Publications

Books

Publications by Drs. Steve and Rebecca Wilke on leadership, corporate culture, and organizational development.

The Leading Edge

9 Strategies for Improving Internal and Intentional Leadership

The Leading Edge is a straight-line approach to leadership. It equips men and women with the critical personal and professional skill sets missed in college or business schools — specifically, relationships.

Relationships and communication are the foundation of business. Without a strong EQ (Emotional Quotient), there are significant inefficiencies in business. The Leading Edge addresses this integral part of business by showing how relational deficiencies lead to decreased company performance, and how they can be revamped to significantly increase the bottom line.

Topics addressed include:

Does the culture of my organization really impact the bottom line?
How can I develop Leaders and Managers?
What does it mean to be a Cultural Translator with generational groups?
Is my company more of a Corporate Family than a group of employees?
How can I improve my Emotional Intelligence to effectively work with people?

Corporate Family Matters

Creating and Developing Organizational Dynasties

Corporate Family Matters reveals the unique professional perspective that corporations are families and function like them. Leaders who guide the corporate family are looked up to like parents, while all employees experience varying degrees of sibling rivalry.

The stresses and strains in companies are often due to corporate family history and dysfunction — dysfunction that can directly be attributed to a decreased bottom line and profitability.

Questions addressed include:

Can addressing corporate family secrets impact the bottom line?
Does accountability include parenting your corporate family members?
Does sibling rivalry take away from profitability?
Do generational groups distract from meeting business objectives?
How do mergers and acquisitions create a blended corporate family?

Revolutionary Leadership

Transcendent Lessons from the Life of George Washington

How could someone who never traveled overseas nor owned an electronic device have anything meaningful to contribute to contemporary dilemmas confronting leaders? As you'll discover in Revolutionary Leadership, both Washington's successes and shortcomings make POTUS1 an invaluable source for learning crucial leadership lessons that are needed now more than ever.

Drs. Steve and Rebecca Wilke expound upon extensive research that reveals how Washington's personal and professional choices profoundly impacted his life and innumerable individuals in his era — and ours.

Strategies covered include:

Acquiring 20-20 vision
Improving resilience
Fostering adaptability
Cultivating significant relationships
Finding and/or becoming a qualified mentor
Creating a lasting legacy