The Inclusion Dividend is a fine book with several goals, each of which is achieved by the authors.
Archives For 21st Century Leadership
21st Century Leadership is the category touching all aspects of Serve to Lead.
Serve to Lead includes respectful references to the management approach of Dwight Eisenhower.
Some readers, I learned, had been unaware of the scope of Ike’s accomplishments. Some young people have scarcely heard of the thirty-fourth president.
By contrast, many more people are aware of the leadership of John Kennedy, Ike’s successor. JFK is routinely ranked among the presidents most admired by Americans today.
There may be lessons in the differing public understandings.
Two decades after its initial publication, author and consultant Peter Block has released a second edition of his book, Stewardship.
This edition is revised and expanded. It includes a new introduction focused on changes since the first edition. There is also a new chapter “applying stewardship to the common good of the wider community.”
Not having read the first edition of Stewardship, I’m not able to comment in-depth on the changes.
Nonetheless, having studied the second edition, I come away with admiration and in fundamental agreement with Block’s approach and analysis.
Texas environmental leadership.
These are not words–or concepts–that one anticipates finding together these days.
But no… this is not a headline from the Onion.
It’s real. It’s important. And it may hold lessons for the new world of 21st century leadership.
With his new book, Give and Take, Wharton School professor Adam Grant has hit a home run.
Give and Take is a perfect complement to Serve to Lead. Grant methodically makes the case for a smart focus on serving others as a basis for value creation and success, in life and work.
Condoms and Violence. credit | triplepundit.com
Triple Pundit has published an interesting post, proposing that condom companies seek to create value by dedicating resources to a global initiative to prevent or report violence against women.
This proposal reflects several 21st century leadership trends discussed in Serve to Lead.
Corporate consultant Steven Snyder has written a compelling book, Leadership and the Art of Struggle.
Snyder sets out to illuminate “how great leaders grow through challenge and adversity.”
He succeeds admirably.
Audio versions of Serve to Lead, Reagan on Leadership, and Theodore Roosevelt on Leadership will be released for the Holiday Season 2013-14.
Environmental Leadership Begins With Each of Us.
For the week of Earth Day, Serve to Lead includes three posts on the evolution of 21st century environmental leadership. Your comments and contributions are encouraged.
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The Task of Environmental Leadership
Amid the ever rising, discordant, disconnected, coursing invasion of voices and information and interpretations competing to engage our consciousness 24-7, it’s ever more difficult to achieve perspective.
Are we surprised that people retreat to various explanatory ideologies to impose some order… or perhaps, a surcease, a rationalization for disengagement?….
Our evolving environmental consciousness exemplifies the challenge of achieving understanding in our highly connected age.
Earth Day week is an apt moment to make note of some of the spectacular changes underway.
Undertake a thought experiment:
–What issues before us now will appear most consequential fifty years hence?
–What questions that appear to us to be settled, entirely beyond debate, will be viewed as erroneous in the future?
–What issues are taboo, kept from discussion, that will be viewed as central, in the longer view?
What follows are a series of observations and questions intended to stir thought–and spur action.