Product Description

Visionary leadership in action. These stories reveal the often elusive qualities critical to leaders of any organization and will inspire readers to release the dream makers within themselves.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1480530 in Books
• Published on: 1998-04-07
• Original language: English
• Binding: Hardcover
• 224 pages

Book Info
Thirteen inspiring stories of eminent leaders who have led grand-scale organizational transformations in the face of resistance, fear, and adversity. DLC: Social values.

From the Publisher
A selection of the Doubleday Executive Program Book Club. Features a Foreword by Max De Pree, author of Leading Without Power and Leaderhip Is an Art, and former Chairman and CEO of Herman Miller, Inc.

"Michele Hunt has served in as diverse an array of work settings as most of us can imagine. She has been doing one job--seeing people. Read this book and see what Michele sees: the commitment that energizes our work, the love that unifies our actions, the dream that lives within us."--Peter N. Senge, author of The Fifth Discipline

"Michele Hunt opens doors to lives that illuminate and inspire. DreamMakers is a book about hope, values, and the human spirit with stories that move and stir. A book to be read many times, always with a grateful heart--grateful to the individuals who make our dreams."--Frances Hesselbein, President and CEO, The Peter F. Drucker Foundation for Nonprofit Management

"Michele Hunt, a DreamMaker herself, touches us with some profoundly beautiful tales of wonder at the workplace. Her book is as instructive as it is motivational."--Warren Bennis, Distinguished Profesor, University of Southern California, and author of Organizing Genius

"Michele Hunt is a people person, and in this book she helps us understand the potential there is in the people we work with and the people we live with--extraordinary people who provide a hope for the future."--C. William Pollard, Chairman of the Board, The ServiceMaster Company

"DreamMakers should be read by every manager who thinks the road to success is paved with only analysis and execution. DreamMakers shows that the analysis and execution are meaningful only when they support the vision and values of the leader of the organization."--C. William Crain, President, London Fog

From the Inside Flap
Inspiring both for who they are and for what they have accomplished, the extraordinary leaders, organizations, and communities profiled in DreamMakers offer new insights into achieving change with integrity and compassion. Here in their own inspiring words are thirteen stories of eminent leaders who have led grand-scale organizational transformations in the face of resistance, fear, and adversity. Sharing the underlying strengths that contributed to their success--passion, courage, resilience, dedication to close personal relationships, commitment to community, the ability to focus on people's talents, and belief in a vision linked to a broader cause--these remarkable men and women offer inspiration, help, and support for meeting the challenges of leadership.

In addition to the stories of such outstanding individuals as Joe Brodecki, fundraiser for the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Marilyn King, former Olympian and founder of Beyond Sports, and David Cole, former president of America Online, DreamMakers profiles communities and organizations that have realized impossible dreams:

* The county of Surry, Virginia, with its model community * The tiny island nation of Aruba, with its transformative Aruba Quality Foundation * Detroit's Youth on the Edge of Greatness program, which has given more than 600 "at-risk" teenagers new lives.

The stories in this book demonstrate what all of us can accomplish once we unleash the DreamMaker within--a capacity for visionary leadership that can promote profound change in organizations, the community, and the world.