Leadership Gurus Speak Out! Influence, Innovation and Performance in a Changing Workplace

There is a significant shift happening in the field of leadership. Both leaders and those they influence are experiencing a rapid shift in consciousness about the value of their work in their lives. Add to this the real world influences of changing business practices, tighter budgets and a workplace gone global, and leaders are expected to be visionaries who can also get the job done. Leaders urgently need new information, innovative approaches and tools that work so they can move to a greater level of excellence.

LEADERSHIP GURUS SPEAK OUT is the tenth book in the internationally successful Experts Who Speak book series. In this volume, we present you with the collective wisdom, experience and knowledge of thirteen experts from across North America, who are leaders themselves in the field of leadership training and coaching. Each is a specialist in leadership issues and innovation -- with proven results. Where else can you find the advanced information needed by seasoned and aspiring leaders in one easy-to-use resource?

This anthology is a unique goldmine of essential information, strategies and expertise compiled to accelerate your limitless leadership potential and enable a successful and thriving workplace. The choice is yours to move forward to your vision of leadership.

Chapter Highlight: Page 75: The Ten Commandments of Ethical Leadership. Author: Dawn Frail. ** excerpt ** Every company wants a competitive advantage. Every company wants to maximize profits and minimize costs. Every company wants to be innovative with their products and services while being prudent with risk. How do you manage these demands and stay at the top in your customers' heart and minds?

The key to making this happen lies in your leadership team and in the very characters of the leaders themselves. If you have a leadership team that acts with integrity, you have the potential to build a powerhouse organization. The key is to have a team of ethical leaders. And this starts with you in your role as a leader.

The Strategic Alignment Model - affectionately known as SAM - is a systematic approach to learning and applying the Ten Commandments of Ethical Leadership. SAM has four elements and within these fall the Ten Commandments put into an implementation framework. The SAM model helps you to systematically plan a series of actions that will build your leadership character from the inside out, reveal your unique leadership abilities, and also strengthen them.

Contributing author Dawn Frail: Dawn Frail inspires leaders to build trust and loyalty so their teams will increase productivity and profits. She helps leaders and organizations achieve these dynamic results by creating a powerful leadership team -- from the inside out. Timeless wisdom is brought to life for you and your organization through interactive workshops, seminars and keynotes.

Through her research on ethics and leadership, Dawn's mission is to help leaders understand that it is highly profitable to behave ethically. As she focuses her expertise on women in leadership, it is her personal goal to help women break the glass ceiling and enter the senior leadership ranks in their organizations.

Dawn is the author of Powerful Presentation Skills, Powerful Presentation Skills for Women and 10 Principles Every CEO Must Know to Play and Win. Audio presentations include Simple Secrets of Success, The Ethical Advantage and Rules Are Made to Be Broken.

Dawn holds a diploma in Adult Training and Development from the University of Toronto and is a certified Myers-Briggs[R] practitioner.

Additional Contributing Authors: - Sid Ridgley - Maureen Motter-Hodgson - Rolande Kirouac - Cara MacMillan - Charles Seems - Lesley Southwick-Trask - Pat Mussieux - Diane King - Peter M. Cleveland - Cy Wakeman - Sue Edwards - Kathy Glover Scott