Leadership and Management Bias

How Your Behavior, Integrity, Authority, and Standards Impact Those Around You

Sr. EdD Marc Edgar Royster

• Publisher: Trilogy Christian Publishing
• Year: 2020
• eBook ISBN: 9781640887404
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Theology & Religion
• Subtopic: Religion

"True leaders often have a penchant for self-study, introspection, and wanting to know how to enhance their leadership acumen.

Besides, leadership takes more than 1, 2, 3 or a, b, c list of catchphrases, slogans, or nebulous how-to instructions to obtain, grow, and sustain followers. The truth is: followers don't mind getting in where they fit in, but they won't stay long or give it their very best if questionable behavior, integrity, authority, and standards are pervasively suspect or absent from leadership.

In Leadership and Management B.I.A.S.: How Your Behavior, Integrity, Authority, and Standards Impact Those Around You, you will enjoy a melding of pragmatism, theoretical perspectives, empirical research data, and many years of life's lessons that come off the pages in a succinct and fluid conversational tone that transcends cultures, industries, and ideologies.

While there are more leadership books on the market than one can shake a stick at, there are also more people entering leadership roles -- that will require them to understand the expanding dynamics and nuances of leadership in a globally influenced, technological savvy, collaborative engineering, and more ecumenical-driven social settings. This book helps leaders achieve all of the above."

Leadership and Management BIAS

How Your Behavior, Integrity, Authority, and Standards Impact those around You

Marc Edgar Royster, Sr. EdD

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Contents

Acknowledgements vii

Foreword ix

Endorsements xiii

Introduction xvii

Part 1: Behavior

Chapter 1. PDIET—A Case Study in Leadership Behavior that Impacts Growth and Sustainment 3

Chapter 2. Who You Are Versus What You Are 27

Chapter 3. Managing Performance Behavior—Evaluate,

Extrapolate, Reciprocate 47

Chapter 4. Leadership Behavior—the Faithful, the Foolish, the Fickle 65

Part 2: Integrity

Chapter 5. Is it a Heart Thing or a Hard Thing? 85

Chapter 6. What Ethos is Behind Your Pathos? 101

Chapter 7. Conflict and Change 115

Chapter 8. Leadership Integrity—the Faithful, the Foolish, the Fickle 129

Part 3: Authority

Chapter 9. Boundaries and Limitations 149

Chapter 10. Your Circle 159

Chapter 11. Why Do It, What To Do, When To Do It, and How To Do It Well 171

Chapter 12. Leadership Authority—the Faithful, the Foolish, the Fickle 191

Part 4: Standards

Chapter 13. Ground Rules 207

Chapter 14. C4: The Power Behind Sustainment 219

Chapter 15. Orienting Cultural Norms 231

Chapter 16. Leadership Standards—the Faithful, the Foolish, the Fickle 241

Conclusion: It’s Up to You 251

Notes 255

To the only wise, true, living, and sovereign God, whose awesome spirit once again touched my spirit and caused me to rise up to do His will. I am grateful to be the vessel He has chosen to complete this work. I submit this work to Him for His glory, purpose and dissemination.

Most kind and generous Father of heaven and earth, no one can discern the thoughts and intentions of a person’s heart as You can. You have declared that You know our end from our beginning, that we are fearfully and wonderfully made, and that there is no good thing You will withhold from those who walk upright before You. You have gifted us for a purpose and have called each of us for a particular time and season. Impart now into our hearts and minds Your wisdom, knowledge, revelation and inspiration so we can know and do Your will and good pleasure, as well as walk confidently in an authentic and divinely inspired relationship with You. We ask these blessings according to Your lovingkindness and tender mercies. In Jesus’ (Yeshua’s) name, amen.

Acknowledgements

Thanks to everyone who have always extend goodwill and find ways to offer me their well-wishes.

Sincerest appreciation to all the leaders (military, corporate, and spiritual) who influenced me directly and indirectly as well as those whom I’ve had the privilege of leading and influencing over the years.

Patsy—clear evidence of God’s favor upon me (Proverbs 18:22).

LaTosha, Marc and Toni, and Victoria—my heritage! (Psalms 127:3).

Foreword

Browse through any virtual or brick and mortar bookstore and you will find scads of leadership books, manuals, planners, and even calendars designed and authoritatively claiming to develop you as a leader. They all seek to help you accomplish every goal, tackle every situation, and catapult you past any vicissitude of life. In today’s publishing market, no group or class has been excluded from leadership training.

But in Ecclesiastes 12:12, while explaining how the act of studying can become tiresome, the wisest man that ever lived admonished a student with an interesting paradox:

And further, by these, my son, be admonished: of making many books there is no end; and much study is a weariness of the flesh.

The profundity of the middle clause, “of making many books there is no end,” is essential to appreciating the manuscript that you now hold in your hand.

There is an increasingly loud silence surrounding the question, “Why do we need another leadership book?” There are already leadership books for husbands, wives, women, men, blacks, pastors, black pastors, CEOs, new managers, soldiers, successful people, and “idiots.” There are leadership books for leaders, for smart people, and of course…for dummies. There is even a homeless leadership coalition, and just the other day, I ran across something called a leadership “cheat sheet,” which just might be the problem with much of the so-called leadership that we experience today.

If I’m allowed to rephrase the middle clause of Solomon’s words in Ecclesiastes 12:12, a twenty-first century rendering could read,

“…of making many leadership books there is no end…”

But this volume, Leadership BIAS, the magnum opus of my colleague and friend, Dr. Marc E. Royster, is cut from a different scroll. It does not discount other books on the subject. The author certainly has been blessed and benefitted by several great manuscripts on administration and government. But juxtaposing all manuscripts of this type or considering them as a whole, Leadership BIAS stands alone as the pièce de résistance. It has the unique quality of being both abridged and encyclopedic.

As with the pen of a ready writer, Royster respects the admonishment of Solomon but employs the multum non multa, principle of Pliny the Younger (61 c. 113). That is, he takes the best of what successful leadership entails and delves intensely and effectively into a few subjects rather than skimming frivolously over a wide range.

This is not a book of mere human ambition and intellect. This is the Lord’s doing, and the Word of God is completely intertwined throughout its chapters—which is why (no pun intended) I am personally biased when it comes to Leadership BIAS.

BIAS is Dr. Royster’s acronym for behavior, integrity, authority, and standards. It’s a ...

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