Executives Who Lead With Kindness Get Superior Results From Employees

Executives Who Lead With Kindness Get Superior Results From Employees

New Program Airing On Thirteen/WNET New York (http://www.thirteen.org/) and WLIW21 New York (http://www.wliw.org/) Interviews Executives of Google, Eileen Fisher and Pitney Bowes, Among Others

NEW YORK, Oct. 8 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- With the state of today's economy, there is no better time than the present for business leaders to seek creative ways to rise above the competition and maintain confidence in their employees and customers.

An expanding group of innovative executives from leading companies have discovered a new and unusual way to increase profitability and productivity among their workers. The secret? Executives are leading their employees with kindness, as detailed in Bill Baker and Michael O'Malley's book, LEADING WITH KINDNESS: How Good People Consistently Get Superior Results (http://www.thirteen.org/leadingwithkindness/) (AMACOM, August 14, 2008).

To dispel the notion that a boss has to be imperious to succeed, Thirteen/WNET president emeritus Baker and co-author O'Malley bring their book to public television viewers in a new one-hour special by the same name.

LEADING WITH KINDNESS, premieres Sunday, October 19 at 10 p.m. on WLIW21 New York and Sunday, November 23 at 10 p.m. on Thirteen/WNET New York.

Hosted by Baker, LEADING WITH KINDNESS provides an inside look at successful organizations and their leaders. Through a series of interviews, company profiles and expert commentary provided by O'Malley, the program presents how leadership traits and business practices common among top executives have led to their company's growth and success. LEADING WITH KINDNESS speaks with executives who have proven to maximize the output of their employees with kindness. The program also features employees who describe in their own words what they think make their companies so successful.

Executive interviewees include Tim Armstrong, President of North American sales for Google; Murray Martin, CEO of Pitney Bowes; Eileen Fisher, Founder of Eileen Fisher company; Joseph Polisi, President of the Juilliard School; Robert Rubin, former Chairman of CitiGroup and Secretary of the Treasury under President Clinton and Jack Mitchell, CEO of Mitchells and author of the best selling business book Hug Your Customers.

Bill Baker is President Emeritus of Thirteen/WNET and Executive in Residence at Columbia University Business School. Michael O'Malley is Senior Editor for Business, Economics, and Law at Yale University Press and adjunct professor at Columbia University Business School.

Major funding for LEADING WITH KINDNESS is provided by Abby and George O'Neill, Lise Strickler, and Mark Gallogly.

LEADING WITH KINDNESS is a presentation of WLIW21 New York and produced with the assistance of AMACOM, a publishing division of the American Management Association. Gino Del Guercio of Boston Science Communications, Inc. is producer and director.

Thirteen/WNET (http://www.thirteen.org/) is one of the key program providers for public television, bringing such acclaimed series as Nature (http://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/), Great Performances (http://www.pbs.org/wnet/gperf/), American Masters (http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/), Wide Angle (http://www.pbs.org/wnet/wideangle/) and Charlie Rose (http://www.charlierose.com/) to audiences nationwide, and serving the entire New York City metro area with unique local productions and broadcasts, cutting-edge Web sites, and innovative educational and cultural projects. More info at: www.thirteen.org.

Source: Thirteen/WNET New York

CONTACT: Gloria Park, +1-212-560-2063, ParkG@thirteen.org, or Josh Kail,
+1-212-560-3056, kail@thirteen.org, both of Thirteen/WNET New York

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