Inspiring Stewardship

ISBN-13: 9781119270805 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 216 str.

Didier Cossin; Ong Boon Hwee

Opis

Transform from leader to steward to drive growth and make an impact Inspiring Stewardship helps leaders drive sustainable development and growth by balancing short- and long-term objectives amidst competing interests. By examining a range of exceptional individual and organisational stewards alongside insights from quantitative studies, this book unlocks the contributions you can make to enhance your influence and secure your legacy. Profiles of leaders from Ratan Tata to Bill Gates illustrate what stewardship really means, and the attributes and characteristics of steward leaders. Are they fundamentally different? Where do they get their exceptional drive and resilience? Why do they shoulder such huge responsibility? Risks, rewards, motivations and actions are explored in depth to give you a real-world view of stewardship, and to show you how to embody these principles in your own everyday life. The notion of stewardship has never been more relevant to business than it is today, as managers struggle to balance present and future interests. This book provides clarity, direction and guidance for more purpose-driven action.

• Understand the concepts and principles of stewardship
• Discover characteristics of steward leaders across cultures
• Learn how stewards have shifted the course of their organisations
• Examine the capabilities that deepen organisational resilience

Today, ownership of firms is increasingly fragmented, investment structures are more and more complex and the time horizons of investors, executives and owners do not always coincide. Inspiring Stewardship helps you break through the tension and drive sustainable growth through adaptability and good leadership.

Spis treści

Acknowledgments vii

About the Authors ix

Introduction 1

PART I Why Stewardship?

Chapter 1 Stewardship at Work 11

Chapter 2 Stewardship Principles 31

Chapter 3 Steward Leaders Inspire 55

PART II What Drives Stewardship?

Chapter 4 Stewardship Values and Beliefs 71

Chapter 5 Personality Traits and Attitudes of Steward Leaders 87

PART III Stewardship in Action

Chapter 6 Stewardship Actions 103

Chapter 7 Becoming a Steward Leader What It Takes 115

Chapter 8 Pitfalls of Stewardship 139

PART IV Looking Forward

Chapter 9 Fostering Stewardship 159

Appendix A: The Research 165

References 181

Index 197

O autorze

DIDIER COSSIN is professor at IMD, Switzerland and the director of the IMD Global Board Center. He advises chairmen and boards of some of the largest corporate, financial and not–for–profit organizations around the world. Before joining IMD, he worked for Goldman Sachs, taught at Harvard University and was professor at HEC, University of Lausanne.

ONG BOON HWEE is the CEO of the Stewardship Asia Centre, a thought leadership centre that focuses on promoting stewardship and the governance of companies and organizations across Asia. Prior to his role in the Stewardship Asia Centre, Boon Hwee gained extensive working experience in the civil service as well as the commercial sectors.

Blurb

DRIVE GROWTH AND EXPAND YOUR INFLUENCE BY TRANSFORMING FROM LEADER TO STEWARD

Inspiring Stewardship is a thought–provoking guide to making decisions toward positive social impact, maintaining growth and adaptability in order to expand a company′s value in the long term.

Achieving the right balance between short– and long–term interests is perplexing for many leaders until they become stewards. With clarity and reliable direction, this groundbreaking resource provides an accessible road map to the purpose–driven actions shared by exceptional individual and organizational stewards. A broad array of comprehensive and illuminating examples of stewardship best practices and pitfalls fully prepares you for the realities of putting strategies into practice. Make decisions that create a lasting legacy by:

• Embodying the concepts and principles of stewardship
• Developing the characteristics of steward leaders across cultures
• Taking action to shift the course of an organization through stewardship
• Assessing and strengthening an organization′s ability to be resilient

Inspiring Stewardship gives senior managers, entrepreneurs and business leaders a unique approach for growing their businesses into valuable resources for improving the world.