Table Of ContentInspiring Stewardship
Inspiring Stewardship
Didier Cossin
Ong Boon Hwee
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Description:Hoboken:Wiley,2016.|Includesindex.
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Contents
Acknowledgments vii
AbouttheAuthors ix
Introduction 1
PARTI Why Stewardship?
Chapter1 StewardshipatWork 11
Chapter2 StewardshipPrinciples 31
Chapter3 StewardLeadersInspire 55
PARTII What Drives Stewardship?
Chapter4 StewardshipValuesandBeliefs 71
Chapter5 PersonalityTraitsandAttitudesofStewardLeaders 87
PARTIII Stewardship in Action
Chapter6 StewardshipActions 103
Chapter7 BecomingaStewardLeader–WhatItTakes 115
Chapter8 PitfallsofStewardship 139
PARTIV Looking Forward
Chapter9 FosteringStewardship 159
AppendixA:TheResearch 165
References 181
Index 197
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Acknowledgments
W
e would like to thank the members of the Stewardship Asia
Centreboard:MrHsiehFuHua,MsChanWaiChing,MrGohYong
Siang,MrSimonIsrael,MrsLimHweeHua,andMsJacquelineWong
for their intellectual contribution in shaping this book.
Wearedeeplygratefultothemanystewardleaderswhoinspired
us to write this book.
Thank you to Sophie Coughlan, Martin Kralik, and Hongze
(Abraham) Lu for their help in conducting the background research.
Our sincere thanks go to Stuart Crainer for his help in editing
this book. We are also grateful to Manjith Manohar at the IMD
Global Board Center, Tracy Lee at Temasek Management Services,
and Joanna Soh at the Stewardship Asia Centre for their support.
Many thanks also to Carine Dind at IMD and Yves Balibouse,
who were instrumental in the book production as well as to Susan
Stehli at IMD for the final proofreading, and to George Curzon at
Indexing Specialists (UK) Ltd for the index.
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