The Power of Goal ZERO: Results Focused Leadership for Achieving Superior Performance Hardcover – June 7, 2021 by Sam Smolik

The Power of Goal ZERO serves as a “virtual mentor” for leaders and aspiring leaders at all levels to improve personal effectiveness, organizational efficiency, and motivation of people. The principles enable rapid transformation in any organization. Through personal stories and experiences, techniques are provided for demonstrating strong leadership, creating a culture of excellence, implementing organizational change, developing effective management systems, and achieving superior performance. In today’s competitive environment, individuals and organizations must be best-in-class to compete and win.

The book is a condensed version of successful techniques learned in a 50-year career of driving improvement in multinational organizations. It describes a practical way to be a results-focused leader and drive safety, asset reliability, risk management, ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance), and quality improvement. The book has value for people in any type of organization regardless of the product produced or service provided. Leadership and organizational concepts are universal. Beginning employees, front-line supervisors, mid-level leaders, department managers, C-Suite executives, small business owners, and CEOs can all benefit.

The Power of Goal ZERO builds on each of the following elements necessary for achieving Operational Excellence:

Operational Excellence = Leadership + People + Culture + Systems + Assets

Goal ZERO is a foundational leadership tool that has an enormous impact across the entire organization. Goal ZERO helps create a culture of discipline and is easy for people to understand. It’s a relentless focus on the basic building blocks of excellence: ZERO defects, ZERO rule-breaking, ZERO unsafe acts, ZERO non-compliance, ZERO incidents, and ZERO missed value-creating opportunities.

The examples presented in this book have been tested and proven in major global corporations. This book summarizes the best practices in a manner that readers can easily understand and implement. A clear roadmap is provided for an organization to design, improve, utilize, and maintain a good management system that will improve performance and productivity. Simplicity is a prevailing theme throughout the book.