crowley draws upon emerging medical and other scientific discoveries which prove it's the heart, not the mind, that drives human motivation and achievement. · While we’ve long been led to believe that human beings are essentially rational beings, new research shows that feelings and emotions far more often motivate human behavior and what people care about most and commit themselves to in their lives. · In light of this breakthrough understanding, it’s become incumbent upon workplace managers to pay great attention to their employees' emotional experience at work—far greater attention than any of us ever believed necessary. · Ironically, most of us were told the heart has no place in workplace management. In fact, most of us were taught that the heart acts like Kryptonite in leadership: it inherently undermines a manager's effectiveness - and lowers performance. · What makes this book so remarkable is that it brilliantly contradicts all those traditional beliefs and proves why people naturally and instinctively respond to managers who care about them personally and support their deep human needs. · To be absolutely clear, there's nothing soft or weak about the Lead From The Heart philosophy. Instead, it represents the future of workplace management and a roadmap to driving uncommon engagement, productivity and profitability when organizations around the world are wanting it most. · Rich with inspiring stories and illuminating research, this book proves that when you lead people with a greater balance of mind and heart, people naturally follow. And they also excel.
The Second Edition of Sport Leadership in the 21st Century provides students with the most current and comprehensive understanding of leadership in sport management. Authored and contributed by leading sport management researchers and practitioners, this text immerses students in the learning process through case studies, interviews with leaders in the sport industry, critical thinking questions, and rich content.
Whether you lead a small group of volunteers, or a multi-national company, this book will show you how to get everyone pulling together to get things done. Bestselling author Stephen Hawley Martin should know. Starting with fewer than 20 employees, he and his brother grew a small, local ad agency located in Richmond, Virginia into a world-renowned firm, today with more than 500 employees, offices in New York and London, and such high-profile clients as GEICO and UPS. This book explains the leadership system and management process they used, a primary key to their success and a process anyone can put to work effectively, regardless of previous management or leadership experience. This leadership system will enable anyone who uses it to distribute the work evenly while at the same time creating a sense of urgency and accountability throughout the entire team or organization. If you are looking for a way to get everyone in a group pulling his or her own weight and moving swiftly ahead toward clearly defined objectives, this book will tell you how.Martin, who ghostwrote the bestselling book, Lean Transformation: How to Change Your Business into a Lean Enterprise and other business management, lean manufacturing and continuous improvement titles, draws upon techniques used in Lean, Six Sigma, Agile, and Total Quality Management (TQM) and combines them with those he developed while growing a small, local firm into an international juggernaut. The result is a simple, easily adopted leadership system and management process that has been proven to create outstanding organizational behavior. He maintains that his system causes team members or players on a cross-functional team to be motivated to get things done on time and on budget. It is a process that would be beneficial for human resources and company leaders to understand and employ throughout an organization, from top to bottom, in order to create a championship mentality that permeates the workforce and creates a can-do workplace culture. He says the leader that implements this system will soon be running a well-oiled machine that will be the envy of his or her company or industry because everyone on that team will be pulling more than his or her own weight and striving toward challenging goals the entire team has agreed upon and supports.The truth is most organizations have a few hard-working individuals who make things go. Those not so driven or focused can hold a team or a business back and prevent it from moving from ineffective to good or even great. You may have heard the saying, "Work flows toward competency unless abated," and the corollary, "If you want a job done, give it to a busy man or woman." Without a system in place to insure the work is distributed evenly and everyone gets the tasks they are assigned done right and on time, a few individuals within an organization will end up doing all the work. But, as you will discover when you read this book, that doesn't have to be.How is a championship environment created? One in which everyone is working together toward a common goal instead of looking out for number one? You have come to the right place because this book will tell you.
This book by leadership and sustainability experts Giles Hutchins and Laura Storm provides an exciting and comprehensive framework for building regenerative life-affirming businesses. It offers a multitude of business cases, fascinating examples from nature's living systems, insights from the front-line pioneers and tools and techniques for leaders to succeed and thrive in the 21st century. Regenerative Leadership draws inspiration from pioneering thinking within biomimicry, circular economy, adult developmental psychology, anthropology, biophilia, sociology, complexity theory and next-stage leadership development. It connects the dots between these fields through a powerful framework that enables leadership to become regenerative: in harmony with life, building thriving, prosperous organizations amid transformational times. The book is a combination of theoretical frameworks, case studies, tools & practices: Everything the leader needs to be successful in the 21st century. Regenerative Leadership - what's it all about? While the future is uncertain, we clearly see an upward trend towards sustainable conscious business. And this is more than just a trend - we're witnessing a new kind of organization emerging. An organization which is able to rapidly sense and respond to the ever-changing business climate by innovating how and why it creates and delivers value, and the way it engages internally and externally with its ecosystem of employees, customers, suppliers, resources, investors, society and environment. This new kind of organization is the organization-as-living-system that is designed on the Logic of Life: life-affirming businesses that thrive from the inside out, by cultivating conditions conducive for life, internally and externally. These organizations nurture flourishing cultures while focusing on products and services that enhance society and the environment. Regenerative organizations will be tomorrow's success stories.
LEADERSHIP, its roles and the responsibilities of the position PROCESS and the importance of its effectiveness to all LEADERS That's what "HOPE IS NOT A STRATEGY" is about and what makes it different than the other leadership books on the market today. Just because you are in a leadership position does not anoint you as an effective leader. Having an understanding of the roles and responsibilities of the leadership continuum, and knowing how to effectively navigate through the challenge of setting a direction for an organization while providing the road map to get there is what makes the difference between success and failure. "HOPE IS NOT A STRATEGY" provides tools needed for this process Whether you are leading a Fortune 500 organization or are an entrepreneur you need effective processes that are the "how to's" to support your vision/mission, and strategy "HOPE IS NOT A STRATEGY" is about changing the way you think and the outcome you can expect in your business venture. Theodore V. (Ted) Gee Jr. is a proven leader, with global experience in multiple business environments that has operated at the direct, operational and strategic levels of leadership. He has been highly successful leading in various Fortune 500 companies where change, start ups, and growth opportunities were in great demand. He served as an officer in the United States Army, and then worked his way up the corporate ladder from front line production supervisor, to Chief Operating Officer and as a President within a multibillion dollar industry pacesetter.
As the pandemic creates uncertainty across the globe, business leaders need to re-evaluate how 21st century leadership will create sustainable and successful organisations. This book is about integrating people, purpose and positive energy into a powerful force and describes the unique Discovery Prism(c) framework to facilitate this transformation.
