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Praise forReality-Based Leadership

An entertaining read, every chapter has an a-ha! moment. Be a follower of Cy Wakemans insights and solutions, and drive amazing results in any profession, industry, or company culture. Keep this essential reference for leaders at your fingertips!

Victor Susman, chief operating officer, First National
Merchant Solutions

Cy Wakemans energetic Reality-Based Leadership message is compelling and genuine. Her real-life experiences combined with her mastery of relating those experiences will captivate and influence readers. Her quick-wit key points will become memorable Cy-isms in the workplace.

Diana M. Mehochko, president, First National Merchant
Solutions, LLC

Cy Wakeman provides the reader with an exquisite guide for developing individuals and the teams they lead. Reality-Based Leadership is chock full of marvelous resources and practical advice on building contemporary organizations that are able to thrive and weather change. This is a must-read for anyone committed to developing a truly successful and vibrant organization.

Geraldine Bednash, CEO, American Association of
Colleges of Nursing

Wow! Cy Wakemans Reality-Based Leadership is an excellent, heartfelt, humorous, wisdom-filled, butt-kickin leadership book! Cy has an amazing way of exposing the drama and stories to get to the soft underbelly of reality. She helps leaders recognize our limiting beliefs and challenges us to change our mindsets. As a general engineering contractor for 30 years, I am just learning to lead first and manage second, and love that I now have the wisdom and tools to recognize and capture the opportunity in every challenge.

Mary A. Larsen, president, Stormwater Specialists, General
Engineering Contractors

Read Reality-Based Leadership more as a testimonial to success rather than as just another theoretical business book. Cy Wakeman is not suggesting concepts hereshe has lived what she writes. Cy understands that business operates in real time and is played out every day on the competitive pitch. And those who communicate expectations, hold people accountable, and continuously drive teams to higher and higher performance are richly rewarded. Reality-Based Leadership should inspire you to stop making excuses and have the courage to be successful, by first holding yourself accountable and next creating a culture of accountability inside your company!

Doug R. Wilwerding, president and CEO, The Optimas
Group, LLC

Cy Wakeman is the Queen of Real. Her message to get over your bad self and lead is perfect for todays crazy business organizations that are steeped in self-righteous indignation. Got an issue? Get a tissue and move on!

Lisa Harper, former CEO and chairman of the board, The
Gymboree Corporation

Insightful and practical. Cy Wakemans unique, direct, and colorful approach provides a road map for leaders to drive accountability and empowers talent to achieve extraordinary results. This book is full of practical advice that I was able to put to use immediately!

Anne Wignall, senior vice president, human resources,
Liberty Bank

In Reality-Based Leadership, Cy Wakeman takes us on a journey of understanding how we as leaders are accountable and that, quite simplythere are no excuses. Own our vision, inspire our teams, drive results. Reality-Based Leadership provides the reader with Cys straightforward, no-nonsense wisdom and great humor, a combination that has helped transform the leadership results of those who have worked with her. She provides a much-needed wake-up call to leaders everywhere.

Scott Focht, Institute for Career Advancement Needs

Cy Wakeman helps us understand that the facts are not always as they seem. Reality-Based Leaders liberate and motivate others to understand self and colleagues. Everyone in the organization is empowered to be productive and successful, individually and collectively, achieving extraordinary outcomes with seemingly good ordinary people.

Timothy M. Gaspar, dean and professor, the University of
Toledo College of Nursing

Cy Wakemans book delivers a powerful message. The bottom linethis is required reading for all leaders!

Russ Olson, president and CEO, Liberty Bank

Cy Wakeman turns the tables on conventional wisdom by showing you how to rise above the noise of interpersonal conflict. Reality-Based Leadership is a playbook on how to thrive in challenging times and lead your organization to breakthrough performance. Cy provides step-by-step instructions on how to have life-changing conversations and be the change you want to see in others. I know. It worked for me and it will for you too.

Tim Singley, senior manager of operational excellence,
Ingersoll Rand University

The critical growth of business today is good leadershipthis book hits the target. Its practical format is easily applied to every leadership challenge.

Caroline Bailey, third-generation Gallo family and owner
of Premier Growth, The Business of Family

I dedicate this book with love and gratitude

to my mother, who taught me the true meaning of Amazing Gracesurround yourself with enough amazing women in your life and you will be graced...

and to my dad, who taught me to always succeed in spite of the facts...the beginnings of Reality-Based Leadership

FOREWORD

I have never met Cy Wakeman. Strange, huh? Usually the Foreword of a book is written by one of the authors buddies. But thats not the case here. Her editor sent me her book to read for a cover blurb. If I had read it and hated it, I could have said so, or I could have said nothing. I didnt need to say something nice to make her feel good or to sustain our friendship. I didnt owe anyone anything on this one. So I opened the book with little expectation and no pressure to enjoy it. To my surprise, I read the whole thing in one sitting and found myself saying Yes! and That sounds like me! So I happily wrote a blurb and sent it to the editor because I genuinely liked the book. Wait. Thats not exactly true; I loved the book. Which is a bit odd for me because I hate most business books. Its true. Ive read more than 4,000 books in the past twenty years. Thats right: 4,000. I dont know anyone who has read more books than I have. And most of the books were crap. A few were pretty good. Then there were the rare few that were outstanding. This is one of those outstanding books.

Why would I say that? What makes the book outstanding? Its real. Of course the other books were real too: real idealistic, real nice, and giving real bad advice not even remotely tied to the real world. Most were also real boring. Cys book isnt idealistic. It isnt even all that nice. Its real world with real advice: no pie-in-the-sky BS here. It also isnt boring. What more could you ask for? How about this: this book is well written. Its compelling. Its honest. Its a fun read. It isnt some stupid parable. And it makes you think. Bingo! For me, that is the ultimate test for a book and that is what makes the book outstanding: it makes you think. Oh yeah, heres another thing I like: it makes you uncomfortable. That fits my whole approach, so thats probably why I like it so much.

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