Beyond The Cherry Tree: The Leadership Wisdom of George Washington - Softcover

James Hodges; Ph.D.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0976392003 ISBN 13: 9780976392002

Publisher: Great Leaders Press, 2008

Synopsis

George Washington has remained our most outstanding role-model and mentor-leader. The story of how he raised himself up by his bootstraps from relative poverty to wealth is both inspiring and instructive. This book is an easy-to-read guide book on how we can reach our full productivity potential by observing the highest levels of ethical behavior. It outlines the leadership actions George Washington took to found our country. Actions we must emulate and expand upon today. Successful, modern companies that have used his principles are highlighted for their accomplishments.

About this title

About the Author

James Hodges, PhD has many years of valuable experience in corporate America s financial services industry. Under his leadership his teams enjoyed outstanding success. During nearly 20 years with John Hancock, he was one of the youngest life members of the Million Dollar Round Table. Along the way he earned the CLU, ChFC, CFP and CFM professional degrees. He recently retired as VP of Merrill Lynch s Global Private Client Group. The University of Maryland awarded him BA and MA degrees, while he taught part-time at their School of Business Administration. Hamilton University granted him a Ph.D. The combination of his education, training, skills and results uniquely qualify him to write this book.

Review

Americans value George Washington as an ethical role model for adults and children alike and James Hodges book Beyond the Cherry Tree: The Leadership Wisdom of George Washington offers a guidebook for teaching ethics to modern business entrepreneurs. Combining and comparing historical biographical notes on George Washington s life with biographies and experiences of American business leaders, Dr. Hodges, economist and historian, offers proof that ethical behavior pays big dividends. Americans need to be reminded of the lessons of Washington s life and the parables created and written by Parson Weems, his biographer, which told that what has made America GREAT was its reliance upon morality. Americans can prosper and be happier, Hodges advocates, by returning to our central, core values, of ethical behavior in every walk of life---business board rooms, school classrooms, sports arenas, government offices, and family homes. In short, we must return to attitudes and procedures that brought us to the top of the world s leadership ladder in the first place, if we want to remain there and not go the way of earlier civilizations that have fallen asunder. Using lessons and guidelines from George Washington s exemplary life, Hodges speaks of building leadership skills at every level, the especial need to build character, calculate life s risks to ensure success, engender loyalty among peers, and plan for succession. Washington led Americans through the American Revolutionary War and through the first eight years of the new American Republic formed under the U.S. Constitution. His life and character need to be respected and emulated. America s corporate strategists need to copy the lessons exemplified by President Washington s career, because their very survival in this harsh competitive world depends upon this emulation. America must resume her original mission of establishing a city upon the hill, a beacon to the world and remain on top by its ethical example. Hodges book provides Americans with a lifeline for how this would be best achieved. Barbara Bennett Peterson, PhD Emeritus Professor of History University of Hawaii Professor of History by Courtesy (retired) Oregon State University Portland, Oregon May 11, 2008 --Dr. Barbara Peterson is the author of George Washington, America s Moral Exemplar, New York, Nova Science Publishers, 2005.

Edition details

• Publisher: Great Leaders Press
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0976392003
• ISBN 13: 9780976392002
• Binding: Perfect Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 115
• Editor: Mitchel Whitington
• Illustrator: Bonnie Hodges