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10 Essentials for High Performance Quality in the 21st CenturyOutlining a systematic process to guide your organization along the path to improvement, this book covers risk and quality, multicultural management, empowerment, error analysis, team building, advanced quality planning, and quality operating systems.
By D. H. Stamatis
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10 Leadership Virtues for Disruptive Times: Coaching Your Team Through Immense Change and ChallengeTom Ziglar, CEO of Zig Ziglar Corp, shares ten leadership virtues that are essential for coaching employees through immense change and creating an environment of maximum potential and productivity.
By Tom Ziglar
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100 Ways to Motivate Others: How Great Leaders Can Produce Insane Results without Driving People Crazy, Third Edition100 Ways to Motivate Others explains how to be the best leader you can be and the many ways you can encourage and drive those you lead to success. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Scott Richardson, Steve Chandler
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101 Leadership Actions For Performance ManagementUse this handbook to build your business, strengthen the bottom line and generate better results. This book will add to your understanding of performance and help you improve and manage performance for your employees' benefit and your company's benefit.
By Ollie Malone
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12 Disciplines of Leadership Excellence: How Leaders Achieve Sustainable High PerformancePresenting five clear strategies and tools to help you convince clients that you can add to what they already know, this book will show you how to create and shape opportunities, prepare and probe in an entirely new way, gain client consensus, and use sales process and tools to guide and accelerate closing.
By Brian Tracy, Peter Chee
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18 Levers for High-Impact Performance Improvement: How Healthcare Organizations Can Accelerate Change and Sustain ResultsBridging the gap between performance improvement theory and its real-world application, this book applies systems engineering principles and methods to such critical topics as strategic growth, portfolio management, revenue cycle, and clinical utilization improvement.
By Gary M. Auton
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20% Chance of Rain: Exploring the Concept of RiskThrough examples and case studies, this book teaches readers the fundamental (and subtle) aspects of risk - regardless of the specific situation - so that they may form an understanding of the concepts of risk and risk management and apply them to day-to-day issues.
By Richard B. Jones
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2600 Phrases for Effective Performance Reviews: Ready-to-Use Words and Phrases That Really Get Results2600 Phrases for Effective Performance Reviews considers the role of the manager as leader and career coach, and discusses how the performance review should be key to acknowledging and motivating staff. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Paul Falcone
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2600 Phrases for Effective Performance Reviews: Ready-to-Use Words and Phrases That Really Get ResultsNo managerial or administrative task is as universally dreaded as the performance review. This book offers ready-to-use phrases and words, action items, and descriptions you can use to evaluate performance, prepare development plans, and much more.
By Paul Falcone
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2600 Phrases for Setting Effective Performance Goals: Ready-to-Use Phrases That Really Get Results2600 Phrases for Setting Effective Performance Goals is a guide to help your employees achieve realistic performance goals, and set them on the path to become successful and accomplished contributors to the organization. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Paul Falcone
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2600 Phrases for Setting Effective Performance Goals: Ready-to-Use Phrases That Really Get ResultsGiving you the language you need to establish compelling, actionable performance goals, this uniquely practical guide provides insightful strategies to accomplish more through others, serve as an effective career mentor and coach, and help your company stand out from the competition.
By Paul Falcone
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A Bias For Action: How Effective Managers Harness Their Willpower, Achieve Results, and Stop Wasting TimeA Bias for Action explains how harnessing willpower through a key combination of energy and focus can move leaders towards concrete goals and purposeful action. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Heike Bruch, Sumantra Ghoshal
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A Radical Enterprise: Pioneering the Future of High-Performing OrganizationsIn this groundbreaking book, technology thought leader and organizational architect Matt K. Parker breaks down the counterintuitive principles and practices that radically collaborative organizations thrive on.
By Matt K. Parker
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A Risk Professional's Survival Guide: Applied Best Practices in Risk ManagementIncluding real world examples and lessons learned from past crises, this book provides clear explanations of the importance of risk management in preventing financial disasters, and introduces all of the key risk management concepts in a cohesive case study spanning each chapter.
By Clifford Rossi
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A Team of Leaders: Empowering Every Member to Take Ownership, Demonstrate Initiative and Deliver ResultsA Team of Leaders provides the methods and tools to transform conventional manager-led teams into empowered, high-performing teams of leaders. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Paul Gustavson, Stewart Liff
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Above the Line: How to Create a Company Culture That Engages Employees, Delights Customers and Delivers ResultsWritten for leaders, managers and supervisors at all levels and across industries, this step-by-step book provides a resource for leveraging an organization's culture to engage staff, increase customer satisfaction and streamline business performance.
By Michael Henderson
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Accelerating Leadership Development: Practical Solutions for Building Your Organization's PotentialFeaturing actionable, effective principles and strategies for leadership development using a results-oriented framework, this book offers solutions for leadership development, management, and retention from award-winning development firm Global Knowledge.
By Jocelyn Bérard
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Accelerating Performance: How Organizations Can Mobilize, Execute, and Transform with AgilityHelping you transform your organization into a dynamic catalyst for success, this book gives leaders a step-by-step framework for taking action and transforming their organizations, teams, and even themselves-starting today.
By Colin Price, Sharon Toye
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Accelerating Performance: Powerful New Techniques to Develop PeopleIn this highly inspirational book, one of the world's leading performance consultants help you to throw out the rulebook and assemble your own personal training toolkit.
By Sunny Stout Rostron
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Accountability: The Key to Driving a High-Performance CultureAs a business leader's guide to the best practices to turn long term vision into reality, this book introduces the Seven Pillars of Accountability and shows how each pillar is a crucial part of effective leadership.
By Greg Bustin
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Accountability: The Key to Driving a High-Performance CultureAccountability provides an engaging exploration of seven essential pillars for effective leadership, illustrated with concrete examples and personal stories. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Greg Bustin
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Achieving Service Excellence: Maximizing Enterprise Performance through Innovation and TechnologyDiscussing actionable methodologies needed to generate creative ideas, this book illustrates how operational excellence can be achieved by emphasizing the importance of standardizing work processes, and demonstrates how quality can be enhanced and time-to-market can be reduced through a variety of methods.
By C. M. Chang
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Action Coaching: How To Leverage Individual Performance For Company SuccessAction Coaching will help leaders up their games when it comes to coaching individuals to change for success-and leverage this asset for business growth. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By David L. Dotlich, Peter C. Cairo
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Adaptive Business Continuity: A New ApproachThrough a wealth of examples, diagrams, and real-world case studies, this groundbreaking book provides a streamlined, realistic methodology to change business continuity dramatically and shows you how you can execute it in your own organization.
By David Lindstedt, Mark Armour
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Adaptive Coaching: The Art and Practice of a Client-Centered Approach to Performance ImprovementRich in detail from the authors' work with clients in Fortune 500 companies, this insightful book identifies the eight distinct coaching styles and offers a unique client-centered focus on how people prefer to be coached.
By Laurie Voss, Terry R. Bacon
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Advanced Financial Risk Management: Tools and Techniques for Integrated Credit Risk and Interest Rate Risk Management, Second EditionProviding step-by-step tools and techniques for constructing a risk management system, this comprehensive and in-depth book is an essential resource for anyone working in the financial field.
By Donald R. van Deventer, Kenji Imai, Mark Mesler
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Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of RiskIn this unique exploration of the role of risk in our society, Peter Bernstein argues that the notion of bringing risk under control is one of the central ideas that distinguishes modern times from the distant past.
By Peter L. Bernstein
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Agile Risk ManagementElucidating the principles of agile risk management and how these relate to individual projects, this clear and concise book illustrates this synthesis of project risk management and agile techniques using the major methodologies such as XP, Scrum and DSDM
By Alan Moran
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Agilizing the Enterprise: Collaborative Leadership, Dynamic Strategy, and Organizational FlexibilityHelping you to broaden your thinking and expand your horizons, this insightful book discusses the importance of agility and how it affects the solutions that are being delivered by an organization.
By Joseph Raynus
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All Hands On Deck: Navigating Your Team Through Crises, Getting Your Organization Unstuck, and Emerging VictoriousAll Hands on Deck uses extensive interviews and case studies to explain how to take control of organizational chaos, problems, and setbacks using a 12-step process. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Peter Boni
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All Hands On Deck: Navigating Your Team Through Crises, Getting Your Organization Unstuck, and Emerging VictoriousBeginning with the riveting, true story of Massachusetts clipper ship Captain Josiah Nickerson Knowles who saved his crew and all but one passenger during not one but two shipwrecks in the Pacific, this valuable guide presents a proven process to overcome - and lead through - chaos and disorder.
By Peter J. Boni
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All Services, All the Time: How Business Services Serve Your BusinessProviding insights and questions to help a business owner think through the opportunities and complications of leading an organization into the unknown future, this book argues that no matter what you do, no matter what your business is designed to accomplish, your business can be legitimately and entirely viewed as a web of services.
By Doug McDavid
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An Executive's Guide for Moving from U.S. GAAP to IFRSThis book explains the complex inter-relationships between the International Accounting Standards Board (the creator of IFRS), the FASB and the Canadian Accounting Standards Board (AcSB), their work programme and their plans for the future.
By Peter Walton
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Andy & Me: Crisis and Transformation on the Lean Journey, Second EditionBased on the author's personal experience with Toyota's master teachers and with companies in the midst of great change, this book is a business novel set in a failing New Jersey auto plant focusing on the tribulations of Tom Pappas, the plant manager.
By Pascal Dennis
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Anti-Money Laundering in a Nutshell: Awareness and Compliance for Financial Personnel and BusinessA concise, accessible, and practical guide to compliance with anti-money laundering law, this book is for financial professionals, corporate investigators, business managers, and all personnel of financial institutions who are required, under penalty of hefty fines, to get anti-money laundering training.
By Kevin Sullivan
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Anti-Money Laundering: A Practical Guide to Reducing Organizational RiskFeaturing a range of case studies and scenarios highlighting issues and best practices around the world, this book offers a practical guide to navigate the maze of requirements needed to counter money laundering in an organization.
By Rose Chapman
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Anytime Coaching: Unleashing Employee PerformanceWith real-life stories, and practical tips and techniques, this guide will equip managers with tools to help them transform the way they work with employees and colleagues, unleashing their best thinking and developing their overall competence.
By Teresa Wedding Kloster, Wendy Sherwin Swire
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Anytime Coaching: Unleashing Employee Performance, Second EditionWhether you lead a cross-functional team on a short-term project, or formally manage large groups of people on a daily basis, this book equips you with a set of coaching tools you can use immediately to transform the way you work with employees and colleagues.
By Teresa Wedding Kloster, Wendy Sherwin Swire
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Applied Economic Analysis of Information and RiskThis book examines interesting new topics in applied economics from the perspectives of the economics of information and risk, two fields of economics that address the consequences of asymmetric information, environmental risk and uncertainty for the nature and efficiency of interactions between individuals and organizations.
By Iltae Kim, Moriki Hosoe
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Armstrong on Reinventing Performance Management: Building a Culture of Continuous ImprovementFilled with practical advice, including how to deal with underperformers, this book details how to build a culture of ongoing feedback and coaching, and provides case studies of how this approach to building performance has been effective in organizations.
By Michael Armstrong
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Armstrong on Reinventing Performance Management: Building a Culture of Continuous ImprovementArmstrong on Reinventing Performance Management offers strategies for improving individual and team performance as part of a thorough performance management overhaul. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Michael Armstrong
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Armstrong's Handbook of Performance Management: An Evidence-Based Guide to Delivering High Performance, 5th EditionConsidering the latest developments in this area, and how these can be applied to managing staff for increased performance, this book provides a detailed analysis of current evidence-based research in this field and considers how this informs the practice of performance management.
By Michael Armstrong
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Armstrong's Handbook of Performance Management: An Evidence-Based Guide to Delivering High Performance, 5th EditionArmstrong's Handbook of Performance Management, 5th Edition explains how you can use performance management systems to make improvements in several areas such as employee engagement, development, and reward management. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Michael Armstrong
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Armstrong's Handbook of Reward Management Practice: Improving Performance Through Reward, 5th EditionUsing lessons learned from academic research projects, as well as surveys and case studies, this practical book provides guidance on how to use reward processes to improve organizational, team and individual performance while catering for the needs of employees.
By Michael Armstrong
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Auditing the Risk Management ProcessIncorporating all the latest developments in risk management as it applies to auditors, this book includes original risk maps and process models developed by the author, explaining where and how topics fit within an overall audit framework.
By K.H. Spencer Pickett
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Bank Management and Control: Strategy, Capital and Risk ManagementContaining a wealth of essential background information from practice, international observations and comparisons, along with numerous illustrative examples, this book analyzes the effects of macroeconomic and regulatory developments such as the set of Basel III rules on planning, and it also presents and discusses the consequences for actively meeting these challenges, especially in terms of capital.
By Johannes Wernz
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Bank Valuation and Value Based Management: Deposit and Loan Pricing, Performance Evaluation, and Risk Management, 2nd EditionWhether you're complying with the new standards of practice, valuing a bank, or searching for sustainable value creation, this one-stop resource offers a robust, integrated value-based management framework for addressing such managerial issues as fund transfer pricing, risk-adjusted performance evaluation, deposit pricing, capital management, loan pricing and provisioning, and much more.
By Jean Dermine
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Bankable Leadership: Happy People, Bottom-Line Results, and the Power to Deliver BothBankable Leadership uses decades of research and entertaining anecdotes to debunk common leadership myths and reveal the true secret to unleashing the full potential of your team. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Tasha Eurich
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Bayesian Risk Management: A Guide to Model Risk and Sequential Learning in Financial MarketsOpening a discussion about uncertainty in model parameters, model specifications, and model-driven forecasts in a way that standard statistical risk measurement does not, this book provides a roadmap to better risk management through more circumspect measurement, with comprehensive treatment of model uncertainty.
By Matt Sekerke
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Becoming a Conflict Competent Leader: How You and Your Organization Can Manage Conflict EffectivelyCombining research, conceptual models, and practitioner experience that highlight core conflict competencies, this book stresses the importance for leaders to develop critical skills to help them and their organizations deal effectively with conflict.
By Craig E. Runde, Tim A. Flanagan
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Benefit-Risk Assessment Methods in Medical Product Development: Bridging Qualitative and Quantitative AssessmentsThis Book provides general guidance and case studies to aid practitioners in selecting specific benefit-risk (B-R) frameworks and quantitative methods.
By Dr. Qi Jiang, Dr. Weili He
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Beyond Performance Management Why, When, and How to Use 40 Tools and Best Practices for Superior PerformanceBy critically reviewing many well-known management tools-from mission statements and balanced scorecards to Six Sigma and performance appraisals, this book helps you swiftly gauge the value of each management tool so those you select deliver fully on their promise.
By Jeremy Hope, Steve Player
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Beyond Performance: How Great Organizations Build Ultimate Competitive AdvantageDrawing on the most exhaustive research effort of its kind on organizational effectiveness and change management, McKinsey & Company's Scott Keller and Colin Price present everything you need to build an organization that can execute in the short run and has the vitality to prosper over the long term.
By Colin Price, Scott Keller
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Beyond the Babble: Leadership Communication That Drives ResultsBeyond the Babble presents a methodology for communication that provides unambiguous and straightforward information to help everyone work towards the goals of their company. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Bob Matha, Macy Boehm
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Biblical Principles of Crisis Leadership: The Role of Spirituality in Organizational ResponseThis book explores how spirituality can improve an organization's ability to respond to a crisis. It presents biblical examples of leading during a crisis to show how faith can be relied upon to lead during crisis situations.
By Steve Firestone
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Blindsided: A Manager's Guide to Crisis Leadership, 2nd EditionUsing the author's 30 years of global experience to land you in the middle of a fast-breaking crisis, this book presents case studies and examples to demonstrate what a top-notch leader would say and do at every turn. After this simulation, the author then guides you in developing a real-world crisis management plan, uniquely presenting two books in one: Crisis Response and Crisis Preparedness.
By Bruce T. Blythe
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Boards Under Crisis: Board Action Under PressureOffering an innovative, research-based review of how boards make decisions during crises, this timely book is designed to offer insight and accessible theories for invested senior management facing crises situations.
By Alberto Lavín Fernández, Carmelo Mazza
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Breaking the Trust Barrier: How Leaders Close the Gaps for High PerformanceAll team leaders worry and wonder about improving team performance. Using his experience leading the precision Thunderbirds aerobatic team, the author shows that "closing the gaps" is the job of leaders and followers alike.
By JV Venable
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Bribery and Corruption: Navigating the Global RisksAuthored by renowned accounting fraud experts, this comprehensive book provides an introduction and overview of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) and international bribery laws.
By Brian P. Loughman, Richard A. Sibery
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Bridging Organization Design and Performance: 5 Ways to Activate a Global Operation ModelPresenting a book for leaders looking to enhance the success of their organizations and themselves, this guide shares the five practical actions that bring complex organizations to life and helps companies gain sustainable results from their global operating models.
By Amy Kates, Gregory Kesler
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Building a High-Performance Team: Proven Techniques for Effective Team WorkingWhether you are leading a team, or working as a team member or part of a cross-functional team, this book explains the characteristics of a high-performance team, helps you assess where your team stacks up and develop a plan of action.
By Sarah Cook
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Building Engaged Team Performance: Align Your Processes and People to Achieve Game-Changing Business ResultsIllustrated through real-life stories, this practical and insightful book provides the tools for building a superior system that optimizes effectiveness of outcomes for customers and efficiency of resource usage.
By Dodd Starbird, Roland Cavanagh
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Built on Values: Creating an Enviable Culture That Outperforms the CompetitionProviding a clear blueprint for how to accomplish culture change, this empowering guide reveals exactly how leaders can create winning environments that allow their employees and their companies to thrive.
By Ann Rhoades, Nancy Shepherdson
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Business Continuity and Risk Management: Essentials of Organizational ResilienceContaining state-of-the-art summation of global body of knowledge for BCM and RM, this first ever graduate/senior undergraduate college text includes current international standards, case studies, and extra chapters that focus on IT, Emergency Management, and Risk Modeling applications.
By Douglas M. Henderson, Kurt J. Engemann
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Business Continuity and the Pandemic Threat: Potentially the Biggest Survival Challenge Facing OrganisationsA must-read for organizations facing the coronavirus threat, this book reveals what you should do to mitigate the risk, and limit the damage, of pandemic incidents, and provides guidance on creating and validating a pandemic plan for your business.
By Robert A. Clark
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Business Risk Management Handbook: A Sustainable ApproachBy exploring the various frameworks that organizations operate in today, this book explains the practical links between risk management and the impact it has on the value of your business.
By Adam Rose, Linda S. Spedding
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Business Rules Applied: Building Better Systems Using the Business Rules ApproachThis step-by-step guide shows you how to implement the business rules approach, from development to completion.
By Barbara von Halle
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Can't Buy Me Like: How Authentic Customer Connections Drive Superior ResultsCan't Buy Me Like explores how social communication platforms have replaced the need for and reduced the impact of advertising, and the extent to which genuine human connection determines the success of your brand. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Bob Garfield, Doug Levy
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Capacity: Create Laser Focus, Boundless Energy, and an Unstoppable Drive In Any OrganizationProviding a proven system for bringing the best out of your team-and yourself, this book offers a clear, workable solution for organizations functioning in the real world and will change the way you think about productivity and performance and how to achieve both.
By Chris Johnson, Matt Johnson
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Carrots and Sticks Don't Work: Build a Culture of Employee Engagement with the Principles of RespectEmpowering you to assess, troubleshoot, and resolve engagement issues in the workplace, this book offers specific, low-cost, turnkey solutions and action plans that will help you to realize demonstrable gains in employee productivity and job satisfaction.
By Paul Marciano
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Challenges in Implementing Corporate Governance: Whose Business is it Anyway?Thought-provoking and easy-to-read, this book is for independent non-executive directors in Asia-Pacific who are having difficulty translating what the codes of Corporate Governance demand of them into behavior that delivers long-term value to their stakeholders and shareholders.
By John Zinkin
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Changing Employee Behavior: How to Drive Performance by Bringing out the Best in People, 2nd Edition 2023This book changes that, revealing simple but powerful techniques for changing behavior that experts from a range of disciplines have been using for years. Drawing upon proven methods from psychology, psychotherapy, and behavioural economics, it presents a comprehensive toolkit that managers can use to improve the performance of staff and address some of the most common challenges they face.
By Nik Kinley, Shlomo Ben-Hur
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Clarity in Crisis: Leadership Lessons From the CIAMeet your next crisis head on and come through it stronger than ever by using the hard-earned strategies and core principles from Marc Polymeropoulos, a highly decorated, 26-year operations officer with the CIA.
By Marc E. Polymeropoulos
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Coaching for Improved Work Performance, Revised EditionPacked with case studies from the author's research into the dynamics of the modern workplace, this classic guide takes all the guesswork out of becoming the kind of inspired, "hands-on" manager that every company today is looking for.
By Ferdinand F. Fournies
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Coaching in Times of Crisis and Transformation: How to Help Individuals and Organisations FlourishTaking an in-depth look at crisis and change in the world and discussing their impact on both individuals and organizations, this book provides a practical guide and resource for managers and coaches on how to tackle challenges effectively and how to turn a crisis into an opportunity for transformation.
By Liz Hall (ed)
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Communicate in a Crisis: Understand, Engage and Influence Consumer Behaviour to Maximize Brand TrustThis guide will help you recognize, plan and respond to a sudden wildfire of consumer-led reaction, 'manipulated outrage' sparked from interaction on news feed algorithms, fuelled by social media and the constant demand for an instantaneous response.
By Kate Hartley
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Competence at Work: Models for Superior PerformanceThis toolbook can take the pain and uncertainty out of selecting the right personnel, by providing a systematic way of pinpointing the people you need for the tasks at hand--using the McClelland/McBer job competence assessment methodology.
By Lyle M. Spencer, Signe M. Spencer
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Competitive Advantage: Creating and Sustaining Superior PerformanceCompetitive Advantage offers a roadmap to developing a corporate vision that provides competitive advantage and sustains superior organizational performance. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Michael E. Porter
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Complex Adaptive Leadership: Embracing Paradox and UncertaintyHelping practitioners struggling to interpret and react to increasingly complex events, this book applies to leaders with a thirst to add to their theoretical knowledge of issues they have heard something about but do not fully comprehend.
By Nick Obolensky
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Confronting Reality: Doing What Matters to Get Things RightUsing engaging, up-to-date case studies, Confronting Reality urges business leaders to adopt a three-point holistic business model that forces them to consider the realities of the changing business world. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Larry Bossidy, Ram Charan
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Confronting the Storm: Regenerating Leadership and Hope in the Age of UncertaintyIn Confronting the Storm, David passionately argues for a shift from the predominant legacy thinking that struggles with our greatest challenges to a regenerative and collaborative mindset within leaders.
By David Ross
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Continuous Improvement By Improving Continuously (CIBIC): Addressing the Human Factors During the Pursuit of Process ExcellenceBy highlighting key inner drivers, essential outer qualities, and supporting models and frameworks, this practical book makes the pursuit of excellence an easily sustainable and logical endeavor.
By F. Allen Davis
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Conversational Capacity: The Secret to Building Successful Teams That Perform When The Pressure Is OnFor anyone striving to lead their organizations to peak performance, this book provides the communication tools to ensure that your team remains on track even when dealing with its most troublesome issues, and that it responds to tough challenges with agility and skill.
By Craig Weber
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Coping With CrisisPresenting three books by author, James Allen, this thoughtful resource will help you through any crisis.
By James Allen
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Corporate Communication Crisis Leadership: Advocacy and EthicsIn Corporate Communication Crisis Leadership, the authors discuss how a failure to ground your company ethos-and its communication strategy-in honesty and integrity could threaten both the company's good name and its financial bottom line. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Matthew Corr, Ronald C. Arnett, Sarah M. Deluliis
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Corporate Risk Management: Theories and ApplicationsAn updated review of the theories and applications of corporate risk management.
By Georges Dionne
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COSO Enterprise Risk Management: Establishing Effective Governance, Risk, and Compliance, Second EditionHelping professionals develop and follow an effective risk culture, this step-by-step guide is the fully revised, invaluable working resource that will show you how to identify risks, avoid pitfalls within your corporation, and keep it moving ahead of the competition.
By Robert R. Moeller
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Courage to Execute: What Elite U.S. Military Units Can Teach Business about Leadership and Team PerformanceOutlining the six basic principles that operate at the foundation of high performance, known as LOCKED, this book shares a multitude of personal leadership stories that illustrate the principles of LOCKED, and will help you develop effective leadership skills and build high-performance teams that out-compete your rivals every time.
By James D. Murphy
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Creating the Accountable Organization: A Practical Guide to Improve Performance ExecutionCreating the Accountable Organization is an essential guide for accelerating your organization's evolution into a leaner, stronger, and incredibly agile competitor. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Mark Samuel
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Crisis Communication Strategies: How to Prepare in Advance, Respond Effectively, and Recover in FullWorried about your organization facing a potential crisis? Feeling unprepared but unsure where to start? Looking for guidance on gearing up for crises? CRISIS COMMUNICATION STRATEGIES reveals how to plan for, make it through, and come back from a crisis that could potentially affect your organization. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Amanda Coleman
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Crisis Communication Strategies: How to Prepare in Advance, Respond Effectively, and Recover in FullEssential for PR and communication professionals for protecting your company and building true, long-term resilience, this book guides readers through each phase, providing details of what to consider, what should be done, and tips and checklists for improved responses.
By Amanda Coleman
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Crisis Wasted? Leading Risk Managers on Risk CulturePresenting an integral resource for professionals responsible for minimizing organizational risk, this thorough guide sheds light on today's risk management landscape through a unique collection of interviews from risk leaders in both the banking and investment industries.
By Frances Cowell, Matthew Levins
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Crisis-ready Leadership: Building Resilient Organizations and CommunitiesProvides an integrated framework for making decisions in the context of a crisis, based on operationalized practices and strategies
By Bob Campbell
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Crisis, Catastrophe, and Disaster in Organizations: Managing Threats to Operations, Architecture, Brand, and StakeholdersThis book explores how and why an event is a precursor to the emergence of a crisis and how a given crisis affects an organization and its stakeholders. Using existing systems theory blended with innovative use of wave, epidemiological, immunological and psycho-social theories.
By Dennis W. Tafoya
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Customer Focused Process Innovation: Linking Strategic Intent to Everyday ExecutionRevealing a powerful and proven method for connecting your company's value creation processes to customer-desired products, this book presents you with everything you need to revamp your processes to innovate, grow, and outpace the competition.
By David Hamme
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Customer Obsessed: A Whole Company Approach to Delivering Exceptional Customer ExperiencesProviding insight into each element that affects customer experience, this book offers a set of concrete actions you can take today to leverage cloud computing into technical innovation and better business outcomes at all levels of your organization.
By Eric Berridge
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Dare to Serve: How to Drive Superior Results by Serving OthersDare to Serve shows how leaders can change their management styles by putting their employees first. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Cheryl Bachelder
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Data Crush: How the Information Tidal Wave is Driving New Business OpportunitiesData Crush is a unique guide for staying ahead of the game in the new information age. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Christopher Surdak
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Decide and Deliver: 5 Steps to Breakthrough Performance in Your OrganizationIn Decide and Deliver, authors Paul Rogers, Marcia W. Blenko, and Michael C. Mankins offer a roadmap that leads readers to a destination of sound business decisions. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Marcia W. Blenko, Michael C. Mankins, Paul Rogers
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Decision-Making in Crisis Situations: Research and Innovation for Optimal TrainingWith a focus on decision-making training through crisis simulation, this book's aim is essentially educational, methodological and practical, and provides a concise review of the major knowledge, methods and innovative tools in this field.
By Sophie Sauvagnargues
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Defying Doom: Leading Urgent Large-Scale TransformationsCombining theory and analysis with large doses of common sense and concepts based on the author's broad experience, this book provides a pragmatic framework for adapting to change and transforming an organization to meet the needs of an evolving future.
By Bernardo Quinn
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Designing for Growth: A Design Thinking Tool Kit for ManagersDesigning for Growth provides a stage-based design thinking process to help business managers conquer challenging problems. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Jeanne Liedtka, Tim Ogilvie
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Developing Collaboration and Operating in a Matrix Management Structure: Ensuring Collective, Cooperative ManagementThe My Practical MBA Series provides the latest thinking as well as perennial techniques for a range of business challenges. Written for people who operate across business divisions in a matrix management structure, this toolkit explains how to develop influencing skills, increase cooperation and collaboration across business divisions, and operate successfully within a matrix management structure.
By LID Editorial
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Developing High Performance Leadership TeamsDesigned to help you determine whether or not you have the right leadership structure, this TD at Work discusses the challenges and benefits of leadership teams, teaches how to launch a new leadership team, and shows how to measure the success of a leadership team.
By Lynda McDermott
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Developing Mental Toughness: Coaching Strategies to Improve Performance, Resilience and Wellbeing, 2nd EditionBased on scientific investigation, this book discusses how mental toughness relates to other behaviors and how it can be applied to leadership, emotional intelligence, and motivation.
By Doug Strycharczyk, Peter Clough
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Developing Mental Toughness: Improving Performance, Wellbeing and Positive Behaviour in OthersFull of sample exercises, case studies, and a unique self-assessment tool to determine your mental toughness score, this resource contains practical guidance on delivering techniques that will radically improve peoples' abilities to harness the effects of stress and pressure.
By Doug Strycharczyk, Peter Clough
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Die Empty: Unleash Your Best Work Every DayProviding advice and techniques to increase your personal job satisfaction, Die Empty will help ensure that you do your best work every day rather than leaving your best work inside you. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Todd Henry
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Drive Business Performance: Enabling a Culture of Intelligent ExecutionDemystifying performance management, this innovative, jargon-free book offers detailed guidance for organizations to replicate top performers' results, including the recommended skills and assets needed to successfully compete in today's business environment.
By Bruno Aziza, Joey Fitts
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Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates UsDrive challenges the widely accepted notion that people are motivated by financial rewards and presents a revolutionary theory on what really motivates people to perform at their best. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Daniel Pink
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Driven to Delight: Delivering World-Class Customer Experience the Mercedes-Benz WayFilled with exclusive front-seat insights from Mercedes-Benz employees, eye-opening testimonials from passionate Mercedes-Benz fans, and solid nuts-and-bolts advice for creating your own consumer-aligned road map, this book will help you retool your strategies, reignite your customers, and refuel your team for the long haul.
By Joseph A. Michelli
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Driving Results: Six Lessons Learned from Transforming An Iconic CompanyIn Driving Results: Six Lessons Learned from Transforming an Iconic Company, now-retired Chief Executive Officer Gary Garfield delivers an incisive and eye-opening road map of how to transform any organization, department, or group.
By Gary A. Garfield
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Effective Vulnerability Management: Managing Risk in the Vulnerable Digital EcosystemInfuse efficiency into risk mitigation practices by optimizing resource use with the latest best practices in vulnerability management
By Chris Hughes, Nikki Robinson
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Elite Minds: How Winners Think Differently to Create a Competitive Edge and Maximize SuccessElite Minds examines the thought processes of those who consistently exhibit peak performance and reveals how to adjust your thoughts, beliefs, and behavior to be your best self. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Stan Beecham
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Embracing the Black Swan: How Resilient Organizations Survive and Thrive in the face of Geopolitical and Macroeconomic RisksThis book, aimed at both academics and practitioners, shows how a framework for resilience can be created to help modern organizations to not only survive but to thrive.
By Khalil Dindarian
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Emergency Management for Healthcare, Volume II: Building a ProgramThis series of books focuses on highly specialized Emergency Management arrangements for healthcare facilities and organizations.
By Norman Ferrier
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Emergency Management for Healthcare, Volume III: Emergency Response PlanningThis series of books focuses on highly specialized Emergency Management arrangements for healthcare facilities and organizations.
By Norman Ferrier
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Empty Labor: Idleness and Workplace ResistanceExamining organizational misbehavior, specifically the phenomenon of 'empty labor', defined as the time during which employees engage in private activities during the working day, this thought-provoking book uses both qualitative and quantitative data to present a concrete analysis of the different ways empty labor unfolds in the modern workplace.
By Roland Paulsen
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Engaging the Hearts and Minds of All Your Employees: How to Ignite Passionate Performance for Better Business ResultsPacked with proven strategies for meeting your people's needs as well as instructive examples from stellar companies, this book equips you with the practical tools to engage employees at all levels so they deliver unparalleled value to your customers.
By Lee J. Colan
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Enhanced Enterprise Risk ManagementThe performance and survival of a business in a global economy depends on understanding and managing the risks-external and those embedded within its operations.
By John Sidwell, Peter Hlavnicka
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Enhancing Your Executive Edge: How to Develop the Skills to Lead and SucceedProviding the specific tools you need to make the jump from middle or upper management to an executive-level position, this book emphasizes the importance of self-awareness in relationships with colleagues, clients, and executives-including first impressions, body language, and strategic communication.
By Kerry Preston, Kim Zoller
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Enterprise Compliance Risk Management: An Essential Toolkit for Banks and Financial ServicesWith unique hands-on tools including processes, templates, checklists, models, formats and scorecards, this book is a comprehensive narrative on managing compliance and compliance risk that enables value creation for financial services firms.
By Saloni P. Ramakrishna
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Enterprise Growth Strategy: Vision, Planning and ExecutionPresenting the total process of a growth strategy, this unique guide describes it from vision to mission, including development, implementation of initiatives, use of tools, and measurement of both operational and financial outcomes.
By Dhirendra Kumar
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Enterprise Risk Management Best Practices: From Assessment to Ongoing ComplianceProviding high-level guidance on how to implement enterprise risk management across any organization, this essential book discusses the latest trends and best practices, and reveals the key challenges that need to be overcome for a successful ERM initiative.
By Anne M. Marchetti
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Enterprise Risk Management: A Common Framework for the Entire OrganizationReviewing various categories of risk, including financial, cyber, health, safety and environmental, brand, supply chain, political, and strategic risks and many others, this book provides a common framework and terminology for managing these risks to build an effective enterprise risk management system.
By Philip E. J. Green
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Enterprise Risk Management: From Incentives to Controls, Second EditionSkillfully examining both the art as well as the science of effective enterprise risk management practices, this engaging and informative book addresses the underlying key concepts, processes, and tools, and lays out clear strategies to manage what is often a highly complex issue.
By James Lam
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Enterprise Risk Management: Today's Leading Research and Best Practices for Tomorrow's ExecutivesFilled with helpful tables and charts, this informative guide offers a wealth of knowledge on the drivers, the techniques, the benefits, as well as the pitfalls to avoid, in successfully implementing enterprise risk management.
By Betty J. Simkins, John Fraser
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Enterprise Risk Management: Today's Leading Research and Best Practices for Tomorrow's Executives, 2nd EditionThis book provides a holistic overview of key topics in ERM, including the role of the chief risk officer, development and use of key risk indicators and the risk-based allocation of resources.
