Lowney, Chris.

Heroic leadership : best practices from a 450-year-old company that changed the world / Chris Lowney. - 330 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Of Jesuits and J. P. Morgan -- What Leaders Do -- The Jesuits: An Accidental Company with a Purposeful Vision -- Leadership Role Models: Three Unlikely Case Studies -- "To Order One's Life": Self-Awareness As the Foundation of Leadership -- The Spiritual Exercises: A Lifelong Development Tool -- "The Whole World Becomes Our House": How Ingenuity Sparks Innovation, Creativity, and a Global Mindset -- "Refuse No Talent, Nor Any Man of Quality": How Love Uncovers Talent and Unites Teams -- "An Uninterrupted Life of Heroic Deeds": How Heroic Leaders Envision the Impossible - and Do It -- "Exceptional Daring Was Essential": How the End of Risk Taking Almost Ended the Jesuits -- "The Way We Do Things": Four Core Values, but One Integrated Life -- Conclusion. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12.



9710305131

2003004774


Jesuits--History.


Leadership.

HD57.7 / .L69 2003

658.4092/L95