It Takes a Lot More Than Attitude... To Lead a Stellar Organization
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  • Practical How-To Guide for Effective Company Leadership
It Takes a Lot More Than Attitude... To Lead a Stellar Organization
Stever Robbins
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It Takes a Lot More than Attitude . . . To Lead a Stellar Organization is the ultimate road map to building, growing, and leading a successful company. Written with humor and attitude by one of the country's foremost experts on corporate leadership, this is a how-to book that can serve as any CEO's constant companion. While other leadership books focus on just the leaders, Stever Robbins' book examines how and why people follow, why they sometimes don't, and what to do about it. Be prepared to explore every aspect of a business leader's life.

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5 out of 5 stars Nuggets of wisdom for leaders and their coaches.......2005-03-17

This approachable book by leadership consultant Stever Robbins is packed with real world examples and practical tips about the people side of leadership. Written in chatty sound bites, it's like having a conversation over coffee with Stever to tap into his insights about how CEO's can do a better job at leading.

Each of Stever's stories illustrates an important lesson about how (and how not to) lead. He reveals how one CEO went on vacation while her staff was working overtime on a product launch, while another kept his staff on full pay after a fire leveled the business. His examples communicate essential leadership principles like accepting responsibility, sharing your vision, and creating a culture of mutual respect.

As a business coach myself, I found this book filled with valuable material for working with my executive clients. I recognized many of their management faux pas in Stever's pithy stories, and have been able to pass along much of his sage advice to people who badly needed it.

5 out of 5 stars Practical, Punchy and Plain Speaking.......2004-11-10

Written in a crisp, clear and straightforward style, this book pulls no punches when it comes to defining the moral and ethical responsibilities of leaders.

Amongst other things, Stever is an executive coach, President of Leadership Decision Works Inc, entrepreneur and executive trainer at Harvard Business School. He's therefore well qualified to comment on what makes a good or not-so-good leader. He uses real life examples throughout to illustrate key points and to drive home the messages.

While other leadership books often give only conceptual information about leadership, this book goes much further and deeper by identifying specific, practical steps you can take to become a better leader. In addition there are thought provoking questions to challenge your current paradigms and down-to-earth recommendations for improving how you lead so that you can get the best out of yourself and your team.

I particularly enjoyed Stever's conversational and humourous style of writing. It flows well and his focus on total leadership responsibility means there's no place to hide if things go wrong. The buck stops firmly with you.

Stever's holistic approach to both organisational and individual development and learning is like a breath of fresh air to those of us who believe that helping people to stay healthy is a key to organisational wellness.

I believe the book will be equally useful to developing leaders as well as those in unofficial leadership roles. Applying the recommendations to how you might "lead" your life or any community or sporting body is also valid.

With 3 parts, 30 short chapters and 163 pages, it's easy to find your way back to those things you've decided to work on first. And no doubt you'll dip into the book regularly to support your journey to leadership excellence.

5 out of 5 stars leadership for the rest of us!.......2004-09-25

This book reads very much like an advice column, which is refreshing because the other leadership books I've bought read like science journals. What I liked most was that Stever left the boring case studies out and provided a lot of short but enlightening examples from his experiences as a start-up entrepreneur, technologist, and executive coach. You can pretty much skim this book and learn something about leading people you didn't know before. As someone who makes a living helping people stay organized and focused, I particularly liked the part of the book where Stever offered tips for keeping your head cool and clear when faced with a million deadlines (and Post-it notes). I recommend this book for anyone who runs a company, or plans on running a company in the near future.

5 out of 5 stars Practical How-To Guide for Effective Company Leadership.......2004-08-19


I purchased this book after having read several of Stever Robbins' columns on leadership in a Harvard Business School newsletter. His approach had struck me as practical and on the mark for his audience of (aspiring) effective company leaders.

The book is an extension of the newsletters, synthesizing Robbins' learnings from his years of executive counseling into a well-organized and comprehensive how-to approach. Robbins draws on his experiences in a variety of industries and contexts to illustrate his points with real life examples. The book is a good resource for either young managers who aspire to become leaders, newly promoted execs, or those who have been at the top for awhile but feel they could be doing a much better job at it.

