Serve to Lead: Your Transformational 21st Century Leadership System - Softcover

James Strock

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0984077405 ISBN 13: 9780984077403

Publisher: Serve to Lead Press, 2010

Synopsis

Next Generation Indie Book Award Winner in Business Category; also 3rd Place Non-Fiction Grand Prize Winner. 21st century leadership is a whole new world! More than ever before, everyone can lead--because everyone can serve. Serve to Lead equips you with the tools to prevail--whether you're a CEO or just starting out, whether you're an entrepreneur, or work in a large company, government agency, a not-for-profit organization or the military. Extensive interviews, business case studies, psychological research, biography, history and literature inform this remarkable leadership manual. Serve to Lead equips you with the tools to make your unique contribution as a leader. From the raw material of your life and work you will be able to create your own "masterpiece of service."

About this title

From the Author

I'm honored to report that 'Serve to Lead' was selected as a "best book of the year" by legendary business leader Tom Peters, and LeadershipNow.com.Please share your experience of creating your own "masterpiece of service," applying the Serve to Lead system.I would welcome the opportunity to serve you, speaking to your organization or association as you move to the next level of service--and leadership.

From the Back Cover

"Serve to Lead is an invaluable toolkit for all who seek to lead in the 21st century. James Strock distills timeless leadership principles into readily accessible, actionable practices that you can put to work today."
--WARREN BENNIS, Distinguished Professor of Business, University of Southern California, and author of On Becoming a Leader
 
"Serve to Lead is the essential guidebook for 21st-century leadership. Every visionary with an idea; every corporate titan striving for excellence; every business owner seeking success; and every individual searching for a life of meaning will find in this exceptionally well-written book the inspiration, insights and ideas he needs to achieve his dreams. On a personal level, this book has changed my life; I urge men and women who aspire to make a difference in the world to let it change theirs as well."
-- MARTI BARLETTA, author, Marketing to Women and Prime Time Women
 
"Serve to Lead is a book of far-ranging insight, as much about life as it is about business. It is concise, thoughtful and--perhaps most importantly--useful."
--FRANK BLAKE, CEO, The Home Depot, Inc.
 
"If you read only one book on leadership read Serve to Lead! If you only read one more book on leadership make it this book. It is inspiring, motivational, educational and actionable. Everyone from business leaders to students will find it compelling, engaging--and life-changing."
--DOUG DUCEY, chairman, iMemories, former CEO & chairman, Cold Stone Creamery
 
"Serve to Lead is one of the few business books I've read that off offers a truly democratic vision of leadership--a vision that can help leaders of every kind better serve their colleagues, their clients, and their community. Pick up a copy now and use Strock's insights to turn the raw material of your life into a masterpiece of service."
--DANIEL H. PINK, author of A Whole New Mind and Drive
 
"James Strock in his book Serve to Lead has succinctly captured the essence of the quintessential twenty-first-century leadership style. During the past 30 years I have led teams ranging from 5 to 5000 people. I can clearly see how adherence to the key concepts in this book can significantly improve one's leadership and ultimate success."
--JOE BEYERS, chairman & CEO, Ambature, former vice president, Hewlett-Packard
 
"'Who are you serving?' is the question at the heart of James Strock's Serve to Lead, and it is the question that will change your entire vision of how you lead. Very few leadership books are authored by individuals who have actually led in both the public and private sectors, who are accomplished historians and widely acknowledged as master communicators. Strock brings all of these experiences and more to a powerful, engaging and transformative book that not only races along but which inspires and informs. If you are committed to being a truly effective leader in the twenty-first century, read this book--today."
--HUGH HEWITT, broadcast journalist, law professor, New York Times best-selling author,Blog: Understanding the Information Reformation That is Changing Your World
 
"Serve to Lead is a gift, teaching us that leadership and love are synonymous."
--MICHAEL J. MALOUF, senior vice president, employee benefit sales, MetLife
 
"Everyone can be a leader because everyone can serve, and in Serve to Lead, Jim shows us how. Organizations today need leaders at all levels throughout the enterprise, not just at the top. This book is a must-read for everyone who aspires to lead through service."
--BILL NOVELLI, former president & CEO of AARP
 
"This inspirational book offers a heartfelt, revolutionary approach for twenty-first -century leadership. ..With its vision for our transition from a transaction-based to a relationship-based world, Serve to Lead is a blueprint for leadership success."
--ROBIN GERBER, author, Leadership the Eleanor Roosevelt Way: Timeless Strategies from the First Lady of Courage
 
"Eat your heart out, Frederick Taylor--in the twenty-first century individuals trump systems. Digital Age democracy makes everyone a potential leader. James Strock understands this, not as classroom theory or management jargon, but as the distilled essence of multiple careers notable for innovation, adaptability, and personal integrity. Serve to Lead is much more than a stake through the heart--if it exists--of fossilized hierarchies everywhere. Putting service before self, Strock has written an invaluable guidebook to the purposeful life. Boy, do we need it now!"
--RICHARD NORTON SMITH, presidential historian, author of Patriarch: George Washington and the New American Nation  

Edition details

• Publisher: Serve to Lead Press
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0984077405
• ISBN 13: 9780984077403
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 368