August 19, 2009
REVIEWS
Jack Stack, author of The Great Game of Business and A Stake in the Outcome: “No-Compromise Leadership is more than a great read, it’s what true leadership is all about.”
Bo Burlingham, editor at large, INC. magazine and author of Small Giants: Companies that Choose to be Great Instead of Big: “Don’t blame the competition, the economy or your employees for holding your business back. The real culprit is compromise at the leadership level. No-Compromise Leadership is a wake-up call for leaders of companies large and small, and an antidote to the mediocrity that afflicts so many of them.”Paula Kent Meehan, founder, Redken Laboratories and Kenquest: “No-Compromise Leadership is a non-negotiable must-read.”
Jim Horan, author of The One Page Business Plan: “If your sales and profitability are not where you want them, if your customers are not raving fans, if your employees are not fully engaged and highly evangelistic about you and your company… you are seeing the effects of your compromise. And Neil Ducoff’s book is going to give you a no-compromise wake-up call.”
Ping Chu, president, Canmeng International; Taipei, Taiwan: “No-Compromise Leadership is the future for entrepreneurial leaders to create the right no-compromise cultures, not just in the United States, but around the world.”
Peter J. Wright, COO, FACHE: “If your values demand excellence of yourself and you want the best for your company and team, read, learn and live this book. If you are satisfied with status quo — buy a different book.”
Sergi Moiset, founder and CEO, I-Tasc; Girona, Spain: “Truly inspiring…the right questions with the right answers and, more importantly, fun to read. Neil’s No-Compromise Leadership is a must-read for anyone in business.”
Geno Stampora, Stampora Consulting, Inc.: “At first I thought, who needs another book on leadership? Just a few pages in and I knew this book was miles above the rest. Ducoff makes becoming a no-compromise leader easy. So much so, I have adopted the no-compromise concept into all I do.”
Kenneth M. Lankin, MD, MBA, MPH, president, Dr. Lankin’s Specialty Foods, LLC: “In No-Compromise Leadership, Neil Ducoff has culled the best of business principles, fundamental human philosophy, and his own insights into an inspiring and useful blend of principles. Leaders will read this book and emerge with renewed vitality and a deeper understanding of what’s important in business and in their own lives.”
PRODUCT DESCRIPTION
No-Compromise Leadership cuts through the myriad excuses, emotional blockages and procrastination that sabotage companies and careers. As author Neil Ducoff explains in his book, just as no-compromise is a mode of thinking and a discipline, so is compromise. Both are choices and both require discipline. Clearly, compromise offers the path of least resistance. It’s easier to avoid a leadership responsibility than to do it. It’s easier to avoid financial accountability than to do it. It’s easier to avoid addressing a difficult employee’s behavior issues than to do it. It’s easier to deliver mediocre rather than world-class customer service.
So why embrace a no-compromise standard? Because compromising behavior as seemingly insignificant as different policies for different employees, lack of structure and systems, ad hoc decision-making, and disregard for budgets inevitably sap productivity, profits, and vital customer and employee relationships.
Ducoff should know. For the last four decades, the internationally recognized business expert has personally coached over 3500 companies, many of them on the brink of failure when he started. “Through it all, I have seen firsthand the anguish, financial devastation and remnants of great dreams that were all contaminated by compromise,” he says. No-Compromise Leadership is more than a fresh new theory on how to be a successful leader. Filled with real world examples and outcomes, Ducoff has created a new model that promises to re-engineer how companies should run.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Neil Ducoff is the CEO and founder of Strategies Inc., a cutting-edge provider of business training and coaching throughout North America. To date, he has led more than 4,500 seminars throughout North America and in such countries as Taiwan, Spain and Mexico, and served as a prominent presenter at major healthcare, computer, manufacturing and franchise conferences, such as Jack Stack’s National Gathering of Games. Ducoff has also written extensively on business, including as editor-in-chief for five years of the hard-hitting investigative trade journal, Cutter Magazine. Among other honors, Ducoff was the recipient of the Art of Business Award in 2005, and one of twelve business “Legends and Icons” by the annual Serious Business Conference in New Orleans in 2006.
