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Title details for True to Yourself by Mark Albion - Available

True to Yourself

Leading a Values-Based Business

by Mark Albion
Jim Manchester
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True to Yourself provides tools you can use to combine profit with purpose, margin with mission, value with values. Drawing on insightful interviews with seventy-five forward-thinking leaders and his own extensive experiences as an entrepreneurial leader, Mark Albion details five critical leadership practices: turning your values into value, walking toward the talk, communicating with care, facilitating personal growth, and collaborating for greater impact.

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  • Release date

    February 1, 2009

  • Formats

    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9780792762454
      • File size: 151629 KB
      • Duration: 05:15:53

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • AudioFile Magazine
      An entrepreneur and former Harvard professor says that instead of selling your soul just to make a profit, you can create a business that serves who you are--your personal values, your stewardship ideals, and your social responsibilities. He uses the stories of 75 small-business leaders who made money and made a difference by following five leadership practices: turning values into value, walking their talk, communicating thoughtfully, promoting personal growth, and collaborating for impact. This liberating discussion explains that ethical business is more than donating to charities. It's balancing fiscal goals and operational requirements with the deepest needs of our employees, customers, partners, and communities. Jim Manchester's low-key, easy-to-hear narration provides an engaging, if not exciting, vehicle for this paradigm-shifting approach to doing business. T.W. (c) AudioFile 2011, Portland, Maine
    • Publisher's Weekly

      May 29, 2006
      For those whose dreams involve using a small business "as a force for social change," entrepreneur Albion offers encouragement and valuable counsel. The second entry in the publisher's Social Venture Network series, this is a guide to leading "a company that reflects your values" and, along the way, building "a better world for us all." Assuming that the reader is already a believer, but just isn't sure how to reconcile principle and practice, Albion frames his advice in terms of compassionate, socially responsible leadership, though a lot of it is just plain good management. It's about how to build a company with the right priorities from the beginning, not just adding a veneer of responsibility. The book is grounded in the voices of earnest entrepreneurs and unusual case studies you don't see in every business book—including stories of failure as well as of success. While some readers may find Albion insufficiently hard-nosed ("It's better to fail trying to do what you really care about," he writes, "than to succeed at something else"), his sincerity is undeniably compelling.

    • Publisher's Weekly

      June 19, 2006
      For those whose dreams involve using a small business "as a force for social change," entrepreneur Albion offers encouragement and valuable counsel. The second entry in the publisher's Social Venture Network series, this is a guide to leading "a company that reflects your values" and, along the way, building "a better world for us all." Assuming that the reader is already a believer, but just isn't sure how to reconcile principle and practice, Albion frames his advice in terms of compassionate, socially responsible leadership, though a lot of it is just plain good management. It's about how to build a company with the right priorities from the beginning, not just adding a veneer of responsibility. The book is grounded in the voices of earnest entrepreneurs and unusual case studies you don't see in every business book\x97including stories of failure as well as of success. While some readers may find Albion insufficiently hard-nosed ("It's better to fail trying to do what you really care about," he writes, "than to succeed at something else"), his sincerity is undeniably compelling.

Formats

  • OverDrive Listen audiobook

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  • English

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