Inspired People Produce Results by Jeremy Kingsley - Book review

Inspired People Produce Results

How Great Leaders Use Passion, Purpose and Principles to Unlock Incredible Growth

By: Jeremy Kingsley

Published: February 12, 2013
Format: Hardcover, 192 pages
ISBN-10: 0071809112
ISBN-13: 978-0071809115
Publisher: McGraw-Hill








'To be an effective leader, however, I noticed that there is one step that stands out from the rest. If you don't get this one down, my guess is you'll see only limited results from the others. I think it's the key that unlocks everything. It's called inspiration", writes keynote speaker and President and founder of OneLife Leadership, Jeremy Kingsley, in his perceptive and engaging book Inspired People Produce Results: How Great Leaders Use Passion, Purpose and Principles to Unlock Incredible Growth. The author describes how leaders must inspire their teams and followers to achieve the highest levels of performance, and shares the practical skills and techniques to become a leader who inspires others to greatness.

Jeremy Kingsley understands that people who lack meaning or engagement with their work are less likely to be achieving superior results than those who are inspired and are passionate about reaching the highest goals and great achievements. As a result, the author focuses on how leaders can be that inspirational force that engages and propels their people to achieve excellence and high performance.

Jeremy Kingsley shares the concepts of passion, purpose, and principles as the three keys to unlocking the door that opens up the inspiration within every leader. The author points out that a leader must transcend simply being a manager. The insight that makes that leap from manager to leader is the understanding of inspiration, how to put it into practice, and instill into others to create and reach high levels of greatness.



Jeremy Kingsley (photo left) recognizes that in today's challenging and rapidly changing business and economic climate, inspirational leadership is even more critical to the success of an organization. The leader who inspires people, whether individually, as teams, or across the entire organization, will unleash the latent potential within those people. To inspire others to achieve extraordinary results is the crucial difference between being a manager and practicing true leadership.

Jeremy Kingsley presents a comprehensive series of insights and practices for becoming a true inspirational leader. The foundation blocks that build an inspirational leader are outlined by the author as follows:

* What do leaders do: Inspire
* What inspires people: Passion
* What inspires people: Purpose
* What inspires people: Loyalty
* What inspires people: Caring in the physical environment \
* What inspires people: Caring in the social environment
* What inspires people: Understanding
* What inspires people: Patience
* What inspires people: Communication
* What inspires people: Integrity

For me, the power of the book is how Jeremy Kingsley underlines the critical importance of leadership to inspire people to achieve extraordinary results, with the hands on skills and practices to become a leader who inspires others. The author blends the concepts about what inspires people with self improvement exercises that develop leadership potential. Jeremy Kingsley emphasizes that while training for staff, concern about financial statements, establishing effective organizational processes, and incorporating technology into the compay are important, they are ineffective if the employees are not inspired or engaged in work they find meaningful.

The author creates an overarching idea of inspiration, and then shares the importance of each of its fundamental building blocks. Jeremy Kingsley further illustrates the concept of inspirational leadership through real world examples of the ideas in action in various settings. The author also adds end notes for each chapter to help leaders pursue additional study of the principles of inspiration as the core element of successful leadership.

I highly recommend the transformational and leadership building book Inspired People Produce Results: How Great Leaders Use Passion, Purpose and Principles to Unlock Incredible Growth by Jeremy Kingsley, to any leaders, managers, executives, and entrepreneurs seeking a clear and concise guide to achieving superior results through the power of inspirational leadership. This book will change your thinking from that of a manager, to that of a leader who inspires others to greatness.