Leadership Lessons from the Medicine Wheel: The Seven Elements of High Performance

During the past decade, a number of good books on organizational performance have been published; however, none so succinctly, creatively, or compellingly describes how to emotionally connect with employees to unlock their hidden potential to create high performance organizations. It is a must read for all managers desiring to achieve high levels of sustainable performance.
Lynn S. Powell
Director, Institute of Certifi ed
Professional Managers
James Madison University
Harrisonburg , VA

This leadership book comes at a time when there is a shortage of really new ideas on how to resolve the upcoming leadership shortage. The book’s focus on building a performance culture and increasing innovation based on a foundation that is based on a mixture of lessons learned from American Indian culture and traditional leadership research is a breath of fresh air.
Dr. John Sullivan
Professor of Management,
Noted Author and Columnist
San Francisco State University

Many of us in corporate leadership struggle with the big picture: What is the best business model that will guide our organization to success in achieving our goals and in keeping our workforce productive?  What if that model already exists and yet we just cannot see it? Gary Lear brings us “Leadership Lessons from the Medicine Wheel: The Seven Elements of High Performance.” Sharing research and experience from his encounters with American Indian teachers and from his work with corporate leadership, Gary reveals his discovery of seven actions that drive high performance in organizations, explaining how some organizations are able to perform up to 1500% better than their competitors.  Then, Gary takes us a step further and shows us the Medicine Wheel as a simple, yet powerful model that can help us incorporate these Seven Elements of High Performance™ into our organizations.
Tracey Osborne
Employee Development Manager
Naylor, LLC
 
Gary Lear weaves Native American teachings of the Medicine Wheel with the practices of high-performance organizations and delivers a resource to help every organization excel!
Lear has written a book that aligns the spiritual teachings of the Medicine Wheel with great management practices that is perfect for the changing business world.
 
Tom Halasz, Director
Career Resource Center
University of South Carolina

Award-winning speaker, trainer and consultant, Gary Lear is president and CEO of Resource Development Systems, an organizational performance consulting firm that teaches leaders how to be effective at Managing the Human Side of BusinessSM. Gary works with government, nonprofit and for-profit organizations ranging from the US Department of Justice and the US Army, to Wal-Mart and the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company in the United Arab Emirates. Gary also serves on the Board of Regents for the Institute of Certified Professional Managers, and is an Inscape Publishing Certified DiSC Trainer.