The Empowering Leader
12 Core Values to Supercharge Your Leadership Skills
Published on 8. June 2017
Book
Paperback/Softback
168 pages
978-1-4758-3355-3 (ISBN)
Description
These are challenging times, especially for leaders. Leaders need to supercharge their leadership skills to empower others to meet the demands of technological advances, globalization and rapid change. How do you become a more empowering leader? How do you supercharge your leadership skills to navigate these turbulent times?
The answers can be found by tapping into 12 universal Core Values illuminated in this book. These Core Values are seeds of empowerment:
Expanding Your Unique Gifts and Talents
Manifesting Your Intention
Augmenting Affirmation
Cultivating A Sense of Mission and Purpose
Balancing Head and Heart
Manifesting Your Vision
Mastering Visualization
Maximizing Expectation
Boosting Intuition
Honing Awareness
Amplifying Your Higher Self
Magnifying Openness
As an Empowering Leader, you will also be able to take advantage of the gifts of: Synchronicity (Bonus Chapter 1) and Syntropy (Bonus Chapter 2).
As you nurture these seeds of empowerment you will make better choices and increasingly become a more empowering leader-- a leader with supercharged leadership skills. Supercharged empowering leadership is the path to a better and brighter future for all of us.
The answers can be found by tapping into 12 universal Core Values illuminated in this book. These Core Values are seeds of empowerment:
Expanding Your Unique Gifts and Talents
Manifesting Your Intention
Augmenting Affirmation
Cultivating A Sense of Mission and Purpose
Balancing Head and Heart
Manifesting Your Vision
Mastering Visualization
Maximizing Expectation
Boosting Intuition
Honing Awareness
Amplifying Your Higher Self
Magnifying Openness
As an Empowering Leader, you will also be able to take advantage of the gifts of: Synchronicity (Bonus Chapter 1) and Syntropy (Bonus Chapter 2).
As you nurture these seeds of empowerment you will make better choices and increasingly become a more empowering leader-- a leader with supercharged leadership skills. Supercharged empowering leadership is the path to a better and brighter future for all of us.
Reviews / Votes
This book is an outstanding sequel to The Wise Leader and is essential reading, not only for those in leadership positions but for anyone who truly wants to become his or her best self. The 12 Core Values are an invaluable framework for developing skills and attributes that foster empowering relationships. The authors have drawn from the best in social, spiritual, personal, and organizational development, as well as from their own rich experiences and lifelong journeys. I am pleased and proud to recommend The Empowering Leader. -- Bill Milliken, Founder of Communities In Schools and Author of The Last Dropout and From the Rearview Mirror Here they go again. Paul Houston and Steve Sokolow have a track record of writing about leadership that cuts to the chaste. In The Empowering Leader, the two draw on experience and wisdom to reveal the heart and soul of leadership. Today's organizations are dominated by the coolness of rationality rather than the warmth of rapture, sentiment and significance. A better path will be hewn only by leaders who are in touch with their potency and passion. Houston and Sokolow show the way. A refreshing departure from today's managerial status quo. -- Terrence E. Deal, author of Leading with Soul and Reframing the Path to School Leadership The Empowering Leader, 12 Core Values to Supercharge your Leadership Skills' takes us much beyond their last book The Wise Leader into the depths of effective leadership. We learn about Intention, Intuition (your hidden knowledge), your Higher Self, Openness (to expand possibilities), and much more including two bonus gifts for going deeper-Our Hidden Guidance System, and Constructive Action. If you want to do the right thing, and make it happen in practice, read and absorb The Empowering