Turn even the most stressful situation into an opportunity to shine for you and your team. People aren't born to be high-performing leaders; instead, they need to learn to develop the time-proven characteristics of great leadership. "Leadership Under Pressure" shows you how to acquire these characteristics, motivate your people, and achieve remarkable results across your organization-particularly during times of change and stress. This quick-hitting, hands-on rulebook is chock-full of hard-won advice and action steps for keeping your cool under pressure and inspiring incredible performance from your team.You'll see how to: start turning problems into opportunities that can enhance your career; practice "humanagement" - using the job to develop the person while having fun in the process; overcome your team's roadblocks to goal achievement; develop an organization with free-flowing, two-way communication, from top-to-bottom; know the signs of low morale, take immediate action to counteract the causes, and make strategic plans to keep spirits from falling again; and, encourage inspired thinking by relaxing old rules of conformity and publicly recognizing new ideas. "Leadership Under Pressure" prepares you to meet all leadership challenges, whether anticipated or unexpected.