By Betty Simkins, John R. S. Fraser, Rob Quail
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Enterprise Security Risk Management: Concepts and ApplicationsShowing you how ESRM applies fundamental risk principles to manage all security risks, this step-by-step book includes realistic case studies, questions to help you assess your own security program, thought-provoking discussion questions, and useful figures and tables.
By Brian J. Allen, Rachelle Loyear
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ERM - Enterprise Risk Management: Issues and CasesPacked with international cases studies illustrating enterprise risk management best practices, this valuable reference explores contemporary issues, including quantitative and qualitative measures, as well as potential pitfalls and challenges facing today's enterprise risk managers.
By Christopher Ketcham, Jean-Paul Louisot
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Ethics, Governance and Risk Management in OrganizationsThis book brings together research works, ideas, critical reviews and strategic proposals encompassing various ethical and corporate governance issues in workplaces and organizations around the globe.
By Intan Marzita Saidon, Roshima Said
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Everything Counts: 52 Remarkable Ways to Inspire Excellence and Drive ResultsPresenting a powerful operating philosophy that will steer your organization to higher levels of growth, productivity, and performance, this book offers provocative and practical advice to turn anyone into a perpetual results-driven machine.
By Gary Ryan Blair
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Excellence Wins: A No-Nonsense Guide to Becoming the Best in a World of CompromiseHorst Schulze knows how to win. In this practical book, Schulze, in his absolute no-nonsense approach, shares the visionary and disruptive principles that have produced immense global successes over the course of his still-prolific fifty-year career.
By Horst Schulze
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Execution IS the Strategy: How Leaders Achieve Maximum Results in Minimum TimeExecution IS the Strategy shows how to quickly build a limber plan, and how to build your business to adjust to the constantly changing business environment. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Laura Stack
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Execution IS the Strategy: How Leaders Achieve Maximum Results in Minimum TimeIncluding a leadership team assessment, group reading guides, and bonus self-development resources, this book shows you how to quickly drive strategic initiatives and get great results from your team.
By Laura Stack
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Execution Plain and Simple: Twelve Steps to Achieving Any Goal On Time and On BudgetA practical job aid for any manager who needs to get an organization to execute better, this book provides a proven 12-step plan to get results, overcome delays, and achieve tough goals faster.
By Robert A. Neiman
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Execution: The Discipline of Getting Things DoneFor CEOs and those in senior leadership roles, Execution takes you through the building blocks and processes that challenge you to become a better leader, communicator, and mentor, and thus better able achieve the goals you have set. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Charles Burck, Larry Bossidy, Ram Charan
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Executive Charisma: Six Steps to Mastering the Art of LeadershipPresenting a proven six-step process that will propel you to the top of the corporate ladder, this detailed guide clearly defines executive charisma and explains why projecting a commanding professional demeanor is so fundamental to corporate success.
By D. A. Benton
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External Events and Crises That Impact Firms and Other EntitiesExternal Events and Crises That Impact Firms and Other Entities showcases the resulting impact of external events such as environmental or health crises on businesses and educational entities.
By Heather C. Webb
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Extreme Productivity: Boost Your Results, Reduce Your HoursExtreme Productivity presents an exciting and practical strategy for boosting productivity and efficiency at work and in your personal life too. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Robert C. Pozen
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Factory Physics for Managers: How Leaders Improve Performance in a Post-Lean Six Sigma WorldMaking it easier to choose and execute the best strategy for better productivity-and even bigger profits, this comprehensive guide cuts through the hodgepodge of copycat initiatives, overblown buzzwords, confusing mathematics, and misguided software.
By Edward S. Pound, Jeffrey H. Bell, Mark L. Spearman
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Faster Disaster Recovery: The Business Owner's Guide to Developing a Business Continuity PlanWith thought-provoking questions that enable you to explore their particular situation, this book provides a 10-step approach for business owners on creating a disaster recovery plan (from both natural and man-made events).
By Jennifer H. Elder, Samuel F. Elder
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Financial Enterprise Risk Management, Second EditionContaining all the tools needed to build and maintain an ERM framework, this comprehensive, yet accessible guide uses diagrams to illustrate the range of approaches available, and highlights risk management issues with numerous case studies.
By Paul Sweeting
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Financial Risk Management and Climate Change Risk: The Experience in a Central BankThis book shows how a national central bank in the Eurosystem has adapted its financial risk management principles and practices against the background of non-conventional monetary policy measures and following the introduction of sustainability criteria, with a special role for carbon-neutrality.
By Antonio Scalia
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Financial Risk Management For DummiesWritten by bestselling author and past winner of the GARP Award's Risk Manager of the Year, Aaron Brown, this book offers thorough and accessible guidance on successfully managing and controlling financial risk within your company.
By Aaron Brown
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Financial Risk Management: A Practitioner's Guide to Managing Market and Credit Risk, Second EditionPresenting the strategies, principles, and measurement techniques necessary to manage and measure financial risk, this reliable, comprehensive resource shares valuable lessons that will help you develop an intuitive feel for market risk measurement and reporting.
By Steven Allen
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Financial Services Anti-Fraud Risk and Control WorkbookWritten by a recognized expert in the field of fraud detection and prevention, this effective workbook is filled with interactive exercises, case studies, and chapter quizzes, and shares industry-tested methods for detecting, preventing, and reporting fraud.
By Peter D. Goldmann
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Focus: The Hidden Driver of ExcellenceIn Focus, author Daniel Goleman takes us through an understanding of our selves, others, and the world around us to improve our focus skills and equip us with the tools to make us better leaders. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Daniel Goleman
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Forbes Best Business Mistakes: How Today's Top Business Leaders Turned Missteps into SuccessAs Malcolm Forbes put it, "Failure is success if we learn from it," and this unique book shares the missteps of others so you can learn from them, be inspired by them, and succeed where you may not have seen opportunity before.
By Bob Sellers
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From PMO to VMO: Managing for Value DeliveryThis book defines the role of the agile value management office (VMO), using case studies and a clear road map to help PMs visualize and implement a new path where middle management and the VMO are valued leaders in the age of business agility.
By Audrey Scheere, Roland Cuellar, Sanjiv Augustine
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Frontiers of Risk Management: Key Issues and Solutions, Volume IIdentifying risk management issues that are likely to emerge in the future and the solutions that will be developed to meet these needs, this comprehensive text covers credit, market, operational, liquidity, outsourcing and insurance risks.
By Dennis Cox (ed)
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Frontiers of Risk Management: Key Issues and Solutions, Volume IIWith a series of experts considering financial services risk management in each of its key areas, this book enables the reader to appreciate a practitioner's view of the challenges that are faced in practice identifying where appropriate suitable opportunities.
By Dennis Cox (ed)
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Fundamental Aspects of Operational Risk and Insurance Analytics: A Handbook of Operational RiskProviding a complete overview of operational risk modeling and relevant insurance analytics, this handbook presents detailed coverage of the theories, applications, and models inherent in any discussion of the fundamentals of operational risk, with a primary focus on Basel II/III regulation, modeling dependence, estimation of risk models, and modeling the data elements.
By Gareth W. Peters, Marcelo G. Cruz, Pavel V. Shevchenko
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Fundamentals of Enterprise Risk Management: How Top Companies Assess Risk, Manage Exposure, and Seize Opportunity, Second EditionPacked with practical exercises and fresh case studies from organizations such as IBM, Microsoft, Apple, JPMorgan Chase, and Sony, this critical guide provides readers with the tools and information they need to keep their organizations as blissfully risk-free as possible.
By John J. Hampton
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Fundamentals of Operational Risk Management: Understanding and Implementing Effective Tools, Policies and Frameworks"Fundamentals of Operational Risk Management" outlines how to implement a sound operational risk management framework which is embedded in day-to-day business activities.
By Dr Simon Ashby
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Fundamentals of Performance Improvement: Optimizing Results Through People, Process, and Organizations, Third EditionFundamentals of Performance Improvement is a substantially new version of the down-to-earth, how-to guide designed to help business leaders, practitioners, and students understand the science and art of performance technology and successfully implement organizational and societal change.
By Darlene Van Tiem, James L. Moseley, Joan C. Dessinger
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Fundamentals of Risk and Insurance, Tenth EditionWhether you want to prepare for your career or simply become a more knowledgeable consumer, this book offers you a comprehensive, consumer-oriented introduction to the many facets of risk management and insurance.
By Emmett J. Vaughan, Therese M. Vaughan
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Fundamentals of Risk Management: Understanding, Evaluating and Implementing Effective Risk Management, 3rd EditionProviding a comprehensive introduction to the subject of commercial and business risk, this book is completely aligned to ISO 31000 and examines the key components of risk management and its application, with examples to demonstrate its benefit to organizations in the public and private sector.
By Paul Hopkin
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Fundamentals of Risk Management: Understanding, Evaluating and Implementing Effective Risk Management, Fifth EditionProviding extensive coverage of the core frameworks of business continuity planning, enterprise risk managemen, and project risk management, this is the definitive guide to dealing with the different types of risk an organization faces.
By Paul Hopkin
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Fundamentals of Risk Management: Understanding, Evaluating and Implementing Effective Risk Management, Fourth EditionProviding extensive coverage of the core frameworks of business continuity planning, enterprise risk management and project risk management, this is the definitive guide to dealing with the different types of risk an organization faces.
By Paul Hopkin
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Fundamentals of Risk Management: Understanding, Evaluating and Implementing Effective Risk Management, Third EditionFundamentals of Risk Management, Third Edition explores the vital role of risk management for organizational success and development, and provides a framework to identify, control, and monitor risk. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Paul Hopkin
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Future Role of Sustainable Innovative Technologies in Crisis ManagementThis book defines the scope of innovative technologies as the application of new technologies to support the resolution of various types of crisis situations to achieve regulatory compliance and improved risk management in an effective and automated manner.
By Mohammed Ali
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Get Heard, Get Results: How to Get Buy-In for Your Ideas and Initiatives, 2nd EditionThis book explains how to create true buy-in around your ideas and initiatives - dealing with pushback along the way and turning talk into action.
By Simon Dowling
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Get It, Set It, Move It, Prove It: 60 Ways to Get Real Results in Your OrganizationIf you seek to produce measurable results in your organization, this book is for you. Based on a four-phased model, the book provides practical and useful methods that you can use immediately and points out habits you should avoid.
By Mark Graham Brown
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Getting Naked: A Business Fable About Shedding The Three Fears That Sabotage Client LoyaltyIllustrating the principles of inspiring client loyalty through a fascinating business fable, this book explains the theory of vulnerability in depth and presents concrete steps for putting it to work in any organization.
By Patrick Lencioni
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Getting Things DoneGetting Things Done for the modern professional who wants to learn how to set aside the chaos-and just get things done. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Rus Slater
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Global Best Practices for CSO, NGO, and Other Nonprofit Boards: Lessons from around the WorldProviding information that builds exceptional nonprofit boards, this book present case studies from different parts of the world that illustrate effective practice, identifies and discusses interesting and significant differences, and explores global governance trends with implications for us all.
By Penelope Cagney
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Governance, Risk Management, and Compliance: It Can't Happen to Us: Avoiding Corporate Disaster While Driving SuccessFeaturing an expert's insider secrets to successfully shaping, leading, and overseeing your organization to achieve corporate goals, this book provides critical insights for understanding the role of governance, risk management, and compliance and its implementation in today's business environment.
By Richard M. Steinberg
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Great By Choice: Uncertainty, Chaos, and Luck--Why Some Thrive Despite Them AllGreat by Choice provides an in-depth look at what successful companies do differently in order to keep on winning, even in extreme conditions. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Jim Collins, Morten T. Hansen
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Grounded: How Leaders Stay Rooted In An Uncertain WorldBased on in-depth research with hundreds of executives around the world, this provocative book argues that leaders at every level can be more self-aware, develop their untapped potential, and drive significantly better results-for themselves, their teams, and their organizations.
By Bob Rosen
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Guide for Making Acute Risk DecisionsProviding best practices for the chemical industry, this book presents a guidance on a large range of decision aids for risk analysts and decision makers so that vital decisions can be made in a more consistent, logical, and rigorous manner.
By Center for Chemical Process Safety
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Handbook of Crisis and Emergency Management, Second EditionFeaturing contributions from leading experts in the field, this resource offers valuable information with applications at the macro, micro, organizational, and interorganizational levels, preparing you for emergency management in an increasingly globalized and uncertain world.
By Ali Farazmand (ed)
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Handbook on Decision Making: Vol 2: Risk Management in Decision MakingPresenting innovative theories, methodologies, and techniques in the field of risk management and decision making, this book introduces new research developments and provides a comprehensive image of their potential applications to readers interested in the area.
By Guangquan Zhang (eds), Jie Lu, Lakhmi C. Jain
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Healing the Wounds: Overcoming the Trauma of Layoffs and Revitalizing Downsized OrganizationsProviding a precise and concise set of instructions for coping with "layoff survivor sickness," Healing the Wounds is the definitive work on dealing with the trauma of downsizing for individuals and organizations. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By David Noer
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Health and Safety in Logistics: Assessing and Avoiding Risk in Warehousing and TransportationA comprehensive guide to health and safety in logistics, this book covers every essential area, including risk assessments, safety in the warehouse and hazard avoidance in transport operations.
By Jerry Rudd
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Hidden Value: How Great Companies Achieve Extraordinary Results with Ordinary PeopleHidden Value is a unique view into how successful companies maximize talent. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Charles A. O’Reilly III, Jeffrey Pfeffer
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High-Profit Prospecting: Powerful Strategies to Find the Best Leads and Drive Breakthrough Sales ResultsIn High-Profit Prospecting, author Mark Hunter separates the truths from the myths when it comes to prospecting for new clients, while highlighting what works well in the real world. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Mark Hunter
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Hiring for Attitude: A Revolutionary Approach to Recruiting Star Performers with Both Tremendous Skills and Superb AttitudeIncluding case studies from Microchip, Southwest Airlines, The Ritz-Carlton, Google, and other companies that drive great results by hiring for attitude, this groundbreaking book shows hiring managers how to recognize the attitudinal characteristics to set their companies apart from the competition.
By Mark Murphy
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Homeland Security: A Complete Guide, Second EditionWhether you're a first responder, corporate executive, government official, or concerned citizen, this book provides a comprehensive understanding of U.S. homeland security and your own role in preparing for and responding to terrorism and disasters.
By James Jay Carafano, Mark A. Sauter
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How New Risk Management Helps Leaders Master UncertaintyHelping you find your company's way in an uncertain world, this book helps the organization's top leader gather the information needed to identify opportunities and threats and decide on the appropriate risk response in this uncertain world.
By Robert B. Pojasek
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How They Blew It: The CEOs and Entrepreneurs Behind Some of the World's Most Catastrophic Business FailuresProfiling business leaders and entrepreneurs and how they went from corporate gurus to financial disaster zones, this book looks at the personality traits of these business leaders and the fine line between success and failure.
By Jamie Oliver, Tony Goodwin
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How to Castrate a Bull: Unexpected Lessons on Risk, Growth, and Success in BusinessWith colorful examples and anecdotes, this book presents a story for everyone interested in understanding business, the reasons why companies succeed and fail, and how powerful lessons often come from strange and unexpected places.
By Dave Hitz, Pat Walsh
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How: Why How We Do Anything Means Everything, Expanded EditionIncluding revealing interviews with a diverse group of leaders, business execs, experts, and everyday people on the front lines, this book explores how we think, behave, lead, and govern our institutions and ourselves to uncover the values-inspired "hows" of 21st century success and significance.
By Dov Seidman
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Human Capital Management: What Really Works in GovernmentRather than a theoretical presentation of what might, or should, work, this book provides thought-provoking and practical examples detailing what federal agencies are doing that is working. The GovEssentials collection from Books24x7 is offered in partnership with Management Concepts.
By Federal Management Partners, Inc.
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Human Experience at Work: Drive Performance with a People-Focused Approach to EmployeesAttract, engage and retain the best talent using this practical guide on developing a human-centric approach to work.
By Ben Whitter
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Humanitarian Logistics: Meeting the Challenge of Preparing for and Responding to Disasters and Complex Emergencies, 4th EditionIn rapidly developing emergencies, it is vital for aid agencies to understand how to establish an agile supply chain that resists the chaos of a crisis and can cater to unknown needs.
By Graham Heaslip, Peter Tatham
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Humanitarian Logistics: Meeting the Challenge of Preparing for and Responding to Disasters, Second EditionAuthored by some of the world's leading experts, this book examines the challenges and responses of those responsible for organizing and distributing resources in dangerous and unstable environments.
By Martin Christopher (eds), Peter Tatham
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Implementing Beyond Budgeting: Unlocking the Performance PotentialRevealing best practices from actual cases, this inspiring guide shows you how to build and maximize a performance climate with teams committed to a common purpose, clear values, and shared rewards.
By Bjarte Bogsnes
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Implementing Enterprise Risk Management: Case Studies and Best PracticesA practical guide to establishing an effective ERM system by applying best practices at a granular level, this insightful book includes case studies of leading organizations and provides clear, demonstrative instruction on establishing a strong, real-world system.
By Betty J. Simkins, John R.S. Fraser, Kristina Narvaez
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Intangibles: The Unexpected Traits of High-Performing Healthcare LeaderOffering an engaging exploration of evidence-based practices from an array of leaders in different settings, this practical and thoughtful book demonstrates that you can embrace humility and still be excellent at your job.
By Amer Kaissi
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Introduction to Emergency Evacuation: Getting Everybody Out When it CountsTelling you what you need to know as you plan to evacuate people of all ages and health conditions, this insightful and informative book explains the practical basics of understanding your site, planning escape routes, and providing for people with special needs.
By Jim Burtles
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Introduction to International Disaster Management, Third EditionProviding a comprehensive understanding of the disaster management profession, this book utilizes a global perspective and includes the different sources of risk and vulnerability, the systems that exist to manage hazard risk, and the many different stakeholders involved.
By Damon P. Coppola
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It's Not Rocket Science: 4 Simple Strategies for Mastering the Art of ExecutionShowing you how to stop chasing hot trends and start driving real growth, this guide offers a commonsense approach to business success and outlines a basic, effective, and actionable four-step blueprint for building a great organization of any size, in any arena.
By Dave Anderson
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Key Performance Indicators (KPI) Fourth Edition: Developing, Implementing, and Using Winning KPIsThis book includes a more concise KPI methodology with clear implementation guidance, original insights on how other areas of performance management can be corrected, and new in-depth case studies. A revised starter kit is included to identify critical success factors.
By David Parmenter
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Key Performance Indicators (KPI): Developing, Implementing, and Using Winning KPIs, Third EditionProviding an in-depth look at how Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) can be most effectively used to assess and drive organizational performance, this book guides readers toward simplification, paring down to the most fundamental issues to better define and measure progress toward goals.
By David Parmenter
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Knowledge Discovery Process and Methods to Enhance Organizational PerformanceIncluding case study examples of knowledge discovery and data mining (KDDM) applications in business and government, this book supplies a process-centric view of how to implement successful data mining projects through the use of the KDDM process.
By Corlane Barclay (eds), Kweku-Muata Osei-Bryson
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Knowledge in Risk Assessment and ManagementWith the help of numerous case studies and real-world examples, this must-read book explores the latest developments in the ongoing effort to use risk assessment as a means for characterizing knowledge and/or lack of knowledge about a system or process of interest.
By Enrico Zio, Terje Aven
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Lead Inside the Box: How Smart Leaders Guide Their Teams to Exceptional ResultsIn Lead Inside the Box, authors Victor Prince and Mike Figliuolo provide a proven method to achieve performance excellence in the teams that you lead. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Mike Figliuolo, Victor Prince
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Leadership Growth Through Crisis: An Investigation of Leader Development During Tumultuous CircumstancesThis book uses a biblical lens to explore how to lead effectively and grow in a crisis situation. The chapters examine topics such as communicating through crisis, developing organizations and leaders through crisis, personal crisis and leadership development, and ethics and morality in crisis.
By Bruce E. Winston
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Leadership In Disruptive TimesThis book provides insights into an understanding of disruptive leadership. It explores the key success factors for digital transformation of organizations in the highly disruptive, increasingly VUCA-driven era of the Fourth Industrial Revolution.
By Sattar Bawany
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Leadership in Disruptive Times: Negotiating the New Balance, Second EditionThis revised edition of Leadership in Disruptive Times will provide insights into these questions and serve as a guide for leaders in managing near-insurmountable challenges both now and for the future.
By Sattar Bawany
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Leadership Psychology: How the BEST Leaders Inspire Their PeopleBy analyzing and and evaluating exclusive information gained through in-depth interviews with the most highly regarded leaders of winning organizations, this book enables leaders to achieve greater success for themselves and their organizations by providing a better understanding of the psychological relationships at play within working environments.
By Alan Cutler
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Leadership: In Turbulent TimesDoris Kearns Goodwin provides a comprehensive look at how true leaders are able to rise above themselves and lead even in times of utmost crises. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Doris Kearns Goodwin
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Leading a Customer-Focused Organisation: Finding, Attracting and Retaining BusinessThe My Practical MBA Series provides the latest thinking as well as perennial techniques for a range of business challenges. This concise guide explains how being customer-focused enables you to continuously strive to meet your customers' requirements and secure your organization's long-term survival, growth and profitability.
By LID Editorial
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Leading Across New Borders: How to Succeed as the Center ShiftsFeaturing direct input from people in critical roles around the world, advice based on deep practical experience, and new data that identifies the distinctive challenges of leading in an environment that's becoming more thoroughly interdependent every day, this insightful guide will help you you work more effectively at the self, team, and organizational levels, so you can get things done and grow your business.
By Christie Caldwell, Ernest Gundling, Karen Cvitkovich
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Leading Clarity: The Breakthrough Strategy to Unleash People, Profit and PerformanceOffering a proven blueprint for creating clarity, this book takes you beyond understanding the strengths and weaknesses of individuals and teams, and guides you through a dynamic process that unveils what is most critical and most enduring about your business.
By Brad Deutser
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Leading Outside the Lines: How to Mobilize the (in)Formal Organization, Energize Your Team and Get Better ResultsLeading Outside the Lines uses relatable real-life examples to give readers ideas on how to change their organization at both the informal and formal level. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Jon R. Katzenbach, Zia Khan
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Leading Through Leaders: Driving Strategy, Execution and ChangeProviding unique insights into 'effective leadership' in some of the world's best known enterprises, this essential book presents an integrated suite of proven and durable principles and tools, and the leadership psychology, that may be adapted and used by any leader.
By Jeremy Tozer
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Leveraging Emotional and Artificial Intelligence for Organisational PerformanceThis book takes a fresh stance and views EI and AI as services that are provided by service employees and machines as organisational offerings to customers. As emotional intelligence (EI) and artificial intelligence (AI) have been cited to have broad effects on individuals, businesses and beyond, this book is focused on the organisational context, specifically how they affect employees and customers from a marketing perspective.
By Catherine Prentice
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Liquidity Risk Management: A Practitioner's PerspectiveAuthored by a team of industry leaders from the Price Waterhouse Coopers Financial Services Regulatory Practice, this book pulls back the curtain on a global approach to liquidity risk management in the post-financial crisis.
By Shyam Venkat, Stephen Baird
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Liquidity Risk: Managing Funding and Asset Risk, Second EditionEssential reading for those interested in effectively managing liquidity risks, this thorough resource reflects on the current thinking and ideas to provide a roadmap on the new rules, regulations and governance processes for sound liquidity risk management.
By Erik Banks
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Low-Hanging Fruit: 77 Eye-Opening Ways to Improve Productivity and ProfitsIf you think you don't have the resources to be faster, better, and more profitable, think again. Whether you are a member of a small team or an executive of a multinational company, this practical book will teach you how to identify and solve hidden problems.
By Jeremy Eden, Terri Long
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Lukaszewski On Crisis Communication: What Your CEO Needs to Know About Reputation Risk and Crisis ManagementGet crisis-ready NOW! Learn from the master exactly what to do when the whole world is watching: Stop creating victims; Communicate effectively with all stakeholders; Prevent lawsuits; and Reduce the negative impact of media hounds and activists.
By James E. Lukaszewski
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Lukaszewski on Crisis Communication:What Your CEO Needs to Know About Reputation Risk and Crisis ManagementLukaszewski on Crisis Communication provides an understanding of the importance of communication in times of crisis and tips to help you understand, plan for, and manage all forms of crises. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By James E. Lukaszewski
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Making Strategy Work: Leading Effective Execution and ChangeMaking Strategy Work is ideal for today's goal-oriented managers who wish to accomplish organizational change. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Lawrence G. Hrebiniak
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Management and Governance of Networks: Franchising, Cooperatives, and Strategic AlliancesHighlighting research in the economics and management of networks as an interdisciplinary field, this book offers new theoretical and empirical perspectives on the management, governance, ownership and control of cooperatives, franchising networks and strategic alliances.
By George W. J. Hendrikse, Gérard Cliquet, Josef Windsperger, Thomas Ehrmann
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Management and Performance in Mission Driven OrganizationsThis book aims at synthesising the theoretical frameworks and evidence that has flourished over the past decades in order to advance the scholarly debate and the implications for practice in the domains of performance management, information systems, investments strategies, people administration, and change and innovation.
By Paola Cantarelli
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Management Design: Managing People And Organizations In Turbulent Times, 3rd EditionThis book offers an exciting visual-thinking approach to help managers, leaders and entrepreneurs think through their options and find a way that best meets the needs of their businesses, that supports their talent to perform at their peak, and simultaneously builds the capabilities to cope with turbulent times.
By Lukas Michel
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Managing Business Risk: A Practical Guide to Protecting Your Business, 10th EditionExamining the key areas of risk in today's competitive and complex business market, this book draws on expert advice from leading risk consultants, lawyers and regulatory authorities to explain how to protect a business from a rising tide of business risks.
By Jonathan Reuvid (ed)
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Managing Business Risk: A Practical Guide to Protecting Your Business, Ninth EditionDrawing on expert advice from leading risk consultants, lawyers and regulatory authorities, this book shows companies how to maintain controls on risks that may threaten their business while at the same time delivering transparent reporting to their stakeholders.
By Jonathan Reuvid (ed)
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Managing Business Risk: Avoiding Problems and Maximising ProfitabilityThe My Practical MBA Series provides the latest thinking as well as perennial techniques for a range of business challenges. This concise guide explains to leaders that taking steps to ensure that the risks resulting from their decisions should be measured ones, with the likely consequences well understood.
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Managing Emergencies and Crises: Global Perspectives, Second EditionManaging Emergencies and Crises: Global Perspectives, Second Edition clearly and comprehensively explores the most important concepts of emergency and crisis management (such as mitigation, protection, prevention, preparedness, response, recovery, vulnerability and risk assessment) and illustrates them with cases involving disasters and emergencies worldwide.
By Abdul-Akeem Sadiq, Alpaslan Özerdem, Naim Kapucu
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Managing Extreme Financial Risk: Strategies and Tactics for Going ConcernsReadable, coherent, and logical, this plain-English guide shows how extreme risk needs to be handled when the cost of being wrong means the difference between life and death of the institution.
By Karamjeet Paul
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Managing Workplace Health and Wellbeing during a Crisis: How to Support your Staff in Difficult TimesThis book is a practical guide for all HR professionals and those responsible for talent management.
By Cary Cooper, Ian Hesketh
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Managing Your Nonprofit for Resilience: Use Lean Risk Management to Improve Performance and Increase Employee EngagementA hands-on risk management playbook for nonprofit leaders, funders, and advisors
By Ted Bilich
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Mapping the Risks and Risk Management Practices in Islamic BankingWith recommendations for policy makers, bankers, and industry stakeholders, this insightful book provides a comprehensive analysis of the current state of risk management practices within the Islamic banking industry.
By Mehmet Asutay, Wael Kamal Eid
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Mastering Leadership: An Integrated Framework for Breakthrough Performance and Extraordinary Business ResultsOffering a blueprint for a brand-new leadership skillset, which unlocks record-breaking results through prioritizing personal development, Mastering Leadership is a rousing invitation to embark on a journey of self-development. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Robert J. Anderson, William A. Adams
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Measuring Impact: Using Data to Understand Learning ProgramsMeasuring Impact: Using Data to Understand Learning Programs draws on a sample of 222 talent development professionals to investigate key questions about measuring the impact of learning programs, provide benchmarking data, and highlight best practices.
By ATD Research
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Measuring Leadership Development: Quantify Your Program's Impact and ROI on Organizational PerformanceIllustrated with colorful case studies from some of the world's best-known companies, this one-of-a-kind book gives talent managers a full toolkit for presenting their leadership development programs in terms of identifiable business benefits.
By Jack Phillips, Patricia Pulliam Phillips, Rebecca L. Ray
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Measuring the Success of Organization Development: A Step-by-Step Guide for Measuring Impact and Calculating ROIMeasuring the Success of Organization Development explain how a strong working knowledge of ROI can aid in the creation and assessment of the OD process. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Jack J. Phillips, Lizette Zuniga, Patricia Pulliam Phillips
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MIT Sloan Management Review Article on How to Come Back Stronger From Organizational TraumaTraumatic events are destabilizing. In their aftermath, leaders can help individuals and teams recover and grow.
By Payal Sharma
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MIT Sloan Management Review Article on How to Manage Risk (After Risk Management has Failed)This article from MIT Sloan Management Review suggests how the key shortcomings of traditional risk management can be addressed by adopting a more sophisticated alternative - the Bayesian approach.
By Adam Borison, Gregory Hamm
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Motivation and Performance: A Guide to Motivating a Diverse WorkforceFeaturing case studies from a variety of sectors, this book is a practical guide to ensuring that organizations consider all motivators - job security as well as the need for personal growth - to improve employee satisfaction, boost organizational productivity and reduce staff turnover.
By Adrian Furnham, Ian MacRae
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MOVE: How Decisive Leaders Execute Strategy despite Obstacles, Setbacks, and StallsYour guide to mobilizing your whole organization to take your business forward, this practical book identifies the chronic challenges that keep organizations from decisively executing strategy, and gives you a practical game plan for breaking through.
By Patty Azzarello
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Never Bet the Farm: How Entrepreneurs Take Risks, Make Decisions - and How You Can, TooNever Bet the Farm will help you get your business up and running and give you sound advice to assist you in achieving success. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Anthony L. Iaquinto, Stephen Spinelli Jr.
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Never Go with Your Gut: How Pioneering Leaders Make the Best Decisions and Avoid Business DisastersAvoid terrible advice, cognitive biases, and poor decisions.
By Gleb Tsipursky
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No Fear of Failure: Real Stories of How Leaders Deal with Risk and ChangeOffering insightful, candid conversations with some of the world's top leaders in business, politics, education, and philanthropy, this book discusses the risks one must be willing to take, as well as the vision, resilience, and compassion necessary to lead.
By Gary Burnison
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Not Knowing: The Art of Turning Uncertainty into OpportunityOur need for certainty, to know what's going on, to have all the answers, exerts strong pressure in our lives. This book argues that it is by not knowing that we in fact develop an exploratory mindset, and discover, engage, and create new ways to deal with business and management problems and issues.
By Diana Renner, Steven D'Souza
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Objectives and Key Results: Driving Focus, Alignment, and Engagement with OKRsProviding everything you need to implement Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) effectively, this book is your practical resource for designing, planning, implementing, and maintaining your OKRs program for sustainable company-wide success.
By Ben Lamorte, Paul R. Niven
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OKRs for All: Making Objectives and Key Results Work for your Entire OrganizationIn OKR's for All, Objectives and Key Results (OKR) expert Vetri Vellore delivers an impactful and actionable guide on how to use OKRs for more than a quarterly, executive-level review tool.
By Vetri Vellore
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OKRs For DummiesOKRs For Dummies provides you with step-by-step guidance for following in the footsteps of some of the world's leading organizations.
By Paul R. Niven
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Operational Risk Management in Financial Services: A Practical Guide to Establishing Effective SolutionsThis book guides you through Technology failures, data loss, issues with providers of outsourced services, misconduct and mis-selling and context effective operational risk management is, simply, a commercial necessity.
By Elena Pykhova
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Operational Risk Management: Best Practices in the Financial Services IndustryDrawing on the author's extensive experience working with and advising financial companies, this authoritative resource is written both for those new to the discipline and for experienced operational risk managers who want to strengthen and consolidate their knowledge.
By Ariane Chapelle
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Optimizing Data-to-Learning-to-Action: The Modern Approach to Continuous Performance Improvement for BusinessesPresenting a powerful new approach that ensures continuous performance improvement for your business, this book will show you how to determine and value the people, process, and technology-based solutions that will optimize your organization's data-to-learning-to-action processes.
By Steven Flinn
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Organizational Risk Management: Managing for Uncertainty and AmbiguityThis volume will oftentimes challenge the expectation for and utility of clarity in crisis situations, thereby favoring uncertainty and ambiguity as the necessary conditions to exploit organizational risk and explore opportunities that rely on interpretation, learning, and knowledge among individuals.
By Cliff W. Scott, Krista N. Engemann, Kurt J. Engemann
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Overworked and Overwhelmed: [The Mindfulness Alternative]Overworked and Overwhelmed skillfully introduces the concept of working more deliberately and in a manner that's focused rather than trying to work harder and faster. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Scott Eblin
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People First Leadership: How the Best Leaders Use Culture and Emotion to Drive Unprecedented ResultsPeople First Leadership presents a business model based on establishing a strong organizational culture and managing the emotions involved in running an organization. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Eduardo P. Braun
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People Risk Management: A Practical Approach to Managing the Human Factors that Could Harm Your BusinessUsing case studies and examples, this book demonstrates how crucial people risk management is and offers practical tips and tools for changing the culture and structure of organizations to better align people risks with corporate values.
By Keith Blacker, Patrick McConnell
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People, Risk, and Security: How to Prevent Your Greatest Asset from Becoming Your Greatest LiabilityExplaining why business in the 21st century requires a new understanding of the intersection of risk, security, and human resource management, this book argues that people, risk and security management should be treated as a critically important integrated system.
By Lance Wright
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Performance Appraisal in Modern Employment Relatio: An Interdisciplinary ApproachThis book explores the impact of digitisation on production and organisation models, as well as on the rights and interests of the stakeholders involved.
By Edoardo Ales, Iacopo Senatori, Olga Rymkevich, Tindara Addabbo, Tommaso Fabbri, Ylenia Curzi
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Performance Architecture: The Art and Science of Improving OrganizationsFramed by the Landscape model and supported by other proven models and tools, this cutting-edge resource provides effective structures for anyone who needs to develop their performance improvement skills and knowledge and achieve results.
By Carol Haig, Lynn Kearny, Roger M. Addison
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Performance Dashboards: Measuring, Monitoring, and Managing Your Business, Second EditionProviding tips, techniques, and practical insights, this essential guide provides a strategic road map to help organizations turbo-charge performance management initiatives with dashboard technology to optimize performance and accelerate results.
