Confronting the Business Leadership Crisis: A Practical Guide for an Uncertain Business Future

Competent business leadership drives profit, but there is more, and it is important to know, especially during these trying times. If business leadership is practiced with a value-based foundation, its demonstrated impact on business performance is much greater. As human beings are the most treasured business asset, business leaders practice values that maintain the asset by creating relationship harmony and trust, fostering collaborative learning to realize individual and collective potential, and developing the organization as a united community.

But a business leadership model must also reflect respect for the unique cultural context in which the business operates, which is why author Stanley Remple argues the need for improved development of Chinese business leadership development. The dominant individualistic and technical Western approach to and practice of leadership development doesn't serve the needs of Chinese business leaders very well. And it creates new avoidable challenges.

Enter Leadership Wisdom for Businesses in China, a powerful four-book series that examines natural law-based values for business leadership within the rich Chinese traditional and current cultural context. Remple offers a framework to promote individual and collective potential while creating a successful and competitive business as community.

Book One: Confronting the Business Leadership Crisis launches the series by providing an overview of business leadership approaches; examining the current global business leadership crisis and its realities in China; and making a case for natural law-based values business leadership. Based on these values, Remple outlines ten key leadership responsibility areas and supporting operating principles for each responsibility area, to realize business leadership improvements.

Much more than a theoretical overview of business leadership, this book series offers a roadmap for developing both self-leadership and business leadership within a whole company. Both are essential. Supported by an experienced Chinese project team consisting of researchers, educators, writers and editors, business leaders, and other stakeholders, this culturally relevant book series has been written for English and Mandarin-speaking business leaders and entrepreneurs, leadership consultants and trainers, and post-secondary leadership programs in China. However, stakeholders in the West will also find great value in this comprehensive exploration of natural law-based values business leadership in the Western cultural context.

The other three books in the Leadership Wisdom for Business Success in China* series are:
- Book Two: Developing a Value-Based Business
- Book Three: Results-Based Community Values in Strategic Decision-Making
- Book Four: Culture Impacts Strategic Implementation Success


A Mandarin version will soon be available from a Chinese Publisher

*Also available in Mandarin

Stanley Remple brings more than fifty-five years of different levels of business leadership involvement in both small and large businesses; public sector, and non-profit organizations; and academic institutions in various countries, including Canada, the US, Russia, Belarus, Kenya, and China. His experience in China includes consulting, training, mentoring of business leaders, and leadership program development.

Remple served as a founder and director of a Mandarin graduate program in business leadership for over a decade. Remple believes deeply in practical value-based leadership and wrote the Leadership Wisdom for Businesses in China series to share with others what he has learned over his lifetime and as part of his continuing journey to develop his own self-leadership skills.

Remple's commitment to lifetime learning with a focus on religion, philosophy, psychology, social work, health care, aboriginal services, services to seniors, mental health education, and community development, have had major wholistic learning impacts. Remple has a BA, MSW, MPH, Ph.D., and Post-Graduate Dip MHA. This important inter-disciplinary background has contributed to his wholistic and humanistic approach to creating profitable business organizations that work as a community while serving customers, local communities, and the nation. Remple views a business as necessarily a responsible and accountable citizen.

Remple has been awarded a Governor General's medal for his contribution to Canadian citizens and in his "retirement" continues to guest lecture at universities, consult within the Chinese community, being a board member, and mentor international business executives. He lives on Vancouver Island, in British Columbia, Canada with his wife of sixty years. Together they enjoy a busy social life that includes wine and book clubs, golfing, playing bridge, and international travel.