In Search of Excellence influenced the managers of the last decade. Now, a new book gives leadership insights to meet the unprecedented demands of the 1990s. Ralph Stayer is a courageous, pioneering CEO and the hero of Tom Peters' management video "The Leadership Alliance." James Belasco is a visionary, renowned consultant and author of the groundbreaking business book Teaching the Elephant to Dance. Together these two authors inspire you with far-sighted, revolutionary concepts and guide you with nuts-and-bolts prescriptions ... as they show you how to rise above the old ways of 1980s to soar to new levels of business success in the tough times ahead. Belasco and Stayer explain why executives are unable to change their organizations quickly enough. Weighted down by old leadership paradigms, managers act like head buffalo, charging blindly ahead in fits and starts, urging the herd to follow. But hard-driving managers and their herds suffer the same fate as the buffalo of the plains: they are outmaneuvered by the more nimble, quick-thinking competition and predators in today's fast-paced global economic landscape. Drawing upon their own highly successful business careers, Belasco and Stayer detail the new leadership role for executives. They call their managerial ethic Leading the Journey. In their model of the new, highly flexible organization, everyone is focused on delighting customers. The manager learns and grows while responding to changing circumstances. Instead of a herd, people become more like a flight of self-directed geese flying in formation. Everyone knows the common direction, is willing to assume leadership when necessary, and can rearrange the structure when the needs of the customer demand it. Individuals start to do their jobs better not because some leader orders it, but because they want to excel. In other words, letting employees lead produces new levels of excellence that benefit everyone. Then Flight of the Buffalo demonstrates how this new leadership model can be applied directly to the most pressing business decisions. From two people who have actually done it you learn how to set value-added prices, identify and dominate profitable niche markets, anticipate the future and prepare for it, and set up bonus and profit sharing plans that really motivate and measure productivity in even the most difficult times. Far removed from today's gimmicky how-to business books, Flight of the Buffalo is a mature work from two extraordinary business minds - a book meant for those who are ready to enter a new era of business success.

Flight of the Buffalo: Soaring to Excellence, Learning to Let Employees Lead

Business & Money

Belasco, James A.

Stayer, Ralph C.

Management & Leadership

GRAND CENTRAL PUB.

A hardcover bestseller now in paperback presents a management program that encourages employee leadership--which today's companies must have more of if they are to survive the coming decades.

Flight of the Buffalo

Business Development & Entrepreneurship

Grand Central Publishing

In the corporate world, complacent companies run the risk of extinction. In this guide, James Belasco and Jerre Stead propose that management must identify and focus on long-term future goals to propel a business into the future.

Seize Tomorrow, Start Today: Renew Your Vision, Revitalize Your Organization, and Stay Ahead of the Future

Stead, Jerre

Business Culture

Today the most important function of any manager is to implement change, and Teaching the Elephant to Dance is a practical, hands-on guide to creating effective change in any organization. It explains how successful managers decide on a new direction, communicate their vision, and much more.

Teaching the Elephant to Dance: The Manager's Guide to Empowering Change

Plume

Management Today

John Wiley&Sons

Management Today (Alternate Energy)

A major force in the process of managing change in giant organizations, Belasco explains the vision, power, and fire you can start in your own organization to make things happen. 2 cassettes.

Teaching the Elephant to Dance

Dove Entertainment Inc

The author of Teaching the Elephant to Dance delivers a revolutionary model of "employee leadership" essential to American corporations in the decade ahead. 2 cassettes.

Dove Audio

With new millionaires being made with amazing frequency and people from all walks of life investing in the stock market, times have never been better for business. But failures are common too, with companies collapsing at an alarming rate. In The Ten Commandments of Success, management expert James Belasco uses an inspiring rethinking of biblical decrees to help readers bring success and meaning into their lives. For those seeking success at work, at home, or in the community, this book captures the essence of enduring principles to help them achieve their goals.

The Ten Commandments of Success

New Millenium

Offers a detailed new leadership model for companies in today's marketplace, one in which the employees, not the CEO, assume the responsibilities of leadership. Read by the author.

New Millenium Audio

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Books by Belasco, James A.

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Flight of the Buffalo: Soaring to Excellence, Learning to Let Employees Lead

Flight of the Buffalo

Seize Tomorrow, Start Today: Renew Your Vision, Revitalize Your Organization, and Stay Ahead of the Future

Teaching the Elephant to Dance: The Manager's Guide to Empowering Change

Management Today

Management Today (Alternate Energy)

Teaching the Elephant to Dance

Flight of the Buffalo

The Ten Commandments of Success

Flight of the Buffalo: Soaring to Excellence, Learning to Let Employees Lead