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Dominant Leadership Themes In The Pauline Epistles, Jaime V. Cortez

The Journal of Values-Based Leadership

Abstract

Paul’s writings in the Bible, although primarily intended to serve spiritual ends, were found to also contain practical leadership wisdom long before these concepts were developed and formalized in secular leadership literature. Seven leadership themes emerged out of this conceptual study, namely: concepts of authority, responsibility, and accountability; the need for personal integrity among leaders, the need to build ethical organizations, situational leadership, fostering unity in diversity, the teaching role of leaders, and ensuring organizational continuity and organizational growth. This paper will benefit leadership theory along the line of increasing confidence in the use of the Bible as a …

Power Of Attachment Styles In Servant Leadership: A Conceptual Paper, Stacy Menezes

The Journal of Values-Based Leadership

The paper aims to advance an understanding of the relationship between servant leadership and attachment styles. This paper provides a review of servant leadership and attachment styles to explain how this understanding can be used to confront challenges faced by leaders due to a crisis. A proposed conceptual model is posited to investigate the moderating effect of followers' attachment styles on the relationship between servant leadership and desired follower outcomes. Additionally, this study adds support to the criticism of the leader-centric approach of research by investigating the moderating role of followers' characteristics, such as followers' attachment styles. The practical implications …

Self-Centered Vs. Humanity-Centered: The Most Critical Continuum For Choosing Today's Leadership, Hershey H. Friedman, Ngoc Cindy Pham

The Journal of Values-Based Leadership

There is a leadership continuum that ranges from extreme self-interest/narcissism to human-centered leadership. During these chaotic times, corporate boards must hire human-centered CEOs and understand that companies must focus on society's needs, not only profit if capitalism is to thrive. People want to work for companies with a soul and desire to purchase products – and even pay more- from firms that seek to improve the world. Maximizing shareholder value is as outdated as Taylor's theory of scientific management. America becomes stronger if corporate leaders work together to help everyone prosper, not just the top 1%. Everyone wins.

Ethical Foundations Revisited, Joseph P. Hester

The Journal of Values-Based Leadership

In this article I argue that “civility” lies at the foundation of ethics. Ethics is relationship permeated and finds meaning in civil behavior by acknowledging the dignity and importance of others. Civility lifts personal narcissism from the boundary of the self outward to other human beings.

“Quiet Quitting” And “Quiet Thriving” – Flourishing In The Modern Organization, Laura Ellera, Dima Rachid Jamali, Cam Caldwell

The Journal of Values-Based Leadership

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"Shaped But Not Fixed" -- The Gift Of Leadership, Joseph P. Hester

The Journal of Values-Based Leadership

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U.S. Leadership - What Biden Has Done So Far... A Report Card, Elizabeth Gingerich

The Journal of Values-Based Leadership

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Critical Lessons About Leadership From Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Mostafa Sayyadi, Michael J. Provitera

The Journal of Values-Based Leadership

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The Choice Is To Serve, James J. Lynch, Matthew J. Etchells

The Journal of Values-Based Leadership

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"Splaining" -- What It Is And Why It Matters, Comfort Okpala, Tangela Rutledge, Cam Caldwell

The Journal of Values-Based Leadership

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Summer/Fall 2023

The Journal of Values-Based Leadership

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Cultivating Authentic Leaders: Toward Conceptual Coherence And Sustainable Practice, Yoshie Tomozumi Nakamura, Elizabeth Nutt Williams, Lori Pyle, Steven E. Grande

The Journal of Values-Based Leadership

The purpose of this paper is twofold. One is to better understand the contested construct of authentic leadership and its cultivation and practice. The other is to offer a conceptual framework for practicing sustainable authentic leadership. Based on a review of authentic leadership literature with a focus on its sustainability, we introduce a conceptual framework through a lens of an ecological model to capture the dynamics of individual and systems perspectives. Practicing sustainable authentic leadership is not a simple act; rather authentic leaders need to embrace paradoxes to navigate today’s complex systems and to find new ways to create positive …

