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The Control Freak Revolution: Make Your Most Maddening Behaviors Work for Your Company and to Your Advantage [Hardcover]

Cheryl Cran (Author)
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1564149846 978-1564149848 January 2008
Leaders in business are typically criticized as control freaks. The Control Freak Revolution shows you that being a control freak is actually a good thing, and why CEOs look for leaders who can use control to increase employee and team effectiveness.

But leadership is a tough job. You face a number of challenges, such as:
* Attracting new employees and keeping good ones.
* Managing different personalities and different generations.
* Getting tasks done quickly, accurately, and under pressure.

All these challenges can be met with ease when you are able to control and influence others to perform at the highest levels possible. In this practical, no-nonsense guide, author Cheryl Cran teaches you how to be a successful "control freak" leader in seven easy steps, with exercises to help you implement the ideas in each chapter. The book will show you how to:
* Evaluate and improve your leadership style.
* Set up systems that support the results you want.
* Bust through the myths that limit growth within the organization.
* Get your employees to review your performance as a leader.

Also included are telling insights and anecdotes from real CEOs and famous leaders such as Donald Trump, Martha Stewart, and Rudy Guiliani, who have used control to their advantage. With The Control Freak Revolution, any leader at any level can learn how to be a positive control freak who creates positive results.

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"The Control Freak Revolution is a must read, must put into action, must pass on book. If every leader had this book BEFORE they started, it would have saved so much time and effort. If you are a leader or aspiring to be a leader, this book needs to be read, underlined, and kept nearby."
--Randy Sebastian, CEO, Renaissance Development Corporation

About the Author

Cheryl Cran, CSP, has helped thousands of individuals and companies move to the next level. Her client list includes Fortune 500 firms such as PriceWaterhouseCoopers, KPMG, Grant Thornton, Beltone, Nintendo, and many more. The author of several books including 50 Ways to Lead & Love It, she has also written numerous magazine articles and has been a guest on a variety of radio and television shows. Cran is on the board for the International Federation for Professional Speakers (IFFPS) and the Canadian Asociation of Professional Speakers (CAPS). Her office is based in Seattle, Washington, but she lives in Vancouver, British Columbia.

Product Details

  • Hardcover: 224 pages
  • Publisher: Career Press (January 2008)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1564149846
  • ISBN-13: 978-1564149848
  • Product Dimensions: 8.6 x 6 x 0.8 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 10.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #890,654 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Cheryl Cran, CSP, has helped thousands of individuals and companies move to the next level. Her client list includes Fortune 500 firms such as: PriceWaterhouseCoopers, KPMG, Grant Thornton, Beltone, Nintendo, and many more. The author of several books including 50 Ways to Lead & Love It, she has also written numerous magazine articles and has been a guest on a variety of radio and television shows. She is on the board for the International Federation for Professional Speakers (IFFPS) and the Canadian Association of Professional Speakers (CAPS). Her office is based in Seattle, Washington, but she lives in Vancouver, British Columbia.

 

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4.0 out of 5 stars No-nonsense guide for strong leaders, March 19, 2008
This review is from: The Control Freak Revolution: Make Your Most Maddening Behaviors Work for Your Company and to Your Advantage (Hardcover)
This book is perfect for bosses with strong management styles, since only a thin line separates exercising affirmative leadership and being a control freak. Author Cheryl Cran, a confessed control freak, discusses the negative and positive aspects of this domineering personality type. She stresses that control is good when it is channeled into vision and leadership, and bad when it alienates people and becomes selfish. She wrote this book for control freaks, but since all managers have areas they like to control, her advice is broadly useful. The book seems to draw from many of Cran's presentations, and is repetitive and sometimes choppy, but the information is very useful. The author explains how to deal with a control freak boss, which is an extremely valuable skill. She proposes self-evaluation and group evaluation to keep control freaks grounded, and to keep teams plugged in to their projects. getAbstract recommends this straightforward discussion, which will give you or the control freak in your life insight into better ways to work with - and to lead - other people.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Right on!, August 20, 2010
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I have a bit of OCD and have, in the past, been able to be accused of being a control freak. Some of my friends still are control freaks. I enjoyed reading this book because I recognized myself from the past and was proud of how I've grown. I was pleased too, though, because the book showed me how I can use some of my tendencies to my advantage. The author was so right when she pointed out that we WANT people who are OCD building our bridges and designing our planes. So, there is a time and a place for certain personality types. Place: work. Not: home. Time: school. Not: dinner with friends and family.
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