Heroic Leadership: Best Practices from a 450-Year-Old Company That Changed the World
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| Rating | : | 4.39 (575 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0829421157 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 336 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-07-11 |
| Language | : | English |
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Kelly III, president and ceo, Mercantile Bankshares Corporation “In this absorbing, lucid book, Lowney explores how the Jesuits have successfully grappled with challenges that test great companies. Lowney shows us how every employee can and should be a leader and that love-driven leadership does work.” —Richard K. This is a book to be enjoyed, pondered, and put into practice.” —John W. Padberg, S.J., director, Institute of Jesuit Sources CIP . Green, former president and COO, Blistex, Inc.“This informative, fascinating book tells how Jesuits produced both outstanding individual leaders and a culture of leadership. Lowney shows
Lowney's passion for history is appealing, and he is careful not to sugarcoat his historical role models. As he takes the reader on an engaging romp through slices of Jesuit history, Lowney references four Jesuit pillars of success: self-awareness (reflection), ingenuity (embracing change), love (positive attitudes toward others) and heroism (energizing ambitions). In this absorbing, lucid book, Lowney, who left a seven-year stint as a Jesuit seminarian to become a managing director at J.P. Rather than focusing on what leaders do, Lowney shows how the Jesuit approach focuses on who leaders are. . Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc. Despite the emphasis on the four pillars, this is no formulaic "12-steps-to-success"
"A Company Truly Built to Last" according to David Achenbach. I first read this book about a year ago when participating in a class on understanding the Jesuit heritage of my place of work. I re-read it on the plane a couple of days ago returning from an overseas location where we recently established a program. The first time around I thought it was wonderful; re-reading it, I found it both wonderful and also profoundly relevant to our new enterprise.Lowney takes as his thesis the idea that the same precepts that have animated the success of the Jesuit order . Especially for the non-Jesuit educated. Mateo Sanchez 'Values' have a bad reputation in business given the Enrons, Adelphias and WorldComs of the world. There seems to be a lack of heros in the workplace, much less, leadership. Having had the privilege of not only reading, but listening to a presentation by, Chris Lowney, this book should be added to the booklist of any individual who aspires to supervise, manage or lead effectively and ethically. It should be required reading for MBAs as well as veteran CEOs to remind them about their responsibility t. "The greatest enterprise in the world." That describes my Jesuit high school and college. But then again I think just about every Jesuit school graduate would say the same thing.Ten men, no money, no business plan and within ten years they had thirty schools established and running.And not only has the Jesuit order survived for over four hundred years (after its abolition by the Pope everywhere but in Russia), but it has thrived. There is simply no comparable for-profit corporation with that same history of longevity and success.Igantius Loyola set out som