The Busy Leader's Handbook: How To Lead People and Places That Thrive - Hardcover

Studer, Quint

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1119576644 ISBN 13: 9781119576648

Publisher: Wiley, 2019

Synopsis

A comprehensive book of “need-to-know” insights for busy leaders

Being a great leader means getting the fundamentals right. It also means consistently doing the “little things” that make a positive difference in the lives of employees, customers, and other stakeholders. The Busy Leader’s Handbook: How to Lead People and Places That Thrive is a practical, easy-to-use book filled with gentle reminders of what we should be doing every day―especially when work is at its most intense.

The Handbook is packed with proven best practices, tools, tips, and tactics for engaging employees, revitalizing cultures, delighting customers, and building high-performance companies. Short, succinct, and accessible, each chapter is “stand-alone,” offering helpful advice for meeting common business challenges. Plus, the strategies, approaches, and tactics are designed to be put into action immediately.

Best-selling author, businessman, visionary, and entrepreneur Quint Studer draws on his 30-plus years of experience in helping organizations of all sizes and leaders at every level reach peak performance. Comprehensive in scope, his book overflows with insights and practical advice to help you make smart leadership decisions. For example: 

• Why putting the right foundational structures in place early on creates clarity and heads off problems that cause businesses to struggle and fail
• The importance of followership: why being a good leader requires that you first be a good follower
• Why we tend to run from self-disruption and a sense of being unsettled (and how to learn to embrace them instead)
• Why leaders should seek consent, not consensus
• How to engage employees and create a positive workplace culture
• How to help employees find meaning and purpose in their work
• How to conduct difficult conversations and resolve conflicts―and why having these skills (or not) can make or break you as a leader
• Advice for attracting and hiring the best talent, retaining them over time, and dealing with the low performers who drive them away
• Why mentoring is so powerful and how to encourage it inside your company
• Tips and tactics for seeing the world through your customer’s eyes
• How to reduce customer anxiety (and encourage them to buy) with the right words at the right times for the right reasons

The Busy Leader’s Handbook functions as a desk reference and pocket guide for anyone in a leadership position. It’s also a great training tool for onboarding new leaders. Whether you work for a start-up, a small or mid-size business, or a large corporation, this book will change how you think, inspire you to do your job better―and help your organization thrive.

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From the Inside Flap

A Concise, Easy-to-Use Guide on the Basics of Good Leadership

No matter if you are new to your role as leader, or have years of experience, The Busy Leader's Handbook offers a quick and easy resource filled with the "how-to" strategies that can be put into action right away. The book's tactics are designed for hardworking leaders who are short on time and are searching for a guide for getting the fundamentals right and doing the little things that can make a big difference to overall performance. Each chapter in the Handbook is filled with stand-alone best practices, tools, tips, and tactics for involving employees, revitalizing cultures, delighting customers, and building high-performance companies.

Written by entrepreneur, visionary, and Wall Street Journal best-selling author Quint Studer, the Handbook draws on his 30-plus years of experience in helping organizations of all sizes and leaders at every level reach peak performance. The book contains the approaches that have proven to get results time and time again. Studer explores the key leadership skills and behaviors that stellar leaders tend to possess. Developing and refining these skills gives any leader the ability to be the best they can be. The author also shows what it takes for leaders to optimize employee performance. Savvy leaders create environments in which people can grow, thrive, and find a powerful sense of meaning. Leaders that develop a positive, engaging, and productive workplace culture give their individual employees and team members the opportunity to shine as never before.

The Busy Leader's Handbook offers time-tested advice for creating the structure, processes, and groundwork needed to build a successful organization. Share the book's ideas and strategies with your organization's managers and other leaders. Once the leaders and managers within your company embrace the tactics outlined in the Handbook, you will be giving your company the boost it needs to thrive today and in the future.

From the Back Cover

PRAISE FOR THE BUSY LEADER'S HANDBOOK

"People frequently ask me about the best path to becoming a successful leader. My favorite new answer is, 'Hang around Quint Studer and listen.' I wish Quint had written this book when I was 30. It would have accelerated my leadership curve dramatically and saved me a lot of scars."
―BERT THORNTON, Former President and COO, Vice Chairman Emeritus, Waffle House, Inc.

"It's a practical toolkit that can help all women, including the vital group of Millennials I focus on, maximize their potential and power."
―TIFFANY PHAM, Founder and CEO, Mogul

"I've spent my whole career studying culture and how to create a place where great employees want to be. This book nails it!"
―SONDRA EOFF, CEO, Odessa Pumps

"Quint is one of the most dynamic leaders on the planet. His new book covers all the bases on how to truly lead in a hyper-efficient world."
―MICHAEL MCDORMAN, President and CEO, The Chamber of Greater Springfield, OH

"Successful leaders will choose to follow Quint's blueprint for recognizing superior work while also connecting people with purpose. Simply put, it's ALWAYS about the relationships. No matter if you are dealing with Baby Boomers, a Millennial, or someone from Gen Z―relationships will always pay."
―DAVE ST. PETER, President and CEO, Minnesota Twins

"Whether you are new to leadership or need a gentle reminder of what 'right' looks like, this is a must-read handbook for everyone in your organization."
―BEN BATES, Chairman, Coldwell Banker Ben Bates, Inc.; Chairman, Bates Hewett & Floyd Insurance Agency; Partner, Beck Chevrolet Buick GMC Dealership in Palatka, FL

"This is a phenomenal resource not just for leaders and business owners, but for any person seeking ways in which to better understand how to live and interact well with others."
―ANDREW FOXWORTH, Partner, Foxworth, Shepard & Bruhl, P.A.

About this edition

• Publisher: Wiley
• Publication date: 2019
• ISBN 10: 1119576644
• ISBN 13: 9781119576648
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 288