Values-Based Leadership: A Revolutionary Approach to Business Success and Personal Prosperity

Enron's exec's should have had the principles so well set forth in this excellent book to guide them. If their core values were those alluded to by Ken Majer, perhaps their stockholders would not have been betrayed.

Congtatulations to Ken for creating a simple to read yet powerful message that corporate leaders can use to build their companies and re-earn the trust of the American people. I urge all executives to pick this up and apply it's wisdom.John AssarafCEOThe Street Kid Company

Ken Majer's recently published "Values Based Leadership" is a book that clearly resonates with recent events in American business. Although a fairly short read, it's full of leadership concepts that can (and should) serve as the foundation for our businesses and our lives.Spend 2+ hours reading Values Based Leadership... you'll be hard pressed to find a better use of your time.

This book is a parable about a CEO whose company has lost sight of it's core values. Like most companies, they have their corporate values prominently displayed throughout their offices. Unfortunately for this CEO, the values belong to him and do not represent the values of the organization. As a leader, if you want your people to buy into a set of values, they have to be their values in order to take full ownership.This book gives every leader a guide for developing a set of core values which everyone in the organization can embrace. Take it from a CEO who was like this books main character. Since developing our "new" core values, my team has a clearer sense of how we conduct ourselves, both personally and professionally.I'll leave you with this thought; "What is it you like to do when you're not at work"? Can you answer this question about the people you work closely with? If not, this book is for you!

In Values Based Leadership, Ken Majer highlights a common problem that exists in many businesses. His entertaining parable about a CEO that awakens from a nightmare to discover his company (and his career) are on the skids, brings to light the fact that many CEO's create mission statements, crafted from their own personal values, then they distribute the mission statement throughout their organization presuming that employees will naturally adopt the CEO's values as their own.The books points out the fallacy in this traditional leadership approach and challenges leaders to transform the way they conduct business by focusing on an excellent fresh approach to create shared values in a company that employees will adopt and utilize to drive a company to great success.This book belongs in every CEO's library and is a must read!