Developing a Value-Based Business: A Practical Guide for an Uncertain Business Future

Strong business leadership built on a value-based foundation has the power to drive profit while improving the lives of business leaders, employees, and even those in the community. But to truly succeed, a business leadership model must make sense within its cultural context. Enter Leadership Wisdom for Businesses in China, a powerful four-book series that explores why an individualistic Western approach won't work in China. Instead, Remple offers a practical leadership blueprint that reflects Chinese leadership standards and ideals for an uncertain future.

In Book Two: Developing a Value-Based Business, Author Stanley Remple examines the importance of a shared value-based organization worldview to develop individual and collective potential. He operationalizes this through a framework of six crucial leadership responsibility areas: establishing the worldview; identifying community values; improving self-leadership; empowering shared decision-making; strengthening employee commitment; and building effective communication. Each of these areas is illustrated by a case study of a successful Chinese business.

Much more than a theoretical overview of business leadership, this series is distinguished by a practical roadmap for developing both self-leadership and business leadership within a whole company. Supported by a Chinese project team consisting of researchers, educators, writers and editors, business leaders, and other stakeholders, this culturally relevant series has been written for business leaders and entrepreneurs, leadership consultants and trainers, and post-secondary leadership programs in China. However, stakeholders in the West will also find great foundational relevance in this comprehensive exploration of value-based leadership.

The other books in the Leadership Wisdom for Businesses in China* are:
- Book One: Confronting the Business Leadership Crisis
- Book Three: Values Guide Decision-Making for Results
- Book Four: Cultural Factors Define Implementation Strategies

*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.