Leader. Sokolow and Houston take their years of experience and insight into the future of leadership. Here is a book that is at once inspiring and action packed. -- Michael Fullan, Professor Emeritus, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education/University of Toronto, Author of Leading in a Culture of Change The terrain that leaders of all stripes must now navigate has become increasingly complex, challenging and potentially depleting. The way through the darkest of hours is not only to find the light, but also to be the light. The Empowering Leader handily addresses this seemingly un-addressable truth with enough purity, clarity and direction to make it useful to all who would consider such a prescription. Courage, taken from the French word, "le Coeur" or the heart, is what is called for to address the grittiest of challenges, and acting on behalf of the greater good, instead of self-interest or monetary gain, requires a source of self-renewal and sustainability for both the leader and those who are following. This book provides a lifeline for continuing in the face of tremendous challenges to great leaders. -- Alan M. Blankstein, Founder, Solution Tree and HOPE Foundation, award winning author of "Failure Is Not an Option" Stephen and Paul are gifted storytellers and leaders. In this book, they open doorways to new ways of thinking that will stretch and widen any reader's capacity to inspire others. The world needs what they offer within these pages. -- Dawna Markova, author of Collaborative Intelligence: Thinking with People Who Think DifferentlyMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
2 BW Photos
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 9 mm
Weight
254 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4758-3355-3 (9781475833553)
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Paul D. Houston | Stephen L. Sokolow
The Empowering Leader
12 Core Values to Supercharge Your Leadership Skills
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Persons
Stephen L. Sokolow, the executive director of the Center for Empowered Leadership, is a former superintendent of schools. He previously coauthored The Wise Leader as well as The Spiritual Dimension of Leadership. Dr. Sokolow and his wife, Laney, have two grown children and live in Allentown, New Jersey.
Paul D. Houston is president of the Center for Empowered Leadership and Executive Director, Emeritus of the American Association of School Administrators. He is a prolific author and national speaker on education and leadership. Dr. Houston has three grown children and lives with his fiancee, Dr. Sandra Chapman, in Tucson, Arizona.
Paul D. Houston is president of the Center for Empowered Leadership and Executive Director, Emeritus of the American Association of School Administrators. He is a prolific author and national speaker on education and leadership. Dr. Houston has three grown children and lives with his fiancee, Dr. Sandra Chapman, in Tucson, Arizona.
Content
Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Core Value 1: Identifying, Nurturing, and Using Our Unique Gifts and Talents
Empowering Leaders Are Aware that Everyone Has Unique Gifts and TalentsEmpowering Leaders Develop Their Own Gifts and TalentsEmpowering Leaders Help Others Cultivate Their Gifts and TalentsEmpowering Leaders Facilitate the Sharing of Gifts and TalentsEmpowering Leaders Extend Gifts and TalentsUniqueness Contributes to the Tapestry of LifeOur Higher Power Helps Clarify Life's Purpose(s)
Core Value 2: Understanding and Manifesting OurIntention
Intention Is a Fundamental Core Value of Empowering LeadershipThought Is More Important Than People ThinkSpoken and Written Words Are Keys to Manifesting IntentionsEmpowering Leaders Must Align Their Actions and IntentionsEnlisting Spiritual and Non-spiritual Forces to Manifest IntentionsUsing the 'Third Eye' to Manifest IntentionsEmpowering Leaders Use Attention to Focus the Lens of IntentionEmpowering Leaders Focus Energy to Manifest Intentions
