The Spiritual Dimension of Leadership: 8 Key Principles to Leading More Effectively
Author: Paul D Houston
"In this book, Paul Houston and Steve Sokolow sow seeds of wisdom that offer hope and sound guiding principles for America's educational leaders."
-Richard W. Riley, former U.S. Secretary of Education and former Governor of South Carolina
"This book fills a troubling void in the leadership literature by highlighting the vital spiritual side of a leader's role."
-Terrence E. Deal, Author Leading With Soul and Reframing the Path to School Leadership
"Houston and Sokolow focus on how leaders can remain true to their core beliefs and still lead successful organizations. This should be required reading for all leaders and prospective leaders."
-Vincent L. Ferrandino, Executive Director
National Association of Elementary School Principals
"I can't imagine a more timely and important book for educators."
-Margaret J. Wheatley, Author, Leadership and the New Science
"Houston and Sokolow have done an extraordinary job of looking beyond the traditional view of leadership to incorporate a spiritual dimension."
-Dr. Gerald N. Tirozzi, Executive Director
National Association of Secondary School Principals
"The Spiritual Dimension of Leadership reminds us that the job of leadership is complex, but the actions we take can be very simple and yet have a big impact."
-Anne L. Bryant, Executive Director
National School Boards Association
Infuse your leadership practice-and your life-with greater purpose and wisdom!
This book illuminates many of the core values, beliefs, and principles that can guide,sustain, and inspire leaders during difficult times. These values and principles have underlying spiritual roots. The more aware of them you are, and the more you express them in leadership practice, the more effective you become.
Paul D. Houston, Executive Director of the American Association of School Administrators, and Stephen L. Sokolow, a founding partner and Executive Director of the Center for Empowered Leadership, offer the following eight key leadership principles to help you become a more enlightened leader:
- Intention
- Attention
- Unique gifts and talents
- Gratitude
- Unique life lessons
- Holistic perspective
- Openness
- Trust
Reap the many rewards of practicing these principles and journey down a path of awareness and insight that will empower you and those you lead to create the best possible future for our children.
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Surrender or Starve: Travels in Ethiopia, Sudan, Somalia, and Eritrea
Author: Robert D Kaplan
Robert D. Kaplan is one of our leading international journalists, someone who can explain the most complicated and volatile regions and show why they’re relevant to our world. In Surrender or Starve, Kaplan illuminates the fault lines in the Horn of Africa, which is emerging as a crucial region for America’s ongoing war on terrorism.
Reporting from Sudan, Ethiopia, Somalia, and Eritrea, Kaplan examines the factors behind the famine that ravaged the region in the 1980s, exploring the ethnic, religious, and class conflicts that are crucial for understanding the region today. He offers a new foreword and afterword that show how the nations have developed since the famine, and why this region will only grow more important to the United States. Wielding his trademark ability to blend on-the-ground reporting and cogent analysis, Robert D. Kaplan introduces us to a fascinating part of the world, one that it would behoove all of us to know more about.
Table of Contents:
| Original Preface | ||
| Foreword | ||
| Acknowledgments | ||
| 1 | Imperial Tempest | 3 |
| 2 | The World's Biggest Forgotten War | 48 |
| 3 | The African Killing Fields | 105 |
| 4 | Strategic Fallout | 139 |
| 5 | Aid: Rolling the Rock of Sisyphus | 182 |
| Postscript | 199 | |
| Selected Bibliography | 209 | |
| Index | 215 |
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