The Serving Leader, Ken Jennings
The Serving Leader, Ken Jennings
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The Serving Leader
Five Powerful Actions to Transform Your Team, Business, and Community

Author: Ken Jennings, John Stahl-Wert

Narrator: Jeff Hoyt

Unabridged: 3 hr 53 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 02/01/2016


Synopsis

The Serving LeaderFive Powerful Actions to Transform Your Team, Business, and Community, 10th Anniversary Edition, Revised and ExpandedIt's people who make organizations great, so how can leaders best help their people achieve that greatness? As Ken Jennings and John Stahl-Wert show in this new edition of their bestseller, you can't just demand greatness—you have to inspire it. The most effective leaders don't just stand in front of their people, they stand behind them too. As one of the characters in the book notes, “You qualify to be first by putting other people first.” This concept sounds paradoxical, but it leads to extraordinary outcomes—and The Serving Leader shows precisely how and why.While Jennings and Stahl-Wert use a compelling fictional story to outline the basics of Serving Leadership, all the characters in it are based on real people, the organizations depicted are based on real organizations—and the results they achieved are what really happened. This edition features a new foreword by Ken Blanchard, a new introduction, and a new chapter checking back in with Mike, the main character, to see what he has learned in the twelve years since he embraced Serving LeadershipOn one level this is the most practical guide available to implementing Serving Leadership; on a deeper level, it is a book about the personal journey of growth that real leadership requires. Great organizations are great because they're filled with people who freely choose to do their very best. It's a maddeningly simple concept yet stunningly hard to execute. Jennings and Stahl-Wert show leaders how to earn that kind of commitment.

About Ken Jennings

Ken Jennings, best known as the winner of seventy-four games on the television show Jeopardy!, is the bestselling author of Brainiac: Adventures in the Curious, Competitive, Compulsive World of Trivia Buffs and Ken Jennings's Trivia Almanac.
He graduated from Brigham Young University with a double major in
English and computer science and worked as a software engineer prior to
his Jeopardy! appearances. Following his Jeopardy! streak, he has appeared on 1 vs. 100 and Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, where he has served several times as an "Ask the Expert" lifeline, and has been a guest on The Tonight Show, The Late Show with David Letterman, Sesame Street, and other shows. Ken lives outside Seattle, Washington, with his wife and children.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Vincent on April 24, 2023

I have a PhD in Organizational Management with a specialization in Leadership. This book doesn't cover new ground, and is badly written. I love the idea of servant leadership, and find the theories sound, but it was difficult reading this book. I am disappointed by the presentation in this book, whi......more

Goodreads review by Carrie on October 19, 2018

Reading this book was research for my internship project, and I absolutely loved it. I’m immensely excited to use this framework to create a training workshop in a people helping people environment.......more

Goodreads review by Heder on April 18, 2019

O que eu aprendi do livro Líder a Serviço: Imagine que você está à frente de um novo desafio e com um Time esperando suas atitudes como Líder. O primeiro passo é o sentimento de que você é a pessoa certa pra isso, você sente isso, o desafio fala com você e se sente motivado como nunca. Sabe porquê?......more

Goodreads review by Ed on March 14, 2022

The book has some good tips on leadership and the underlying principle is good, but the principles got lost a little bit in the storytelling. It's told as a business fable and is pretty hokey. The actions referred to in the subtitle are really concepts. Actionable tactics would have been more implem......more

Goodreads review by Lisa on March 15, 2020

Reading provided for a leadership program I'm participating in through my work. This is not something I'd have picked up otherwise. All in all, the overall idea - servant leadership - is a great idea. The tenets of the leadership model are strong, and I believe in each step of the process. Each found......more