Focus in Action Is Great Leadership: 10 Tenets of Leadership & Professional Excellence

by Belinda Johnson White PH D

Overview

Looking for a leadership development model for the millennial generation designed to build them into leaders and professionals ready to address 21st century challenges? It's in your hands!

Through the Johnson White Leadership Model (JWLM) this book combines leadership development AND professional development AND shares the secrets to executive level leadership all with a focus on social conscience driven by faith, ethics, and diversity.

Articulated as "FOCUS + ACTION = Great Leadership," the JWLM concisely outlines the intrapersonal, interpersonal, and leadership skills that result in the betterment of individuals, groups, organizations, and society as a whole.

The JWLM is inspired by the work of Morehouse College sixth president, Dr. Benjamin E. Mays, mentor to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Dr. Mays said, "...we are all called by God to human betterment and enrichment. If we fail on those scores, we disappoint God, break his heart, and make Him cry."

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781512771015
Publisher:	WestBow Press
Publication date:	02/01/2017
Pages:	344
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.94(d)

About the Author

Dr. Belinda Johnson White is Associate Professor and Management Program Director, Morehouse College, and teaches Leadership & Professional Development, a business degree core course. Dr. White, a highly sought-after speaker and workshop facilitator, has over three decades of career experience including 13 years with IBM in marketing, sales, and training, and 25 years in academia teaching the art and science of leadership and professionalism to thousands of emerging leaders. For more information, visit her website www.belindajohnsonwhite.com.

Editorial Reviews

2017-07-19
An author and associate professor provides an in-depth breakdown and study of executive-level leadership in the business world. White (Leadership and Professional Development, 2012) opens her work with a simple question: why another business leadership tome to add to the towering pile already in print? And her answer is astonishing: "There is not a book that blends into one whole the what, when, how, and why of leadership and professional development for emerging leaders and shares the secrets of executive-level leadership." There are literally thousands—perhaps tens of thousands—of volumes that do exactly this, and since White must know that, readers must search elsewhere for justification for the guide's existence. They won't have to look far: White is a very open and engaging writer, and she presents readers her concept of "motiva-cation"—a blend of motivation and education—as a series of elaborations on the system she has devised, the Johnson White Leadership Model. The JWLM is organized around three "modules": Focus, Action, and Great Leadership. White—who worked at IBM in marketing, sales, and training—moves straight to the details of each one and how they interrelate. In this scheme, Focus examines the inner person and the ability to sell oneself; Action addresses interpersonal elements such as character and self-expression; and Great Leadership brings together these threads and directs them outward, concentrating on team building and thinking on the organizational level. White walks her readers through all of these larger categories and refreshingly grounds them in both a wide array of business writings by contemporary authors (and not so current: the great Dale Carnegie gets his due) and some very nuts-and-bolts analysis of modern corporate culture—differentiating, for instance, among sponsors, mentors, coaches, advisers, and role models. The author rounds everything off with a very approachable personal tone. White, a business instructor at Morehouse College in Atlanta, mentions early on that the book is suitable for seminar and academic use, and its complexity bears this out. Business students should find a great deal to interest and challenge them in these pages. A searching and cleareyed leadership blueprint for the 21st century.

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