Top Performance

Zig Ziglar, Krish Dhanam, Bryan Flanagan, Jim Savage

Description

Zig Ziglar shows readers how to get the most out of themselves and others by developing people management skills. He reveals the qualities of good leadership and provides specific solutions for overcoming and correcting poor management practices. Rich with anecdotes and vivid illustrations, Top Performance provides specialized instruction for improving relationships with supervisors, coworkers, and subordinates to achieve maximum effectiveness in any profession.

Sujets

• Marketing et communication

Informations

• Publié par: Baker Publishing Group
• Date de parution: 01 septembre 2004
• Nombre de lectures: 2
• EAN13: 9781585580149
• Langue: English

Extrait

© 1986, 2003 by Zig Ziglar
Published by Revell
a division of Baker Publishing Group
P.O. Box 6287, Grand Rapids, MI 49516-6287
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Ebook edition created 2013
All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means for example, electronic, photocopy, recording without the prior written permission of the publisher. The only exception is brief quotations in printed reviews.
ISBN 978-1-58558-014-9
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data is on file at the Library of Congress, Washington, DC.
Excerpt from Raising Positive Kids in a Negative World copyright © 1985 by Zig Ziglar. Used by permission of Thomas Nelson Publishers.
Excerpt reprinted by permission from Bringing Out the Best in People by Alan Loy McGinnis, copyright © 1985 Augsburg Publishing House.
Quotation by Jack Falvey reprinted by permission, The Wall Street Journal, copyright © Dow Jones and Company, Inc., 1982. All rights reserved.
Material from Psychology Today reprinted with permission from Psychology Today magazine. Copyright © 1982 [APA].
The internet addresses, email addresses, and phone numbers in this book are accurate at the time of publication. They are provided as a resource. Baker Publishing Group does not endorse them or vouch for their content or permanence.
Dedicated to P. C. Merrell, a Top Performer whose inspiration and leadership by example had a lifetime impact on my performance
You can have everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want!
Contents
Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Acknowledgments
Preface
Introduction
Part 1 The Art of Top Performance
1. Building a Foundation
2. Choosing to Be a Top Performer
3. Causing Others to Want Your Leadership
4. Look for the Good
5. Expect the Best
6. “Wait for Me, I’m Your Leader!”
7. “People Just Don’t Care …”
Part 2 The Science of Top Performance
8. “But I Thought You Said …”
9. Recognizing, Rewarding, and Role Modeling for Top Performance
10. Getting to Know You … and Me, Too!
11. Management Gems
Part 3 Motivating the Top Performer
12. A Formula for Motivation
13. Why You Manage … Why They Follow
14. Managing Productivity
15. Education to Overcome Management Paralysis
16. The Secret to Management Motivation
17. It Takes Time
Epilogue: A Unique Opportunity
Notes
About the Author
Acknowledgments
In many ways this is the most unusual and exciting book I have written. Unusual because for the first time I worked with a coauthor and, in this update, with two men whom I love and respect. Without the contribution and assistance of Jim Savage, this book would not have been written. And now, with the unique talent of Bryan Flanagan and Krish Dhanam, the content is greatly enriched. My gratitude for each of them is significant.
As always, Laurie Magers, my ever-faithful, always dependable administrative assistant, did a magnificent job. When called upon, Kay Lynn Westervelt, who worked closely with Laurie, also did a beautiful job, as did Julie Norman, my editor and daughter. I owe a particularly heavy debt of gratitude to my friend and mentor Fred Smith, whom I hold in high regard, for his willingness to contribute thoughts and ideas throughout the book. A very special thank-you to Leo Presley, president of the consulting firm Presley & Associates, who encouraged us and gave important direction on getting involved on a larger scale in corporate America. Leo is one of the brightest men I know.
I am also grateful to Ron Ezinga, the past president of the Zig Ziglar Corporation, whose steady hand at the helm and encouraging guidance while we wrote this book kept us at least partially on course in meeting our guidelines. Then, of course, there’s my wife, Jean, “the Redhead,” whose willingness to tolerate some intolerable demands on our time together, combined with her loving support, made the book not only possible but an exciting experience. To the other members of our staff and to the numerous authors who contributed through your articles, thank you.
Preface
Fifteen percent of the reason you get a job, keep that job, and move ahead in that job is determined by your technical skills and knowledge regardless of your profession! That’s what my late friend, human engineer Cavett Robert, said. What about the other 85 percent? Cavett quoted Stanford Research Institute, Harvard University, and the Carnegie Foundation (which spent one million dollars and five years on the research) as having proved that 85 percent of the reason you get a job, keep that job, and move ahead in that job has to do with your people skills and people knowledge!
