Apples Are Square: Thinking Differently About Leadership

by Susan Smith Kuczmarski, Thomas D. Kuczmarski, Deepak Chopra (Foreword by)

Overview

Featuring a foreword by Deepak Chopra and interviews with dozens of leadership pioneers, this book provides a seven-step prescription for creating a compassionately competitive work culture. This groundbreaking strategy shows how collaborators, not controllers, dare to create success by reshaping the workplace in unexpected ways, with a focus on topics such as humility, compassion, inclusiveness, and values-based decisiveness. The interviewees include Craig Newmark, founder of Craigslist; Mary Ellen Weber, former NASA astronaut; and Chris Zorich, former NFL star.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780615576077
Publisher:	Book Ends Publishing
Publication date:	04/30/2012
Edition description:	Second Edition, Second edition
Pages:	256
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 9.10(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Susan Smith Kuczmarski is an expert on values-based leadership. For more than three decades she has conducted innovative leadership programs, taught at seven universities, worked for three nonprofit organizations, including the United Nations, and cofounded the innovation-management consulting firm Kuczmarski & Associates. She currently teaches at Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management. Tom Kuczmarski is the founder, senior partner, and president of Kuczmarski & Associates. He is a nationally recognized expert in innovation and the development of new products and services, having helped hundreds of clients from small businesses to Fortune 100 corporations. He is the author of Innovation . . . Chicago-Style, Innovating the Corporation, Managing New Products, and Values-Based Leadership. They both live in Chicago. Deepak Chopra is a global leader and pioneer in the field of mind-body science. He is the author of more than 65 books, including The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success, Spiritual Solutions, and The Soul of Leadership. He lives in Carlsbad, California.

Table of Contents

Foreword Deepak Chopra xv

Introduction xvii

Part I Defining the Characteristics of Success

1 Apples Are Square 3

2 A New Success Model 13

3 Humility 25

4 Compassion 35

5 Transparency 53

6 Inclusiveness 67

7 Collaboration 83

8 Values-Based Decisiveness 97

Part II Activating the Seven Steps to Change

9 Step 1-Reach Out to Serve Others 115

10 Step 2-Ask, "Who Am I?" 131

11 Step 3-Ask, "Who Are You?" 145

12 Step 4-Find Common Ground 157

13 Step 5-Don't Take the Pleats Out 173

14 Step 6-Root for People 187

15 Step 7-Leave Some Money on the Table 201

16 Lift People Up 215

Epilogue: The Peopleship Planet 225

Editorial Reviews

“Presents the model of leadership necessary to move from the information age to the knowledge-based and ultimately, to a wisdom-based culture. The future depends on the survival of the wisest and on leadership that is based on inner values.”  —Deepak Chopra, author, The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success

“An effective case for risk-taking within a framework of humanity.”  —Business Week

“Serving others, helping others, and inspiring others to bring out their inner core of strengths and talents are what the new definition of success is all about.”  —Fast Company

“Susan and Thomas Kuczmarski have made an important contribution to our understanding of leadership with their new book.  It is a work of great substance and relevance that provides not just an entry point for talking about models of leadership, but real profiles of those who have used these models to transform their own organizations and the people within them.”  —Donald P. Jacobs, dean emeritus, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University

“Tom Kuczmarski doesn’t have a patent on innovation, but he should have.”  —Charles P. Carey, Chairman, Chicago Board of Trade

“A rare and powerful book that provides a window into the views, thoughts, and soul of exceptional leaders in simple yet compelling language.”  —Dr. Surinder Kumar, chief innovation officer, Wm Wrigley Jr. Company, and author, Riding the Blue Train

“At a time when too many corporate leaders are still reading Sun Tzu’s The Art of War, this book offers an important alternative approach to leadership. It prompts readers to think about the type of individual they are and the type they want to become.”  —John Challenger, Chicago Sun-Times

“The Kuczmarski’s make a key finding—managing and motivating people with compassionate, collaborative, transparent and inclusive leadership not only positively affects the traditional bottom line, it also gives a boost to hard measures including ROI, stock price and operating earnings.”  —The Hindu

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