The Empowering Leader - by Paul D Houston & Stephen L Sokolow (Paperback)

About the Book

How do you become a more empowering leader? Leaders need to supercharge their leadership skills to empower others to meet the demands of technological advances, globalization and rapid change. As you nurture these seeds of empowerment you will make better choices and increas...

Book Synopsis

These are challenging times, especially for leaders. Leaders need to supercharge their leadership skills to empower others to meet the demands of technological advances, globalization and rapid change. How do you become a more empowering leader? How do you supercharge your leadership skills to navigate these turbulent times?

The answers can be found by tapping into 12 universal Core Values illuminated in this book. These Core Values are seeds of empowerment:

Expanding Your Unique Gifts and Talents
Manifesting Your Intention
Augmenting Affirmation
Cultivating A Sense of Mission and Purpose
Balancing Head and Heart
Manifesting Your Vision
Mastering Visualization
Maximizing Expectation
Boosting Intuition
Honing Awareness
Amplifying Your Higher Self
Magnifying Openness

As an Empowering Leader, you will also be able to take advantage of the gifts of: Synchronicity (Bonus Chapter 1) and Syntropy (Bonus Chapter 2).

As you nurture these seeds of empowerment you will make better choices and increasingly become a more empowering leader-- a leader with supercharged leadership skills. Supercharged empowering leadership is the path to a better and brighter future for all of us.

Review Quotes

"This book is an outstanding sequel to The Wise Leader and is essential reading, not only for those in leadership positions but for anyone who truly wants to become his or her best self. The 12 Core Values are an invaluable framework for developing skills and attributes that foster empowering relationships. The authors have drawn from the best in social, spiritual, personal, and organizational development, as well as from their own rich experiences and lifelong journeys. I am pleased and proud to recommend The Empowering Leader." --Bill Milliken, Founder of Communities In Schools and Author of The Last Dropout and From the Rearview Mirror

"Here they go again. Paul Houston and Steve Sokolow have a track record of writing about leadership that cuts to the chaste. In The Empowering Leader, the two draw on experience and wisdom to reveal the heart and soul of leadership. Today's organizations are dominated by the coolness of rationality rather than the warmth of rapture, sentiment and significance. A better path will be hewn only by leaders who are in touch with their potency and passion. Houston and Sokolow show the way. A refreshing departure from today's managerial status quo." --Terrence E. Deal, author of Leading with Soul and Reframing the Path to School Leadership

"The Empowering Leader, 12 Core Values to Supercharge your Leadership Skills' takes us much beyond their last book The Wise Leader into the depths of effective leadership. We learn about Intention, Intuition (your hidden knowledge), your Higher Self, Openness (to expand possibilities), and much more including two bonus gifts for going deeper--Our Hidden Guidance System, and Constructive Action. If you want to do the right thing, and make it happen in practice, read and absorb The Empowering Leader. Sokolow and Houston take their years of experience and insight into the future of leadership. Here is a book that is at once inspiring and action packed." --Michael Fullan, Professor Emeritus, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education/University of Toronto, Author of Leading in a Culture of Change

"The terrain that leaders of all stripes must now navigate has become increasingly complex, challenging and potentially depleting. The way through the darkest of hours is not only to find the light, but also to be the light. The Empowering Leader handily addresses this seemingly un-addressable truth with enough purity, clarity and direction to make it useful to all who would consider such a prescription. Courage, taken from the French word, "le Coeur" or the heart, is what is called for to address the grittiest of challenges, and acting on behalf of the greater good, instead of self-interest or monetary gain, requires a source of self-renewal and sustainability for both the leader and those who are following. This book provides a lifeline for continuing in the face of tremendous challenges to great leaders." --Alan M. Blankstein, Founder, Solution Tree and HOPE Foundation, award winning author of "Failure Is Not an Option"

"Stephen and Paul are gifted storytellers and leaders. In this book, they open doorways to new ways of thinking that will stretch and widen any reader's capacity to inspire others. The world needs what they offer within these pages." --Dawna Markova, author of Collaborative Intelligence: Thinking with People Who Think Differently

Here they go again. Paul Houston and Steve Sokolow have a track record of writing about leadership that cuts to the chaste. In The Empowering Leader, the two draw on experience and wisdom to reveal the heart and soul of leadership. Today's organizations are dominated by the coolness of rationality rather than the warmth of rapture, sentiment and significance. A better path will be hewn only by leaders who are in touch with their potency and passion. Houston and Sokolow show the way. A refreshing departure from today's managerial status quo.

Stephen and Paul are gifted storytellers and leaders. In this book, they open doorways to new ways of thinking that will stretch and widen any reader's capacity to inspire others. The world needs what they offer within these pages.

The terrain that leaders of all stripes must now navigate has become increasingly complex, challenging and potentially depleting. The way through the darkest of hours is not only to find the light, but also to be the light. The Empowering Leader handily addresses this seemingly un-addressable truth with enough purity, clarity and direction to make it useful to all who would consider such a prescription. Courage, taken from the French word, "le Coeur" or the heart, is what is called for to address the grittiest of challenges, and acting on behalf of the greater good, instead of self-interest or monetary gain, requires a source of self-renewal and sustainability for both the leader and those who are following. This book provides a lifeline for continuing in the face of tremendous challenges to great leaders.

The Empowering Leader, 12 Core Values to Supercharge your Leadership Skills' takes us much beyond their last book The Wise Leader into the depths of effective leadership. We learn about Intention, Intuition (your hidden knowledge), your Higher Self, Openness (to expand possibilities), and much more including two bonus gifts for going deeper--Our Hidden Guidance System, and Constructive Action. If you want to do the right thing, and make it happen in practice, read and absorb The Empowering Leader. Sokolow and Houston take their years of experience and insight into the future of leadership. Here is a book that is at once inspiring and action packed.

This book is an outstanding sequel to The Wise Leader and is essential reading, not only for those in leadership positions but for anyone who truly wants to become his or her best self. The 12 Core Values are an invaluable framework for developing skills and attributes that foster empowering relationships. The authors have drawn from the best in social, spiritual, personal, and organizational development, as well as from their own rich experiences and lifelong journeys. I am pleased and proud to recommend The Empowering Leader.

About the Author

Stephen L. Sokolow, the executive director of the Center for Empowered Leadership, is a former superintendent of schools. He previously coauthored The Wise Leader as well as The Spiritual Dimension of Leadership. Dr. Sokolow and his wife, Laney, have two grown children and live in Allentown, New Jersey.

Paul D. Houston is president of the Center for Empowered Leadership and Executive Director, Emeritus of the American Association of School Administrators. He is a prolific author and national speaker on education and leadership. Dr. Houston has three grown children and lives with his fiancée, Dr. Sandra Chapman, in Tucson, Arizona.