Managers keep searching for the sure-fire change and improvement path. But following the trendy and popular routes often lead them over a cliff or into dead-end canyons. Cutting through the buzzwords and theories, comes Pathways to Performance — a guide to help you, your team, and your organization blaze your own successful way to high performance.

Jim outlines an array of practical ideas, steps, and routes that will inspire and instruct your transformation efforts. You'll see why you can't build a team or organization that's different from you. You'll learn how to pull together personal effectiveness, leadership development, and organizational improvement. Pathways to Performance is loaded with hundreds of practical how-to points ("Pathways and Pitfalls") in two parallel paths — strategies for team or organization improvement along with their complementary techniques for personal transformation.

Topics include:

• Wandering Off the Improvement Trail: The Deadly Dozen Failure Factors
• The High Performance Balance: Managing Things, Leading People
• Self Leadership: It All Starts With You
• The Big Picture: A Map to Improvement Pathways and Passages
• Focus and Context: Vision, Values, and Purpose
• Innovation and Organizational Learning
• Establishing Goals and Priorities, Getting Organized, and Managing Time
• Improvement Planning and Implementation
• Change Checkpoints and Improvement Milestones

Pathways to Performance blends personal and professional experiences with extensive research, insightful quotations, dollops of humor, and simple conceptual models. This easy-to-read, comprehensive book shows you how to improve yourself in step with the changes you're making to your team or organization — propelling you and your organization down the path of truly effective improvement.