One caveat is that the book includes quite a lot of material. I think managers should focus on one chapter at a time, incorporating the recommended approaches into one's work week before taking on another chapter. For most readers, this means proceeding in a linear fashion starting with "The Rights and Responsibilities of Being at the Top," then tackling the action steps contained in "Leading with Vision - Getting Things Done through Other People," and in "Staying Organized, Focused and Sane."
See Jane Lead: 99 Ways for Women to Take Charge at Work
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5 out of 5 stars The View from a Positive Slant.......2007-07-11

In her previous books Ms. Frankel tended to write from a negative viewpoint. She would say something like here are a hundred things you shouldn't do. She got tired of interviewers asking if she was advising women to be mean and nasty, some even used the dreaded 'B' word:[...] This time she has turned her writing around to the positive side and points out 99 things that women should do.

What I found to be the best two chapters in the book are towards the end. Chapter 8 is Women as Entrepreneurs. Early in the chapter she gives a short self-assessment test. It's pretty good, but I think leaves out two all important questions: 1. Can you stand to have anyone over you as a boss, and 2. In your own mind do you really have a choice or is this something you have to do. Most entrepreneurs I know would put the answer to these questions at the top of their decision tree.

And then there's Chapter 9, Raising Our Daughters to Lead. Little girls are often taught that they fit professions like nurse, stewardess or something else that isn't at the top. But there's no reason they shouldn't be told that they should be the doctor, not the nurse, and if you want to work on an airplane, fly the damn thing, don't serve drinks.

5 out of 5 stars What a great motivating book.......2007-06-14

Please note I bought the audio book. I have to admit that after only a few chapters I was verbally agreeing with the author. This book differentiates "management" from "leadership" in such an AWESOME way. There are a lot of truths in the book and it helped me "see the light" regarding my own professional experiences and mishaps. Because women are becoming a much larger force to be reckoned with in the workplace, times are a changin'. Other topics include "taking risks", how to be a leader, and it's very crafty for the author to have lots and lots of coaching tips through the entire book with references to other great resources (books). I think that women will be empowered and motivated by this book and will run out into the world and start leading in their professional lives instead of feeling like they have to conform to the old school way of corporate America. The truth in this matter is that Corporate America is changing (although rather slowly) and women are going to continue to take on leadership roles and have a lot to offer corporate America and offer a different and effective approach to leadership. This is not to say that a traditional man's approach is completely incorrect, but improvements can be made to increase productivity and motivation. This book is all about showing women they have the skills to lead people and manage businesses.

5 out of 5 stars Frankel Tells It Like It Is- And What to Do About It.......2007-05-30

Dr. Lois Frankel's introduction builds a solid foundation for the book's thesis - women lead very well at work, at home and in their communities but may not get the respect they deserve for it. See Jane Lead debunks the myth that leadership is some sort of abstract "art"; rather, Dr. Frankel uses practical examples of not only what to do but how to do it.

I particularly recommend Chapter 2, "If You Can Run a Household, You Can Be Strategic" for anyone returning to the workforce after time away but any woman who reads this book will discover (or re-discover) her "inner leader" .

3 out of 5 stars Good for what it is.......2007-05-15

I bought this book because I thought it was a book on current leadership practices aimed at women who want to understand how their gender may be influencing their leadership style. After reading it I can say that some women would find my first sentence to be true. I do not happen to be one of them; however, I do not think it is fair to judge the book against my expectations.

This book is aimed at women who need encouragement that they have the skills needed to be a leader. Dr. Frankel gives many examples of how the general life-skills women tend to develop in US culture (eg., organizing a carpool) can be translated into the workplace. While the book does give a rather general overview of the elements of leadership in the workplace the coverage is superficial.

That having been said, I do think that the book is very positive and encouraging and would be very helpful to women who need a bit of help seeing that they really do have what it takes to be a leader.

