Freedom at Work: The Leadership Strategy for Transforming Your Life, Your Organi

Description: Freedom at Work by Traci Fenton "Freedom at Work will help to weave one more thread of freedom and democracy into our global tapestry-ultimately transforming our organizations and our world for the better"-- FORMAT Hardcover LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description Discover the leadership handbook our fear-based world desperately needs right now.Whether it shows up as stress, top-down leadership styles, drama, or uncertainty, fear kills good decision-making, dampens morale, lowers employee engagement, and hurts bottom-line growth.The good news is that theres an antidote- Freedom at Work.More than two decades ago, Traci Fenton started a movement of leaders committed to leading themselves, their teams, and their businesses on the principles of freedom and organizational democracy-rather than fear and control.In this groundbreaking book, Fenton brings together decades of original research, based on her teams work with hundreds of top companies around the world, such as The WD-40 Company, DaVita, Menlo Innovations, Zappos, Widen, HCL Technologies, Mindvalley and more, revealing the proven pathway to leadership success. This powerful leadership strategy will benefit any leader at any level in any type of organization, from entrepreneurs to mid-level managers to the C-suite.Freedom at Work is based on three key pillars-. Freedom-Centered Mindset, to break through limitations, make better decisions, and act with clarity and confidence.. Freedom-Centered Leadership, to lead yourself and others from a place of freedom rather than fear. Freedom-Centered Organizational Design, an optimal model based on the 10 principles of organizational democracyFor leaders who are passionate about advancing freedom and democracy in our world through the way we design our business, Freedom at Work is a revolutionary guide that will help make any organization high-performing and highly profitable, while creating a culture people love. Whats more, this book features practical strategies to help leaders grow their team or organization, improve revenue growth, and quickly pivot during a crisis or recession-all crucial components of robust companies.Freedom at Work will help leaders to weave freedom and democracy into our global tapestry through the way they run their teams and organizations-ultimately transforming our world for the better. Author Biography Traci Fenton is the founder and CEO ofWorldBlu, a global leadership company teachingtop leaders and their organizations how to lead withthe proven Freedom at Work. leadership model.Traci and her team have transformed organizationssuch as The WD-40 Company, Mindvalley, DaVita,DreamHost, GE Aviation, and Zappos using freedomand organizational democracy rather than fearand control.Traci is a globally recognized keynote speaker,author, and transformational coach to CEOsand leaders worldwide. As a "Thinkers50 Radar"award winner, Traci was called "a game changerin transforming the culture of organizations." Shewas also named a "World-Changing Woman inConscious Business" by SOCAP Global, recognizedin Inc. magazine as one of the "Top 50Leadership Innovators," and honored as a MarshallGoldsmith "Top 100 Coach."Traci frequently speaks worldwide to top leadersand their teams. She has spoken at numerousorganizations such as Harvard, Yale, Yahoo!, and theUS Naval Academy, and at events such as South bySouthwest and TEDx. Her work has been featuredin Fortune, Forbes, Fast Company, Wall Street Journal, Christian Science Monitor, New York Times, Inc., BusinessWeek, NPR, BBC, and media outlets aroundthe world. Excerpt from Book INTRODUCTION Our unalterable resolution should be to be free. -Samuel Adams On June 15, 1215, beneath the trees of Runnymede, by the lush green banks of the River Thames, stood a council of twenty-five deeply frustrated barons who were fed up with King Johns mismanagement, poor decision-making, and tyrannical leadership. On that historic day in England, they had the king sign a peace treaty known as Magna Carta, or "Great Charter," limiting his powers and creating a "year zero" in humanitys struggle for freedom and democracy. Echoes of this pivotal document, along with inspiration gleaned from older Turkish, Greek, and Roman examples, Biblical principles, and the Native American Iroquois model of democracy, would later influence the Declaration of Independence, the US Constitution, and the Bill of Rights, establishing the most powerful and longest-running democratic constitutional republic in the world: the United States of America. Such movements for freedom, enshrined in these most cherished and sacred documents, would tap into a universal Truth: humankinds divine right to be free. In the words of US president Franklin Delano Roosevelt, "The democratic aspiration is no mere recent phase in human history. It is human history. It permeated the ancient life of early peoples. It blazed anew in the Middle Ages. It was written in the Magna Carta." And yet, despite the fact that "the democratic aspiration," as Roosevelt put it, is thousands of years old, the true promise of democracy has not penetrated where it can make the most difference in our daily lives: namely, in the way we work. Nearly eight hundred years after the barons triumph at Runnymede, Kent was confronted with the biggest leadership challenge of his life. The Harvard MBA had just agreed to turn around a large healthcare company that was anything but healthy itself. He was about to impact thousands of customers, shareholders, and employees and their families all over the world. Little did he know then that the organization would one day become a thriving Fortune 500 company, and he and the organization would become a case study of exemplary leadership for top business schools. Yet, at that point the companys future was anything but guaranteed. They were rapidly losing cash, teetering on the edge of bankruptcy, and under investigation by the US Securities and Exchange Commission. Shareholders were suing. Morale was at an all-time low. Executives were either being fired or quitting. As Kent later shared, "If a single bank had asked for a single dollar the company might have gone under. It was a brutally negative place. People were angry and scared." He had been hired to lead everyone out of the fear and chaos--but how would he do it? Most leaders, when faced with circumstances that must be turned around, resort to a top-down, fear-and-control style of leadership that can leave carnage and resentment in its