What does it really take to add lasting value to your organization today? In Executive Values , Kurt Senske demonstrates how Christian values support long term organizational success. This original and practical guide provides Christian leaders with a game plan for Christ-centered leadership that stresses the development of a healthy organizational culture, values-based strategic planning, mentoring, and balancing professional and personal lives Executive Values is a must for leaders who want to add lasting value to organizations, employees, customers, shareholders, and constituents, and to society at large. Now, perhaps more than ever, Christian values in leadership practices can help navigate the post-September 11, post-Enron marketplace. Features: --provides Christian-based approaches to business leadership and practice --draws on research and professional experience --includes examples, both positive and negative, from many industries and types of organizations What does it really take to add lasting value to your organization today? In "Executive Values," Kurt Senske demonstrates how Christian values support long term organizational success. This original and practical guide provides Christian leaders with a game plan for Christ-centered leadership that stresses the development of a healthy organizational culture, values-based strategic planning, mentoring, and balancing professional and personal lives. Drawing on extensive research, the examples of numerous Christian leaders, and his own experience as a CEO, Senske creates a path-breaking model that brings together two organizational necessities that are not often mentioned in the same breath: bottom-line results and Christian values. With illuminating examples from high- and low-profile successes and failures, Senske provides an in-depth look at how applying (or not applying) values such as the golden rule can make or break an organization. Executive Values is a must for leaders who want to add lasting value to organizations, employees, customers, shareholders, and constituents, and to society at large. Now, perhaps more than ever, Christian values in leadership practices can help navigate the post-September 11, post-Enron marketplace. Dr. Kurt Senske is president and CEO of Lutheran Social Services of the South in Austin, Texas. Employing 1,300 people, LSSS serves more than 30,000 clients in Texas and Louisiana. Dr. Kurt Senske acquired his expertise as president and CEO of a $70 million organization, corporate attorney, political consultant, and university administrator. He also serves as a member of the board of a Fortune 300 company and chairs a national, religious nonprofit organization and a national foundation. "Executive Values is a first step in educating Christian organizational leaders on how to systematically incorporate their values into their professional lives. If the golden rule, 'Do unto others as you would have them do unto you,' had been followed at the highest levels of Enron, Arthur Andersen, and the myriad of other corporations that recently have come under fire for questionable practices, we as a society may have avoided the damaging after-effects of scandals and congressional inquiries. By following the golden rule at work as well as at home, we can add value to our organization and those around us. We can bring our 'whole selves' to work and make a life instead of merely making a living." ---from the preface