Core Value 3: Using Affirmation to Make Things Happen
Affirmation Is an Important Core Value for Empowering LeadersSpeaking Silently to Oneself Can Be a Useful Form of AffirmationSpeaking Aloud Can Be a Useful Form of AffirmationUsing Writing and Other Visual Arts in AffirmationAffirming Intentions Through a Pledge or PromiseRepetition Can be a Useful Form of AffirmationCreating a Secular MantraCreating a Personal Mission Statement Is a Useful Form of AffirmationSwearing an Oath Is a Powerful Form of Affirmation
Core Value 4: Having A Sense of Mission or Purpose
A Sense of Mission or Purpose Can Drive Us Toward Our Best DestinyWe Each Have a Special Role that Contributes to the Whole of LifeThe Light of Empowering Leaders Helps Others See Their Mission or PurposeA Sense of Mission or Purpose Helps Us Stay the Course Through Hard Times A Sense of Mission or Purpose Helps Us Take the Long View Empowering Leaders Are Agents of a Higher PurposeEmpowering Leaders Are Supported by the UniverseManifesting Our Highest Potential
Core Value 5: Learning to Balance the Head and Heart
Learning to Feed the Head and the HeartAvoiding the Danger of ImbalanceLeaders Must Integrate the Head and the HeartEmpowering Leaders Must Be Affective as well as EffectiveLeaders' Actions Are MagnifiedLeaders Can Overcome a Dominance of the HeadLeaders Can Overcome a Dominance of the HeartLeaders Must Create a Culture Where the Head and the Heart Are Valued
Core Value 6: Manifesting Your Vision
Leaders Must Use the Power of Thought to Manifest Their VisionVisual Imagery Can Be Used to Help Leaders Manifest Their Vision The Power of the Spoken Word Can Help Leaders Manifest Their VisionThe Power of Affirmation Can Be Used to Help Manifest Your VisionThe Power of Prayer Can Help Manifest Your VisionThe Powers of Synchronicity, Intention, and Attention Can Help Manifest Your VisionThe Elements of Your Vision Can Be Assembled in a Non-linear FashionManifesting Your Vision Through Partnering with People and Your Higher PowerSee Your Commitment to Your Vision as a Promise to Yourself and OthersUse the Energy of a Higher Power to Attract What Is Needed to Manifest Your VisionThe Way You View Things Is a Key to Manifesting Your Vision
Core Value 7: Visualizing Your Way to Success
The Power of VisualizationUsing Symbols in a Powerful WaySeeing with Your Third or Inner Eye Using Mental Imagery to Solve Problems and Shape the FutureUsing Visualization as a Mental Rehearsal of a Desired OutcomeUsing Visual Imagery to Foster Desired OutcomesUsing Visualization as a Meditative Technique
Core Value 8: Using Expectation to Achieve Results
Expectation Is an Important Value for Empowering LeadersExpectation Helps Shape RealityHigh Expectations Should Start with OurselvesPeople Will Strive to Justify Our Faith in ThemPositive Expectations Foster Positive OutcomesWe Are the Mirrors Through Which Others See ThemselvesOthers Are the Mirrors Through Which We See Ourselves
Core Value 9: Intuition-Discovering Our Hidden Knowledge
Intuition Is an Important Resource for Empowering LeadersIntuition Is Another Way of KnowingEmpowering Leaders Should Strive to Trust Their Intuition and FeelingsIt Is Helpful for Empowering Leaders to See Intuition as a Sixth SenseHow Empowering Leaders Can Become More IntuitiveIntuition Is One of the Ways We Receive Communication from Our Higher SelfWays Empowering Leaders Can Assess How Intuitive They Are
Core Value 10: Using Awareness to Expand Our Perspective
Awareness Is an Important Core Value for Empowering LeadersIt Is Important for Empowering Leaders to Be Self-AwareLenses of Awareness Empowering Leaders Will Find UsefulExpanding Our Repertoire of Lenses of AwarenessTrying to See from Multiple Vantage PointsExpanding Our Awareness and Field of Vision Some Indicators of AwarenessAwareness Involves Both Seeing and Understanding
Core Value 11: Using Your Higher Self to Tap into Your Inner Wisdom
