Leadership

Dead Wood: Engaging the Disengaged in Today's Right-Sized

He can’t do his job. He’s always screwing up. Everyone else has to work harder. He’s hurting morale. And he’s making you look bad. You have Dead Wood. So dead he or she gives the word unproductive a bad name. But you’ve tried, and you can’t fix him. You can’t transfer him. You can’t fire him. You can’t get rid of him. And now you are at the ...

The Truth About Negotiations

This is the eBook version of the printed book.“The 53 Truths provide incredible insight into the art and science of negotiating. This is a must read for sales professionals but is equally beneficial to all who wish to be better negotiators.” –CHRIS WEBER, Vice President, West Region Enterprise, Microsoft Corporation   “Negotiation skills can and must be ...

Leap, Don't Sleep! How To Get Different Results By Doing

If you want a better future than you’re having right now, you’ll have to do something that you’re not doing right now. Experience more success in your personal life and business. - Choose an untapped approach to change results.- Develop a success mindset with immediate rewards.- Kill mediocrity and double customer retention.- Condense long workdays into ...

The Advantage: Why Organizational Health Trumps Everything Else

There is a competitive advantage out there, arguably more powerful than any other. Is it superior strategy? Faster innovation? Smarter employees? No, New York Times best-selling author, Patrick Lencioni, argues that the seminal difference between successful companies and mediocre ones has little to do with what they know and how smart they are and more to do with how healthy they are. ...

When Core Values Are Strategic: How the Basic Values of Procter

This is the eBook version of the printed book.What do legendary leaders from Disney, GE, GM, Johnson & Johnson, Boeing, eBay, Microsoft, Time Warner, LensCrafters, Chiquita, Walmart, Pepsi, and Saatchi+Saatchi have in common? They all learned the critical importance of values as managers at Procter & Gamble. And, since departing for leadership roles elsewhere, many ...