Making Common Sense Common Practice: Achieving High Performance Using What You Already Know

by Victor R. Buzzotta

The business world today is full of buzzwords such as empowerment, teamwork, and continuous improvement. In a desperate attempt to get a jump on the competition, many business leaders are so busy searching for the "next big idea" that something important is being overlooked-common sense!
Making Common Sense Common Practice tells you how to get full use of the most powerful management tool around-your own common sense. Learn how to trust yourself when it comes to making leadership decisions and sound judgments. Learn how to take tension that sidetracks high performance and turn it into an energizing, creative force. Learn how to use what you already know!
Using five common sense techniques, you will discover how to lead your people to build a high-performance organization. Grounded on the common sense principle that manager-leaders are regulators of tension in the workplace, Making Common Sense Common Practice discusses pragmatic actions that raise and lower tension, keeping it in the constructive, energizing range. These actions are woven into a step-by-step program that result in optimal performance for your organization.

250 pages, Hardcover

First published September 26, 1997

About the author

Dr. Buzzotta is a cofounder and co-CEO of Psychological Associates. He has consulted with senior executives from major corporations in North America, South America, Europe, and Australia. He has authored numerous articles on the human side of business, as well as coauthored four books on applied behavioral science.