Values-Based Leadership for Dummies.

Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- About This Book -- Foolish Assumptions -- Icons Used in This Book -- Beyond the Book -- Where to Go from Here -- Part 1 Getting Started with Values-Based Leadership -- Chapter 1 Welcome to the World of Values-Based Leadership -- Walking through the Evolution of Company Culture -- Understanding the Escalator Effect of Values-Based Leadership -- Avoiding a Flatline to Extinction: When You Know Change Is Needed -- Building Winning Organizations: Culture Eats Strategy for Lunch -- Shaping the company culture with values -- Influencing the company culture with your character -- Chapter 2 Understanding the Evolving Workforce You Serve -- Pinpointing the Quad Workforce -- Picking out postwar, workaholic Boomers -- Understanding latchkey, self-reliant GenXers -- Meeting digitally savvy, tenacious Millennials -- Considering the bumper generations -- Leading the Quad with Insight and Understanding -- Converting diversity into inclusion -- Pivoting work ethic into work ethos -- Recalibrating the concept of work-life balance -- Creating meaning and a reason to go to work -- Wondering whether the Quad cares about your leadership -- Chapter 3 Shifting Your Consciousness beyond the Self -- Looking at the Four Be's of Values-Based Leadership -- Defining the four Be's -- Deploying the four Be's with clarity -- Seeing kindness in the four Be's -- Fitting Values-Based Leadership into the Big Picture -- Thinking of your company as a living thing -- Snapping the puzzle pieces together -- Assessing Your Command and Control Temperament -- Following the Path Cut by Other Leadership Influencers -- Chapter 4 Reframing Your Perception of Business -- Unraveling the Bad Reputation of Business -- De-villainizing mega-corporations -- Peeking into a government-affiliated business