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Spirit training, April 25, 2000
This review is from: Leading from the Heart, Choosing courage over fear in the workplace (Paperback)
"Leading From the Heart" came to me when I was looking for a way to radically change my workforce who cared for the elderly. I believe we all want to think our parents will be cared for lovingly by others if we cannot do the jobs ourselves. With only "horror" stories before the general public about nursing home care I knew I had to renew the spirits of my staff members to realize their sacred missions in caring for others. Kay's book did just that-it led me down the path I needed to follow to understand how I could and should lead people in performing sacred work-that of caring for the sick elderly. I have shared the vision with others in what I call "spirit training," and the results have always been more than I could have hoped. She has gelled many of the ideas that so many of us have had in our minds but needed organized. "Leading From the Heart" is the most powerful book I own. It changed my life and has the power to change anyone who will embrace the vision that what connects us and makes us similar will help us rise above our adversities.
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Leaders can be more effective AND live a better life!!!, April 21, 1999
This review is from: Leading from the Heart, Choosing courage over fear in the workplace (Paperback)
Kay Gilley is one of those rare authors whose words reach out and touch the reader in such a personal way that you will think she somehow wrote this book just for you. Kay is intimately in touch with the difficulties and hardships that leaders are experiencing while trying to adjust to today's rapidly change workplace. By now, many leaders feel lost, uncertain about what is expected of them, overwhelemed and overworked, and probably most telling; leaders feel that they've lost touch with who they are and what they want out of life.
Kay Gilley offers a clear-eyed and compelling-if somewhat unconventional-explanation for what has happened to leaders. Her solution is to get in touch with our spirit-that inner source that brings vitality and energy to our lives-and function as a leader from that space. And she provides practical methods for doing so.
Gilley suggests that a spirit-centered leadership model will shift our functioning from a fear-based style that intimidates and disempowers people, to a courage-based style that energizes people and unleashes their creative potential. She supports these ideas with ample evidence that performance will improve dramatically as a result.
Buy this book for yourself, and change your life to be the way you want it to be. Then buy this book for your co-workers and employees. You'll thank yourself for it, and they will love you for it!
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Leadership for the new millenium, April 20, 1999
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This review is from: Leading from the Heart, Choosing courage over fear in the workplace (Paperback)
Kay Gilley has a vision for leadership in the new millenium. After reading this book, I felt like I had been shown my wings. Her message is powerful but simple: the driving force of leadership is who you are, not what you do. That simple concept freed me from chasing after other people's ideas of "doing" and set me on a path of higher integrity, that of "being" me. Not only does leading this way add meaning to my work, it is actually much more effective. I've given the book to everyone on my team and a lot of others. If I had to tell people they could only read one book on leadership, this would be it!
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