Many leaders spend time getting people on their side-only to drop the ball by failing to keep them on their side. The key to long-term success in any organization is maintaining momentum for ideas and initiatives. Keep Them on Your Side addresses the critical issue of how to keep people on your side and how to sustain momentum so that you can achieve your goals. Developing an agenda, identifying allies and resistors, and assembling …

Win Support. Convert Skeptics. Get Results.
Politics is an inevitable, legitimate, and even beneficial aspect of corporate and organizational life. Hard work and good ideas are not enough to ensure success-your ability to win allies and head off resistance is what really matters in today’s corporate environment. If you don’t garner support for your ideas, you could become an organizational casualty.
Get Them on Your Side outlines how to:

Assess allies and resistors
Build coalitions
Negotiate support
Understand the agendas of …

Being proactive is your ability to move beyond obstacles and blocks to realize your goals. Proactive leadership — being proactive, getting people on your side, and keeping them there — is fundamentally about building and maintaining effective relationships. You can view these relationships as broadly as one country getting along with another. Or you can bring it all the way down to how you and your spouse or partner get along with …