Lead Like it Matters...Because it Does: Practical Leadership Tools to Inspire and Engage Your People and Create Great Results

MASTER THE 4 KEY TENETS OF LEADERSHIP--AND CREATE A 'RIPPLE EFFECT' OF POSITIVE CHANGE.

A CRASH COURSE IN LEADERSHIP THAT REALLY MAKES A DIFFERENCE

Whether you're a manager, executive, or CEO, leadership matters. Whether you're running a large global firm or a small project team, it's the way you communicate and connect to other people that can make or break your success. The secret, according to Roxi Bahar Hewertson, is to make those connections count--to leverage your skills and play on your strengths--to lead like it matters…because it does.

A virtual crash course in leadership, Lead Like ItMatters…Because It Does combines three decades of experience and research with Hewertson's revolutionarywork at Cornell to create the definitive workbook. Learn how to:

Assess your leadership style and skill set--and make adjustments

Create constructive dialogues including 'managing up' and delegation

Cut wasteful meetings out of your life and lead productive ones

Address common interpersonal conflicts, quickly and gracefully

Increase productivity, team effectiveness, and accountability

Lead change initiatives that aren't dead on arrival, but ready for takeoff





As an executive coach, Hewertson knows how to pinpoint the problems, pressures, and pain points that plague managers at every level--and shows you how to fix them. You'll discover the 'ripple effect' that negative leadership choices can have throughout an organization--and how to make positive ripples with clear intent and powerful impact. You'll find a wealth of practical, user-ready tips for handling conflicts, reducing turnover,making confident decisions, and instituting changes in the workplace. This book is packed with handy charts, helpful questionnaires, step-by-step checklists, and other must-haves--it's your own personal toolbox of field-tested techniques, right at your fingertips.

Take charge of your future. Build the best team you can. Make changes that count. Lead Like It Matters…Because It Does.

PRAISE FOR LEAD LIKE IT MATTERS...BECAUSE IT DOES:

“Just when you think there is little new to say about leadership, Roxi Hewertson has created this ground breaking work. I've never seen anything like it. The conceptual framework is powerful, practical and personal. It introduces an innovative, step-by-step, developmental approach providing the reader not just insightful understanding about how to lead, but a sequence of exercises applying each new concept. It reflects a lifetime of learning by doing. For those who follow its counsel, Lead Like It Matters . . . Because it Does is transformative.”
Richard McDaniel, Chairman, Collegiate Retail Alliance, Inc., and coauthor of Measure What Matters

'Roxi gets it! If you want a compendium of current thought about leadership, Lead Like It Matters . . . Because it Does is it. Roxi has a keen grasp of where modern leadership is, and she has created a readable roadmap for those who want to take the trip.”
Rodney Napier, Ph.D., Principle, The Napier Group, and coauthor of Groups: Theory and Experience

'Lead Like It Matters . . . Because it Does is full of 'a-ha' moments and jam packed with practical and deeply researched leadership insights that will positively and immediately transform your work environment.'
Louise Phipps Senft, Phipps Senft Institute for Relational Leadership

“Roxi has given us the valuable and practical must do's, nice to do's, and really don't do's of being an effective leader and creating an enthusiastic and high performance team based on sound theory and solid experience.”
Tom DeCotiis, Ph.D., cofounder of Corvirtus, LLC, and author of Make It Glow