Inspire! What Great Leaders Do

A top business consultant and speaker lights the path to apositive, productive work environment
What do the best leaders do to achieve greatness in the modernworkplace that is muddled by fear, pressure for productivity,overwork? Inspire! offers business leaders a clear vision of what apositive, productive, inspiring organization looks like in thesechallenging and chaotic times, and how to get there.
The key to extraordinary long-term performance lies in atransformational commitment to inspiring people rather thanmotivating them. Lance Secretan's Higher Ground Leadership conceptshave been widely used to increase profits and quality, slash staffturnover, and achieve record organizational and personalperformance. Inspire! describes Lance's breakthrough thinking,often in the words of the pace-setting leaders who are implementingthem and building legacies. Countless examples, stories, and casestudies demonstrate the magic of these brilliant ideas.
Six essential values form the foundation of positive, productive,and profitable organizations and a meaningful and fulfillinglife-courage to begin the transformation; authenticity that letspeople contribute all of themselves and excel; service that fostersa spirit of cooperation; truth-telling that builds trust andloyalty; love for others that leads to inspired results; andeffectiveness, the attainment of results. Inspire! shows leaders inany organization how to foster these essential values that lead topersonal and organizational greatness.
Lance Secretan (Alton, Ontario, Canada) is one of the world'sforemost thinkers on self-improvement and leadership. He is anauthor, award-winning columnist, philosopher, corporate coach, anda renowned public speaker and business consultant. He served aschairman of the Advisory Board of the 1997 Special Olympics WorldWinter Games and is also a former ambassador to the United NationsEnvironment Program.