This book is a practical guide providing information that can help you create the ideas to build your own success story. Today's leaders must be strong, yet respected, rather than feared or loved; inspiring, not imposing. Leadership is not a popularity contest, nor is it a dictatorship. It should be somewhere in the middle to allow for sufficient flexibility, depending on circumstances and personalities. The emphasis of this book is on usefulness. It presents often opposing systems, theories and opinions to provoke, to force thinking, to fit variables together like pieces in a jigsaw puzzle. Visualize, compare, and project your own situation while reading, and select any ideas and methods that are useful to you.