The Advantage-Makers: How Exceptional Leaders Win by Creating Opportunities Others Don't: How Exceptional Leaders Win by Creating Opportunities Others Don't (paperback) - Softcover

Feinberg, Steven

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9780132781985: The Advantage-Makers: How Exceptional Leaders Win by Creating Opportunities Others Don't: How Exceptional Leaders Win by Creating Opportunities Others Don't (paperback)

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ISBN 10: 0132781980 ISBN 13: 9780132781985

Publisher: FT Press, 2007

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Some leaders consistently see possibilities others miss. They learn more, learn faster, and transform their insights into breakaway strategies. They are more effective collaborators, more powerful influencers, better at handling adversity, and dramatically more successful at execution.

They are the Advantage-Makers.

Their winning skills are not innate: they are entirely teachable and learnable. Steven Feinberg has been teaching these skills to executives for more than twenty years: leaders who’ve gone on to transform their organizations.

Now, it’s your turn.

In this book, Feinberg helps you master every skill Advantage-Makers need. He doesn’t just exhort you to “think different”: he shows you how. You’ll learn how to find the “commanding vantage point” in your situation, no matter how complex or dynamic...and use your high ground to spot and maximize every opportunity.

Shift the odds in your favor
Change focus to discover your next breakthrough solution
Drive superior outcomes despite limited resources
Engage your constraints, and put them to work for you
Grab hold of your hidden “levers of opportunity”
Learn how to leverage timing, interaction, perception, and structure
Use dissatisfaction and skepticism constructively
Pinpoint the real difficulties then transform them into opportunities
Avoid the “Laws of Defeat”
Discover the surprising mistakes that keep leaders from succeeding

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About the Author:

Steven Feinberg has spent more than thirty years applying the study of human behavior to performance efficacy. For the past twenty-three years, he has advised senior executives on key leadership, team, and organizational issues, with an emphasis on advantage-making: how to maximize their opportunities.

As President of Steven Feinberg, Inc., he has designed and developed advantage-making programs that have turned around ailing organizations, teams, and leaders in multiple industries and business environments.

His client list ranges from Fortune 500 firms to start-ups, and includes Wells Fargo, Visa, Citibank, Sun Microsystems, Plantronics, Symantec, Cadence Design Systems, HBO & Co., BEA Systems, Synopsys, NVidia, Pac Bell, Xilinx, Affymax, firstRain, and many more.

For twenty-three years, Steven has taught courses on leadership and organizational effectiveness in the University of San Francisco’s Department of Organizational Behavior and Leadership.

He graduated magna cum laude from the State University of New York at Buffalo, received an MSW from Tulane University, and holds a PhD from the Professional School of Psychology, San Francisco, CA.

For Steven, “getting leadership right” means acting as an Advantage-Maker.

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