**A SUCCESS MAGAZINE BESTSELLER**
Leadership is inspiring others to believe - and enabling that belief to become reality
In Love, Hope & Leadership: A Special Edition, bestselling author Gary Burnison, CEO of Korn Ferry, offers an inspiring collection of reflections, perspectives, and pivot points that capture the moment and define how we live and lead today.
Through stories and beautiful imagery, with the look and feel of a coffee table book, Love, Hope & Leadership illustrates today’s dynamic environment - while offering leadership advice for executives and professionals to consider.
The book explores the attributes of what makes leadership not only personal, but also Special:
- Selflessness - knowing that improving an organization starts by improving ourselves
- Potential - helping others exceed more than what they thought possible
- Empathy - meeting others where they are to embrace who they are
- Connection - adopting a horizontal mindset across communities and even society
- Inclusion - creating a sense of belonging by consciously including everyone
- Authenticity - ensuring others trust what we say, so they can believe in what we do
- Love - leading with our hearts as we seek to understand
As the book chronicles:
Leadership is never about the what and the how - it’s always about the who. We are all in the people business.
What it takes to lead others is often found in the intangibles - the unseen that has just as much value as what is seen.
Without love for other people, we cannot have love for what we do. Purpose and people are always inextricably intertwined.
This is the realization that changes everything: it starts with you, but it’s not about you.
Timely and thought-provoking, Love, Hope & Leadership will speak to managers, executives, entrepreneurs, and other leaders, with the reminder that hope and humanity are not luxuries, but necessities for leading in today’s world.
Table of Contents
Introduction 7
Selflessness 21
Mission First, People Always 23
Deflect or Reflect 31
We Will 39
I’ll Believe for You 47
Our State of Grace 55
Potential 63
Where Potential Meets Opportunity 65
Do We Ever Get Out of Sixth Grade? 75
Exceeding Potential 83
Second Chances 87
Our Metamorphosis 95
Empathy 99
Meeting Others Where They Are 101
To Walk in Their Shoes 109
Seeing Stars 115
Our Time Capsule 123
Our Five Graces 129
Connection 141
Everything Will Be Okay 143
Our Connection Conundrum 151
The Stories We Tell 159
Telling Time 167
Be the Light 175
Inclusion 179
The Journey 181
What Do You See? 185
We-dership 195
Opening the Door 205
Changing the Conversation 209
Never Walk Alone 215
Authenticity 223
The True You 225
Where There’s Humor There’s Hope 235
More Than the Stripes on Our Sleeve 243
Love 253
Leading with Heart 255
Grace and Gratitude 265
The Unopened Gift 271
On Being Thankful 275
