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What they're saying about "The Last Word on Power" ©1997, 1998, 1999 All rights reserved 1. THE POWER TO "MAKE THE IMPOSSIBLE HAPPEN" Moving Beyond "Power 101" What Is Executive Re-Invention? Leaders Must Re-Invent Themselves First Transforming Your Way of Being versus Changing What You Are Doing The Context Is Decisive Language Is The House of Being The Stages of Re-Invention The Roots of Re-Invention Who Are the Candidates for Re-Inventing Themselves? The "Ticket" Into Re-Invention 2. UNCOVERING YOUR WINNING STRATEGY - Discovering the Source of Your Success, Which is Also the Source of Your Limitation Success Is Never Free The Compensating Power Principle Your Individual Winning Strategy™ Expressing Your Winning Strategy™ As A Whole Can the Hold of a Winning Strategy™ Be Broken? The Rewards of Executive Re-Invention™ Winning Strategies™ in Organizations Next Stop: The Human Condition 3. THE UNIVERSAL HUMAN PARADIGM The Voice Whispering in Everyone's Ear The Way Things "Should" or "Shouldn't" Be The Perpetual "Missing Dot" "Survival" Under the Universal Human Paradigm How You Learned to Compensate The Universal Human Paradigm in Organizations Toward the Freedom Trail 4. DYING BEFORE GOING INTO BATTLE - Freeing Yourself From the Illusion That You Can Control Life So That It Turns Out the Way It Should The End of Hope "...Catch as Catch Can..." The Eye of the Needle of Hopelessness Learning to Hit Bottom Without Giving Up Telling Yourself the Truth 5. CREATING THE RE-INVENTION PARADIGM - Acquiring the Capacity the Make the Impossible Happen Declaring the Future A Declaration of Possibility Creating the Re-Invention Paradigm™ Taking a Stand Declarations in Organizations Honing the Declaration From Declaration to Design 6. INVENTING AN IMPOSSIBLE FUTURE - Creating a New Game That Re-Designs You as a Leader Leaders Are the "Clearing" in Which the Future Happens Generating a Clearing for Yourself as a Lewader Creating an Invented Future The Design of Your Game
7. BUILDING THE BRIDGE BETWEEN "POSSIBILITY" AND "REALITY" - Implementing Your Impossible Future The Addictive Cycle of Interpretation The Bridge From Possibility to Reality Is a Conversation for Action Requests: Queries That Generate Commitment Promises, Bold Promises Three Questions After Something Happens Action Under the Re-Invention Paradigm™ 8. WHAT ATHLETES AND PERFORMERS KNOW ABOUT BEING EXTRAORDINARY (THAT EXECUTIVES DON'T) Creating a Lifelong Practice The Whole Is Greater Than the Sum of It's Parts Leading an Organizational Re-Invention The Last Word on Power Appendix I: The Two Master Paradigms Appendix II: Terms of Executive Re-Invention Appendix III: For Leaders Already Engaged in Organizational Re-Invention or Re-Engineering Notes What executives are saying about The Last Word On Power"Tracy Goss' The Last Word on Power has incredible possibilities for leaders of all organizations. At a time when my career had become successful by normal means of measurement, it had become stale and predictable to me. The Executive Re-Invention Program opened my eyes to a whole new world of breakthroughs and has allowed me and the organizations I work with to investigate a new future that was previously invisible. Tracy Goss' new book can open up those opportunities for any leader willing to investigate re-inventing themselves and their organization." Robert Meers, CEO and
President "Among the myriad of leadership development programs available today we have found the work done in the Executive Re-Invention Program by Tracy Goss to be extremely impactful - she makes a difference. She knows what she is doing." Charles Butt, Chairman "Grow Revenue, reduce expenses, improve service . . . at the same time . . . IMPOSSIBLE! But that is the IMPERATIVE for survival in telecommunications today. Tracy Goss and the Executive Re-Invention Program were a turning point in my life. They allowed me to develop the focused, calm resolve to expect to accomplish the impossible routinely . . . and that is real POWER!" Jerry Carr, Chairman and
CEO "The Last Word on Power from Tracy Goss and the Executive Re-Invention Program on which it is based, will revolutionize management. A must for the leader who has been looking for a way to transfer ownership of the future success of the organization to his or her employees and release their full potential." Jean-Luc Schwitzguebel,
