Heroic Leadership: Best Practices From A 450-Year-Old Company That Changed The World [Paperback]

Leadership Principles for Lasting Success

Leadership makes great companies, but few of us truly understand how to turn ourselves and others into great leaders. One companythe Jesuitspioneered a unique formula for molding leaders and in the process built one of historys most successful companies.
In this groundbreaking book, Chris Lowney reveals the leadership principles that have guided the Jesuits for more than 450 years: self-awareness, ingenuity, love, and heroism. Lowney shows how these same principles can make each of us a dynamic leader in the twenty-first century.

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Entertaining and well researched, this is a must-read for any business leader, and an inspirational read for anyone who wants to be a better human being.
Walter Gubert, chairman of the investment bank,?J. P. Morgan

Lowney does a wonderfully engaging job of making clear
the connections between our current leadership challenges and the principles employed so effectively by the Jesuits.
Edward J. Kelly III, president and ceo, Mercantile Bankshares Corporation

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In this absorbing, lucid book, Lowney . . . explores how the Jesuits have successfully grappled with challenges that test great companies. Reflective businesspeople of faith will find Lowneys insights a breath of fresh air.
Publishers Weekly, starred review

This 450-year-old institution [seems] as current today as it was four centuries ago. Lowney shows us how every employee can and should be a leader and that love-dril