By Wayne Eckerson
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Performance Management: Integrating Strategy Execution, Methodologies, Risk, and AnalyticsWritten by an internationally recognized expert, speaker, and author on advanced cost management and performance improvement systems, this book offers a compelling overview of the current trends in performance management.
By Gary Cokins
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Playing to Win: How Strategy Really WorksPlaying to Win clearly outlines the right-and wrong-approach to defining and implementing strategy in the business context by providing clear, actionable advice for establishing the framework and processes that must underpin strategic direction and choices. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By A.G. Lafley, Roger L. Martin
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Powerhouse: Insider Accounts into the World's Top High-Performance OrganizationsPowerhouse presents analyses of 12 top performing organizations and the reasons behind their success. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Brian MacNeice, James Bowen
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Powerhouse: Insider Accounts into the World's Top High-Performance OrganizationsBased on the research of a range of industries, this unique book uncovers the performance secrets of some of the most impressive organizations around the world and reveals the key principles they have in common to enable any business to raise their own bar.
By Brian MacNeice, James Bowen
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Practical Enterprise Risk Management: How to Optimize Business Strategies Through Managed Risk TakingBreaking down the theory on enterprise risk management (ERM), this book lifts the lid on the ERM process, helping managers to embed ERM into their organization, reach strategic goals and take more managed risks.
By Liz Taylor
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Practical Methods of Financial Engineering and Risk Management: Tools for Modern Financial ProfessionalsWritten for Wall Street professionals and advanced students, this authoritative guide lays out the core financial engineering and risk management concepts and techniques that real-world practitioners use on a daily basis.
By Rupak Chatterjee
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Predictable Results in Unpredictable TimesPredictable Results in Unpredictable Times presents key principles for steering your organization safely through the pitfalls of the modern economy, by building trust, adding value, following through, and turning fear into results. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Bob Whitman, Breck England, Stephen R. Covey
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Predictable Results in Unpredictable TimesFeaturing four essentials for getting great performance in good times and bad, this book can help companies win regardless of the turbulence of the ride or the shock of overwhelming change.
By Bob Whitman, Breck England, Stephen R. Covey
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Primal Teams: Harnessing the Power of Emotions to Fuel Extraordinary PerformancePrimal Teams opens up a world of possibility for businesses by successfully demonstrating how channeling high-energy emotions can transform your team. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Jackie Barretta
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Principles and Practice of Business Continuity: Tools and Techniques, Second EditionUsing his decades of practical experience, author Jim Burtles walks readers through handling any contingency, and explains how to bring people together to win executive support, create a Business Continuity Plan, organize response teams, and recover from the disruption, using simple, step-by-step actions and real-world examples to give you the confidence to get the job done.
By Jim Burtles
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Proactive Risk Management: Controlling Uncertainty in Product DevelopmentProactive Risk Management presents a practical and thought-provoking approach to managing risk, which dives deep into the causes of risk while outlining how to address the issues that arise. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Guy M. Merritt, Preston G. Smith
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Profiling The Fraudster: Removing the Mask to Prevent and Detect FraudShowing you how to recognize the characteristics and behavioral patterns of potential fraudsters who are entrusted with safeguarding corporate assets, this book takes a step-by-step approach beyond the Fraud Triangle to identify characteristics in potential fraudsters, employees and new hires that will sound alarm bells before they get their hands on your organization's assets.
By Simon Padgett
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Putting Management Back Into Performance: A Handbook for Managers and SupervisorsSetting out seven strategies for effective performance management, this book provides practical approaches to meeting the needs of your own system while using the process in a way that is positive for your business and your people.
By James Webb
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Quantitative Financial Risk Management: Theory and PracticePresenting an essential guide for quantitative analysts, financial professionals, and academic scholars, this invaluable text delivers the information, tools, techniques, and most current research in the critical field of risk management.
By Constantin Zopounidis, Emilios Galariotis
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Questions That Get Results: Innovative Ideas Managers Can Use to Improve Their Teams' PerformanceProfiling several managers struggling to communicate, this innovative and powerful book offers practical tools to help you increase your effectiveness by asking the right questions in order to bring out the best in your employees for improved, sustained performance.
By Patrick Connor, Paul Cherry
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Quiet Leadership: Six Steps to Transforming Performance at Work: Help People Think Better- Don't Tell Them What to Do!Offering a practical, six-step guide to making permanent workplace performance change, this book will help you unleash higher productivity, new levels of morale, and greater job satisfaction.
By David Rock
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Radical Business Model Transformation: Gaining the Competitive Edge in a Disruptive WorldFor leaders who want to seize the opportunity of new business models and gain a competitive advantage, this step-by-step guide explains how to assess the status quo, identify the value of future business models and develop a transformation path.
By Alexander Zimmermann, Carsten Linz, Günter Müller-Stewens
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Research Anthology on Business Continuity and Navigating Times of CrisisThe Research Anthology on Business Continuity and Navigating Times of Crisis discusses the strategies, cases, and research surrounding business continuity throughout crises such as pandemics. This book analyzes business operations and the state of the economy during times of crisis and the leadership involved in recovery.
By Information Resources Management Association
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Reshoring of Manufacturing: Drivers, Opportunities, and ChallengesAn examination of key aspects of the increasingly important phenomenon of reshoring, this book aims to equip readers with a full understanding of the current extent of reshoring, its drivers, and the associated opportunities and challenges.
By Alessandra Vecchi (ed)
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Responsible Management: Corporate Responsibility and Working LifeDrawing on experience from the Workplace Innovation movement, this engaging, thought-provoking book takes a critical view on corporate practice, governmental action and the general approach to Corporate Social Responsibility.
By Richard Ennals
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Responsible Managers Get Results: How the Best Find Solutions, Not ExcusesResponsible Managers Get Results articulates the crucial skills to be a responsible manager in the business world, and provides the tools to make this a reality. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Gerald W. Faust, Richard I. Lyles, Will Phillips
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Results That Last: Hardwiring Behaviors That Will Take Your Company to the TopResults That Last is a carefully crafted, step-by-step manual for senior administrators or business owners who want to make successful business strategies a permanent part of their infrastructure. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Quint Studer
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Revolutionizing IT: The Art of Using Information Technology EffectivelyRevolutionizing IT removes some of the mystery from IT by approaching its effective use in a language that anyone can understand. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By David H. Andrews, Kenneth R. Johnson
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Reward Management: A Practical Introduction, Second EditionDrawing on case studies, reflective questions and practical tools, this book is a practical guide to understanding and implementing successful reward strategies which are aligned with broader HR and organizational objectives.
By Michael Rose
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Rise Above CrisisPresenting three books by author, James Allen, this practical compilation reveals profound insight and wisdom that will inspire, comfort, and motivate all readers.
By James Allen
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Risk Analysis, Second EditionPresenting an accessible and concise guide to performing risk analysis in a wide variety of fields, with minimal prior knowledge required, this book provides clear recommendations and guidance in the planning, execution anduse of risk analysis.
By Terje Aven
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Risk Assessment: A Practical Guide to Assessing Operational Risks, 2nd EditionNow in full color, the book includes interactive exercises, links, videos, and online risk assessment tools that can be immediately applied by working practitioners.
By Bruce D. Hollcroft, Bruce K. Lyon, Georgi Popov
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Risk Assessment: Theory, Methods, and ApplicationsWith its balanced coverage of theory and applications along with standards and regulations, this book serves as a practical guide to current risk analysis and risk assessment, emphasizing the possibility of sudden, major accidents across various areas of practice.
By Marvin Rausand
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Risk Assessment: Tools, Techniques, and Their Applications, Second EditionIncluding expanded case studies and real-life examples, this authoritative resource guides the reader through a risk assessment and shows them the proper tools to be used at the various steps in the process.
By Cheryl A. Wilhelmsen, Lee T. Ostrom
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Risk ManagementA straightforward guide to the practice and the benefits of good risk management, this book offers a practical and structured approach while avoiding jargon, theory, and many of the complex issues that preoccupy risk management practitioners but have little relevance for non-specialists.
By Paul Hopkin
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Risk Management Applications in Pharmaceutical and Biopharmaceutical ManufacturingFeaturing contributions from leading international experts in risk management and drug manufacturing, this expertly written and organized resource sets forth a solid foundation in risk management concepts and then explains how these concepts are applied to drug manufacturing.
By A. Hamid Mollah, Harold S. Baseman (eds), Mike Long
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Risk Management for Nonprofit OrganizationsThis book positions risk management as a key element in successfully managing a nonprofit organization. Risk management in nonprofits has several unique characteristics that distinguish it from risk management in for-profit organizations.
By Omer Livvarcin, Rick Nason
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Risk Management in Banking, Fourth EditionProviding a thorough reference to the most current state of the industry, with complete information and expert guidance, this book has been streamlined for easy navigation and reflects the changes in the field, while remaining comprehensive and detailed in approach and coverage.
By Joël Bessis
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Risk Management in Public AdministrationWith a particular reference to the public financial sector, this book draws on financial, economic, and management theory in its exploration of the theory underlying risk and risk management at both micro- and macroeconomic levels.
By Konrad Raczkowski
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Risk Management in Trading: Techniques to Drive Profitability of Hedge Funds and Trading DesksOffering a comprehensive resource for understanding financial risk management, this accessible resource gives investors a hands-on guide to the strategies and techniques professionals rely on to minimize risk and maximize profits.
By Sankar Krishnan
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Risk Management: Concepts and Guidance, Fifth EditionRisk Management provides an in-depth look at risk in the project management environment, and supplies a variety of practical techniques that can be used to ensure project success. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Carl L. Pritchard
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Risk Management: Concepts and Guidance, Fifth EditionSupplying comprehensive coverage of risk management tools, practices, and protocols, this essential guide presents powerful techniques that can enhance organizational risk identification, assessment, and management-all within the project and program environments.
By Carl L. Pritchard
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Risk Management: Foundations For a Changing Financial WorldFor financial analysts, money managers, and others in the finance industry, this book offers an in-depth understanding of the critical topics and issues in risk management that are most important to today's investment professionals.
By Walter V. Haslett Jr.
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Risk Maturity Models: How to Assess Risk Management EffectivenessRisk Maturity Models discusses what risk maturity models are and how you can implement the most effective one to protect your company and increase its profits. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Domenic Antonucci
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Risk Maturity Models: How to Assess Risk Management EffectivenessCombining proven practice and insight with realistic practitioner scenarios, this is essential reading for every risk, project, audit and board professional who wants to move their organization up the risk maturity curve.
By Domenic Antonucci
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Risk-Based Thinking: Managing the Uncertainty of Human Error in OperationsWritten for executives, senior managers, and line managers responsible for the day-to-day field operation of high-hazard facilities, this book provides a logical, yet efficient approach for managing the ever-present risk of human error.
By Tony Muschara
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Riskwork: Essays on the Organizational Life of Risk ManagementConnecting the analysis of risk studies with critical themes in organization studies, this collection of essays deals with the situated management of risk in a wide variety of organizational settings.
By Michael Power
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Risky Business: Psychological, Physical and Financial Costs of High Risk Behavior in OrganizationsProviding perspective on behaviors such as gambling, drug use, addiction to work, theft and corruption, and aggression and violence, this book examines implications to employee and organizational health within the context of the workplace environment.
By Cary L. Cooper (eds), Ronald J. Burke
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Rocket: Eight Lessons to Secure Infinite GrowthRocket reveals the intelligent, strategic, and astonishing decisions behind the genesis of exceptional brands. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Dylan Bolden, Michael J. Silverstein, Rohan Sajdeh, Rune Jacobsen
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Scaling Up Excellence: Getting to More Without Settling for LessBased on extensive research and insightful case studies, Scaling Up Excellence comprehensively addresses the problems faced by businesses as they grow in size and geographic market presence. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Huggy Rao, Robert I. Sutton
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Seizing the White Space: Business Model Innovation for Growth and RenewalSeizing the White Space hands today's executives the key to unlocking potential for growth. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Mark W. Johnson
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Selling to the C-Suite: What Every Executive Wants You to Know About Successfully Selling to the TopBased on in-depth interviews with executive-level decision makers of more than 500 organizations, this revealing book provides field-tested techniques to put you well ahead of the competition when it comes to making those multi-million dollar sales.
By Nicholas A.C. Read, Stephen J. Bistritz
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Selling Your Expertise: The Mindset, Strategies, and Tactics of Successful RainmakersThis book condenses Chen's first-hand experience and over 40 years of Exec-Comm's best sales advice, along with interviews featuring other successful rainmakers from a variety of professions and industries.
By Robert Chen
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Seven Disciplines of a Leader: How to Help Your People, Team, and Organization Achieve Maximum EffectivenessA great leader makes everyone shine, and provides the vision, the tools, and the support people need to do their very best work. This comprehensive book describes how it's done, and how greatness can be learned.
By Jeff Wolf, Ken Shelton
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Seven Strategy Questions: A Simple Approach for Better ExecutionSeven Strategy Questions identifies the questions you should ask yourself and ask others to lay the groundwork for successful strategy implementation. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Robert Simons
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Seven Strategy Questions: A Simple Approach for Better ExecutionDrawing on decades of research into performance management systems and organization design, this concise guide helps you reexamine the unspoken assumptions underlying your strategy and analyze how it's implemented through your business processes and structures.
By Robert Simons
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Shift: Transform Motion into Progress in BusinessIn Shift: Transform Motion into Progress in Business, Chief Strategy and Marketing Officers at Merkle and dentsu offer business leaders a practical and coherent approach to creating the consistently exceptional customer experience that would set their business apart from the competition.
By Azlan Raj, Richard Lees
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Simply Brilliant: How Great Organizations Do Ordinary Things In Extraordinary WaysSimply Brilliant challenges the reader to stop thinking small and to boldly grab success. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By William C. Taylor
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Simulation Techniques in Financial Risk Management, Second EditionWith more than 300 exercises at the end of each chapter, an extensive use of examples, and practical case studies, this useful resource takes a unique approach to the field of simulations by focusing on techniques necessary in of finance and risk management.
By Hoi Ying Wong, Ngai Hang Chan
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Small and Medium-Sized Enterprise (SME) Resilience: Strategies for Risk and Crisis ManagementThis book explores this situation by addressing risk management for SMEs holistically with a focus on continuous learning and the development of dynamic capabilities to increase resilience.
By Susanne Durst, Thomas Henschel
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Small Business Management: A Road Map for Survival During CrisisThis book was inspired by the significant problems that small and medium enterprises faced during the last huge global financial crisis.
By Dan Nordqvist, Rick Nason
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Smart Working: Creating the Next WaveExamining current workplace trends relating to people, technology, place and space, this book reviews what we already know about effective management and high performance work methods and shows how those insights can be used to advantage in contemporary workscapes.
By Anne Marie McEwan
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Starting Points: Intellectual and Institutional Foundations of Organization TheoryFor all of those who wish to understand the trajectory of this important subject, this book reviews the first 120 years of organization theory, examining its development from the sociology of organizations and management theory.
By Bob Hinings, Renate E. Meyer
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Strategic Analytics: Advancing Strategy Execution and Organizational EffectivenessEffective analytics is a team sport. This insightful book offers an approach that will allow you to get the deepest insights by bringing people together from both the business and HR perspectives to assess what's going on and determine the right solution.
By Alec Levenson
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Strategic Healthcare Management: Planning and ExecutionThrough cases, examples, and assignments, this practical book comprehensively explores the planning, management, and implementation of mission-driven healthcare strategy.
By Stephen L. Walston
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Strategic Healthcare Management: Planning and Execution, Second EditionThrough topical and timely case studies that depict strategic challenges healthcare leaders commonly face, this book provides both the theoretical concepts and the practical tools leaders need to make better strategic decisions.
By Stephen L. Walston
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Strategic Internal Communication: How to Build Employee Engagement and PerformanceDemonstrating how communication is a key factor in breaking down barriers, this important book looks at the relation between the traditional silos of internal organizational communication, HR and employee engagement.
By David Cowan
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Strategic Risk Management: A Practical Guide to Portfolio Risk ManagementWith a strong focus on risk management at the time of asset allocation and at the time of implementation, this comprehensive and easy-to-read guide identifies the primary risks investors face and reveals how best to manage them.
By David Iverson
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Strategic Risk Management: Designing Portfolios and Managing RiskThis book provides readers with a new framework for portfolio design that includes defensive strategies, drawdown risk controls, volatility targeting, and actively timing rebalancing trades. You will learn about how the book's new approach to risk management fared during the recent market drawdown at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic.
By Campbell R. Harvey, Otto Van Hemert, Sandy Rattray
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Strategic Risk Management: New Tools for Competitive Advantage in an Uncertain AgePresenting a new approach to risk management, this book enables executives to think systematically and strategically about future risks and deal proactively with threats to their competitive advantages in an ever more volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous world.
By Emanuel V. Lauria, John Bugalla, Kristina Narvaez, Paul C. Godfrey
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Strategic Talent Development: Develop and Engage All Your People for Business SuccessHelping managers develop talent for the future, this book teaches you how to encourage an organizational culture that is collaborative and innovative, direct and coordinate your people to encourage flexibility and rapid responses, and actively harness employee engagement.
By Janice Caplan
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Stretch: How to Future-Proof Yourself for Tomorrow's WorkplaceStretch, by Karie Willyerd and Barbara Mistick offers a guide to navigating an ever-changing workplace where relevancy is the defining factor. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Barbara Mistick, Karie Willyerd
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SuperTeams: Using the Principles of RESPECT to Unleash Explosive Business PerformanceFilled with assessment questions, mini quizzes, and hands-on exercises, this engaging guide reveals an exciting new system for creating the kinds of teams that transform organizations.
By Clinton Wingrove, Paul L. Marciano
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Supply Chain Risk Management: How to Design and Manage Resilient Supply Chains, Third EditionUsing case studies and recent, topical examples, this book is a practical learning tool which offers a comprehensive framework to understanding risk and how to engineer resilience into the supply chain.
By John Manners-Bell
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Surviving a Downturn: Leading in AdversityThe My Practical MBA Series provides the latest thinking as well as perennial techniques for a range of business challenges. This book provides a checklist that will help you and your business find firm ground in a business downturn.
By LID Editorial
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Systemic Risk: A Practitioner's Guide to Measurement, Management and AnalysisProviding a wide-ranging guide to systemic risk in the financial system, this book describes how regulators and governments are seeking to manage systemic risk, and how their concerns are driving change in regulatory and business environments across the financial sector.
By Malcolm H. D. Kemp
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Talent Intelligence: Use Business and People Data to Drive Organizational PerformanceUse this practical guide to understand what talent intelligence is and how to use it to make evidence-based organizational decisions and add business value.
By Toby Culshaw
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Taming the Risk Hurricane: Preparing for Significant Business DisruptionA leading expert on risk management describes how to steer your company through a "risk hurricane"-the extreme risk exposure that can lead to major disruption for your business.
By David Hillson
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Team Leadership in High-Hazard Environments: Performance, Safety and Risk Management Strategies for Operational TeamsDrawing on techniques and models developed from Crew Resource Management, human factors, risk management, as well as more traditional HR management disciplines, this book describes how work systems and work environments may be designed or shaped so that teams are placed in a position to do their optimal work, maximizing the potential for human and team performance.
By Randy E. Cadieux
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The 3 Keys to Empowerment: Release the Power Within People for Astonishing ResultsThe 3 Keys to Empowerment delves into specific ways of changing your typical hierarchical organization into a business where every employee feels motivated to help your business to succeed. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Alan Randolph, John C. Carlos, Ken Blanchard
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The 30 Day MBA: Your Fast Track Guide to Business Success, 3rd EditionIn The 30 Day MBA, author Colin Barrow provides you with the key skills you need to fast-track your way to MBA success. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Colin Barrow
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The 31 Practices: Release the Power of Your Organization's Values Every DayDrawing its principles from psychology, sociology, philosophy, neuroscience, and leadership, this book shows how an organization's values and brand can be translated into the daily practices and behaviour of their employees, drawing a golden thread from the boardroom to the front-line customer experience.
By Alan Williams, Alison Whybrow
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The 4 Disciplines of Execution: Achieving Your Wildly Important GoalsIn The 4 Disciplines of Execution, Authors Chris McChesney, Sean Covey, and Jim Huling reveal the four essential principles that help individuals and organizations realize their most important goals. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Chris McChesney, Jim Huling, Sean Covey
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The 5 Steps to Peak Performance: The Secret to Overcoming Limiting BeliefsHelping you learn the primary beliefs essential to all ongoing success, this thoughtful resource gives you proven strategies for rapidly breaking through limiting beliefs so you feel great, while boosting your confidence and self-esteem.
By Larry Iverson
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The 80/20 Principle and 92 Other Powerful Laws of NatureDesigned to promote the "science of success" within the ever-changing world of business, this book explains why some companies seem to find success everywhere they turn, while others don't make progress.
By Richard Koch
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The Achievement Habit: Stop Wishing, Start Doing and Take Command of Your LifeThe Achievement Habit takes a good, hard look at many of the obstacles in our lives, and offers insight on how to overcome ego to make dreams a reality. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Bernard Roth
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The Adversity Advantage: Turning Everyday Struggles Into Everyday GreatnessThe Adversity Advantage synergizes the inspiring true story of the world's foremost blind athlete with a thorough academic analysis of steps any individual can use to overcome seemingly insurmountable adversity. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Erik Weihenmayer , Paul Stoltz
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The Agile Leader: How to Create an Agile Business in the Digital AgeIn The Agile Leader, author Simon Hayward explains how an agile way of working makes an entire organization more adaptable, allowing it to survive-and thrive-in the volatile modern economy. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Simon Hayward
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The Agile Leader: How to Create an Agile Business in the Digital AgeWith globally diverse and exciting case studies from top businesses, this invaluable book exposes how leaders can safely guide their teams to organizational stability and prosperity through agile leadership and building an agile culture.
By Simon Hayward
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The Agile Organization: How to Build an Engaged, Innovative and Resilient Business, Second editionPacked with helpful checklists, tips and advice, this go-to guide is a practical blueprint to building both agility and resilience at individual, team and organizational levels.
By Linda Holbeche
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The Agility Factor: Building Adaptable Organizations for Superior PerformanceRevealing the factors that drive long-term profitability based on the practices of successful companies that have consistently outperformed their peers, this book offers offers specific, research-based case studies to help organizational leaders use agility to achieve sustained profitability and performance while also becoming more adaptable to a changing marketplace.
By Christopher G. Worley, Edward E. Lawler, III, Thomas Williams
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The Art of Business ValuePlayful and thought-provoking, this book examines the role of business value in software and makes a compelling case for why a clear understanding of business value will change the way you deliver software.
By Mark Schwartz
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The Art of Modern Sales Management: Driving Performance in a Connected WorldSketching out a blueprint for managing performance in a changing sales landscape, this book will prepare sales managers for modern day sales efforts by plugging into today's successful sales development professionals who have towering strengths and are willing to share what they know.
By Renie McClay
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The Automation Advantage: Embrace the Future of Productivity and Improve Speed, Quality, and Customer Experience Through AIThis book goes beyond optimizing process to using AI to transform almost any business activity in any industry to make it faster, more streamlined, cost efficient, and customer-focused-vastly improving overall productivity and performance.
By Bhaskar Ghosh, Gayathri Pallail, J. Rajendra Prasad
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The Black Swan Problem: Risk Management Strategies for a World of Wild UncertaintyIn The Black Swan Problem: Risk Management Strategies for a World of Wild Uncertainty, renowned risk and finance expert Håkan Jankensgård delivers an extraordinary and startling discussion of how firms should navigate a world of uncertainty and unexpected events.
By Hakan Jankensgard
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The Business Ethics Twin-Track: Combining Controls and Culture to Minimise Reputational RiskPresenting a deep exploration of the concept of reputation, the ways in which it can suffer, and the consequences when it does, this book outlines an ethics controls framework that can mitigate risk and improve business performance.
By Steve Giles
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The Business Value of Developer Relations: How and Why Technical Communities are Key to Your SuccessFeaturing interviews with Developer Relations professionals from many successful companies, this book lays out principles that will walk you through your company goals and help you discover how you can formulate a plan tailored to your specific needs.
By Mary Thengvall
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The Business-Minded CISCO: How to Organize, Evangelize, and Operate an Enterprise-wide IT Risk Management ProgramThis book describes the thought process and specific activities a leader should consider as they interview for the IT risk/information security leader role, what they should do within their first 90 days, and how to organize, evangelize, and operate the program once they are into the job.
By Bryan C. Kissinger
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The Cadbury Code and Recurrent Crisis: A Model for Corporate Governance?This book raises questions about a hallmark mechanism of corporate governance - the use of codes of practice.
By Donald Nordberg
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The CEO of Technology: Lead, Reimagine, and Reinvent to Drive Growth and Create Value in Unprecedented TimesShowing today's CIOs how to become exceptional leaders and bring value to their organization, this book presents interviews with top executives at leading global technology companies to provide deep and valuable insight into what it means to lead in a hyper-driven tech environment.
By Hunter Muller
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The CIO's Guide to RiskWith its checklists, templates, and worksheets, this indispensable reference addresses the many faces of risk, whether it be in systems development, adoption of bleeding edge tech, the push for innovation, and even the march toward all things social media.
By Jessica Keyes
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The Cleveland Clinic Way: Lessons in Excellence from One of the World's Leading Health Care OrganizationsPresenting a refreshingly positive and practical vision of healthcare, this groundbreaking book gives leaders lessons they can apply to their own organizations to achieve results, and empowers average Americans to make more informed healthcare decisions.
By Toby Cosgrove
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The Commando Way: Extraordinary Business ExecutionDrawing on lessons from the military and corporate worlds, this book provides the compelling evidence that the commando way works in business, and it gives the corporate leaders of today and tomorrow insight, guidance, and the prospect of more effective business execution.
By Damian McKinney
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The Conscious Leader: 9 Principles and Practices to Create a Wide-Awake and Productive WorkplaceProviding the principles and practices necessary for conscious leadership which you can immediately apply in your organizations, this jargon-free book describes the nine most fundamental but often neglected truths about human beings and their workplace behavior.
By Shelley Reciniello
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The Crowdsourced Performance Review: How to Use the Power of Social Recognition to Transform Employee PerformanceShowing you how to create a review system that gathers the feedback of many, so you can make better, more informed decisions, this book provides the key to seizing your company's competitive edge with a new ground-breaking performance management system.
By Eric Mosley
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The Culture Engine: A Framework for Driving Results, Inspiring Your Employees, and Transforming Your WorkplaceShowing leaders how to create a high-performing, values-aligned culture through the creation of an organizational constitution, this practical, step-by-step guide explains how leaders can define their organization's culture, delineate behaviors that contribute to greater performance and greater engagement, and draft a document that codifies those behaviors into a constitution that guides behavior towards a safe, inspiring workplace.
By S. Chris Edmonds
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The Curriculum: Everything You Need to Know to Be a Master of Business ArtsThe Curriculum uses a humorous approach to deliver hard-hitting truths about what it really takes to excel in business. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Stanley Bing
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The Daily Edge: Simple Strategies to Increase Efficiency and Make an Impact Every DayIn The Daily Edge, author David Horsager provides you with 35 simple strategies to help you maximize your performance in the office. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By David Horsager
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The Disaster Recovery Handbook: A Step-by-Step Plan to Ensure Business Continuity and Protect Vital Operations, Facilities, and Assets, Third EditionFeaturing an examination of emerging risks, developments in IT networking, and an all-new chapter on information security, this all-in-one tool kit helps you both avoid potential trouble and recover swiftly when the worst occurs.
By Lawrence Webber, Michael Wallace
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The Essentials of Risk Management, Second EditionWritten for risk professionals and non-risk professionals alike, this easy-to-understand guide helps you meet the increasingly insistent demand to make sophisticated assessments of companies' risk exposure.
By Dan Galai, Michel Crouhy, Robert Mark
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The Essentials of Risk Management, Third EditionThe "bible" of risk management-fully updated for an investing landscape dramatically altered by social and technological upheavals
By Dan Galai, Michel Crouhy, Robert Mark
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The Execution Factor: The One Skill that Drives SuccessOffering a straightforward approach to success - deliberately designed in a way that anyone can master, this book is for anyone looking to transform themselves from a "dreamer" to a "doer" and will make you feel like you have a success coach by your side.
By Kim Perell
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The Execution Premium: Linking Strategy to Operations for Competitive AdvantageBuilding on their breakthrough works on strategy-focused organizations, the authors of this informative book describe a multistage system that enables you to gain measurable benefits from your carefully formulated business strategy.
By David P. Norton, Robert S. Kaplan
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The Executive Guide to Enterprise Risk ManagementAvoiding complex modeling topics and unnecessary theory, this practical guide cuts to the heart of the topic, describing what enterprise risk management (ERM) is, why it is important, what constitutes ERM and how it can be implemented to add value to an organization.
By Christopher Chappell
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The Failure of Risk Management: Why It's Broken and How to Fix ItUsing examples from the 2008 credit crisis, natural disasters, outsourcing to China, engineering disasters, and more, this detailed book reveals critical flaws in risk management methods-and shows how all of these problems can be fixed.
By Douglas W. Hubbard
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The Fear-Free Organization: Vital Insights from Neuroscience to Transform Your Business CulturePresenting scientific evidence of the destructive nature of fear in the workplace, this book shows managers new, efficient, cost-effective, healthy ways to restructure and successfully run their businesses based not on fear but on the emotions that create energy and direct cooperation.
By Joan Kingsley, Paul Brown, Sue Paterson
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The Form of the Firm: A Normative Political Theory of the CorporationThe Form of the Firm will reshape our understanding of corporate governance, corporate law, and business ethics.
By Abraham A. Singer
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The Four Intelligences of the Business Mind: How to Rewire Your Brain and Your Business for SuccessThe Four Intelligences of the Business Mind provides a practical methodology to help you improve organizational processes and behaviors and strategize business transformation. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Valeh Nazemoff
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The Four Stages of Highly Effective Crisis Management: How to Manage the Media in the Digital AgeProviding a wealth of helpful tips and tools, this timely guide unveils the secrets of managing the media in a crisis, and examines how rapidly evolving social media and Web 2.0 technologies have changed the crisis management landscape.
By Jane Jordan-Meier
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The Genius of Opposites: How Introverts and Extroverts Achieve Extraordinary Results TogetherThe Genius of Opposites explains how to thrive in an introvert/extrovert business partnership. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Jennifer B. Kahnweiler
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The Handbook of Risk Management: Implementing a Post-Crisis Corporate CultureShowing a firm how to repurpose its risk management, this book also explains how to analyze its risk appetite, translate it into risk policies and risk targets and distribute responsibilities and capabilities accordingly.
By Philippe Carrel
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The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building A Business When There are No Easy AnswersIn The Hard Thing About Hard Things, author Ben Horowitz argues that failure and struggle are part of the reality of the tech startup environment, and he recounts, in his engaging and conversational writing style, the sometimes-painful lessons he had to learn as a young CEO when confronting the utter collapse of his company. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Ben Horowitz
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The Idea-Driven Organization: Unlocking the Power in Bottom-Up IdeasCiting organizations from around the world, this book explains what's needed to put together a management team that can lead the type of organization that embraces grassroots ideas and describes the strategies, policies, and practices that enable them.
By Alan G. Robinson, Dean M. Schroeder
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The Improvement Guide: A Practical Approach to Enhancing Organizational Performance, Second EditionPresenting a practical tool kit of ideas, examples, and applications, this guide offers an integrated approach to process improvement that delivers quick and substantial results in quality and productivity in diverse settings.
By Gerald J. Langley, et al.
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The Knowledge Manager's Handbook: A Step-by-Step Guide to Embedding Effective Knowledge Management in Your OrganizationThe Knowledge Manager's Handbook provides a simple step-by-step guide to how an organization can use the knowledge it has to maximize efficiency and increase performance. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Nick Milton, Patrick Lambe
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The Language of Leaders: How Top CEOs Communicate to Inspire, Influence and Achieve Results, Second EditionBased on interviews with over 60 extraordinary leaders from a wide range business and government sectors, this book provides a unique insight into how they have responded to the demands of a transparent world, reports on what they have learned, and creates a lexicon for successful communication.
By Kevin Murray
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The Leader's Guide to Managing Risk: A Proven Method to Build Resilience and ReliabilityBe prepared for the dangerous and largely unknown risks that threaten your business and learn how to survive and thrive when uncertainty hits.
By K. Scott Griffith
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The Leader's Window: Mastering the Four Styles of Leadership to Build High-Performing Teams, Second EditionMove beyond one-size-fits-all management approaches by using this book's practical methods to redirect your actions as a leader in a focused and purposeful way. It presents a system to help you give your employees what they need when they need it.
By John D.W. Beck, Neil M. Yeager
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The Lean Management Systems HandbookThe Lean Management Systems Handbook shows how to apply Lean concepts to ensure the enhanced performance of your organization. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Frank Voehl, H. James Harrington, Hal Wiggin, Rich Charron
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The Lean Management Systems HandbookComplete with brief summaries and examples of the most important tools in Lean management systems development in each chapter, this book provides a reliable roadmap for deploying a Lean management system across your organization, and subsequently across your entire value stream.
By Frank Voehl, H. James Harrington, Hal Wiggin, Rich Charron
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The Lean Strategy: Using Lean to Create Competitive Advantage, Unleash Innovation, and Deliver Sustainable GrowthIn The Lean Strategy, the authors combine their rich experience with Lean to help you explore novel ways to think about business problems and find innovative solutions. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Daniel Jones, Jacques Chaize, Michael Balle, Orest Fiume
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The Lenovo Way: Managing a Diverse Global Company for Optimal PerformanceShowing business leaders how to gain market share and develop new business models, this powerful book provides key insights into the topics most critical to leaders of global businesses, and shares the strategies of Lenovo's ascent to the leading position in the PC industry.
By Gina Qiao, Yolanda Conyers
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The Light and Fast Organisation: A New Way of Dealing with UncertaintyPresenting a blueprint for organizations looking to thrive in today's rapidly evolving business landscape, this book offers a parallel comparison between business and mountaineering to illustrate the benefits and practicalities of becoming light, fast, and agile, and underscores the importance of self-awareness and self-reliance in minimizing your exposure to risk.
By Patrick Hollingworth
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The Little Book of Results: A Quick Guide to Achieving Big GoalsUsing transformational coaching techniques, examples, exercises and metaphors, this book talks the reader through the three key changes they need to achieve the results they are after and inspire others to do the same.
By Jamie Smart
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The Manager's Employee Engagement ToolboxEmployee engagement has gotten the rap of being something "nice" to do, not something that can produce results. You need to reverse that perception in your organization by becoming an engaged leader yourself. This book will show you how.
By Peter R. Garber
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The Manager's Guide to Business Continuity Exercises: Testing Your PlanProviding useful examples, case studies, and down-to-earth advice, this practical book details the options for conducting a range of tests and exercises to keep your business continuity plan effective and up to date.
