The Epps Method(TM) (Paperback)
Commissioner William Epps
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Add to basketSold by Grand Eagle Retail, Bensenville, IL, U.S.A.
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Add to basketPaperback. Every organization has leaders. Every organization also has followers. Only one book in the leadership aisle is written for both sides of the desk.Bookstores overflow with leadership titles - and stay almost silent on followership. Yet some of the most devastating damage in businesses, churches, agencies, and teams is never inflicted from the top. It comes from below and from beside: the gifted insider whose ambition curdled into entitlement, the trusted voice quietly building a coalition, the whisper campaign that surfaces the day it's too late to stop cheaply.Three thousand years ago, a talented, credentialed insider named Korah gathered 250 respected leaders and marched them against Moses. His opening line wasn't a lie - it was a half-truth, wrapped in the language of fairness. That's what made him dangerous. In this third volume of the Epps Method(TM) Spirit Series, Commissioner William Epps - drawing on a leadership career spanning retail, law enforcement, fire service, private security, and the federal government - turns history's most documented organizational mutiny into a practical field manual for anyone inside a divided environment.IF YOU LEAD, you'll learn to: Recognize the early indicators of a dangerous follower - the meeting after the meeting, "everyone feels this way," influence without responsibility - using the Twelve Tells observation frameworkRespond to ambush and whisper campaigns with the six-move Moses Response - without retaliation, counter-gossip, or paranoiaSeparate the recruited from the recruiter using the Five Rings, and know when restoration is possible and when separation is necessaryAudit your own blind spots - unexplained decisions, broken promotion systems, unrecognized talent - that quietly cultivate resentmentPass the Three-Spirit Test before labeling anyone, so honest dissent is never punished as rebellionIF YOU FOLLOW - and everyone answers to someone - you'll learn to: Find your address on the Followership Continuum: Saboteur, Critic, Consumer, Contributor, Builder, MultiplierRecognize the Five Stages of Organizational Rebellion in time to take the exitDisagree, escalate, and influence with integrity using the Front Door Protocol for healthy dissentHandle being passed over, overlooked, or eclipsed - the way Joshua, Caleb, David, Joseph, Jonathan, and Barnabas didAnswer the hardest question in the book: Could I become Korah?You don't need to be religious to use this book. The rebellion of Korah is examined the way a business school uses a case study - for the patterns, the psychology, and the strategy. And it ends with the twist almost nobody teaches: Korah's own children refused his rebellion, and their descendants became the songwriters and doorkeepers of the temple. Your story doesn't have to end where your ambition is pointed today.The greatest danger is not working with a Korah. The greatest danger is becoming one. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
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Every organization has leaders. Every organization also has followers. Only one book in the leadership aisle is written for both sides of the desk.
Bookstores overflow with leadership titles — and stay almost silent on followership. Yet some of the most devastating damage in businesses, churches, agencies, and teams is never inflicted from the top. It comes from below and from beside: the gifted insider whose ambition curdled into entitlement, the trusted voice quietly building a coalition, the whisper campaign that surfaces the day it's too late to stop cheaply.
Three thousand years ago, a talented, credentialed insider named Korah gathered 250 respected leaders and marched them against Moses. His opening line wasn't a lie — it was a half-truth, wrapped in the language of fairness. That's what made him dangerous. In this third volume of the Epps Method™ Spirit Series, Commissioner William Epps — drawing on a leadership career spanning retail, law enforcement, fire service, private security, and the federal government — turns history's most documented organizational mutiny into a practical field manual for anyone inside a divided environment.
IF YOU LEAD, you'll learn to:
IF YOU FOLLOW — and everyone answers to someone — you'll learn to:
You don't need to be religious to use this book. The rebellion of Korah is examined the way a business school uses a case study — for the patterns, the psychology, and the strategy. And it ends with the twist almost nobody teaches: Korah's own children refused his rebellion, and their descendants became the songwriters and doorkeepers of the temple. Your story doesn't have to end where your ambition is pointed today.
The greatest danger is not working with a Korah. The greatest danger is becoming one.
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