5 out of 5 stars Great leadership primer for BOTH women and men.......2007-05-14

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    5 out of 5 stars A great guide to dealing with change.......2001-03-11

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    Peter Drucker and Peter Senge explore how each leader can "make the future." Their conversation covers many of the Drucker themes his readers will recognize: the need to abandon the old, the need to build on successes, and the value of leading knowledge workers as if they were volunteers. Peter Senge is a skillful moderator, adding his own comments about the need to focus on creating rather that solving problems. The video package comes with a useful Viewer's Workbook and Notes for Facilitators. This video package is an inexpensive way to bring a provocative conversation into your organization.
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    Rarely do clarion calls sound this loud. Longtime media-industry executive Leo Hindery, who once headed AT&T and several other large companies, now sees plenty of problems in the modern world, in business and out. He uses his new book, It Takes a CEO to issue both his diagnoses of the ills, and proposed cures. With the expansive tone of a politician, Hindery addresses a wide array of issues: inner-city unemployment, lack of health insurance, violence on television, corporate greed, outsourcing, undermotivated young people, and even, in brief stretches, the growing trend towards obesity in Americans.

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    Hindery strays from the conventional business-book formula; from the very first pages of the book, in other words, Hindery focuses on the dramatic social trends that waste human potential and drain pools of potential consumers and employees. Hindery will raise some readers' eyebrows with his direct, sometimes bracing opinions. In discussing the accounting-manipulation and fraud scandals that rocked corporate America around the turn of the century, he naturally mentions the typical villains, such as leaders at Tyco, Worldcom, Adelphia, and Enron. He also displays his disgust with Wall Street analysts who praised companies publicly while privately disparaging them. Citigroup's Jack Grubman catches a few barbs from Hindery, for example. Interestingly, though, Hindery doesn't stop there. He also castigates Citigroup's current CEO, Sandy Weill, whom many in the business world admire as a consummate dealmaker. Hindery finds Weill's compensation as CEO wildly excessive, and opines that Weill "deserves a lifetime banishment from positions of corporate leadership." Hindery similarly attacks the leadership of well-respected companies such as Cisco and Disney.

    Perhaps the strongest part of It Takes a CEO, though, is that it doesn't stop merely with entertaining opinions and sharply worded broadsides. Hindery also shares his experience with prospective CEOs by offering solutions. On the topic of executive compensation, for example, Hindery offers several measures that he considers wise: a smaller pay spread between CEOs and rank-and-file employees, expensing of employee stock options in profit-and-loss accounting, and elimination of short-term vesting on options. It's this kind of practical advice, and constructive spirit, that makes Hindery's book a valuable one. --Peter Han

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    Should CEOs act as moral compasses for their companies? Leo Hindery thinks they should. If every CEO did so, then Enron, WorldCom, Adelphia, and Tyco would not have become poster children for greed. They would not have become corporate embarrassments -- living illustrations of all that can go wrong in the corner office.

    How did these once prestigious companies fall off the ethical cliff? How is it that reputations were destroyed, shareholders lost value, employees (in many cases) lost everything, and, in a few cases, entire companies disappeared? Everyone is pointing fingers, and the new widespread mistrust of public companies may turn out to be more damaging to America's economic future than the billions actually lost in the scandals.

    Now, one of America's most prominent corporate leaders illuminates the need for more integrity and less greed among executives. In a scathing examination of why leaders have lost their way, Leo Hindery speaks out on the role of the CEO.

    Does the corporate culture have to be driven by greed? Or can you do good and still make good in the big business world? Leo Hindery, the former CEO and President of companies such as AT&T Broadband, TCI, and the YES Network -- and currently Managing Partner of InterMedia Partners -- forcefully advocates approaching a business career as life's meaningful work, and not merely as a way to accumulate personal wealth. Both fiery and optimistic, Hindery calls upon his fellow executives to conduct themselves with the kind of integrity that used to be commonplace, but now seems all too rare.

    Holding his moral yardstick up to some of the worst transgressions in recent memory, Hindery tackles the toughest issues of the day head-on:

    • Why should the ratio of average CEO pay to average employee pay today be 304:1 -- and in some cases, as high as 2,300:1?

    • What does it mean when 80 percent of all viewed media content is owned by just 5 companies?

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    • What should the role of the board of directors be, and whose job is it to take care of employees?