By Jim Burtles
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The Manager's Guide to Enterprise Security Risk Management: Essentials of Risk-Based SecurityProviding a wealth of real-world case studies from a wide range of businesses and industries, this book will help you overcome any blocks to acceptance as you design and roll out a new Enterprise Security Risk Management (ESRM)-based security program for your own workplace.
By Brian Allen, Rachelle Loyear
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The Manager's Guide to Risk Assessment: Getting it RightAs a responsible manager, you need to consider threats to your organization's resilience. In this guide, Douglas M. Henderson will help you follow a clearly explained, step-by-step process to conduct a risk assessment.
By Douglas M. Henderson, Kristen Noakes-Fry
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The McKinsey Edge: Success Principles from the World's Most Powerful Consulting FirmThe McKinsey Edge looks at the habits and traits of some great leaders and provides detailed explanations on how to practice these habits and the benefits of doing so. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Shu Hattori
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The Modern Firm: Organizational Design for Performance and GrowthWritten by a leading economist and expert on business strategy and organization, this introspective book develops powerful frameworks for analyzing interrelations between organizational design features, competitive strategy, and the business environment.
By John Roberts
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The New Corporate Facts of Life: Rethink Your Business to Transform Today's Challenges Into Tomorrow's ProfitsThe New Corporate Facts of Life presents the stark choice facing many organizations: either cling to outdated practices or embrace innovative ideas in order to thrive and gain competitive advantage. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Diana Rivenburgh
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The New Leader's 100-Day Action Plan: How to Take Charge, Build Your Team, and Get Immediate Results, Third EditionFor anyone looking to achieve a successful transition into a new leadership role, The New Leader's 100-Day Action Plan is a practical handbook designed to accelerate the success of new leaders and their teams in the first 100 days. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By George B. Bradt, Jayme A. Check, Jorge E. Pedraza
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The New World of Human Resources and Employment: How Artificial Intelligence and Process Redesign is Driving Dramatic ChangeOffering organizations the catalyst for swift change to take strategic advantage of what AI has to offer, this book presents some of the HR processes that can be changed today, suggestions on what's available, and some resources you may wish to use.
By Tony Miller
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The One Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth Behind Extraordinary ResultsThe One Thing uses the adage that "less is more" to develop a revolutionary strategy for business success, involving focused effort and reduced distractions. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Gary Keller, Jay Papasan
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The People Manager's Toolkit: A Practical Guide to Getting the Best From PeopleAvoiding all human resources jargon and complicated management theory, this straightforward, how-to guide offers a suite of practical tools for optimizing staff performance and dealing with a wide variety of "people issues."
By Karen Gately
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The Politics of Crisis Management: Public Leadership Under PressureBased on over a decade of collaborative, cross-national research, this book provides a uniquely comprehensive analysis which examines how leaders deal with the strategic challenges and political risks they face.
By Arjen Boin, Bengt Sundelius, Eric Stern, Paul't Hart
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The Positive Organization: Breaking Free from Conventional Cultures, Constraints, and BeliefsUsing dozens of memorable stories, this book helps leaders to see new possibilities that lie within the acknowledged realities of organizational life, and provides five keys for learning to be "bilingual"--speaking the conventional language of business as well as the language of the positive organization.
By Robert E. Quinn
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The Power of Company Culture: How Any Business Can Build a Culture That Improves Productivity, Performance and ProfitsPacked full of insights from leading practitioners at the forefront of developing outstanding company cultures, this essential resource shows how to develop a company culture that improves productivity, performance, staff retention, company reputation and profits.
By Chris Dyer
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The Power of Professionalism: The Seven Mind-Sets That Drive Performance and Build TrustThe Power of Professionalism makes a compelling case for why, in an age of globalization and high-tech innovation, professionalism remains the single most important attribute that sets individuals and businesses apart from their competition. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Bill Wiersma
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The Risk Management Handbook: A Practical Guide to Managing the Multiple Dimensions of RiskThe Risk Management Handbook provides a comprehensive guide to understanding and handling risk. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By David Hillson (ed)
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The Risk Management Handbook: A Practical Guide to Managing the Multiple Dimensions of RiskDrawing together leading voices from the major risk management application areas - from GRC to supply chain risk, operational risk to cyber risk - this expert guide showcases best practice in each discipline and provides a succinct and coherent picture of the field as a whole.
By David Hillson (ed)
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The Risk Management Handbook: A Practical Guide to Managing the Multiple Dimensions of Risk, Second EditionThe Risk Management Handbook offers readers knowledge of current best practice and cutting-edge insights into new developments within risk management.
By David Hillson
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The Routlege Companion to Risk, Crisis, & Security in BusinessWith chapters written by an international selection of leading experts, this book fills a crucial gap in our current knowledge of risk, crisis and security in business by exploring a broad spectrum of topics in the field.
By Kurt J. Engemann
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The Savvy Manager: 5 Skills That Drive Optimal PerformanceFilled with worksheets, exercises, real time case studies, and reflection sidebars, this book challenges readers to develop five core strengths all great managers possess.
By Jane R. Flagello, Sandra Bernard Dugas
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The Search for Best Practices: Doing the Right Thing the Right WayGeared to those interested in doing the right thing the right way, often in the face of organizational roadblocks, this book is a 'how to' guide to assist management and operations personnel in analyzing their operations in a program of continuous improvements.
By Rob Reider
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The Secret Language of Leadership: How Leaders Inspire Action Through NarrativeWith lucid explanations, vivid examples and practical tips, this book introduces the concept of narrative intelligence and shows why it is key to the central task of leadership, what its dimensions are, and how you can measure it.
By Stephen Denning
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The Simply Lean Pocket Guide: Making Great Organizations Better Through Plan-Do-Check-Act (PDCA) Kaizen ActivitiesIf you are just beginning to adopt Lean or Six Sigma as a business improvement model, this step-by-step book provides the guidance necessary to ensure root causes and wastes are eliminated in creating a Leaner, problem-free process.
By Don Tapping
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The Standard for Risk Management in Portfolios, Programs and ProjectsIdentifying the core principles for risk management, this book describes the fundamentals and the environment within which it is carried out, defines the life cycle, and applies risk management principles to the portfolio, program, and project domains.
By Project Management Institute
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The Strategy of Execution: A Five-Step Guide for Turning Vision into ActionAuthored by business strategy experts, this groundbreaking guide breaks down the process of ensuring that your new strategy translates into measurable profits and growth in five fundamental and profoundly important steps.
By Liz Mellon, Simon Carter
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The Third Opinion: How Successful Leaders Use Outside Insight to Create Superior ResultsThe Third Opinion introduces the emerging concept that every great leader must cultivate advisors outside their organization. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Saj-nicole A. Joni
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The Three Rules: How Exceptional Companies ThinkThe Three Rules demonstrates the analytic discovery of a meta-principle you can apply to improve your odds of making the right call. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Michael E. Raynor, Mumtaz Ahmed
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The Transformation Myth: Leading Your Organization Through Uncertain TimesIn this business bestseller, how companies can adapt in an era of continuous disruption: a guide to responding to such acute crises as COVID-19. Gold Medalist in Business Disruption/Reinvention.
By Anh Nguyen Phillips, Gerald C. Kane, Jonathan R. Copulsky, Rich Nanda
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Thinking Through Crisis: Improving Teamwork and Leadership in High-Risk FieldsBridging the gap between theory and practice, this vivid, well-documented book analyzes the complex dynamics of high-risk fields and demonstrates that teamwork is more important than technical prowess in averting disasters.
By Amy L. Fraher
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Thirteeners: Why Only 13 Percent of Companies Execute Their Strategy - and How Yours Can Be One of ThemThirteeners offers an in-depth look at why 87 percent of companies fail to stick to their strategy, and examines what the 13 percent who manage to realize their strategies well, do differently. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Daniel F. Prosser
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Three Leadership Secrets Revealed: 3-Success Methods to Motivate People to ActionRevealing the secrets that top motivational leaders like Zig Ziglar, Tony Robbins, Oprah, and even Mother Teresa have successfully applied in their lives, this book will help you increase your power, your influence, and your ability to motivate people - starting right now.
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Thriving or Surviving: Why Organisations Succeed: Understanding the Critical Factors for Business SuccessThe My Practical MBA Series provides the latest thinking as well as perennial techniques for a range of business challenges. This book reveals that companies who enjoy enduring success have core values and a purpose that remains fixed, while their business strategies and practices adapt to a changing world.
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TIP: A Simple Strategy to Inspire High Performance and Lasting SuccessThis book is a timeless, inspirational story created to remind anyone in a position judged by performance that the only way to achieve continued recognition and growth in work and life is to take personal accountability for your reputation and results.
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Total Information Risk Management: Maximizing the Value of Data and Information AssetsProviding a step-by-step process to identify, quantify and mitigate the risks arising from poor data and information assets, this book presents all the fundamental concepts, guidelines and tools to ensure core business information is protected and used effectively.
By Ajith K. Parlikad, Alexander Borek, Jela Webb, Philip Woodall
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Trust Factor: The Science of Creating High-Performance CompaniesTrust Factor takes an in-depth look at how to create a high-trust working environment in your organization. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
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Trust Factor: The Science of Creating High-Performance CompaniesPacked with examples from The Container Store, Zappos, and Herman Miller, this thoughtful book harnesses our neurochemistry to effectively cultivate workplaces where trust, joy, and commitment compound naturally.
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Trust, Inc: How to Create a Business Culture That Will Ignite Passion, Engagement, and InnovationFilled with helpful tips, exercises, and insights to create, nurture, and sustain authentic trust in your work group, this book will show you how to design a workplace where engagement, passion, and great work thrives.
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Understand the Cyber Attacker Mindset: Build a Strategic Security Programme to Counteract ThreatsTo counteract a cyber attacker, organizations need to learn to think like one. Understand the Cyber Attacker Mindset explores the psychology of cyber warfare and how organizations can defend themselves against attacks.
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Understanding and Managing Model Risk: A Practical Guide for Quants, Traders and ValidatorsBringing together a wide range of detailed real world examples, quantitative analysis and regulatory issues, this practical and detailed guide provides the right tools to identify, quantify and manage the risks inherent in the use of quantitative models.
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Understanding Systemic Risk in Global Financial MarketsGiving you the perspective and hands-on skillset to effectively monitor and respond to events that can threaten financial stability, this book is your in-depth primer on the core principles and dynamics of systemic risk and provides a real-world approach to managing it.
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Uplifting Leadership: How Organizations, Teams, and Communities Raise PerformanceFeaturing case studies of organizations as diverse as Shoebuy.com, Fiat, Dogfish Head Craft Brewery, Marks & Spencer, Cricket Australia, Burnley Football Club, and the Vancouver Giants, as well as world-leading educational systems, this book provides tools for leaders to incorporate performance-driving strategies into their organizations.
By Alan Boyle, Alma Harris, Andy Hargreaves
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Values Cockpits: Measuring and Steering Corporate CulturesHelping companies to reach their goals and ensure their sustainable economic success, this essential guide links strategic approaches on how to steer a company towards excellence with insights into the driving forces of human thoughts and actions.
By Friedrich Glauner
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We: How to Increase Performance and Profits through Full EngagementAnchored with specific metrics and based on studies of 2 million people, this breakthrough guide sketches the landscape of today's changing job environment and gives managers and individual employees alike a road map to full engagement.
By Kevin Kruse, Rudy Karsan
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Winners Never Cheat: Even in Difficult TimesWinners Never Cheat lays out simple values that are the blueprint for victory in all spheres of life. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Jon M. Huntsman
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Winning Well: A Manager's Guide to Getting Results-Without Losing Your SoulIn Winning Well, authors Karin Hurt and David Dye provide an assortment of techniques to help managers achieve both efficiency and ethics. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By David Dye, Karin Hurt
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Winning: Everyone Wants to Win, Not Everyone Knows HowWinning is a no-nonsense guide on how to navigate the quagmire of the business world, with the goal of emerging successful across all spheres of your life. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
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XVA Desks: A New Era for Risk Management: Understanding, Building and Managing Counterparty, Funding and Capital RiskBeginning with an overview of the role of OTC derivatives in the current banking industry, this in-depth book then goes into the fundamentals of counterparty credit and funding risk, explaining in detail how to build appropriate models.
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Zentrepreneur: Get Out of the Way and Lead-Create a Culture of Innovation and FearlessnessCombining profound spiritual wisdom and emotional intelligence with intellectual capital and the author's 30 years of practical business experience, this book demonstrates a new level of leadership free from self-imposed barriers.
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10 Secrets of Time Management for Salespeople: Gain the Competitive Edge and Make Every Second CountProvides powerful, practical insights and ideas that really work, including hundreds of specific, practical, effective time management tips from dozens of salespeople who are on the "front lines" every day.
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10 Steps to Successful Business AlignmentAuthored by a pair of renowned experts in the field of business measurement and evaluation, this book offers concrete input, detailed suggestions, and pragmatic know-how on how to plan for, implement, and maintain effective alignment for projects of nearly every size and scope.
By Jack J. Phillips, Patricia Pulliam Phillips
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10 Steps to Successful Strategic PlanningLoaded with worksheets, exercises, tips, tools, checklists, and other easy-to-use and interactive learning aids, this book offers a plan to help you overcome your fear and get your organization on the path to planned success.
By Susan Barksdale, Teri Lund
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101 Design Methods: A Structured Approach for Driving Innovation in Your OrganizationApproaching the practice of creating new products, services, and customer experiences as a science, rather than an art, this step-by-step book provides a practical set of collaborative tools and methods for planning and defining successful new offerings.
By Vijay Kumar
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101 Leadership Actions for Creating and Managing Virtual TeamsWhatever your role, this what-to-do guide provides a wealth of new ideas for making your virtual team more effective. This up-to-the-minute book provides practical ideas for anyone getting started with virtual teams, or supporting or managing one.
By Ollie Malone
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101 Tips for Telecommuters: Successfully Manage Your Work, Team, Technology and Family101 Tips for Telecommuters is an easy-to-use guide for successful telecommuting. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Debra A. Dinnocenzo
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12 Tips for Learning to Think InnovativelyShowing you how you can adopt the mindset of an innovator right where you are, with what you have, this insightful book will help you "train your brain to innovate without pain."
By Jeff Davidson
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12 Tips to Create Opportunities for InnovationRelating a story of how a young salesman rode to success by paving his own path, this concise book offers advice and clear steps you can take to create your own opportunities for success through innovation.
By Jeff Davidson
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13 Tips for Building Your Innovative TeamIf you want to be known as an innovator within the organization, enlist your staff. You have little to lose, and much to gain. This book shows you how to build an innovative team to help you and your organization accomplish great things.
By Jeff Davidson
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15 Invaluable Laws of GrowthIn The 15 Invaluable Laws of Growth, author John C. Maxwell teaches readers how to be self-aware, sustain relationships, and lead others. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By John C. Maxwell
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20 Ways to Sharpen Your Tools for InnovationWhen it comes to on-the-job innovation, listening to your inner voice is an internal capability worth developing. Your inner voice can save you time and energy by helping you to avoid the wrong path. This book gives you tools to employ to increase innovation.
By Jeff Davidson
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2021 State of The Industry Report: Talent Development Benchmarks and TrendsThis book refer what learning delivery methods are being used in the industry, including technology-based methods.
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2023 State of the Industry: Talent Development Benchmarks and TrendsThe 2023 State of the Industry report, sponsored by Allego and AllenComm, is ATD's annual review of talent development trends, spending, and activities that can help benchmark your team's work.
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28 Business Thinkers Who Changed the World: The Management Gurus and Mavericks Who Changed the Way We Think About BusinessFrom Oprah to Mark Zuckerberg, Steve Jobs to Sam Walton, this book explores the humans behind the headlines and describes how they made it, the risks they took and the legacies they leave behind.
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360-Degree Waste Management: Biomedical, Pharmaceutical, Industrial Waste, and Remediation, Volume 260 Degree Waste Management, Volume Two: Biomedical, Pharmaceutical, and Industrial Waste and Remediation presents an interdisciplinary approach to understanding various types of biomedical, pharmaceutical, and industrial waste, including their origin, management, recycling, disposal, effects on ecosystems, and social and economic impacts.
By Bharat Bhanvase, Dadasaheb M. Kokare, Kirtikumar R. Randive, Nishikant A. Raut, Sanjay J. Dhoble
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360-Degree Waste Management: Fundamentals, Agricultural and Domestic Waste, and Remediation, Volume 1360 Degree Waste Management, Volume One: Fundamentals, Agricultural and Domestic Waste, and Remediation presents an interdisciplinary approach to understanding various types of agricultural and domestic waste, including their origin, management, recycling, disposal, effects on ecosystems, and social and economic impacts.
By Bharat A. Bhanvase, Dadasaheb M. Kokare, Kirtikumar R. Randive, Nishikant A. Raut, Sanjay J. Dhoble
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4D Leadership: Competitive Advantage Through Vertical Leadership DevelopmentRevealing three dimensions to viewing the world when it comes to business, this book explains that when leaders are proficient in all three dimensions and can move effortlessly between the three, they have achieved 4D leadership.
By Alan Watkins
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50 Activities for Building InnovationProviding exercises and activities to build the innovation muscle of individuals, groups, and organizations, this book will help participants learn to think better and be motivated to apply what they learned back on the job.
By Richard Brynteson
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50 Activities For Creativity and Problem SolvingUse this innovative, complete guide to learn how you can outline the process of accepting change, demonstrate the need for change, reduce conflict, improve communication skills and more.
By Chuck Dufault, Geof Cox, Walt Hopkins
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50 Activities For Managing StressStress occurs when significant demands on our work and non-work environments exceed our coping routines. This guide offers activities to identify and prevent potentially unproductive levels of stress, and to manage unwanted stress once it has occurred.
By Roy Bailey
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7 Principles of Transformational Leadership: Create a Mindset of Passion, Innovation, and Growth7 Principles of Transformational Leadership provides self-evaluation tools and strategies for personal and business transformation. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Hugh Blane
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7 Principles of Transformational Leadership: Create a Mindset of Passion, Innovation, and GrowthYou may have employees with all the talent in the world, but you'll never achieve remarkable results until you change your employees' mindset. This thoughtful resource will help you convert your human potential into accelerated business results.
By Hugh Blane
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A Beautiful Constraint: How to Transform Your Limitations into Advantages, and Why It's Everyone's BusinessA Beautiful Constraint provides a step-by-step approach to turning the limitations that currently hold you back to your advantage. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Adam Morgan, Mark Barden
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A Better World, Inc: How Companies Profit by Solving Global Problems...Where Governments CannotShowing companies and their executives how to profit by developing solutions to the world's most daunting challenges, this unique book uses case studies to delineate best practices for businesses to maximize revenues and reduce costs.
By Alice Korngold
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A Dxa Primer for the Practicing Clinician: A Case-Based Manual for Understanding and Interpreting Bone DensitometryThis practical, easy-to-read text captures many of the common challenges of DXA interpretation that clinicians often encounter.
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A Field Guide for Organisation Development: Taking Theory into PracticeOffering a comprehensive resource to support the practice of Organization Development (OD), this book presents a contemporary, practical guide that tackles the dilemmas and polarities that face anyone studying or practicing within the OD arena.
By Ed Griffin, Grahame Smith, Martin Saville, Mike Alsop
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A Peacock in the Land of Penguins: A Fable about Creativity and Courage, 4th EditionA Peacock in the Land of Penguins showcases how new ways of doing things can be difficult for certain companies, but why it is important to value diversity in the workplace. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By BJ Gallagher, Warren H. Schmidt
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A Peacock in the Land of Penguins: A Fable about Creativity and Courage, 4th EditionThrough the story of Perry the Peacock and his fine feathered friends, this unique book includes tips, tools, and strategies to help organizations break out of "penguin thinking" in order to tap into and leverage the creativity of diversity
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A Practitioner's Guide to Account-Based Marketing: Accelerating Growth in Strategic AccountsRich with fascinating case studies and personal stories, this book explores the development of account-based marketing (ABM) as a business practice, and outlines a clear, step-by-step process for readers who wish to set up an ABM program to accelerate growth.
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A Practitioner's Guide to Asset AllocationCovering the fundamentals of asset allocation, this practical text offers a hands-on resource that describes the many important innovations that address key challenges to asset allocation and dispels common fallacies with logic or hard evidence.
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A Primer on Corporate Governance: ChinaDescribing unique Chinese corporate governance features and examining the main factors that have shaped the Chinese corporate governance system, this book reviews and analyzes the Chinese economic reforms since 1980s with particular reference on the privatization of State-owned enterprises, and focuses on the institutional changes resulted from the Chinese economic reforms.
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A Primer on Sustainability: In the Business EnvironmentTaking a broad look at the ways the concept of sustainability is being applied in the business context, this book provides readers with an introduction to knowledge and skills they need to help organizations understand and act upon the principles of sustainability.
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A Profile of the Farm Machinery Industry: The Power to Help Farmers Feed the World, Second EditionThis book examines farm machinery in the context of its history, corporations, outside market forces, regulations, and challenges and opportunities.
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A Profile of the Furniture Manufacturing Industry, Second EditionBased on numerous interviews and site visits, this book presents strategies of corporate survivors in the face of mergers, and profiles the emergence of new players to indicate practices for increasing adaptive capacity and marketing the appeal of "made here".
By Susan M. Walcott
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A Profile of the Health Management Industry: Health Administration for Non-Clinical ProfessionalsWritten from a business perspective, this book provides managers with a framework for understanding the historical and competitive landscape in health care, and enables readers to evaluate past development, current issues, and projected changes that affect the industry.
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A Profile of the Hospitality Industry, Second EditionProviding the history, organizational structure, and management strategies of the hospitality industry, this book highlights key hotel, restaurant, and casino companies, and explains the concepts of franchising, consortia, and management contracts.
By Betsy Bender Stringam
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A Strategic and Tactical Approach to Global Business Ethics, Second EditionIntended to acquaint managers with the tools to handle their ethical encounters on a global operational platform, this book presents examples that are meant to stimulate rather than dictate the development of an ethical consideration in the global managerial decision-making process.
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A Time of Change in Hospitality LeadershipWith an aim to challenge perceptions, thinking, and knowledge, this book also strives to prepare students to identify how leadership has changed people's lives and help develop critical thinking about the role of leaders in business and in society.
By Chris Sheppardson
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A Whack on the Side of the Head: How You Can Be More Creative, Revised and UpdatedA Whack on the Side of the Head is a fun-filled, practical, and humorous guide to unlocking the mental blocks that stifle creativity. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Roger von Oech
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A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the FutureThe future is full of possibilities and, in A Whole New Mind, Daniel H. Pink analyzes the creative skills that will be needed in order to thrive in a fast-changing word. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
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Accelerating Performance: How Organizations Can Mobilize, Execute, and Transform with AgilityHelping you transform your organization into a dynamic catalyst for success, this book gives leaders a step-by-step framework for taking action and transforming their organizations, teams, and even themselves-starting today.
By Colin Price, Sharon Toye
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Access to Asia: Your Multicultural Guide to Building Trust, Inspiring Respect, and Creating Long-Lasting Business RelationshipsPresenting in-the-trenches advice and stories from 80 regional experts in ten countries including China, Hong Kong, India, Japan, and Korea, this book presents a deeply insightful framework for today's global business leaders and managers, whether traveling from Toronto to Taipei, Baltimore to Bangalore, or San Francisco to Shanghai.
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Accessible Technology and the Developing WorldAccessible Technology and the Developing World aims to change this, by bringing increased attention to ICT accessibility in developing areas.
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Achieving Goals: Define and Surpass Your High Performance GoalsBy following through and completing what you've set out to do, you can truly outperform your competitors. This comprehensive guide shows you how to set smart goals for yourself and your employees, help employees meet their objectives, measure progress, and more.
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Achieving Service Excellence: Maximizing Enterprise Performance through Innovation and TechnologyDiscussing actionable methodologies needed to generate creative ideas, this book illustrates how operational excellence can be achieved by emphasizing the importance of standardizing work processes, and demonstrates how quality can be enhanced and time-to-market can be reduced through a variety of methods.
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Acquisition Strategy: Making a Success of Business AcquisitionsThe My Practical MBA Series provides the latest thinking as well as perennial techniques for a range of business challenges. This toolkit outlines the key elements for effective acquisitions including the acquisition process, due diligence and post-acquisition planning.
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Activating the Common Good: Reclaiming Control of Our Collective Well-Being NEW!A powerful, inspiring, and achievable vision of a society based on cooperation and community instead of competition and commodification.
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Activist Origins of Political Ambition: Opposition Candidacy in Africa's Electoral Authoritarian RegimesIn Activist Origins of Political Ambition, Keith Weghorst offers a theory that candidacy decisions are set in motion in early life events and that civic activism experiences and careers in civil society organizations funnel aspirants towards opposition candidacy in electoral authoritarian regimes.
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Adaptive Business Continuity: A New ApproachThrough a wealth of examples, diagrams, and real-world case studies, this groundbreaking book provides a streamlined, realistic methodology to change business continuity dramatically and shows you how you can execute it in your own organization.
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Adjusting to the New World EconomyThis book will be better equipped to tackles the challenges of operating in the world economy and working their way out of conflicts.
By Michael R. Czinkota
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Advanced Organic Waste Management: Sustainable Practices and ApproachesThe book combines the fundamentals and practices of sustainable organic waste management with successful case studies from developed and developing countries, highlighting practical applications and challenges.
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Advanced Practice and Leadership in Radiology NursingThe textbook is subdivided into five sections that address advanced practice and leadership roles, clinical patient care topics, safety topics, including legal considerations, e.g. infection prevention and equipment.
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Advances in Global Marketing: A Research AnthologyWith both theoretical and empirical contributions by prominent researchers from all over the world, this book provides a comprehensive analysis of contemporary global marketing issues under different international business settings.
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Advances in Strategic Management: Finance and StrategyContaining rigorous research papers that bridge the strategy and finance fields by building on them, this book encompasses a range of combinations among corporate strategy and business (competitive) strategy and corporate finance and capital markets.
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Advancing Strategy through Behavioural Psychology: Create Competitive Advantage in Relentlessly Changing MarketsGrounded in practitioner experience and academic research, this book argues that to achieve set goals organizations should spend less time planning and sending out instructions and more time on providing feedback on implementation and drawing out key points to be learned.
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Agile Innovation: The Revolutionary Approach to Accelerate Success, Inspire Engagement, and Ignite CreativityOffering insights that are highlighted in 11 detailed case studies illustrating the world's best innovation practices at top companies, this authoritative guide combines the best of Agile with the world's leading methods of Innovation to present a crisp, articulate, and proven system for developing the breakthrough capabilities every organization must master to thrive today and tomorrow.
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Agile Practices for Waterfall Projects: Shifting Processes for Competitive AdvantageContaining all the terms and concepts needed for those planning to take the PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP) exam, this guide will also help new and experienced project managers, stakeholders, and students of the discipline to proactively prepare for and ensure their future success.
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Air Transport Management: Strategic Management in the Airline IndustryWith the inclusion of fascinating case studies, this book assesses different business models used by international companies and proposes best fit management practices which airlines should follow in order to survive.
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Always End with the Beginning in Mind: How Firms Remain Great AFTER the Founder ExitsThis book is based on the premise that endings are just new beginnings. Everyone can end, with the beginning in mind. Giving up the concept of everything ends is one of the most important steps in business continuity.
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AMA Handbook of Due Digilence, Revised and Updated EditionReflecting significant changes in the financial landscape such as the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, this guide explains how to properly perform a due dilligence investigation - and radically improve the success rate of a pending corporate merger or acquisition.
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An Epidemic of Empathy in Healthcare: How to Deliver Compassionate, Connected Patient Care That Creates a Competitive AdvantageAuthored by one of healthcare's most acclaimed thought leaders, this book shows that world-class medical treatment and compassionate care are not mutually exclusive; combining advanced science with empathic care is the only way to build the health systems our society needs and deserves.
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An Introduction to Critical Thinking and Creativity: Think More, Think BetterOutlining the tools needed to become a critical as well as creative thinker, this book introduces relevant theories in conjunction with real-life examples and findings from cognitive science and psychology to illustrate how the theories can be applied in fields and careers.
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Annual Report on the Development of China's Special Economic Zones (2020)This book is an overview of the development status of China's special economic zones in 2020, including the reform pilot zones and some new special zones over the past year. It analyzes the challenges during the transformation faced by special zones, the use of resources and sustainable development, economic and social development, social security, science and technology innovation, financial system reform, and cultural industry.
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Applied Strategic Planning: An Introduction, Second EditionWritten for the planning team and other key members who will participate in the process, this important resource offers encouragement for the team who must provide data for the planning process and helps to identify questions for further discussion.
By Jeanette Goodstein, Leonard D. Goodstein, Timothy N. Nolan
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Architect's Essentials of Cost ManagementWritten by a cost-control expert with more than thirty years of design and building expertise, this volume offers practical, user-friendly guidance on how to better manage costs through all phases of a project.
By Michael D. Dell'Isola
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Armstrong's Handbook of Strategic Human Resource Management, Sixth EditionArmstrong's Handbook of Strategic Human Resource Management presents crucial developments in human resource strategies. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Michael Armstrong
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Army of Entrepreneurs: Create an Engaged and Empowered Workforce for Exceptional Business GrowthIn Army of Entrepreneurs, author Jennifer Prosek shows how you can foster independent, entrepreneurial thought and action in your staff to maintain and grow your business. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
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Assessing and Mitigating Business Risks in IndiaProviding a background to understanding India and highlighting the economic, legal and cultural variances that exist, this book outlines India's opportunities and challenges in progressive stages and allows for a meaningful analysis of the risks posed.
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Assessing Progress Towards Sustainability: Frameworks, Tools and Case StudiesThis book presents an integrated approach to sustainability progress measurement by considering both the frameworks and methodological developments of various tools, as well as their implementation in assessing the sustainability of processes, products and services through a global perspective.
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At the Speed of Irrelevance: How America Blew Its AI Leadership Position and How to Regain ItGet the inside story of American Artificial Intelligence (AI) failure and fall: Learn how to reassume American AI leadership and win against China.
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Auditing Business Continuity: Global Best PracticesThis book provides a general outline of how to conduct different types of audits, as well as reinforces their application by providing practical examples and advice to illustrate the step-by-step methodology.
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Australia 2034: Luckier By DesignCharting the way for businesses to navigate the next 20 years, this book sheds light on the road Australia has travelled and the efforts of the inspired business leaders who shaped that journey.
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Balanced Scorecard Evolution: A Dynamic Approach to Strategy ExecutionIncluding illustrative case studies, tools and techniques, this practical guide provides the latest theory and practice from strategic planning, change management, and strategy execution to ensure your business is flexible, future ready, and primed for exceptional execution.
By Paul R. Niven
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Balanced Sourcing: Cooperation and Competition in Supplier RelationshipsHow leading manufacturers forged a new purchasing environment, creating unprecedented new value inside their supply chains.
By Timothy M. Laseter
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Banish Your Inner Critic: Silence the Voice of Self-Doubt to Unleash Your Creativity and Do Your Best WorkShowing you how to defeat the barriers that are holding you back, this insightful book teaches techniques to make the creative process more fluid, methods for making work environments more conducive to personal productivity, and practices for sparking innovation.
By Denise Jacobs
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Basic Cost Benefit Analysis for Assessing Local Public ProjectsDiscussing the economic underpinnings of cost benefit analysis, this practical book addresses measurement problems associated with shadow pricing of public goods, and outlines potential pitfalls for the non-specialist.
By Barry P. Keating, Maryann O. Keating
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Be Different Or Be Dead: Your Business Survival GuideBe Different or Be Dead is a no-nonsense, practical guide on how to stand out from your competitors and flourish in times of economic upheaval. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Roy Osing
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Beating the Global Odds: Successful Decision-Making in a Confused and Troubled WorldFor modern business leaders and individuals requiring a strong strategic plan to help tackle the challenges of the future brought on by the chaos resulting from an abundance of facts and figures, Beating the Global Odds will enable you to fight for your business and construct a sound path forward. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Paul A. Laudicina
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Beating the Global Odds: Successful Decision-Making in a Confused and Troubled WorldDrawing on examples from world history and current media, to anecdotes from CEOs and the world's most innovative thinkers, this book shows you how to cut through the clutter and regain your focus as you confront the challenges of the future.
By Paul A. Laudicina
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Becoming a Category of One: How Extraordinary Companies Transcend Commodity and Defy ComparisonFor the enthusiastic business leader or individual who aspires to transform their company into an exceptional one, Becoming a Category of One highlights what the most successful businesses are doing right so you can model their practices. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Joe Calloway
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Becoming a Sustainable Organization: A Project and Portfolio Management ApproachLaying out a framework to improve sustainability integrations including case studies, lessons learned, best practices, and tools and templates to facilitate transforming into a sustainable organization, this book explains how to engage both internal and external stakeholders in order to reframe strategy to drive a sustainability journey.
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Becoming Facebook: The 10 Challenges That Defined the Company That's Disrupting the WorldFilled with insights and anecdotes from crises averted and challenges solved, this book tells the coming-of-age story of the now venerable giant and tracks the company's development, uncovering lessons learned on its way to greatness.
By Mike Hoefflinger
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Becoming More Innovative on the JobCombining outstanding content with humor, flair, and inspiration, Work Life Balance Expert Jeff Davidson offers 60 tips on applying creative solutions to business challenges.
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Behavioral Competencies for Innovation: Using Emotional Intelligence to Foster InnovationThis book represents the first comprehensive investigation of the role of emotional intelligence in promoting innovation in the organizational context. Offering emerging insights into the human side of innovation.
By E. Revathi, R. Maria Saleth, S. Galab
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Behavioral Economics For DummiesBased on psychology and rooted in real-world examples, this important book offers the sort of insights designed to help investors avoid impulsive mistakes, companies understand the mechanisms behind individual choices, and governments and nonprofits make public decisions.
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Behind the Scenes of Health Care: Motivation and Commitment of Health Care EmployeesPresenting an extensive review of motivation and commitment among health care workers in support and bedside care roles, this book provides tools to aid in understanding and presents cultural components in the contemporary workplace that may be applied to any organization.
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Better Outcomes: A Guide to Humanizing HealthcareThe book covers topics related to truly patient-centered care, a biopsychosocial approach to service delivery, patient engagement, interpersonal communication, and developing long-term relationships with patients.
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Beyond Performance: How Great Organizations Build Ultimate Competitive AdvantageDrawing on the most exhaustive research effort of its kind on organizational effectiveness and change management, McKinsey & Company's Scott Keller and Colin Price present everything you need to build an organization that can execute in the short run and has the vitality to prosper over the long term.
By Colin Price, Scott Keller
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Beyond Performance: How Great Organizations Build Ultimate Competitive AdvantageBeyond Performance focuses on creating organizations that are highly innovative, genuinely engaging, and acutely flexible. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
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Beyond Sustainability Reporting: The Pathway to Corporate Social Responsibility NEW!Beyond Sustainability Reporting: Integrated Thinking and Corporate Social Responsibility is a must-read for any company wanting to make a strong contribution to sustainability issues, for educators who wish to teach sustainability issues and how to manage them, and for anyone interested in knowing how companies can develop a strong and successful action-oriented program for sustainability.
