Arizona State's W.P. Carey Business School Interviews Dr. Chris Neck about Self-Action Leadership

Christopher P. Neck, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Management
Arizona State University

Last month, the W.P. Carey Business School at Arizona State University interviewed Dr. Christopher P. Neck—an esteemed faculty member and one of the department's most successful and prolific authors and researchers. 

The purpose of the interview was to explore Drs. Jensen and Neck's most recent scholarly publication on SELF-ACTION LEADERSHIP as it relates to CHARACTER EDUCATION.

Jensen and Neck's PAPER—their fifth peer-reviewed collaboration together—was published last year in The Journal of Leadership and Management.

The goal of Jensen and Neck's newest academic paper on Self-Action Leadership is to position SAL as a go-to curriculum that not only fills a universal character education and professional training need, but that does so in a balanced way designed to unite rather than divide constituencies with vested interests in the EDUCATION of each other as well as our children and grandchildren.

Click HERE to access this INTERVIEW, written by Sally J. Clasen.

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About Dr. Christopher P. Neck

Christopher P. Neck, Ph.D., is one of the world's most prestigious and prolific scholars in the academic field of self-leadership. He is the lead co-author (with Dr. Charles C. Manz and Dr. Jeffery D. Houghton) of Self-Leadership: The Definitive Guide to Personal Excellence (SAGE), which serves as the seminal textbook on self-leadership used at colleges and universities around the world. A forerunner of this text—Mastering Self-Leadership: Empowering Yourself for Personal Excellence—was used by Dr. Jordan Jensen during his early college days and served as Dr. JJ's formal introduction to self-leadership in academe.

Dr. Neck earned a bachelor's degree and MBA from LSU and a Ph.D. in management from ASU, where he is currently an associate professor of management. Before ASU, Neck taught at Virginia Tech, where he was awarded the prestigious Students' Choice Teacher of the Year award an extraordinary NINE (9) times between 1996 and 2008. 

Neck has published more than one hundred scholarly works in the form of textbooks, book chapters, and peer reviewed articles. His research specialties include: leadership, self-leadership, employee-executive fitness, self-managing teams, and group decision making processes. 

Dr. Neck has facilitated training seminars for the U.S. Army as well as major corporations such as GE/Toshiba, America West Airlines (now American Airlines), Dillards, Prudential Life Insurance, Busch Gardens, Clark Construction, Crestar, American Family Insurance, Sales and Marketing Executives International, American Electric Power, and W.L. Gore & Associates. His writing has been cited in major news publications including: The Houston Chronicle, The Chicago Tribune, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, and The Wall Street Journal.

Neck is the lead author of Management—a textbook for introductory collegiate courses on the subject (Neck, Lattimer, & Hougton; Wiley 2022, 2020, 2017, 2014). Other books authored or co-authored by Neck include: Entrepreneurship (2021, 2018), Medicine for the Mind: Healing Words to Help Your Soar (2007), Fit to Lead: The Proven 8-Week Solution for Shaping up Your Body, Your Mind, and Your Career (2004), The Wisdom of Solomon at Work (2001), and For Team Members Only: Making Your Workplace Team Productive and Hassle-Free (1997). 

Chris is a husband and proud father of a son and daughter. An avid runner, he has completed twelve marathons, including the New York, San Diego, and elite Boston. To date, his longest continuous run in forty miles. 

For more information about Dr. Neck's work and consulting services, or to contact him personally, please visit his website at www.chrisneck.com

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Click HERE to view Dr. Chris Neck's Faculty page at Arizona State University.  

Click HERE to view Dr. Chris Neck's personal website. 

Click HERE to watch Dr. Chris Neck do what he does best: SPEAK and TEACH about self-leadership in a presentation to students at St. Vincent College in Latrobe, Pennsylvania.

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To date, Drs. Neck and Jensen have collaborated on FIVE (5) scholarly papers together. Four of these papers were published in The Journal of Leadership and Management. The fifth paper was published in the Journal of Management, Spirituality, & Religion.  These five papers (or abstract) can be accessed by clicking on the links below.  