    With passion, insight, and humor, Hindery reinvigorates the code of business conduct. It Takes a CEO is a corporate handbook for our times -- not for how to get ahead, but for how to lead with integrity, grace, and heart.

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    "Should CEOs act as moral compasses for their companies? Leo Hindery thinks they should. If every CEO did so, then Enron, WorldCom, Adelphia, and Tyco would not have become poster children for greed. They would not have become corporate embarrassments -- living illustrations of all that can go wrong in the corner office. How did these once prestigious companies fall off the ethical cliff? How is it that reputations were destroyed, shareholders lost value, employees (in many cases) lost everything, and, in a few cases, entire companies disappeared? Everyone is pointing fingers, and the new widespread mistrust of public companies may turn out to be more damaging to America's economic future than the billions actually lost in the scandals. Now, one of America's most prominent corporate leaders illuminates the need for more integrity and less greed among executives. In a scathing examination of why leaders have lost their way, Leo Hindery speaks out on the role of the CEO. Does the corporate culture have to be driven by greed? Or can you do good and still make good in the big business world? Leo Hindery, the former CEO and President of companies such as AT&T Broadband, TCI, and the YES Network -- and currently Managing Partner of InterMedia Partners -- forcefully advocates approaching a business career as life's meaningful work, and not merely as a way to accumulate personal wealth. Both fiery and optimistic, Hindery calls upon his fellow executives to conduct themselves with the kind of integrity that used to be commonplace, but now seems all too rare. Holding his moral yardstick up to some of the worst transgressions in recent memory, Hindery tackles the toughest issues of the day head-on: . Why should the ratio of average CEO pay to average employee pay today be 304:1 -- and in some cases, as high as 2,300:1? . What does it mean when 80 percent of all viewed media content is owned by just 5 companies? . If offshoring is good for the global economy, what needs to be done to make it fair? . What should the role of the board of directors be, and whose job is it to take care of employees? With passion, insight, and humor, Hindery reinvigorates the code of business conduct. It Takes a CEO is a corporate handbook for our times -- not for how to get ahead, but for how to lead with integrity, grace, and heart. "

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    3 out of 5 stars At last, a broader perspective on the purpose of companies.......2006-09-29

    I don't know much about Hindery's background and how successful he has been as a CEO, but I really enjoyed reading this book. The three main topics seem to be: 1. CEOs should become CEOs for the right reasons, i.e. helping all stakeholders become successful and happy, instead of worrying only about their own highly-inflated income, benefits and bonuses; 2. Shareholders should not be the only people who are considered in the running of a company -- employees, the community and customers should also be considered; 3. Deregulation of certain industries (e.g. media, transport, utilities etc.) has been bad for the country and those industries as a whole; 4. companies (and the national economy) will be better and stronger if employees are paid decent wages and have decent benefits instead of huge bonuses being given to the already mega-wealthy.

    Personally, I found it hard to put this book down, as it touched upon so many issues I have thought about in the past few years, especially when I see one my own bosses yearning to become one of the megawealthy fatcats he obviously admires so much. He would obviously be in the job for the wrong reason.

    1 out of 5 stars It takes a lot of gall........2006-05-11

    It seems that while criticizing renegade CEO's at Enron and the like, the author has not chosen to discuss his own roles in the major disasters linked to two of his own companies - TCI which became AT&T Broadband, which cost AT&T so much money trying to accomplish broadband delivery over cable that it was severely damaged financially and finally sold out to get out from under.
    His next role was at GlobalCenter, which was sold to Exodus Communications for $6 billion in stock, in a deal which not only finally brought down Exodus, but also precipitated the fall of GlobalCenter's seller Global Crossing. Certainly a frank examination about what went wrong in those deals would be much more interesting reading than his examinations of the problems of others - and it might better explain why he understands that it is time to lead with integrity.

    Any reader should keep this context in mine.
    Take Me to Your Leader: Taking the Lead in Our Lives
    Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    • A wonderful Read
    Take Me to Your Leader: Taking the Lead in Our Lives
    Debra E. Talbertr
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    Leaders talk about the essence of leadership in new book—how they took the lead in their own lives In her second book, Take Me To Your Leader: Taking The Lead In Our Lives (iUniverse, Inc.), Debra E. Talbert, has expanded the concept of leadership to a new level: an individual and deeply personal one.

