Transform your leadership style—and your results!

You’re a manager. You’re working harder, longer, to achieve the same results. You’re trying to help your people do their best work, but it’s just not happening. The harder you manage, the more frustrated you become-and your people feel the same way. You’re tired of bureaucracy, deeply skeptical of today’s management mantras. But deep down inside, you know there must be a better way.

Powerful Leadership is for you. In this book, two of the world’s leading experts on organizational leadership identify seven key principles that will allow you to manage more effectively and productively—and simplify your life. Drawing on over 40 years of research, they introduce easy-to-use techniques for freeing people from organizational constraints, redirecting employees who aren’t performing, promoting innovation—and getting results.

Is it possible to meet your management goals and make the workplace a personally rewarding place to be? Yes. Absolutely. And Powerful Leadership will show you how.

Transform your leadership style—and your results!

You’re a manager. You’re working harder, longer, to achieve the same results. You’re trying to help your people do their best work, but it’s just not happening. The harder you manage, the more frustrated you become-and your people feel the same way. You’re tired of bureaucracy, deeply skeptical of today’s management mantras. But deep down inside, you know there must be a better way.

Powerful Leadership is for you. In this book, two of the world’s leading experts on organizational leadership identify seven key principles that will allow you to manage more effectively and productively—and simplify your life. Drawing on over 40 years of research, they introduce easy-to-use techniques for freeing people from organizational constraints, redirecting employees who aren’t performing, promoting innovation—and getting results.

Is it possible to meet your management goals and make the workplace a personally rewarding place to be? Yes. Absolutely. And Powerful Leadership will show you how.

• No more "overmanaging": Lighter management techniques that simply work better
  How to liberate yourself by liberating your employees
• Practical techniques for supporting creative thinking and innovation
  Everyone wants innovation: here’s how to get it
• Helper, Partner, Confidant: From "boss" to " cohort"
  Creating a new order of unity for profound change
• Beyond "delegation" and "motivation"
  The new "4 E’s" of involvement: envisioning, enabling, energizing, and ensuring results
• From criticism to redirection
  Getting the changes you want-without the alienation you can’t afford
• Restoring trust and good will throughout the organization
  "Taking the high road" in your workplace and personal decisions
• "The peaceful path": Finding the calm center that will help you handle anything
  A plan for strengthening your mental and physical well-being