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From the Publisher THERES A NEW WAY TO SUCCEED IN BUSINESS Personal consultant and life coach Richard Haasnoot identifies nine leadership qualities cr
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itical to success in business todaytrust, listening, sharing, cooperation, fun, balance and whole life, spirit, intuition, and creativityand profiles cutting-edge leaders who exemplify these traits. Meet: - Hal Rosenbluth, president and CEO of Rosenbluth International, a multi-billion-dollar travel management company with the second-largest global presence. Rosenbluth relies on intuition to make his hiring decisions. - Joe Mansueto, founder and chairman of Morningstar, a leading financial information provider. Mansueto eschews vacation and sick day policies, trusting his employees to simply take the time they need. - Doug Walker, cofounder and president of WRQ Inc., one of the fastest-growing PC software companies. Walkers principle-based organization enjoys a turnover rate of less than half the industry average. and other leaders from such prominent companies as Ingram Micro, Pfaltzgraff Co., Lander International, Gardeners Supply Company. Using an inspirational approach, Haasnoot offers practical methods for instilling each principle into your own leadership style. Praise for The New Wisdom of Business: shows there are more enlightened ways to lead enterprises. Vandy Van Wagener, marketing consultant and former Procter & Gamble executive new insights into the behaviors of some extraordinarily effective businesspeople. Rich Gurin, chairman and CEO, S&H Company provides a great perspective for dealing with the alliances, teamwork, and motivational issues required to succeed in todays rapidly evolving marketplace. Mike Linton, senior vice president, Strategic Marketing, Best Buy Product Description For people who want to get the most out of both their professional and personal lives, business coach Richard Hasnoot has identified key characteristics of the most innovative and successful company leaders. The guiding principles are no longer greed, underhandedness, or revenge. Rather, the new attitudes include trust, sharing, cooperation, balance, intuition, creativityeven fun. About the Author Writer, speaker, personal consultant and life coach Richard Haasnoots mission is not only to personally embody the principles he espouses in The New Wisdom of Business, but to show how others can and are succeeding using these new standards of excellence. You can be a good, caring human being and succeed in business, observes Haasnoot, I illustrate in detail who is doing it already, how they embody the principles, and explain how to incorporate these ideas into any and every business leaders success story. Founder of Enlightened Success, an independent coaching and consulting practice, Haasnoot brings more than 25 years of high level consumer marketing experience to bear on his coaching and training work. Formerly an executive with Proctor & Gamble, and with Gallo winery, he has created award-winning advertising campaigns and major new brands. He is author of The Complete Idiots Guide to Five-Minute Managing, and is co-author of By the Numbers: Using Facts and Figures to Get Your Projects, Plans and Ideas Approved. Trust is the highest form of human motivation. It brings out the very best in people. --Stephen R. Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People Lost Trust-An American Crisis As important as trust is in our society, it is at a 30-year low. A 1964 national survey found that the majority of Americans trusted other people, but today two-thirds feel most people cannot be trusted. What does this feel like for many workers today? They experience a deep skepticism that in their hearts they wish did not exist. In our culture there is a chasm between the actual level of trust and the level of trust most people would like to see. The most extensive measurement of trust in American corporations is the Levering Trust Index, a measure of the level of most companies, d
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