How would your organization perform if everyone accepted leadership responsibility? What if leadership were an expectation of everyone, not an exception for the anointed few? You'll be happy to know that you have all the leadership potential needed in your organization right now to increase performance, productivity, and profits-and to sustain the increases. Unfortunately, the vast majority of your organization's leadership potential is probably locked up behind the bars of bureaucracy or staggering under the weight of organizational inertia. The old leadership school taught that an organization is made up of officers and enlistees, the more powerful and the less powerful, superiors and subordinates. A hierarchical organizational design draws leadership focus and energy away from problem solving and progressive thinking by encouraging those climbing the organizational food chain to focus instead on protecting their positions, perks, and territory. Leadership is a circle, not a ladder. Inverting this traditional pyramid of institutionalized defensiveness and territoriality requires a premeditated, purposeful, intentional, and methodical leadership system that aligns what people do best with what organizations need most. The ComposiTeam(tm) Leadership System is designed to do exactly that, and finishes what the movement for flattened organizations, shared responsibility, and distributed leadership responsibility started. It sets the stage to focus everyone's unique talents and abilities on making your organization thrive as never before. Not by luck; nor chance; nor edict from on high; but from a well-designed and engineered leadership system that ties everyone in your organization to the truth of the past, the irreplaceability of the moment, and the promise of the future.
John Hoover, Ph.D. has successfully used the leadership techniques in this book as a writer and producer for The Disney Company and as a divisional general manager for McGraw-Hill. He is helping or has helped dozens of clients, including ABC-TV, American Mensa, The Boeing Leadership Center, CIT, Delta Air Lines, HBO, Hilton Hotels, IBM, Motorola, Printronix, Prudential, Sanyo Fisher USA, Xerox, and many others build strong leadership and effective communication skill sets internal and external to their enterprises. He has authored or coauthored over 15 commercially-published books on leadership and organizational behavior including How to Work for an Idiot (Career Press, 2003/Barnes & Noble Publishers, 2006), How to Live with an Idiot (Career Press, 2004), The Art of Constructive Confrontation (John Wiley & Sons, 2005), Difficult People & Time Management (HarperCollins, 2007) Bullwinkle on Business: Motivational Secrets of a Chief Executive Moose (St. Martin's Press, 2007), and Leadership When the Heat's On (7th Ed., McGraw-Hill, 2007). John's lastest book, The Coaching Connection (AMACOM 2009) will be in bookstores this August & is coauthored with Dr. Paul Gorrell, managing principal of Partners in Human Resources International.
Dr. John is a self-professed "Recovering Idiot Boss" who is unaffraid to use humor and mis-spellings to bring a fresh perspective to solving personal and organizational challenges. Made you look! "We can't all be stuffy scholars, can we?" His parting thought for this visit to Amazon.com, "Nobody ever enhanced his or her career by making the boss look stupid."
John is on the faculty of Fielding Graduate University's Media Psychology program and holds a Marriage and Family Therapy Master's from Azusa Pacific University. He is on the faculty of the American Management Association in New York, Ed Reilly, CEO. Most hours of rthe day, you will find John leading the executive coaching practice at Partners in Human Resources International in New York City (www.WeMakeTalentWork.com).
