This Executive Edition of the EXPECT LEADERSHIP series is designed to ignite and sharpen your leadership skills. You will find fresh ideas in this book that maximize your leadership impact. And you’ll discover new benefits each time you apply the model. One Model – Five Steps First, this book is based on a simple and powerful model entitled, Expect, Understand and Own the Positive Future! This five step process will enable you to repeatedly solve all sorts of challenges – business and personal. You’ll encounter this problem solving methodology frequently throughout the book. Each of the words stand for a familiar and encouraging concept. Secondly, this Executive Edition shows you how to apply these steps in a real world Moment of Truth. That’s where the success begins. Once you apply the five step process to your real life challenges, unexpected catastrophes become easier to overcome. Communication channels open. Relationships begin to heal. New options emerge. In many instances, you’ll find that after you apply the entire process you are better off than if the Moment of Truth had never occurred. Hard to believe? It’s true. Target Audience: This Executive Edition is designed to be most helpful to those actively leading groups of leaders in a rapidly changing, highly interconnected company. The ideas shared will save readers of this Executive Edition from suffering business and personal frustration. Experienced leaders will find new ways to solve nagging problems. New leaders will reach success faster by applying these principles. Aspiring leaders will gain a strong sense of what it takes to be an effective leader. While the model for solving challenges scales to the CEO level, the vast majority of the scenarios in this Executive Edition deal with foundational leadership dilemmas. Why are the foundational people issues so crucial, you may ask? That’s where a magnitude of daily leadership friction takes place. Not everyone aspires to be a CEO or executive, but everyone can demonstrate positive influence (i.e. leadership) in their current role. This Executive Edition was created to be relevant and practical with ideas every leader can use today. Leadership concepts range from foundational to advanced. Ideas are aligned to be scanned or studied in-depth.