The Bridge to Growth: How Servant Leaders Achieve Better Results and Why It Matters Now More Than Ever

by Jude Rake

A recent study revealed that only 21 percent of workers feel engaged and truly committed to their company’s success and goals. They don’t know how their work connects to their company’s goals or understand how they can help achieve them. Leaders have failed to fully engage workers in the development and execution of their company’s mission and goals, and ultimately its journey toward success. Too often, employees are over-managed and under-led.

Jude Rake, a business leader with more than 35 years of experience leading high-performance teams, shows how servant leaders—those who serve employees by giving them what they need to fully engage and commit to achieving the company’s goals—use nine proven principles to

Grow leaders and difference makers, not just followers.
Build and orchestrate high-performance teams more powerful than the sum of their parts.
Focus the organization on strategic priorities, simplify operations, and accelerate progress.
Champion the people who purchase and use your products and services.
Cultivate a performance-based culture of innovation.
Communicate relentlessly.
See the world through the eyes of others.
Be the model you want emulated.
Coach people to achieve more than they thought possible.

The Bridge to Growth details how to use these principles to elevate workforce engagement, collaboration, innovation, and accountability to build a bridge from strategy to exceptional execution and results.

168 pages, Hardcover

Published July 4, 2017

Reviews

[Alan Jarvie · Rating 5 out of 5]

Lots of management strategy books claim that they can make a difference to your team/company performance, but few deliver on this. This book is the exception to this.

Clear and concise with no filler, the author has written a extremely valuable resource that I will refer to as I progress further in my career. Jargon free and easy to read, this is highly recommended for professionals of all levels who wish to gain insight on how effective management can reach everyone in their organisation.

[Stef · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book was okish. Some part rich enough to get something out of the topic, others just too light to really make progress with the Information provided. I would look for a more ind with book about topics unless you want to tie all of it together, then this might be an interesting read.

[Gustavo Valencia · Rating 2 out of 5]

Not meeting my expectations

The author clearly has some experience under their belt, but the books is a mish mash of detailed information good for someone that has absolutely no experience in mayor corporate world and totally eagle eye view and strategies for leaders.

It's almost like the audience of this book should be very wealthy kids that without corporate experience inherit the leadership of a company.

I was hoping to be more engaged, wouldn’t recommended it.

[Helen Palmer · Rating 5 out of 5]

As the author says, many a book in this topic area are one half of delivering the message and a second half repeating it. This was presented differently as short snapshot summaries.

As someone who identifies as a servant leader quite naturally the book helped to align some of my thinking. The section on strategy was particularly helpful.

Slightly “American” in some parts, but that’s again as expected. Certainly a book I would dip back into again in the future.

[Patrick · Rating 3 out of 5]

A decent overview book that spends significant time on strategic planning. The connection to servant leadership feels tenuous.