1st Edition
Making Common Sense Common Practice Achieving High Performance Using What You Already Know
By Victor R. Buzzotta
Copyright 1997
250 Pages
by
CRC Press
The business world today is full of buzzwords such as empowerment, teamwork, and continuous improvement. In a desperate attempt to get a jump on the competition, many business leaders are so busy searching for the "next big idea" that something important is being overlooked-common sense! Making Common Sense Common Practice tells you how to get full use of the most powerful management tool... Read more
Introduction
Common Sense, Change, and Tension
What Kind of Leader Should You Be?
Calibrate Your Own Thermostat
Know Where You Are Going
Ensure People Have What It Takes
Develop and Enable the Right People
Help People Stay on Track
Trust, the Glue That Holds It All Together
The Road to High Performance
Appendix
Index
Common Sense, Change, and Tension
What Kind of Leader Should You Be?
Calibrate Your Own Thermostat
Know Where You Are Going
Ensure People Have What It Takes
Develop and Enable the Right People
Help People Stay on Track
Trust, the Glue That Holds It All Together
The Road to High Performance
Appendix
Index
Biography
Victor R. Buzzotta
"An excellent handbook for busy executives searching for advice on how to relieve the tensions in highly stressed organizations."
-Archie W. Dunham, President and CEO, Conoco
"It could easily be called The Busy Executive's Must-Read Handbook. It's practical, concise and loaded with important lessons for all levels of executives."
-James E. Preston, Chairman and CEO, Avon Products, Inc.
"A step-by-step formula for building performance. Its common sense principles are both easy to understand and hard to disagree with."
-Richard L. Battram, Executive Vice Chairman, The May Company
