Serve to Lead: 21st Century Leaders Manual

by James Strock

21st century leadership is a whole new world! More than ever before, everybody can lead--because everybody can serve.

'Serve to Lead' equips you with the tools to prevail--whether you're a CEO or just starting out, whether you're an entrepreneur or work in a large company, government agency, a not-for-profit organization or the military.

Extensive interviews, business case studies, psychological research, biography, history and literature inform this award-winning leadership manual.

Updated and revised, including a new preface, the second edition of 'Serve to Lead' shows how to transform the raw material of your life and work into a "masterpiece of service."

Genres: Leadership, Business, Nonfiction, Self Help

352 pages, Paperback

First published April 22, 1998

About the author

James Strock a writer, speaker, entrepreneur, lawyer and reformer in business, government and politics. He is based in Rancho Santa Fe, California. He can be reached at servetolead.com.

Reviews

[Frank Sonnenberg · Rating 5 out of 5]

“Every once in a blue moon, I read a book that’s so good I want to shout from the rooftops. Serve to Lead by James Strock is such a book. Serve to Lead is a revolutionary approach for twenty-first century leadership. Every page offers timeless principles that will inspire you to achieve greatness and lead a purposeful life. I recommend it highly.”

Frank Sonnenberg
Award-winning author of six books, including:
Follow Your Conscience and Managing with a Conscience

[Joan · Rating 5 out of 5]

Very interesting, good tips and tools for learning. I immediately gave to my son who read it extensively and we both highly recommend it!

[Steve]

Stock's SERVE TO LEAD is not only an enjoyable read, it is an important one. I believe this guide for leaders may be the most important contribution to the concept of servant leadership since Greenleaf. Strock builds this book around four questions that leaders should ask themselves as they create their futures.

In addition to this book's importance, Strock has added literary and historical quotations that amplify and underscore the book's message. Any reader of leadership will be delighted by the able manner in which the author presents resonating ideas from well-known authors, executives and statesmen.

[Harry Prillaman · Rating 4 out of 5]

Very interesting book on leadership.

[Jim · Rating 3 out of 5]

I won this book on Goodreads. I am starting a small business soon with my business partner and we will be taking these concepts to heart. A lot of good advice is being written here but I found most of them to be generalized, that is a given though. It would be difficult to cater to everyone's needs and of course all the concepts would not fit with all types of work or businesses, also every leader or manager is going to be different as well. I enjoyed the ideas of Ronald Reagan and Winston Churchill, very insightful and innovative. The concept of serving to lead is a great one, but I know many people who choose not to serve in any capacity whatsoever and that is why they fail as an organisation and leader which is the main point in this book. There are many items to consider in this book just to name a few, listening well, adapt to the situation, the employees are the backbone of the work itself so respect them, and many more concepts of this nature.

[Jackie · Rating 4 out of 5]

Missing pages

I recieve this book through a giveaway. Random pages seem to be missing. So i will atempt to download and read again. What i read before i started missing pages was interesting.

[James Williams · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is a good book to discuss the origin and evolution of leadership. However, if you have an advance knowledge in leadership, it failed to provide any new information. I still recommend this book as a quality leadership read.

Thank you,

Dr. James Arthur Williams
www.unmaskytp.com

[Đức · Rating 5 out of 5]

SÁCH HAY! BẠN ĐANG PHỤNG SỰ AI?

[Dianne Kareen]

I want to learn more in leadership.

[Sedric James · Rating 4 out of 5]

Most definitely will read again! Well worth the time. This book provides the perspective that is so evidently missing in today's leadership: Servitude.

[Koul · Rating 4 out of 5]

thêm góc nhìn cho bạn về cuộc sống.

[Francis M Scandura III · Rating 5 out of 5]

Long read, but worth the time

Who do you serve is a question that may have a surprising answer. I enjoyed the inner reflection I needed to see up close.

[Sedric James · Rating 4 out of 5]

Thoughtful Perspective

I chose this rating because this read was very similar in style from another book that I read titled, "The Burden of Command" by John B. Edwards. I suggest you read that one as they both encourage a major shift in your attitude towards leadership. It's also very telling of everything that's wrong with our more prominent leaders. Very good, I plan on utilizing that one question that resonates, "Who Are You Serving?"

[Bruce Flanagan · Rating 5 out of 5]

A must read book for Leaders. Even if you don't agree with the book it is hard to argue with gravity, it just is. In the same way A leader is a servant period.