Business is all about relationships and each day at work present us with a choice: Will we fight for fear-free connections with our team members, employees, vendors, and customers for the sake of our mutual success? Or will we default into self-protection and self-serving and participate in a relational culture of disconnection? This is the choice between honor and dishonor, and it flows from our hearts and our core beliefs about people. In The Business of Honor, Bob Hasson and Danny Silk lay out a pathway for living with a heart of honor in business, from receiving your identity to investing in healthy relationships and taking the lead in building honoring culture in your company or organization.
Table of Contents:
Acknowledgments
Introduction by Danny Silk
Chapter 1: A Tale of Two Business Cultures
Section 1: Honor and Identity
Chapter 2: The Journey of Identity
Chapter 3: Uprooting the Orphan Heart
Chapter 4: Choosing Honor
Section 1 Activation: Moving from Orphan to Son or Daughter
Section 2: Honor and Relationships
Chapter 5: Honoring Business Relationships
Chapter 6: Relational Investment
Chapter 7: Relational Risk Management
Chapter 8: Relational Reward
Section 2 Activation: Moving from Fear to Love and Honor in Relationships
Section 3: Honor and Leadership
Chapter 9: The Heart and Habits of Honoring Business Leaders
Chapter 10: Restoring Honor
Section 3 Activation: Bringing Out the Best in Yourself and Others
Endorsements:
The Business of Honor is a book after my own heart. Why? Because I’m a firm believer that leaders should serve first and lead second. When leaders are humble and vulnerable in front of their people, it creates a two-way bond of trust. When people are empowered to bring their brains to work, the feel valued and safe, relationships flourish, and results follow. Bob Hasson and Danny Silk get it right when they say “trust, safety, and belonging are the fruit of serving well.” Read this book, apply its lessons, and you will be a better leader.
Ken Blanchard, Coauthor of The New One Minute Manager
This authentically brilliant business book centered on relationship integrity translates easily into the vast array of human interactions. Our relationships comprise the colors of our lives: parental, friendship, business, communal, marital, etc. Read with a highlighter, then go back and spend some time with what you underscored. Every one of us has a deep, driving longing to be an integrated and successful human being, and this book is enormously helpful in showing us how.
Wm. Paul Young, Author of The Shack
About the Authors:
Bob Hasson is a businessman and leadership consultant. His greatest passion is strengthening leaders and their organizations, with specific focus on developing sound organizational structure, fiscal responsibility, and dynamic relationships on leadership teams. As CEO of R.M. Hasson Painting Contractors, Inc., which he founded in 1978, he established the company as a trusted partner serving general contractors across the Western US. For over thirty years, he has been active as a consultant and board member for churches, ministries, non-profits, and school boards, and his wisdom has been sought out by many leaders and organizations. Since 2012, he has traveled around the world with Danny Silk as a speaker and consultant for Loving on Purpose. He has been married for thirty years to his wife Lauren and is the proud father of David.
Danny Silk serves on the Senior Leadership Team of both Bethel Church in Redding, CA and Jesus Culture in Sacramento, CA. He is the President and Co-Founder of Loving on Purpose, a ministry to families and communities worldwide. Danny is also the author of five books covering the subjects of building successful relationships, a culture of honor and strong families. Danny and Shri married in 1984 and have three children and three grandchildren.
