Anne Deering is a vice president with A.T. Kearney and has 17 years experience with the firm as a management consultant. She has also co-authored The Difference Engine.

Robert Dilts, a leading behavioral skills trainer and business consultant and co-founder of ISVOR DILTS Leadership Systems, Inc.

Julian Russell is Managing Director of PPD Consulting, a coaching and development firm for senior executives.

The authors’ research shows that the successful leader excels in three separate but related dimensions:

* Anticipate: detecting and responding to “weak signals” to “get ahead of the curve.”

* Align: achieving congruence in your own values and desires and those of others.

* Act: making things happen.

Tools and frameworks are provided so that readers can apply what they have read to their own business situations. Each chapter is self-sufficient, with its own set of principles illustrated by stories and its own set of tools designed to help you implement the principles.