Our Higher SelfAn Inner Guiding LightEnergizing Our Higher SelfAccessing Our Higher Self Listening to Our Higher SelfOur Connection to OthersOur Power Expands When We Act and Speak in Accord with Our Higher SelfBeing Full of Power as Opposed to Being PowerfulOur Higher Self Endeavors to Guide Us to Do Our BestOur Higher Self Helps Us Become Better Versions of OurselvesOur Higher Self Helps Us Become Who We Really Are
Core Value 12: Using Openness to Expand Possibilities
Openness Is a Core Value for Empowering LeadersThe Higher Aspects of OpennessEmpowering Leaders Create Open SystemsEmpowering Leaders Must Be Open to Many ThingsOpening Your Heart and MindOpenness Maximizes Growth and CreativityOpenness Is the Key to Creating Infinite Potentiality
Bonus Chapter 1 : The Gift of Synchronicity-Our Hidden Guidance System
Understanding the Gift of SynchronicityMeaningful Coincidences Help Shape Our FutureMeaningful Coincidences Help Us Fulfill our Life's Purpose(s)Increasing Our Awareness of Synchronicity Increasing Synchronicity in Our LivesOur Synchronistic HelpersExpecting the UnexpectedThe Rule of Two's or Three's
Bonus Chapter 2: The Gift of Syntropy-Constructive Action
Syntropy Is an Important Gift for Empowering LeadersMaking the World Better Is an Important Principle for Empowering Leaders Empowering Leaders Must Counter the Force of EntropyFinding Order and Opportunity Within Chaos and DisorderFostering Syntropy Within Your OrganizationBeing a 'Strange Attractor'
Afterword
About the Authors
Selected Bibliography
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Core Value 1: Identifying, Nurturing, and Using Our Unique Gifts and Talents
Empowering Leaders Are Aware that Everyone Has Unique Gifts and TalentsEmpowering Leaders Develop Their Own Gifts and TalentsEmpowering Leaders Help Others Cultivate Their Gifts and TalentsEmpowering Leaders Facilitate the Sharing of Gifts and TalentsEmpowering Leaders Extend Gifts and TalentsUniqueness Contributes to the Tapestry of LifeOur Higher Power Helps Clarify Life's Purpose(s)
Core Value 2: Understanding and Manifesting OurIntention
Intention Is a Fundamental Core Value of Empowering LeadershipThought Is More Important Than People ThinkSpoken and Written Words Are Keys to Manifesting IntentionsEmpowering Leaders Must Align Their Actions and IntentionsEnlisting Spiritual and Non-spiritual Forces to Manifest IntentionsUsing the 'Third Eye' to Manifest IntentionsEmpowering Leaders Use Attention to Focus the Lens of IntentionEmpowering Leaders Focus Energy to Manifest Intentions
Core Value 3: Using Affirmation to Make Things Happen
Affirmation Is an Important Core Value for Empowering LeadersSpeaking Silently to Oneself Can Be a Useful Form of AffirmationSpeaking Aloud Can Be a Useful Form of AffirmationUsing Writing and Other Visual Arts in AffirmationAffirming Intentions Through a Pledge or PromiseRepetition Can be a Useful Form of AffirmationCreating a Secular MantraCreating a Personal Mission Statement Is a Useful Form of AffirmationSwearing an Oath Is a Powerful Form of Affirmation
Core Value 4: Having A Sense of Mission or Purpose
A Sense of Mission or Purpose Can Drive Us Toward Our Best DestinyWe Each Have a Special Role that Contributes to the Whole of LifeThe Light of Empowering Leaders Helps Others See Their Mission or PurposeA Sense of Mission or Purpose Helps Us Stay the Course Through Hard Times A Sense of Mission or Purpose Helps Us Take the Long View Empowering Leaders Are Agents of a Higher PurposeEmpowering Leaders Are Supported by the UniverseManifesting Our Highest Potential
Core Value 5: Learning to Balance the Head and Heart
Learning to Feed the Head and the HeartAvoiding the Danger of ImbalanceLeaders Must Integrate the Head and the HeartEmpowering Leaders Must Be Affective as well as EffectiveLeaders' Actions Are MagnifiedLeaders Can Overcome a Dominance of the HeadLeaders Can Overcome a Dominance of the HeartLeaders Must Create a Culture Where the Head and the Heart Are Valued
Core Value 6: Manifesting Your Vision
