David Goldsmith

Have you ever thought about the fact that a craftsman has more and better tools to solve challenges on the job than the leader of a business or organization does? Leadership “tools” are usually defined as computers, spreadsheets, data, and even experience, but in reality, leaders need thinking tools that are hard to come by, so they find themselves hunting and pecking for answers in books, at seminars, through on-the-job training programs, from mentors, and at business...

Capture the true meaning of leveraging technology, and an entire universe of opportunities will become available to you. Never again will you see the issue of doing more with less as negative once you learn the tools and techniques of technology that maximize human potential and lead your organization to greatness.

Don’t let the seemingly dull title deceive you; the powerful lessons here will show you why past desires to effect change haven’t worked and provide you with the secret that will drastically improve your ability to achieve results you have only imagined.

Think you know your top competitors and their potential impact on your organization? Think again. Here, you will pick up sophisticated tools (some of which are based on government-intelligence models) and easy-to-apply instruction to vet out unexpected threats and hidden opportunities that will ultimately ward off challenges before they occur and turn your organization into a progressive forerunner within its industry or sector.

What lessons can be learned from historical leaders’ successes? How has management actually hindered the modern-day leader? Do you know how your personal aspirations and concerns are sabotaging your professional successes? Leading the Charge contains eye-opening revelations that will put you in control, marry private and public aspects of your personality, and deliver a higher quality of life than you could ever imagine.

You sell all day every day … to your board members, front-line staff, vendors, lenders, public, customers, colleagues, significant others, and more in order to realize the types of successes your organization depends on you to achieve. Yet, selling for the leader is much different than it is for the salesperson of goods and services, and that means you need to add a different set of skills and tools, such as those provided here, to gain buy-in and cooperation from others and to reach...

In reality, the conditions we live with today are simply the results of decisions made in the past and, in leadership terms, this means that the better able you are to project your thinking into the future and forecast upcoming challenges and opportunities on the horizon, the more effectively you can decide today how to forge tomorrow. Get the tools and concepts that have a high-beam effect on your thinking, project your focus more accurately into the future, and cash in on the positive benefits...

Toss out your preconceived ideas about traditional “partnerships” and replace them with six powerful options that are sure to deliver above-and-beyond opportunities. Not only will you take away alliance pillars and alliance killers to produce win-win outcomes, but you will understand how to select the best alliances to help your organization reach its strategically intended destinations.

Not just for the international or global decision maker but for the local “mom-and-pop” operator, too. Understand how you can take the best of the world’s best and incorporate it into your daily operations, products and services, and strategic thinking to make the kinds of decisions that separate the extraordinary leaders from their ordinary counterparts. Also learn how to extrapolate from what you read in the papers and see on the news and recognize threats and...

The reality is you can’t do everything on your own; you need other people to achieve results. Without realizing it, most leaders are the cause of underperformance and low productivity within their organizations despite their experience and intentions to have the opposite effect. Now, learn the step-by-step methodology and your exact role in the empowerment process that will ready your people to handle the authority and responsibilities you transfer to them.

This is sure to eradicate ordinary thinking and provide you with the must-have weapon every leader needs to create competitively superior products and services and produce internal operational improvements that turbo-boost the performance of every staff member in your organization, regardless of whether he or she is directly involved in product development or the sales process.

Learn simple yet powerful techniques to drastically improve your strategic plans, empower you to select and manage the kinds of projects that will propel your organization and career to new heights, and align your mental focus with laser precision on matters that provide the greatest positive impact.

Understand your true value to your organization by escaping self-limiting beliefs and learning about the 12 daily leadership activities that will enable you to more effectively lead others to desired outcomes and improve your performance as a leader and manager.

Although it’s become a popular buzz word, “innovation” isn’t something the majority of leaders understand well enough to utilize to the advantage of their organizations. Learn what innovation is and how it factors into your role as a leader. Then, implement the triggers and multiply the innovative spirit throughout your organization in a practical fashion to gain competitive advantages, foster achievement on individual and organizational levels, and create...