By Gerald Trites
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Beyond the Checklist: What Else Health Care Can Learn from Aviation Teamwork and SafetyDrawing on the experience of doctors, nurses, medical educators, and administrators, this book demonstrates how Crew Resource Management (CRM) can be adapted, more widely and effectively, to health care delivery.
By Bonnie Blair O'Connor, Patrick Mendenhall, Suzanne Gordon
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Beyond the Familiar: Long-Term Growth through Customer Focus and InnovationUsing many compelling cases to illustrate how managers can find ways within their existing network and organization to achieve long term growth, this book identifies five key steps to generating sustainable, profitable, market-leading organic growth.
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Big Data, Big Innovation: Enabling Competitive Differentiation through Business AnalyticsEffective management means combining data, people, and analytics to create a synergistic force for innovation and growth. If you want your company to move forward with confidence, this groundbreaking book can show you how to use what you already have and acquire what you need to succeed.
By Evan Stubbs
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Big Picture Strategy: The Six Choices That Will Transform Your BusinessThis book shows readers how limiting and focusing the strategic options available to company stakeholders can unlock previously inaccessible levels of productivity and growth.
By Marta Dapena Baron
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Blindsided: A Manager's Guide to Crisis Leadership, 2nd EditionUsing the author's 30 years of global experience to land you in the middle of a fast-breaking crisis, this book presents case studies and examples to demonstrate what a top-notch leader would say and do at every turn. After this simulation, the author then guides you in developing a real-world crisis management plan, uniquely presenting two books in one: Crisis Response and Crisis Preparedness.
By Bruce T. Blythe
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Blue Ocean StrategyPresenting a creative approach to the normal view of competition, this book tackles the central problem facing all businesses: how to perform better than your competitors.
By Andreas Mebert, Stephanie Lowe
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Blue Ocean Strategy: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make Competition IrrelevantBlue Ocean Strategy methodically explains how to formulate and execute the strategies you need to get your organization into an open market space and escape the pressure of intense competition. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Renée Mauborgne, W. Chan Kim
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Blue Ocean Strategy: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make the Competition IrrelevantExamining a wide range of strategic moves across a host of industries, this landmark book highlights the six principles that every company can use to successfully formulate and execute untapped new market spaces ripe for growth.
By Renée Mauborgne, W. Chan Kim
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Blueprint to a Billion: 7 Essentials to Achieve Exponential GrowthBlueprint to a Billion is a fascinating and objective assessment of the success pattern of America's most outstanding businesses. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By David G. Thomson
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Bounce Back: How to Fail Fast and be Resilient at WorkA fear of failure, or the inability to bounce back and learn from failures, is one of the biggest things that can hold us back in our professional development.
By Susan Kahn
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Bouncing Back: Rewiring Your Brain for Maximum Resilience and Well-BeingIn Bouncing Back, author Linda Graham discusses ways to be more resilient and how to rewire the brain's learned methods of coping. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
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Boundary Spanning Leadership: Six Practices for Solving Problems, Driving Innovation, and Transforming OrganizationsPowered by a decade of global research and practice by the top-ranked Center for Creative Leadership, this book takes you from rural towns in the U.S. to Hong Kong's skyline and from a modernizing South Africa to the bustling streets of India, showing you how to build bridges across boundaries.
By Chris Ernst, Donna Chrobot-Mason
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Brand Singapore: Nation Branding in a World Disrupted by Covid-19,3rd EditionThis fully revised and updated edition of Brand Singapore analyses the challenges and opportunities of its latest repositioning for a post-Covid-19 world.
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Brave Together: Lead by Design, Spark Creativity, and Shape the Future with the Power of Co-CreationBrave Together is a powerful book that can transform the lives of leaders, creators, or anyone looking to shape the future. It comes from the thought leaders who helped Apple shift the culture from "thinking different" to "working different together."
By Chris Deaver, Ian Clawson
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Breakthrough: Stories and Strategies of Radical InnovationBreakthrough provides strategies for-and personal accounts of-innovation in business. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Barbara Stefik, Mark J. Stefik
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Breast Imaging: The Requisites, 3rd EditionNow in its 3rd Edition, this bestselling volume in the popular Requisites series, by Drs. Debra M. Ikeda and Kanae K. Miyake, thoroughly covers the fast-changing field of breast imaging.
By Debra Ikeda, Kanae Kawai Miyake,
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Bribery and Corruption: Navigating the Global RisksAuthored by renowned accounting fraud experts, this comprehensive book provides an introduction and overview of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) and international bribery laws.
By Brian P. Loughman, Richard A. Sibery
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Bridging Organization Design and Performance: 5 Ways to Activate a Global Operation ModelPresenting a book for leaders looking to enhance the success of their organizations and themselves, this guide shares the five practical actions that bring complex organizations to life and helps companies gain sustainable results from their global operating models.
By Amy Kates, Gregory Kesler
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Bridging the Innovation Gap: Blueprint for the Innovative EnterpriseOffering fresh insights into innovation management and its prerequisites, this book presents a new and proven innovation system, which is being used in practice and has the potential to significantly increase the ability of enterprises to innovate.
By Daniel Huber, Heiner Kaufmann, Martin Steinmann
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Bringing Strategy Back: How Strategic Shock Absorbers Make Planning Relevant in a World of Constant ChangeIn Bringing Strategy Back, author Jeffrey Sampler offers a fresh look at how strategic planning can be approached in a more efficient way. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Jeffrey Sampler
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Bringing Strategy Back: How Strategic Shock Absorbers Make Planning Relevant In a World of Constant ChangeBased on the author's in-depth research in the world's most tempestuous markets, this book cuts through the clutter to reveal exactly why the usual tools of strategy are so sorely out of sync with our needs, and shows how to be prepared and proactive, rather than reactive, even when the future is uncertain.
By Jeffrey Sampler
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Build Your Cultural Agility: The Nine Competencies of Successful Global ProfessionalsLearn the individual competencies needed to build relationships and succeed professionally in your daily work life as well as on larger strategic initiatives when working across cultures.
By Paula Caligiuri
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Build, Borrow, or Buy: Solving the Growth DilemmaDrawing on decades of research and teaching, the authors of this book discuss how a firm's aptitude for determining the best resource pathways for growth has a defining impact on its success, and offers a framework to determine which path is right for your organization.
By Laurence Capron, Will Mitchell
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Building a Better Business Using the LEGO SERIOUS PLAY MethodAuthored by the two original Master Trainers for LEGO SERIOUS PLAY (LSP), this book outlines how LSP can develop teams, people, relationships and business, and delivers a creative approach to enhancing innovation and improving business performance, with the focus on unleashing play.
By Per Kristiansen, Robert Rasmussen
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Building a Culture of Innovation: A Practical Framework for Placing Innovation at the Core of Your BusinessContaining tools and techniques, diagrams, helpful tips, and case studies, this insightful resource presents a practical framework that business leaders and change agents can implement to design and embed permanent innovation.
By Cris Beswick, Derek Bishop, Jo Geraghty
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Building An Innovative Organization: The Role of Training and DevelopmentExamining innovation in organizations solely from the point of view of training and development (T&D), this report explores how key drivers of innovation are measured, the type of programs requested by business partners, and the programs organizations offer.
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Building Resilience for Success: A Resource for Managers and OrganizationsDrawing on contemporary research and professional case studies, this definitive guide examines the main sources of work related stress, and explore how personal resilience can be developed both within and outside the work context.
By Cary L. Cooper, Jill Flint-Taylor, Michael Pearn
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Building Resilience with Appreciative Inquiry: A Leadership Journey through Hope, Despair, and ForgivenessA profound guide, this book features personal accounts from leaders across a variety of settings describing how they've practiced appreciative resilience in the ongoing cycle of hope, despair, and forgiveness.
By Jeanie Cockell, Joan McArthur-Blair
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Building the Agile Business Through Digital Transformation, Second EditionFull of practical advice, examples and real-life insights from organizations at the leading edge of digital transformation, this book is an in-depth guide for all those needing to better understand, implement and lead digital transformation in the workplace.
By Neil Perkin, Peter Abraham
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Building the Future: Big Teaming for Audacious InnovationExploring how to bring into being systems that transform human experience and make the world more livable and sustainable, this book introduces big teaming which requires practicing new forms of leadership that combine an expansive vision with incremental action.
By Amy C. Edmondson, Susan Salter Reynolds
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Built on Values: Creating an Enviable Culture That Outperforms the CompetitionProviding a clear blueprint for how to accomplish culture change, this empowering guide reveals exactly how leaders can create winning environments that allow their employees and their companies to thrive.
By Ann Rhoades, Nancy Shepherdson
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Built to Change: How to Achieve Sustained Organizational EffectivenessFocusing on identifying practices and designs that organizations can adopt so that they are able to change, this groundbreaking book shows how organizations can be "built to change" so they can last and succeed in today's global economy.
By Christopher G. Worley, Edward E. Lawler III
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Built to Grow: How to Deliver Accelerated, Sustained and Profitable Business GrowthA proven, time-tested model to unlock the real potential in your business, this book is full of practical strategies, tools and ideas, and real world case studies that illustrate what can be achieved - leaving you equipped to transform your businesses performance and drive tangible results.
By Royston Guest
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Built to Innovate: Essential Practices to Wire Innovation into Your Company's DNAThis book delivers a proven system for building relentless innovation into your company's DNA.
By Ben Bensaou, Karl Weber
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Bushido Capitalism: The Code To Redefine Business For a Sustainable FutureThis book presents ways in which we can use this current inflection point to become more responsible, ethical and sustainably minded citizens and business leaders.
By Kengo Sakurada
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Business Analysis: Best Practices for SuccessFilled with tips, tricks, techniques, and guerilla tactics to help execute the process in the face of sometimes overwhelming political or social obstacles, this straightforward and insightful guide offers a complete description of the process of business analysis in solving business problems.
By Steven P. Blais
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Business and Emerging TechnologiesThis book is an extensive but straight-to-the-point guide designed to get business students and professionals up to speed with an electrifying range of emergent technologies and concepts in the shortest possible time.
By George Baffour
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Business and SustainabilityAdopting a mix of practitioner and theoretical perspectives, this insightful book is one of the first to offer students a comprehensive overview of how the world's sustainability challenges are affecting, and being affected by business.
By Michael Blowfield
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Business Continuity and the Pandemic Threat: Learning from COVID-19 While Preparing for the Next PandemicThe book builds on the themes introduced in his 2016 best-selling title Business Continuity and the Pandemic Threat - Potentially the biggest survival challenge facing organisations, by focusing specifically on the COVID-19 pandemic.
By Robert A. Clark
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Business Continuity For DummiesIf disaster struck, could your business continue to operate? This detailed book clearly sets out how to identify the risks to your organization, how to create your own BCM plan, how to apply BCM in practice and what to do if the worst does happen.
By Stuart Sterling, et al.
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Business Continuity Management System: A Complete Framework for Implementing ISO 22301Business Continuity Management System guides you through the processes of developing and managing a BCMS in your organization. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Jianping Shi, Wei Ning Zechariah Wong
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Business Continuity Management: A Practical Guide to Organization Resilience and ISO 22301, Second EditionDeliver a best practice business continuity and resilience framework guided by ISO 22301:2019 with case studies, useful templates and practical solutions for any organization.
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Business Continuity Management: Building an Effective Incident Management PlanPresenting concepts that can be applied in part, or full, to your business, regardless of its size or number of employees, this book contains time-tested strategies to protect your employees while ensuring your company survives the unimaginable.
By Michael Blyth
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Business Continuity Management: Global Best Practices, Fourth EditionFrom an acclaimed founder of the profession with 30 years' experience in 60 countries, Andrew Hiles' masterwork is the closest you can get to a "Body of Knowledge" for Business Continuity, discussing what works and why. This new edition includes supply chain risk with contract advice, impact of new technologies, and how to choose/apply a wide range of global/national standards.
By Andrew Hiles
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Business Continuity Planning: A Project Management ApproachDetailing a proven plan for achieving business continuity and business preparedness, this important book includes numerous diagrams, checklists, and tools to help you determine exactly what you must do to prepare for a serious event.
By Gregg D. Richie, Ralph L. Kliem
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Business Driven Technology, Eighth EditionOffering flexibility to customize according to your needs, as well as course and student needs, this book covers essential concepts and topics in five core units, while providing additional in-depth coverage via the business and technology plug-ins.
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Business Engineering and Service Design with Applications for Health Care InstitutionsProviding the foundations of Business Engineering, this book reviews several disciplines integrated within its methodology, and presents plentiful evidence of its power by giving detailed real application cases, including very impressive results in private and public situations.
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Business Experimentation: A Practical Guide for Driving Innovation and Performance in Your BusinessThis book is a step-by-step, practical guide to the six-stage business experiment process, from understanding the problem or opportunity to creating a hypothesis, planning the experiment and analysing the findings.
By Jules Goddard, Rob James
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Business Guide for Strategic Management: 50 Tools for Business SuccessThis book follows the credo "Don't work hard - work smart". Smart in the sense of cleverness, systematic organization of work and time as well as farsightedness to open up business perspectives.
By Alfred-Joachim Hermanni
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Business Law in the Global Market PlaceEquipping managers with a basic understanding of how law impacts business activity, this book can help them avoid legal pitfalls in the first place or at least identify potential problems at an early stage, to avoid inconvenience and cost.
By Peter Nayler
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Business Leadership and LawDiscussing doing business and making profit on the right side of the law, this unique book explores the role of aligning business and legal strategies, and using the law as a powerful tool in making businesses successful.
By Anurag K. Agarwal
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Business Model Generation: A Handbook for Visionaries, Game Changers, and ChallengersIf your organization needs to adapt to harsh new realities, but you don't yet have a strategy that will get you out in front of your competitors, this book explains the most common Business Model patterns used by leading business thinkers, and helps you reinterpret them for your own context.
By Alexander Osterwalder, Yves Pigneur
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Business Model Innovation: Elements in Business Strategy, Strategic and Organizational Issues for Established FirmsThis Element approaches the topic of business model innovation from the perspective of the established firm and examines the unique strategic and organizational issues that big, established companies face when a new business model enters their markets.
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Business Models and Strategic Management: A New IntegrationTaking readers deeper into the intricacies of what constitutes a business model and how current strategy derives from it, this book provides an understanding of the real drivers of successful outcomes, and will help readers see the value-creating possibilities of a well-crafted business model.
By Francine Newth
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Business Models for Sustainability Transitions: How Organisations Contribute to Societal TransformationThis book represents a start at bridging the dynamic world of business model innovation with the constant and unprecedented transitions underway in the world around us.
By Annabeth Aagaard, Florian Lüdeke-Freund, Peter Wells
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Business Negotiations in China: Strategy, Planning and ManagementUsing real-life examples drawn from high-level negotiations with Chinese state-owned enterprises, this book provides a holistic overview of the institutional, organizational and cultural issues that underpin successful business negotiations in China.
By Henry K. H. Wang
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Business Operations Models: Becoming a Disruptive CompetitorBusiness Operations Models lays a framework for building an operations system that will guide your company's production of goods and services. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Alan Braithwaite, Martin Christopher
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Business Operations Models: Becoming a Disruptive CompetitorIllustrated by emotive visualization and international case studies, this straightforward book offers new thinking in logistics, supply chain management, and operations management.
By Alan Braithwaite, Martin Christopher
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Business Problem-Solving and Strategy: Manga for SuccessDo you want to improve your business performance? Or are you looking for a basic understanding of business strategy? Whatever your reason for picking up this book, Business Problem-Solving and Strategy: Manga For Success makes business strategy concepts easy to understand using practical examples and situations.
By Keisuke Yamabe, Takayuki Kito
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Business Process Outsourcing: The Competitive AdvantageBy providing a step-by-step approach to understanding the application of Business Process Outsourcing, this informative book serves as a guide to implementing BPO and a reference to solving the variety of issues that may arise during a BPO initiative.
By Rick L. Click
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Business Strategy (The Brian Tracy Success Library)Incorporating examples ranging from Alexander the Great to IBM and General Electric, renowned speaker, trainer, seminar leader, and consultant Brian Tracy gives readers proven ideas for increasing their company's ROI and maximizing their strengths and opportunities.
By Brian Tracy
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Business Strategy (The Brian Tracy Success Library)Business Strategy provides a step-by-step guide to taking charge of your business and giving it direction. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
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Business Strategy: Plan, Execute, Win!In an educational and entertaining format, this essential guide offers you valuable strategic insight regardless of industry, business maturity, or current business turbulence and explains how to apply these insights based on the factors impacting your own business.
By Patrick J. Stroh
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Business Sustainability Factors of Performance, Risk, and DisclosureThis book offers guidance for proper measurement, recognition, and reporting of all five EGSEE dimensions of sustainability performance.
By Zabihollah Rezaee
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Business Sustainability: Investor, Board, and Management Perspective (ISSN)This book examines the crucial role of investors both retail and institutional investors and interment managers, the corporate board of directors and management in collaborating to achieve financial ESP and nonfinancial ESG sustainability performance in creating shared value for all stakeholders.
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Business Sustainability: Profit-With-Purpose Focus (ISSN)This book is involved with business sustainability and corporate governance, the financial reporting process, investment decisions, legal and financial advising, audit functions, and corporate governance education.
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Business Transformation: A Roadmap for Maximizing Organizational InsightsAlong with examples and best practices of global companies that have successfully been through this process, this practical and insightful reference reveals how SAS's Information Evolution Model (IEM) can be used together with analytics for groundbreaking results.
By Aiman Zeid
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Business Unusual: Values, Uncertainty and the Psychology of Brand ResilienceThis book reveals the psychology behind how we feel about businesses, their communications and their leaders in a digital world. From understanding the new dynamics shaping online behaviour, to the evolving expectations driving employees and consumers.
By Nathalie Nahai
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Business, Government and the SDGs: The Role of Public-Private Engagement in Building a Sustainable FutureThis book seeks to revise and challenge the roles and traditional realms of influence that national and local governments, and businesses at a critical juncture in terms of achieving sustainable development, faces when tackling the dual challenges of climate change and post-COVID recovery.
By Mahmoud Mohieldin, Maria Alejandra Gonzalez-Perez, Miral Shehata, Sameh Wahba
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Capital Gaines: Smart Things I Learned Doing Stupid StuffPerfect for anyone looking to succeed not only in business but more importantly, in life, this book offers readers a ringside seat as Chip relives some of his craziest antics and the lessons learned along the way.
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Cardiac CT Made Easy: An Introduction to Cardiovascular Multidetector Computed Tomography, Third EditionThe current third edition of the book covers the entire spectrum of cardiovascular computed tomography, but the text and number of images have been reduced to focus on the essential material.
By Frank Dong, Paul Schoenhagen
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Care After Covid: What the Pandemic Revealed is Broken in Healthcare and How to Reinvent itFilled with firsthand insights and stories from the frontlines of healthcare-as well as innovative solutions that were proven effective before and during the pandemic, this book provides a practical action plan for reinventing healthcare in a post-pandemic world.
By Shantanu Nundy
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Career Creativity: Explorations in the Remaking of WorkThe premise of this book is that careers and creativity are broadly connected, both at the level of the individual and at the level of the larger institutions of work and society. It explores different models of careers and creativity, and its necessity.
By Maury Peiperl, Michael Arthur, N. Anand (eds)
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Career Moves: Be Strategic About Your Future, Revised and Enhanced EditionCareer Moves shows you how you can use the latest research on workforce development trends, critical competencies, and areas of expertise to ensure success in a changing workplace. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Annabelle Reitman, Caitlin Williams
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Case Study: Growth Strategies of Logistics Service ProvidersBased on interviews that were conducted with mid-level and C-level managers across various firms, this case study examines the different roles and capabilities of logistics firms in order to understand their future development and strategic growth.
By Christian König, Nigel Caldwell
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Cases on Emerging Market Responses to the COVID-19 PandemicCases on Emerging Market Responses to the COVID-19 Pandemic provides a set of case studies on corporate and functional strategies adopted by firms irrespective of their industry, ownership type, or size.
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Cases on Survival and Sustainability Strategies of Social EntrepreneursCases on Survival and Sustainability Strategies of Social Entrepreneurs focuses on how managers formulate a strategy to sustain the social enterprise venture and enable social entrepreneurs to understand and apply strategic management models whilst reviewing practical cases.
By Charles Oham
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CEO Excellence: The Six Mindsets That Distinguish the Best Leaders from the RestIn CEO Excellence, authors Dewar, Keller, and Malhotra explore six mindsets that leaders can adopt to lead a company to greatness. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Carolyn Dewar, Scott Keller, Vikram Malhotra
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Challenges and Opportunities for Transportation Services in the Post-COVID-19 EraChallenges and Opportunities for Transportation Services in the Post-COVID-19 Era explores the challenges and the new directions to match travelers' needs in a post-COVID-19 world and illustrates several methodological applications in transportation to inspire scholars, researchers, and developers to further their efforts in boosting the design and use of sustainable mobility.
By Giuseppe Catenazzo
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Champagne And Wax Crayons: Riding the Madness of the Creative IndustriesWith savvy advice from someone who has survived the unpredictable and often surreal world of the creative industry, this book tells the story of illustrator and art director's journey to a freelance career working with the world's most glamorous clients in illustration, graphic design, music, film and television.
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Change Management for SustainabilityFocusing on how organizations can manage change in order to transform and develop in a sustainable manner, this book features several organizational examples to illustrate how high-performance organizations grow their business, attain a high level of socioeconomic performance, and at the same time achieve environmental sustainability targets.
By Huong Ha
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Change the Culture, Change the Game: The Breakthrough Strategy for Energizing Your Organization and Creating Accountability for ResultsChange the Culture, Change the Game will help business leaders gain competitive advantage and make real changes that benefit any company. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Roger Connors, Tom Smith
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Change Your Space, Change Your Culture: How Engaging Workspaces Lead to Transformation and GrowthRevealing what companies lose by viewing office space as something to manage or minimize, this practical and insightful guide demonstrates how the workspace is, in fact, a crucial driver of productivity and morale.
By Mabel Casey, Mark Konchar, Rex Miller
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Chief Customer Officer 2.0: How to Build Your Customer-Driven Growth EngineIncluding over forty accounts of actions by Customer Leadership Executives around the world, this is the book you have been waiting for that tells it like it is and gives you the framework to build your customer-driven growth engine.
By Jeanne Bliss
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Chief Sustainability Officers At Work: How CSOs Build Successful Sustainability and ESG StrategiesRead over 20 exclusive, in-depth interviews with chief sustainability officers (CSOs) of Fortune 500 companies such as Amazon, Coca-Cola, and Procter & Gamble and globally recognized brands such as IKEA and Netflix.
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China's Approach to Energy Security: An International Comparative PerspectiveThis book aims to analyze how and why China takes a state-managed marketization approach (SMMA) to energy security against the backdrop of global efforts of decarbonization and intensified strategic competition between China and the United States.
By Shaofeng Chen
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China's Path to InnovationIncluding in-depth industry case studies, this book presents a comprehensive analysis of China's experience in developing technological and innovation capabilities in the past and for the future, along with a wider discussion about what other countries can learn from China's experience.
By Xiaolan Fu
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Choosing the Future: The Power of Strategic ThinkingShowing you how to discover your own ideas and strategic direction, this how-to book will help you achieve success by studying fundamentals such as effective group thinking, knowing when to delay a decision for more information, and much more.
By Stuart Wells
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Circle of the 9 Muses: A Storytelling Field Guide for Innovators & Meaning MakersOffering concrete and actionable guidance for understanding and mastering the most effective storytelling techniques, this practical, step-by-step guide reveals which stories are the right ones to tell and clearly shows how stories can bring employees, customers, and other partners together.
By David Hutchens
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Clausewitz Talks Business: An Executive's Guide to Thinking Like a StrategistDistilling the wisdom of Carl von Clausewitz's monumental 1832 classic On War, this book taps into the universal lessons of strategy to uncover potential solutions to some of the most obstinate competitive problems.
By Norton Paley
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Clean: Lessons from Ecolab's Century of Positive ImpactIn Clean: Lessons from Ecolab's Century of Positive Impact, a team of veteran sustainability experts delivers a practical toolkit for creating a forward-looking and sustainability-focused business.
By Emilio R. Tenuta, Paul C. Godfrey
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Client Relationship Management: Using Relationship Management and Project Service Excellence to Create a Competitive AdvantageInsightful and full of common sense, this book reveals how to truly excel at meeting client needs-and lock in future business, client testimonials, increased referrals and client loyalty.
By David A. Po-Chedley
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Climate Activism: How Communities Take Renewable Energy Actions Across Business and SocietyThis book is testament to a new way of understanding activism as an organizational force that brings about the transition towards sustainability across business and society and is of interest to social science scholars of business, renewable energy and sustainable development.
By Annika Skoglund, Steffen Böhm
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Climate Change Enterprise Risk Management: A Practical Guide to Reaching Net Zero GoalsDevelop and execute a resilient climate change enterprise risk strategy that can be tailored to any organization with this essential guide for risk professionals and business leaders.
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Climate Change, Community Response and Resilience: Insight for Socio-Ecological Sustainability, 1st Edition, Volume 6Climate Change, Community Response, and Resilience: Insight for Socio-Ecological Sustainability, Volume Six presents a fundamental theoretical framework for understanding how community resilience and risk assessment affect climate change adaptation behavior.
By Gouri Sankar Bhunia, Martiwi Diah Setiawati, Rajib Shaw, Soumita Banerjee, Uday Chatterjee
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Climate Change, World Consequences, and the Sustainable Development Goals for 2030Climate Change, World Consequences, and the Sustainable Development Goals for 2030 discusses the impact of climate change on the environment and the prospects for citizens, cities, and industry.
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Climate Future: Averting and Adapting to Climate ChangeThis book shows that given the economic and political realities, it is simply not realistic to expect emission reductions needed to avert substantial global warming.
By Robert S. Pindyck
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Climate Investing: New Strategies and Implementation ChallengesThis edited book consists of a collection of original articles written by leading industry and academic experts in the area of climate investing.
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Co-Innovation Dynamics: The Management of Client-Supplier Interactions for Open Innovation, Volume 20Presenting the daily life story of a collaborative innovation project, this book offers lessons and tips on how to manage the dynamics of collaborative innovation in the client-supplier relationship.
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Coaching for Innovation: Tools and Techniques for Encouraging New Ideas in the WorkplaceFull of models, tips, exercises, and examples, this practical step-by-step guide to coaching provides readers with the tools to maximize creativity and performance in the workplace and to manage innovation options.
By Cristina Bianchi, Maureen Steele
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Code Green: Money-Driven Hospitals and the Dismantling of NursingBy showing the effects of hospital restructuring on nurses' ability to plan, evaluate, and deliver excellent care, this book provides a stinging indictment of standard industry practices that underestimate the contribution nurses make both to hospitals and to patient care.
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Code Halos: How the Digital Lives of People, Things, and Organizations are Changing the Rules of BusinessWith reasoned insight, new data, real-world cases, and practical guidance, this book shows seasoned executives, entrepreneurs, students, line-of-business owners, and technology leaders how to master the new rules of the Code Halo economy.
By Benjamin Pring, Malcolm Frank, Paul Roehrig
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Collaborative Innovation: How Clients and Service Providers Can Work By Design to Achieve ItProviding real-world experience, guidance, and examples, this book provides a practical framework for clients and service providers to work together to overcome challenges and successfully manage, develop, and deliver innovation as a key part of their ongoing service relationship.
By Tony Morgan
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Collective Innovation Processes: Principles and PracticesLooking at innovation in a globalized context, this book deals in terms of the entrepreneur, enterprise, territorial and sectoral systems, and national systems of innovation in which collective innovation processes are formed.
By Dimitri Uzunidis (ed)
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Collective Remembering and the Making of Political CultureThis book illustrates how collective memory is produced and organized, through commemoration, through monuments, and through individuals sharing stories.
By James H. Liu
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Commercializing Innovation: Turning Technology Breakthroughs into ProductsUsing case studies, models, and practical tips, this thorough resource presents a proven step-by-step commercialization process in detail, beginning with a technology assessment and culminating with the successful launch of viable products into the global market.
By Jerry Schaufeld
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Communicating StrategyDesigned to help you communicate your organization's strategy in a compelling, effective way, this guide presents practical information, techniques, tools, tips and exercises to explain and deliver a complete, coherent strategy message.
By Phil Jones
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Company Analysis: Determining Strategic CapabilityA strategic management text on how to appraise corporate strengths and weaknesses.
By David Hussey, Per Jenster
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Competing for Business: Surviving and thriving in competitive marketsThe My Practical MBA Series provides the latest thinking as well as perennial techniques for a range of business challenges. This book identifies five forces affecting competition in an industry, and provides an interesting lens through which to view current and potential competitors.
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Competitive Advantage: Creating and Sustaining Superior PerformanceCompetitive Advantage offers a roadmap to developing a corporate vision that provides competitive advantage and sustains superior organizational performance. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Michael E. Porter
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Competitive Intelligence and the Sales Force: How to Gain Market Leadership Through Competitive IntelligenceBy leveraging the latest research, practitioners' interviews, and companies' best practices along with practical tools and guidelines, this book helps organizations achieve their market-orientation strategy and maintain a sustainable competitive edge.
By Joël Le Bon
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Competitive Intelligence for DummiesHelping readers gather valuable information on the competition, the operational environment, and the target customer, this book explains how to carefully analyze and use this information in decision making processes to gain market share and stay on the cutting edge of an industry.
By Jim Underwood
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Competitive Intelligence for Information ProfessionalsProviding a comprehensive approach to competitive intelligence (CI), this book explores the role of strategic information and intelligence in organizations, offers guidance on how to work strategically with CI, and presents methods for monitoring and analysis with a process-oriented approach.
By Charlotte Håkansson, Margareta Nelke
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Competitive Strategy: Techniques for Analyzing Industries and CompetitorsAn analysis of Michael E. Porter's 1980 book, this resource reveals how it shaped the thinking of corporate leaders for 30 years, and also how it has attracted interest from academics and members of the wider public keen to understand how successful businesses behave.
By Pádraig Belton
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Competitive Supply Chains: A Value-Based Management Perspective, 2nd EditionFeaturing new content and analysis, along with illustrations and examples, this book uniquely focuses on European and Asian companies, which have found innovative ways of orchestrating effective systems.
By Enver Yücesan
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Completing Capitalism: Heal Business to Heal the WorldAnalytically rigorous and eminently practical, this book offers a more complete form of capitalism, one that delivers superior financial performance precisely because it mobilizes and generates human, social, and natural capital along with financial capital.
By Bruno Roche, Jay Jakub
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Confronting Reality: Doing What Matters to Get Things RightUsing engaging, up-to-date case studies, Confronting Reality urges business leaders to adopt a three-point holistic business model that forces them to consider the realities of the changing business world. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Larry Bossidy, Ram Charan
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Construction Project Scheduling and Control, Second EditionBy combining basic fundamentals with advanced techniques alongside the robust analysis of theory, this easy-to-follow guide details all the steps to devise a technologically advanced schedule geared toward streamlining the construction process.
By Saleh Mubarak
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Consumer Voice: The Democratization of Consumption Markets in the Digital AgeThis book proposes a new type of consumer called a voicing consumer, or a voicesumer. This type of consumer is shaping our markets and marketing interactions with the advent of social networking sites in the digital markets.
By S. Umit Kucuk
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Contagious: Why Things Catch OnIn Contagious, Jonah Berger examines the vital role that word of mouth still plays into today's business world, and outlines six principles that can help your business take off. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Jonah Berger
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Contemporary Issues in Sustainable Finance: Creating an Efficient Market through Innovative Policies and InstrumentsThis book is an insightful and timely read for scholars interested in sustainable finance, social impact investing, development finance and alternative finance.
By Helen Chiappini, Mario La Torre
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Contemporary Strategy Analysis: Text and Cases, Seventh EditionProviding theory, along with current real world examples and practice, this clearly written and logical book combines clarity of exposition with concentration on the fundamentals of value creation and an emphasis on practicality.
By Robert M. Grant
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Content Inc.: How Entrepreneurs Use Content to Build Massive Audiences and Create Radically Successful BusinessesContent Inc. provides a revolutionary approach to building a successful business, whether you're starting a business, growing an existing one, or rejuvenating a stagnating operation. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Joe Pulizzi
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Content Inc.: Start a Content-First Business, Build a Massive Audience and Become Radically Successful (With Little to No Money), Second EditionFrom one of today's leading experts in content marketing, this practical resource is the go-to guide to building a solid small business by establishing a loyal audience before you sell products or services.
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Core Radiology: A Visual Approach to Diagnostic Imaging, Second EditionThis edition is more manageable whilst remaining comprehensive in its coverage of topics, including expanded pediatric cardiac surgery descriptions, updated brain tumor classifications, and non-invasive vascular imaging.
By Ellen X. Sun, Jacob C. Mandell, Junzi Shi
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Corporate Biodiversity Management for Sustainable Growth: Assessment of Policies and Action PlansThe book addresses various aspects of corporate actions such as corporate environmental responsibility, green businesses, market-based approaches to biodiversity conservation, and biodiversity trade-offs, and includes concept papers, reviews, and case studies presenting qualitative and quantitative research.
By Amitabh Pandey, Aparna Watve, Ravi Sharma
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Corporate Citizenship and Sustainability: Measuring Intangible, Fiscal, and Ethical AssetsAddressing all issues effectively by subject, this book discusses why business enterprise is a profound thought of good intentions towards the society, which sets apart corporate culture over individual choice.
By Jayaraman Rajah Iyer
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Corporate Crisis Preparedness: Critical Focus AreasA corporate crisis is impossible to predict, and the best line of defense is a good offense of planning, preparation and training for your workforce.
By Skillsoft
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Corporate Environmental Strategy: Theoretical, Practical, and Ethical AspectsThis book is a first step towards understanding the complexity of corporate environmental strategy while explaining the relationships between the numerous dimensions of the concept.
By Voicu D. Dragomir
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Corporate Explorer: How Corporations Beat Startups at the Innovation GameCorporate Explorers Transform Disruption Into Opportunity With This Proven Framework
By Andrew Binns, Charles A. O'Reilly, Michael Tushman
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Corporate Governance Post-Sarbanes-Oxley: Regulations, Requirements, and Integrated ProcessesIncluding checklists, real-world case studies and best practice tips, this authoritative guide thoroughly discusses the new requirements for corporate governance and financial reporting brought about by emerging corporate governance reforms including SOX.
By Zabihollah Rezaee
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Corporate Innovation Strategies: Corporate Social Responsibility and Shared Value Creation, Volume 33This book presents a theoretical development that analyzes the challenges of CSR strategies based on the creation of shared value.
