Leadership category: 28435 books
Leadership Conversations
Challenging High Potential Managers to Become Great Leaders
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2013
Conversation techniques and tools that can help strong managers become great leaders
Often the very same skills and traits that enable rising stars to achieve success "tenacity, aggressiveness, self-confidence" become liabilities when promoted into a leadership track. While managers'...
The New SuperLeadership
Leading Others to Lead Themselves
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2001
The truly effective leader today must be one who leads others to lead themselves. The rapid pace of change demands fast and flexible responses throughout the organization-there's no time to wait for directives from the top. And the highly-skilled workers so vital to organizational success also demand...
Great Leadership
What It Is and What It Takes in a Complex World
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2011
The tools to make leadership as simple as possible - and no simpler
Distilling the wisdom of the past with an eye toward the future, Great Leadership cuts through the complexity of leading organizations, operations, and people to make leadership development manageable and greatness attainable.
Whether...
Self-Leadership
The Definitive Guide to Personal Excellence
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2019
Written by the scholars who first developed the theory of self-leadership, Self-Leadership: The Definitive Guide to Personal Excellence by Christopher P. Neck, Charles C. Manz, and Jeffery D. Houghton offers powerful yet practical advice for leading oneself to personal excellence. Grounded in the...
Leadership PQ
How Political Intelligence Sets Successful Leaders Apart
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2014
IQ and EQ (Emotional Intelligence) are not enough. Creating profit, growth and a better future for society is the new leadership challenge. In a shared power world, no single organization is in control or can deliver alone. Leadership PQ is for leaders working with multiple stakeholders to achieve...
The Heart and Hands of Leadership
The Twelve Timeless Practices of Effective Leaders
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2014
A practical, powerful guide to twelve timeless and essential leadership practices that produce strong, dedicated teams. Great leadership is timeless. It starts with the right heart and demands skillful, well-trained hands. In The Heart and Hands of Leadership, Dan Gaynor, former president and publisher...
by Annabel Beerel
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2009
Electronic Inspection Copy available for instructors here
Recognizing and responding to change is the oxygen of life for an organization, and leadership is fundamentally about focusing organizations on these new realities. Leadership and Change Management provides the reader with a practical,...
Reflexive Leadership
Organising in an imperfect world
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2016
Lecturers/Instructors - Request a free digital inspection copy here
Making a case for a reflexive approach to leadership, the authors draw upon decades of carrying out in-depth studies of professionals trying to “do” leadership. Through interviews with managers and their subordinates, getting...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2010
With Leadership Lessons from West Point as a guide, leaders in the business, nonprofit, and government sectors can learn leadership techniques and practices from contributors who are teaching or have taught at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point and have served in positions of leadership that...
Be * Know * Do
Leadership the Army Way
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2010
The United States Army is one of the most complex, best run organizations in the world, and central to the Army's success are strong leadership and exceptional leadership development. Army leaders must be able to act decisively and effectively in challenging situations. But the Army, despite its organizational...
by Andy Hargreaves, Dean Fink
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2012
In Sustainable Leadership, Andy Hargreaves and Dean Fink address one of the most important and often neglected aspects of leadership: sustainability. The authors set out a compelling and original framework of seven principles for sustainable leadership characterized by Depth of learning and real achievement...
From Smart to Wise
Acting and Leading with Wisdom
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2013
A fresh and timely approach to nurturing wise, resilient, and flexible leadership in a world of growing complexity
Leaders tend to obstinately stick to the leadership style that brought them most success in the past, usually one of two extreme styles: functional leadership that focuses on operational...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
The global economic meltdown has highlighted the interconnectedness of nations. This book seeks to provide an overview of topics, issues, and best practices related to defining social justice leadership given our increasingly global world. Refugees and immigrants from around the globe now inhabit...
Leading with Conviction
Mastering the Nine Critical Pillars of Integrated Leadership
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2013
Practical advice and tools to help leaders at all levels elevate their skills
What can truly set an organization apart? There is only one asset that offers guaranteed differentiation: leadership. Leadership is a deliberate act that requires effort but yields enormous payback. According to the...