Here are what leaders, executives and other outstanding people have to say about Steve Katz and his insightful new book!

"Steven L. Katz's own experiences in both the government and the private sectors has given rise to this original, innovative, and memorable book that will give you insights on how to work with leaders and executives as you take your own next steps up the ladder of any organization."

"Steven L. Katz has successfully faced more than his fair share of lions in the workplace. Consider this the world's best instruction manual for using your own whip and chair effectively!"

"Finally a book that acknowledges that the world of CEOs and top executives really can be a lion's den! A must read full of meaningful insights on how to thrive with the big cats in the center ring at the office!

Speaking, Consulting, Coaching, and Training and Development

"Lion Taming is everyone's real job of working with people who wield power and influence around us — leaders, bosses, customers, clients, employees, and others!"

Speaking

You will be transported immediately and directly, just as the author was in researching the book, into the world — though still outside the steel-caged arena — of the real lion tamers and lions. Steven L. Katz weaves his experiences and observations from working with CEOs and Fortune 500 executives, serving as an advisor to four United States Senators as well as in the White House, as well as numerous interviews he conducted with the widest representation of people and positions possible. From CEOs to administrative assistant, and a cavalcade of lions and lion tamers in between. After all, there is always a bigger lion!

Sample Speaking and Business Consulting Topics Include:

1. Leaders Are Lions: Being A Stronger and Smarter Lion!
2. Lions Are Never Tame: Identifying and Understanding the Lions Around
3. Getting Inside the Lion's Skull: Instinct, Leadership, and Great Performances
4. The Art of Lion Taming: Effective Relationship Management Inside and Outside Your Organization
5. Lion Taming is Really Lion Teaming: Building the Lion Team
6. Hoops of Fire: Setting Goals and Reaching Them!

Business Consulting, Coaching, and Training and Development

"Oohs" and "aahs" and the excitement of close calls will always characterize lion taming for the masses. Yet, contrary to popular ideas and circus posters, the art of lion taming is not about driving lions into a snarling frenzy, winning a battle of "man over beast," or sticking your head into the lion's mouth! The most exciting acts to watch-the fighting acts-are not the ones you want to recreate in the office. Lion tamers use brains not brawn, and thinking that you can muscle your boss is a bad idea.

Even if you have the ability to escape from the boss's office unscathed, you still do not have the option of sending the lions at work back to their cages. They are roaming free, and the things that they can do and say will have an impact on you and everyone around you for a long time.

As Jason Peters, who deals with a dozen or more roaring lions in the center ring every day for the Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Circus, has remarked:

"I know that I am about to enter a cage full of lions, and I think about it carefully before, during, and after I go into the cage!"

• Lions Are Never Tame
  • Identify the lions in your workplace and what they want to be the lion of.

  • Map the territories, departments, offices, or areas that the lions inhabit.

  • Describe the hierarchies that exist where you work and how it affects the flow of information to the people who you believe need it the most.

  • Identify :
    • The people that seem most secure in their role as lions and devote their energy towards their job.
    • The people that spend more of their energy devoted to competing and being as a lion than in being productive?
    • Using the traits attributable to good and bad lions, differentiate between the two in the lions you encounter and consider how to work more closely with the good lions.

• Lion Taming is Really Lion Teaming
  • The Lion Team is the process that leaders need to involve everyone in the process of leadership by building participation, shaping the focus, promoting common understanding, and achieving successful implementation.

  • The Lion Team must reflect the lion's leadership, and the lion must see the team as a reflection of himself or herself.

  • Neither the lion nor the lion tamer can accomplish their goal alone.

  • You are not the only lion tamer in the office and you must:
    • Have a team of assistant lion tamers around you when you take the lead.
    • Identify the people that impact, influence, and contribute to thinking and behavior of the lions you work with.
    • Become an assistant lion tamer to help others when it is their turn to be in the center ring with leaders, bosses, and other tough customers.
    • Visualize and map the lion team even if you need several lion teams for different situations. Help others visualize and map the lion teams in order to work more effectively together.

  • Lions achieve status on the team because they are the lion. Lion tamers achieve a position on the lion team because they earn the lion's trust, confidence, and respect by making the lion successful in new ways including:
    • Accomplishments that the lion did not think possible
    • Handling a crisis
    • Telling them NO! in a respectful but candid way
    • Giving the lion bad news even when they do not want to hear it.

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