The Journey to Competitive Advantage Through Servant Leadership: Building the Company Every Person Dreams of Working for and Every President Has a VIS

With today's tough economic environment and declining trust in leaders, companies are in desperate need of leaders who can provide the vision, goals, and direction needed to develop and maximize the full potential of their people and the business results.

The Journey To Competitive Advantage Through Servant Leadership was written to help organizations and leaders understand that building a sustainable competitive advantage depends on how people are treated--and the best way to create a competitive advantage is by developing an environment of caring, mutual trust and respect between the leaders and their people.Servant leaders have learned that focusing their efforts and strategy on developing the full potential of their associates helps create a winning partnership for the people and the business.

To help leaders develop this collaborative environment, the author shares his own leadership journey both the successes and struggles. He compiles the lessons of a lifetime into one comprehensive document that can help point the way for leaders to the fulfilling life of "servant leadership"-that powerful, almost mystical capability to help people achieve beyond their fondest dreams, while living a life of faith and making priceless contributions to the people God brings into their life. He takes a highly ethical and moral approach to developing employees, leading your business and balancing your life. He provides practical examples of how to build a business of which you can be proud by helping people succeed and achieve their goals which is a time proven way to ensure that you too will succeed.If you are seeking to improve your career, be a leader in all you do, build a business of integrity, or balance your life with better relationships - this book is for you!

A thought provoking and insightful look into the oft en underestimated and misunderstood field of leadership in business; Bill Flint's "The Journey to Competitive Advantage through Servant Leadership" offers a pragmatic "Golden Rule" guide to being a responsible and inspiring leader. A "must read" book for professional and personal enlightenment in what it takes to bring the best out in your people and yourself.
--Dr. Stormy T. W. Hicks, Ph.D.,
Former President & COO of J.B. Poindexter Co., and ITT Automotive, and Executive Director of Ford Motor Company.

Bill Flint is President of Flint Strategic Partners, a consulting firm he founded in April 2010, after a successful thirty-eight-year business career in the manufacturing sector. Bill and his wife, Kay, have been married for thirty years. They have two sons, Andy, twenty-nine, and Patrick, twenty-seven, and two grandsons, Will, four, and Sam, two. For the past twenty years, they have lived in the Midwest, spending the past eight years in Goshen, Indiana.

Bill’s passion for helping business owners, entrepreneurs, and leaders develop strategies to improve the results of their business was what drove him to found his consulting firm. He believes that the best way to improve a business is by developing servant leaders who are passionate about caring for the people they lead and who work to develop a partnership of success between the people and the company.

Bill is active in his community and attends Nappanee Missionary Church, where he and his wife lead a class for newly married couples. Bill also serves on the board of directors for Ethos, Inc., located in Elkhart, Indiana, and on the business advisory committee for Ivy Tech Community College in South Bend.