Rehumanizing Leadership
Putting Purpose Back into Business
Your guide to building engaged, resilient and innovative organizations.
How human is your leadership? Rehumanization of leadership has become one of the most pressing issues of our time. While digital technology is transforming our world into an interconnected whole, we are literally building walls of protectionism around us. Rehumanizing Leadership offers an antidote to the linear and fragmented leadership models that emerged out of the industrial age. Sudhanshu Palsule and Michael Chavez make a compelling case for purpose, empathy, and caring to become the strategic driving forces for organizations in our disruptive and complex world. They provide you with the simple tools and mindset that you need to lead your organization into the 21st century.
Praise for Rehumanizing Leadership
"As leaders face unprecedented levels of complexity, excavating or recommitting to purpose is of enormous value. Rehumanizing Leadership offers a compelling blueprint for deeper consideration of purpose - for both leaders themselves and for the organizations they lead."
Kevin Cox
Chief Human Resources Officer, GE
"After decades of dehumanizing work for the sake of increased shareholder value, this is one of the first books that puts humans at the center stage of organizations. The shift from a cold mission to a purpose-driven organization that favors caring is a major change in leadership. The authors provide lots of practical tools and great examples of how to make this shift. A must-read book for leaders that want to succeed in our fast-changing world."
Antonio-Nieto Rodriquez
Global champion of project management, Thinkers50 award winner, author, The Project Revolution and The Focused Organization
"Our research shows that purpose is something you're willing to make a sacrifice for, something that's bigger than you. The great paradox of purpose is that those who do so end up with richer lives, and it turns out that's just as true with companies and communities. The core truth of this book is that if you want an amazing life, give it to someone else."
Dr. Vivienne Ming, Phd
Executive Chair and Co-Founder, Socos Labs
"Successful and thriving businesses are defined by their ability to adapt to the changing environment. We all need the headspace to consider the world around us and the limitations imposed by our traditional ways of managing. This book is a practical and timely reminder of societies' new expectations of business and how to go beyond simply managing them to actually building a sustainable and purposeful business as a result."
Shayne Elliott
Chief Executive Officer, Australia and New Zealand Banking Group Ltd
"As companies face more disruption, leaders are eager to find a way to make their businesses work for their people and the societies in which they operate. A great read with practical examples, cases and tools that help leaders get started on the journey to sustainable transformation."
Lara Bezerra
Chief Purpose Officer (Managing Director), Roche Pharma India