Smarter, Faster, Better: Strategies for Effective, Enduring, and Fulfilled Leadership [Hardcover]

Karlin Sloan (Author), Lindsey Pollak (Contributor)

Book Description

Publication Date: June 23, 2006

In this groundbreaking book, acclaimed executive coach Karlin Sloan offers leaders a variety of self-assessments, habits, strategies, and sustainable practices that they can use to become what today’s marketplace demands; smarter, faster, and better. Karlin Sloan shows what it takes to make the move to the next level to become a leader who both grows the bottom line and contributes to stakeholders and the world in a positive way. Based on research, study, and the author’s extensive experience as a coach to leaders of top organizations, this book shows how to become smarter, faster, and better by examining these questions:

• What are your key strengths and what do you need to develop or leverage?
• What are you focused on now and what do you need to accomplish to really get ahead?
• Are your values in line with your work? What is the end you are trying to achieve?

Editorial Reviews

Review

"For those of us constantly striving to operate smarter, faster, and better, Karlin Sloan reminds us sagely, through wonderful stories, that we may well achieve our highest levels of performance, potential, and fulfillment by asking questions, slowing down, and being of service. Great advice for a weary world and particularly for leaders seeking sustained peak performance for themselves and the organizations they lead."
—Timothy Dorman, chief operating officer, leadership coaching and development, Korn/Ferry International

"Karlin Sloan nails the essentials of leading and motivating a senior management team for measurable success by both understanding and tapping into the power of human interaction."
—Tom Bernardin, chairman and CEO, Leo Burnett Worldwide, Inc.

"This book hits a home run when it comes to offering sound and practical ways to face the pace and pressures of increasing complexity and overload—and to show up as an effective leader when results have to be innovative. Smarter, Faster, Better helped me see how slowing down to move forward faster can transform my experience of being a leader in a growth industry."
—Steve Kowalski, director, learning and development, Genentech, Inc.

"How often have you said to yourself, 'I need help,' 'I don't have enough time,' or 'I'm stressed'? Karlin Sloan offers us an opportunity to learn practical strategies for bringing out the best in ourselves as well as in others through examining the lives of many leaders she has coached. Prepare to reflect and learn where your strengths lie."
—Courtenay Huff, partner, Accenture

From the Inside Flap

"I know you are already smart, fast, and good. Now it's time to become smarter, faster, and better. It's time to ask questions, slow down, and start focusing not on just your own self-development but on your contribution to your team, your organization, and the greater good."—From the Introduction

In this groundbreaking book, acclaimed executive coach Karlin Sloan?offers leaders a variety of self-assessments, habits, strategies, and sustainable practices?that they can use to become what today's marketplace demands: smarter, faster, and better. ?

Sloan shows what it takes to make the move to the next level to become a leader who both grows the bottom line and contributes to stakeholders and the world in a positive way. Based on research, study, and the author's extensive experience as a coach to leaders of top organizations, this book shows how to become smarter, faster, and better by examining these questions:

• What are your key strengths and what do you need to develop or leverage?
• What are you focused on now and what do you need to accomplish to really get ahead?
• Are your values in line with your work? What is the end you are trying to achieve?

Smarter, Faster, Better is solution-focused. It helps leaders gain perspective and self-knowledge, seize opportunities they may not have seen before, achieve their highest potential, and resolve the issues that threaten to hold them back from the success they desire for themselves and their organizations.

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 272 pages
• Publisher: Jossey-Bass; 1 edition (June 23, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0787982687
• ISBN-13: 978-0787982683
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.4 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,055,284 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Karlin Sloan believes that business leaders have a responsibility not just to make their organizations better, but to contribute to the world in a positive way.

She is the author of Smarter, Faster, Better; Strategies for Effective, Enduring, and Fulfilled Leadership (Jossey-Bass, 2006) and Unfear (January 2010).

As the founder and CEO of Karlin Sloan & Company, Ms. Sloan provides organization development consulting, training and executive coaching to clients the U.S., Europe, South America and Asia. She has helped organizations to develop clearer, more effective communication, enhanced teamwork and powerful leadership in times of growth, challenge, and change

CEO Karlin Sloan has committed herself to finding out what makes great leaders tick, and to supporting leaders to be the change they wish to see in the world. As a corporate citizen she is an advocate for creating sustainable ways of working and living, and for creating positive organizational communities that work together for the greater good. She is the author of the acclaimed business book Smarter, Faster, Better; Strategies for Effective, Enduring, and Fulfilled Leadership, which has been translated into Thai and Russian, and also the author of UNFEAR, coming out in September of 2010. She is the CEO and founder of Karlin Sloan & Company, a Chicago based leadership development consultancy devoted to helping leaders use everything they've got to make their organizations smarter, faster, and better. For more information on Karlin Sloan see www.karlinsloan.com.