Chris lowney heroic leadership love

From Publishers Weekly (A starred review)

“What can a 16th-century priest tell a 21st-century business executive about leadership?

Lowney shows us how every employee can and should be a leader and that love-driven leadership does work.

Lowney shows us how every employee can and should be a leader and that love-driven leadership does work.

Becoming a leader involves cultivating self-awareness, taking accountability for your actions and decisions.

Specifically, Chris articulates four pillars of great leadership: leaders are self-awareness, heroic, ingenious, and loving.

In this groundbreaking book, Chris Lowney, a former Jesuit and executive with J. P. Morgan, reveals the leadership principles that have guided Jesuit leaders in.

What are the Jesuit leadership secrets?

Plenty, believes this author, who points out that from a 10-man “company” founded by St. Ignatius Loyola in 1540, the Jesuits are now the world’s largest religious order, with 21,000 professionals. In this absorbing, lucid book, Lowney, who left a seven-year stint as a Jesuit seminarian to become a managing director at J.P.

Morgan, explores how the Jesuits have successfully grappled with challenges that test great companies-forging seamless multinational teams, motivating performance, being open to change and staying adaptable. As he takes the reader on an engaging romp through slices of Jesuit history, Lowney references four Jesuit pillars of success: self-awareness (reflection), ingenuity (embracing change), love (positive attitudes toward others) and heroism (ene