wake. This style may be effective in the short term but hardly ever wins the long game. Faced with worry, stress, and expectations of success, many leaders cant mentally pivot out of their own fears to think from a different leadership paradigm altogether. Despite the pressure to conform to a tyrannical, slash-and-burn leadership style typical of most turnaround CEOs, Kent had a different philosophy altogether. He envisioned an organization filled not with dejected, traumatized, and demoralized employees who were just mentally "renting space" each day, but with engaged, joyous, and purposeful citizens. To build this democratic community first, and a company second, as he later explained it, he himself would have to resist the pull toward centralized leadership. He could only realize this vision if he led in a very different way--if he led democratically. But would his employees follow? When Kent announced his vision for how he wanted to turn the company around, about a third of its leaders and employees thought the idea was ridiculous and that it would take a herculean effort just to make payroll that month. Another third thought it was a "nice idea," but that a democratic leadership style would eventually buckle under the severity of the problems they faced. "I would go back to my hotel room at night in those early days and cry, wondering if I was on the right path," the CEO would later share at their annual leadership event. What exactly is this democratic leadership style Kent hoped to implement? The term democracy comes from the Greek words demos, "the people," and kratein, "to rule." The essence of democracy is that we the people have the unalienable right and responsibility of self-government; not the state, an oligarchy, a dictatorship, or a monarchy. A democratic leadership style, which is applicable to every area of life where leadership is needed, is exactly what Kent wanted to use to turn the company around. He believed that by tapping into the spirit of freedom inside each employee and leader, he could activate a remarkable turnaround from the inside out. Kent also knew what many of us inherently understand: that top-down, fear-based leadership--whether used centuries ago or today--is highly dependent on one (or a few!) individuals agendas, personalities, whims, moods, intellect, and shortcomings. Fear-based leadership, in all its forms, is not only an inadequate leadership style for leading in highly complex circumstances; it is also highly unpredictable and often dangerous, costing money and even lives. Theres a reason why the greatest thinkers in human history, to whom we turn for eternal guidance, werent advocates for the monarchical, tyrannical, or dictatorial control of many by one. They had the wisdom to understand that democratic leadership was a more intelligent system of leadership. It was more just, humane, and moral. It was an act of love toward our fellow human beings. It took the long view. A democratic style of leadership has been responsible for more ingenuity, prosperity, happiness, and success in human history than any other style of leadership because a democratic style of leadership taps into the core idea that we are made to be free. Now, we value democracy. We understand that nations are formed by it. Were happy to live in freedom (if we do). But the problem is, most of us dont really understand what democracy is, why its the most effective style of leadership, and how to actually practice it. And if you dont understand it, then you certainly cant choose to lead with it--and ultimately, you cant reap all of the benefits it has to offer. -------- My personal journey to discovering the power of democracy began back in the fall of my senior year of college. Our college president had selected me to be the director of our prestigious, student-run public affairs conference. I asked my ambitious student team to come up with a topic for the event that would be out of the box, forward thinking, and globally aware. One fall day, after months of research, they came back to me and proposed that the theme of the conference should be . . . democracy. As I stood in the college presidents boardroom, my jaw dropped in disbelief. "Democracy means voting and old men in politics in Washington, DC," I said to them, stunned. Privately, I thought, What part of " forward thinking" do they not understand?! They asked me to hear them out, so I listened. They explained to me that democracy wasnt just a political concept per se, but a way of leading and organizing people so that they could release their full potential, promise, and purpose. And when I heard that, something clicked for me. -------------- I started to see how a democratic style of leadership created the conditions where individuals could learn self-government, develop a deeper sense of self-worth, and rise to their full leadership potential. This decision changed my life. I shifted my undergraduate thesis to be about discovering the principles of democracy, and later focused my graduate studies in this area as well. I researched what democratic leadership is-- and what it isnt. I studied classical democratic thought and read everything I could on democracy, from the Romans to the Greeks, the Native Americans to the Founding Fathers of the United States, religious texts as well as leading philosophers and contemporary thinkers. I studied democracy in multiple spheres of life, such as schools and businesses, urban planning, and music and the arts, and identified the core democratic principles that kept coming up. I traveled throughout democratic and undemocratic countries in North and South America, Europe, Asia, and Africa, interviewing dozens of practitioners of democracy about what they believed constituted the fundamental principles of democracy. And I attended multiple global forums and conferences devoted to exploring democracy and its various practices. I was looking for the core causal principles that must be pres Details ISBN1953295495 Author Traci Fenton Language English ISBN-10 1953295495 ISBN-13 9781953295491 Format Hardcover Country of Publication United States Place of Publication Dallas Year 2022 Publication Date 2022-03-01 AU Release Date 2022-03-01 NZ Release Date 2022-03-01 US Release Date 2022-03-01 UK Release Date 2022-03-01 Publisher BenBella Books Imprint BenBella Books Pages 304 Subtitle The Leadership Strategy for Transforming Your Life, Your Organization, and Our World DEWEY 658.4092 Audience General We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:141770638;

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