Stand Your Ground Building Honorable Leaders the West Point Way

Subjects:

• Business » Leadership
• Business » Business Ethics
• Business » Human Resources/Personnel Management
• Business » Organizational Behavior

Related Web Pages:

• http://www.honorableleaders.com
• http://www.Stand-Your-Ground.net

Reviews:

• Drawing on research he conducted at the United States Military Academy at West Point and with business leaders in a variety of industries, Offstein gives access to the process of leadership development at West Point and offers insights that can be applied in any type of organization that strives to operate on the principle of integrity.
  —Reference & Research Book News November 2006
• [O]ne of the most relevant and applicable responses to recent leadership breakdowns at such places as Enron, WorldCom, Adelphia, and Abu Ghraib....[S]tand Your Ground delivers a message that began with our founding fathers, but which has been silenced in the last several years. In Stand Your Ground, Offstein provides compelling evidence that true leadership is first built on honor and that future leadership lapses well chronicled in the recent episodes occurring at Enron, WorldCom, Adelphia, and GlobalCrossing, could never again occur if West Point's model of honorable leadership development is followed. Given the almost limitless amount of leadership books that offer hollow promises and which have accomplished little to improve our current state of leadership, Offstein's Stand Your Ground stands apart as one of the choice few books capable of transforming leaders at all levels and across organizations.
  —PR Newswire US September 13, 2006

• Endorsement From Richard Thornburgh
  Government Affairs Advisor
  Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Nicholson Graham LLP
  former U.S. Attorney General and Governor of Pennsylvania: Debacles like Enron and WorldCom might not have occurred if senior leadership had followed Evan Offstein's premise of honorable leadership in Stand Your Ground. Indeed, leaders of all ranks in all settings can set themselves apart by following the principles outlined in his book. Drawing heavily on his West Point experiences and insights, the author points the way to the potential to transform not only the way we lead, but the way we live.
• Endorsement From Frank Beamer
  Head Football Coach
  Virginia Tech: In today's society ethics in leadership is a daily topic. Stand Your Ground consists of real-life examples of how ethics and honor in decision-making and communication have led to leadership success. I encourage anyone in a leadership position to read this book.
• Endorsement From Rick Stafford
  Distinguished Service Professor of Public Policy
  Heinz School
  Carnegie Mellon University: This book is plainly written and inspirational. It's full of new insights into leadership that come alive through analogies, anecdotes and metaphors--all useful to evaluating your own leadership. Making Stand Your Ground required reading at our nation's leading business schools would help eliminate Enrons from our future.
• Endorsement From Jerrold P Allen Major General
  USAF (Retired) and Commandant
  Virginia Tech Corps of Cadets: This book gives new meaning to the military axiom that successful leaders must hold the high ground; it convincingly shows both the 'how' and 'why' to the thesis that honor is the key to taking and holding the high ground in every leadership challenge.
• Endorsement From Robert J. Maricich
  President and CEO, Century Furniture Industries: The idea of quantifying honorable leadership is a powerful concept--especially for today's business leaders. Evan Offstein does not promote the usual quick fixes, but skillfully and intellectually describes the foundation and the building blocks of exceptional leadership.
• Endorsement From Robert M. Smith
  President, Slippery Rock University: Every university or college hopes its graduates will become leaders within their chosen fields and their communities and, possibly, beyond. However, leadership development is not often a systematic prescribed part of the curriculum. Stand Your Ground is a compelling case for how one of the nation's leading academies has embedded leadership development into its educational fiber. Evan Offstein has provided for our students and the rest of us a pragmatic description of the West Point formula. Here are the essential lessons for everyone who aspires to be a true, ethical, honorable leader.
• Endorsement From Jeff Leischner
  President and CEO, Thomas & Howard Company, Inc.: A must-read for anyone searching for the missing element in leadership today. Evan Offstein accentuates the true essence of successful leadership for any era.
• Endorsement From John W. Gould
  Owner, dlegal.com
  President, Western Pennsylvania West Point Parents Club: Stand Your Ground is essential reading not only for every Cadet and their parents but for prospective new Cadets.
• Endorsement From Todd A. Uterstaedt
  President and CEO, Baker & Daboll, LLC: Stand Your Ground is an impressive and well-reasoned book that should be required reading for MBA students, managers, and leaders at all levels. Evan Offstein offers compelling contemporary stories and sound research to provoke every leader to ask the question, 'Am I an honorable leader?' His unique experiences as a Cadet at West Point, decorated Army officer, successful business leader, and now noted academic professor enable him to weave together a rich argument for the conduct of business in accordance with the time-honored traditions of America's premier leadership institution.

Table of Contents:

• Preface
• Introduction: The Benchmark
• Secure the High Ground
• Wash Away the Gray
• Be Big about Small Things
• Go All In!
• Who's Got Your Back?
• Imagine That
• Views from the Top
• Appendix 1: Research Methodology
• Appendix 2: West Point Fact Sheet
• Notes
• Index

PDF Catalogs:

Business Catalog 2008.pdf