Setting the Pace for Business Success: How to Maximize Your Potential and Get What You Want

Setting the Pace for Business Success: How to Maximize Your Potential and Get What You Want is a first-hand success story woven into a step-by-step guide. Danny Lanier has discovered nine key steps to achieving success in business, and he meticulously outlines and explains how each operates.

Lanier shares the success secrets he used to rise to the position of Financial Vice President of Lucent Technologies. He fills the text with fascinating illustrations from his personal experiences, such as how he explained a $27 million expense to the senior vice president who had caused the problem and what he did on a business trip when he was stranded on a deserted airfield in Costa Rica!

Seasoned professionals and fledgling executive-hopefuls alike will benefit from Lanier’s entertaining, insightful text, which includes worksheets to help readers practice his principles. A special section provides instructions on how to find a coach and mentor others in the business world.

With topics ranging from “Develop Your Plan” to “Dealing with Difficult People,” Setting the Pace for Business Success is designed to help its readers discover their dreams, maximize their potential, and get what they want!

Danny Lanier, a former financial executive with AT&T and Lucent Technologies, has more than 28 years of business experience and has managed operations around the globe. He started his career with AT&T in 1973 as an entry-level accountant and progressed rapidly through the ranks to the executive level.

Lanier has always enjoyed coaching others and has mentored former colleagues over the years at AT&T and Lucent. When he retired from Lucent Technologies in 1999, his goal was to find ways to share his expertise with others by offering his services to companies, colleges, and communities. To help facilitate this goal, he founded MaxpoCoach, an executive coaching and professional development firm based in Alpharetta, Georgia.