Wake up!
Subtitle: inspiring and challenging strategies on what it takes to be a no-compromise leader
By: by Neil Ducoff
Edition: First Strategies Press edition.
Publisher: Strategies
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Centerbrook, Connecticut
Language: eng
Number of pages: 295
ISBN-13: 9780984862016; 9780984862009
Subjects: Leadership; Management; Entrepreneurship; Creative thinking; Gestion; Entrepreneuriat; Entrepreneurs; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
Other titles: Inspiring and challenging strategies on what it takes to be a no-compromise leader
Description: "Neil Ducoff's Monday Morning Wake-Up! columns have been providing a weekly shot-in-the-arm for no-compromise leaders since 2008. Wake Up! is a collection of the most powerful and inspiring Monday Morning Wake-Ups, best-of-the-best, designed to motivate, challenge, captivate and spur leaders of all levels to greater success and ease of operations."--Dust jacket flap.
Table of contents: title: Cover; Table of Contents; Foreword; Preface; Chapter 1 Finding Your "It"; Believe; Your passion will see you through; Your business model: facelift or overhaul?; Getting off the hamster wheel; It's time to stretch and fly high; Delivering the no-compromise personal touch; When leaders have epiphanies; Chapter 2 Leadership; These days, it's great to be a leader; What going 'no compromise' really means; Living no-compromise leadership; Leadership success is a moving target; Every leader's internal battle; Lions and tigers and bears; title: Oh my!; You can't dance with the elephant in your business; title: You can't lead a company walking on eggshellsAsk the right questions; Dictatorial and inflexible or determined and resolute; Are you keeping the commitments you make?; Confronting confrontation; How to motivate employees; Communicating without words; Leave nothing unsaid; When personal relationships compromise leadership thinking; What's on your compromise list?; Present a 'state of the company' address; No-compromise resolutions; Chapter 3 Making It Happen; The problem with accountability; Quality's biggest flaw; The pressure test: Manage or meltdown; Synchronize a sense of urgency; title: No-compromise decisions are now in playWhat are your department managers really doing?; Employee challenges: When do they end?; Don't wait too long to fire someone; The importance of emptying your bucket; How to get more done in less time; Feed on solutions not problems; When the most significant breakthroughs occur; Everyone is responsible for business growth; Are you keeping your promise to the customer?; Simple systems drive customer loyalty; What's your hang time?; Decide to take your business to the next level; Why current reality is never good enough; Chapter 4 Numbers; title: How hard are you playing the game of business?Living on the financial edge isn't living; It's hard to grow dragging yesterday's debt; Managing pay expectations; How owners make their accountants lazy; The bottom line on growing the top line; Chapter 5 Culture; What's lurking behind your company's curtain?; That getting-everyone-on-the-same-page thing; Is your information flow really a drip?; Passion and heart drive the numbers you want; Behaviors first, numbers second; Entitlement behavior is pure compromise; When broken commitments compromise trust; When 'inner circle' trust is compromised; title: You need to hear it, and they're afraid to tell youAre you taking your long-term employees for granted?; Employees quit leaders, not companies; How to deal with difficult employees; When your square peg can't fit your round hole; Indifference: When 'I don't care' infects your company; When mediocrity becomes the norm; Leadership and creating great sculptures; Black holes and the dark side; Does your company have an attitude?; How to implement a culture shift; Changing your change resisters; Standing ovations are earned; title: every day; Free your culture of compromise; Chapter 6 Future