This book is a ground-breaking effort to help managers become more effective at influencing people, which is the essence of leadership. More accurately, it will help the reader become a manager-leader who products sustainable results by stirring, showing, developing, reinforcing and bringing co-workers to the conclusion that they are working for their best to the team and the business that keeps them going.

The first part of the book explains the what, the how and the what for of leadership. The second part explains the results of field research conducted to reveal the distinguishing skills and the leadership practices that make manager-leaders more effective than their task-driven counterparts at delivering sustainable business results. It also shows how the research results were used in a program that has successfully helped job-focused managers from many diverse industries and functional assignments to become better manager-leaders.