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Values-based leadership

by Susan Smith Kuczmarski

Published 1995304 pagesISBN 978-0-1312-1856-7

Employees need values they can believe in. But due to the mergers and downsizing of the last decade, age-old norms of employment security have gone by the wayside - leaving workers feeling betrayed, confused, and apathetic about their jobs. As a result, many American organizations have lost the spirit and loyalty of their workforce as well as their competitive edge. Values-Based Leadership offers a powerful vision to reinvigorate and restore the heart and soul of organizations. This timely book demonstrates how to replace the feeling of "anomie"--Disillusionment, isolation, and hopelessness - and re-energize employees with a renewed sense of belonging, commitment and connection to their organizations. This comprehensive guide enables all types of organizations to reinvigorate their staff and restore security, community. and purpose.

Beyond its central premise, the book can be read through the connected lenses of Self-Help, Mental Health. Those themes offer useful points of attention as the characters, ideas, or world develop, especially where the book complicates the expectations of its primary category.

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Themes to notice

Self-Help · Mental Health

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Content notes

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Reading experience

Balanced tone · Steady pace

A comfortable full-length choice for steady daily reading.

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Reading lengthA standard-length read304 pages in this edition
Publication eraModernFirst published or edition dated 1995
Primary categorySelf-HelpAlso cataloged under Mental Health
ISBN-13
978-0-1312-1856-7
Language
English
Edition record
OL1109923M
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Good to know

A comfortable full-length choice for steady daily reading.

Begin with its place in Self-Help, then notice where the book resists that label.

Try this reading approach

Read for connection, not completion.

Mark one passage that sharpens the book's central concern and one that complicates it. That tension often reveals more than a quick summary.

Three questions to carry with you

  1. Which ideas feel usable in your actual circumstances—not only persuasive on the page?
  2. Where does the author distinguish evidence, experience, and opinion?
  3. What would a small, humane experiment with one idea look like?

Editorial framework by Wesley Bryan, BookenDeX Founder and Editor.