Leaders Must Use the Power of Thought to Manifest Their VisionVisual Imagery Can Be Used to Help Leaders Manifest Their Vision The Power of the Spoken Word Can Help Leaders Manifest Their VisionThe Power of Affirmation Can Be Used to Help Manifest Your VisionThe Power of Prayer Can Help Manifest Your VisionThe Powers of Synchronicity, Intention, and Attention Can Help Manifest Your VisionThe Elements of Your Vision Can Be Assembled in a Non-linear FashionManifesting Your Vision Through Partnering with People and Your Higher PowerSee Your Commitment to Your Vision as a Promise to Yourself and OthersUse the Energy of a Higher Power to Attract What Is Needed to Manifest Your VisionThe Way You View Things Is a Key to Manifesting Your Vision
Core Value 7: Visualizing Your Way to Success
The Power of VisualizationUsing Symbols in a Powerful WaySeeing with Your Third or Inner Eye Using Mental Imagery to Solve Problems and Shape the FutureUsing Visualization as a Mental Rehearsal of a Desired OutcomeUsing Visual Imagery to Foster Desired OutcomesUsing Visualization as a Meditative Technique
Core Value 8: Using Expectation to Achieve Results
Expectation Is an Important Value for Empowering LeadersExpectation Helps Shape RealityHigh Expectations Should Start with OurselvesPeople Will Strive to Justify Our Faith in ThemPositive Expectations Foster Positive OutcomesWe Are the Mirrors Through Which Others See ThemselvesOthers Are the Mirrors Through Which We See Ourselves
Core Value 9: Intuition-Discovering Our Hidden Knowledge
Intuition Is an Important Resource for Empowering LeadersIntuition Is Another Way of KnowingEmpowering Leaders Should Strive to Trust Their Intuition and FeelingsIt Is Helpful for Empowering Leaders to See Intuition as a Sixth SenseHow Empowering Leaders Can Become More IntuitiveIntuition Is One of the Ways We Receive Communication from Our Higher SelfWays Empowering Leaders Can Assess How Intuitive They Are
Core Value 10: Using Awareness to Expand Our Perspective
Awareness Is an Important Core Value for Empowering LeadersIt Is Important for Empowering Leaders to Be Self-AwareLenses of Awareness Empowering Leaders Will Find UsefulExpanding Our Repertoire of Lenses of AwarenessTrying to See from Multiple Vantage PointsExpanding Our Awareness and Field of Vision Some Indicators of AwarenessAwareness Involves Both Seeing and Understanding
Core Value 11: Using Your Higher Self to Tap into Your Inner Wisdom
Our Higher SelfAn Inner Guiding LightEnergizing Our Higher SelfAccessing Our Higher Self Listening to Our Higher SelfOur Connection to OthersOur Power Expands When We Act and Speak in Accord with Our Higher SelfBeing Full of Power as Opposed to Being PowerfulOur Higher Self Endeavors to Guide Us to Do Our BestOur Higher Self Helps Us Become Better Versions of OurselvesOur Higher Self Helps Us Become Who We Really Are
Core Value 12: Using Openness to Expand Possibilities
Openness Is a Core Value for Empowering LeadersThe Higher Aspects of OpennessEmpowering Leaders Create Open SystemsEmpowering Leaders Must Be Open to Many ThingsOpening Your Heart and MindOpenness Maximizes Growth and CreativityOpenness Is the Key to Creating Infinite Potentiality
Bonus Chapter 1 : The Gift of Synchronicity-Our Hidden Guidance System
Understanding the Gift of SynchronicityMeaningful Coincidences Help Shape Our FutureMeaningful Coincidences Help Us Fulfill our Life's Purpose(s)Increasing Our Awareness of Synchronicity Increasing Synchronicity in Our LivesOur Synchronistic HelpersExpecting the UnexpectedThe Rule of Two's or Three's
Bonus Chapter 2: The Gift of Syntropy-Constructive Action
Syntropy Is an Important Gift for Empowering LeadersMaking the World Better Is an Important Principle for Empowering Leaders Empowering Leaders Must Counter the Force of EntropyFinding Order and Opportunity Within Chaos and DisorderFostering Syntropy Within Your OrganizationBeing a 'Strange Attractor'
Afterword
About the Authors
Selected Bibliography