Excuse Me, Aren't You in Charge?: Insightful Snippets to Recharge Your Leadership Batteries »

How do you deal with the possible layoff of 10,000 employees in 85 countries? How can you use inductive reasoning to assess difficult business situations? Why is an executive team so often an oxymoron? With more than sixty years of combined experience in global consulting and financial advising, Mike Policano and Gail Steinel are time-tested problem solvers who answer these and other challenging questions in the instructive and entertaining Excuse Me, Aren't You In Charge? Insightful Snippets to Recharge Your Leadership Batteries.

From "Fine Wine the Bottom Line" to "Cheap Is Expensive," the dozens of fast-paced stories included in this book offer unique insights that take the reader far beyond conventional business wisdom. These true-life tales provide a fresh perspective on key leadership issues and will help you improve your own performance and nurture the potential leaders you meet in your professional and personal life. Written with the casual grace of old friends swapping stories around the kitchen table, Excuse Me, Aren't You In Charge delivers energizing information in a breezy style. Read this book. Energize your batteries. And get ready to take charge.

Reader Beware ix Your Fees Are Very High 1 Screwed the Worst 5 Why Isn't She Listening to Me? 9 You Can't Win This 11 Cheap Is Expensive 13 Trust Is Like a Bank Account 15 Fill People's Cups with Energy 19 Draining the Energy Cup 23 Let People Follow Their Passions 25 Direction Versus Precision 27 Inductive Reasoning 29 You Can't Review What You Do 33 Support Your Staff 35 Hire Adults 37 Remember the Greater Good 39 I Knew We Shouldn't Have Hired Him 41 It's Not About the Reasons 43 The Sleep-at-Night Factor 45 Fire Now or Pay Later 47 Oxymoron: The Executive Team 49 Keepers, Maybes, and Casualties 53 Beware the Bully! 57 The Intern and the Heavy Manager 61 Leadership Return on Investment 63 They Won't Buy Bunk 65 Confront the Brutal Facts 67 How Can We Spin This? 71 It's All About Them 73 Easy on the Sarcasm 75 Do You Have Any Rooms? 77 Repetition, Repetition, Repetition 79 Creating Good Luck 83 Vacation Nonsense 87 It's About the Cash 89 Putting the Institution Above the Self 91 Just Bring in the Revenue 93 Living Your Values 95 That's Leadership? 97 Fine Wine and the Bottom Line 99 Excuse Me, Aren't You in Charge? 101 The Lithuanian Bank 103 Leaders Usually Have Followers 105 Nothing in It for Me 107 More Constructive Criticism-Gee, Thanks! 109 Me Read? What For? 111 Peer Coaching 113 It Is Always Personal 117 More Risk? More Reward? 119 The Business Trip from Hell 121 More Vacation Nonsense 125 Because That's What He Would Do 127 Delegate, Don't Abdicate 129 I Thought It Was a Furniture Company 131 Let Me Repeat It Back to You 133 First the Right Answer 137 Know What Motivates Your Employees 139 Fine Wines Age Well, Problems Do Not 141 Easy Ethics Test 143 How Come You Don'tSmile? 145 George, About the Copier ... 147 The Three Biggest Risks 149 Ask Me Anything 151 Questions, Not Answers 153 Offset Your Weaknesses 155 Spend More Time with Your Stars Than with Your Duds 157 Invest in Talent, Teach, and Trust 159 Celebrate Success 161 Listen, Really Listen 163 People Speak the Way They Think 165 Communication Is for the Audience 167 Give Undivided Attention 169 That Is What I Said, But ... 171 Aiming at the Woods 173 What If It Doesn't Work? 175 Spill the Bottle 177 No One Ever Expects the Spanish Inquisition 179 Work the Process 181 Treat Your Family as Your Number One Customer 185 About the Authors 187 Acknowledgments 189