Management consultant and author Dan Coughlin has provided over 1,500 executive coaching sessions, spent more than 3,000 hours on-site observing executives and managers and given over 500 presentations on business acceleration. In Accelerate, Coughlin shares the secrets he's learned from a wide array of Fortune 500 corporate executives and top private companies in over 20 different industries, including AT&T, Boeing, Citigroup, Coca-Cola, Eli Lilly & Sons, Marriott, McDonald's, the St. Louis Cardinals, and Toyota, to help accelerate your career, your team and your organization to impact the ultimate shareholder - the consumer. Accelerate is not filled with business theories and complicated concepts-it is filled with practical suggestions from real-world business situations. Packed with case studies and Acceleration Tips, Accelerate is a must-read for those managers who want to take their organization to the next level or simply want to breathe new life into their own career.