Simple Strategies Used by Great Leaders
About Leadership Isn’t Rocket Science
A direct, often humorous look at leadership in corporate America. Leadership Isn’t Rocket Science examines how Company bureaucracy, business jargon, and endless meetings get in the way of leadership success. Author Grant Thompson provides simple, pragmatic suggestions for overcoming these hurdles and simplifying the leadership process.
“A cornerstone to operating a successful business is fostering effective leadership throughout the organization. In his book, Grant simply outlines numerous strategies that will enable organizations of any size to recruit, educate and retain employees with the management and leadership skills necessary to drive business performance.”
– Bob Dyson | Owner of NAPA Auto Parts
“The book is very well done and a great reference for business leaders as a reminder of what really matters in leading an organization. I had a hard time putting the book down and have thoroughly enjoyed it. Looking forward to book #2!”
– Matt McCormick | Director of Sales for Pete’s Coffee
Book Excerpt
“Corporate America has an amazing ability to make things more complicated than necessary. Company bureaucracy, office politics, and endless meetings are few of the obstacles to business success. Executives, who are well compensated to develop and communicate a clear vision, often contribute to employee confusion with their business jargon and ever-changing business strategies.
What most leaders fail to understand is that good leadership is simple. Yet, corporate America struggles with the simplicity. Instead, organizations spend billions each year searching for the magic formula to cure their organizations’ ills. At least once a year, they roll out a trendy new management program guaranteed to motivate employees and maximize profits.
If you want to find out about the latest leadership “trend,” this book isn’t for you. Instead, it is an effort to make managing employees easier. It is about utilizing leadership fundamentals that proved effective 100 years ago, and will be effective a century from now. It is about simplifying the leadership process because leadership isn’t rocket science.”
Featured Leaders
“The most important role I have as a manager is developing employees.”
– George Kotch | Global Crop Leader, Syngenta Seeds
“If company executives would just get out of the way of their employees, maybe more organizations would be successful.”
– Bill Long | Chairman of the Board, WinCo Foods
“It’s vital for management to make an organization’s mission and vision understandable at the employee level.”
– Faye Wattleton | Executive Director, Center for Advancement of Women
Purchasing the book
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Speaking Engagements
Grant Thompson is available to speak about any of the thirty topics featured in Leadership Isn’t Rocket Science: Simple Strategies Used by Great Leaders.