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Provides specific strategies and actions you can take to understand difficult people, recognize why they act the way they do, and influence them to change their behavior toward the positive. This results-driven guide tells you what you need to know about forces that compel people to be difficult and the ten most unwanted behaviors.

The Powell Principles details the decision-making habits, success strategies, and leadership philosophies of Secretary of State Colin Powell. Filled with insights that are as refreshingly honest as they are grittily real, this concise, no-nonsense book reveals the keys to Powell's unprecedented success, keys that include: Walk the talk Be a dis-organizer Let change lead growth Be prepared to piss people off Check your ego at the door Push the envelope Let situation dictate strategy Challenge the pros Trust those in the trenches Prepare to be lonely Colin Powell rose from the hardscrabble streets of the Bronx to become the man Newsweek calls "e;...the most respected figure in American public life."e; Let The Powell Principles introduce you to the principles that drove him to the top and provide you with a blueprint for inspiring anyone--including yourself--to achieve extraordinary levels of professional success.

Think about the managers who influenced your career. They were successful because they infused employees - and organizations - with passion for work and motivation to achieve. This title provides two dozen creative and ready-to-use tools and techniques for ensuring that same enthusiasm, energy, and employee morale.

Explains the rules of being a new manager and gives tips and pointers for teaming with employees while inspiring them to breakthrough performance and results. This book shows the ways to: delegate review performance; think strategically; lead meetings; give and get results-oriented feedback; provide direction; and speak with power.

Lists the 24 competencies and guidelines identified time and again as essential for becoming an effective and extraordinary leader. This book introduces readers to the requirements for effective leadership and provides them with a systematic program for attaining, developing, and implementing those skills.

Features 24 strategies and action steps which you can use to communicate the performance you expect from your employees. This book shows you how to: manage performance; work with employees; set performance incentives; align employee goals; conduct reviews; identify causes; recognize success; manage conflict; and, document performance.

Inspire your people and achieve breakthrough productivity Packed with inside tips on achieving performance levels once thought unattainable, How to Manage Performance provides you with the goal-focused, commonsense tools you need to stimulate productivity in any environment. Get the hands-on knowledge and insight you need to: Modernize your thinking Work with employees Set performance incentives Plan precisely with clear goals Conduct effective reviews Identify causes Recognize success Use cooperative communication Manage conflict with grace Document performance Develop employees Continuously improve your system How to Manage Performance will help you increase the productivity of your staff, improve morale, and align individual employee performance with the goals of your organization.

Features 24 time-saving tools and techniques that you can put to use to make every minute on the job more productive. This book reveals secrets for anticipating instead of reacting, eliminating procrastination, and delegating tasks.

Offers 24 lessons that explain the fundamentals of Six Sigma. This book explains how to: eliminate defects, cut costs; use statistics; choose projects carefully; measure smart; and, map the process.

Details the decision-making habits, success strategies, and leadership philosophies of Secretary of State Colin Powell. This title reveals the keys to Powell's success. It introduces you to the principles that drove him to the top.

Work teams succeed only when they can eliminate rivalries and focus their different perspectives and skills on solving the problem or challenge at hand. This book shows you how to build such teams, working with individual members as well as the collective team to produce creative, consistent, and decisive results every time.

Provides 24 tips, tools, and lessons for building mutually beneficial relationships and cultivating them as opportunities arise. This book outlines a specific plan to: learn to network; surpass fears; control body language; find opportunities; socialize with savvy; talk tactically; overcome limits; and, follow up right.