Helmsman ((Winning with Values, Winning with Leadership))

Author: Major
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Publish Date: 2005-03-01
Features: A truly captivating story that assigns values to work. This book will open your eyes. "The One-Minute Manager" author Dr. Ken Blanchard highly recommends it. Attitude determines everything, but values determine attitude. A book you can't put down. As soon as I sat down, I read it page by page from cover to cover. — Carter McLean, CEO of Ameritrade Securities, former CEO of Deutsche Bank U.S. Branch. American companies are about to launch a revolution, a movement to reawaken business values. Dr. Major will become the leader of this revolution, telling people through this book how to become a values-driven leader. Read this book and join this revolution! — Tom Hill, CEO of the American Eagle Leadership Association, author of "Living at the Top" and co-author of "Chicken Soup for the Entrepreneur's Soul." In recent years, few business management books have been worth reading from cover to cover. This one is different. Its story is engaging, its content vivid and real, and its arguments clear and compelling, telling how a group of people became a team through the shared creation and ownership of core values. — Curtis W. Cook, Dean of the School of Business Administration at the University of San Diego. In today's fast-paced society, successful leaders are called back to the basics. After reading the book all night, I "woke up" and "caught up." This book gave me practical methods, which I will use to rebuild company culture. — Donella Sullivan, CEO of Radiology Services Cooperative LLC. Mastering the values-based leadership discussed in this book can turn a failing company into a successful one all by yourself. The book is novel-like and full of fresh literary techniques, bringing simple yet extremely valuable management skills to readers. — Ed Sternager, CEO, 1994 inducted into the "Computer Hall of Fame." Private. — Amazon.com Customer Review. This book tells CEOs a way to avoid being abandoned by shareholders — Amazon.com Customer Review. Using gripping, suspenseful novelistic techniques, this book tells a vivid and concise story of how to establish corporate leadership and values. Attitude determines everything, but attitude is determined by one's values. Values are the true source and foundation of leadership, as well as the foundation of a company's sound operation and the rudder of the company. This book profoundly argues the powerful force of leadership based on core values, clearly explains practical methods and steps for companies to establish core values, and is highly operational. The book's protagonist, CEO Rob, receives enthusiastic help from football coach Olsen when facing the possibility of being fired. After gradually mastering principles and skills, Rob finally gets himself and the company out of trouble, re-establishes the foundation of corporate leadership, and becomes the helmsman steering the company. If you truly apply the truths revealed in this book, you will become a strong business leader and, equally important, a leader in your personal and family life. The book is warm and engaging, illustrated, and suitable for business managers to read, as well as for general employees and readers to shape corporate culture and cultivate leadership in a relaxed way.