Book Description

Whether you lead a small group of volunteers, or a multi-national company, this book will show you how to get everyone pulling together to get things done. Bestselling author Stephen Hawley Martin should know. Starting with fewer than 20 employees, he and his brother grew a small, local ad agency located in Richmond, Virginia into a world-renowned firm, today with more than 500 employees, offices in New York and London, and such high-profile clients as GEICO and UPS. This book explains the leadership system and management process they used, a primary key to their success and a process anyone can put to work effectively, regardless of previous management or leadership experience. This leadership system will enable anyone who uses it to distribute the work evenly while at the same time creating a sense of urgency and accountability throughout the entire team or organization. If you are looking for a way to get everyone in a group pulling his or her own weight and moving swiftly ahead toward clearly defined objectives, this book will tell you how.Martin, who ghostwrote the bestselling book, Lean Transformation: How to Change Your Business into a Lean Enterprise and other business management, lean manufacturing and continuous improvement titles, draws upon techniques used in Lean, Six Sigma, Agile, and Total Quality Management (TQM) and combines them with those he developed while growing a small, local firm into an international juggernaut. The result is a simple, easily adopted leadership system and management process that has been proven to create outstanding organizational behavior. He maintains that his system causes team members or players on a cross-functional team to be motivated to get things done on time and on budget. It is a process that would be beneficial for human resources and company leaders to understand and employ throughout an organization, from top to bottom, in order to create a championship mentality that permeates the workforce and creates a can-do workplace culture. He says the leader that implements this system will soon be running a well-oiled machine that will be the envy of his or her company or industry because everyone on that team will be pulling more than his or her own weight and striving toward challenging goals the entire team has agreed upon and supports.The truth is most organizations have a few hard-working individuals who make things go. Those not so driven or focused can hold a team or a business back and prevent it from moving from ineffective to good or even great. You may have heard the saying, "Work flows toward competency unless abated," and the corollary, "If you want a job done, give it to a busy man or woman." Without a system in place to insure the work is distributed evenly and everyone gets the tasks they are assigned done right and on time, a few individuals within an organization will end up doing all the work. But, as you will discover when you read this book, that doesn't have to be.How is a championship environment created? One in which everyone is working together toward a common goal instead of looking out for number one? You have come to the right place because this book will tell you.