Drawing upon the results of over 2,000 leadership studies conducted by the world's top social scientists over the last 25 years, Dr. Boyett reveals what science can tell us about who aspires to leadership and how they gain power and influence over their followers. You will learn: The five behaviors social scientists tell us are essential for gaining power and influence. You will attract and retain passionately dedicated followers if you perform these five things well. These are universal prescriptions for leadership success in just about any setting or culture. How to employ emotions to secure power. How to act like a charismatic authority figure even if you are not one. How you can build a network of obligations you can tap for follower loyalty, support and return favors. Four powerful tools for acquiring and maintaining follower commitment to yourself and your vision. How you can use the power of social proof to convince followers to adopt your ideas. How you can develop a vision and why almost any vision you develop will do as long as you can express it well and connect it to follower aspirations. How to do that. Fourteen tools of rhetoric you can employ to sell your vision to followers. Why leadership is a game of language and how you can use that knowledge to convince people to follow you. Why image is important and how to act like a leader. Why the leadership relationship you develop with your immediate staff is different from that you can develop with followers that are more distant and how to use that knowledge to your advantage. How to take advantage of a crisis to emerge as a charismatic leader. How understanding your motivation to lead can tell you much about your possible strengths and weaknesses as a leader. Why your success as a leader depends as much on your confidence in leading as it does on your leadership abilities. Why the very needs, desires and qualities that cause you to aspire to lead can be your downfall and what you can do to avoid the mistakes many leaders make that cause them to ultimately fail as leaders. Why most leadership training programs will not teach you how to lead and how you can really learn to master the skills of leadership. Dr. Boyett provides an instruction manual for how anyone can gain power, influence and attract a passionately dedicated following for whatever purposes they intend, good or bad. Dr. Boyett's leadership advice is not intuitive. It is not speculative. It is not even nice all of the time. It is just fact based upon the best available research. What constitutes leadership across cultures and generations? Which leadership principles are grounded in political science, sociology, psychology, and even biology? Which principles emerge not from personal experience, anecdotal events, or consultant speculation, but from solid research? This book is for you if you want to learn the true secrets concerning how to become a powerful business leader, political leader, leader in your school, church or club, or just how to gain greater power and influence over others. Dr. Boyett outlines in clear and concise terms the true Science of Leadership.
Boyett has written a book that will inspire you, lift your spirits, renew your faith in what progressives can accomplish, and show you a way forward. Getting Things Done in Washington tells the exciting stories of six great moments of progressive legislative history and the people who made them happen: James Madison and the founding fathers struggle to expand the power of the federal government, The Ladies of Beekman Hill, George Wiley and the struggle for pure food and drugs, Wilbur Mills and the struggle for universal health insurance, Robert Wagner and the struggle for the right of labor to organize, John Sherman and the struggle to rein in and regulate big business, and Lyndon Johnson and the struggle for civil rights legislation. Boyett describes what it was like to live in America before progressives secured these historic pieces of legislation and how these legislative achievements changed the lives of every American. He introduces you to the fascinating men and women who led the efforts to pass this legislation and shows us how to defeat conservatives and once again get progressive things done in Washington. Getting Things Done in Washington is vivid and exciting history. It will inspire you to work even harder for progressive causes. Most importantly, it will give you the tools to begin getting things done in Washington.
Boyett has written a book that will inspire you, lift your spirits, renew your faith in what progressives can accomplish, and show you a way forward. Getting Things Done in Washington tells the exciting stories of six great moments of progressive legislative history and the people who made them happen: James Madison and the founding fathers struggle to expand the power of the federal government, The Ladies of Beekman Hill, George Wiley and the struggle for pure food and drugs, Wilbur Mills and the struggle for universal health insurance, Robert Wagner and the struggle for the right of labor to organize, John Sherman and the struggle to rein in and regulate big business, and Lyndon Johnson and the struggle for civil rights legislation. Boyett describes what it was like to live in America before progressives secured these historic pieces of legislation and how these legislative achievements changed the lives of every American. He introduces you to the fascinating men and women who led the efforts to pass this legislation and shows us how to defeat conservatives and once again get progressive things done in Washington. Getting Things Done in Washington is vivid and exciting history. It will inspire you to work even harder for progressive causes. Most importantly, it will give you the tools to begin getting things done in Washington.
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Two leading management consultants present a detailed analysis of the changes they predict will happen in American businesses and their implications for the individual in the workplace. "If you're looking for confident prophecy about the shape of things to come . . . this book has the right stuff".--Fortune.
The Skill-Based Pay Design Manual is an invaluable resource for designing and implementing a system of compensation that ties base pay to employee knowledge and skill rather than to a position or job content. Internationally recognized authors and consultants Joseph and Jimmie Boyett bring over twenty years of experience in helping companies implement skill-based pay and employee performance incentive programs. The Skill-Based Pay Design Manual is a complete step-by-step guide for designing and implementing skill-based pay. In addition to a comprehensive overview of skill-based pay and its impact on company operating and financial performance, the Boyetts provide the following: The advantages and disadvantages of skill-based pay; A comparison of skill-based pay vs. job-based pay; How to determine if skill-based pay is right for your organization; 12 keys to success; 14 case studies of companies using skill-based pay. Step-by-step instruction in how to... Design the skill-based pay plan; Identify skill sets; Link skills to pay progression; Implement and evaluate the skill- based pay program; and Gain employee and union support for skill-based pay. The Skill-Based Pay Design Manual is an insightful, informative and essential resource based upon solid research and the personal experiences of the authors.
The author of Workplace 2000 provides a new blueprint for the companies of tomorrow, along with survival information for working Americans who find themselves at the center of change. Beyond Workplace 2000 explains how the company of the future will be less mechanistic and more organic, interacting continuously with its environment and its customers and thriving on chaos and non-stop change.
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