How Great Leaders Get Great Results (BUSINESS BOOKS) - Hardcover

How can you tell a true leader from one who just talks a good game?

It's a true leader who makes his or her vision a reality--achieving great results that bring the highest levels of success.

In How Great Leaders Get Great Results, top leadership and management consultant John Baldoni explains how anyone from a first-time manager to a CEO can become a great leader by creating a strong, results-driven organization. He blends key management principles with leadership stories to demonstrate how you can bring your people together, gain their trust, increase their enthusiasm, and motivate them to adopt your company's goals as their own.

Baldoni profiles several renowned, results-oriented business leaders, revealing the proven execution strategies they use to consistently get their people to perform to their fullest. He identifies seven key steps--Vision, Alignment, Execution, Risk, Discipline, Courage, and Results--that top leaders such as Anne Mulcahy, John McCain, Steve Jobs, Meg Whitman, and Steven Spielberg take to get the results they want. Their stories are paired with a concrete plan of action that helps you cultivate a results-driven culture--no matter your type of business. Baldoni shows you how to:

• Communicate with your people in ways that make things happen
• Enlist support for your ideas and overcome resistance
• Instill a sense of accountability in all teams and departments
• Encourage risk-taking and push innovation
• Achieve desirable, sustainable results--and deal with unintended, unwelcome results
• Teach your own results-driven story

Whether your goals are increased sales, improved customer service, enhanced quality, faster productivity, or any other criteria for your people, products, or services, How Great Leaders Get Great Results gives you the tools to become a true visionary, create more "heroes" in your workplace, and drive your business to the top.

Pairing the profiles of top leaders such as Anne Mulcahy, Steve Jobs, Carlos Ghosn, and John McCain with concrete steps to get your employees to perform at their best, How Great Leaders Get Great Resultshelps both first-time managers and CEOs get winning results in all of their projects.

"Reading How Great Leaders Get Great Results is a wonderful way to learn! These stories show the human side of leadership."--Marshall Goldsmith, Executive coach, recently named by the American Management Association as one of 50 great thinkers and leaders

"How Great Leaders Get Great Results is a great resource for leaders at every level of the enterprise. John Baldoni's four-step process illuminates the communication imperative for the leader of the future."--Frances Hesselbein, Chairman, Leader to Leader Institute

"John Baldoni brings to life the great leaders of our time.  Listen, watch, and learn how these individuals lead their entities to success."--David J. Cichelli, Sr. Vice President, The Alexander Group, Inc.

"How Great Leaders Get Great Results is a book that all leaders will want to read. John Baldoni offers insights into how leaders can use their communications to build support for their ideas and carry them to fruition."--William Phebus, Secretary/Treasurer, Williams/Gerard Productions

"With a deft touch and highly readable stories, Baldoni has captured the essence of post-modern leadership skills that all leaders must demonstrate in order to succeed."--Mark Linder, Global Client Leader, WPP Group