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The Challenges for Leadership, Values, and Happiness

What Are the Keys to Your Success in the 21st Century?

Edited by Charles A. Millick

This book will explore the characteristics, skills, and strategies needed by values-based business leaders to cope with a world that continues to change at warp speed. Effective leaders should prepare organizations for change and assist organizations in navigating through such changes. The Challenges for Leadership, Values, and Happiness identifies values-based leadership issues and provides keys to success for practical implementation in the workplace. This book will encourage leaders to realistically assess their leadership styles and identify the potential challenges of situational demands so they can manage from a position of strength. The chapters in this book represent philosophical, strategic, and tactical keys designed to trigger thoughts, actions, and strategies to assist the reader to maximize his or her strengths.
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University Press of America
Pages: 318 • Trim: 6 x 9
978-0-7618-5912-3 • Paperback • July 2012 • $52.99 • (£41.00)
Subjects: Business & Economics / Leadership, Business & Economics / Skills, Business & Economics / Business Ethics
Charles A. Millick is an assistant professor in the Department of Business at Wheeling Jesuit University. He has been a professional engineer, an army officer, a corporate executive, an entrepreneur, and a professional consultant.
Preface
Introduction

Part I: Philosophical/Conceptual Issues in 21st Century Challenges

1. Morality and Character Development: The Roles of Capitalism, Commerce, and the Corporation
Edward W. Younkins

2. Fundamental Moral Orientations: Implications for Values-Based Leadership
Michael K. McCuddy

3. A Framework for Organizational Virtue: The Interrelationship of Mission, Culture and Leadership
J. Thomas Whetstone

4. The Role of Integrity in Individual and Effective Corporate Leadership
Jan Warren Duggar

5. Philosophy, Ethics, and Camputalism: An Interview with BB&T Chairman John Allison
John A. Parnell, Eric B. Dent
Appendix: The BB&T Philosophy
John A. Allison

Part II: Strategic Issues in 21st Century Challenges

6. Strategic Leadership of Ethical Behavior in Business
Terry Thomas, John R. Schermerhorn, Jr., and John S. Dienhard

7. Setting Goals for Life and Happiness
Edwin A. Locke

8. Structuring Organizational Value Statements
Fred Wenstop and Arild Myrmel

9. Best Practice Balanced Scorecards for Governance, Organizations & CEOs
Ted Ball, Bruce Harber, Ken Moore, and Liz Verlaan-Cole

10. Skills, Structure and Culture Required for Successful Balanced Scorecarding
Ted Ball, Bruce Harber, Ken Moore, and Liz Verlaan-Cole

11. Executive and Strategic Leadership
Bernard M. Bass

Part III: Tactical Issues in 21st Century Challenges

12. Mixing & Managing Four Generations of Employees
Greg Hammill

13. Authentic Identity: The Essence of How Successful "Ecopreneurs" Communicate
Chantal B. Schauch

14. The Tie to Trust: A Firm Foundation for Employee Empowerment
Wendell Seaborne

15. Notes Toward a Definition of Values-Based Leadership
James O'Toole

16. Values-Based Leadership and Happiness: Enlightened Leadership Improves the Return on People
Charles A. Millick

Conclusion
Index
About the Author
Effective leaders today must have a keenly developed moral compass, enabling them to navigate the turbulence of markets and public opinion while ensuring that employees are motivated, productive, and happy. Millick takes us down this path through the chapters in this important new volume.
— Page West, Ph.D., professor of strategy, Wake Forest University


This is a much-needed collection that zeroes in on reality-based ethical values in the workplace, especially as seen and practiced from the managerial or leadership perspective. Well worth the read.
— Jerry Kirkpatrick, Ph.D., professor of international business and marketing, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona


In this book, Charles Millick and his [contributors] take the reader on a tour of perhaps the most important issue facing organizational leaders today: is it possible for true leadership, bedrock values, and authentic happiness to peacefully coexist in the modern organization? We learn the answer is yes. But more importantly, we learn how to make that happen. This book will be valuable to the new professional and the experienced manager.
— Marshall Schminke, University of Central Florida


What the business community has always lacked is a moral philosophy of self-defense. Millick’s essays go a long way in providing such a defense. This book should be read by all business leaders and citizens concerned with restoring and maintaining America’s free market system.
— C. Bradley Thompson, Ph. D., Executive Director, The Clemson Institute for the Study of Capitalism


The Challenges for Leadership, Values, and Happiness

What Are the Keys to Your Success in the 21st Century?

