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John Murray Press Destination Profit by Rita V. Bailey , Scott Cawood
This book presents an extraordinarily powerful process that has proven to deliver immediate results for some of the country's most admired business leaders: higher productivity, improved quality at lower cost, reduced employee turnover, and superior financial performance. With stories of vision, endurance, faith and failure, "Destination Profit" delivers dozens of exercises and key business examples that lay out step-by-step how to apply the authors' unique 4-A Process - awareness, alignment, accountability, adaptation - to create a people-centered organization that is productive, profitable, and a sustained competitive leader. Readers will discover that this process begins with "destination" as the goal that organizations and individuals within them want to reach - their own best workplace. The Foundations for Great Leadership; The Importance of a Leadership Framework; The Source of Our Confusion; The Complete Picture on Leadership; Character in Leadership; The Soul of the Leader; The Heart and Mind of the Leader; Competence in Leadership; The Three Dimensions of Leadership; The Mystery of Organizations; The Practice of Organizational Leadership; The Practice of Operational Leadership; The Practice of People Leadership; Your Leadership Development Curriculum.