Publisher's Synopsis
50 Short Stories about Leadership Already a leader? Inspire your team! Experienced? Energize your career! New graduate? Start your career right! Re-entering the workforce? Gain confidence! Storytelling is a sure way to communicate. Presidents, coaches, and leaders all know that engaging people with stories that have meaning are vivid calls to action. This book is full of compelling true stories for you to use to help you lead yourself; lead your team; and lead your leader. Learn through enjoyable stories about people like businessman David Rockefeller, legendary coach John Wooden, and Apollo 11 Mission Controller Gene Kranz. Filled with inspirational quotes and illustrated with colorful examples from music, business, politics, and sports, the stories in this book will help you reach your goals and achieve greater, more satisfying success through positive action. Everybody will enjoy and take something away from this book. Steve Speight, commercial jet pilot and former Navy flier If you are on a team, aspire to lead, or are currently a leader then this book is thrice the insightful read. James Dixon, CEO Greythorn North America With thought-provoking quotes and engaging stories, Dr. Tarr has shown what anyone can do to achieve greater success by being a yes-you yes-now leader. Pat Bangasser, high school teacher and coach About the Author: Steven C. Tarr learned the power of yes-you yes-now leadership in both his executive roles and front-line jobs. He progressed to become a top executive in high technology companies and leading-edge health care institutions, first seeing the value of effective following early in his working life by cleaning offices, delivering newspapers, stocking grocery shelves, programming computers, and eventually leading large teams of people. In each case, he has been both a leader and a follower, learning to work with others to achieve team goals. He earned his undergraduate and master s degrees from Washington State University and his doctorate from Portland State University. He enjoys volunteer coaching high school basketball and seeing the growth of people, young and old, as they persevere to achieve more than they thought possible. "
