Love Leadership E-Book

John Hope Bryant

• Herausgeber: John Wiley & Sons
• Kategorie: Fachliteratur
• Sprache: Englisch
• Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2010

Seitenzahl: 234

Beschreibung

A dynamic young leader shows how leading with love and respect creates success in business and life Written by the founder of Operation HOPE and advisor to the past two U.S. presidents, this groundbreaking book makes the case that the best way to get ahead is to figure out what you have to give to a world seemingly obsessed with the question: What do I get? Aimed at a new generation of leaders and extremely relevant for today's economic climate, Love Leadership outlines Bryant's five laws of love-based leadership-Loss Creates Leaders (there can be no strength without legitimate suffering), Fear Fails (only respect and love leads to success), Love Makes Money (love is at the core of true wealth), Vulnerability is Power (when you open up to people they open up to you), and Giving is Getting (the more you offer to others, the more they will give back to you). * One of today's most influential leaders, Bryant has appeared on Oprah and in articles in the LA Times, NY Times, and the Wall Street Journal * Bryant's bold approach to leadership is well-suited for today's tough economic environment and a world gripped by fear and uncertainty * Outlines the innovative five laws of love-based leadership Love Leadership is that unique and powerful book that bridges the gap between solid business advice and pure inspiration.

Leseprobe

Table of Contents

Title Page

Copyright Page

Dedication

Foreword

Introduction

DISCOVERING LOVE LEADERSHIP

LOVE LEADERSHIP DEFINED

THE LESSONS OF LOVE LEADERS

LOVE LEADERSHIP IN PRACTICE

A PERSONAL STORY OF LOVE LEADERSHIP

WHAT LOVE LEADERSHIP OFFERS YOU

Chapter 1 - LOSS CREATES LEADERS

MY FALL FROM GRACE

LEADING FROM LOSS

GREAT LEADERS FORGED BY FIRE

LOSS GIVES YOU AN ADVANTAGE

OUT OF LOSS AND DESPAIR, HOPE

Chapter 2 - FEAR FAILS

A FEAR-BASED WORLD

FEAR-BASED LEADERSHIP

FEAR LEADS TO “SHORT-TERMISM”

STUMBLING AND FALLING, OUT OF FEAR

Chapter 3 - LOVE MAKES MONEY

LOVE-BASED PROSPERITY

LEADING WITH LOVE FOR THE LONG TERM

CARING FOR OTHERS

DOING GOOD

Chapter 4 - VULNERABILITY IS POWER

VULNERABILITY AND TRANSPARENCY

WHY VULNERABILITY IS A SOURCE OF POWER

HOW TO SHOW VULNERABILITY

MAKING DEEP CONNECTIONS THROUGH VULNERABILITY

THE COURAGE TO BE VULNERABLE

Chapter 5 - GIVING IS GETTING

THE MORE YOU GIVE, THE MORE YOU GET

GIVING TO YOUR PEOPLE

GIVING TO GET THE BEST OUT OF PEOPLE

GIVING, NOT TAKING

DOING GOOD FOR OTHERS PAYS OFF

WHY YOU GIVE: GOOD SELFISHNESS

CONCLUSION: GOOD CAPITALISM AND LOVE LEADERSHIP

LIST OF INTERVIEWEES

NOTES

Acknowledgements

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

INDEX

Copyright © 2009 by John Hope Bryant.

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Bryant, John.

p. cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-0-470-42878-8 (cloth)

1. Leadership. 2. Interpersonal relations. 3. Success. I. Title.

HD57.7.B786 2009

303.3’4—dc22

2009020137

To Bill Robinson, founding program manager of Operation HOPE, Chicago, who recruited hundreds of volunteers, educated thousands of young bright minds, and showed us all how to live a life that “gets” by giving.

To Secretary Jack Kemp, your words and deeds demonstrate the stand you took for those “less than,” and you will never be forgotten. You were the Republican that everyone could talk to.

You both have been promoted.

FOREWORD

I doubt that you have ever read anything quite like this marvelous book by John Hope Bryant. Lest you’re misled by the title and think that Love Leadership represents the “soft side” of leadership, let me assure you that love leadership is hard. Very hard.

Being a command-and-control leader who issues orders and overpowers people isn’t difficult, and it isn’t leadership. It is coercion.

Throughout my career, I have observed many who use fear as a leadership style to take advantage of people and to control and manipulate them. As we see every day by the failures of these leaders—from Wall Street firms like Lehman Brothers and Bear Stearns to companies like Chrysler and Health South—they cannot sustain success in the twenty-first century by leading with fear.

People who lead by coercion will never empower people to peak performance over a sustained period of time. Eventually the best people leave the organization, and others just capitulate. Over time, performance declines, and so does the organization.

When I worked for Litton Industries in the 1970s as president of Litton Microwave Cooking, the corporation’s new CEO used fear and coercion as his primary style. One day when we were touring the machine shop, he verbally accosted a machine tool worker, yelling at him about the metal scraps coming out of his machine. The worker was taken aback and didn’t know how to respond, but he certainly wasn’t motivated.