Power and Persuasion: How to Command Success in Business and Your Personal Life

Introduction.
<p>PART ONE: SO YOU WANT TO BE A LEADER.</p>
<p>Chapter One. What You Need (And Don t) To Be a Good Leader.</p>
<p>Chapter Two. Leading Sometimes Means Following.</p>
<p>Chapter Three. Why News Managers Fail: The Most Common Leadership Pitfalls.</p>
<p>Chapter Four. Thinking Out of the Box What It Really Means.</p>
<p>Chapter Five. Creative V.S. Reactive Leadership.</p>
<p>Chapter Six. Making Difficult Decisions Easy: A 7 Step Plan.</p>
<p>Chapter Seven. Reason Or Gut Instinct, Which Rules? (Separating The Men From the Boys).</p>
<p>Chapter Eight. Are You Too Competitive?</p>
<p>Chapter Nine. Mind Your Manners.</p>
<p>PART TWO: LEAD BY EXAMPLE: SECRETS OF THE MOVERS AND SHAKERS.</p>
<p>Chapter Ten. #1: Coming Up With The Big Idea.<br /> #2: Don t Wait For Consensus.<br /> #3: Strengthen Your Ideas: The Leap From Contemplation to Testing.<br /> #4: Setting a Goal and Rallying The Troops.<br /> #5: Creating A Plan and Attaching a Deadline.<br /> #6: Following Up.<br /> #7: Create a Culture of Accountability.<br /> #8: Practice Makes Perfect.</p>
<p>Chapter Eleven. How to Get Promoted.</p>
<p>Chapter Twelve. The Power of Delegation.</p>
<p>Chapter 13. Achieve More with aMentor.</p>
<p>Chapter 14. Make Your Company Better and More Productive Today.</p>
<p>PART THREE: SO YOU WANT TO BE A LEADER.</p>
<p>Chapter 15. The Art of Criticism The Skill of Praise: How Good Leaders Use Both to Their Advantage.</p>
<p>Chapter 16. Three Communication Secrets of Highly Effective Leaders.</p>
<p>Chapter 17. Speak More Powerfully Leading by Persuasion.</p>
<p>Chapter 18. How to be a Successful Negotiator: Handling Objections and Obstacles Like a Pro.</p>
<p>Chapter 19. Standing Up to Business Bullies TheRight Way.</p>
<p>Chapter 20. Asking Questions Like a Born Leader.</p>
<p>PART FOUR: LEADING THE TROOPS DAY BY DAY.</p>
<p>Chapter 21. Improving All of Your Relationships: How to Get People to Like You and Do What You Want.</p>
<p>Chapter 22. Creating Stellar Employees with 5 Training Tips.</p>
<p>Chapter 23. Transform Your Team into a Winning One.</p>
<p>Chapter 24. How to Make Meetings Work The Way You Want Them To.</p>
<p>Chapter 25. TheBest Way to Deliver Bad News: When to Write When to Phone When to Have Lunch.</p>
<p>Chapter 26. What to do with Problem Employees (And Their Problems).</p>
<p>Chapter 27. How to Fire People (Without the Agony).</p>
<p>Chapter 28. The Secret to Getting Everybody (Including The Laggards) to Be More Productive.</p>
<p>Summary.</p>
<p>RecommendedReading.</p>
<p>Index.</p>