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True to Yourself: Leading a Values-Based Business (Social Venture Network)BUY FROM AMAZON.COM
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Usually ships in 24 hours RRP: Buy New: $11.53 You Save: $5.42 (32%) Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours EDITORIAL REVIEWMany leaders of small businesses want to serve the common good, but everyday pressures can make that extremely difficult. What tools are available to lead an organization that's obligated to more than the financial bottom line? Utilizing a sleek, condensed format, True to Yourself provides potent, practical advice for leaders looking to make their small business profitable and sustainable. Arguing that small-business leaders that look beyond the bottom-line are not only more fulfilled, but also more successful, author Mark Albion shows how by embodying competence, commitment, and compassion any small businessperson can lead more effectively. A series of five best practices forms the basis of a full plan to that shows readers how to bring the three C's to their business. Equally useful for those starting out or veterans of many years, True to Yourself reveals tried-and-true methods for keeping a values-based business on track. PRODUCT DETAILSPublisher: Berrett-Koehler PublishersPub. Date: 12th July 2006 Catalog: Book Media: Paperback Number Of Pages: 171 Ean: 9781576753781 Isbn: 1576753786 ABOUT THIS BOOKUSER REVIEWS
This unique book shows the way to build an organization with a value-based way of working with everyone it impacts: employees, customers, community members. Central to this work are the values of transparency, sustainability, and responsibility together with the qualities of competence, compassion and commitment. The book includes a chapter on an approach to leadership that focuses in on learning (becoming a co-learner and nurturing the genius in others.) This is an outstanding contribution to fostering values in business and personal life. Highly recommended, especially in these days in which the bottom-line is dominating just about everything in the media. (Also, see Values-Driven Business)
Mark Albion explains a very contemporary balancing act: how to run a business based on values and still make a profit. Companies ranging from Starbucks and Ben & Jerry's to small bakeries and toy makers have prospered while supporting the social concerns of their founders and employees. Building such values-based businesses is not easy. They face the same profit-and-loss problems as other small companies, plus they take on an additional layer of social issues. Albion tells his personal story, buttressed by corporate examples and interviews with 75 owners of values-based businesses. getAbstract suggests this book full of practical advice to anyone who is willing to sign up for the challenge of running a values-based business.
This book gives good insight on how to build a successful business that goes beyond just profitability. Mark Albion describes how to strike a balance between personal values, profitability, corporate social responsibility, and environmental contributions by what he calls the "five values-based leadership practices". I do recommend this book to those interested in learning the characteristics of a values-based business leader. Joseph Morgan MBA Student at Loyola University New Orleans
Poor. It consists of fillers and redundancies that could hypothetically be widdled down to a small pamphlet. Albion throws around trendy managerial phrases throughout, but fails to inform the reader as to how to seriously apply them.
Great information and I will use in my life. Thank you Dr. Mark Albion, you are the best!!!! SIMILAR ITEMS:
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