Lead or Get Off the Pot!: The Seven
Secrets of a Self-Made Leader by Pat
Croce
Entertaining And Informative With An Unusual Style
Each and every one of us -- regardless of our age, position, or station in
life -- has the opportunity to take control of, and improve, our lives...and the
lives of those around us. In Lead or Get Off the Pot!, the irrepressible
count of carpe diem shares his bold vision and unorthodox strategies for
developing personal passion, a can-do attitude, and the motivation
essential for cultivating leadership skills. Pats advice includes: Twelve
Ways to Build a Passionate Team Walk the Talk The Ten
Commandments of Service How to Listen with a Leaders Eye
Learning your AAAs -- Attitude, Assets, Ambition...and other leadership
lessons that can teach you to become a true leader -- one who challenges,
mediates, motivates, communicates, and inspires.

Personal Review: Lead or Get Off the Pot!: The Seven Secrets of
a Self-Made Leader by Pat Croce
Pat Croce's I FEEL GREAT AND YOU WILL TOO! is one of my
all-time favorite motivational books . . . he followed it up with
110%, another winner . . . and his latest, LEAD OR GET
OFF THE POT!--written with Bill
Lyon--is every bit as good.
Croce, the onetime president of the Philadelphia 76ers and
current NBC commentator, presents his ideas on leadership
in this lively book . . . but don't feel you have to be a
leader to get value from it . . . what he says applies to
every walk of life, including sales, teaching and even
parenting.
I particularly liked the many examples that Croce uses . . . they
were taken from his ventures as an entrepreneur, basketball
executive, TV commentator and volunteer chairperson for the
2000 Republican National Convention that was held in
Philadelphia.
And unlike the feeling that you get with some authors who like
to impress you by throwing names around, you really get the
impression that Croce knows and is actual friends with everybody
he mentions . . . in fact, he is a big believer on being on a first-name
basis with folks and suggests that you use their existing nickname
or christen them with a new one . . . as he notes, "This puts
people in your inner circle and raises the bar of affection and
respect--even when the nickname is seemingly sarcastic. Some
of my best memories are stimulated when I heard the nicknames
Fast Eddie, Rayman, Scramble Head, Hole, Hollywood, . . .
Shaggy, Snowman, and Bubba Chuck."
Perhaps my only problem with LEAD OR GET OFF THE POT!
is that it contained so many useful tidbits of information that
I found it hard to find just a few to include in this review . . . however,
that said, I did find these especially memorable:
* In team sports, the ultimate measurement of your value as a leader
comes down to two questions: Do you make all those around you
better? And are you able to combine their diverse and disparate
talents and personalities into a cohesive unit?
* Of course, I like to take the Golden Rule and crank it up. Don't just
do unto others as you'd have them do unto you; do unto others
as you'd have them do unto you in your wildest dreams! Don't just
provide service; slay them with super service! Go overboard. Turn
over every stone. Do more than is expected, or even conceived.
And apply these killer tactics to everyone from customers to

employees to family to friends. The little extra you may have
to put in will always earn out.
* Hello.
And good-bye.
These are the basics in customer service, in human relations,
no matter what your business. You greet the person with a hearty
hello, and you bid her good-bye with equal vigor.
Even if you don't really mean it.
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