{"title":"Eugene B Habecker","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"softer-side-of-leadership-book-eugene-b-habecker-9781632694683","title":"Softer Side of Leadership","description":"\u003cp\u003eMany who aspire to be organizational leaders focus on developing hard skills, related to quantitative action and analytical thinking. These are important, but over his many decades of executive leadership, Dr. Eugene B. Habecker has learned to value the softer side of leadership. Unfortunately, these soft skills and behaviors are often neglected, to the detriment of both leadership and organizational development. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eThe Softer Side of Leadership\u003c\/em\u003e, Dr. Habecker, president emeritus of Taylor University, makes a case for these skills and provides practical ways to develop them and put them into action. He draws from his own experience, other leadership experts, and from the Bible. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Softer Side of Leadership\u003c\/em\u003e has two main sections. The first section focuses on the soft skills that effective leaders develop in a more personal dimension. These skills help leaders build and maintain a healthy spiritual, mental, and physical foundation that will benefit them personally as much as professionally. The second section naturally builds on the first, focusing on skills that effective leaders foster in the organizational dimension, such as creativity, trust, and forgiveness. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMany of these skills, practices, and attitudes may be difficult for readers whose business education has been driven by numbers and immediate results. But to be effective, they must commit to continuous learning--and that includes understanding the softer side of leadership. These soft skills support what hard skills cannot, at least not on their own: a culture that better promotes robust mission fulfillment. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEach chapter includes key takeaways and action steps, equipping readers to immediately develop and employ the skills presented. As readers develop the skills and behaviors presented in \u003cem\u003eThe Softer Side of Leadership\u003c\/em\u003e and pair them with hard skills, they will become stronger, more well-rounded leaders. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50209279181073,"sku":"CIN1632694689VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":52106980393233,"sku":"CIN1632694689G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1632694689.jpg?v=1750927476"},{"product_id":"softer-side-of-leadership-book-gene-habecker-9781514009468","title":"The Softer Side of Leadership","description":"\u003cp\u003eMany who lead or who aspire to lead rightly champion the importance of hard skills. These are skills that are informed by quantitative measurement and analytical thinking, among others. Knowing the numbers, embracing leadership tasks, and implementing the right strategies are important but no longer enough to be an effective leader. Indeed, the best of the leadership literature consistently emphasizes the importance of soft skills as this quote illustrates: \"The capabilities required of top leaders include new and often 'softer' skills that are rarely explicitly recognized or fostered in the corporate world.\" (Harvard Business Review, July-August, 2022, p.42)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn The Softer Side of Leadership, Dr. Habecker, who spent 35 consecutive years as a CEO of two universities and one large NYC non-profit, makes the case for the integration of soft skills into every aspect of the leader's personal life and the organizational agenda. He draws from his own experience, that of otherinternational colleagues, the leadership literature, and from the Scriptures.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe first part of the book focuses on the soft skills that help to continuously fuel the healthy development of the leader's spiritual, mental, physical, and emotional foundations. The second part focuses on the skills that drive organizational effectiveness and contribute to healthier cultures. Each chapter includes \"The Chapter Idea\" summary and a practical application: \"Putting the Idea to Work.\"\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe essential idea of the book is this: As readers develop their soft skill competencies, including the skills, behaviors, practices, and disciplines presented in The Softer Side of Leadership, and combine them with their hard skill competencies,they will be better equipped to be more effective as leaders which will likely result in both healthier personal lives and healthier organizations.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":50988286705937,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":50988288016657,"sku":"NIN9781514009468","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52348756459793,"sku":"NLS9781514009468","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":52512473153809,"sku":"CIN1514009463G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1514009463.jpg?v=1750797475"},{"product_id":"rediscovering-the-soul-of-leadership-book-eugene-b-habecker-9781564765369","title":"Rediscovering the Soul of Leadership","description":null,"brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":53394754011409,"sku":"CIN1564765369VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9781564765369.jpg?v=1775782937"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/en-gb\/collections\/author-books-by-eugene-b-habecker.oembed","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}