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The critical path to the executive suite in an organization needs a real-world lamp- lighting guide to reveal the political stumbling stones that cause career demise, and strategies to overcome them. This hands-on book explores the practical techniques actually used by those who have made it to the elusive suite, and by those with high leader potential. The authors' primary goal is to focus this interesting, tough-minded book on the leader's real world behaviors-for-results. Neither textbook theories nor 20th Century managerial history lessons are in this 21st Century book. We present a how-to text to stimulate your leadership, human relations, and personal growth competencies. Readers of this no-nonsense book find many of the tightly held secrets of fast-track managers who actually produce effective results for themselves and for their organizations. Some critical questions you might consider as you read are: What seems to separate the surviving-ho-hum administrator from the vital career-ascending effective leader? What seems to differentiate actions that 'just work' from the 'best that do work' in the highly competitive organizational world? This dynamic text is about your choices for leader champion actions for results. It is about meeting your performance and career challenges. It is about YOU.