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Leading with Kindness

How Good People Consistently Get Superior Results

by William Baker
Michael O'Malley
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Authors William Baker and Michael O'Malley teach you that—far from popular media portrayals of corporate callousness—kindness has a very distinct and essential place in the office.

Without presenting a naive idea of kindness, this eye-opening book identifies the surprising attributes successful and resoundingly kind leaders share—revealing how traits like sincerity, honesty, and respect can benefit organizations and help them to thrive.

In Leading With Kindness, business professionals will learn how to apply these lessons in their own workplace, gaining tips for how to:

  • motivate employees, committee members, and others;
  • recognize unique talents while nurturing all employees;
  • establish a supportive environment;
  • spur continuous organizational growth;
  • adapt to change;
  • and prepare the next generation of leaders.

    • Subtly and very effectively, a gentler, more human conception of leadership has become the gold standard for excellence. Leading With Kindness shows leaders how they can leverage the deceptively complex notion of kindness as guiding principle to lead more effectively.

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    • Release date

      January 26, 2021

    • Formats

      • OverDrive Listen audiobook

        • ISBN: 9781400229963
        • File size: 180725 KB
        • Duration: 06:16:30

    • Languages

      • English

    • Reviews

      • AudioFile Magazine
        After slow-moving introductions read by the authors, Jim Bond's energetic pace is a refreshing change for this kinder, gentler management lesson. He knows how to crank up the intensity when the material demands it and, without losing his audience, tone it down when the sentences just need to be read. The authors' message on leadership is steeped in the ideology of social science and full of insights about the value of integrity, humility, gratitude, and authenticity. The work is a welcome primer on how leaders are more effective when they treat people like individuals instead of machines. Though the authors' language often makes them sound more like mental health professionals than productivity experts, the appeal of their ideas is strengthened by their humanitarian sensibilities. T.W. (c) AudioFile 2008, Portland, Maine
      • Publisher's Weekly

        May 26, 2008
        Say “boss” and many people think of Donald Trump throwing his weight around on The Apprentice
        . But is that the most effective style of leadership? Not necessarily, argue Baker and O'Malley, who posit that successful leaders accomplish more with kindness and empathy than with aggression. According to the authors, true kindness is not to be confused with weakness, indulgence or mere likability; being genuinely kind means clearly communicating expectations and goals, pushing colleagues to improve and excel and encouraging them to try out things they are uncertain they will like. The book details the hallmarks of successful and kind leaders: compassion, integrity, gratitude, authenticity, humility, honor and the importance of maintaining credibility with one's employees and clients. While the authors' emphasis on honesty and mentorship is incontrovertibly well-intentioned, the paucity of practical advice and the dry presentation are more suited to an academic article, rather than an entire book. Readers looking for a helpful guide will be inspired but ultimately disappointed.

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