SAL Theory Paper

SAL Model Paper

SAL Pedagogy Paper

SAL Character Education Paper

The Relation of Spirituality to Time Management: Examining the Lives and Careers of FranklinCovey Co-Founders, Hyrum W. Smith and Stephen R. Covey

 

—Dr. JJ

February 16, 2022

Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, USA

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The Universal Applicability & Appeal of Self-Action Leadership

Self-Action Leadership (SAL) was intentionally written with a universal audience in mind.  Unlike many self-help or personal development books that focus on a single audience or undertaking (e.g. business/corporate, education, fitness, parenting, etc.), the principles contained in the SAL Theory & Model are specifically designed to benefit anyone at any age, in any group, facing any kind of life challenge or obstacle.  It is, quite literally, a one-size-fits-all guide for self-improvement and holistic personal growth.

According to Christopher P. Neck, an Associate Professor at Arizona State University:

"Jensen has accomplished a task that is very difficult for any author to achieve, and that is to produce a single text that is highly relevant to multiple audiences at the same time. Because of the universal applicability of basic self-leadership principles, his message is germane not only to persons struggling with OCD, depression, or other forms of mental illness, but to civic leaders, business professionals and workers of all kinds, educators, students, athletes, parents, and children—in short, to everyone. Indeed, I do believe that virtually anyone who reads this book will be able to take something away from it that will improve his or her life in a significant way. As an author myself, I am amazed at Jordan’s achievement in writing one book that carries the potential to reach such a wide variety of people—and that is the beauty of it."  Click HERE to read Neck's entire COMMENT.

For the past SEVEN weeks, we have been publishing individual articles that specifically articulate how Self-Action Leadership knowledge and training can benefit SEVEN different, targeted audiences.  In this week's post, we are including links to these seven articles (see end of article for links).

 No matter who you are, you will be able to find your own life's unique niche of experiences among these seven different audiences.  We invite you to scan this list to find the audience[s] that best fits your needs and then carefully read those article[s] that most ideally relate to YOU.

We then encourage you to share these articles with your colleagues, friends, and family members.

While the dawn of the AGE of AUTHENTICISM is already underway, it is just in the beginning stages.  Every person who adds to their knowledge and application of SAL-oriented principles and practices—whether you learn it from Freedom Focused or somewhere else—is like adding another brick to the massive structure of societal change for which ground has already been broken.  We invite you to join us in putting the morally penurious pages of postmodernism behind us by welcoming in a whole new age of thinking and being—an age where authenticity and integrity win the day, and eventually the era.

The SEVEN Audiences of Self-Action Leadership are as follows:  (Click on an audience to access its specific article)

AUDIENCE 1:  Individuals

AUDIENCE 2:  Students of all ages

AUDIENCE 3:  Educators, including Administrators, Teachers/Professors, etc.

AUDIENCE 4:  Business Professionals (Leaders, Managers, & Workers)

AUDIENCE 5:  Parents & Families

AUDIENCE 6:  Elected Officials and other high profile Leaders & Role Models

AUDIENCE 7:  Persons dealing with mental illness

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SELF-ACTION LEADERSHIP is the key catalyst for initiating transformational leadership that lasts in any organization. The truth of the matter really is that simple; and the transformation of organizations through the holistic development of individuals really is that difficult—yet altogether possible for anyone willing to invest the time, effort, and sacrifice required to achieve authentic, transformational results.

Unlike any training program that has ever preceded it, Self-Action Leadership provides a single vehicle wherewith individual self-leaders can discover—and then act—upon the great truth that HOLISTIC personal development and growth spanning the mental, moral, spiritual, physical, emotional, and social elements of our individual natures is within the grasp of each one of us.

Note: Freedom Focused is a non-partisan, for-profit, educational corporation. As such, we do not endorse or embrace political figures. We do, however, comment from time-to-time on historical or political events that provide pedagogical backdrops to illuminating principles contained in the SAL Theory & Model.

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