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Learn moreIn his work consulting to major corporations for more than thirty years, Gerald Kraines consistently hears that 60โ70 percent of business organizations' potential effectiveness goes unrealized. He shares how to engage, align, and develop employees in order to leverage and encourage optimal performance and long-lasting results.
Filled with useful anecdotes and lively case studies, this book will help you increase your wisdom about colleagues, direct reports, and others, as well as yourself. You'll discover how to develop powerful, yet straightforward strategies for leading people more effectively; establish accountability leadership at every level of the organization that adds value; define and implement managerial practices that will fully use people's potential; and drive organizational change and create a culture of adaptive readiness.
Business leaders who follow the principles in this book can multiply their chance of success and win back unrealized potential. Accountability, leadership, organizational alignment, and human resource systems are the building blocks for creating productive organizations. Kraines shares clear examples on how to get each of them right and properly integrated into a cohesive whole.
Gerald Kraines, MD, was chairman and CEO of Levinson and Co. In 2019, the firm was acquired by Pariveda Solutions, where Dr. Kraines is now senior vice president, strategic organization transformation. His clients have included Nestle, Verizon, AT&T, Coca Cola Femsa, Johnson & Johnson, The Gap, and Conoco Philips. Kraines received an undergraduate degree from Oberlin College and a postgraduate degree from Harvard Medical School.
Barry Abrams has narrated and produced audiobooks for a variety of publishers. He has worked as a behind-the-scenes producer at ESPN since 1992. Beginning in 2012, he has also hosted and produced ESPN's In the Gate podcast. Based in Danbury, Connecticut, Barry engineers and calls live webcasts of his son's ice hockey games.