The Heart of Leadership

Foreword

Leadership has been the subject of so many books, studies, and commencement speeches that many people have started to ignore the importance of the message. And, to be fair, authors and speakers often rehash the same clichés and obvious truths, leaving readers and audience members searching for something new.

But maybe it’s not something new that we need. Maybe we only need to take a longer, harder look at what we already know but have failed to grasp—the simple but painful truth that if your heart is not right, no one cares about your leadership skills.

In The Heart of Leadership, Mark Miller makes a compelling case for a radical form of leadership. According to my dictionary, radical means “favoring extreme changes in existing views, ...