Booked by HooksBookEvents: Thursday, March 25, 2010
Book: Leadership Without Excuses: How to Create Accountability and High-Performance (Instead of Just Talking About It)
Author: Jeff Grimshaw and Gregg Baron
Publisher: McGraw-Hill, 2010
About the Authors – Jeff Grimshaw is a co-founder and partner in the firm MGStrategy. Over two decades, Jeff has helped hundreds of leaders and dozens of Fortune 1000 companies increase accountability; drive low-hype, high-stakes change; and create environments where people treat mistakes as intellectual capital and reserve the right to get smarter. Jeff co-founded Paul’s Kids Vietnam Children’s Charity, and he is based in Philadelphia.
Gregg Baron is president of Success Sciences and is a certified management consultant with more than two decades of experience.
About the Book – Warning: This book will change the way you lead and succeed—no excuses!
“There’s no accountability!” You probably say it every time your people fail to deliver the results on which you’ve staked enormous resources—not to mention your reputation. And you’re probably right. The lack of accountability is one of the greatest drags on any business.
Leadership Without Excuses helps you take control of this chronic problem and launch a leadership program focuses on engaging employees, executing strategy, and managing ethics and liability. The authors explain how to achieve this first by dividing your workforce into three neat categories:
Saints, employees who perform well under any conditions
Sinners, the lost causes who don’t belong in a work environment to begin with
Save-ables, the vast majority of any workforce, whose performance depends on the quality of their leader
The authors then arm you with know-how for instilling a sense of accountability in the Save-ables. You’ll immediately notice a dramatic increase in employee performance, making it easier to ensure SOX compliance, align the workforce with a new strategy, increase sales, or turn around problem teams.
This game-changing guide helps end the excuses and puts your people on the path to quick, effective, and continuous success.