By Nacer Gasmi
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Corporate Security Intelligence and Strategic Decision MakingIncluding real-life examples of where intelligence has been used to support corporate operations, this book outlines the basic theory and supplies practical solutions for implementing an effective intelligence process in any commercial organization.
By Justin Crump
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Corporate Social Responsibility in a Globalizing WorldDemonstrating the impact of global CSR frameworks on corporate behavior, this book proposes a global approach to understanding the rise and spread of corporate social responsibility, explaining the origin of CSR and the reasons for its growing popularity across the globe.
By Alwyn Lim (eds), Kiyoteru Tsutsui
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Corporate Social Responsibility in the Global Business WorldPrimarily based on real cases, this book focuses on different approaches to Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) from a global perspective and provides a critique of the wrong practices often employed even by multinational organizations, and highlights the resultant negative effects.
By Asli Yüksel Mermod, Samuel O. Idowu (eds)
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Corporate Social Responsibility in Times of Crisis: Practices and Cases from Europe, Africa and the WorldPresenting a number of different cases from various parts of Europe, North America and Africa, this book showcases how companies respond to the challenges of the development, consultation, implementation, integration, measurement and consolidation of CSR.
By Adriana Schiopoiu Burlea (eds), Samuel O. Idowu, Stephen Vertigans
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Corporate Social Responsibility is not Public Relations: How to put CSR at the heart of your company and maximize the business benefitsThis book argues that trust is at stake for every organization and is the reason why communications strategies must respond authentically.
By Sangeeta Waldron
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Corporate SustainabilityThis book offers guidance to organizations for considering both shareholder primacy and stakeholder primacy in defining their mission of "profit-with-purpose" and in creating shared value for all stakeholders.
By Zabihollah Rezaee
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Corporate Sustainability: Integrating Performance and ReportingPresenting laws, rules, regulations, standards and best practices, this book examines business sustainability and accountability reporting and their integration into strategy, governance, risk assessment, performance management and the reporting process.
By Ann M. Brockett, Zabihollah Rezaee
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Corporate Turnaround Artistry: Fix Any Business in 100 DaysA complete guide for entrepreneurial companies in times of financial distress, this practical book presents effective strategies and proven methods to revive and rehabilitate your business.
By Jeff Sands
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Countering Fraud for Competitive Advantage: The Professional Approach to Reducing the Last Great Hidden CostAimed at a wide business community and based on solid research, this book presents a compelling business case for investing in anti-fraud measures to counter financial crime, and outlines an approach to help return some of the revenue lost to the cost of fraud.
By Jim Gee, Mark Button
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Creating a Culture of Innovation: Design an Optimal Environment to Create and Execute New IdeasDeconstruct the history of patterns of innovation in business and connect them to existing and failed attempts in management consultancies, engineering, web technologies and academic institutions. This book shows you how to create an optimal environment at work for growth and innovation.
By Alexandra Deschamps-Sonsino
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Creating Business Agility: How Convergence of Cloud, Social, Mobile, Video, and Big Data Enables Competitive AdvantageUsing a series of case studies as examples throughout, this book describes the agility that comes from collaborative commerce, and provides key decision makers the implementation roadmap they need to build a successful business ecosystem.
By Alakh Verma, Rodney Heisterberg
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Creating Competitive Advantage: How to be Strategically Ahead in Changing MarketsThrough tools, practical exercises, case studies, and advice, this thoughtful book provides ideas and information on why, when, and how to successfully anticipate change and therefore, improve strategy in accelerated and fast evolving times.
By Kevin Uphill
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Creating Healthy Workplaces: Stress Reduction, Improved Well-being, and Organizational EffectivenessCreating Healthy Workplaces offers recommendations to guide you in making your workplace friendlier for all company members. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Caroline Biron, Cary L. Cooper, Ronald J. Burke
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Creating the Accountable Organization: A Practical Guide to Improve Performance ExecutionCreating the Accountable Organization is an essential guide for accelerating your organization's evolution into a leaner, stronger, and incredibly agile competitor. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Mark Samuel
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Creating Your Strategic Plan: A Workbook for Public and Nonprofit Organizations, Third EditionFrom setting up the meeting room, to establishing a vision of-and plan for-the future, this indispensable, step-by-step workbook will take readers through every step of the strategic planning process.
By Farnum K. Alston, John M. Bryson
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Creative Business Thinking: Developing the Skills for Thinking Outside the BoxCombining self-study with workplace activities, this book presents a unique learning system that aims to improve your skills and provide you with an opportunity for personal and professional development to achieve success in your role.
By Catherine Mattiske
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Creative Courage: Leveraging Imagination, Collaboration, and Innovation to Create Success Beyond Your Wildest DreamsChallenging you to step outside of your comfort zone and truly make an impact, this insightful book gives you the perspective, courage, and kick start you need to think differently about the things you do every day.
By Welby Altidor
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Creative Execution: What Great Leaders Do to Unleash Bold Thinking and InnovationProfiling extraordinary leaders and the uncommon leadership tactics that are their hallmark, this one-volume manifesto presents tactics, strategies, and calls to action to help any organization shape and apply the dynamics of Creative Execution.
By Eric Beaudan
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Creative Memories: The 10 Timeless Principles Behind the Company that Pioneered the Scrapbooking IndustryCreative Memories presents a set of principles to guide decision-making processes, shape company culture, and build relationships with employees and customers. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Cheryl Lightle, Heidi L. Everett
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Creative Memories: The 10 Timeless Principles Behind the Company that Pioneered the Scrapbooking IndustryThrough the authors' own inspirational story, combined with her proven business strategies and leadership lessons, this book reveals the guiding principles she used to create her scrapbooking empire, teaching readers how to use them to achieve success in their own lives.
By Cheryl Lightle, Heidi L. Everett
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Creative Solutions to Global Business Negotiations, Second EditionOffering valuable insights into the fine points of negotiating and guidelines on delicate issues that can influence a promising deal, this book gives you and other international executives the savvy you need to negotiate with finesse and ease.
By Claude Cellich, Subhash C. Jain
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Creative Strategy Generation: Using Passion and Creativity to Compose Business Strategies That Inspire Action and GrowthUsing compelling stories and examples drawn from music composition to show you how to produce your own "strategic masterpieces," this book is a step-by-step guide to creating truly original and successful business strategies by tapping into one's own creative potential.
By Bob Caporale
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Creative Strategy: Reconnecting Business and InnovationDrawing on experiences and cases from the music industry, sports, fashion, Shakespearean theatre companies, dance and more, this book shows how actively aligning creative and strategic thinking can enable innovation, entrepreneurship, leadership and organizing for the future.
By Chris Bilton, Stephen Cummings
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Creative Thinkering: Putting Your Imagination To WorkThrough step-by-step exercises, illustrated strategies, and inspiring real-world examples, this book shows readers how to liberate their thinking and literally expand their imaginations by learning to synthesize dissimilar subjects, think paradoxically, and enlist the help of the subconscious mind.
By Michael Michalko
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Creativity & Problem SolvingCreativity & Problem Solving explores practical methods for awakening your innate sources of creativity so that you may challenge prevailing ideas at work and in your home life. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Brian Tracy
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Creativity and Data Marketing: A Practical Guide to Data InnovationBy identifying how and why a consumer interacts with touch points beyond paid media, this book presents a creativity and data blueprint on how businesses can make lucrative steps forward to innovate their products, services and communication strategies, laying the groundwork for long-term results.
By Becky Wang
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Creativity and InnovationThis report discusses the reasons innovation has become a corporate priority, including leveraging new technology, improving the customer experience and increasing revenues.
By Donna J. Bear
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Creativity and Problem SolvingContaining mind-stimulating exercises and down-to-earth strategies, this concise, career-changing book reveals 21 proven, practical techniques readers can use to immediately begin generating a stream of productive ideas, and will help anyone tap into the root source of their own intuitive genius.
By Brian Tracy
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Creativity at Work: Developing the Right Practices to Make Innovation HappenLearn how to foster creativity that stimulates innovation and adds value.
By Jeff DeGraff, Katherine A. Lawrence
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Creativity at Work: Supercharge Your Brain and Make Your Ideas StickWith questionnaires and case studies from some of the most creative individuals, this thorough book helps professionals enhance their creativity, making sure they are never stuck for an idea again.
By Ros Taylor
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Creativity in Management Education: A Systemic RediscoveryThe book explains important reflections, implications and guidelines for the nurturing in creativity in management education and life in general.
By José-Rodrigo Córdoba-Pachón
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Creativity, Inc: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True InspirationDrawing on the inspirational success of Pixar Animation, Creativity Inc. is a thrilling roadmap along the path to breathtaking originality and creative excellence. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Amy Wallace, Ed Catmull
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Credit Securitizations and Derivatives: Challenges for the Global MarketsAuthored by leading thinkers from academia, the industry, and the regulatory environment, this book is a comprehensive resource providing extensive coverage of the state of the art in credit secruritizations, derivatives, and risk management.
By Daniel Rösch, Harald Scheule
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Cultural DNA: The Psychology of GlobalizationPresenting groundbreaking original research and the latest evidence from neuroscience, behavioral genetics, and psychology, this book guides leaders through the essential soft skills required to get under the skin and engage an increasingly connected world.
By Gurnek Bains
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Cultural Intelligence: A Guide to Working With People From Other CulturesThis book is is the perfect antidote for overcoming cross-cultural differences, improving workplace communication, building solid business relationships and contributing positively to your organization's bottom line.
By Brooks Peterson
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Cultural Intelligence: Individual Interactions Across CulturesThe authors of this text define cultural intelligence as the ability to generate new and appropriate interpretations and behaviors in response to unfamiliar cultural settings. In this text they present a model for understanding and measuring.
By P. Christopher Earley, Soon Ang
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Cultural Intelligence: Living and Working Globally, Second EditionTeaching us how to disable the "cultural cruise control" that makes us unaware of how our culture affects our perceptions, this book teaches a set of techniques and people skills that allow us to adapt quickly to, and thrive in, any cultural environment.
By David C. Thomas, Kerr Inkson
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Cultural Intelligence: Surviving and Thriving in the Global Village, Third EditionPresenting a universal set of techniques and people skills that will allow you to adapt quickly to, and thrive in, any cultural environment, this book will show you how to discard your own culturally based assumptions and pay careful attention to cues in cross-cultural situations.
By David C. Thomas, Kerr Inkson
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Cultural Translation of Management Philosophy in A: Its Emergence, Transmission, and Diffusion in the Global EraThis book discusses management philosophy based on case studies in companies in Japan, Korea and China.
By Izumi Mitsui
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Customer Centricity: Focus on the Right Customers for Strategic AdvantageIn Customer Centricity, author Peter Fader explores five key components of customer centricity to help you connect with your customers and generate greater profits. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Peter Fader
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Customer Focused Process Innovation: Linking Strategic Intent to Everyday ExecutionRevealing a powerful and proven method for connecting your company's value creation processes to customer-desired products, this book presents you with everything you need to revamp your processes to innovate, grow, and outpace the competition.
By David Hamme
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Customer Innovation: Customer-Centric Strategy for Enduring GrowthPacked with real world examples from leading global companies, this book provides the framework needed to shift from a product-oriented to a solutions-oriented focus and from a transaction-based to a co-creation-based customer relationship.
By Marion Debruyne
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Customer Innovation: Customer-Centric Strategy for Enduring GrowthCustomer Innovation by Marion Debruyne is a guide on increasing the longevity of companies through customer-centric strategies. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Marion Debruyne
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Customer Innovation: Delivering a Customer-Led Strategy for Sustainable Growth, Second EditionWith a spectacular range of case studies, including Disney, LEGO and Johnson & Johnson, all delivered with active takeaways, this is the ultimate resource for any leader, business or marketing strategist, ready to pave the way in a new era of customer led strategy.
By Koen Tackx, Marion Debruyne
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Customer Success: How Innovative Companies Are Reducing Churn and Growing Recurring RevenueToday, Customer Success is the hottest B2B movement since the advent of the subscription business model, and this book is the one-of-a-kind guide that shows you how to make it work in your company. Learn how to kick start your customer-centric revolution and make it stick for the long term.
By Dan Steinman, Lincoln Murphy, Nick Mehta
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Customer-Centric Innovation in Finance: Leveraging Human Insights to Drive Product Innovation in the Digital AgeLearn how to truly understand your finance and fintech customers in the age of web3, open banking and decentralization and innovate to meet their current and future needs.
By Anette Broløs, Erin B Taylor
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Cut Costs Not Corners: A Practical Guide to Staying Competitive and Improving ProfitsIncluding guidance on the practical steps to take and powerful international case studies, this book will give the reader a clear understanding of costs and why they always have to be driven down if a business is to remain competitive and grow.
By Colin Barrow
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Daring to Compete: Accelerate your Business to Market Leadership with EY's 7 Drivers of GrowthThe successful entrepreneur's guide to accelerating growth.
By Bryan Pearce, Diane Foreman, Geoffrey Godding
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Data Mining for Managers: How to Use Data (Big and Small) to Solve Business ChallengesChock-full of engaging stories and case studies involving some of the world's top companies, this detailed book provides streamlined insights and techniques for making the most of the masses of information and mining techniques that technology has enabled.
By Richard Boire
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De Gruyter Handbook of Sustainable Development and FinanceThe De Gruyter Handbook of Sustainable Development and Finance explores the difficult and challenging issues confronting society and the environment, in the contexts of unprecedented climate change, bio-diversity loss and the global pandemic.
By Tapan Sarker, Timothy Cadman
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Decarbonizing Logistics: Distributing Goods in a Low Carbon WorldBased on an up-to-date review of almost 600 publications and containing analytical frameworks and research results, this book outlines the nature and extent of the challenge we face in trying to achieve deep reductions in greenhouse gas emissions from logistical activities.
By Alan McKinnon
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Decide and Deliver: 5 Steps to Breakthrough Performance in Your OrganizationIn Decide and Deliver, authors Paul Rogers, Marcia W. Blenko, and Michael C. Mankins offer a roadmap that leads readers to a destination of sound business decisions. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Marcia W. Blenko, Michael C. Mankins, Paul Rogers
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Deciding Who Leads: How Executive Recruiters Drive, Direct & Disrupt the Global Search for Leadership TalentDeciding Who Leads looks at the role of the executive recruiter, the role of the hiring company, and the issues that may arise when expectations between the two are cloudy. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Joseph Daniel McCool
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Decision-Making in Crisis Situations: Research and Innovation for Optimal TrainingWith a focus on decision-making training through crisis simulation, this book's aim is essentially educational, methodological and practical, and provides a concise review of the major knowledge, methods and innovative tools in this field.
By Sophie Sauvagnargues
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Deep Learning for Sustainable Agriculture, First EditionThe evolution of deep learning models, combined with with advances in the Internet of Things and sensor technology, has gained more importance for weather forecasting, plant disease detection, underground water detection, soil quality, crop condition monitoring, and many other issues in the field of agriculture. agriculture.
By Ramesh Chandra Poonia, Soumya Ranjan Nayak, Vijander Singh
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Democratizing Innovation in Organizations: How to Unleash the Power of CollaborationThis book describes a framework that makes innovation a daily consideration for all. It involves allowing a knowledge network to develop naturally which complements the existing organizational structure making it more organic.
By Philippe Davidson
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Demystifying Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG): Charting the ESG Course in AfricaAddressing a topic at the forefront of global interests in business and development, this book is the first comprehensive book in the world that addresses ESG wholistically.
By Karamo NM Sonko, Mariama Sonko
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Demystifying Strategic Thinking: Lessons from Leading CEOsUsing unique and original interviews with six top business leaders, this book examines the key components of successful strategizing, provides a strategy system for managers and helps them develop and implement a winning strategy for their organization.
By Tony Grundy
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Demystifying Strategy: How to Become a Strategic ThinkerUsing tips, guidelines and practical, goal-oriented exercises, this informative book provides you with not only basic strategic tools and techniques, but also a thorough understanding of the entire process of strategic thinking and management.
By Tony Grundy
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Design Drawing, Third Edition NEW!THE CLASSIC GUIDE TO DRAWING FOR DESIGNERS, REVISED AND UPDATED TO INCLUDE CURRENT DIGITAL-DRAWING TECHNIQUES
By Francis D. K. Ching, Steven P. Juroszek
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Design for Operational Excellence: A Breakthrough Strategy for Business GrowthPresenting the next great leap in the evolution of sustained business growth, this trailblazing book provides the design criteria and guidelines that enable you to grow your business organically by refocusing management's attention from running the business to growing the business.
By Kevin J. Duggan
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Design of Innovation Processes: Flow from Idea to Market Launch with Higher Speed and Value, Time after TimeDesign of Innovation Processes: Flow from Idea to Market Launch with Higher Speed and Value, Time after Time introduces the concept of seeing innovation as a type of process manufacturing operation and offers a coherent set of principles that will accelerate innovation in the chemical processing industries.
By Darrell Velegol
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Designing Knowledge Organizations: A Pathway to Innovation LeadershipAn incisive discussion of the cultural, practice, and social aspects of knowledge management, this text takes an interdisciplinary and original approach to assess and synthesize the disciplines of knowledge management and organizational design.
By Anilkumar Bhate, Ira Sack, Joseph Morabito
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Designing the Future: How Ford, Toyota, and Other World-Class Organizations Use Lean Product Development to Drive Innovation and Transform their BusinessProviding vital lessons any business leader can use as an engine of innovation, this book takes you through the process of bringing the best of Lean management to your enterprise in order to link your business strategy to superior value designed for customers.
By James M. Morgan, Jeffery K. Liker
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Designing the Purposeful World: The Sustainable Development Goals as a Blueprint for HumanityWilson takes the reader on a journey of thought and invites them to work out their personal role in sustainability as well as their collaborative role alongside others in their communities and organisations.
By Clive Wilson
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Destination Facilitation: A Travel Guide to Training Around the WorldRich with tips for creating incredible training experiences around the globe, this insightful book brings together a team of 16 expert trainers who share their knowledge and wisdom on productive training results, whether you're in Abuja or Zurich.
By Donna Steffey
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Developing Business Strategies, Sixth EditionProviding a framework for looking outside the business to sense changes, trends, threats, and opportunities, this virtually inexhaustible resource describes how to implement a dynamic strategy that responds to changing conditions.
By David A. Aaker
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Developing New Products and Services: Learning, Differentiation, and InnovationPresenting a number of powerful concepts and tools to facilitate new product and service development, this book examines the struggle between using extravagant engineering and frugal engineering.
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Developing Successful Business Strategies: Gaining the Competitive AdvantageEmphasizing the principal factors that should be considered in planning and budgeting, this book explains what management and operations personnel must know to better understand effective planning, and what can be done to enhance the overall strategic and financial planning for the organization.
By Rob Reider
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Developing Sustainable Energy Projects in Emerging MarketsThis book sets out a first principles-based approach to developing sustainable projects in markets which are not extensively covered by project finance handbooks and which offer a particular set of challenges to the would-be developer.
By Ugboma
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Digital @ Scale: The Playbook You Need to Transform Your CompanyDigging into more than fifty detailed case studies and years of McKinsey experience and data, the authors, along with a group of expert contributors, show how companies can move beyond incremental change to transform the business where the greatest value is generated-at its core.
By Anand Swaminathan, Jürgen Meffert
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Digital Business Strategy: How to Design, Build and Future-Proof a Business in the Digital AgeDigital Business Strategy is for C-Suite leaders, first-line management, entrepreneurs, SME business owners and students; anyone interested in shaping their team, business, service or proposition to be digitally sustainable and resilient in the present and future digital era.
By Garvan Callan
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Digital Darwinism: Surviving the New Age of Business Disruption, Second EditionThis book guides you through the unrelenting pace of change and uncertainty facing business leaders today.
By Tom Goodwin
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Digital Technology, Politics, and Policy-MakingThis element shows, based on a review of the literature, how digital technology has affected liberal democracies with a focus on three key aspects of democratic politics: political communication, political participation, and policy-making.
By Fabrizio Gilardi
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Digital to the Core: Remastering Leadership for Your Industry, Your Enterprise, and YourselfDrawing on interviews with over 30 top C-level executives in some of the world's most powerful companies and government organizations, including GE, Ford, Tory Burch, Babolat, McDonalds, Publicis and UK Government Digital Service, this book delivers practical insights from those on the front lines of major digital upheaval.
By Graham Waller, Mark Raskino
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Disaster Recovery, Crisis Response, and Business Continuity: A Management Desk ReferenceExplaining exactly what you need to do to set up and run a successful business continuity program, this thorough guide provides the tools, techniques, and templates that will make your life easier, give you peace of mind, and turn you into a local hero when disaster strikes.
By Jamie Watters
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Disciplined Dreaming: A Proven System to Drive Breakthrough CreativityPresenting a five-part process that will transform your organization - or your career - into a non-stop creativity juggernaut, this book shows how to create profitable new ideas, empower all your employees to be creative, and sustain your competitive advantage over the long term.
By Josh Linkner
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Disciplined Dreaming: A Proven System to Drive Breakthrough CreativityIn Disciplined Dreaming, author Josh Linkner suggests that the intelligent path to success is to encourage relentless creativity, which will leave your more complacent competition miles behind. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Josh Linkner
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Disciplined Entrepreneurship: 24 Steps to a Successful StartupDisciplined Entrepreneurship organizes the process of creating a successful startup business into 24 defined steps which skillfully demonstrate that entrepreneurship is a teachable skill. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Bill Aulet
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Disrupt It Yourself: Eight Ways to Hack a Better Business-Before the Competition DoesIn a clear, concise style with expert advice and real-world examples, this book provides a new lens to help companies become faster and more fluid, and offers easy options to tailor the system to each company's unique circumstances.
By Simone Bhan Ahuja
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Disrupt You! Master Personal Transformation, Seize Opportunity and Thrive in the Era of Endless InnovationIn Disrupt You!, author Jay Samit guides you on the journey to personal transformation and, ultimately, success. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Jay Samit
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Disrupt Yourself: Putting the Power of Disruptive Innovation to WorkWhether you are a self-starter ready to make a disruptive pivot in your business, a high-potential individual charting your career trajectory, a manager looking to instill innovating thinking amongst your team, or a leader facing industry changes that make for an uncertain future, this book will help you understand how the frameworks of disruptive innovation can apply to your particular path.
By Whitney Johnson
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Disrupt!: 100 Lessons in Business InnovationExplaining and highlighting the best, most disruptive and most useful innovation ideas of the 21st Century, this book shows which themes underpin their success and which ideas can best be used to drive creativity in your workplace, office or industry.
By James Bidwell
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Disrupting Class: How Disruptive Innovation Will Change the Way the World LearnsWhether you're a school administrator, government official, business leader, parent, teacher, or entrepreneur, this fascinating book will open your eyes to new possibilities, unlock hidden potential, and get you to think differently.
By Clayton M. Christensen, Curtis W. Johnson, Michael B. Horn
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Disrupting Class: How Disruptive Innovation Will Change the Way the World Learns, Expanded EditionFilled with fascinating case studies, scientific findings, and unprecedented insights on how innovation must be managed, this groundbreaking guide will open your eyes to new possibilities, unlock hidden potential, and get you to think differently.
By Clayton M. Christensen, Curtis Johnson, Michael Horn
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Disruption by Design: How to Create Products that Disrupt and then Dominate MarketsBeginning with a quick review of the theory and key elements of the patterns of disruptive innovations and how to identify ideas with disruptive potential, this step-by-step book guides you through the design, build, and go-to-market phases that successful disruptors follow.
By Paul Paetz
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Disruptive Marketing: What Growth Hackers, Data Punks, and Other Hybrid Thinkers Can Teach Us About Navigating the New NormalDisruptive Marketing is a comprehensive look at the marketing challenges of a world where technological advances and customer behavior are intimately linked. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Geoffrey Colon
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Disruptive Marketing: What Growth Hackers, Data Punks, and Other Hybrid Thinkers Can Teach Us About Navigating the New NormalPacked with trends, predictions, interviews with big-think marketers, and stories from a career spent pushing boundaries, this book will propel you out of your comfort zone and into the disruptive mindset you need for future success.
By Geoffrey Colon
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Do More Faster: Techstars Lessons to Accelerate Your Startup, Second EditionProviding time-tested advice, tips, and experiences by founders and mentors of Techstars to help entrepreneurs succeed, this book shares the authors' hard-won successes and failures for anyone with an idea who wants to create a business.
By Brad Feld, David Cohen
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Doing Business in Africa: From Economic Growth to Societal DevelopmentThe book covers a range of emerging trends, academic discussion and evolving issues across the spectrum of business research
By Eric Milliot, Suzanne M. Apitsa
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Doing Business in Emerging Markets: Roadmap for SuccessDevoted to presenting the practical aspects and challenges of doing business in global emerging markets, this book recognizes that there is intense competition among emerging markets to capture their share of the global economy and addresses questions that are germane to accomplishing this goal.
By José Alves, Marcus Goncalves, Rajabahadur V. Arcot
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Doing Business in the ASEAN CountriesTo succeed in any of the ten ASEAN nations, you need to be familiar with their unique business environments. This book provides a framework to understand each country, from political and business systems, to dealing with corruption and other ethical pitfalls.
By Balbir B. Bhasin
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Doing Good By Doing Good: Why Creating Shared Value is the Key to Powering Business Growth and InnovationFeaturing case studies which illustrate the real effect of corporate social responsibility (CSR) on both business and society, this book shows companies how to improve the bottom line by implementing an engaging, authentic, and business-enhancing program that helps staff and business thrive.
By Peter Baines
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Double Double: How to Double Your Revenue and Profit in 3 Years or LessDouble Double will give an open-minded entrepreneur the right strategies to grow faster than they thought possible. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Cameron Herold
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Dream Big and Win: Translating Passion into Purpose and Creating a Billion-Dollar BusinessA guide for how to not only dream big, but also win-both in business and in life-from one of the most celebrated and successful women in America.
By Liz Elting
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Driven by Difference: How Great Companies Fuel Innovation Through DiversityDrawing on success stories from Google, Alibaba, Novartis, and other groundbreaking companies, this research-based book identifies the management practices necessary to guide multicultural teams to innovation.
By David Livermore
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Driven by Difference: How Great Companies Fuel Innovation Through DiversityDriven by Difference by David Livermore we discusses the conditions necessary for culturally intelligent innovation and the five steps to achieve it. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By David Livermore
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Driving Change: The UPS Approach to BusinessDriving Change explores the tumultuous 100-year journey of the United Parcel Service (UPS), and effectively underlines how a company dedicated to its customers can focus its globally diverse workforce on a vision of continuous improvement and employee investment. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Frederick Dalzell, Mike Brewster
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Driving Digital: The Leader's Guide to Business Transformation Through TechnologyEvery company is on the cusp of digital disruption. But with so many pieces to the puzzle, efforts often get derailed. This timely resource is the action plan you need to take your company and career into the future.
By Isaac Sacolick
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Driving Strategy to Execution Using Lean Six Sigma: A Framework for Creating High Performance OrganizationsBolstered by real-world examples, this book details a framework for leveraging an organization's Lean Six Sigma capability in a manner that drives their strategic plans to execution by linking their strategy deployment into the fabric of their day-to-day operations.
By Gerhard Plenert
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Driving Sustainability to Business Success: Management System Integration and AutomationProviding a roadmap to efficient, compliant systems, this book shows businesses how to build toward sustainability goals and capture key knowledge of the employees involved in the process.
By M. Jayne Pilot
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Dynamic Business Strategy: Competing in a Fast-changing, Uncertain ContextThis book discusses the new role of strategy in a dynamic, unpredictable context. Part 1 of this book revisits classical strategy frameworks and what changes should be made to apply them to the modern era.
By François Candelon, Martin Reeves
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Dynamic Capabilities and Strategic ManagementAccessibly written and presented, this book will be an invaluable and stimulating tool for all those who want to understand this important contribution to strategic thinking, be they MBA students, academics, managers, or consultants.
By David J. Teece
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Dynamic Competitive Strategy: Turning Strategy Upside DownIncluding a range of exercises to support reflection and application of the ideas, this book casts a radically new light on competitive strategy by showing you the dynamic dimension of existing strategy tools and new ones created to deal with rapid innovation and turbulent change.
By Tony Grundy
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E-Logistics: Managing Your Digital Supply Chains for Competitive AdvantageE-Logistics examines the history of e-logistics, its role in transportation industries and automation, and the future of information and communication technologies (ICT). In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Steve Pettit (eds), Yingli Wang
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E-Logistics: Managing Your Digital Supply Chains for Competitive AdvantageSupported by industry case studies, this book features international experts from both academia and industry who examine how competitiveness and productivity in transportation, logistics, and supply chain management can be improved using e-logistics systems and technologies.
By Stephen Pettit (eds), Yingli Wang
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Economics for Business: A Guide to Decision Making in a Complex Global MacroeconomyMerging business content with economics, this book is an ideal introduction to economics for MBA students, and explains key concepts while providing the tools needed to make decisions, sustain competitive advantage, and confront business complexities with confidence.
By Ivan K. Cohen
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Economics for Business: A Guide to Decision Making in a Complex Global MacroeconomyIn Economics for Business, author Ivan Cohen unpacks the implications of globalization for businesses big and small, offering valuable information about how to achieve-and maintain-that competitive edge. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Ivan K. Cohen
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Ecorestoration for SustainabilityWith climate change and land degradation advancing at an alarming rate, the state of the global ecosystem and how it can be restored in our march toward sustainability is incredibly important, and this new, groundbreaking volume tackles these important issues head-on.
By Arnab Banerjee, Debnath Palit, Manoj Kumar Jhariya, Surendra Singh Bargali
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Effective Sales Enablement: Achieve Sales Growth Through Collaborative Sales and MarketingUsing case studies and examples from some of the world's largest companies, this book provides an introduction to the development and evolution of sales enablement and shows how the field has been transformed by marketing technologies.
By Pam Didner
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Elevate: The Three Disciplines of Advanced Strategic ThinkingElevate provides practical tools for forward-thinking CEOs, leaders, and managers to lift their skills in strategy to a higher level. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Rich Horwath
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Elevate: The Three Disciplines of Advanced Strategic ThinkingProviding leaders with a framework and toolkit for developing advanced strategic thinking capabilities, this book will enable leaders to finally integrate both strategy and innovation into a strategic approach that drives their profitable growth.
By Rich Horwath
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Elite Minds: How Winners Think Differently to Create a Competitive Edge and Maximize SuccessElite Minds examines the thought processes of those who consistently exhibit peak performance and reveals how to adjust your thoughts, beliefs, and behavior to be your best self. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Stan Beecham
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Elite Minds: How Winners Think Differently to Create a Competitive Edge and Maximize SuccessFilled with power-boosting mental exercises, positive attitude adjusters, and inspiring true stories of individual success, this book provides all the tools you need to set your goals, sharpen your focus, and achieve your personal best.
By Stan Beecham
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Embedding Sustainability: How to Drive Organizational TransformationEmbedding Sustainability charts the journey from purpose, scope and assessment to strategy, implementation and integration. It outlines the steps required to engage and commit employees to deliver to the same goals, creating a workplace where success is achieved through collective effort.
By Lisen Wirén, Pia Heidenmark Cook
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Embracing Ambiguity: A Workforce Training Plan for the Postpandemic EconomyThis book explains about workforce training.
By Michael Edmondson
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Emergency Radiology: The Requisites, 2nd EditionGet the essential tools you need to make an accurate diagnosis in the emergency department! Part of the popular Requisites series, Emergency Radiology: The Requisites delivers the conceptual, factual, and interpretive information you need for effective clinical practice in emergency radiology, as well certification and recertification review.
By Brian C Lucey, Jorge A Soto
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Emerging Green Theories to Achieve Sustainable Development GoalsThis book opens up a critical dimension to the field of industrial ecology.
By Muhammad Jawad Sajid, Syed Abdul Rehman Khan, Yu Zhang
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Emerging Technologies for Innovation Management in the Software IndustryEmerging Technologies for Innovation Management in the Software Industry serves as a resource for technology absorption in companies supporting innovation. This book provides the necessary guidelines of which tools to use and under what situations.
By Chetna Gupta, Varun Gupta
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Employee Engagement: Tools for Analysis, Practice, and Competitive AdvantageProviding advice, tools, and case examples, this guide translates best practices, ideas, and concepts into concrete and practical steps that will change the level of engagement in any organization.
By Benjamin Schneider, Karen M. Barbera, Scott A. Young, William H. Macey
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Employment Law: A Practical Introduction, 3rd EditionEmployment Law offers a complete overview of the core components that form the interactions between an organization, its employees and the HR function.
By Elizabeth Aylott
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EMPOWERED: Ordinary People, Extraordinary ProductsBy tackling the reason why most companies fail, this book shows you how to become the leader your team and company needs to not only survive but thrive.
By Marty Cagan
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Encountering the Chinese: A Modern Country, An Ancient Culture, Third EditionProviding a comprehensive cross-cultural guide to Chinese culture, this straightforward, practical, and sensitive book offers insights on how best to communicate and interact with Chinese people in both business and social contexts.
By Cornelius N. Grove, Hu Wenzhong, Zhuang Enping
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Energy Shift: Game-Changing Options for Fueling the FutureSupported by the latest studies, articles, and research, this forward-thinking book is a one-stop resource for busy executives and senior policymakers who need a reliable, accessible guide to the big strategy questions surrounding energy.
By Eric Spiegel, Neil McArthur, Rob Norton
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Energy Storage Applications in Transmission and Distribution GridsThis Element provides a theoretical basis along with examples and real-world case studies to guide grid planners in the siting, sizing, and lifetime techno-economic evaluation of storage systems.
By Hisham Othman
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Engaged! Outbehave Your Competition to Create Customers for LifeENGAGED! provides a highly-readable roadmap to creating inspired workers and customer relationships that last. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Gregg Lederman
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Ensuring Adaptability and Delivering Results: Focusing on Drive, Delivery and PerformanceThe My Practical MBA Series provides the latest thinking as well as perennial techniques for a range of business challenges. This concise guide discusses how adapting methods in the light of experience is an important aspect of leadership and may often mean having the courage to stand-alone.
By LID Editorial
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Enterprise Growth Strategy: Vision, Planning and ExecutionPresenting the total process of a growth strategy, this unique guide describes it from vision to mission, including development, implementation of initiatives, use of tools, and measurement of both operational and financial outcomes.
By Dhirendra Kumar
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Enterprise Relationship Management: A Paradigm For Alliance SuccessProviding an excellent overview of the tools, techniques and philosophies behind an enterprise's successful management of its strategically important relationships, this book will help ensure your organization has the requisite ability to form, manage, retire and exit partnerships in a fluid and agile way.
By Andrew Humphries, Richard Gibbs
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Entrepreneurial Strategic ManagementFor any manager who is looking to make his/her company more competitive in the new economy, this book sets out a new framework for understanding the dynamics of the marketplace and the need to respond strategically through implementation.
