Dr. Blaine Lee is a vice president of Franklin Covey Co., the leading global provider of integrated, sustainable, professional services and product solutions based on proven principles. Franklin Covey's client portfolio includes eighty-two of the Fortune 100 companies, over two-thirds of the Fortune 500 companies, as well as thousands of small and mid-sized companies, government entities, educational institutions, communities, families, and millions of individual consumers.

Blaine has created and delivered custom leadership development programs for many world-class organizations, including: Proctor & Gamble, U.S. West, Intel, IBM, Pillsbury, General Motors, Conoco, Blue Cross/Blue Shield, Andersen Consulting, Arthur Andersen, NASA, Occidental Petroleum, MCI, Mass Mutual, Kimberly Clark, Prudential, Nabisco, Xerox, and many others.

Blaine has been a contributing author to books by Stephen R. Covey and Norman Vincent Peale, and has written college texts on teaching and organizational behavior. His teaching takes him over a third of a million miles annually. His ability to deal perceptively with difficult organizational and people problems has made him a unique advisor to senior executives in many kinds of organizations. A trainer's trainer, he is called a "Life-Coach" by leaders who claim he helps them do with their lives what athletic coaches can do with their muscles.

Blaine has been studying, teaching, and coaching successful men and women for over twenty-five years. He has been on the faculty of four colleges and universities and has twice been recognized as one of the Outstanding Young Men of America. He was the Director of Instructional Systems Development for the entire air force as a young captain. He co-founded and was Educational Director for two professional private residential schools for troubled teenagers. He created the National Speakers School, has mentored several past presidents of the National Speakers Association, and is listed in International Leaders in Achievement and Who's Who in America.

Blaine and his sweetheart, Shawny, live in a country home in the Rocky Mountains near Salt Lake City, Utah, where he relishes his time as a deliberate dad. He received his masters degree in instructional psychology from B.Y.U. in Utah and his Ph.D. in educational psychology from the University of Texas at Arlington.

Contents

Acknowledgments

Foreword by Stephen R. Covey

Introduction: The Answer Is in You

Chapter 1: Power and Influence

Chapter 2: Powerlessness Why Don't They Listen to Me?

Chapter 3: Power Shift From Powerless to Powerful

Chapter 4: Coercive Power Controlling Others Through Fear

Chapter 5: Utility Power Let's Make a Deal

Chapter 6: Principle-Centered Power Honor Makes the Difference

Chapter 7: How to Honor Ten Principles of Power

Chapter 8: How to Increase Principle-Centered Power

Chapter 9: Parent Power How to Honor Your Children

Chapter 10: Teaching with Power How to Honor Those You Teach

Chapter 11: Selling with Power How to Honor Your Customers

Chapter 12: Leading with Power How to Honor Those You Lead

Chapter 13: What if They Are Trying to Influence You?

Chapter 14: How Do I Change?

Chapter 15: Living With Honor The Lifelong Quest

Appendix: An Invitation to Continue Your Journey Next Steps in the Quest

Notes

Index