It covers the key areas involved in becoming an effective leader and executive. You can read it selectively depending upon your current need. Each topic in each chapter is designed to be directly applicable and useful.

It draws conclusions and then recommends action to:
1. Reinforce good habits
2. Pinpoint weak areas
3. Get immediate feedback to guide future behavior.

This book will help you:

• Evaluate yourself in meeting four critical needs for leaders:

1. Improving yourself.
2. Developing people.
3. Getting work done.
4. Handling difficult situations.

• Learn how to overcome your specific weaknesses.
• See yourself as others see you.
• Rate your own performance objectively.
• Test your assumptions about teamwork.
• Gain confidence and competence via proven effectiveness.

In a word—it's POWERFUL because it enables you to:
honestly analyze yourself and your current skills so that you can realistically project your future potential as an executive.

Topics like these enable you to rate yourself objectively:
— How Skills Must Change
— Your Self-Appraisal Inventory
— Challenging Underachievers
— How to Keep Your Best People
— How Well Do You Listen
— The Climate for Success
— Why Planning is Resisted
— Why Problems Aren't Solved
— How to Introduce Change
— What Will You Delegate?
— How to Sell Ideas
— Controlling Hostility
— Keys to Managing Your Time
— Coping With Stress
— Reacting to Rejection and Failure
— The Power of Persistence
— And many, many more!