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Lead Your Boss



Lead Your Boss

Announcing a new book from John Baldoni that answers the question: How can I lead from the middle?

John Baldoni is one of the organizational thinkers that I respect the most. His ideas are practical – and he can help make sure that you have an impact in your organization! Every decision in life is made by the person who has the power to make that decision.  If you influence that person you can make a difference!  John shows you how in Lead Your Boss. It should be required reading for all middle managers!
Marshall Goldsmith
Pre-eminent executive coach and author of 24 books, including the best-selling number one business book of the year, What Got You Here Won’t Get you There


Managing up is one of the most critical challenges facing employees at nearly every level today. John Baldoni’s accessible style and uncommon insights bring a fresh perspective to this urgent topic in particular and to management writing at large.

Eric Hellweg
Managing Director, Harvard Business.org


Lead Your Boss
explores the power of influence in ways that make developing it and implementing it doable. As an experienced executive coach, Baldoni knows how to make the case for managers advocating for positive change in order to help the organization succeed. And in the process the bosses do well, too. Great insights.

John Bourbeau
CEO, Right Management/Great Lakes Region

 

 

 


Lead Your Boss:
The Subtle Art of Managing Up



 

by John Baldoni

"Baldoni's guide to leading in the middle provides useful advice...[and] offers encouragement and inspiration" -- Harvard Business Review

A "best leadership book of 2009" -- LeadershipNow.com

"Concrete advice for those who find themselves working in the middle" -- WashingtonPost.com

Author of one of the “best leadership books”
for 2008
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AMACOM $21.95
ISBN-10: 0814415059
ISBN-13: 978-0814415054

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Lead Your Boss: The Subtle Art of Managing Up describes ways that managers can seek to lead their organizations from the middle.  Organizations, especially those in crisis, need men and women willing to exert their leadership to effect positive change.

Lead Your Boss demonstrates how managers can use their influence to lead without authority.  For managers who seek to lead up, learning to think and act strategically as well as to develop the talents and skills of their colleagues is essential.

Lead Your Boss provides a path for those who seek to lead up with insights into influencing superiors and peers in order to achieve sustainable results.
Reading Lead Your Boss will provide managers with a "pick-me up" in the form of fast acting advice they need to face the challenges of everyday leadership.
Drawing upon his years of experience as a top leadership consultant and executive coach, author John Baldoni:

  • Reveals the secrets of leading and managing your boss to achieve breakthrough goals and sustainable results.
  • Explores how to exert your presence and influence to effect positive change up, down and throughout the organization
  • Reveals insights and stories of men and women who know how to lead from the middle
  • Contains a handbook of leading from the middle action steps
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Learn the secrets of achieving inspired results!

John’s insights are easy to understand and absolutely on target for the requirements of a modern day leader. If you follow any of his recommendations, you will become an even more effective leader because your followers will be more inspired to follow.

Jim Moore

Former Chief Learning Officer BellSouth, Nortel, & Sun Microsystems

John Baldoni has a distinct ability to peel away the complexities of leadership and deliver truly practical advice. His deeply useful ideas will resonate with managers of all organizational levels.

Paul Michelman

Director of Content, Harvard Business Digital
Harvard Business Publishing

 

 

 


Lead by Example:
50 Ways Great Leaders Inspire Results



 

by John Baldoni

AMACOM $21.95
ISBN-10: 0814412947
ISBN-13: 978-0814412947

A "best leadership book of 2008" -- LeadershipNow.com

A top ten business book -- TheStreet.com

Book of the Month (December) -- Entrepreneur.com

"You are certain to be inspired by the many examples of leaders... make room for Lead By Example"T & D March 2009

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How do I get others to follow my lead?

Lead by Example: 50 Ways Great Leaders Inspire Results addresses the challenges all leaders face when seeking to bring people together around a common cause. It argues that leaders must create conditions for people to succeed.