I’m completely convinced he was right. As I travel around the country sharing ideas on personal growth, sales training, and the corporate concepts we teach at Ziglar Training Systems, I become more and more aware of the critical need for specialized instruction on how we can manage ourselves and lead others for maximum effectiveness. As I visit with professionals from all walks of life, I see common problems in many if not all of the different situations men and women are facing, and the common denominator in these problems is always the same: people.
So obviously, “managing people” (starting with yourself) becomes a high priority if we are to be successful. In this book, we have several primary goals relating to understanding people management skills: We will identify the key factors in people management, including helping managers to identify potential sources of conflict. We will offer solutions to help overcome these potential sources of conflict. We will share how you can apply the principles and ideas other managers have used successfully, thereby taking this book out of the realm of theory and making it applicable in the real world. We will showcase practical Top Performance through real life illustrations gathered from successful executives. We will bridge the gap between training and development so as to create Top Performers who are truly performance champions.
John Naisbitt, author of Megatrends, says that retraining managers, not retraining workers, is the biggest challenge for the information-age corporation. With this in mind, the ultimate goal of Top Performance is to develop excellence in managers and to provide management with teaching procedures and inspiration to effectively develop and utilize team members.
The foundation for developing yourself and others is wrapped up in this principle:
You can have everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want!
I have used this statement for nearly fifty years as a foundational truth, and never is the concept more accurate than when managing yourself and others. Important! I’m talking about a principle and not a tactic. As a tactic the words would be crass and ineffective. As a principle the concept works because it makes others want your leadership.
I read an interesting article in Fortune magazine about multibillionaire Li Ka-Shing from Hong Kong. He raised his two sons, Victor and Richard, in his business, requiring them to attend board meetings and conferences where they learned his philosophy.
Richard observed that his entrepreneurial genius father was involved in many joint ventures, most of which had great ideas and products but little capital. Richard’s father taught him that if 10 percent is a fair percentage of the business you receive as a result of your investment but you know you can get 11 percent, it is wise to take only 9 percent. Li Ka-Shing taught his boys that if they took less than they could get, many undercapitalized people would bring their good ideas and products to them first. That’s exactly what happened, because when individuals in the business world saw that these people were genuinely interested in them, they brought good deals to them, proving the philosophy completely. It’s true! The great managers from all fields know that when they put people first, their effectiveness and efficiency improve.
One basic definition of management is “getting things done through people.” Successful managers recognize, develop, and use all their strength by recognizing, developing, and utilizing the talents of their subordinates. They learn what makes people tick and transfer their own feelings of excitement and enthusiasm to those who follow their leadership.
Chances are good that if you are not already doing well in your chosen career, you are on the verge of a breakthrough to becoming more successful. Regardless of your chosen profession in life, Top Performance: How to Develop Excellence in Yourself and Others is written specifically for you!
Introduction
If you carefully read the title of the book, you will notice the subtitle is How to Develop Excellence in Yourself and Others. Obviously, it starts with you. If you expect to move up in the business world, you must start with personal efficiency and recognize that you will become a role model for others.
If you participated in organized team sports at one time in your life, you can well recall the day or night before the “big game” and how the coach laid out the game plan. You went home with considerable excitement, exclaiming to your parents that the coach had really come up with something good and that your team was going to “kill them tomorrow!” Your faith in the plan enabled you to play the game with a great deal of excitement, enthusiasm, and confidence that you would win.
The game of life is considerably longer and a great deal more important; therefore, a plan is necessary for your expectations to be met. Your first concept or objective in the business world should be to attract favorable attention. Efficiency will accomplish that objective. However, the day will come when you need to realize that if you are going to be effective at management, there are cer