Testaments To Life, Elizabeth Gingerich

The Journal of Values-Based Leadership

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The Last Ant, Emilio F. Iodice

The Journal of Values-Based Leadership

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Attitude Is The Foundation Of Your Success: Write Your Own Case Study, M. S. Rao

The Journal of Values-Based Leadership

The purpose of this research paper is to outline lessons on life, learning, and leadership to become a successful professional, entrepreneur, and leader. It unveils that attitude is the foundation of your success and elaborates with examples and illustrations. It explains employability, entrepreneurship, networking, soft skills, and hard skills. It explains the companies including Kodak, Nokia, and Blockbuster that failed to reinvent with changing times and technologies. It unveils the importance of technology and advises to learn, unlearn, and relearn. It illustrates the examples of companies including Google, Amazon, Facebook, and Apple. It implores you to achieve success with integrity. …

Lessons From History: The Remarkable Leadership Of Eleanor Roosevelt And Why It Matters Today (Part 1), Emilio F. Iodice

The Journal of Values-Based Leadership

Few people had a greater impact on their generation than Eleanor Roosevelt. She was what she professed to be: a person not afraid of criticism, willing to sacrifice and take responsibility and to lead others by her example. Her life was filled with moments of courage, wisdom, compassion, empathy, and amazing emotional intelligence. The following is Part I of an overview of her life, her leadership secrets, and how she dealt with enormous challenges as a person ― a human being and a woman who grew up in an age of prejudice and discrimination.

Timeless Lessons About Leadership From The Midrash, Hershey H. Friedman

The Journal of Values-Based Leadership

This paper examines two ancient Midrashim and shows that many important messages about leadership are embedded in them. The first Midrash describes the critical personality trait Moses possessed that made him uniquely suitable to be a leader of the Israelites — compassion. The second Midrash appears heretical since it has Moses correcting God. Indeed, God even openly admits, "You have taught me something." The primary lessons are that leaders must be compassionate, humble, willing to listen to advice, eager to make changes when necessary, and admit to mistakes.

Positional Authority And Influence In Servant Leadership: A Conceptual Model, Kevin J. Hurt, Elliott Long

The Journal of Values-Based Leadership

This conceptual research paper reviews how positional authority affects the servant leadership-organizational performance relationship and provides insight on how servant leadership can be implemented and effective in the absence of positional authority, i.e. through the cultivation and leveraging of influence. A review of servant leadership literature is used to propose that servant leadership is positively associated with increased organizational performance. Through the lens of upper echelon theory as well as research on the performance of organizations whose executive team practices servant leadership, we develop a model and make a case that positional authority is an important moderator of the relationship …

The Challenge Of Christian Leadership, Joseph P. Hester

The Journal of Values-Based Leadership

I write this essay with some hesitancy. Being reared in a Christian home and educated in both Christian theology and secular philosophy, I am aware of the many pitfalls when discussing Christian ethics. We can be sure there will be many disagreements and versions of Christian ethics as there is about ethics in general. Several years ago, I published A Summoned Life, which is my own interpretation of the Golden Rule.

The Art Of Transformational Leadership: A Key To High-Performance Company, Mostafa Sayyadi, Michael J. Provitera

The Journal of Values-Based Leadership

The purpose of this research is to explore how transformational leadership impacts on organizational performance. We posit that transformational leadership is a significant indicator of organizational performance. This article suggests that executives that act as transformational leaders affect organizational outcomes. In particular, this article raises a vital question as to how managers can successfully contribute to performance at the organizational level. It highlights the potential consequences of applying transformational leadership.