    It's a story so common in the news today, that we have all but ceased to notice. Lilly was born in the worst of the inner-city slums. She was the oldest of five children. Both of her parents were heroin addicts. By the time she was fifteen, two of her siblings had been killed in drug related incidents. Her father was dead. Her Mother was in prison. And she was addicted to crack. Today, however, this woman a respected corporate manager who has acquired a reputation for developing leaders. It begs the question—who's in charge here?

    In her book, Take Me To Your Leader: Taking The Lead In Our Lives, Author, Debra E. Talbert (Take the Lead Consulting), brings the stories of real people who have had significant turning points in their lives. "One moment they were staring at an insurmountable obstacle, and the next moment they were blazing a trail. I wanted to know what was actually happening in that moment…what allowed them to see a different possibility." Through hundreds of interviews, from people all over the world, Debra has uncovered the things we are all doing—every day—to take the lead in creating our lives.

    "So often we think about the concept of leadership as leading out—leading others. How do I get the organization to do what it needs to do? How do I inspire my clients, employees, kids? But, truly we are the most effective at leading others when we have first taken the lead in our own lives."

    Take Me To Your Leader: Taking the Lead In Our Lives, brings together seven patterns of belief and practice that help us in asking questions about what is possible in our lives. The seven patterns include three core beliefs—Who do I think I am? (Identity). What do I think about power? (Influence). What will I do about the pain? (Pain) And, four life practices: Choice, Vision, Meaning, and Reverence.

    "In my work I have an opportunity to meet some remarkable leaders—in corporate America, public sector, and military—many of them quite famous. Many of them have had extraordinary achievements as leaders in our society. But it was their personal stories that really touched me. I will never forget a base commander I met once who was about to retire. He described the transition from leading out—to leading in as, `the most profound endeavor of my career.'"

    Debra E. Talbert is an international consultant, speaker and workshop leader in the field of organizational and leadership development. Debra's first book: The Gypsy Sings: A Trilogy to Celebrate the Gypsy In The Soul, published with artist Gretchen McGarigle-Butler, is a fictionalized group of stories which also looks at the vitality of our inner lives.

    "Take Me To Your Leader: Taking The Lead In Our Lives, is about that moment when something in us shifts and allows us to make different choices, and to create a different story for ourselves. It is the collected wisdom of people who have faced that moment locked in board rooms, stopped at traffic lights, standing at pulpits, sitting in churches, staring in the mirror. People who, whatever else they were doing, made the choice to take the lead."

    Take Me To Your Leader: Taking The Lead In Our Lives

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    5 out of 5 stars A wonderful Read.......2004-02-23

    This is a delightful book. It's incredibly well-written and is enjoyable to read. But more importantly, the messages are powerful. It helps us understand what it means to become a leader in your own life. I highly recommend this book!
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    Take the Lead: Trombone

    Manufacturer: Houston Publishing, Inc.
    ProductGroup: Book
    Binding: Paperback

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    ASIN: 0793551676

    Book Description

    A basic guide for each of the lead players in a jazz ensemble. Each book covers all the facets of lead playing for that particular section, including section phrasing, balance style, rehearsal techniques, mouthpieces, vibrato, special exercises, equipment, and many other helpful suggestions.

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    5 out of 5 stars The best there is.......2002-11-27

    Steve Wiest has proven himself to be among the very elite in the trombone universe. In this wonderful book Wiest takes both his unique musical style and taste and makes them understandable to all aspiring jazz trombonists. A must buy!

    5 out of 5 stars A must for every trombone player!.......1999-04-01

    I've had the opportunity to play in many trombone sections with some great lead players. However, Steve Wiest is the greatest lead player I've ever had the fortune to make music with! In addition, he is one of the most creative improvisation artists on that instrument. To top it all off, he is the most humble of human beings! So, how can one not buy/read this book!?! Get it!

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      Manufacturer: International Music Publications
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      Take the Lead
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        Mandy Book , and Cheryl S. Smith
        Manufacturer: Legacy Canine Behavior and Training, Inc.
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        Take the Lead, George Washington
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