by StevenFeinberg (Author)
Some leaders consistently see possibilities others miss. They learn more, learn faster, and transform their insights into breakaway strategies. They are more effective collaborators, more powerful influencers, better at handling adversity, and dramatically more successful at execution.
They are the Advantage-Makers.
Their winning skills are not innate: they are entirely teachable and learnable. Steven Feinberg has been teaching these skills to executives for more than twenty years: leaders who've gone on to transform their organizations.
Now, it's your turn.
In this book, Feinberg helps you master every skill Advantage-Makers need. He doesn't just exhort you to think different : he shows you how. You'll learn how to find the commanding vantage point in your situation, no matter how complex or dynamic...and use your high ground to spot and maximize every opportunity.
WARNING! Reading Steven Feinberg's The Advantage-Makers will cause habitually inspired decision making. It reveals the accomplishments of extraordinary people who could see what others could not. Feinberg helps us demystify the secrets of inspirational decision making and makes us all realize we can be inspiring, too.
-MARV TSEU, Chairman of the Board, Plantronics
The Advantage-Makers not only helps you avoid errors, it helps you see what is possible. This translates into moving the organization forward. You will be better by applying the know-how in this book.
-SHELLY BEGUN, VP, HR Xilinx
Whether you as a manager are trying to build a high-performing team of first-level managers or senior executives, you will find Dr. Feinberg's tools and techniques intuitive and effective. The Advantage-Makers will get you started in the right direction.
-JIM HAAR, CIO, BEA Systems
The Advantage-Makers will captivate your mental and intuitive processes. You will experience many `ahas' and be elated to find within its pages real life help that can put you on the leading edge of organizational and personal thinking. You will receive an arsenal of profound leadership thoughts and an array of actionable ideas that you will continually refer to throughout your life.
-BILL FIELDS, President, Packaging Results, Inc.
I count myself hard to impress. But I was highly impressed after reading several sections of The Advantage-Makers. The material offers a wealth of excellent information and advice, allowing readers to move from research-based evidence to decidedly practical action steps.
-ROBERT CIALDINI, PHD and author of Influence: Science and Practice
Great leaders can see opportunities where others see only problems...influence outcomes where others are hopelessly stuck...transform their obstacles into powerful advantages. They've learned to use levers of power that other executives don't even know exist.
They are the Advantage-Makers.
And you can be one, too.
Straight from renowned Advantage-Maker consultant Steven Feinberg, this relentlessly practical, hands-on book will show you how. It's packed with new ideas, techniques, exercises, and checklists that will transform the way you view every business challenge...so you can find the winning solutions that are hidden in plain sight!
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Foreword xiii
Preface xv
Acknowledgments xxiii
Part 1 Strategic Shifting: How to See What Others Miss
Chapter 1 How to Shift the Odds in Your Favor in the Best of Times and the Worst of Times 3
Chapter 2 Breaking the Secret Code of the Great Advantage-Makers 25
Chapter 3 Wise or Otherwise: Are You Following Any of the Hidden Laws of Defeat? 61
Chapter 4 Shifting to a Commanding (Ad)Vantage Point 87
Part 2 The Advantage Points: The Levers of Advantage-Making
Chapter 5 Adaptive Stretching: It's Not the BestWho Wins[md]It's Who's the Most Adaptive 111
Chapter 6 The Game Changer: If You Are in a Hole, Stop Digging and Change the Game 137
Chapter 7 Move or Lose: Manage Momentum to Advance Your Organization 169
Chapter 8 Strategic Influence: How to Get People to Say Yes in the Right Way to the Right Things 195
Chapter 9 Influence Perception: Helping People See What They Need to See 223
Chapter 10 Being an Advantage-Maker: How to Play in a Different League 251
Index 266
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 304
Edition: 1
Publisher: Financial Times/ Prentice Hall
Published: 26 Jul 2007
ISBN 10: 0132347784
ISBN 13: 9780132347785
Book Overview: Are you an Advantage-Maker? If not, odds are you will lose to someone who is. Advantage-Makers are those rare leaders who win more often because they know how to consistently transform challenging situations into the best possible outcomes. The best part is that becoming an Advantage-Maker will not require new resources or any of the other often expensive solutions that have been proposed over the years; it simply requires a shift in how leaders view and think about their company and their competitive environment. The book gets the reader started quickly, showing the benefits and methods to develop the strategic agility required of Advantage-Makers. The book then goes on to present some of the key tactics of Advantage-Makers, including shifting to a commanding vantage point, adaptive stretching, advancing the organization, and a key piece of advice: If you are in a hole stop digging and start filling it in. It then goes on to present the best ways of changing the way the people around the Advantage-Maker think. After reading this book, readers will be in a different league than the other leaders around them. The best leaders see things others don't: they spot overlooked opportunities, create undreamed of benefits, shift the odds in their favor, and influence breakthrough outcomes. The Advantage-Makers finally reveals how they do it, and how you can, too.
Steven Feinberg has spent more than thirty years applying the study of human behavior to performance efficacy. For the past twenty-three years, he has advised senior executives on key leadership, team, and organizational issues, with an emphasis on advantage-making: how to maximize their opportunities.
As President of Steven Feinberg, Inc., he has designed and developed advantage-making programs that have turned around ailing organizations, teams, and leaders in multiple industries and business environments.
His client list ranges from Fortune 500 firms to start-ups, and includes Wells Fargo, Visa, Citibank, Sun Microsystems, Plantronics, Symantec, Cadence Design Systems, HBO & Co., BEA Systems, Synopsys, NVidia, Pac Bell, Xilinx, Affymax, firstRain, and many more.
For twenty-three years, Steven has taught courses on leadership and organizational effectiveness in the University of San Francisco's Department of Organizational Behavior and Leadership.
He graduated magna cum laude from the State University of New York at Buffalo, received an MSW from Tulane University, and holds a PhD from the Professional School of Psychology, San Francisco, CA.
For Steven, getting leadership right means acting as an Advantage-Maker.
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