University Press of America The Challenges for Leadership, Values, and Happiness: What Are the Keys to Your Success in the 21st Century?

Product Description This book will explore the characteristics, skills, and strategies needed by values-based business leaders to cope with a world that continues to change at warp speed. Effective leaders should prepare organizations for change and assist organizations in navigating through such changes. The Challenges for Leadership, Values, and Happiness identifies values-based leadership issues and provides keys to success for practical implementation in the workplace. This book will encourage leaders to realistically assess their leadership styles and identify the potential challenges of situational demands so they can manage from a position of strength. The chapters in this book represent philosophical, strategic, and tactical keys designed to trigger thoughts, actions, and strategies to assist the reader to maximize his or her strengths. Review What the business community has always lacked is a moral philosophy of self-defense. Millick's essays go a long way in providing such a defense. This book should be read by all business leaders and citizens concerned with restoring and maintaining America's free market system.--C. Bradley Thompson, Ph. D., Executive Director, The Clemson Institute for the Study of Capitalism In this book, Charles Millick and his [contributors] take the reader on a tour of perhaps the most important issue facing organizational leaders today: is it possible for true leadership, bedrock values, and authentic happiness to peacefully coexist in the modern organization? We learn the answer is yes. But more importantly, we learn how to make that happen. This book will be valuable to the new professional and the experienced manager.--Marshall Schminke, University of Central Florida Effective leaders today must have a keenly developed moral compass, enabling them to navigate the turbulence of markets and public opinion while ensuring that employees are motivated, productive, and happy. Millick takes us down this path through the chapters in this important new volume.--Page West, Ph.D., professor of strategy, Wake Forest University This is a much-needed collection that zeroes in on reality-based ethical values in the workplace, especially as seen and practiced from the managerial or leadership perspective. Well worth the read.--Jerry Kirkpatrick, Ph.D., professor of international business and marketing, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona About the Author Charles A. Millick is an assistant professor in the Department of Business at Wheeling Jesuit University. He has been a professional engineer, an army officer, a corporate executive, an entrepreneur, and a professional consultant.