Principles of Managing People

A Review of The Way of the Shepherd

Dristonne Rhodzze G. Remellete

Dr. Kevin Leman and William Pentak are the authors of the story The Way of The Shepherd. Dr.
Kevin Leman is an internationally known Christian analyst, speaker, and New York Times top of
the line writer of fifty books. William Pentak has 22 years of demonstrated achievement in
reviving failing to meet expectations associations. The purpose of the authors is to keep people
informed about managing people in a company. This genuine work tells a narrative about a
meeting by one of the book's two writers, William Pentak. The interviewee is the CEO of
General Technologies, Theodore McBride.

This persuasive and interesting story is focused on a youthful, unpracticed reporter who handles
a truly amazing meeting with the most regarded CEO in America. During the meeting, the CEO
shares the insider facts he gained some time in the past from his mentor, an eccentric yet
splendid teacher who showed him seven management rules that are significant in the present
quick moving, innovative world. In the book, The Way of the Shepherd it showed us how to lead
individuals so they feel their work is more similar to a calling, and where they have a feeling of
having a place rather than simply a task and a position of work. A shepherd strolls with his sheep
(individuals) and really focuses on every one of them.

Using the shepherd/sheep analogy, Leman and Pentak present these 7 principles:

- Know the condition of your flock - It showed us the significance of becoming

acquainted with your supporter on an alternate level. It is vital on the grounds that the
pioneer and the devotee need to make a solid bond that will assist them with being
effective later on.
- Discover the shape of your sheep - Great leaders are consistently in the post for group
arranged individuals who are the correct fit. Candidates can be old, youthful, experienced
or unpracticed, that isn't generally important. What is significant is will they be a
cooperative person and willing to get involved.
- Help your sheep identify with you - Leaders are liable for their workers' learning,
development and accomplishment just as for their prosperity. Genuine initiative is tied in
with helping other people foster their own abilities so they may become pioneers
themselves.
- Make Your Pasture a Safe Place - The significance of keeping your kin very much
educated and addresses the worth of correspondence. Genuine leaders need to cause
individuals to feel what they are doing in their everyday positions.
 - The Staff of Direction - It is a leader's obligation to guide their employees to get out and
lead by drawing in, inspiring and testing their employees. It is significant laborers feel
esteemed and very much cared for by their chiefs and managers this will help advance
quality work execution.
- The Rod of Correction - It urges leaders to remain in the hole and battle for their sheep.
In other words, to show support for their employees. Backing your representatives in
their undertakings to turn out to be better and remain by their dynamic.
- The Heart of the Shepherd - The Heart of the Shepherd is perhaps the main parts of the
standards talked about. It is here where the pioneer focuses on their sheep (people). It is
now the leader shows they will make the sacrifices needed to lead their employees to be
pretty much as effective as could really be expected.

This is a straightforward book recognizing systems to be compelling leaders. Although this

authority style may not work for all leaders the individuals who have drilled shepherd initiative
have found themselves in the midst of a firm and profoundly useful working environment. This
book reminds the reader that leaders can represent the deciding moment in a workplace, and the
fundamental messages spread out in this book can help average pioneers progress to incredible
leaders. It's a genuinely short book, simple to read, yet I discovered it to be an incredible asset
and support in my initiative. The standards bode well and are truly relevant for compelling
administration. This is unquestionably a book for your rack in the event that you are attempting
to have an effect on your people.

References:

Leman, K., & Pentak, W. (2004). The way of the shepherd. Zondervan.

Griffin, R. (2006). Fundamentals of Management, 4. New York: Houghten-Mifflin.