By Ken R. Blawatt
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Entrepreneurship and the Community: A Multidisciplinary Perspective on Creativity, Social Challenges, and BusinessThis book highlights research on the importance of communities and their role in providing an entrepreneurial ecosystem that promotes innovation and business activities.
By Vanessa Ratten
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Entrepreneurship for the Rest of Us: How to Create Innovation and Opportunity EverywhereEntrepreneurship for the Rest of Us provides best-practice guidance for aspiring entrepreneurs and for companies looking to innovate through entrepreneurship. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Paul B. Brown
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Entrepreneurship for the Rest of Us: How to Create Innovation and Opportunity EverywhereBased on extensive research, this book reveals the best practices of the most successful entrepreneurs, those who are adept at continually innovating and seeing opportunity where others do not.
By Paul B. Brown
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Environmental Policy for Business: A Manager's Guide to Smart RegulationIn the context of the worldwide concern with the sustainability, this book provides a guide to the new world of environmental regulation for managers within business and students with a particular interest in understanding how environmental regulation works.
By Martin Perry
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EPIC Change: How to Lead Change in the Global AgeBased on a landmark study of 53 cases of large-scale organizational change in various sectors, this important resource provides leaders with new research-based tools to increase and sustain the energy of any change effort.
By Timothy R. Clark
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Equip Healthcare Practitioners for TelemedicineThis book refers how L&D professionals need to transition from programs focused on in-office visits to supporting healthcare practitioners in telehealth.
By Katie Voss Mohamed
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Escape From System 1: Unlocking The Science Behind The New Way Of InnovationIn this surprisingly myth-busting book, Andreas Raharso debunks the assumption that human beings can continue thinking bigger and creating better as long as we have the right tools.
By Dr. Andreas Raharso
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ESG Mindset: Business Resilience and Sustainable GrowthLearn to think critically about environmental, social and corporate governance (ESG) and take a holistic approach to business that balances change with long-term organizational resilience and sustainable growth.
By Matthew Sekol
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Essential Issues in Corporate Social Responsibility: New Insights and Recent IssuesThis book presents the latest evidence on, and new approaches to, the development of Corporate Social Responsibility in emerging and established economies.
By Cătălina Sitnikov, Samuel O. Idowu
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Essentials of Strategic Management: The Quest for Competitive Advantage, Seventh EditionSolidly mainstream and balanced, mirroring both insights of academic thought and real-world strategic management, this book presents concise, straight-to-the-point discussions, and timely examples, with a writing style that captures student interest.
By Arthur A. Thompson, Jr., John E. Gamble, Margaret A. Peteraf
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Essentials of Strategic Planning in Healthcare, Second EditionProviding the knowledge and tools necessary for future organizational success, this book includes study questions and realistic exercises, as well as a comprehensive case study you can use to work through the entire strategic planning process.
By Jeffrey P. Harrison
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Essentials of Strategic Planning in Healthcare, Third EditionEssentials of Strategic Planning in Healthcare is a complete guide to developing and implementing a strategic plan.
By Jeffrey P. Harrison
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Ethics in Health Services and Policy: A Global ApproachApplying a cross-border approach, this book analyzes ethical issues that arise from the movement of patients and health professionals across national borders, such as medical tourism and transplant tourism, ethical obligations to provide care for undocumented aliens, and more.
By Dean M. Harris
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Everyday Enterprise Architecture: Sense-making, Strategy, Structures, and SolutionsThis book reveals how business and enterprise architects can deliver fast solutions to an always-on-the-go business world.
By Tom Graves
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Evolution of Global Electricity Markets: New Paradigms, New Challenges, New ApproachesFeaturing the perspectives of more than 40 of the brightest minds in the industry, this comprehensive, cutting-edge resource provides invaluable global perspective on the new and pressing issues being investigated by research institutions worldwide.
By Fereidoon P. Sioshansi (ed)
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Evolving Innovation Ecosystems: A Guide to Open Idea Transformation in the Age of Future TechIllustrated with case studies throughout, this book presents an explicit innovation process that shows how to move from a breakthrough idea through a process that encourages innovative thinkers to test their assumptions, validate hypotheses, and tune and tweak their ideas.
By Carol L. Stimmel
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Executing Global Projects: A Practical Guide to Applying the PMBOK Framework in the Global EnvironmentProviding pointers for existing or aspiring managers and project managers, this book identifies some of the most significant complexities faced by project managers when attempting to implement the PMBOK framework in global projects.
By James W. Marion, Tracey M. Richardson
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Execution IS the Strategy: How Leaders Achieve Maximum Results in Minimum TimeExecution IS the Strategy shows how to quickly build a limber plan, and how to build your business to adjust to the constantly changing business environment. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Laura Stack
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Execution IS the Strategy: How Leaders Achieve Maximum Results in Minimum TimeIncluding a leadership team assessment, group reading guides, and bonus self-development resources, this book shows you how to quickly drive strategic initiatives and get great results from your team.
By Laura Stack
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Execution: The Discipline of Getting Things DoneFor CEOs and those in senior leadership roles, Execution takes you through the building blocks and processes that challenge you to become a better leader, communicator, and mentor, and thus better able achieve the goals you have set. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Charles Burck, Larry Bossidy, Ram Charan
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Expanding Customer Service as a Profit Center: Striving for Excellence and Competitive AdvantageGeared toward those interested in providing excellent customer service in all aspects of your operations by doing the right thing despite the counter pressure within your organization, this practical book is a how-to manual for identifying and maintaining customer-service excellence.
By Rob Reider
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Experience Skype to the Max: The Essential Guide to the World's Leading Internet Communications PlatformShowing you how to make the most of Skype's full range of features on any device, this essential guide presents tips and tricks for saving time, saving money, and fostering better communication at work or in your personal projects.
By Jim Courtney
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Exponential Organizations: Why New Organizations are Ten Times Better, Faster, and Cheaper Than Yours (and What to Do About It)Exponential Organizations delves into maneuvering through today's business world, where traditional factors like prestige, company size, and present sales data isn't enough to guarantee a company's long-term success. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Michael S. Malone, Salim Ismail, Yuri Van Geest
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Exporting: Key Considerations for International Business Growth-Products, Communication, Brands, Trade Shows, Channels, Culture, and CashAddressing the fears and risks associated with exporting, this concise book reassures readers that international growth is available to any business that conducts in-depth research, adopts the right attitude, and develops a comprehensive strategy.
By John Blaskey, Laurent Houlier
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Extreme Teams: Why Pixar, Netflix, Airbnb, and Other Cutting-Edge Companies Succeed Where Most FailTimes change, and so must teams. Designing and managing high-performance teams requires upgrading outdated beliefs and behaviors, and spurring a level of intensity and collaboration that lets them face down any challenge. This book will show you how.
By Robert Bruce Shaw
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F.I.R.E.: How Fast, Inexpensive, Restrained and Elegant Methods Ignite InnovationIn F.I.R.E., Dan Ward demonstrates with wit and passion how simple, lean solutions often deliver much better results than their most expensive and complex counterparts. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Dan Ward
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Fashion Logistics: Insights into the Fashion Retail Supply Chain, Second EditionRetailers are being advised to review their supply chains in a bid to accelerate their speed to market. This essential resource assesses the growth and changes in the industry as well as the drivers of change in the market.
By David B. Grant, John Fernie
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Faster Disaster Recovery: The Business Owner's Guide to Developing a Business Continuity PlanWith thought-provoking questions that enable you to explore their particular situation, this book provides a 10-step approach for business owners on creating a disaster recovery plan (from both natural and man-made events).
By Jennifer H. Elder, Samuel F. Elder
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Fearless Growth: The New Rules to Stay Competitive, Foster Innovation, and Dominate Your MarketsIn Fearless Growth, author Amanda Setili discusses rules to help you maintain a competitive advantage and increase momentum in a constantly changing world. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Amanda Setili
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Fearless Growth: The New Rules to Stay Competitive, Foster Innovation, and Dominate Your MarketsPacked with practical examples, tools, and guidance, this book provides new rules to enable your company to adapt faster, move faster, and grow faster.
By Amanda Setili
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Finance Unleashed: Leveraging the CFO for InnovationFast moving, to the point, and rooted in first-hand executive experiences, this book is for people of vision and action, and for creating the conditions required for growth, innovation, and increased competitive advantage.
By Kelly Barner, Magnus Lind
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Finance, Society and Sustainability: How to Make the Financial System Work for the Economy, People and PlanetA critical analysis of the impact of the financial system on the economy, society and the natural environment, this book cuts through the noise to looks at its purpose, its activities, and what it does in practice.
By Nick Silver
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Financial Innovation: Too Much or Too Little?Considering the key ingredients of financial innovation from both academia and industry, this book discusses the positive potential, and also the risks of financial innovation and the influence of producers on consumers.
By Michael Haliassos
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Finding the Next Steve Jobs: How to Find, Hire, Keep and Nurture Creative TalentFinding the Next Steve Jobs provides useful insights and tips to help you understand how to find, employ, and retain creative individuals and thereby enhance the overall creativity of your organization. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Gene Stone, Nolan Bushnell
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FinTech Innovation: From Robo-Advisors to Goal Based Investing and GamificationAn examination of the rise of financial technology and its growing impact on the global banking industry, this book presents analysis of the current banking evolution and offers clear insight into what happens when established economic interests collide with social transformation.
By Paolo Sironi
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Fit for Growth: A Guide to Strategic Cost Cutting, Restructuring, and RenewalDrawing on 70-plus years of strategy consulting experience and in-depth research, the experts at PwC's Strategy& lay out a winning framework that helps CEOs and senior executives transform their organizations for sustainable, profitable growth.
By Deniz Caglar, John Plansky, Vinay Couto
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Fizz: Harness The Power of Word of Mouth Marketing to Drive Brand GrowthYour one-stop guide to making your brand the talk of the town, this practical and engaging book reveals everything you need to know to create, drive, measure, and leverage word of mouth for maximum impact on the bottom line.
By Ted Wright
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Forecasting FundamentalsWritten to provide the fundamentals business leaders need in order to make good forecasts, this book provides the basic foundational principles all companies need to achieve competitive forecast accuracy.
By Nada R. Sanders
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Fostering Creativity in Self and the Organization: Your Professional EdgeExploding the myth that creative people are born rather than developed through practice and hard work, this book helps individuals and their organizations learn to maximize creative potential.
By Eric W. Stein
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Fostering Sustainability in Corporate Governance: Analysis of the EU Sustainable Corporate Governance and Due Diligence DirectivesThe effects of climate change on the one hand, and government promises to achieve sustainable development on the other, are only two examples of the factors driving businesses to incorporate sustainability into their business strategies.
By Salvatore Principale
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Foundations of Sustainability: Theory, Function, and StrategyWith discussion questions, illustrative diagrams, ethical dilemmas, managerial insights, and on-point Harvard Business Review cases, this user-friendly book provides a comprehensive, balanced introduction to sustainable business that integrates sustainable policies into all core business functions.
By John D. Wood, Nada R. Sanders
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Frame Innovation: Create New Thinking by DesignDescribing a new, innovation-centered approach to problem-solving in organizations, this book presents strategies that are drawn from the unique, sophisticated, multilayered practices of top designers, and from insights that have emerged from fifty years of design research.
By Kees Dorst
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From Business Strategy to Information Technology Roadmap: A Practical Guide for Executives and Board MembersFrom Business Strategy to Information Technology Roadmap is a practical guide on how to define your organization's business strategy and design its IT roadmap. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Andrew Pham, David K. Pham, Tiffany Pham
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From Business Strategy to IT Action: Right Decisions for a Better Bottom LinePresenting CEOs, CFOs, CIOs, and IT managers with a powerful and accessible resource packed with useful material, this book gives companies of all sizes the tools to effectively link IT to business strategy and produce effective, actionable strategies for bottom-line results.
By Robert J. Benson, Thomas L. Bugnitz, William B. Walton
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From Idea to Innovation: A Handbook for Inventors, Decision Makers and OrganizationsThroughout From Idea to Innovation author Bernd X. Weis offers a systematic scrutiny of the journey of innovation, from the first inkling of a creative idea to the delivery of an end product that consumers love and want. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Bernd X. Weis
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From Idea to Innovation: A Handbook for Inventors, Decision Makers and OrganizationsUsing numerous easy-to-use tools to enable straightforward analyses of the different factors, this book assists in bringing together the three stakeholders of an innovation - inventor, decision maker and organization.
By Bernd X. Weis
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From Impossible to Inevitable: How Hyper-Growth Companies Create Predictable RevenueIn From Impossible to Inevitable, authors Ross and Lemkin provide an organized method for achieving success by distilling seven ingredients of hypergrowth based on the lessons learned from the extremely successful companies they explored. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Aaron Ross, Jason Lemkin
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From Single to Scale: How a Single Person, Small Business, or an Entrepreneur Can Grow Their Business to ProfitTeaching you how to scale via three pragmatic and practical laws that have proven results, this book provides a play-by-play resource that maps out the scaling process with examples, sales copy, pre-written email sequences, and more.
By Michael Killen
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Full-Spectrum Strategic Leadership: Being on the Cutting Edge through Innovative Solutions, Integrated Systems, and Enduring RelationshipsDescribing theories, constructs, models, insights, and practices based on multifaceted perspectives and holistic management, this book demonstrates how strategic leaders, senior managers, business professionals, aspiring young business leaders, and management students can make dramatic improvements in their endeavors, enrich their knowledge and capabilities, and learn the essential perspectives of strategic leadership and management.
By David L. Rainey
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Fully Staffed: The Definitive Guide to Finding & Keeping Great EmployeesThis book will give you an edge over your competitors by enabling you to streamline your hiring process, expand your brand awareness through job advertising, build a pipeline of qualified candidates ready to fill positions before they re even vacant, and refine your hiring funnel so that these superstar employees stay with you for the long haul.
By Eric Chester
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Fundamentals of Body CT, 5th EditionFrom recent advances in helical CT techniques to new developments in lung cancer screening to optimized CT techniques in musculoskeletal diagnosis, Fundamentals of Body CT, 5th Edition, covers the essential information you need to know to effectively perform and interpret CT scans.
By Nancy M. Major, MD, W Richard Webb, MD, Wiliam E. Brant, MD, FACR
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Fundamentals of Clinical Trials, Fifth EditionThis book is intended for the clinical researcher who is interested in designing a clinical trial and developing a protocol.
By Christopher B. Granger, Curt D. Furberg, David L. DeMets, David M. Reboussin, Lawrence M. Friedman
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Fundamentals of Oncologic PET/CTFundamentals of Oncologic PET/CT, by Dr. Gary A. Ulaner, offers an organized, systematic introduction to reading and interpreting PET/CT studies, ideal for radiology and nuclear medicine residents, practicing radiologists, medical oncologists, and radiation oncologists.
By Gary A. Ulaner
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FUSE - Foresight-Driven Understanding, Strategy and Execution: Move the FutureMost existing businesses plan for a world that is straightforward and static; unfortunately, the world does not work that way. In an increasingly complex and uncertain world, the FUSE framework explained in this book provides a way to tackle problems while incorporating uncertainty into the analyses.
By Devadas Krishnadas
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Fusion Economics: How Pragmatism Is Changing the WorldGrounded and straightforward, this book calls for a turn away from economic systems dangerously steeped in ideology and stymied by politics, and outlines a new global consensus based on pragmatism, common sense, and grass-roots realities.
By Laurence J. Brahm
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Future Design: Incorporating Preferences of Future Generations for SustainabilityThis book discusses imaginary future generations and how current decision-making will influence those future generations.
By Tatsuyoshi Saijo
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Future Files: The 5 Trends That Will Shape the Next 50 YearsFilled with provocative forecasts, this guide examines emerging patterns and developments in society, technology, economy and business and makes educated speculations and entertaining extrapolations about where these trends may take us.
By Richard Watson
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Future First: How Successful Leaders Turn Innovation Challenges into New Value FrontiersThrough real-life business examples ranging from Nike to Opower, this practical book lays out how to identify and adopt the future first leadership mindset and business capabilities required to achieve lasting and integrated performance results.
By Alice Mann
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Future Forward: Leadership Lessons from Patrick J. McGovern, the Visionary Who Circled the Globe and Built a Technology Media EmpireTelling the story of IDG's astonishing success and how it has been a source of inspiration for entrepreneurs all around the world, this book reveals how you can apply its people-first principles, insights, and integrity to your own organization.
By Glenn Rifkin
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Future Ready: Your Organization's Guide to Rethinking Climate, Resilience, and SustainabilityA must-read guide for executives, board members, ESG professionals, and other business and infrastructure organization leaders, Future Ready belongs in the hands of anyone who finds themselves responsible for helping an organization achieve their environmental, social, and governance goals.
By Alastair MacGregor, Tom Lewis
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Future Shaper: How Leaders Can Take Charge in an Uncertain WorldPeppered with quotes and examples of iconic future shapers (past and present), this insightful book will improve your leadership intelligence, help you succeed in your leadership career and empower you to shape a better future for everyone.
By Niamh O'Keeffe
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Gambling on Green: Uncovering the Balance among Revenues, Reputations, and ESGAre you an investor who wants to make the world a better place while getting stronger returns? Are you an executive building a sustainable business and seeking increased revenue? Are you curious about ESG and what it means for your community or organization? Then this book is for you!
By Keesa C. Schreane
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Game Theory at Work: How to Use Game Theory to Outthink and Outmaneuver Your CompetitionThis is an accessible guide to applying game theory to every facet of business in order to improve strategy and decision making and emerge as a tougher competitor in the business world.
By James Miller
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Game Theory: Anticipating Reactions for Winning ActionsAvoiding overly complicated formal definitions and terminology, this primer will examine games played against ones' competitors, against ones' employees, against oneself, bargaining situations, and how to get the most out of cooperative teams.
By Mark L. Burkey
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Game-Changer: Game Theory and the Art of Transforming Strategic SituationsGame-Changer introduces you to the world through the lens of game theory and shows you how to transform the game to gain an edge over your competition. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By David McAdams
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Gamechangers: Are You Ready to Change the World? Creating Innovative Strategies for Business and BrandsSupported by a range of seminars, workshops and digital resources, this book looks at the brands and businesses, large and small, who are changing the game and shows how we can learn the best new approaches to strategy and leadership, innovation and marketing from them.
By Peter Fisk
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Games in Management Science: Essays in Honor of Georges ZaccourThis book covers a large spectrum of cutting-edge game theory applications in management science in which Professor Georges Zaccour has made significant contributions.
By Pierre-Olivier Pineau, Sihem Taboubi, Simon P. Sigué
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GDP: A Brief But Affectionate History, Revised and Expanded EditionTracing the history of this artificial, abstract, complex, but exceedingly important statistic, this book makes the case that GDP was a good measure for the twentieth century but is increasingly inappropriate for a twenty-first-century economy driven by innovation, services, and intangible goods.
By Diane Coyle
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Germany: Unraveling an EnigmaIllustrating how cultural characteristics structure German communication patterns, this book will be valuable for those living in Germany, as well as those wishing to understand the dynamics of cross-cultural interaction between Germans and Americans.
By Greg Nees
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Get to Aha! Discover Your Positioning DNA and Dominate Your CompetitionGet to Aha! shows you how to discover your company's DNA, implement it, and strive for success. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Andy Cunningham
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Get to Aha!: Discover Your Positioning DNA and Dominate Your CompetitionPresenting a clear, step-by-step framework that will help you determine your company's precise position in the marketing landscape, this book will show you how to create a branding and marketing strategy that will build market momentum and crush the competition.
By Andy Cunningham
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Getting Things DoneGetting Things Done for the modern professional who wants to learn how to set aside the chaos-and just get things done. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Rus Slater
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Getting to Innovation: How Asking the Right Questions Generates the Great Ideas Your Company NeedsOffering the tools to help every company tap into its most inspired thinking, this detailed guide will help you take the critical first step in formulating creative and useful ideas.
By Arthur B. VanGundy
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Global Account Management: A Complete Action Kit of Tools and Techniques for Managing Big Customers in a Shrinking WorldHighlighting the significant challenges of Global Account Management, this guide brings the reader through the process of the decisions and actions required to make it a success.
By Peter Cheverton
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Global Airlines: Competition in a Transnational Industry, Third EditionCovering issues such as security, no frills airlines, open skies agreements, the outcome of the recent downturn in economic activity and the emergence of transnational airlines, this book presents an overview of the changing scene in air transport.
By Pat Hanlon
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Global and Transnational Business: Strategy and ManagementA comprehensive review of global business and strategy.
By David Campbell, George Stonehouse, Jim Hamill, Tony Purdie
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Global Asset Management: Strategies, Risks, Processes, and TechnologiesOffering a go-to reference on the asset management industry, this book provides a serious resource for readers seeking greater depth and alternative opinions on specific industry developments, and breadth for specialists interested in the dynamics of the industry.
By Ingo Walter (eds), Michael Pinedo
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Global Brand Strategy: World-wise Marketing in the Age of BrandingIncluding case studies from around the world, this provocative and timely book will equip you with techniques for developing strategy, organizing execution, and measuring results so that your brand will prosper globally.
By Jan-Benedict Steenkamp
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Global Business and Corporate Governance: Environment, Structure, and ChallengesIntended to familiarize a broad range of students, professors, business executives and other interested parties with the cutting-edge trends and practices of today's managerial activities, this book highlights the tools used by the global corporations by addressing the means that will make future managers successful in their corporate operations.
By John Thanopoulos
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Global Business Ethics: Responsible Decision Making in an International ContextTaking a fresh look at one of the key foundations of business--the need to conduct business responsibly, sustainably, and within a sound ethical framework, this in-depth book is a guide for ethical decision making within the international business landscape.
By Guy Murfey, Ronald D. Francis
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Global Business Ethics: Responsible Decision Making in an International ContextGlobal Business Ethics provides background and supporting information on the importance of ethics in business, as well as best practices on the implementation of ethical behavior. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Guy Murfey, Ronald Francis
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Global Business in the Age of TransformationThis book presents a straightforward commentary on the transformative impact of this global interconnective state of economies, business sectors, governments, and cultures.
By James R. Klein, Mahesh Joshi
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Global Business IntelligenceA key resource for researchers, academics, students and policy makers alike, this book assembles a cast of international experts and thought leaders and explores the implications of business intelligence on contemporary management.
By J. Mark Munoz
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Global Business Management: A Cross-cultural PerspectiveBy clarifying and explaining culture, cultural misunderstandings, and cross-cultural interactions, this book clearly shows how to develop the cross-cultural expertise to succeed in a world of rapid and profound economic, political, and cultural changes.
By Abel Adekola, Bruno S. Sergi
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Global Business: Competitiveness and SustainabilityAddressing the benefits and pitfalls of globalization, this useful text reviews international business practices from the multinational firm perspective, and provides pathways forward concerning competitiveness and sustainability in global markets.
By G. Jason Goddard, Riad A. Ajami
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Global China as MethodThis Element seeks to illuminate the ways in which the country and people form an integral part of the global capitalist system. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
By Ivan Franceschini, Nicholas Loubere
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Global Complex Project Management: An Integrated Adaptive Agile and PRINCE2 LEAN Framework for Achieving SuccessProviding an integrated framework that is lean, agile, flexible, and adaptable to virtually any complex project, this unique reference is from two recognized thought leaders and developers of proven approaches within the diverse world and practices of project management.
By Colin Bentley, Robert K. Wysocki
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Global Content Marketing: How to Create Great Content, Reach More Customers, and Build a Worldwide Marketing Strategy that WorksTechnology has virtually erased national borders, forever transforming the way we reach and engage customers, as well as the way we search for and consume content. This practical guide takes you step-by-step through the process of creating and refining your strategies to meet this new reality.
By Pam Didner
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Global E-Waste Management Strategies and Future ImplicationsGlobal E-waste Management Strategies and Future Implications provides in-depth information about the global E-waste problem and the potential opportunities.
By Shashi Arya, Sunil Kumar
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Global Economy In Turbulent TimesProviding an absorbing account of the state of the world during the Great Recession years since 2008, this book offers fresh and entertaining perspectives on perennial economic problems, while explaining how the worldwide economy is broken and offering various paths to repair.
By Lin See-Yan
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Global Governance in Transformation: Challenges for International CooperationThis book analyzes the state of global governance in the current geopolitical environment.
By Adrian Pabst, Leonid Grigoryev
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Global Information Warfare: The New Digital Battlefield, Second EditionFocusing on threats, vulnerabilities, attacks, and defenses from the perspectives of various players such as governments, corporations, terrorists, and private citizens, this book provides a critical update on the nature and approaches to global information warfare.
By Andrew Jones, Gerald L. Kovacich
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Global Kata: Success Through the Lean Business System Reference ModelProviding an excellent perspective on the current state of Lean with its focus on manufacturing tools and principles, this book leads readers through the rethinking, understanding, and integrating of all of the visible and invisible requirements for a successful adaptive systematic and sustainable management process of improvement.
By Terence T. Burton
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Global Logistics and Supply Chain ManagementEncompassing both practical and strategic perspectives, this essential book will enable readers to 'do' logistics and understand the role of logistics and supply chain management in the wider business context.
By Chandra Lalwani, John Mangan, Tim Butcher
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Global Logistics Strategies: Delivering the GoodsExamining how the logistics industry has developed, this essential guide reveals how it is influenced by macro-economic factors and demand-side trends, what the risks are to the industry and how it will develop over the coming years.
By John Manners-Bell
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Global Logistics: New Directions in Supply Chain Management, Seventh EditionRepresenting the current trends, best practice and latest thinking in global logistics, this book serves as a forum, allowing the contributors - a range of acknowledged sector specialists - to discuss key logistics issues and share their authoritative views.
By Donald Waters, Stephen Rinsler (eds)
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Global Marketing Management, 5th EditionRevealing that the realities of international marketing are more multilateral, this clearly written guide prepares students to become effective managers overseeing global marketing activities in an increasingly competitive environment.
By Kristiaan Helsen, Masaaki Kotabe
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Global Mergers and Acquisitions: Combining Companies Across BordersTaking readers through all steps of a global merger or acquisition, including targeting companies, closing optimal deals, enterprise valuation and due diligence, this book explains how to maximize shareholder value through executing post-merger initiatives that will harmonize the structure and performance of the transformed enterprise.
By Abdol Soofi, Yuqin Zhang
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Global Networks: Engineering, Operations and DesignWritten in an accessible style, this fully illustrated, comprehensive guide provides an in-depth look at the current and developing trends, as well as examines the complex issues of developing, introducing, and managing cutting-edge telecommunications technologies.
By Keith Cambron
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Global Outsourcing and Offshoring: An Integrated Approach to Theory and Corporate StrategyIntegrating academic theories from diverse fields, including Economics, Strategy, and Industrial Organization, this book considers which activities or functions should be outsourced, and in which nation a particular function or operation is best performed.
By Farok J. Contractor, Sumit K. Kundu, Torben Pedersen (eds), Vikas Kumar
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Global Perspectives in Workplace Health PromotionHealthcare systems worldwide are facing intense cost pressures due to the increase in chronic disease and unhealthy lifestyles. This book highlights how 21 key countries are addressing these challenges by focusing on specific areas regarding workplace health promotion.
By Robert C. Karch (eds), Wolf Kirsten
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Global Perspectives on Corporate Governance and CSRUsing a wealth of case studies, theoretical models, and drawing on knowledge and perspectives of experts around the world, this book discusses regional and cultural similarities and differences, differing legal frameworks and governance codes, and more.
By David Crowther (eds), Guler Aras
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Global Perspectives on Information Security Regulations: Compliance, Controls, and AssuranceGlobal Perspectives on Information Security Regulations: Compliance, Controls, and Assurance summarizes current cybersecurity guidance and provides a compendium of innovative and state-of-the-art compliance and assurance practices and tools.
By Guillermo A. Francia III, Jeffrey S. Zanzig
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Global Production: Firms, Contracts, and Trade StructureUsing an integrated approach, this authoritative resource provides a fully comprehensive overview of the complicated issues facing multinational companies and their global sourcing strategies.
By Pol Antràs
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Global Project Management Handbook: Planning, Organizing, and Controlling International Projects, Second EditionPacked with charts, tables, figures, and case histories from many different countries, this step-by-step guide demonstrates how PM concepts and techniques can be applied in various political, cultural, and geographical settings.
By David I. Cleland, Roland Gareis (eds)
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Global Project Management: Communication, Collaboration and Management Across BordersFilled with real-life examples and techniques, this book describes how to adapt your organisation and your projects to thrive in a global multi-cultural environment, where most communication is in writing and asynchronous.
By Jean Binder
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Global Securities Markets: Navigating the World's Exchanges and OTC MarketsPacked with tables and listings to help investors of all types easily locate the information they need to make the right choices, this quick and easy-to-follow book is an indispensible index for working the securities markets to their fullest extent.
By George W. Arnett III
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Global Sourcing and Supply Management Excellence in China: Procurement Guide for Supply ExpertsProviding readers a holistic and pragmatic approach towards supply management in China, this book elaborates on how supply management should integrate the optimum level, and a combination of quality, cost and delivery.
By Brian Terry, Marc Helmold
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Global Strategic Planning: Cultural Perspectives for Profit and Nonprofit OrganizationsPresents the impact of culture on the strategic planning process in both for-profit and non-profit sectors, including social responsibility, business ethics, benchmarking, global strategies, entrepreneurship, and technology issues.
By Marios Katsioloudes
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Global Supply Chain Ecosystems: Strategies for Competitive Advantage in a Complex WorldExploring the latest market trends and industry developments across emerging, developing, and developed markets, this book presents practical insights that will help companies capitalize on market opportunities, overcome supply chain challenges, and make better informed business decisions.
By Mark Millar
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Global Supply Chain Management: Leveraging Processes, Measurements, and Tools for Strategic Corporate AdvantageIf you're serious about competing today--and in the future, this book gives you the know-how and tools to dramatically boost supply chain efficiency by making it a core element of your overall corporate strategy.
By David Closs, David Frayer, Tomas Hult
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Global Supply Chain Quality Management: Product Recalls and Their ImpactPresenting detailed case studies of six extended global supply chains within three industries, this book outlines an event study methodology that can help readers determine the true financial impact of a product recall announcement, and also describes how to conduct controlled experiments to determine the effect of various recall strategies on consumers.
By Barbara B. Flynn, Xiande Zhao (eds)
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Global Sustainable Communities HandbookClearly explaining the most cutting edge green technologies, this is a guide for understanding and complying with the various international codes, methods, and legal hurdles surrounding the creation of sustainable communities all over the world.
By Woodrow W. Clark II (ed)
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Global Talent Management: Challenges, Strategies, and OpportunitiesBridging the research and practice of global talent management, this book opens important theoretical and practical avenues to understand the concept internationally while focusing on developing and emerging countries.
By Akram Al Ariss (ed)
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Global Trade Strategies: Interacting with Trade Institutions and BusinessesThis book concerns everyone dealing with market selection, market strategies, and trade policy. The reader will be able to develop global strategies based on trade information and trade flows analysis.
By Claude Cellich, Michel Borgeon
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Global Trends and Transformations in Culture, Business, and TechnologyThis book is a valuable reference for business leaders, managers, students, and all those who are passionate about understanding the rapidly changing contemporary world.
By Hamid Yeganeh
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Global Vision: How Companies Can Overcome the Pitfalls of GlobalizationGlobal Vision offers a critical analysis of the globalization process and lays bare the failures of the majority of businesses undertaking global expansion. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Robert Salomon
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Globalising Your Strategy: Developing Profitable International OperationsThe My Practical MBA Series provides the latest thinking as well as perennial techniques for a range of business challenges. This concise guide explains that a global strategy should focus on how to develop a strategy for profitable international operations.
By LID Editorial
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Globalization and Egalitarian RedistributionThis book, by sixteen of the world's leading authorities in international economics and the welfare state, suggests a surprisingly different set of consequences: Globalization does not preclude social insurance and egalitarian redistribution--but it does change the mix of policies that can accomplish these ends.
By Michael Wallerstein, Pranab Bardhan, Samuel Bowles
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Globalization: Strategies and EffectsUsing cutting-edge theory and empirical analysis of channels of international interaction, this book presents new knowledge about the strategies of entrepreneurs, domestic and multinational firms, governments, and international organizations facing increasing globalization.
By Bent Jesper Christensen, Carsten Kowalczyk
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Glow: How You Can Radiate Energy, Innovation, and SuccessIllustrated with dozens of examples and personal stories, this inspiring book explores how pockets of energy and innovation are created in organizations and zeroes in on how you can become a source of energy and innovation yourself.
By Lynda Gratton
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Glow: How You Can Radiate Energy, Innovation, and SuccessGlow, by Lynda Gratton discusses the three principles a person must apply to "Glow" and the actions they would take in support of each principle. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Lynda Gratton
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Going Horizontal: Creating a Non-Hierarchical Organization, One Practice at a TimeOffering a practical, proven method to help organizations of all kinds and sizes ease in to a non-hierarchical model, this book explains how organizations can become more adaptive, collaborative and innovative, which is vital in today's highly competitive and constantly-evolving world.
By Samantha Slade
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Good Derivatives: A Story of Financial and Environmental InnovationFilled with provocative ideas, fascinating stories, and valuable lessons, this engaging book will provide both an insightful interpretation of the last forty years in capital and environmental markets and a vision of world finance for the next forty years.
By Richard L. Sandor
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Governance and Sustainability: International PerspectivesThis book explores the concepts of sustainability and governance in relation to the governance of corporations - hence the ubiquity of the term corporate governance - and other bodies.
By David Crowther, Shahla Seifi
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Governance in the Digital Age: A Guide for the Modern Corporate Board DirectorUsing a strong pedagogical format to foster understanding and enjoyment, this book seeks to chart the technology-fueled changes taking place in the field of corporate governance and describes the impact these changes are having on boards and the enterprises they govern.
By Brian Stafford, Dottie Schindlinger
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Government Transparency: State of the Art and New PerspectivesThis Element argues that to understand why transparency "works" in one context, but fails in another, we have to take into account how institutional (macro), organizational (meso) contexts interact with individual behavior (micro).
By Albert Meijer, Gregory Porumbescu, Stephan Grimmelikhuijsen
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Great Inventions that Changed the WorldExamining the role of inventors and inventions in fueling innovation and global advancement, this book will help readers understand the impact of inventions throughout history, and guide the next generation of citizens, decision makers, and inventors.
By James Wei
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Great Work, Great Career: How to Create Your Ultimate Job and Make an Extraordinary ContributionGreat Work, Great Career shows job seekers and professionals how to build on their strengths and passions to identify and actualize a career path that provides true satisfaction and fulfillment. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Jennifer Colosimo, Stephen R. Covey
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Green and Sustainable Finance: Principles and Practice in Banking, Investment and Insurance, Second EditionApply green and sustainable finance principles and best practice in banking, investment and insurance to aid the transition to a low-carbon world and maximize new opportunities.
By Simon Thompson
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Green Energy Systems: Design, Modelling, Synthesis and ApplicationsGreen Energy Systems: Design, Modelling, Synthesis and Applications provides a comprehensive introduction to the design, modeling, optimization and application of predictable and alternative energy systems.
