Is the office an appropriate place to express your emotions? Should you be managing your employees to encourage communication of these emotions? As I mentioned in my last post, Anne Kreamer’s new book, It’s Always Personal, raised these provocative questions without answering them.So I got some inspiration from another good book I’ve been reading: From Values to Action, The Four Principles of Values-Based Leadership, by Harry M. Jansen Kraemer, Jr. (Jossey Bass, 2011). In Kraemer’s book, drawn from his experience as a CEO at Baxter International, and his current posts as a management teacher at Kellogg School of Management and private equity firm partner, he makes a convincing case that leadership can deliver spectacular business results and instill values such as mutual respect, humility, and self-knowledge. Some may say Kraemer’s approach is common sense–but as Kraemer said in an interview, quoting Mark Twain: “everything is common sense. The problem is that common sense is not all that common.”
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Author: Herb Schaffner
