High-performance teams require a special kind of leader. It is not about the leader, but the team or more precisely the leader in service to the team. The purpose of this book is to reframe your thinking about leadership from an individual concept to a team experience. Such leadership begins with a virtue-driven person of character with a keen sense of emotional intelligence and is then integrated with the ability to harness the personalities, abilities, experiences of other people to serve something larger than any single person. You will learn This book is the on-ramp for sustainable personal, institutional, and national change.
About the Author Sigval (Sig) M. Berg is the founder and current chairman of the board of The Severn Leadership Group in Annapolis, Maryland. A distinguished graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy, he served as the chief engineer on the nuclear-powered submarine USS Sunfish (SSN649). He completed the Harvard Graduate School of Business’ Advanced Management Program and has a M.Div. from Trinity Lutheran Seminary. He was an Executive Vice President at the Institute of Nuclear Power Operations and Managing Director of the World Association of Nuclear Operators in London and the Senior Vice President for Infrastructure Development and Training at UniStar Nuclear Energy. He also served as a senior pastor at Good Shepherd Church in Naperville, Illinois over a congregation of nearly 1,000 members. He and his wife, Martha, live in Annapolis, Maryland. He has three daughters and six grandchildren.