Values Guide Decision-Making for Results
A Practical Guide for an Uncertain Business Future
by Stanley Remple

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Strong business leadership built on a value-based foundation has the power to drive profit while improving the lives of business leaders, employees, and even those in the community. But a business leadership model must also reflect cultural context, which is why author Stanley Remple argues that a cookie-cutter, individualistic Western approach doesn’t serve the needs of Chinese business leaders. Enter Leadership Wisdom for Business Success in China, a powerful four-book series that examines value-based business leadership specifically within the Chinese cultural and social environment and offers a framework to promote individual and collective potential while creating a successful and competitive business. In Book Three, Values Guide Decision-Making for Results, Remple explores the importance of ensuring all decision-making is results-based and dives into four business leadership responsibility areas that contribute to business success: strategic direction, complementary partnerships, leadership development, and governance accountability. With a focus on technical tools, creating and using a three-year business plan is examined along with decision-making processes to ensure all strategic action is aligned with performance objectives. Case examples of successful Chinese businesses are also used to illustrate how these tools work within a cultural context. Much more than a theoretical overview of business leadership, this series offers a roadmap and solid tools for developing both self-leadership and business leadership within a whole company. Supported by a Chinese project team consisting of researchers, educators, writers and editors, business leaders, and other stakeholders, this culturally relevant series has been written for both new and experienced business leaders and entrepreneurs, leadership consultants and trainers, and post-secondary leadership programs in China. However, stakeholders in the West will also find great value in this comprehensive exploration of value-based leadership. The other volumes in the Leadership Wisdom for Business Success in China* are: • Book One: Confronting the Business Leadership Crisis • Book Two: Developing a Value-Based Business • Book Four: Cultural Factors Define Implementation Strategies *Also available in Mandarin

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Stanley Remple brings more than fifty-five years of different levels of business leadership involvement in both small and large businesses; public sector, and non-profit organizations; and academic institutions in various countries, including Canada, the US, Russia, Belarus, Kenya, and China. His experience in China includes consulting, training, mentoring of business leaders, and leadership program development. Remple served as a founder and director of a Mandarin graduate program in business leadership for over a decade. Remple believes deeply in practical value-based leadership and wrote the Leadership Wisdom for Businesses in China series to share with others what he has learned over his lifetime and as part of his continuing journey to develop his own self-leadership skills. Remple's commitment to lifetime learning with a focus on religion, philosophy, psychology, social work, health care, aboriginal services, services to seniors, mental health education, and community development, have had major wholistic learning impacts. Remple has a BA, MSW, MPH, Ph.D., and Post-Graduate Dip MHA. This important inter-disciplinary background has contributed to his wholistic and humanistic approach to creating profitable business organizations that work as a community while serving customers, local communities, and the nation. Remple views a business as necessarily a responsible and accountable citizen. Remple has been awarded a Governor General’s medal for his contribution to Canadian citizens and in his “retirement” continues to guest lecture at universities, consult within the Chinese community, being a board member, and mentor international business executives. He lives on Vancouver Island, in British Columbia, Canada with his wife of sixty years. Together they enjoy a busy social life that includes wine and book clubs, golfing, playing bridge, and international travel.

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