1000 PERCENT BETTER

Leadership/management book by Fortune-500 executive coach, leadership guru, and former Microsoft executive, Sabina Nawaz.

Sabina argues that even the most talented employee can move quickly from great to terrible with the added power and pressure that comes from scaling the corporate ladder. But today that kind of toxic leadership and turn-the-screws working conditions have been firmly rejected by companies across the globe, as evidenced by the recent and swift ousting of such executive bullies as Uber's Travis Kalanick and Away's Steph Korey and the "Great Resignation" of disgruntled workers everywhere. Most organizations are stuck: their brilliant employees are promoted, become clueless about how they self-sabotage, are terrible managers, then are fired, replaced by other talented employees who suffer the same fate. Wash, rinse, repeat.

Enter Sabina Nawaz, leadership guru, former Microsoft executive and elite Fortune 500 coach, whose eponymous firm helps brilliant, difficult managers course-correct when their behavior starts to undermine their results. Top-level executives from such companies as Amazon, Microsoft, Google, Cisco, Motorola, and Nordstrom hire Nawaz to confirm with real data what they secretly suspect: that they've only achieved a fraction of their potential. These executives know they are struggling - not moving up or achieving their goals- but don't quite understand why or what to do about it. From an inability to delegate to miserable communication skills to the absence of personal boundaries, Nawaz's executive clients also share another common denominator: they are convinced that these behaviors are essential to their success.

In 1,000-percent Better Nawaz has created seven powerful, battle-tested, researched-based strategic tools to provide guardrails for top-level executives, to anticipate and compensate for the unavoidable hazards of leadership without requiring that leader to develop charisma, intuition, empathy, or any other leadership trait they don't naturally possess.

Based on a rock-solid foundation of Nawaz's 10,000+ pages of verbatim, live, 360-degree reviews from over a thousand co-workers of her clients, more than two decades of executive coaching, and in-depth research into the psychology of behavior and relationships. 1,000-percent Better offers specific strategies to manage pressure and collapse distance - the key to transforming a toxic workplace. Nawaz has created a powerful, tested, and proven set of tactics for managing others, navigating relationships, and communicating effectively in every context - even if you remain oblivious to how other people think and feel. 1,000-percent Better will teach readers how to remove friction from every interaction and magnify their impact as human beings. If this works for executives at the world's largest companies, it can work for anyone. No more wasted potential.

Sabina Nawaz advises executives and teams at Fortune 500 corporations, government agencies, non-profits, and academic institutions around the world. She gives dozens of keynotes, seminars, and conferences each year, and teaches at Northeastern University. During her 14-year tenure at Microsoft, she went from managing software development teams to leading the company's executive development and succession planning efforts for over 10,000 managers and nearly a thousand executives, advising Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer directly. Her work has appeared in publications such as the Harvard Business Review, Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Inc., and Fast Company. Journalists and media outlets also regularly consult her as a leadership expert, including NBC, Nasdaq, and MarketWatch.