Leaders who create execution cultures focus on five key items: specific priorities for their businesses; assigning the right projects to the most competent people; setting milestones with regular reviews; measuring performances; and linking everything from priorities to external information.

Provides details about building organizations that prosper long into the twenty-first century and beyond, and also about visionary companies. This book contains specific examples and is organized into a coherent framework of practical concepts that can be applied by managers and entrepreneurs at various levels.

Examines the difference between leadership styles and outlines principles for inspiring, motivating, and influencing others. This book also enables readers to examine how to be effective in the highest calling of leadership, by understanding the five characteristics that set leader managers apart from run of the mill managers.

A 38-item paper handout that is a team development tool. It provides participants with an opportunity to begin exploring the pitfalls that are side-tracking their team. It is suitable for off-sites, retreats, or a series of team development meetings.

Tells a story of four characters who live in a maze and look for cheese to nourish them. Cheese is a metaphor for what you want to have in your life - whether it is a good job, a loving relationship, money or a possession. And the maze is where you look for what you want - the organization you work for in, or the family or community you live in.

Can a good company become a great one and, if so, how? After a five-year research project, the author concludes that good to great can and does happen. Here, he uncovers the underlying variables that enable any type of organization to make the leap from good to great while other organizations remain only good.