Perfect Leadership

Emmanuel Cooper

Description

Application of Jesus’s leadership principles results in business turnarounds, maximum employee engagement and employees God given talents are fully developed.

Faced with a difficult business turnaround, the author, 46 at the time, sought help from his pastor who connected him with Christian executives who were using the Bible to run their businesses. These contacts yielded a biblical foundation for leadership based on Isaiah 9: 6-7a. Three aspects of this scripture are very important – Son, Government and Promises. Son refers to Jesus, Government refers to how we lead, and the Promises are wonderful, counselor, mighty God, everlasting Father, and Prince of Peace. Acting on the advice of the Christian executives and his newfound way of understanding God’s Word, Mr. Cooper developed and implemented seven (7) Compelling Leadership Principles, applying them to the turnaround challenge. The holy grail of superior business results, employee engagement, was maximized. All business functions under Mr. Cooper’s leadership started to coalesce and create as never before and real teamwork was achieved. For example, the engineering team was awarded over 100 patents in 18 months! This book tells the story of how the principles were applied and details the amazing transformative achievements of the business and its employees.

Prior to developing this book, Mr. Cooper had completed an engineering degree and an executive development MBA in economics. Management experience included all conventional business components while working at several major corporations. As a student and practitioner of leadership he was always looking for the best way to lead his organizations. After leaving industry he taught in several colleges in Florida, North Carolina and Delaware. From his industry experience, especially the challenge to “launch a business in eighteen months or be let go,” he created a college course demonstrating the practical application of his Compelling Leadership Principles. Mr. Cooper continues to seek teaching opportunities and offer help to small businesses.

Sujets

• Religion
• Christianisme
• Professional Growth
• Christian Living
• Philosophie et théologie
• Employee engagement
• Teamwork
• Classé X (Dr House)
• Leadership
• Communications

Informations

• Publié par: WestBow Press
• Date de parution: 24 août 2022
• Nombre de lectures: 1
• EAN13: 9781664271524
• Langue: English

Extrait

PERFECT LEADERSHIP
 
 
 
 
EMMANUEL COOPER WITH R P MACLEMAIR
 
 
 

 
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ISBN: 978-1-6642-7153-1 (sc)
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Library of Congress Control Number: 2022912334
 
WestBow Press rev. date: 08/22/2022
 
 
 
 
 
To Give Homage to J esus,
the Perfect Le ader.
To Him Be the G lory!
CONTENTS
Foreword
Preface
Introduction
1.American Worker Engagement: How well are we doing?
2.Leadership Styles Down Through the Ages
3.The Argument for Applying The Bibl e to an Organization
4.Leading an Organization with Only The Bibl e, My Story
5.Everlasting Servant Leadership
6.Turning Failures into Positive Learning Experiences and How to Promote Biblical Risk-Taking
7.Biblical Motivation – Biblical Long-Term Wealth Creation and Ownership, Celebration and Recognition (Proxies for Biblical Ownership)
8.Biblical Communication
9.Ten Principles of Biblical Teamwork
10.Biblical Conflict Resolution
11.Negative Rumor Elimination – Yes, Elimination
Appendix A – What Does Leadership Science Say About How to Motivate/Lead Employees?
Sources
Epilogue
Acknowledgements
 
