DNA Leadership Through Goal-Driven Management - Hardcover

The Goals Institute

9781887570008: DNA Leadership Through Goal-Driven Management

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1887570004 ISBN 13: 9781887570008

Publisher: The Goals Institute, 1997

"For 21st-century success, you can't afford to remain comforable," says Ball. "Nor can you survive in a reactive mode. To get ahead you have to set goals. You have to have a systematic plan for achieving them. Creating and managing a culture where you methodically grow the way you want to takes careful, persistent efforts. And, with so much change, leaders need to help people get back to time-proven methods. That's where DNA Leadership fits in. What could be more elegant and dynamic than our own cell structure or more fundamental than our own DNA?"

DNA Leadership correlates to the biological principles of cell theory and DNA. It provides a control panel leaders can use to motivate individuals to achieve common purposes and objectives. The cells in our bodies are the ultimate expression of teamwork, buy-in, and proactive pursuit of a common mission. Although each cell is highly specialized and self-directed, it must communicate with other cells and do its job flawlessly or the whole system is at risk.

It is the same in business. Only the "cells" we have to work with are not cells of humans, they are humans. The central strategy in DNA Leadership is to integrate everyone into a self-managed, self-directed, self-motivated, and self-improving system-where individuals contribute not because they have to, but because they want to.

"Most people are intelligent, but only some are successful," writes Ball. "And the best-kept secret is that successful organizations and people find and follow methods for everything they do."

The methods in this book get back to disciplined nuts-and-bolts basics in setting goals and in implementing action plans to methodically create the future. Apply a few ideas and you will get immediate results. Study and apply the concepts completely and you will substantially increase your lifetime accomplishments and the growth and profits of your business.

If you are seeking a better approach for building your company and for pursuing business and personal goals with greater results, here it is.

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About the Author:

James R. Ball, "Jim" to everyone, is the president and co-founder of The Goals Institute, a company that helps individuals and businesses achieve their potential through goal achievement.

Starting early in life as a clerk in his father's grocery story in the small steel town of Sharon, Pennsylvania, Jim experienced firsthand the characteristics to mold success. Putting himself through college at Youngstown State University while working all shifts in the steel mill, Jim graduated with a degree in accounting.

Jim began his professional career as a staff accountant at Arthur Andersen and over a sixteen-year career worked his way up to becoming the managing partner of one of Andersen's fastest growing offices serving emerging businesses and high technology firms.

Jim left Andersen to become the co-founder and managing partner of a venture capital firm that helped launch and grow over twenty companies including The Discovery Channel. Jim served on the board of many of these companies and helped them grow and develop. As John Hendricks, the founder and CEO of Discovery Communications (The Discovery Channel) puts it: "Jim is an authority on goal power."

Jim knows what it takes to set and achieve goals and he will show you how you can, too.

Review:

"DNA Leadership through Goal-Driven Management is an excellent book written in a simple and well organized format. Everyone, whether they are CEOs or just beginning their career, could improve their performance by just implementing these basic concepts of setting and working towards their goals." -- W. Robert Grafton, Chairman, Board of Partners, Andersen Worldwide

"Jim Ball has elevated traditional management to a process that's doable and measurable. DNA Leadership through Goal-Driven Management is essential for anyone who wants to stretch resources further and at the same time create happy, loyal employees. It's a thoughtful how-to manual for getting a company's ideas to work." -- Martha Rogers, Ph.D., Co-author of Enterprise One to One and The One to One Future

"Jim Ball is an authority on goal power. I personally witnessed his dedication to establishing laser-clear goals in the early days of the Discovery Channel and I'm delighted to see Jim's wisdom so deftly shared in DNA Leadership through Goal-Driven Management. Readers will appreciate his illuminating insights into the secrets of succeeding within a goal-structured environment which should be the ultimate goal for all modern managers." -- John S. Hendricks, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Discovery Communciations, Inc.

"Jim Ball's DNA Leadership through Goal-Driven Management is the sine qua non of building an organizational growth culture. At Mary Kay, our biology-inspired culture is ground ed in our values and integrates our vision with goals and action plans. This book provides a clear mosaic and goal-driven pattern for growing your own organic, 21st century organization." -- Richard C. Bartlett, Vice Chairman, Mary Kay Corporation

"This is a book for executives who are dead serious about increasing growth and profits. In addition to the two major methods Jim Ball provides for selecting and achieving goals, DNA Leadership through Goal-Driven Management is loaded with practical tips and advice you can put to good use immediately." --William W. McCarten, President and Chief Executive Officer, Host Marriott Services Corporation

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