The Humans Side of Qualiy and the Tao: The Greening of Leadership
The Humans Side of Qualiy and the Tao: The Greening of Leadership

Author: Michael Basso

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2010-07-31

Total Pages: 200

ISBN-13: 0557570069

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This hardcover edition is a powerful tool for executives, managers, and employees in any organization with the goal to decrease waste while maximizing financial profit and human wellness simultaneously. It is also well suited as a text for undergraduate, graduate and professional education and/or training. The history and systems of quality are presented primarily from a financial and technological perspective. These foundations are integrated with information from Organizational Development, Psychology, Business Leadership and Holistic Health and Wellness. This abbreviated approach provides a practical, roadmap for the truly innovative leader and aspiring employee alike, given the time constraints common in productive organization. Several useful case studies are included.

The Human Side of Quality and the Tao
The Human Side of Quality and the Tao

Author: Michael R. Basso Ph. D.

Publisher: CreateSpace

Published: 2010-03

Total Pages: 234

ISBN-13: 9781448696611

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Innovations such as the Holistic Quality System and the Greening of Leadership are seemlessly integrated with concepts from Professional Psychology, Organizational Development, and Business Leadership. The Quality of the Humans themselves and of their leadership is key to the quality of everything else. Holistic Leadership is broad in nature and considers the integration of best practices from a variety of disciplines, including biobehavioral, technological, environmental and financial. The Human System is a comprised of a composite bio/psycho/social/spiritual being that is programmed by nature for optimal survival, effectivity, and efficiency. As the human system reaches the optimal state of homeostasis, losses are minimal, while gains are focused within the constraints imposed by nature, the culture they belong to, and the financial, human and technical systems they interact with.

The Tao of Leadership
The Tao of Leadership

Author: John Heider

Publisher: Green Dragon Books

Published: 2015-09-08

Total Pages: 180

ISBN-13: 1623860199

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New Updated 2nd Edition. You can't lead without this classic masterpiece. This bestselling masterpiece of practical philosophy will guide you to enhanced interpersonal relationships and the cultivation of enduring leadership qualities. Heider provides simplest and clearest advice on how to be the very best kind of leader: be faithful, trust the process, pay attention, and inspire others to become their own leaders. The Tao of Leadership is a blend of practical insight and profound wisdom, offering inspiration and advice. Often used as a Management/Leadership training text by many Fortune 500 corporations, IBM, Mitsubishi, Prudential, GE, Intel, Converse, The Israeli Intelligence Corps, and more.

Regenerative Leadership
Regenerative Leadership

Author: Giles Hutchins

Publisher: eBook Partnership

Published: 2019-07-16

Total Pages: 282

ISBN-13: 1783241241

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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.

Lao Tzu: Tao Te Ching
Lao Tzu: Tao Te Ching

Author: Laozi

Publisher: Shambhala Publications

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 162

ISBN-13: 1590307445

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"Ursula K. Le Guin, a student of the Tao Te Ching for more than fifty years, offers her own thoughtful rendering of the Taoist scripture. She has consulted the literal translations and worked with the scholar J. P. Seaton to develop a version that lets the ancient text speak in a fresh way to modern people, while remaining faithful to the original Chinese. This rendition reveals the Tao Te Ching's immediate relevance and power, its depth and refreshing humor, illustrating better than ever before why it has been so loved for more than 2,500 years. Included are Le Guin's own personal commentary and notes along with two audio CDs of the text read by the author, with original music composed and performed by Todd Barton."--Publisher's website.

Bad Leadership
Bad Leadership

Author: Barbara Kellerman

Publisher: Harvard Business Press

Published: 2004-09-27

Total Pages: 301

ISBN-13: 1422163237

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How is Saddam Hussein like Tony Blair? Or Kenneth Lay like Lou Gerstner? Answer: They are, or were, leaders. Many would argue that tyrants, corrupt CEOs, and other abusers of power and authority are not leaders at all--at least not as the word is currently used. But, according to Barbara Kellerman, this assumption is dangerously naive. A provocative departure from conventional thinking, Bad Leadership compels us to see leadership in its entirety. Kellerman argues that the dark side of leadership--from rigidity and callousness to corruption and cruelty--is not an aberration. Rather, bad leadership is as ubiquitous as it is insidious--and so must be more carefully examined and better understood. Drawing on high-profile, contemporary examples--from Mary Meeker to David Koresh, Bill Clinton to Radovan Karadzic, Al Dunlap to Leona Helmsley--Kellerman explores seven primary types of bad leadership and dissects why and how leaders cross the line from good to bad. The book also illuminates the critical role of followers, revealing how they collaborate with, and sometimes even cause, bad leadership. Daring and counterintuitive, Bad Leadership makes clear that we need to face the dark side to become better leaders and followers ourselves. Barbara Kellerman is research director of the Center for Public Leadership and a lecturer in public policy at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University.

The Power of the Herd
The Power of the Herd

Author: Linda Kohanov

Publisher: New World Library

Published: 2015-07-20

Total Pages: 466

ISBN-13: 1608683710

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Linda Kohanov is beloved for her groundbreaking articulation of “the way of the horse,” an experiential wisdom known to riders for centuries but little studied or adapted to off-horse use. Now Kohanov takes those horse-inspired insights on the nonverbal elements of exceptional communication and leadership into the realms of our workplaces and relationships. Here we explore the benefits of “nonpredatory power” in developing assertiveness, fostering creativity, dealing with conflict, and heightening mind-body awareness. In “A Brief History of Power,” the first part of this far-reaching book, Kohanov profiles cultural innovators who employed extraordinary nonverbal leadership skills to change history, usually on horseback: Winston Churchill, George Washington, Alexander the Great, and Siddhartha Gautama (the Buddha), among others. She also draws on the behavior of mature horse herds, as well as the herding cultures of Africa and Mongolia, to debunk theories of dominance hierarchies, challenge ingrained notions of “survival of the fittest,” and demonstrate the power of a consensual leadership in which governing roles are fluid. Kohanov then adapts these lessons into twelve powerful guiding principles we can all incorporate into our work and personal lives. Eloquent and provocative, this is horse sense for everyone who seeks to thrive in the herds we all run in — our communities, careers, families, and friendships.

The Tao of Loyalty
The Tao of Loyalty

Author: Ajit Rao

Publisher: SAGE

Published: 2006-11-14

Total Pages: 522

ISBN-13: 9780761935544

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In today′s business environment, people, rather than products, technology and processes, are increasingly becoming the crucial factor in differentiating profitable organizations from those that are not. It is therefore important to understand employee commitment and loyalty in organizations. This book begins by defining loyalty, the types of loyalty (emotional and behavioural) and how these can be measured and interpreted. The author discusses the potency of combining the two types of loyalty to segment employees into different categories which can then yield loyalty rankings. He goes on to discuss the elements that can be tweaked and managed and which impact on the loyalty scores of an employee. This book concludes with the processes involved in building accountability in order to ensure that everyone in the organization is aligned to, and expends energy in, building employee loyalty.