The Servant Leader by James A Autry

The Servant Leader by James A Autry

A Practical Guide to Using the Principles of Servant Leadership

Leadership is a calling. And servant leadership--the idea that managing with respect, honesty, love, and spirituality empowers employees--helps individuals answer that calling. Bestselling author and former Fortune 500 executive James A. Autry reveals the servant leader's tools, a set of skills and ideals that will transform the way business is done. It helps leaders nurture the needs and goals of those who look to them for leadership. The result is a more productive, successful, and happier organization, and a more meaningful life for the leader.

Autry reveals how to remain true to the servant leadership model when handling day-to-day and long-term management situations, including how to:

-Provide guidance during conflict and crisis
-Assure your continued growth and progress as a leader
-Train managers in the principles of servant leadership
-Transform a company with morale problems into a great place to work

Practiced by one-third of the companies on Fortune's 100 Best Companies to Work For list, servant leadership is a thriving philosophy. Ultimately, Autry explores how it can be a valuable, refreshing, and rewarding approach to leading others in business life.

James A. Autry, a former Fortune 500 executive, is the author of fourteen books, a poet and consultant whose work has had a significant influence on leadership thinking. His book, Love and Profit, The Art of Caring Leadership, a collection of essays and poetry, won the Johnson, Smith & Knisely Award as the book which had the most impact on executive thinking in 1992. Autry's writings have appeared in many anthologies and magazines. In 1991 the Kentucky Poetry Review published a special James A. Autry issue. He is a founder of the Des Moines National Poetry Festival. He was one of the poets featured on Bill Moyers' special series, The Power of the Word. In 1998 he received the Lifetime Achievement Award for Service to the Humanities from Iowa Humanities Board and Foundation. He was also the founding chair of the Claremont Graduate University's Humanities Center Board of Visitors.Autry was named a Distinguished Alumnus of the University of Mississippi and was elected to the Alumni Hall of Fame. He fulfilled his military service as a jet fighter pilot in Europe during the cold war and rose to the rank of Major in the Iowa Air National Guard. Before taking early retirement in 1991 to pursue a writing career, Autry was Senior Vice President and President of the Meredith Group, at the time a 500-million-dollar magazine publishing operation with over 900 employees. Autry lives in Des Moines, Iowa, with his wife Sally Pederson, the former Lieutenant Governor of Iowa.

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ISBN 13	9780761535355
ISBN 10	0761535357
Title	The Servant Leader
Author	James A Autry
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Prima Publishing,U.S.
Year published	2001-10-02
Number of pages	272
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