President, Textile Dyes Division "Tracy Goss hits on the single most important element in all of the discussion about re-invention, quality management or transformation: she deals with the power of individual leadership. If you are a leader in any organization, you ought to read this book." The Honorable Ann
Richards "If you need to be an extraordinary leader, or an extraordinary team - you need this book!" My executive team has produced remarkable results in the year since we began the Executive Re-Invention Program with Tracy Goss and Sheila Reid. Our profits have doubled, and we're on an upward swing that was simply impossiible one year ago. It would not be an exaggeration to say that re-inventing myself -- an experience much like, "'twas blind, but now I see!" has made all the difference at work and at home." Bob Loeffler, Senior Vice
President/General Manager "The Last Word on Power should be a part of any change architect's plan for creating leaders who must bring a difficult or impossible future into existence. The Executive Re-Invention Program is a call to courage. It transformed me as a leader. Looking back on it, not re-inventing myself would be like living half a life. For any executive, HR or otherwise, who intends to have their contribution be the creation of great leadership, Executive Re-Invention is essential." Greg Thomson, Senior Vice
President Human Resources "Tracy Goss has walked the walk of Transformation. In The Last Word on Power, she shares with us the map and the journey. This book and the Executive Re-Invention Program will be viewed, from the far future, as the breakthrough that finally broke the back of the corporate principles that have addicted our leaders to power as force, as opposed to power as freedom." James L. Throneberg,
Chairman and CEO "The Executive Re-Invention Program transforms the paradigm of leadership. The Last Word on Power (based on the Program) is a must read for anyone interested in moving from leading toward the future to leading from the future, from keeping pace with change to setting the pace in the changing world we operate in." Susan Fabre, Vice
President Human Resources "At last, here is someone with a handle on the missing link in reengineering and organizational transformation - leaders who can routinely make the impossible happen. In The Last Word on Power, Tracy Goss demystifies transformational leadership. This is an important and insightful work. I recommend it, and the Executive Re-Invention Program to anyone interested in creating a high-performance organization." Dr. Allan L. Scherr,
Senior Vice President, (former IBM Fellow) "This book in for 'advanced' leaders who are on the verge of making impossible dreams come true for themselves or their organizations. Tracy Goss understands what it takes for one person to make a difference in the world of business, politics, government or community leadership, and through the Executive Re-Invention Program and The Last Word on Power, she shows exactly how it can be done." Mary Beth Rogers,
Visiting Professor "The Politics of Change" "The Executive Re-Invention Program has provided me with powerful insight into myself as a leader and how I produce extraordinary results in certain areas of my life. More importantly, this insight has allowed me to achieve breakthroughs in my life and work that I previously considered impossible." Michael France, Partner "Tracy Goss' Executive Re-Invention Program works a lot like a precision lens. A first look can be disorienting and unsettling because it provides such a different perspective. However, pretty soon its sharpness and focus sheds new light. Nowhere is this seen better than in her 'The future is the means not the end' assertion. Working with Tracy was a revelation." Tony McGrath, Corporate
Affairs Director "The book, The Last Word on Power is a must read for anyone interested in transcending mere improvement. Tracy Goss has presented decades of her research and her work with executives and leaders attending the Executive Re-Invention Program in a direct, to the point and very readable and practicable fashion." The Honorable John
Snobelen, Minister of Education "Tracy Goss" take on power and leadership in contemporary organizations is unique and welcome. Ms. Goss provides a totally new framework for understanding leadership, and on top of that, one that is eminently practical. All authors dream about wanting a conversation with their readers. Goss does this so successfully that I want to know her and continue the dialog. Even more Iíd like to participate in the Executive Re-Invention Program itself." Warren Bennis, author of
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