"Leadership," says Peter Drucker, "is lifting a person's vision to higher sights, raising a person's performance to a higher standard, and building a personality beyond its normal limitations."

The foundations of successful, effective leadership start with each person taking personal responsibility for their own actions as part of a group, while feeling confident enough to suggest and accept revisions in team goals and performance. The foundations of long-term, profitable growth and success are built on CREATIVE personal and corporate leadership. Someone once said, "The best way to predict YOUR future is to create it!" Why not lead it!

You might be asking, "What does leadership have to do with vision or creativity?" Quite frankly, everything!

Our customized leadership program, Prepare Yourself to WIN! -- is all about honing your skills as a creative leader and teaching those skills to your team so they succeed or win. Visit www.BobHooey.training or more details and program information on how you can engage the creative mind of Bob 'Idea Man' Hooey to help your team win and create the future they want.

To survive and thrive in this global competition, we need to successfully learn new styles of applied problem-solving, and innovation.

We must be willing to take personal leadership in using them in our own activities, and in the creative interaction with our fellow workers, our teams, our suppliers, and our clients.

Consistent use and improvement sharpen your creative leadership skills.

"Management is doing things right; Leadership is doing the right things." Peter Drucker

Our goal, as leading edge creative leaders, is effectively handling opportunities for growth, as well as problems, challenges, and mistakes. It is being able to cut through to the root causes, mining deep, and developing real solutions to put into action in conjunction with our various teams. It is also providing solid, visionary leadership at the senior level, which inspires those who follow you.

My objective in this book (as in all my leadership, business and career development publications) is to assist you in acquiring some new creative leadership skills, problem solving models, and to introduce creativity tools that will help you in your personal life, career, and interaction with your clients, staff, and co-workers. To help you creatively grow your skills and to succeed!

We also include problem-solving processes to creatively outline solutions -- workable solutions -- solutions than can be implemented tomorrow morning. I trust you will discover new approaches to the problems you may encounter.