How can I lead my team to better performance while being true to my values and integrity?

Weaving brain chemistry, Gandhi’s three purposes of work, management theory, history, philosophy, and literature with the scientific method, Stephen Sloan offers a balance of compassion and accountability he calls humane leadership. This book is designed for leaders seeking better results and more fulfillment.

This will transform the way you lead yourself and your team. With clear mental models and tools, it teaches practical approaches to having delicate yet powerful performance improvement conversations.

The core model outlines how motivation, opportunity, clarity of expectations and ability drive performance. Learn how to create a collaborative setting where you and your team can evaluate these variables and design improvement experiments together.

To ground your experiments, this book offers 12 wisdom jig thinking tools to shift your mindset and help you earn influence with others, structure time, and manage risk. Also included are scripts to address 15 common performance challenges with curiosity and clarity.

By outlining how to lead from values of fair strength, generative care, and wise balance, Sloan hopes to transform our standards of leadership: how we lead ourselves, how we empower others, and how we choose who we allow to lead us.