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Overview

Told in the parable format of The One Minute Manager(r) and Raving Fans, Leadership by the Book draws on the model and messages of Jesus as the source of practical lessons in effective leadership. Recounting the story of a teacher, a minister, and a marketplace leader who support one another in their leadership challenges, this extraordinary book offers unexpected and exceptional answers to tough leadership issues such as: How do I best serve our customers by serving our people? How can I unify my personal beliefs and my role as a leader in a way that feels good "deep down" and still produces desired results? How can I attain the triple bottom line effect of Raving Fan customers, Gung-Ho employees, and financial ...
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Overview

Told in the parable format of The One Minute Manager(r) and Raving Fans, Leadership by the Book draws on the model and messages of Jesus as the source of practical lessons in effective leadership. Recounting the story of a teacher, a minister, and a marketplace leader who support one another in their leadership challenges, this extraordinary book offers unexpected and exceptional answers to tough leadership issues such as: How do I best serve our customers by serving our people? How can I unify my personal beliefs and my role as a leader in a way that feels good "deep down" and still produces desired results? How can I attain the triple bottom line effect of Raving Fan customers, Gung-Ho employees, and financial well-being by leading with integrity? The authors offer simple strategies for bringing vision--and values--to the workplace by examining messages and examples from the Bible. Sure to be required reading for all leaders, managers, and their key people, Leadership by the Book also provides lessons for the day-to-day life of parents, coaches, entrepreneurs, and religious and community leaders everywhere.

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780688172398
  • Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
  • Publication date: 9/1/1999
  • Edition description: 1ST
  • Edition number: 1
  • Pages: 240
  • Sales rank: 374,407
  • Product dimensions: 5.50 (w) x 8.25 (h) x 0.85 (d)

Meet the Author

Ken Blanchard is an international bestselling author and motivational speaker whose books, including The One Minute Manager®, The One Minute Entrepreneur™, and Leading at a Higher Level, have sold more than eighteen million copies in thirty languages. He lives in San Diego, California.

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When the plane touched down, the Professor awoke from a sound sleep. With all the traveling he did, he counted as one of his blessings that he could sleep anywhere. As the 727 taxied to the gate, the Professor pondered his visit the previous night with Michael.

Michael was considered by many--especially the analysts on Wall Street--to be one of the top managers and business leaders in the country. At one time, the Professor had been proud to consider Michael his best pupil as well as a very good friend. During the three and a half years he had mentored Michael, the Professor and his wife, Allison, had become close friends with Michael and his wife, Carla. Both families lived in the same community just outside of San Diego. They shared common interests, and because their kids were the same age, they often took family vacations together.

The Professor and Michael started to drift apart when Michael accepted a big opportunity in New York. After a few months of fairly regular con tact, Michael started to be slow to return calls from the Professor. When they did talk, if the Professor inquired about something Michael was doing or made any suggestions, there would be an awkward silence at the other end of the phone, or Michael would say he had to take another call.

Maybe it was Michaels attraction to fame and fortune or the pressure to succeed, but whatever it was, the Professors relationship with Michael had slowly faded over the last five years.

Then why last night?

Their reunion had been initiated by Carla. Although he and Michael had lost contact, Carla and Allison had kept in touch over the years. The Professor knew through Allison that Carla was worried aboutMichael, but he hadnt discovered how out of kilter things were until Carla had called him in tears several weeks earlier.

I dont even know Michael anymore," Carla wept, and neither do the kids. All he has time for is work and the next deal. Michael has always worked hard, but he managed to spend time with me and the children. He never does anymore," she said.

"He doesnt seem to be close to or care about anyone at the office, either," Carla continued. "All that counts with him is the bottom line and what the Wall Street analysts think. Im starting to think Im living with a stranger.

"Michael used to listen to you," Carla pleaded with the Professor. "Would you talk to him? Youre my last resort."As good luck would have it, Michael and Carls home north of New York City was less than an hours drive from where the Professor was due to conduct a leadership seminar in a few weeks. Sensing Carlas desperation and being concerned about Michael, the Professor rearranged his schedule to visit them while he was nearby.

"Michael usually gets home around nine oclock," Carla said, thrilled to hear the Professors plan. "I think it would be best if you just surprised him with a visit, saying you were in the area and thought youd stop by..."

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  • Anonymous

    Posted June 12, 2001

    Lead by Serving

    This book was given to me as a gift by a minister at my church, who happens to be friends with Ken Blanchard, one of the authors of this book. Seeing as how I am an upwardly mobile young professional, I thought it looked pretty good. This book is both a story and a manifesto, of sorts. Both Ken Blanchard and Bill Hybels appear as characters in the book, as they help a friend of theirs recover his spiritual life while he recovers from a heart attack. During this time, Ken and Bill lay out a plan for building 'Servant Leaders,' a concept that they tutor their friend in. I was unsatisfied by this book. First, it is rather short. The line spacing is too wide, so not enough words are on each page; it's almost a large print edition. Second, they constantly beat the 'servant leader' drum, which is fine and dandy, and something that I fully agree with. However, it ends up reading like an advertisement for the 'Center for Servant Leadership' (or whatever it's called; can't remember right now) that they plan on forming. I am glad I didn't pay $20 just to find out that they are going to put together a center to teach this stuff. Bottom line, I can't recommend this book, at least not for full price. Its concepts have already been covered before, and this book really doesn't add anything new. The story-like prose may work well for some people, however.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted July 16, 2010

    90 minutes of my life wasted...

    I'm an avid reader, and recently I've been on a servant leadership theme. This book was among 3 others that I've read. I must say that this book is not only the worst servant leadership book I've found in terms of both content and story, but also possibly the worst book I've forced myself to finish in years and years.

    I'm a big Bill Hybels fan when it comes to his small group leadership materials. I expected this book to be equally insightful. Not so. Not even close.

    The book tells a story about a man who has a heart attack, and his friends, a pastor and a professor, attempt to set him straight during/after his recovery. Apparently the man has been super-stressed due to his job, and it has affected his family, etc... and now these men find it their duty to shut him in a room a preach at him for days and days.

    The story is told in terms and simplicity that you would expect from a third or fourth grade kids book. The storytelling is insultingly trite.

    The ideas covered are very simplistically addressed, such that very few readers would have a practical or even basically useful grasp of servant leadership when done reading.

    I'm sorry to say it, really, but this book probably would not have been published had it not been for the clout these gentlemen had already built up in other subject areas.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted May 6, 2001

    Serving others is the secret to true Leadership

    This book gets to the heart of leadership, literally! Blanchard et al are right on target suggesting that behavior is not only initiated by the head, but also the heart. Written in a parable sequence, this book provides easy-to-use ideas that can be used by veteran and novice leaders alike.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted December 29, 1999

    Lead at a higher level for the 21st Century

    This fabulous book holds all the secrets for anyone to be able to lead a higher level. This is the only way we'll be able to either survive or thrive in the 21st Century. It raises the critical question -- are you a self-serving leader or a servant leader? For those who want to serve, this book provides a clear, easy to understand, and positive road map. A must read for anyone in a leadership position.

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