The Journey To Competitive Advantage Through Servant Leadership
Building The Company Every Person Dreams of Working For And Every President Has a Vision Of Leading
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The Journey To Competitive Advantage… Though Servant Leadership
Can you imagine working for a company where leaders understand that building a sustainable competitive advantage for the organization is based on how people are treated and developed? That people really are their most important asset and not just words in a mission statement? A realization that the workforce comes to work bringing their dreams, goals ,skills and a hunger for achieving something bigger than themselves. So, what keeps organizations and leaders from harnessing the total potential that walks through their doors every day?
What is lacking is a group of leaders who can paint a picture for the workforce for what needs to be accomplished, then encourages and supports them in meeting the company goals by helping each individual reach for and develop their full potential. This type of leader is called a Servant Leader.
A Servant Leader brings their purpose, passion and character when combined with their God-given skills and abilities for leadership, brings out the best in people, helping a business develop and implement a sustainable process for success.
This is accomplished because the servant leader discovered during their life’s journey their purpose, which is a genuine caring for people, is then combined with their passion for leading people in a business setting. This purpose and passion along with their leadership skills and talents helps create a business atmosphere of shared vision, values and accountability for the results.
A leader whose drive comes from their desire to impact people lives in a positive way by, caring for, encouraging, teaching, communicating and energizing people. They learned during their own leadership journey that true success as a leader an organization is about making a difference in people’s lives.
The Journey To Competitive Advantage …Through Servant Leadership was written to help leaders and organizations take and honest look at their current leadership skills and styles to determine where they need to make improvements. To help them realize that giving someone a title doesn’t a leader make.
When most people are promoted their first time it is based on their ability to do tasks well. Their first promotion really has nothing to do with their ability to lead people. So what we have now thrown them into the lions pit with no weapons. They had no training and the on-going training at most companies is a week a year at best and a few sessions with the person they report to. It’s not because companies don’t care, they are busy with the day to day fire drills and finding time for training is almost impossible or their budget for training is low, or they see it as something they can put off for another day.
The greatest athletes in the world, even the best spend a tremendous amount of time each day training to improve their skills. They know its key to improving. But we leaders spend very little time working to improve our leadership skills or providing the training needed a difference in our leader’s skills and success. Then we wonder why we are not achieving great results, our turnover is high, people stay frustrated and we never accomplish our goals and strategies.
In the Journey To Competitive Advantage…Through Servant Leadership I share what I learned during my leadership journey of thirty-eight years working in the corporate world with twenty-five of those years in senior leadership positions including President of two separate companies and most recently starting my own consulting firm. I share what I learned about leadership, my successes and failures and my journey moving from selfish to servant leader. My desire is to share my journey with leaders and organizations so they might discover the leadership areas where improvement is needed and to help them think about the actions they and their companies need to make to improve the leadership skills of their leaders. To understand that developing servant leadership skills requires effective training, coaching, mentoring and the nurturing of leaders and if implemented correctly how it can truly give your company a competitive advantage. Can you imagine what it would be like to work in or lead a company where people got excited about seeing their people achieve new and great things? That people worked in an environment where they were treated with respect and the most important asset? Can you imagine the kind of results a business like that could achieve? It truly is possible: To Build The Kind Of Company People Dream Of Working For And Presidents Have A Vision Of Leading.
It just takes a process, a commitment to make it happen and the realization that it is a Journey !
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Building The Company Every Person Dreams Of Working For And Every President Has A Vision Of Leading.
With today’s tough economic environment and declining trust in leaders, companies are in desperate need of leaders who can provide the vision, goals, and direction needed to develop and maximize the full potential of their people and the business results.
The Journey To Competitive Advantage Through Servant Leadership was written to help organizations and leaders understand that building a sustainable competitive advantage depends on how people are treated—and the best way to create a competitive advantage is by developing an environment of caring, mutual trust and respect between the leaders and their people.Servant leaders have learned that focusing their efforts and strategy on developing the full potential of their associates helps create a winning partnership for the people and the business.
To help leaders develop this collaborative environment, the author shares his own leadership journey both the successes and struggles. He compiles the lessons of a lifetime into one comprehensive document that can help point the way for leaders to the fulfilling life of “servant leadership”-that powerful, almost mystical capability to help people achieve beyond their fondest dreams, while living a life of faith and making priceless contributions to the people God brings into their life. He takes a highly ethical and moral approach to developing employees, leading your business and balancing your life. He provides practical examples of how to build a business of which you can be proud by helping people succeed and achieve their goals which is a time proven way to ensure that you too will succeed.If you are seeking to improve your career, be a leader in all you do, build a business of integrity, or balance your life with better relationships – this book is for you!
A thought provoking and insightful look into the oft en underestimated and misunderstood field of leadership in business; Bill Flint’s "The Journey to Competitive Advantage through Servant Leadership" offers a pragmatic “Golden Rule” guide to being a responsible and inspiring leader. A “must read” book for professional and personal enlightenment in what it takes to bring the best out in your people and yourself.
—Dr. Stormy T. W. Hicks, Ph.D.,
Former President & COO of J.B. Poindexter Co., and ITT Automotive, and Executive Director of Ford Motor Company.
About the Author
Bill Flint is President of Flint Strategic Partners, a consulting firm he founded in April 2010, after a successful thirty-eight-year business career in the manufacturing sector. Bill and his wife, Kay, have been married for thirty years. They have two sons, Andy, twenty-nine, and Patrick, twenty-seven, and two grandsons, Will, four, and Sam, two. For the past twenty years, they have lived in the Midwest, spending the past eight years in Goshen, Indiana.
Bill’s passion for helping business owners, entrepreneurs, and leaders develop strategies to improve the results of their business was what drove him to found his consulting firm. He believes that the best way to improve a business is by developing servant leaders who are passionate about caring for the people they lead and who work to develop a partnership of success between the people and the company.
Bill is active in his community and attends Nappanee Missionary Church, where he and his wife lead a class for newly married couples. Bill also serves on the board of directors for Ethos, Inc., located in Elkhart, Indiana, and on the business advisory committee for Ivy Tech Community College in South Bend.