Addressing The Well-Being Problem – A “Fundamental State Of Leadership” Approach, Raidah Bhuyan, Cam Caldwell

The Journal of Values-Based Leadership

The message of Jon Clifton’s (2022) new book, Blind Spot, is that the volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous context of business has created enormous pressures on the modern employee with 28% of employees exhibiting chronic depression, extreme sadness, or other mental health problems. Those conditions negatively affect employee commitment and engagement and hamper the ability of organizations to succeed in a highly competitive global environment. The root cause of this “well-being problem” is the convergence of a multitude of economic and social problems that challenge the best efforts of even the most capable leaders.

Democracy: On The Edge Of Uncertainty, Joseph P. Hester

The Journal of Values-Based Leadership

I have considered once again the ancients and the moderns, and those who said that ethics was laid to rest in the graveyard of sociological and psychological babblings of feelings and emotions. I think too about utilitarians — whose philosophy has become the foundation of much of modern life — with its sterile pragmatism, captured and encapsulated by a framework eliminating the nonquantifiable while sneaking in the backdoor of our values offering empty moral platitudes and religious sentiments, e.g., thoughts and prayers.

College-Era Lessons In Values That Lasted A Lifetime, Ritch Eich

The Journal of Values-Based Leadership

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Winter/Spring 2023

The Journal of Values-Based Leadership

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Loving Yourself – That’S “Great Company!”, Raidah Bhuyan, Eddie R. Williams, Cam Caldwell

The Journal of Values-Based Leadership

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The Mediating Influence Of Confidence, Autonomy, And Identification On The Relationship Between Servant Leadership And Harmonious Passion, Angelica Tabares, Lise Malherbe, Kevin J. Hurt

The Journal of Values-Based Leadership

The current paper explores the relationship between servant leadership and harmonious passion. Harmonious passion refers to a strong desire to freely engage in an activity and is a result of an autonomous internalization of the activity into one's identity. While passion and leadership have been generally linked, the specific relationship between servant leadership and harmonious passion is underdeveloped within the field of servant leadership research. Our paper presents a conceptual model and propositions linking servant leadership and harmonious passion through the mediating mechanisms of follower confidence, autonomy, and identification. Implications and future research are discussed.

Ubuntu Leadership – An Explication Of An Afrocentric Leadership Style, Eugene Laloo

The Journal of Values-Based Leadership

The development of leadership theories has mostly followed a Western perspective, with non-Western leadership theories often excluded from recorded chronologies of leadership. Ubuntu leadership, a leadership style promoted following South Africa’s first democratic election, is one such leadership theory. While Ubuntu has been an ethnographic philosophy and a long-established part of African cultures, the philosophy gained prominence following eminent South African leaders’ call to bring Ubuntu principles into the national reconstruction and development plan of post-apartheid South Africa. While Ubuntu leadership has since been extensively studied, this leadership theory is still relatively unknown beyond Africa. This paper explains Ubuntu leadership …

Book Review: Fdr Fireside Chats ― Perspectives On American History From Presidents Washington To Biden, Elizabeth Gingerich

The Journal of Values-Based Leadership

Title: FDR Fireside Chats ― Perspectives on American History from Presidents Washington to Biden Author: James H. Erickson, Emeritus Vice Chancellor of the University of California ASIN: B09NGRHBF2 Publisher: Independently published (December 10, 2021) Pages: 137 ISBN-13: 979-8782651480 Best Sellers Rank: #3,109,391 in Books Reviewer: Elizabeth F. R. Gingerich

Book Review: Liberation, Elizabeth Gingerich

The Journal of Values-Based Leadership

Author: Emilio Iodice Publisher: Cranberry Press, San Antonio, Texas Pages: 781 Publication Date: October 29, 2021 ISBN-10: 1954759010 ISBN-13: 978-1954759015 Reviewer: Elizabeth Gingerich

Book Review: It's The Manager: Moving From Boss To Coach, Cam Caldwell

The Journal of Values-Based Leadership

Authors: Jim Clifton & Jim Harter Publisher: Gallup Press Original Release Date: 2019 (448 pages) ISBN:1595622241 (ISBN13: 9781595622242) Reviewer: Cam Caldwell