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Paperback
Summary
Summary
  • This book will explore the characteristics, skills, and strategies needed by values-based business leaders to cope with a world that continues to change at warp speed. Effective leaders should prepare organizations for change and assist organizations in navigating through such changes. The Challenges for Leadership, Values, and Happiness identifies values-based leadership issues and provides keys to success for practical implementation in the workplace. This book will encourage leaders to realistically assess their leadership styles and identify the potential challenges of situational demands so they can manage from a position of strength. The chapters in this book represent philosophical, strategic, and tactical keys designed to trigger thoughts, actions, and strategies to assist the reader to maximize his or her strengths.
Details
Details
  • University Press of America
    Pages: 318 • Trim: 6 x 9
    978-0-7618-5912-3 • Paperback • July 2012 • $52.99 • (£41.00)
    Subjects: Business & Economics / Leadership, Business & Economics / Skills, Business & Economics / Business Ethics
Author
Author
  • Charles A. Millick is an assistant professor in the Department of Business at Wheeling Jesuit University. He has been a professional engineer, an army officer, a corporate executive, an entrepreneur, and a professional consultant.
Table of Contents
Table of Contents
  • Preface
    Introduction

    Part I: Philosophical/Conceptual Issues in 21st Century Challenges

    1. Morality and Character Development: The Roles of Capitalism, Commerce, and the Corporation
    Edward W. Younkins

    2. Fundamental Moral Orientations: Implications for Values-Based Leadership
    Michael K. McCuddy

    3. A Framework for Organizational Virtue: The Interrelationship of Mission, Culture and Leadership
    J. Thomas Whetstone

    4. The Role of Integrity in Individual and Effective Corporate Leadership
    Jan Warren Duggar

    5. Philosophy, Ethics, and Camputalism: An Interview with BB&T Chairman John Allison
    John A. Parnell, Eric B. Dent
    Appendix: The BB&T Philosophy
    John A. Allison

    Part II: Strategic Issues in 21st Century Challenges

    6. Strategic Leadership of Ethical Behavior in Business
    Terry Thomas, John R. Schermerhorn, Jr., and John S. Dienhard

    7. Setting Goals for Life and Happiness
    Edwin A. Locke

    8. Structuring Organizational Value Statements
    Fred Wenstop and Arild Myrmel

    9. Best Practice Balanced Scorecards for Governance, Organizations & CEOs
    Ted Ball, Bruce Harber, Ken Moore, and Liz Verlaan-Cole

    10. Skills, Structure and Culture Required for Successful Balanced Scorecarding
    Ted Ball, Bruce Harber, Ken Moore, and Liz Verlaan-Cole

    11. Executive and Strategic Leadership
    Bernard M. Bass

    Part III: Tactical Issues in 21st Century Challenges

    12. Mixing & Managing Four Generations of Employees
    Greg Hammill

    13. Authentic Identity: The Essence of How Successful "Ecopreneurs" Communicate
    Chantal B. Schauch

    14. The Tie to Trust: A Firm Foundation for Employee Empowerment
    Wendell Seaborne

    15. Notes Toward a Definition of Values-Based Leadership
    James O'Toole

    16. Values-Based Leadership and Happiness: Enlightened Leadership Improves the Return on People
    Charles A. Millick

    Conclusion
    Index
    About the Author
Reviews
Reviews
  • Effective leaders today must have a keenly developed moral compass, enabling them to navigate the turbulence of markets and public opinion while ensuring that employees are motivated, productive, and happy. Millick takes us down this path through the chapters in this important new volume.
    — Page West, Ph.D., professor of strategy, Wake Forest University


    This is a much-needed collection that zeroes in on reality-based ethical values in the workplace, especially as seen and practiced from the managerial or leadership perspective. Well worth the read.
    — Jerry Kirkpatrick, Ph.D., professor of international business and marketing, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona


    In this book, Charles Millick and his [contributors] take the reader on a tour of perhaps the most important issue facing organizational leaders today: is it possible for true leadership, bedrock values, and authentic happiness to peacefully coexist in the modern organization? We learn the answer is yes. But more importantly, we learn how to make that happen. This book will be valuable to the new professional and the experienced manager.
    — Marshall Schminke, University of Central Florida


    What the business community has always lacked is a moral philosophy of self-defense. Millick’s essays go a long way in providing such a defense. This book should be read by all business leaders and citizens concerned with restoring and maintaining America’s free market system.
    — C. Bradley Thompson, Ph. D., Executive Director, The Clemson Institute for the Study of Capitalism


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