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    Leading with Kindness: How Good People Consistently Get Superior Results

    Written by William F. Baker and Michael O'Malley

    Narrated by Jim Bond

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    About this audiobook

    In the world of business, kindness is regarded as weakness-so the development of it as a leadership trait is sorely overlooked. It turns out however, that being kind is a crucial attribute of some of the world's most successful business leaders-leaders whose success is anchored in their integrity, credibility, vision, insight, inclusion, and fairness. And kindness is not some intangible quality that one either "has" or doesn't, it is a combination of quantifiable, learnable, and refinable traits and skills.

    Leading with Kindness identifies six ingredients of kindness - compassion, integrity, gratitude, authenticity, humility, and humor that are absolutely essential to powerful leadership. This audiobook also points out obstacles to each of the six qualities, and offers real-world, everyday management and leadership approaches that build and demonstrate each one.

    You are not a respected leader simply because you are nice, fun, and non-threatening. But if you are truly kind, genuinely committed to the welfare of your company and your people through thick and thin-you will reap the benefits of trust, honesty, commitment, and loyalty from the seeds of kindness you have sown.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrilliance Audio
    Release dateAug 13, 2008
    ISBN9781423364672
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      Businessmen and professors William F. Baker and Michael O’Malley have opened quite a couple of new perspectives on leadership. While many leadership books concentrate on leading by example, leadership traits, the nature or nurture debate, Leading with Kindness is the first one to value kindness, not coincidental a part of the fruit of the Holy Spirit (Galatians 5:22-23). Fruits of the flesh, also described in Paul’s letter to the Galatians, brought us greed and corporate callousness, the kind of leaders that caused the current economic crisis.The authors define kindness through a series of traits like compassion, integrity, gratefulness, credibility, humor, humility and authenticity. Reading along the examples, do’s and dont’s one drifts away from kindness alone. Parallels with parenting and family life got lots of attention. And so you learn (again) about active listening, job satisfaction, motivators en 360-degrees leadership. Leadership and management are used as interchangeable, only slightly different concepts. I was positively surprised by the amount of other examples than the companies found in “the” other management literature.You get chances to enrich your leadership abilities to:motivate employees, committee members, and othersrecognize unique talents while nurturing all employeesestablish a supportive environmentspur continuous organizational growthadapt to changestimulate calculated “stretch” and risk-takingprepare the next generation of leadersThe book was praised as one of the best leadership books of 2008. I listened to the audio book edition, which was read aloud with a pleasant pace and voice.