Mark Albion is a social entrepreneur who has cofounded seven organizations, including Net Impact, an international network of MBA students and professionals committed to using the power of business to create a better world. He wrote the New York Times business bestseller Making a Life, Making a Living® based on his twelve-year-old monthly Making a Life e-newsletter, which is read in eighty-seven countries. Formerly, Albion was a student and professor at Harvard University and its Business School for eighteen years. He was profiled on 60 Minutes, praised by leaders as diverse as Ronald Reagan and Mother Teresa, and dubbed “the savior of b-school souls” by Business- Week for his efforts to nourish our next generation of business leaders.

How do you lead an organisation when you view business more broadly than a single financial "bottom line"?

What do you do when you believe that business should serve the common good, yet everyday small-business pressures are at a fever pitch?

What do you do when your family needs you most just as your business faces another crisis?

In True to Yourself, scholar and entrepreneur Mark Albion offers answers to these and other pressing questions. Albion argues that small-business leaders concerned with more than the bottom-line are not only more fulfilled, but also more successful with more sustainable lives. True to Yourself addresses this paradox with practical examples of how small-business leaders who have found ways to combine profit with purpose, margin with mission, value with values. Albion profiles a host of business leaders on the edge who have replaced the invisible hand of competition with the visible hand of compassion.

Introduction: Why Read Another Book on Leadership?

Chapter 1: The Three C's: Competence, Compassion, and Commitment

Chapter 2: Turn Your Values into Value

Chapter 3: Walk Toward the Talk

Chapter 4: Communicate with Great Care

Chapter 5: Facilitate Personal Transformation

Chapter 6: Collaborate for Systemic Change

Chapter 7: Leadership is Learning: Your Personal Guide Book

Appendix: SVN Member Interview Bios

Acknowledgements