Lead by Example provides insights in how leaders set the right example, act as true leaders, handle tough issues, and put their teams first. Doing these things builds trust by giving people a reason to believe in their leadership.

Reading Lead by Example will provide managers with a “pick-me up” in the form of fast‑acting advice they need to face the challenges of everyday leadership.

Drawing upon his years of experience as a top leadership consultant and executive coach, author John Baldoni:

  • Demonstrates what a leader must do to inspire others to follow and in turn achieve lasting results
  • Explores how to manage dissent, demonstrate resilience, drive innovation, drive innovation, and create a winning culture
  • Reveals insights and stories of men and women who know how to lead from the front
  • Contains a handbook of leadership action questions

 

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From McGraw-Hill…

Learn the secrets of achieving inspired results!

“Great leaders! Great stories! Great lessons! A wise person learns from experience - a much wiser person learns from someone else's experience. Reading How Great Leaders Get Great Results is a wonderful way to learn! These stories show the human side of leadership.”

- Marshall Goldsmith
Executive coach
Author or co-editor of 18 books
and recently named by the American Management Association as one of
50 great thinkers and leaders


“How Great Leaders Get Great Results is a great resource for leaders at every level of the enterprise. Whether you want to lead in business, government, or non-profits, this book will help you focus on results. John Baldoni's four-step process illuminates the communication imperative for the leader of the future. It’s a powerful book.”


- Frances Hesselbein

Chairman
Leader to Leader Institute


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How Great Leaders Get Great Results

 

by John Baldoni

McGraw-Hill Trade $21.95

ISBN 0071464875
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How do leaders achieve lasting results?

They communicate through words, stories and personal example.

John Baldoni takes a fresh look at how leaders achieve results. They do it setting the vision, creating alignment, guiding execution and insisting on discipline as they push the enterprise forward. Very importantly successful leaders allow for risk and demonstrate courage in the achievement of results that stand the test of time.

How Great Leaders Get Great Results provides real-world insights that can help leaders achieve inspired results for themselves, their teams, and their people.

Drawing upon his years of experience as a top leadership communications consultant, author John Baldoni:

  • Reveals the communication secrets of Anne Mulcahy, Bill Belichick, Meg Whitman, Lou Gerstner, Carlos Ghosn, Steven Spielberg, Sen. John McCain, and many other influential leaders
  • Unveils a compelling model that demonstrates how leaders keep everyone focused on achieving the right results at the right time
  • Demonstrates how leaders can use stories to push for achieve leadership goals

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From McGraw-Hill…

"You ask, what is our aim? I can answer with in one word: It is victory, victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory, however long and hard the road may be; for without victory, there is no survival. … and I say, ‘come then, let us go forward together with our united strength."


  - Winston Churchill
May 1940

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Great Communication Secrets of Great Leaders

 

by John Baldoni

McGraw-Hill Trade paperback $12.95

ISBN 0-07-141496-7

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Can a leader’s words really make a difference?

They can… if they are used to build trust and achieve results that benefit individuals and the organization. Think Winston Churchill, Mother Teresa, or Colin Powell! These three leaders have used words of conviction, compassion, and courage to unite their people in body, mind and spirit.

While much has been written about leadership and communications, few authors have explored the nexus of the two topics -- leadership communications. Until now!

Great Communication Secrets of Great Leaders provides real-world insights that can help leaders turn their spoken and written words into leadership messages that inform, exhort, and inspire others to achieve improved results for themselves, their teams, and their people.

In Great Communication Secrets of Great Leaders, readers can explore how leaders can develop, deliver and sustain their leadership messages to build greater levels of trust and to achieve desired results.

Who should read Great Communication Secrets of Great Leaders
Aimed at men and women in supervisory positions, Great Communication Secrets combines easy-to-read theory with practical tips along with stories about men and women leaders. Featured in the book are profiles of Winston Churchill, Mother Teresa, Rudy Giuliani, Colin Powell, Shelly Lazarus, Jack Welch, Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Vince Lombardi, and Bill Veeck.

