The Shepard Leader: ... The Unexplored Leadership Style (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781470075514)

Isokari Francis Ololo is a staff member of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC. He has a background in administration and holds a PhD in management with specialty in corporate parenting and corporate-level strategy. He is also an alumnus of the Dundee Business School, University of Abertay, Scotland. He is the author of The Quest for Distinction. He is affiliated to the Nigerian Institute of Management (Chartered), NIM, Chartered Institute of Personnel Management, CIPM, and Institute of Strategic Management, ISM, Nigeria, and a shepherd leadership-advocating elder in the Apostolic Church of Nigeria. He is married and blessed with five children. The Shepherd Leader is a book on a new leadership model. It uses the shepherd metaphor to simplistically show how leadership should be conducted whether in the corporate world, academia, government institutions, churches or social clubs. It highlights leadership masterhood over servanthood, and posits that servant leadership should be stepped up to shepherd leadership because, as a matter of order, a servant acts only when he receives directives from the master. In the shepherd personification, both service-mindedness and humility are encompassed. The Shepherd Leader explains that the fundamental tools any kind of leader needs are the rod and staff, and that, jointly, these tools produce the comfort and surplus required by the followers.