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Showing you how to stop chasing hot trends and start driving real growth, this guide offers a commonsense approach to business success and outlines a basic, effective, and actionable four-step blueprint for building a great organization of any size, in any arena. -- Edited summary from book.

Acknowledgments; Preface; Introduction; Part One Get the Process Right!; Chapter 1 Why Your Team Cannot Execute and How to Fix It; Chapter 2 Make Each Day a Masterpiece; Chapter 3 Get Tuf!; Chapter 4 The Fray Gets In The Way!; Chapter 5 Max It!; Chapter 6 The Power Of A Personal Success Profile (Psp); Chapter 7 Map It!; Chapter 8 Ram It!; Chapter 9 Prune It!; Chapter 10 Don't Mistake Motion for Progress!; Part One Summary; Part Two Get the Leaders Right!; Chapter 11 Do You Over-Manage and Under-Lead?; Chapter 12 Stretching, Trenches, and Changing; Chapter 13 You are the Catalyst!; Chapter 14 Buy-In Is Earned, Not Commanded!; Chapter 15 Get Your Red Belt On!; Chapter 16 The Truth About Mediocrity; Chapter 17 Beware the Five Seductions of Leadership; Chapter 18 Six Ways "Conventional Wisdom" Destroys Your Potential; Chapter 19 The Power of Preparation; Chapter 20 A Blueprint for Making the Tough Calls; Chapter 21 Four Ways to Measure Your Leadership; Part Two Summary; Part Three Get the Culture Right!; Chapter 22 Remember -- It's The Culture Stupid!; Chapter 23 The Core Value Pillar; Chapter 24 The Mission Pillar; Chapter 25 The Performance Standard Pillar; Chapter 26 Establish Your Business Facts of Life; Chapter 27 The Core Competency Pillar; Chapter 28 The People Pillar; Chapter 29 The Earn and Deserve Culture; Chapter 30 The Ideal Cultural Portrait -- Consistent In, Mediocre Out; Chapter 31 Weave In Catalyst, Responsible, And Lead; Chapter 32 Entitled Out, Tough-Minded In; Chapter 33 Sloth Out, Loyal In; Part Three Summary; Part Four Get the Team Right!; Chapter 34 How to Find the Great People You're Looking for!; Chapter 35 "Like" Is Never Enough!; Chapter 36 You Can't Make People What They Are Not!; Chapter 37 Ten Tips to Retain Talent; Chapter 38 The Staggering Cost Of Poor Performance; Chapter 39 Six Ways to Increase Employee Engagement; Chapter 40 Fix the Roof While the Sun is Shining!; Part Four Summary; About The Author; Glossary Of Master the Art of Execution Terms; References; Index

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