LeaderShock ...and How to Triumph Over It : Eight Revolutionary Rules for Becoming a Powerful and Exhilarated Leader

Annotation Faced with the chaos, demands, and difficult relationships in business today, leaders in every field feel overwhelmed, frustrated and ineffective. Today's leaders are in LeaderShock! Finally, there's a way out. Greg Hicks has created the LeaderShock program - a revolutionary new way to lead that's based on seven years of breakthrough research into flourishing leaders and organizational cultures. His award-winning program has shown thousands how to thrive in spite of a worldwide business culture that has us managing from one crisis to the next, fighting forces beyond our control, and taking actions that don't "pay-off." Now it's your turn to thrive At every level, from newly-minted supervisors to seasoned CEOs, today's managers are finding themselves ill-equipped to deal with the current business climate. Fueled by an economy in recession after nearly a decade of prosperity, by new concerns about crisis management in the wake of world events, by the collapse of dot.coms and the fading myth of the New Economy, today's managers are confused and uncertain - even fearful -- about what to do and how to lead. In a word, they are in shock. Changing times call for an entirely new set of principles for leadership, says Hicks. Following the proven methodology he and co-author Rick Foster adopted to create How We Choose to be Happy, Hicks has set out to redefine what it takes to be an effective leader in today's uncertain business climate. He has interviewed 200 managers across all industries and at all levels who have proven themselves uniquely adaptable and capable of successful leadership in tough times and under difficult circumstances. From them, he has distilled eight refreshing and often surprising principles for effective management and leadership, using case studies from his research as examples "Greg Hicks has created the LeaderShock program - a revolutionary new way to lead that's based on seven years of breakthrough research into flourishing leaders and organizational cultures. His award-winning program has shown thousands how to thrive in spite of a worldwide business culture that has us managing from one crisis to the next, fighting forces beyond our control, and taking actions that don't "pay off." Now it's your turn to thrive." "Unlike other books that describe generic leadership traits, this book offers a radically different solution: a practical roadmap of eight behavioral rules you can use regardless of your personality, experience level, organizational culture, gender, or age. Adopt all eight rules and something amazing happens - all those outside forces beyond your control will no longer control you. You'll get both the business results and personal fulfillment you need to break free from the LeaderShock syndrome."--Jacket In the throes of LeaderShock, we merely react to one event after the next.