If you're stuck in an old leadership paradigm, get ready for marginal performance and disappointing results. With change quickening every day, it's more important than ever to create a positive and enabling culture to thrive. In this business guidebook to leadership excellence, Peter Hughes explores how to: · motivate and engage employees, · fix problems that will have an immediate impact on your bottom line, · discern the differences between management and leadership, and · help employees overcome their greatest challenges. The author also examines whether leaders are born or whether anyone can become a successful leader, ways lean concepts are being applied differently in organizational settings, and why smart people so often fail after being promoted to the managerial ranks. Take a journey that leads to substantial improvements in performance and create a positive culture where everyone is poised to succeed with this leadership guidebook.