The Leader's Pocket Guide: 101 Indispensable Tools, Tips, and Techniques for Any Situation

The Leader’s Pocket Guide provides you with on-the-job expertise to inspire and direct you on your professional journeys.

Organized into three sections--self, colleagues, and organization--this useful guide spurs leaders to be ever growing in their careers, and includes lessons on major leadership concepts like why integrity should be your employees’ most highly valued trait, how to lead in a way that empowers others to manage, and why you should identify, commit to, and live by six words.

With 101 indispensable tips and tools to explore, you’ll learn how to:

• deliver inspiration,
• demonstrate character,
• develop confidence,
• communicate with authority,
• think critically,
• foster innovation,
• connect with others,
• resolve conflicts, and more.

You will also discover how to buzz to your leadership brand, coach for development, recognize achievement, instill company-wide purpose, and overcome adversity.

Augmented by up-to-date research on the role of leaders and the expectations followers have for them, The Leader’s Pocket Guide contains energizing action tips, clever formulas, self-assessments, and thoughtful places for deeper reflection to spur you toward becoming a top leader in your industry.

JOHN BALDONI, president of Baldoni Consulting LLC, is an internationally recognized executive coach, speaker, and author. In 2011, Leadership Gurus International ranked John No. 11 on its list of the world's top 30 leadership experts. He is a regular online contributor to CBS MoneyWatch, Inc, and Harvard Business Review.