Tough-minded Leadership offers new insights, focus, and motivation for anyone committed to greater personal effectiveness as a leader. At a time when self-confidence and self-esteem are desperately lacking, it provides specific techniques and tools to help restore them. Joe Batten helps you make the transition to tough-minded leader by explaining the thirty-five essential "conversions" you must make in your attitudes and the fifteen challenges you must learn to confront.

Author - Joe D. Batten

"Presents an inspirational volume that makes self-knowledge, intuition, courage, and commitment the prerequisites for leadership."

The Wall Street Journal

"Joe's new book...clearly, directly, and forcefully describes how to build a strong, unified team and optimize the potential of the people within the company."

H. Ross Perot, Chairman of the Board, The Perot Group, Inc.

"With the same inspiring clarity he used to enlighten and motivate us in Tough-Minded Management, Joe Bratten now focuses his powerful talent on leadership, and his message is clear...stretch/reach... believe/achieve. Tough-Minded Leadership joins Tough-Minded Management as a double-barrel must."

John W. Teets, Chairman & CEO, The Greyhound Corporation

"At last, a practical book that teaches us how to translate the philosophy of leadership into day-to-day behavior."

Thomas S. Haggai, Chairman and President, Independent Grocers Alliance

Tough-Minded Management by Joe D. Batten
Dare to Live Passionately by Joe D. Batten, Leonard C. Hudson Jr.
The Confidence Chasm by Joe D. Batten, Gail Batten
Developing a Tough-Minded Climate for Results by Joe D. Batten
Expectations and Possibilities by Joe D. Batten
The Leadership Principles of Jesus by Joe D. Batten, Gail Batten, Warren Howard
Beyond Management by Objectives by Joe D. Batten
Tough-Minded Parenting by Joe D. Batten, Wendy Havemann, William Pearce, Gail Pedersen