Force for Good: How to Thrive as a Purpose-Driven Leader

✍ Scribed by John Blakey

• Publisher: Kogan Page
• Year: 2024
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 225
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Inside each leader is a force for good and a force for bad. Which one wins? The one you feed.

As more and more organizations become purpose-driven and commit to the triple bottom line of profit, people and planet, leaders need to practise a new set of behaviours to stay motivated, authentic, resilient and master winning behaviours.

Force for Good explores the practical challenges facing purpose-driven leaders in a changed leadership landscape. Avoiding abstract and jargon-fuelled hype , John Blakey provides a collection of common-sense techniques and easy to use tools that any busy, performance-focused leader can quickly deploy to build a better, more purposeful organization

✦ Table of Contents

Praise for Force For Good
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
About the Author
Foreword
Acknowledgements
01 A moment of joy
B corps – a force for good
Purpose-driven leadership
This book is written for you
Maslow revisited – the sixth level
The three dimensions of purpose-driven leadership
From a life of success to a life of significance
A leadership fable – coaching kick-off
Notes
02 Post-modern, post-pandemic, future-fragile
Post-modern – a change in the way we think
Post-pandemic – a change in what we have experienced
Future-fragile – a change in what might be possible
A leadership fable – coaching the leadership landscape
Notes
03 The UP of purpose-driven leadership
The parable of the two wolves
Defining your purpose
Values elicitation in action
Staying connected to your purpose
Being in service to purpose
Feeling the joy of the purpose
Connection, service and joy
A leadership fable – coaching the UP
Notes
04 The IN of purpose-driven leadership
The magic of Olympic motivation
The motivation log and your five-a-day
Resilience – the subtle art of not giving up
Spiritual well-being – the power of community
A leadership fable – coaching the IN
Notes
05 The OUT of purpose-driven leadership
Forgive the individual
Protect the team (and the purpose)
Becoming a beacon of hope
A leadership fable – coaching the OUT
Notes
06 The thrival kit
The story so far
Daily practice – 10 minutes a day
Weekly practice – one hour a week
Monthly practice – one day a month
A leadership fable – coaching the thrival kit
Notes
07 Zealot, martyr or Pied Piper
What type of purpose-driven leader are you?
Self-assessment questionnaire
The three types of purpose-driven leader
A leadership fable – coaching the Pied Piper
Notes
08 Becoming a force multiplier
The power of force multiplication
The five-year vision
The ten-year vision
Force multipliers for the changed times
A leadership fable – coaching a force multiplier
Notes
09 Conclusion
Hope part one – seeing with new eyes revisited
Hope part two – B Corps revisited
Hope part three – Maslow’s sixth level revisited
Give up on a good day
Epilogue: Seven years later
Notes
Index