Winning at Leadership

About the Book

With heart, candor and wisdom, Sal Monastero here delivers invaluable guidance that parents, teachers, coaches, leaders, and managers at every level in all walks of life can apply to their own betterment and to the well-being and affirmation of their colleagues and teammates.”

David M. Darst, CFA Managing Director and Chief Investment Strategist Morgan Stanley Smith Barney

“Sal creates a compelling path to leadership excellence. His 37 years of field leadership experience provides readers with real-life stories of what to and what not to do as a leader. Sal’s personal experiences allow readers to significantly accelerate their own leadership journey.’”

Gerald Herbison, MSM, ChFC®, CASL®, CFP®, CLF® Director, CLF® Program Assistant Professor, Management Studies The American College

Many of us are not born natural leaders but most of us can develop leadership traits that allow us to successfully handle complex issues on a daily basis. In Winning at Leadership, a former Wall Street executive teaches both experienced and novice managers the communications skills, personal values, and problem-solving abilities he learned and implemented during the nearly four decades he effectively led an organization in a competitive and challenging marketplace.

About the Author

Sal Monastero, a retired managing director of Morgan Stanley, guides managers on a step-by-step journey from method leadership to people leadership, where success comes from engaging with others. While sharing his own frustrating mistakes and personal stories, Monastero teaches leaders specifically how to:

• • Show respect to the people above and show heart to the people we lead
• • Learn that every experience has future value
• • Listen to employees’ concerns
• • Recognize that everything matters to someone
• • Determine a consistent philosophy and follow it