Vision Driven: Lessons Learned from the Small Business C-Suite

Discover the Secrets to Successfully Leading a Small Business or Non-Profit

How does a successful top-level manager or CEO motivate employees and encourage productivity, while navigating the often-treacherous organizational waters? How do they surpass lofty expectations and deliver impressive results with pitfalls lurking around every corner?

Vision Driven: Lessons Learned from the Small Business C-Suite reveals the secrets behind winning executives' strategies for taking charge effectively of small organizations, both for-profit and nonprofit businesses. In clear, easy-to-understand prose that's loaded with real-life examples, renowned management consultant Mallary Tytel shows experienced and newly minted managers alike the do's, don'ts and don't-even-think-about-it's to take their organization to the next level.

Readers will learn:

- Rules for developing a successful management team you can actually work with
- Strategies for building accountability and open communication
- The keys for establishing a positive and productive office environment
- How to plan for change and prepare for the unknown, and much more!

Providing fundamental insights into a leader's greatest challenges-and how to overcome them-Vision Driven is the culmination of 20-plus years of diverse management experience and best practices from a slew of industry professionals. Put these lessons learned to work today and achieve a whole new level of success.

"She opens the door for all leaders to improve their performance in today's complex and turbulent environments."

-Dr Glenda Eoyang, Executive Director and Founder, Human Systems Dynamics Institute

Dr. Mallary Tytel is president and founder of Healthy Workplaces, a national consulting firm that focuses on executive and high potential coaching, complexity and organizational culture, women in transition and strategic thinking for individuals and corporations.

She is the former CEO of an international non-profit education, training and human resource development corporation; has served as a key advisor to senior-level civilian and military personnel within the U.S. Department of Defense; and created and delivered an innovative leadership training program in over 40 military and civilian communities worldwide. As an expert source, Mallary is often quoted in the media, including the New York Times, Entrepreneur Magazine and the Chronicle of Philanthropy, and has appeared on CNBC and ABC World News This Morning. She is also a regular contributor to BusinessWeek.com.

Mallary has a Ph.D. in Public Health Promotion and Organizational Systems from the Union Institute and University, an M.B.A. from the University of Connecticut and is a Certified Executive Coach and Mediator. In her spare time she writes and mentors budding women entrepreneurs.