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Leading With Honor by Lee Ellis
Make Every Step Count on Your Leadership Journey How did American Military leaders in the brutal POW camps of North Vietnam inspire their followers for six, seven, or eight years to remain committed to the mission, resist a cruel enemy, and return home with honor? What leadership principles engendered such extreme devotion, perseverance, and teamwork? In this powerful and practical book, Lee Ellis, a former Air Force pilot, candidly talks about his five and a half years of captivity and the fourteen key leadership principles behind this amazing story. As a successful executive coach and corporate consultant, he helps leaders of Fortune 500 companies, healthcare executives, small business owners, and entrepreneurs utilize these same pressure-tested principles to increase their personal and organizational success. In Leading with Honor: Leadership Lessons from the Hanoi Hilton, you will learn: - Courageous lessons from POW leaders facing torture in the crucible of captivity. - How successful teams are applying these same lessons and principles. - How to implement these lessons using the Coaching sessions provided in each chapter. In the book's Foreword, Senator John McCain states, In Leading with Honor, Lee draws from the POW experience, including some of his own personal story, to illustrate the crucial impact of leadership on the success of any organization. He highlights lessons and principles that can be applied to every leadership situation. This book is ideal for individual or group study as a personal development, coaching, human resource development, or executive training resource.Lee Ellis is Founder and President of Leading with Honor(R) LLC and FreedomStar Media(R). He is an award-winning author, leadership consultant, and expert presenter in the areas of leadership, teambuilding, and human performance. His past clients include Fortune 500 senior executives and C-Level leaders in telecommunications, healthcare, military, and other business sectors. Some of his media appearances include interviews on networks such as CNN, CBS This Morning, C-SPAN, ABC World News, Fox News Channel, plus hundreds of engagements in various industry sectors throughout the world.
Early in his career, Lee served as an Air Force fighter pilot flying fifty-three combat missions over North Vietnam. In 1967, he was shot down and held as a POW for more than five years in Hanoi and surrounding camps. For his wartime service, he was awarded two Silver Stars, the Legion of Merit, the Bronze Star with Valor device, the Purple Heart, and POW Medal. Lee resumed his Air Force career, serving in leadership roles of increasing responsibility including command of a flying squadron and leadership development organizations before retiring as a colonel. Lee has a BA in History and a MS in Counseling and Human Development. He is a graduate of the Armed
Forces Staff College and the Air War College. He has authored or co-authored four books on leadership and career development. His last book, Leading with Honor(R) Leadership Lessons from the Hanoi Hilton received multiple awards since its release including Winner in the 2012 International Book Awards in the Business and Management Category, and selection on the 2013 U.S. Air Force Chief of Staff Reading List.
Lee and his wife Mary reside in the Atlanta GA area and have four grown children and six grandchildren.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780983879329 |
| ISBN 10 | 098387932X |
| Titel | Leading With Honor |
| Autor | Lee Ellis |
| Buchzustand | Nicht verfügbar |
| Bindungsart | Paperback |
| Verlag | Leadership Freedom LLC |
| Erscheinungsjahr | 2014-01-07 |
| Seitenanzahl | 256 |
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