Inspire! What Great Leaders Do

A top business consultant and speaker lights the path to a positive, productive work environment What do the best leaders do to achieve greatness in the modern workplace that is muddled by fear, pressure for productivity, overwork? Inspire! offers business leaders a clear vision of what a positive, productive, inspiring organization looks like in these challenging and chaotic times, and how to get there. The key to extraordinary long-term performance lies in a transformational commitment to inspiring people rather than motivating them. Lance Secretan's Higher Ground Leadership concepts have been widely used to increase profits and quality, slash staff turnover, and achieve record organizational and personal performance. Inspire! describes Lance's breakthrough thinking, often in the words of the pace-setting leaders who are implementing them and building legacies. Countless examples, stories, and case studies demonstrate the magic of these brilliant ideas. Six essential values form the foundation of positive, productive, and profitable organizations and a meaningful and fulfilling life-courage to begin the transformation; authenticity that lets people contribute all of themselves and excel; service that fosters a spirit of cooperation; truth-telling that builds trust and loyalty; love for others that leads to inspired results; and effectiveness, the attainment of results. Inspire! shows leaders in any organization how to foster these essential values that lead to personal and organizational greatness. Lance Secretan (Alton, Ontario, Canada) is one of the world's foremost thinkers on self-improvement and leadership. He is an author, award-winning columnist, philosopher, corporate coach, and a renowned public speaker and business consultant. He served as chairman of the Advisory Board of the 1997 Special Olympics World Winter Games and is also a former ambassador to the United Nations Environment Program.

A top business consultant and speaker lights the path to apositive, productive work environmentWhat do the best leaders do to achieve greatness in the modernworkplace that is muddled by fear, pressure for productivityoverwork? Inspire! offers business leaders a clear vision of what apositive, productive, inspiring organization looks like in thesechallenging and chaotic times, and how to get there.The key to extraordinary long-term performance lies in atransformational commitment to inspiring people rather thanmotivating them. Lance Secretan's Higher Ground Leadership conceptshave been widely used to increase profits and quality, slash staffturnover, and achieve record organizational and personalperformance. Inspire! describes Lance's breakthrough thinkingoften in the words of the pace-setting leaders who are implementingthem and building legacies. Countless examples, stories, and casestudies demonstrate the magic of these brilliant ideas.Six essential values form the foundation of positive, productiveand profitable organizations and a meaningful and fulfillinglife-courage to begin the transformation; authenticity that letspeople contribute all of themselves and excel; service that fostersa spirit of cooperation; truth-telling that builds trust andloyalty; love for others that leads to inspired results; andeffectiveness, the attainment of results. Inspire! shows leaders inany organization how to foster these essential values that lead topersonal and organizational greatness.Lance Secretan (Alton, Ontario, Canada) is one of the world'sforemost thinkers on self-improvement and leadership. He is anauthor, award-winning columnist, philosopher, corporate coach, anda renowned public speaker and business consultant. He served aschairman of the Advisory Board of the 1997 Special Olympics WorldWinter Games and is also a former ambassador to the United NationsEnvironment Program.

Foreword.Acknowledgments.Meditation of a New Story Leadrer.Introduction.Chapter 1. Stuck in the Old Story.Chapter 2. Moving from the Old Story to the New Story.Chapter 3. Step One: Defining OurDestiny-- The Uniqueness Within that Calls to BeLived.Chapter 4. Writing Your Own Destiny Statement.Chapter 5. Step Two: Defining Our Cause.Chapter 6. Writing Your Own Cause Statement.Chapter 7. Step Three Defining Your Calling.Chapter 8. Writing Your Own Calling Statement.Chapter 9. Step Four: Aligning Destiny, Cause, andCalling.Chapter 10. Aligning Your Own Destiny, Calling, Cause, andCalling Statements.Chapter 11. Step Five: Serving Followers.Chapter 12. Step Six: Guiding the Contribution ofBrilliance.Chapter 13. Step Seven: Magic IngredientX -- Creating the Environment that Inspires Othersto Inspire Use.In Summary: The Seven Key Questions.Blessing for a Higher Ground Leader.The Higher Ground Leadership Commitment.Notes.Index.