Love Leadership: It’s Infectious!
Posted On June 9, 2009 at 2:35 am in Love Leadership News
This week, a friend of mine was surfing the internet and decided to Google ‘Love Leadership’. In addition to my book, he found an author named John Hope Bryant, who was preparing to release a book called, Love Leadership: A New Way to Lead in a Fear-Base World, this August.
I have to admit that my first reaction was not very mature. Love Leadership is my book! I reflected on all the work I had put into it, starting back in 1995, and wondered whether someone else could use the same title. Then I paused and started to think about the intent of my book. My original goal was to advance the idea of a new, emerging leadership style. So the fact that someone else is writing about this tells me that Love Leadership really is ‘what the world needs now’.
When I first started writing my book, I did not get any hits when I Googled ‘Love Leadership’. Now, I get a lot of hits. I actually found a faith-based site called Love Leadership .org. The site’s creator, Jeff Booher, says that the phrase presented itself first to his wife:
This was a brand new concept to us. We had never heard anyone use that exact term before. It may have been used and taught somewhere but it was new to us. Many leadership speakers and coaches danced right up to the concept and all but said “Love Leadership” in their seminars and teaching series, but we had not heard the full term used until recently when we saw that a book had been released by a leadership speaker from Canada with the same title (www.LoveLeadership.com).
I’m the guy from Canada, by the way. Jeff & Kim Booher have released their own book titled, The Emergence of Love Leadership: A Working Model.
My book comes from a humanistic rather than a religious context, and I don’t yet know what slant Bryant’s book will take. But it looks like we all support the advance of a new leadership style – which takes me back to the original reason for my book. So now instead of feeling competitive, I am excited that the concept is taking root. Turns out that Love Leadership is infectious.
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