Product Description

Learning to lead others is the critical skill for today's managers. Every day, you are challenged to lead-to get others to work at your direction towards your organizations goals.

Get Everyone in Your Boat Rowing in the Same Direction offers proven, easily understood, step-by-step instruction in how to get others to follow you. Whether you have to lead, hope to lead, or need to create change in your organization, the advice it offers is invaluable.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #677621 in Books
• Published on: 1993-04
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 177 pages

Review
"Bob Boylan's approach to effective communication is one of the best in the business. His process works throughout an organization to empower people to be leaders at all levels." -- Linda Marvin, President, Lockheed Environmental Systems & Technologies Co.

"Bob Boylan's stuff works. I know because we use it all the time. Buy it, read it, and win." -- Rolf Pepple, CBS General Manager, WLTE Radio Station

"Leadership isn't a commodity, but a process-one that Bob Boylan lays out clearly, step-by-step, so that anyone can follow it and put it immediately and successfully into practice in their own organizations." -- Jim Martineau, President, Viracon, Inc.

About the Author
Bob Boylan is a Leadership and Presentation Coach for middle and senior management. His style and techniques are singularly focused on Delivering Training that Takes. This book is an example of his trademark-to deliver easily understood, memorable, and realistically actionable principles and techniques. These are ideas that take, so you lead more effectively.

Customer Reviews

Simple, powerful route to Vision/Values/Mission for business
I learned more about leadership principles from this simple little book than from all the weighty tomes on the shelf. Boylan has distilled his thoughts on discovering and communicating vision, vales and mission, a subject that I feel is currently overthought and underdelivered. I highly recommend it to business consultants, CEOs, team leaders, self-help groups, schools, families. The author's practical, simple and profound message can help cure the sense of directionless that many of us are feeling. Great read, lots of fun, tons of wisdom

Bought the book. It was ok
The book was ok. It is helpful to those who has no business experience what so ever. I will not help you at all if you are already experienced with the business world. Basically teaches you to have a vision and constantly motivate your people. Join a MLM if you want to learn it first hand.

Solid information to get everyone on the same page
One of the biggest problems in business is getting everyone pulling in the same direction. The larger the organization, the more diverse the goals and aims of the different departments. This is a delightful book that gives some great ideas to make sure everyone is pulling in the same direction.

The book presents five principles which any business needs to follow to ensure that its people are all pulling together.

The first question to ask is "What is important here? What are the values of the individuals? The business?"

The second question to ask is "Where is the busines headed? You must create a common vision based on shared values."

The third question to ask is "What do we stand for? Who are we?" You need to concentrate your focus. Trying to stand for too many things means you stand for nothing.

To be successful you must learn to fall in love with risk. Most managers shun risk. No risk no reward. You need to learn to view risk as a positive force. This certainly does not advocate taking foolish action. But learn to understand risk.

To be successful you must learn to motivate people. The leader cannot mandate a vision. A leader must get everyone in the business to buy into the vision.

The book is easy to read. It is well written and contains lots of examples.

It would be helpful to read periodically to keep the ideas fresh.