Shows how to earn loyalty every day in a variety of by developing an open--but not overwhelming--flow of information, feelings, hard facts, and good and bad sharing what you do and do not know in ways that earn, rather than lose, respect; and by supporting others and their ideas--even when they're wrong.
Geoffrey M. Bellman spent the first fourteen years of his career on the inside of three Fortune 500 companies (Ideal Basic Industries, AMOCO Corporation, and G.D. Searle). Now, as an organizational consultant, he works with corporations on the effective use of human talent as they undertake major change. In this capacity, he has worked with more than 100 corporations, including GTE, TRW, and Shell Oil. He is the author of Getting Things Done When You Are Not in Charge, Your Signature Path, The Consultants' Calling, and The Quest for Staff Leadership, which won the National Book Award of the Society for Human Resource Management.