Reclaiming Higher Ground

by Lance H. K. Secretan

Book Overview

Lance Secretan is not your conventional business consultant. A member of MENSA, he built a $100 million company from scratch by age 40 and then retired to work with other executives worldwide, conduct... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0070580669
• ISBN13: 9780070580664
• Release Date: May 1998
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies
• Length: 260 Pages
• Weight: 0.96 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.7" x 8.8"

Customer Reviews

Thoughtful Lessons on Creating Organizations that Thrive

Once again, my friend and mentor Lance Secretan has captured the essence of transformational leadership in this book on creating organizations that inspire the soul. Building on his idea of reclaiming the higher ground, Lance provides many tips on how to create an organization that really thrives. Lance offers valuable insight into how to work in a sacred manner by drawing on your life purpose. I enjoyed this book and would recommend it to anyone looking at how to ignite spirit in the workplace.

Great ideas without action plan

- We would recommend this book to certain individuals with reservation, probably only to those at the self-actualization stage of Maslow's hierarchy. "Feelers" may appreciate this book more than "thinkers." - We liked the book because it had great ideas and was easy to read. - On the other hand, we disliked the book because the author was very subjective, and he failed to present an action plan for readers to utilize his ideas or test his "values bicycle" model. We felt that his model might worked in non-profit organizations where there were fewer conflicts between profits and employee needs, or start-up companies where the culture was newly shaped.

A brilliant and insightful view of work and leadership.

Reclaiming Higher Ground uses words and proposes ideas that are radical to the business environment of today. The old language is motivation, team, service excellence, strategies, service excellence. Reclaiming Higher Ground proposes mastery, chemistry, grace, soul and sanctuary. These are truly step changes for the better in business, or even family, today. The concepts in this book are breaking through barriers that have not even been created yet.

This is a book that will guide us into the next decade.

This is a book that will guide us into the next decade. Lance Secretan points out the dangers of what he calls corporate anorexia and provides us with the guideposts to a healthier leadership style based on values and vision that will bring inspiration back into people's work.

reclaiming spirituality in business for the 90's

Lance Secretan hits home with a well-timed and easily understood description of the lack of morality and spirituality present in business today. He also does an excellent job of showing us what is working in business today, and although rare, examples of daring business leaders that have envisioned a business capable of operating on higher ground, and capturing the elusive human spirit as a core competency in a world too frequently dominated by technology, and lawyers. Lance shows us ways to reclaim our own personal spirituality, and how to transmit it throughout our organizations to recapture fun, passion, excitement and creativity. A quick read, but with a message that will be touted more and more as the average Joe searches for meaning in his life and his work.