Apples Are Square: Thinking Differently About Leadership

✍ Scribed by Susan Kuczmarski, Thomas D. Kuczmarski

• Publisher: Kaplan Publishing
• Year: 2007
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 257
• Edition: 0
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Your 7-step prescription for creating a compassionately competitive work culture

 

For centuries, leaders have been operating within a “control and compete” mindset. But times are changing. More and more, at the helm of successful companies, you’ll find a different sort of leader. Collaborators, not controllers, they are “square apples,” bold men and women who dare to create success by reshaping the workplace in unexpected ways.

 

In Apples Are Square , innovation consultants and celebrated authors Dr. Susan Smith Kuczmarski and Thomas D. Kuczmarski share with you the secrets of how to become a square apple in your organization. To develop their groundbreaking strategy for success, the authors interviewed dozens of leadership pioneers, including Craig Newmark, founder of craigslist; Mary Ellen Weber, former NASA astronaut; and NFL star Chris Zorich, whose personal story inspired the title of this book. With the tools in Apples Are Square , you’ll be able to take any bruised environment and reshape it into a positive force.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents......Page 6
About the Authors......Page 8
Acknowledgments......Page 10
Introduction......Page 14
Defining THE Characteristics of Success......Page 22
1 Apples Are Square......Page 24
2 A New Success Model......Page 34
3 Humility......Page 46
4 Compassion......Page 56
5 Transparency......Page 74
6 Inclusiveness......Page 88
7 Collaboration......Page 104
8 Values-Based Decisiveness......Page 118
Activating THE Seven Steps to Change......Page 134
9 Step 1—Reach Out to Serve Others......Page 136
10 Step 2— Ask, “Who Am I?”......Page 152
11 Step 3— Ask, “Who Are You?”......Page 166
12 Step 4— Find Common Ground......Page 178
13 Step 5—Don’t Take the Pleats Out......Page 194
14 Step 6— Root for People......Page 208
15 Step 7—Leave Some Money on the Table......Page 222
16 Lift People Up......Page 236
Epilogue: The Peopleship Planet......Page 246
Index......Page 252