Marc Edgar Royster Sr. - Leadership and Management Bias: How Your Behavior, Integrity, Authority, and Standards Impact Those Around You

Leadership and Management BIAS

How Your Behavior, Integrity, Authority, and Standards Impact those around You

Marc Edgar Royster, Sr. EdD

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Copyright 2019 by Marc Edgar Royster, Sr. EdD

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Contents

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Part 1: Behavior

Part 2: Integrity

Part 3: Authority

Part 4: Standards

To the only wise, true, living, and sovereign God, whose awesome spirit once again touched my spirit and caused me to rise up to do His will. I am grateful to be the vessel He has chosen to complete this work. I submit this work to Him for His glory, purpose and dissemination.

Most kind and generous Father of heaven and earth, no one can discern the thoughts and intentions of a persons heart as You can. You have declared that You know our end from our beginning, that we are fearfully and wonderfully made, and that there is no good thing You will withhold from those who walk upright before You. You have gifted us for a purpose and have called each of us for a particular time and season. Impart now into our hearts and minds Your wisdom, knowledge, revelation and inspiration so we can know and do Your will and good pleasure, as well as walk confidently in an authentic and divinely inspired relationship with You. We ask these blessings according to Your lovingkindness and tender mercies. In Jesus (Yeshuas) name, amen.

Acknowledgements

Thanks to everyone who have always extend goodwill and find ways to offer me their well-wishes.

Sincerest appreciation to all the leaders (military, corporate, and spiritual) who influenced me directly and indirectly as well as those whom Ive had the privilege of leading and influencing over the years.

Patsyclear evidence of Gods favor upon me (Proverbs 18:22).

LaTosha, Marc and Toni, and Victoriamy heritage! (Psalms 127:3).

Foreword

Browse through any virtual or brick and mortar bookstore and you will find scads of leadership books, manuals, planners, and even calendars designed and authoritatively claiming to develop you as a leader. They all seek to help you accomplish every goal, tackle every situation, and catapult you past any vicissitude of life. In todays publishing market, no group or class has been excluded from leadership training.

But in Ecclesiastes 12:12, while explaining how the act of studying can become tiresome, the wisest man that ever lived admonished a student with an interesting paradox:

And further, by these, my son, be admonished: of making many books there is no end; and much study is a weariness of the flesh.

The profundity of the middle clause, of making many books there is no end, is essential to appreciating the manuscript that you now hold in your hand.

There is an increasingly loud silence surrounding the question, Why do we need another leadership book? There are already leadership books for husbands, wives, women, men, blacks, pastors, black pastors, CEOs, new managers, soldiers, successful people, and idiots. There are leadership books for leaders, for smart people, and of coursefor dummies. There is even a homeless leadership coalition, and just the other day, I ran across something called a leadership cheat sheet, which just might be the problem with much of the so-called leadership that we experience today.

If Im allowed to rephrase the middle clause of Solomons words in Ecclesiastes 12:12, a twenty-first century rendering could read,

of making many leadership books there is no end

But this volume, Leadership BIAS , the magnum opus of my colleague and friend, Dr. Marc E. Royster, is cut from a different scroll. It does not discount other books on the subject. The author certainly has been blessed and benefitted by several great manuscripts on administration and government. But juxtaposing all manuscripts of this type or considering them as a whole, Leadership BIAS stands alone as the pice de rsistance . It has the unique quality of being both abridged and encyclopedic.

As with the pen of a ready writer, Royster respects the admonishment of Solomon but employs the multum non multa, principle of Pliny the Younger (61 c. 113). That is, he takes the best of what successful leadership entails and delves intensely and effectively into a few subjects rather than skimming frivolously over a wide range.

This is not a book of mere human ambition and intellect. This is the Lords doing, and the Word of God is completely intertwined throughout its chapterswhich is why (no pun intended) I am personally biased when it comes to Leadership BIAS .

BIAS is Dr. Roysters acronym for behavior, integrity, authority, and standards. Its a slight play on the provincial French-English word bias which from its origin refers to a slant, a slope, prejudice, or a one-sided tendency of the mind. Royster cleverly flips the term and uses it to accent not just the negative but also the positive propensities and tendencies of great leaders, both contemporary and in holy writ. The author quips, Your BIAS can either propel or derail your leadership credibility. This fact is validated by real-life interviews as well as the authors own experience by way of world travels as a United States army officer. Leadership BIAS is for anyone that desires to learn how to have a positive, lasting, contagious, and efficacious impact on the people around them. Transcending rudimentary skillsets such as:

• taming the root causes of misconduct;
• understanding how to assess observable behavior;
• assessing the innovative distinctions between leader, manager, and follower; and
• when to push and pull on boundaries and limitations.

This book didactically inspires and enables readers to go where most leaders have never gone before. It accentuates the need for hope and self-confidence against the backdrop of the Pauline affirmation and mantra, I can do all things through Christ

For those interested in a more advanced study, Leadership BIAS is chockfull of independent study modules, graphs, scholarly reference notes, and Roysters own patented PDIET analysis. This is an in-depth investigation (case study) of five intriguing behavioral themes namely personal engagement, discipleship training, inclusion, evangelism recruitment, and transparency.