Lankford, J: Answer is Leadership What is the Question
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Just a small percentage of business leaders are exceptional and consistently outperform their competition. It comes down to one word: leadership. Leadership is the answer to every business problem you're facing. The quality of your leadership will be directly reflected in your company's culture, employees, customers, profitability, and ultimately, future. John Lankford wants to challenge the way business owners and executives think about running companies, getting them to understand what it's costing them by not having a strategic plan to develop their current and future leaders. Having the right people in the right positions and making leadership development a priority, on all levels, will create the right kind of company culture that attracts top talent, brings in new business, and retains current customers. In his book The Answer Is Leadership . . . What Is the Question?, Lankford presents his blueprint you can follow. He'll show you what the best of the best are doing, and tell you how you can apply those same principles, processes, and systems to your own company, strategies that work regardless of company size. Results based, tested, and proven, this is a collection of best business practices that Lankford has learned through his 30-plus years of working with executives from Fortune 100 companies to small entrepreneurs.
AcknowledgmentsPreface
Introduction
CHAPTER 1 - What's the Current State of America's Business?
What about Your Company?
What Really Is the Problem?
Stuck on Average
Unwilling to Ask for a Lifeline
Achieving Sustainable Growth
CHAPTER 2 - How Is Your Current Leadership Team Impacting Your Business?
People Like to Follow a Great Leader
A Square Peg for a Square Hole
Growing Companies Understand Leadership and Culture
The Four-Letter Words to Avoid for Real Company Growth
CHAPTER 3 - What Would Your Company Look Like as an Industry Leader?
Building a World-Class Engine
Happier Employees, Better Care
How Companies Become the "Best of the Best"
CHAPTER 4 - What Defines a Great Leader?
The Truth about Leadership
Core Leadership Behaviors
CHAPTER 5 - How to Build a Sustainable Blueprint for Greatness
The Culture Change Blueprint
The Right Systems, Processes, and People
CHAPTER 6 - Creating Your Own Leadership Development System
The 12-Step Leadership Development System
What about Your Future Leaders?
CHAPTER 7 - How Well Are You Tracking Your Progress?
Hey, What's the Score?
Aligned and Accountable
Feedback and Coaching Make the Difference
CHAPTER 8 - It's All about the Customer
What Makes You Stand Out?
External Customer Satisfaction Is an Inside Job
Build It, They Are Coming
Getting Serious about Your Company's Culture
Actions Speak Louder Than Surveys
CHAPTER 9 - What's Stopping You from Developing Your Leadership Talent?
Staging Your Business to Sell
Master These Four Words for a Winning Combination
The Real Power and Impact of Systems
Staging Your Business to Sell
Have the Courage and Discipline to Stick with Your Plan
CHAPTER 10 - Do you Now Have the Answers for Your Business
How Is Your Management Team Really Doing?
Avoidable Leadership Mistakes Companies Make
How You Can Strategically Change Your Current Situation
Are You Committed to Greatness?
Bibliography
Index
About the Author
Introduction
CHAPTER 1 - What's the Current State of America's Business?
What about Your Company?
What Really Is the Problem?
Stuck on Average
Unwilling to Ask for a Lifeline
Achieving Sustainable Growth
CHAPTER 2 - How Is Your Current Leadership Team Impacting Your Business?
People Like to Follow a Great Leader
A Square Peg for a Square Hole
Growing Companies Understand Leadership and Culture
The Four-Letter Words to Avoid for Real Company Growth
CHAPTER 3 - What Would Your Company Look Like as an Industry Leader?
Building a World-Class Engine
Happier Employees, Better Care
How Companies Become the "Best of the Best"
CHAPTER 4 - What Defines a Great Leader?
The Truth about Leadership
Core Leadership Behaviors
CHAPTER 5 - How to Build a Sustainable Blueprint for Greatness
The Culture Change Blueprint
The Right Systems, Processes, and People
CHAPTER 6 - Creating Your Own Leadership Development System
The 12-Step Leadership Development System
What about Your Future Leaders?
CHAPTER 7 - How Well Are You Tracking Your Progress?
Hey, What's the Score?
Aligned and Accountable
Feedback and Coaching Make the Difference
CHAPTER 8 - It's All about the Customer
What Makes You Stand Out?
External Customer Satisfaction Is an Inside Job
Build It, They Are Coming
Getting Serious about Your Company's Culture
Actions Speak Louder Than Surveys
CHAPTER 9 - What's Stopping You from Developing Your Leadership Talent?
Staging Your Business to Sell
Master These Four Words for a Winning Combination
The Real Power and Impact of Systems
Staging Your Business to Sell
Have the Courage and Discipline to Stick with Your Plan
CHAPTER 10 - Do you Now Have the Answers for Your Business
How Is Your Management Team Really Doing?
Avoidable Leadership Mistakes Companies Make
How You Can Strategically Change Your Current Situation
Are You Committed to Greatness?
Bibliography
Index
About the Author