David Novak learned way back when that you can’t lead an excellent company of any size without getting the people aligned, enthusiastic, and focused relentlessly within the mission. But how do you do that? A couple of countless management books, but how many will in actuality help a Taco Bell shift manager, a Fortune 500 CEO, a fresh business owner, or anyone among?

Over his fifteen years at Yum! Brands, Novak has developed a trademarked program he calls Acquiring People with You. He spends several weeks each about Acquiring People With You: THE ONLY PATH to Make Big Stuff Happen year personally teaching it to a large number of managers all over the world. He convinces them that they’ll under no circumstances make big points happen until they understand how to get people on their part. No skill in business is definitely more essential. And Yum!’s extraordinary success (at least 13 percent growth for each of the last nine years) shows his point.

Novak has learned that managers don’t need leadership platitudes or business college theories. So he cuts right to the chase having a step-by- stage guide to placing big goals, obtaining people to work together, blowing past your targets, and celebrating once you surprise the skeptics. And doing it again and again until consistent quality becomes a core component of your culture.

This audiobook has specific tools at the end of every chapter that will challenge you to reflect on how you’re really doing on key aspects of leadership. And in the event that you apply it, you’ll immediately begin to improve.

You’ll learn how to .

• Get inside the heads of your people. You can’t convince them of anything until you see the world from their perspective.

• Think big. If your sales growth last year was 3.5 percent, don’t aim for 4 percent this season, aim for 15 percent. Even if you fail, you will most probably do much better than you would have with a smaller sized goal.

• Practice ‘remarkable authenticity.’ Display occasional vulnerability and admit when you don’t have the answers.

• Look for guidelines in unexpected places. Novak’s team developed Cool Ranch Doritos for Frito-Lay during a field trip to a grocery store’s salad dressing aisle.

• Choose a can-do mind-set. There’s an enormous difference between a boss who says ‘We can try this’ and person who says ‘We can do that!’

• Cheer for 1st downs, not only touchdowns. Publicly realizing and rewarding little wins retains everyone motivated for the long term.

• Get rid of cynics. In many teams one individual will reject your beliefs and spread bad energy. Moving that person out will present everyone else you’re serious.