Heroic Leadership - Best Practices from a 450-Year-Old Company that Changed the World
By Chris Lowney
Leadership is crucial to building organizations with staying power. In Heroic Leadership, author Chris Lowney examines organizational principles derived from the history and teachings of the Jesuits and applies them to modern corporate culture. Based on the four core values of self-awareness, ingenuity, love, and heroism, this book identifies practices that sixteenth century priests developed to foster strong leaders and achieve longevity.
A Jesuit seminarian turned investment banker, Lowney recognized a tremendous lack of able leaders throughout his seventeen years of multinational management experience. By modeling the Jesuits success, Lowney shares methods for molding innovative, ambitious leaders in the modern corporate environment.
Binding: Hardcover, Pages: 336, Size: 6x9
Reviews
What can a 16th-century priest tell a 21st-century business executive about leadership? Plenty, believes this author. In this absorbing, lucid book, Lowney ... explores how the Jesuits have successfully grappled with challenges that test great companies - forging seamless multinational teams, motivating performance, being open to change and staying adaptable.
- 5/26/2003 By Publishers Weekly, STARRED REVIEW
Entertaining and well researched, this is a must-read for any business leader, and an inspirational read for anyone who wants to be a better human being.
- 5/2/2003 By Walter Gubert, chariman of the investment bank, J.P. Morgan
Lowney does a wonderfully engaging job of making clear connections between our current leadership challenges and the principles employed so effectively by the Jesuits.
- 5/2/2003 By Edward J. Kelly III, president and CEO, Mercantile Bankshares Corporation
This 450-year-old institution [seems] as current today as it was four centuries ago. Lowney shows us how every employee can and should be a leader and that love-driven leadership does work.
- 5/2/2003 By Richard K. Green, president and COO, Blistex, Inc.
This informative, fascinating book tells how Jesuits, over 450 years, produced both outstanding individual leaders and a culture of leadership. This is a book to be enjoyed, pondered, and put into practice.
- 5/2/2003 By John W. Padberg, S.J. director, Institute of Jesuit Sources