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Personal Leadership
Taking Control of Your Work life


by John Baldoni

219 pp. Hardcover $23.95
ISBN: 0-9657345-1-X
Elsewhere Press


 

Personal Leadership: Taking Control of Your Work Life provides skill-building information that first-time managers can use to become leaders. Accessible and easy to scan, this book combines insightful profiles of leaders in action with practical essays on leadership skills such as vision, planning, communication, recognition, and supervision.

Featuring an easy-to-use, high-impact graphic format, Personal Leadership delivers hard-hitting, real-world tips on how to become the leader that others will respect, trust, and follow.

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From McGraw-Hill…

A breakthrough book links motivation to achieving leadership goals!

“Rousing others for common cause is essential but elusive. For fresh insight into what makes the difference, John Baldoni offers compelling portraits of leading figures who have done it, ranging from Colleen Barrett of Southwest Airlines to Magic Johnson and Ernest Shackleton. Great Motivation Secrets of Great Leaders reveals what we all must do if we are to be great at inspiring others to a cause.”

- Michael Useem
Professor and director of the Wharton School's Leadership
Center & author of Leading Up and The Leadership Moment
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Great Motivation Secrets of Great Leaders

 

by John Baldoni

McGraw-Hill Trade $18.95

ISBN 0071447741
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How do leaders motivate their people?

In a word, they don’t. They create conditions for people to motivate themselves and thereby achieve results that benefit individuals and the organization.

John Baldoni takes a fresh look at motivation by showing how setting the right example, communicating clearly, challenging appropriately, empowering with authority, coaching relentlessly, and sacrificing for the team inspires people to do their best.

Great Motivation Secrets of Great Leaders provides real-world insights that can help leaders achieve inspired results for themselves, their teams, and their people.

Drawing upon his years of experience as a top leadership consultant and coach, author John Baldoni:

  • Reveals the motivation secrets of Mary Kay Ash, Sam Walton, Pat Summitt, Magic Johnson, David Hackworth, Frances Hesselbein, Zingerman's, Ernest Shackelton, and many other influential leaders

  • Reveals a compelling model that demonstrates how leaders create conditions for motivation to occur

  • Demonstrates how leaders can and must energize, encourage and exhort their people to achieve leadership goals.

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180 Ways to Walk the Motivation Talk
Proven and Practical "How-To's" to Energize
Everyone in Your Organization


by John Baldoni and Eric Harvey

56-page softcover $9.95
ISBN:
Walk the Talk Company

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It’s one of the most important yet underutilized factors affecting business today. And, fact is, your very success hinges on the ability of leaders throughout your organization to make it happen.

It’s called MOTIVATION ... and it’s what this handbook is all about.

This quick-reference handbook provides leaders at all levels with insights, strategies, and “how-to” techniques they can use immediately to “light a fire” under others ... and themselves.

180 Ways To Walk The Motivation Talk is a practical, cost-effective guide for energizing your entire organization to achieve higher levels of collaboration, commitment, and productivity.

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180 Ways to Walk the Leadership Talk
The How to Handbook for leaders At All Levels

by John Baldoni

56-page softcover $9.95
ISBN: 1885228-38-4
Walk the Talk Company

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Do your people know the difference between being a "boss" and being a "leader"? They better! Fact is: Your bottom line is ON the line!

It's no secret that Leadership (or the lack of it) is the most critical factor affecting your current and future business success. Yet far too many key people are expected to assume leadership roles without being given the guidance and support necessary to do the job ... and they're struggling. They need help. They need tools. More than anything else, THEY NEED A MAP to show them the way. And here it is!

This quick-reference handbook is packed with ideas, techniques, and strategies to help current and future leaders shape an environment that attracts and retains the people you need and produces the results you want.

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