CHAPTER 1 – AMERICAN WORKER ENGAGEMENT: HOW WELL ARE WE D OING?
Background Data
Relevance to achieving “Perfect Leadership”
CHAPTER 2 – LEADERSHIP STYLES DOWN THROUGH THE AGES (A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE FOUNDATIONS OF MANAGEMENT TH EORY)
The Quest Begins.
The emergence of the Military Model and the organizational developments of ar mies
The ascendency of the use of enslavemen t to
construct Pyramids and other megalithic structures
The most predominant of the three, the Growt h of
Crafts/Agriculture as dominated by an individual
and/or familial head. (Story of the Servant Leader
farmer and his 7-year-old son)
Other leadership Models (Theories X, Y and Z;
Autocratic; Participative: Laissez-faire)
CHAPTER 3 – THE ARGUMENT FOR APPLYING THE BIBLE TO AN ORGANIZA TION
Two Foundational Principles
Five Governance Principles and the Free Enterprise System
Justice System
Safe Commerce
Ownership and Wealth
Competition
Entrepreneurship
CHAPTER 4 – LEADING AN ORGANIZATION WITH ONLY THE BIBLE, MY S TORY
Dilbert’s Challenges
An Unexpected Turn
Difficult Beginnings
Examples of Fully Engaged Employees responding to
the application of Compelling Leadership Principles
What Happened?
CHAPTER 5 – EVERLASTING SERVANT LEADER SHIP
Overview.
Behavioral Attributes of Compelling Leadership Principles
Everlasting Servant Leadership
Praying
Equipping
Helping each employee develop their God-given talents .
Heeding Jesus’ call to us to be Co-owners with Him and not hirelings.
Being Self-Effacing as Jesus was
Healing with the Word of God
Providing a Safe working environment
Overcoming Criticism
Bureaucracy Elimination/Reduction
Lead for Success
CHAPTER 6 – TURNING FAILURES INTO POSITIVE LEARNING EXPERIENCES AND HOW TO PROMOTE BIBLICAL RISK-TA KING
Background
Helping people develop their God-given talents and abilities
Biblical Risk-taking
Turn failures into positive learning experiences and build trust
Case study in the Context of Biblical Restoration
CHAPTER 7 – BIBLICAL MOTIVATION - BIBLICAL LONG-TERM WEALTH CREATION AND OWNERSHIP , CELEBRATION AND RECOGNITION (PROXIES FOR OWNER SHIP)
Work or Play?
Part 1 – Christian Critique: Humanistic Psychology vs. The B ible
Dilemma (chart)
Part 2 – Biblical Ownership and Long-Term
Wealth Creation
Biblical Ownership
Part 3 – Celebration and Recognition: Proxiesfor Biblical Ownership.
Celebration
Recognition
Case Study – Practical Examples
CHAPTER 8 – BIBLICAL COMMUNICA TION
Part 1 – Biblical Speech
Presumptuous Sins
Blessing and Cursing with the Tongue
Lying and communications
Body Language Scriptures
Leadership Modeling
Disciplinary Policies
Anger/Short Temper and the Impacts
Use of Tact and a Calming Tone,
Gentle Words and Persistence
Erring on the Side of Saying Nothing
Part 2 – Biblical Listening
Listening Lessons from Jesus
Examples of Jesus Listening with the
Holy Spirit
Other Biblical Listening Guidance from
Proverbs
Leadership Modeling – Is the Leader
Working on His/Her Listening?
Other Leaders’ Views on Listening
Benefits
CHAPTER 9 – TEN PRINCIPLES OF BIBLICAL TEAMWORK 182
Teamwork – What is it?
Why do we need Biblical Teamwork?
What then is Biblical Teamwork?
The 10 principles of Biblical Teamwork
Expected Benefits
CHAPTER 10 – BIBLICAL CONFLICT RESOLU TION
Conflict Prevention
Biblical Conflict Management
Guidance from the Word of the God in Matthew
Other Helpful Biblical Guidance
Benefits
CHAPTER 11 – NEGATIVE RUMOR ELIMINATION - YES, ELIMINA TION
Negative Rumors/Gossip
The Case Against Negative Rumors/Gossip
Implementation Plan to Eliminate Negative
Rumors/Gossip
Expected Benefits
List of Scriptures
APPENDIX A - WHAT DOES LEADERSHIP SCIENCE SAY ABOUT HOW TO MOTIVATE/LEAD EMPLO YEES?
Motivation
Maslow’s Theory – Hierarchy of Needs Frederick
Herzberg – Motivation Theory (2 Factor Theory).
Implementation of Maslow’s and Herzberg’s Work
Paul Kurtz – Secular Humanism
Peer Reviews
More Research
David McClellan – Achievement-Motivation Theory
James W. Kalat – Biological Psychology (the Soul).
B. F. Skinner – Reinforcement Theory
SOU RCES
EPIL OGUE
Special Application Note
ACKNOWLEDGM ENTS
FOREWORD
Leadership is essential to good work and living one’s best life. People are asked to lead tasks, departments, and organizations. Often, the most complicated person to lead well is oneself. Leaders who work to improve how they lead will often lead themselves to become better leaders and produce better results.
Many books have been written on the topic of leadership, and those books are usually focused on leading one area of business or another. However, leadership is leadership, and the best leadership is striving to find perfect leadership not just in one area of life or business but in every area of life and business.
Perfect leadership is not easy to obtain. The best leaders and businesses strive for perfection or excellence in every decision they make and every product they create, knowing that they will often fall short and need to make improvements and revisions along the way. Every leader would be better if they could be perfect the first time but know that to be the best, they must continue to strive for perfection even when it takes them much time and expense to discover it eventually.
There have been many great leaders, but they were not perfect. Presidents, kings, and CEOs may have led well and made good decisions, but they are not perfect leaders. Every leader can tell you stories about mistakes they made, disappointments they had to endure, or failures that they caused. Many leaders make many errors every day in their life and business. Every leader should strive for perfection, knowing that the closer they come to a more perfect leadership, the better they will lead and the better their organization will become. Leaders who make better decisions and surround themselves with better people will find a better outcome.
Throughout the history of leadership, there has only ever been one perfect leader. That leader walked among the people over two thousand years ago; his name was Jesus. Every page of the Bible points to this perfect leader, and the Bible is filled with practical wisdom and insight into who Jesus was and how Jesus led. The wise leader will spend time and energy to understand and embrace the principles of how Jesus led so that they can lead closer to perfection. The principles and ideas of Jesus have been proven in every organization and in every generation. They simpl