If You Don't Make Waves, You'll Drown: 10 Hard-Charging Strategies for Leading in Politically Correct Times

If You Don't Make Waves, You'll Drown: 10 Hard-Charging Strategies for Leading in Politically Correct Times

by Dave Anderson
If You Don't Make Waves, You'll Drown: 10 Hard-Charging Strategies for Leading in Politically Correct Times

If You Don't Make Waves, You'll Drown: 10 Hard-Charging Strategies for Leading in Politically Correct Times

by Dave Anderson

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Overview

This is not your typical business book. You won't find academic remedies to your business challenges or exhortations to create a warmer and fuzzier workplace. In fact, you'll find the opposite-tips on how to be a tougher, take-no-prisoners-style manager. It's time to stop letting workplace political correctness push you around and get serious about your business.

In If You Don't Make Waves, You'll Drown, Dave Anderson doesn't pull any punches. Offering simple wisdom and politically incorrect solutions that really work, he's not here to inspire you, but to taunt you into action. He shows you how to be more direct without being disrespectful; how to give honest feedback even when it hurts; and how to hold employees accountable for results. In short, you'll learn how to get the most out of your business.

Want more politically incorrect wisdom?

  • Tenure is a license for laziness
  • Diversity without competence is worthless
  • Don't trade your values for valuables
  • Political correctness is a disease that destroys the workplace
  • It's time to fight back!

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780471725039
Publisher: Wiley
Publication date: 11/11/2005
Pages: 256
Product dimensions: 6.44(w) x 9.38(h) x 0.95(d)

About the Author

DAVE ANDERSON is President of Dave Anderson's Learn to Lead, and LearntoLead.com®, a cutting edge Web site that provides free training resources to people in more than thirty countries. He is a member of the National Speakers Association and is a featured speaker at conventions worldwide. He is also the author of Up Your Business!, from Wiley.

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Table of Contents

Preface viii

Acknowledgments xvi

Author’s Note xvii

Introduction 1

1 Don’t Be a Wimp! 11

2 Eliminate Entitlements: Send the Moochers Packing! 41

3 Don’t Confuse the Scoreboard for the Game! 65

4 Sometimes You Have to Tick People Off! 91

5 Learn to Read between the Lies! 109

6 Ditch Diversity and Go for Results! 135

7 Don’t Just Win . . . Run Up the Score! 153

8 Spare the Rod, Spoil the Sluggard! 177

9 Don’t Make People Happy. . . .Make Them Better! 193

10 Don’t Trade Your Values for Valuables! 203

Notes 233

Bibliography 235

About the Author 236

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