Powerful Leadership: How to Unleash the Potential in Others and Simplify Your Own Life
Transform your leadership style—and your results!You're a manager. You're working harder, longer, to achieve the same results. You're trying to help your people do their best work, but it's just not happening. The harder you manage, the more frustrated you become-and your people feel the same way. You're tired of bureaucracy, deeply skeptical of today's management mantras. But deep down inside, you know there must be a better way.Powerful Leadershipis for you. In this book, two of the world's leading experts on organizational leadership identify seven key principles that will allow you to manage more effectively and productively—and simplify your life. Drawing on over 40 years of research, they introduce easy-to-use techniques for freeing people from organizational constraints, redirecting employees who aren't performing, promoting innovation—and getting results.Is it possible to meet your management goals and make the workplace a personally rewarding place to be? Yes. Absolutely. AndPowerful Leadershipwill show you how.* No more "overmanaging": Lighter management techniques that simply work better How to liberate yourself by liberating your employees * Practical techniques for supporting creative thinking and innovation Everyone wants innovation: here's how to get it *  Helper, Partner, Confidant: From "boss" to "  cohort"  Creating a new order of unity for profound change * Beyond "delegation" and "motivation" The new "4 E's" of involvement: envisioning, enabling, energizing, and ensuring results * From criticism to redirection Getting the changes you want-without the alienation you can't afford * Restoring trust and good will throughout the organization "Taking the high road" in your workplace and personal decisions  * "The peaceful path": Finding the calm center that will help you handle anything A plan for strengthening your mental and physical well-beingThe more you manage your employees, the more dependent on you they become—and the tougher your life becomes. It's the key paradox of management—andPowerful Leadershiphelps you cut right through it. Eric Stephan and R. Wayne Pace distill seven powerful leadership principles, presenting a natural, powerful, and complete approach to management that will unleash your employees' potential—and yours!Today's seven core principles of management successImproving your effectiveness while you simplify your lifeEliminating the killer stress that accompanies traditional approaches to management"Lighter" management techniques that deliver breakthrough results"People are becoming increasingly convinced that 'command and control' management is obsolete. The almost universal problem is what should take its place and how to do it. To answer this, Stephan and Pace have beautifully integrated seven specific practices, each illustrated with numerous real-life examples-all of which represent a powerful new paradigm which respects and unleashes the enormous potential of people." —Dr. Stephen R. Covey,author,The 7 Habits of Highly Successful People"Stephan and Pace have provided new insights into the ever-evolving principles of leadership. By using compelling examples that all managers can relate to, they bring the seven principles to life. It is a must read for leaders in today's economy."—Cory B. Lindley,Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer,Nu Skin Enterprises"I read the book cover to cover in one sitting. It went right to the heart of the big issues facing leaders in today's business environment. This book is in your face from page one and holds your attention until the last page. It offers a very fresh perspective on a well-worn topic."-Mike Haefner,Senior Vice President, Human Resources,Sabre, Inc."Being a leader in business for many years, I quickly realized the importanceand necessity of incorporating these seven essential changes in our everydaylives. It is a resource you could turn to often for troubleshooting, or for dailyreminders of how important people are in our lives. I would recommend thebook to all business leaders."-Jackie Trujillo,Chairman of the Board,Harman Management Corporation"This book provides one of the most comprehensive managerial aids to come along in a decade. Managers will be reaching for this book as a reference tool for decades to come on ideas to motivate performance and efficiency in organizations. I wish I had been given a book like this when I began my management career."—John M. Knab,CEO,Phonex Broadband Corporation"Well, here's a book about leadership in the trenches that grabs and shakesus—with spunky and fresh language, lots of useful tips, a good groundingleadership theory and practice, and an acute sense of the chaotic, stressfulreality we all face everyday. This book is both simple and uplifting, wise andpractical, East and West. Plus, it's just plain interesting to read. I've been astudent, practitioner, and teacher of leadership for years, and I took away pagesI'll put on my mirror."—Pat McLagan,President, the RITEstuff, Inc.;author,Change Is EVERYBODY'SBusiness