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Managing Upside Down: The Seven Intentions Of Values-Centered Leadership

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How many CEOs do you know who are willing to spell out the personal challenges leading them from the brink of selling their company to reinventing it? This book wrestles with the paradox and conflicts of leadership in a broad review of juggling the internal conflicts between one's business, making a profit, fostering a strong family while searching for meaning; an fate facing many business executives today. How not to cave in to profit as told from a profitable leader's actual life experience. Pathfinders rejoice! In this, Tom's second book, he relates anecdotes from the mind of an original entrepreneur - how to make qualitative decisions based on values, before there are any statistics on market and consumer demand. How fortunitous circumstance plus a little friendly advice can help a company relate its products directly to its mission and core values. The book's account of the SALTWATER INSTITUTE, to develop values centered leaders, provides a real-world example of what happens when he applies his own suggested principles on "venturing out". This book does the best job yet for a busy executive who wants to grasp the underlying characteristics of great people. The discussion of "destiny" is one of the first mainstream explanations related directly to its role in the success of established businesses or new ventures. The guidlines put forth in this book may well provide the foundation for sanity others are seeking as they plunge in a breakneck dive into leadership and reinvigorating their businesses.

Tom Chappell not only oversees a company that makes fabulous products, but he's written a book that should be the blueprint for world business. Doing what's right, and making money in the process. Not making money at any cost. His business advice is solid, and the autobiographical elements running through the book offer a rare insight to genius.

An interesting perspective on business from Tom Chappell, founder of Toms of Maine. His approach is a balance between profit and caring for the staff and community. He focuses on social values and environmental respect to increase customer satisfaction and his bottom line. The approach is captured in his Seven Intentions of Values-Centered Leadership.