How the Best Leaders Lead: Proven Secrets to Getting the Most Out of Yourself and Others - Hardcover

Tracy, Brian

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0814414346 ISBN 13: 9780814414347

Publisher: AMACOM, 2010

Synopsis

Business expert Brian Tracy has worked with more than 1,000 companies in 52 countries. In this award-winning book, he leverages that experience to reveal the strategies used by top executives and business owners around the world to achieve astounding results--even in difficult markets against the most determined competition. How the Best Leaders Lead builds on this knowledge by providing a series of practical, proven ideas and techniques leaders and managers at every level can use immediately. You’ll learn how to: determine your ideal leadership style for any situation; motivate your people with the three Rs--recognition, rewards, and reinforcement; set clear goals and objectives for yourself and others; set priorities and focus on key tasks; solve problems faster and make better decisions; hire and keep the best people; motivate your team in turbulent times; identify opportunities and take concrete action; and plan for the future while managing the present. The ability to select, manage, motivate, and guide employees to achieve results is the true measure of any leader's success. With the tips and tricks found in this invaluable book, you’ll be equipped to strengthen your skills in all of these areas and become the kind of leader who paves the way for your company’s future success.

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Soundview's Harold Longman Award for Best Business Book of the Year

Leadership is the critical factor that determines the success of any business or department. The ability to select, manage, motivate, and guide employees to achieve results is the true measure of any leader’s success.

In this fast-moving book, business expert Brian Tracy reveals the strategies used by top executives and business owners everywhere to achieve astounding results in difficult markets against determined competition.

Brian Tracy has worked with more than 1,000 companies in 52 countries. In How the Best Leaders Lead, he gives you a series of practical, proven ideas and strategies that leaders and managers at every level can use immediately. They’ll learn how to:

· Determine their ideal leadership style for any situation

· Motivate their people with the Three R’s – Recognition, Rewards, and Reinforcement

· Set clear goals and objectives for themselves and others

· Develop an exciting future vision for their business

· Set priorities and focus on key tasks

· Solve problems faster and make better decisions

· Hire and keep the best people

· Build, manage, and motivate winning teams

· Communicate and get their ideas across to others

· Motivate people in turbulent times

· Identify opportunities and take concrete action

· Plan for the future while managing the present

With this timely guide, anyone can learn how to become a better and more effective leader and get more done faster than they ever dreamed possible.

From the Inside Flap

As a savvy and motivated professional, you’re constantly on the lookout for high-impact leadership strategies to take your business to the next level and beyond—which don’t bog you down in abstract theories or exhaustive case studies. You need foolproof ways to lead your people to achieve outstanding results, even in challenging times. As legendary football coach Vince Lombardi said, it’s time to get “brilliant on the basics.”

The world’s great business leaders make it all look easy because they keep it simple: measurable, repeatable methods that generate exceptional results in both strong markets and weak, good economies and bad.

There is perhaps no greater student—and teacher—of these proven and timeless leadership strategies than Brian Tracy, whose business books, seminars, and consulting work have guided countless thousands of professionals, executives, and leaders of all stripes to truly amazing results. In How the Best Leaders Lead, Tracy breaks down the art and science of business leadership into the seven fundamental responsibilities that outstanding leaders master. Essential for success in any organization and every leadership position, they are:

· Setting and achieving goals. Leadership is not abstract—you need to state where you’re going and follow through on what it takes to get there.

· Fostering innovation. Continuously improving your products, services, processes, and promotion methods is the only way to remain dominant.

· Problem solving and decision making. As Tracy notes, “The only obstacles that stand between you and the business success you desire are problems, difficulties, hindrances, and barriers. Your ability to go over, under, or around these problems is central to your success.”

· Setting priorities. Mastering the ability to effectively deploy your three most critical resources—people, money, and time—is vital.

· Setting high standards—and leading by example. The simple but profound truth is that your people can only follow you as far as you lead them.

· Inspiring and motivating others. Getting past “command and control” is the key to sustainable leadership success.

· Performing and achieving results. The direct outcome of the previous six responsibilities combined, this is the measure by which you will ultimately be judged.

How do you master these responsibilities? First, you must ask yourself, “How well do I know myself and what I truly want in my work and my life? How the Best Leaders Lead will take you through a thorough self-analysis with which you will discover what is truly important to you—and identify the specific steps you must take to achieve it.

You’ll then read Tracy’s life-changing lessons culled from the leading edges of business, the annals of history and military strategy, and the wisdom of the world’s most powerful leadership and management thinkers past and present.

Leadership is an exact science but a simple one, born of clear vision and courage, self knowledge and integrity, focus and confidence. With acute insight and Brian Tracy’s quintessentially accessible guidance, How the Best Leaders Lead brings those powerful attributes and leadership greatness easily within your reach.

Brian Tracy is a top business speaker, author, and consultant, addressing more than 250,000 people worldwide each year. He has written 45 books and produced more than 400 audio and video learning programs, which have been translated into 27 languages. He is the President of Brian Tracy University and the Chief Learning Officer of iLearning Global.com, the preeminent business learning portal in the world today. He lives in Solana Beach, California.

Edition details

• Publisher: AMACOM
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0814414346
• ISBN 13: 9780814414347
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 256