By Akash Kumar Bhoi, Naresh Bangari, Ratnesh Tiwari, Thanikanti Sudhakar Babu, Vikas Dubey, Vinod Kumar Singh
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Green Giants: How Smart Companies Turn Sustainability into Billion-Dollar BusinessesExamining nine companies that are merging social responsibility with wild profitability, this book reveals the six factors responsible for their success, and serves as a blueprint for sustainable success that anyone can follow.
By E. Freya Williams
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Green Logistics: Improving the Environmental Sustainability of Logistics, 3rd editionExamining ways to achieve a more sustainable balance between economic, environmental, and social objectives, this book aims to provide a broad overview of technical, managerial, economic and policy aspects of green logistics.
By Alan McKinnon, Anthony Whiteing (eds), Maja Piecyk, Michael Browne
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Green Production Engineering and Management, First EditionGreen Production Engineering and Management is an interdisciplinary collection of the latest advances from academia and industry on the management of production engineering in a green and responsible way.
By Carolina Machado, J Paulo Davim
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Green Six Sigma: A Lean Approach to Sustainable Climate Change InitiativesThis book is an eye-opening resource, perfect for anyone responsible for sustainability or climate change initiatives at their organisations, NGOs or regulatory agencies.
By Ron Basu
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Green Sustainable Process for Chemical and Environmental Engineering and Science: Methods for Producing Smart PackagingThe book addresses issues related to the production of smart packaging, including marketing and environmental impacts of these new products.
By Dr. Inamuddin, Jorddy Neves Cruz, Tariq Altalhi
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Greening the Global EconomyExploring how much energy will be needed in a range of industrialized and developing economies, this book examines what kinds of industrial policy will maximize investment and support private and public partnerships in green growth so that a clean energy transformation can unfold without broad subsidies.
By Robert Pollin
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Grow by Focusing on What Matters: Competitive Strategy in 3 CirclesBy explaining the 3-Circle Model framework to analyze a current market situation and look ahead to the future, this book seeks to study and uncover ways to provide value for customers that competitors have simply not understood, and perhaps ways that have always been there for the taking.
By James H. Davis, Joel E. Urbany
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Growing Pains: Building Sustainably Successful Organizations, 5th EditionOffering an insightful and practical toolkit for managing organizational growth, this definitive guide identifies the underlying factors that promote long term success, and provides a framework for successfully managing the transitions of growth.
By Eric G. Flamholtz, Yvonne Randle
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Growing Your Company's Leaders: How Great Organizations Use Succession Management to Sustain Competitive AdvantageOffering the results of a study of five global leaders in succession strategy, this book shows readers what these and sixteen other high-profile organizations are doing to identify, secure, and prepare the next generation of leaders.
By Jay A. Conger, Robert M. Fulmer
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Growth Dynamics in New Markets: Improving Decision Making Through Model-Based ManagementAn innovative simulation-based approach for strategic decision making when launching new products, this groundbreaking book contains a dynamic case study and simulations that reveal what it takes to successfully introduce a product into a new market.
By Martin F.G. Schaffernicht, Stefan N. Groesser
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Growth in the Age of Complexity: Steering Your Company to Innovation, Productivity, and Profits in the New Era of CompetitionProviding a new lens on growth and a critical set of strategies for navigating a complex world, this book is an invaluable tool for achieving growth and maintaining a competitive advantage in virtually any business.
By Andrei Perumal, Stephen A. Wilson
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Growth Through Innovation: Managing the Technology-Driven EnterpriseAs the speed of technology is steadily increasing only radical innovation can be the name of the game. This book discusses technology and innovation trends by looking into historical examples and telling the latest business stories.
By Mareike Heinzen, Roman Boutellier
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Guide to Business PlanningGuide to Business Planning supplies you with practical tools, based on established methods, to create and present a detailed and persuasive business plan. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Graham Friend, Stefan Zehle
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Gurus on Business StrategyThis one-stop guide summarizes key strategic concepts, describes contributions to the field by leading thinkers, and provides detailed checklists to help you develop your own business strategies.
By Tony Grundy
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Hacking Marketing: Agile Practices to Make Marketing Smarter, Faster, and More InnovativeWhether you're an experienced marketing manager updating your skill set or a newcomer looking to gain a foothold in the current marketplace, this one-of-a-kind resource reveals the parallels between marketing and software development - and shows how marketers can borrow and adapt successful ideas from software management to lead marketing more effectively in a digital world.
By Scott Brinker
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Handbook of Energy and Environmental SecurityHandbook of Energy and Environmental Security educates the reader about the wider dimensions of the distinctive yet intertwined subjects of ‘energy security and ‘environmental security'.
By Muhammad Asif
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Handbook of Global and Multicultural NegotiationDemonstrating how to become a culturally-sensitive problem solver, this comprehensive resource offers a wealth of in-depth advice and proven strategies for conducting effective cross-cultural negotiations.
By Christopher W. Moore, Peter J. Woodrow
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Handbook of Research on Algae as a Sustainable Solution for Food, Energy, and the EnvironmentThe Handbook of Research on Algae as a Sustainable Solution for Food, Energy, and the Environment provides insight into the biotechnological and biorefinery aspects of algae together with their unique applications in the agriculture and pharmaceutical industry.
By Imran Ahmad, Mostafa M. El-Sheekh, Norhayati Abdullah
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Handbook of Research on Changing Dynamics in Responsible and Sustainable Business in the Post-COVID-19 EraThe Handbook of Research on Changing Dynamics in Responsible and Sustainable Business in the Post-COVID-19 Era provides valuable insight of the significant changes caused by the COVID-19 pandemic in terms of defining, characterizing, presenting, and understanding the meaning, challenges, and implications of responsible and sustainable business.
By Cristina Raluca Gh. Popescu
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Handbook of Research on Green Synthesis and Applications of NanomaterialsThe Handbook of Research on Green Synthesis and Applications of Nanomaterials provides a multidisciplinary approach to the awareness of using non-toxic, eco-friendly, and economical green techniques for the synthesis of various nanomaterials, as well as their applications across a variety of fields.
By Nnabuk Okon Eddy, Rajni Garg, Rishav Garg
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Handbook of Research on Interdisciplinary Studies on Healthcare, Culture, and the EnvironmentThe Handbook of Research on Interdisciplinary Studies on Healthcare, Culture, and the Environment presents innovative ideas and emerging research to highlight critical trends focusing on the relationship between healthcare, environmental wellbeing, and society and culture.
By Mika Markus Merviö
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Handbook of Smart Energy SystemsThis handbook analyzes and develops methods and models to optimize solutions for energy access (for industry and the general world population alike) in terms of reliability and sustainability.
By Enrico Zio, Michel Fathi, Panos M. Pardalos
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Handbook of Sustainable Concrete and Industrial Waste Management: Recycled and Artificial Aggregate, Innovative Eco-friendly Binders, and Life Cycle AssessmentThe Handbook of Sustainable Concrete and Industrial Waste Management summarizes key research trends in recycling and reusing concrete and industrial waste to reduce their environmental impact. This volume also includes important contributions in collaboration with the CRI-TEST Innovation Lab, Naples - Acerra.
By Francesco Colangelo, Ilenia Farina, Raffaele Cioffi
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Handbook of Sustainable DevelopmentThis book provides guiding principles and diagnostic tools for transformation, generates knowledge about sustainable organizational designs.
By Radha Sharma
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Handbook of Technology and Innovation ManagementContaining an up-to-date overview of the key developments in technology and innovation management, this timely handbook explores how organizations can achieve more sustainable growth by better management of technologies & innovation processes.
By Scott Shane (ed)
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Harnessing Sovereign Wealth Funds in Emerging Economies toward Sustainable DevelopmentSovereign Wealth Funds are government investment vehicles that have been present for decades. They are usually characterized by minimum information disclosure, however, this situation differed after worldwide events shed light on the role they possess to mitigate their downturns.
By Mohammad Habibur Rahman, Mona Mostafa El-Sholkamy
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Have a Plan: Business Continuity During a Global CrisisNorm Ford, VP of Operations for Compliance Solutions and Donna McEntee, Workplace Safety and Health Solution Manager, both at Skillsoft discuss how a Business Continuity Plan addresses contingencies for every aspect of the business that could be affected during a global crisis.
By Donna McEntee, Norm Ford
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Healing the Wounds: Overcoming the Trauma of Layoffs and Revitalizing Downsized OrganizationsProviding a precise and concise set of instructions for coping with "layoff survivor sickness," Healing the Wounds is the definitive work on dealing with the trauma of downsizing for individuals and organizations. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By David Noer
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Healing the Wounds: Overcoming the Trauma of Layoffs and Revitalizing Downsized Organizations, Revised and UpdatedCombining front-line case studies and original research that deals with both downsized organizations and layoff survivors, this book offers clear guidelines and much-needed perspective on personal and organizational revitalization following layoffs.
By David M. Noer
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Health Information Management: Principles and Organization for Health Information Services, Sixth EditionFeaturing illustrative examples and in-depth case studies, this comprehensive introduction to the study and development of health information management (HIM) provides fundamental guidelines on content and structure, analysis, assessment, and enhanced information.
By Margaret A. Skurka
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Health Policy Issues: An Economic Perspective, Eighth EditionHealth Policy Issues: An Economic Perspective uses concise, topical chapters to provide a comprehensive overview of the forces influencing healthcare financing and delivery.
By Glenn Melnick, Paul J. Feldstein
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Healthcare Disrupted: Next Generation Business Models and StrategiesProviding an in-depth look at the disruptive forces driving change in the healthcare industry, this book gives companies options for how to adapt and stay relevant and outlines four new business models that can drive sustainable growth and performance.
By Anne O'Riordan, Jeff Elton
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Healthcare Strategic Planning, Fourth EditionWith examples from actual healthcare organizations adding real-life detail and reinforcement, this book provides core insights into strategic planning practice and theory and shows how those insights can be applied to healthcare organizations.
By John M. Harris (ed)
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Healthcare Supply Chain Management: Basic Concepts and PrinciplesWhether you are a healthcare policy maker, hospital administrator, pharmaceutical company manager, or other healthcare professional, this book provides you with practical guidance for leveraging supply chain principles to better manage healthcare resources and control healthcare costs.
By Hokey Min
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Herding Chickens: Innovative Techniques for Project ManagementWith both project management professionals and novices in mind, the authors of this book provide humorous but ultimately informative insights and advice regarding the practical, day-to-day aspects of project management.
By Dan Bradbary, David Garrett
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Hidden In Plain Sight: How to Find and Execute Your Company's Next Big Growth StrategyRevealing the innovative processes of such organizations as BMW, Zara, General Electric Healthcare, and Frito-Lay, this book introduces an innovation and growth model that will help you become an unbiased observer of consumption and usage behaviors.
By Erich Joachimsthaler
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High Commitment, High Performance: How to Build A Resilient Organization for Sustained AdvantageStressing the importance of focusing on both economic and organizational health, this important book provides a much-needed map for leaders who aspire to develop sustained high performance and commitment.
By Michael Beer
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High Performance Manufacturing: Global PerspectivesLearn how manufacturing procedures are perceived in the business world at present.
By Barbara B. Flynn (eds), Roger G. Schroeder
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High Velocity Innovation: How to Get Your Best Ideas to Market FasterShowing how companies can accelerate growth, this practical book presents a framework for driving innovation that overcomes roadblocks, cultural barriers, and the pressure to sustain the current business.
By Katherine Radeka
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High-Impact Human Capital StrategyExamining 12 critical forces that must be considered in human capital strategy, this book includes case studies and step-by-step guidelines that help you move beyond hiring-training benefits functions to develop strategies that deliver measurable value in the face of ongoing challenges.
By Jack J. Phillips, Patricia Pulliam Phillips
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Hiring Greatness: How to Recruit Your Dream Team And Crush the CompetitionContaining valuable insider strategies and tactics, this book takes you behind the scenes of one of the world's most profitable and secretive industries, meticulously showing how any organization can make monumental hiring decisions that lead to massive success.
By David E. Perry, Mark J. Haluska
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Hoshin Kanri for the Lean Enterprise: Developing Competitive Capabilities and Managing ProfitShowing you the mechanics of implementing hoshin kanri, this workbook will help you systematically improve your brand equity, implement Lean manufacturing and Six Sigma, and integrate your suppliers into a Lean and Six Sigma organization.
By Thomas L. Jackson
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Hoshin Kanri: The Strategic Approach to Continuous ImprovementHoshin Kanri teaches a highly visual structure to business owners and CEOs that promotes efficiency across all planes of the company. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By David Hutchins
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Hospitality: A New Dawn in Sustainability & ServiceThis book is an introduction to one of the fast-developing core pillars in business, sustainability, as well as how it is closely tied into the concept of service.
By Chris Sheppardson
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Hotel Revenue Management: The Post-Pandemic Evolution to Revenue StrategyThis book guides the reader from the building blocks of revenue management, to pricing science and merchandising, and to broader issues of setting objectives in support of a revenue strategy.
By Dave Roberts
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How Asian Women Lead: Lessons for Global CorporationsBy highlighting obstacles Asian women face in reaching the top, while looking beneath the corporate surface to show cultural and family perspectives, this book offers a new perspective to help business leaders and human capital professionals understand leadership diversity, build inclusive and engaged organizations, and sustain success.
By Jane Horan
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How Innovation Really WorksIncluding the 7 misconceptions about innovation trends and how to avoid the ones that don't work, this book shows you how to use Research Quotient to determine which R&D investments are most likely to drive growth to better utilize the innovation tools you're already using.
By Anne Marie Knott
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How Innovation Really WorksHow Innovation Really Works explores how R&D can be used to drive your company to business prosperity. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Anne Marie Knott
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How Strong Is Your Firm's Competitive Advantage? Second EditionPresenting the Five Forces Model which identifies the characteristics that can help insulate a firm from competitive forces, this book will help the firm who seeks to put together a business plan, or the firm who is considering opportunities for diversification, an understanding of this model.
By Daniel Marburger
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How to be a Brilliant Thinker: Exercise Your Mind and Find Creative SolutionsHow to be a Brilliant Thinker is an essential guide to an often-overlooked part of succeeding in business: cultivating the mind. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Paul Sloane
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How to Castrate a Bull: Unexpected Lessons on Risk, Growth, and Success in BusinessWith colorful examples and anecdotes, this book presents a story for everyone interested in understanding business, the reasons why companies succeed and fail, and how powerful lessons often come from strange and unexpected places.
By Dave Hitz, Pat Walsh
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How to Cost and Price Competitive BidsMost companies develop pricing methods through trial and error. Avoid this costly, frustrating process by using the proven methods in this handbook. The GovEssentials collection from Books24x7 is offered in partnership with Management Concepts.
By James C. Taylor
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How to Create High-Performing Innovation TeamsHow to create high-performing innovation teams provides practical guidance and advice on how to create high-performing teams regardless of type or size of company, organization, or public institution. It offers the reader pivotal tools and insights to use in practice.
By Mikael Johnsson
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How to Go Digital: Practical Wisdom to Help Drive your Organization's Digital TransformationThis book offers advice on how companies can succeed in the new digital business environment.
By MIT Sloan Management Review
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How to Think Strategically: Upskilling for Impact and Powerful StrategyThis book will help you understand what it means to "be strategic" and how to craft strategy that is effective, clever, and powerful. It provides numerous real-world examples of individual strategic thinkers in action.
By Greg Githens
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How to Treat New IdeasProviding tips that will inspire and equip any leader to become an innovation hero, this book shows you the important steps you can take to become more self-aware and to treat new ideas and those who suggest them with the respect and consideration they deserve.
By David Magellan Horth, Michael T. Mitchell
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How We Make Stuff Now: Turn Ideas into Products That Build Successful BusinessesIncluding fascinating case studies of successful startups, this step-by-step DIY guide shows you how the smartest entrepreneurs overcome obstacles, solve challenges, and rise above the competition to deliver innovative products that consumers can't resist.
By Jules Pieri
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HR Analytics and Innovations in Workforce PlanningShowing you how to create immense added value in any organization, this book sets out new approaches, formulas, and software needed to enable any HR function or organization to forecast trends and to existing retrospective data to their advantage.
By Tony Miller
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HR Strategy: Creating Business Strategy with Human Capital, 2nd EditionFocusing on HR as a key driver of competitive advantage and sustainable success, this book demonstrates how to create a winning HR strategy by predicting the results you expect to see and developing a workable, measurable plan for managing human capital.
By Paul Kearns
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Human Capital and Global Business StrategyProviding first-hand case studies and examples to help bring theoretical topics to life, this book will provide business leaders and HR professionals with new insights into how to improve business performance through a unique, strategic approach to human capital.
By Fermin Diez, Howard Thomas, Richard R. Smith
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Human-Centered Service Design for Healthcare Transformation: Development, Innovation, ChangeThis book explores the use of human-centered service design. Through a variety of case studies and best practices, it highlights ways to systematically improve the provision of healthcare services to different target and age groups in order to understand customer expectations and needs.
By Mario A. Pfannstiel
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Humanizing Healthcare: Hardwire Humanity into the Future of HealthOffering a powerful road map for real reform, this book is a clear, compassionate guide to how the industry can transform to embody a more human perspective and use it as a collective north star that will positively impact all stakeholders.
By Summer Knight
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I Have a Strategy (No, You Don't): The Illustrated Guide to StrategyWith keen insight and a rapier wit, this simply designed and illustrated book takes on the serious and often misunderstood topic of business strategy, and seeks to get everyone on the same page, using the same definitions for the same words in no time at all.
By Howell J. Malham Jr.
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Idea Stormers: How to Lead and Inspire Creative BreakthroughsDrawing on the author's work leading high-stakes ideation sessions at over 300 organizations, this indispensable guide will help you develop original, practical solutions to even the most intractable-seeming creative challenges.
By Bryan W. Mattimore
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Igniting Customer Connections: Fire Up Your Company's Growth By Multiplying Customer Experience & EngagementBased on data and stories drawn from dozens of top brands and thousands of consumers, this book provides expert insights about connecting with customers effectively across all channels and over time, and explores the benefits of a new approach that enables companies to connect with customers, rather than just talk at them.
By Andy Frawley
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Impact of Open Innovation on the World EconomyImpact of Open Innovation on the World Economy is an essential reference source that provides examinations on issues of open innovation in the context of organizations and its links to entrepreneurship, strategy, and marketing.
By Orlando Lima Rua
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Implementing Key Account Management: Designing Customer-Centric Processes for Mutual GrowthRigorously researched, well-grounded and practical, this highly practical book is - quite simply - the definitive, go-to resource for implementing key account management programs.
By Javier Marcos, Mark Davies, Rodrigo Guesalaga, Sue Holt
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Implementing Strategic Change: Managing Processes and Interfaces to Develop a Highly Productive OrganizationFeaturing examples of over 400 companies in a range of industries, this book offers productivity improvement tools to analyze process activities and rigorous and detailed methods to reengineer processes and make change successful.
By Danny Samson, Tom Bevington
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Implementing Virtual Design and Construction using BIM: Current and Future PracticesImplementing Virtual Design and Construction using BIM outlines the team structure, software and production ecosystem needed for an effective Virtual Design and Construction (VDC) process through current real world case studies of projects both in development and under construction. It provides the reader with a better understanding of the successful implementation of VDC and Building Information Modeling (BIM), and the benefits to the project team throughout the design and construction process. For readers already familiar with VDC, the book will provide invaluable examples of best practices and real world solutions.
By Cheryle Cranbourne, Kyla Farrell, Lennart Andersson, Oleg Moshkovich
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Improv to Improve Healthcare: A System for Creative Problem-SolvingThis book will guide your team to creatively problem-solve, build emotional and social intelligence, increase workplace safety and employee retention, and guarantee client satisfaction
By Candy Campbell
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Improve Your Communication Skills: How to Build Trust, Be Heard and Communicate with ConfidenceThis book is your practical guide to effective communication in business.
By Alan Barker
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Improving and Strengthening Grant Making Organizations : New Directions for Philanthropic Fundraising, No. 45Today, grant makers question how to select grant recipients, assess success in their grants, and how to measure their own management. This issue shares questions and invites others to suggest solutions to improve and strengthen grant-making organizations.
By Cathlene Williams, Eugene R. Wilson (eds), Joanne B. Scanlan, Lilya Wagner
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Improving Health Care Management at the Top: How Balanced Boardrooms Can Lead to Organizational SuccessBased on case studies in the healthcare sector, this book reveals a working strategy that explores a well-kept secret of top management: that a more balanced gender distribution on the boards of healthcare organizations results in an improvement of the organizations overall performance.
By Milan Frankl, Sharon Roberts
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Improving Sustainability Through Information Governance NEW!Leveraging Information Governance to Boost Sustainability offers a comprehensive exploration of Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) frameworks through the lenses of people, process, and technology.
By Max Rapaport, Phyllis Elin
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In Defense of Public Service: How 22 Million Government Workers will Save our RepublicRecounting the evolution of the professional civil service as an antidote to widespread cronyism, this book offers examples of how it has served as a bulwark against powerful corrupting influences, and describes the role it can play in bringing our badly divided society together.
By Cedric L. Alexander
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In Search for the Soul of International BusinessThought provoking, witty, and innovative, this book offers ground-breaking insights and perspectives to inspire real-life understanding and soulful applications in the business and marketing realm.
By Michael R. Czinkota
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In the Shower with Picasso: Sparking Your Creativity and ImaginationWith practical tips and tricks to help you lead a more creative and imaginative life at work and home, this book inspires us to work harder with our creativity both as individuals and companies, and contains wonderful stories of people from different backgrounds and how they find and use their creativity.
By Christian Stadil, Lene Tanggaard
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In the Shower with Picasso: Sparking Your Creativity and ImaginationIn the Shower with Picasso presents a series of innovative success stories as a means to explore how imagination functions and the various ways in which anyone can learn to become more creative. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Christian Stadil, Lene Tanggaard
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In Their Own Hands: How Savings Groups Are Revolutionizing DevelopmentProviding clear guidelines for how to develop and carry out initiatives that work, this book is for those who are already working for change abroad and at home, seeking a better way to do development that avoids dependency and helps achieve transformative change.
By Jeffrey Ashe, Kyla Jagger Neilan
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In Your Creative Element: The Formula for Creative Success in BusinessPacked with case studies and tips from creative experts and organizations, this book provides inspiration and practical advice for readers who recognize that creativity is essential for business success, but who do not know where to begin to unlock their creative potential.
By Claire Bridges
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Inclusive Leadership: A Framework for the Global EraContaining ideas and concepts illustrated with many real-life examples, this insightful management book introduces an inspirational new ethics-oriented approach to business and leadership for current and future leaders.
By Peter A. Wuffli
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Indian Business CultureProviding an objective look at the complexities of conducting business in India, this insightful book is ideal for those who want to understand India and its people better, and to enhance their chances of being successful in business in India.
By Rajiv Desai
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Industry 4.0 Technologies for Environmental Sustainability: Intended and Unintended ConsequencesThe goal of this book is to provide a deeper understanding of how Industry 4.0 technologies can benefit or harm the environmental sustainability of companies.
By Adele Parmentola, Ilaria Tutore
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Industry 4.0: Entrepreneurship and Structural Change in the New Digital LandscapeAnalyzing Industry 4.0 under a global perspective, focusing on the most advanced economies, this book brings together the options for future industrial development that is technologically possible and provides a qualitatively new impetus to economic growth.
By Askar Sarygulov, João Leitão, Tessaleno Devezas
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Industry Overview: Aerospace and DefenseIn this overview of The Aerospace and Defense Industry, we discuss the history of the industry, how the World Wars evolved much of the technology, and the changes we can expect to see in the coming decades. We also explore industry profiles, challenges facing the industry, and how digitization has impacted aerospace.
By Skillsoft
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Industry Overview: AgricultureIn this overview of The Agriculture Industry, we discuss how agriculture has evolved from traditional, local family farms to corporate farming and what's known as "large-scale agriculture" or "industrial farming." We also explore the industry profiles, as well as the challenges currently facing the industry and possible solutions.
By Skillsoft
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Industry Overview: Automotive IndustryIn this overview of The Automotive Industry, we explore how the automotive space has changed since its first seeds back in 1885 to today's complex industry. We examine the industry's great successes, most significant challenges, and the key players that have shaped it.
By Skillsoft
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Industry Overview: Banking IndustryIn this overview of The Banking Industry, we discuss how banking fundamentals have been affected by globalization, regulation, and technology. We also explore the essentials of the industry, banking business profiles, and the challenges facing the industry.
By Skillsoft
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Industry Overview: BiotechnologyIn this overview of The Biotech Industry, we examine the history of the biotech industry over the last 150 years. We also explore today's industry leaders and review the challenges the industry faces in the new millennium.
By Skillsoft
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Industry Overview: Broadcasting & EntertainmentIn this overview of the broadcasting and entertainment industry, we discuss the progression and current state of broadcasting and entertainment, giving attention to its structure and components, as well as the products that each industry sector provides. We also explore the main dynamics and drivers of the industry as well as its primary challenges.
By Skillsoft
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Industry Overview: Capital MarketsIn this overview of The Capital Markets Industry, we discuss the basic functions of capital markets, how they have evolved over time, the challenges they face, and their influence on the global economy.
By Skillsoft
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Industry Overview: ChemicalsIn this overview of the Chemicals industry, we discuss how chemical manufacturing evolved because of advancements in polymer science and emerging global economies. We also explore chemical industry profiles and the challenges facing the industry.
By Skillsoft
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Industry Overview: Chemicals, 2022 UpdateIn this overview of the chemical industry, we explore the subsectors of the industry, its key trends and value chain, and the ever-increasing importance of sustainability. Finally, we discuss the impact of digital transformation and COVID-19 and who the industry's biggest players are in 2022.
By Skillsoft
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Industry Overview: Consumer ElectronicsIn this Industry Overview on consumer electronics, we examine current trends within the industry, as well as the history of consumer electronics from the early days of radio to the latest advancements in smartphone and wearable device technology. We also explore challenges faced by the industry and key developments industry leaders are leveraging in the face of an increasingly competitive marketplace.
By Skillsoft
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Industry Overview: Education IndustryIn this overview of the education industry, we examine the industry essentials, including its history and major business factors. We'll also look at the industry profile-its business model, individual sectors, participants, and competitive landscape-as well as the past, current, and future challenges facing the industry.
By Skillsoft
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Industry Overview: Food and BeverageIn this overview of The Food and Beverage industry, we explore the industry's main sectors, its business drivers, and its challenges. We also examine the industry's future and profile several key competitors.
By Skillsoft
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Industry Overview: Information Technology IndustryIn this overview of The Information Technology Industry, we discuss the technology milestones that chronicle the industry and the prevailing IT industry business drivers, segments, trends, and challenges. We also explore the profound role digital transformation has on the industry.
By Skillsoft
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Industry Overview: Insurance IndustryIn this overview of the insurance industry, we discuss how insurance manages risk in the digital age, along with the unique challenges and opportunities brought on by technology.
By Skillsoft
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Industry Overview: ManufacturingIn this overview of the Manufacturing Industry, we discuss how manufacturing has evolved-from the Industrial Revolution through Industry 4.0-and how modern advances allow the industry and its processes to continue evolving.
By Skillsoft
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Industry Overview: Natural ResourcesIn this overview of the natural resources industry, we examine the industry as a whole as well as the following four sectors: metals, mining, forest products, and building materials. We also discuss sustainability, renewable energy, and how both affect other industries, such as transportation and construction.
By Skillsoft
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Industry Overview: Oil and Gas IndustryThis Oil and Gas Industry overview discusses the events that have led to the current state of the industry. It also examines the main industry drivers, the challenges it faces, and how digital information has begun to transform it.
By Skillsoft
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Industry Overview: Pharmaceutical IndustryIn this overview of the pharmaceutical industry, we investigate how this competitive industry finances the creation of new medications and therapies to cure diseases, creates an environment to produce vaccines to prevent diseases, and works in tandem to create guidelines and structures for the always-evolving environment of medicine.
By Skillsoft
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Industry Overview: Retail IndustryIn this overview of The Retail Industry, we discuss how retail has evolved from traditional, face-to-face transactions to the age of online shopping. We also explore retail industry profiles and the challenges facing the industry.
By Skillsoft
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Industry Overview: The Federal GovernmentIn this overview of the Federal Government, we discuss the three major branches of the US government, and specific functions that each branch is tasked with performing. We also explore key technological challenges facing the Federal Government in its roles promoting and maintaining economic stability, national security, prosperity, fair trade, and well-being for all.
By Skillsoft
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Industry Overview: The Health Care IndustryIn this overview of The Health Care Industry, we discuss the evolution of individual sectors within health care and how they intersect and depend upon one another. We also explore industry profiles, the challenges facing the industry, and how global digital transformation has shaped health care thus far.
By Skillsoft
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Industry Overview: The Telecommunications IndustryIn this overview of The Telecommunications Industry, we discuss how telecommunications has gone from transmitting messages over a telegraph to constant, wireless messaging in the digital era. We also explore telecommunications industry profiles, its leading companies, and the challenges facing the industry.
By Skillsoft
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Industry Overview: UtilitiesIn this overview of The Utilities Industry, we discuss how utilities have evolved from the first power station providing electricity to just 59 customers to an $845 billion industry offering a range of essential services. We also explore industry drivers, trends, challenges, and competition.
By Skillsoft
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Industry Overview: Utilities, 2022 UpdateIn this overview of the utilities industry, we discuss how utilities have evolved from the first power station providing electricity to just fifty-nine customers to an $845 billion industry offering a range of essential services. We also explore industry drivers, trends, challenges, and competition.
By Skillsoft
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Industry X.0: Realizing Digital Value in Industrial SectorsComplemented by a wealth of case studies and real world examples, this insightful book provides invaluable, practical how-to advice for business organizations as they embark on their journeys into the era of the IIoT.
By Eric Schaeffer
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Infectious Diseases: A SummaryThis summary provides guidance on potential sources of infection and discusses treatments for common infectious diseases. We also explore the signs and symptoms of infection, the ways that infections spread from one person to another, and safety measures that can reduce the risk of contracting an infection and of spreading an infection to others.
By Skillsoft
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Influencers and Revolutionaries: How Innovative Trailblazers, Trends and Catalysts are Transforming BusinessIlluminating the dynamic global trends shaping businesses across industries, this book describes the emerging movements and future niches of growth that will impact international markets and industries; including the homes, workplaces and cities of tomorrow.
By Sean Pillot de Chenecey
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Infonomics: How to Monetize, Manage, and Measure Information as an Asset for Competitive AdvantageProviding a set of new ideas, frameworks, evidence, and approaches, this book is for the burgeoning force of chief data officers (CDOs) and other information and analytics leaders in their valiant struggle to help their organizations become more infosavvy.
By Douglas B. Laney
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Informal Learning: Rediscovering the Natural Pathways that Inspire Innovation and PerformanceOffering advice on how to support, nurture, and leverage informal learning, this helpful book guides readers through the plethora of digital learning tools that workers are now accessing through their computers, PDAs, and cell phones.
By Jay Cross
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Information Technology for Management: Advancing Sustainable, Profitable Business Growth, 9th EditionIllustrating the use of cutting edge business technologies for achieving managerial goals and objectives, this book shows how to increase productivity, improve efficiency, enhance communication and collaboration, and gain competitive advantages through the use of Information Technologies.
By Efraim Turban, Gregory R. Wood, Janice C. Sipior, Linda Volonino
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Information, Knowledge and Agile Creativity, Volume 22Ideal for facilitating an organization's ability to react and adapt to its environment, this book offers a collection of tools, as well as a methodology, to estimate the agility of an organization to generate and transform ideas into solutions that are not only new but also adapted to their users.
By Benoit Roussel, Pierre Humbert, Stéphane Goria
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Information, Technology, and Innovation : Resources for Growth in a Connected WorldExploring the intersection of our connecting technologies and our institutions, and the changes that come to business as a result, this timely, visionary book presents an innovative, big-picture analysis of what's taking place now in information strategy and technology.
By John M. Jordan
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Innovating: A Doer's Manifesto for Starting from a Hunch, Prototyping Problems, Scaling Up, and Learning to Be Productively WrongInnovating is for doers: you don't need to wait for an earth-shattering idea, but can build one with a hunch and scale it up to impact.
By Luis Perez-Breva
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Innovating: A Doer's Manifesto for Starting from a Hunch, Prototyping Problems, Scaling Up, and Learning to Be Productively Wrong, Illustrated EditionInnovating is for doers: you don't need to wait for an earth-shattering idea, but can build one with a hunch and scale it up to impact. This unique book describes how to create a kit for innovating and outlines questions that will help you think in new ways.
By Luis Perez-Breva
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Innovation and Agility in the Digital Age: Africa, the World's Laboratories of TomorrowThe African innovations that have emerged over the past ten years are directly linked to a managerial model that perfectly meets the demands of the digital era. These innovations are discussed and analyzed in this book.
By Soufyane Frimousse
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Innovation and Collaboration in the Digital Era: The Role of Emotional Intelligence for Innovation Leadership and Collaborative InnovationThis is a powerful book full of practical frameworks and one-page canvases which act as reminders of the value of making needs and expectations explicit.
By Jara Pascual
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Innovation and Creativity in SMEs: Challenges, Evolutions and Prospects, Volume 21Presenting a conceptual framework for thinking about innovation and creativity in SMEs, this book takes into account their strategic relation to their environment and the economic, technological and social changes that they face.
By Bérangère L. Szostak, Claudine Gay
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Innovation and EntrepreneurshipSuperbly practical, this book presents innovation and entrepreneurship as a purposeful and systematic discipline that explains and analyzes the challenges and opportunities of America's new entrepreneurial economy.
By Peter F. Drucker
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Innovation and Sustainable Manufacturing: Research and DevelopmentInnovation and Sustainable Manufacturing: Research and Development addresses the manufacturing sustainability challenge from different points of view, drawing on research from different disciplines to shed light on the latest green technologies, green product design methods, and materials.
By Carolina Machado, J Paulo Davim
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Innovation at Work: 55 Activities to Spark Your Team's CreativityIn Innovation at Work, author Richard Brynteson explains how to inspire creativity and exercise your team's innovation muscles. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Richard Brynteson
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Innovation at Work: 55 Activities to Spark Your Team's CreativityContaining worksheets, questions, and case studies to inspire discussion as well as assessments for determining managers' openness to innovation, this handy book provides readers with a roadmap for fostering creativity and innovation in any team, in any industry.
By Richard Brynteson
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Innovation by Design: How Any Organization Can Leverage Design Thinking to Produce Change, Drive New Ideas, and Deliver Meaningful SolutionsFrom a study of some of the world's most innovative organizations, this book offers a powerful set of insights and practical solutions to the most important challenge for today's businesses--the need for relevant innovation.
By Edgar Papke, Thomas Lockwood
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Innovation Engine: Driving Execution for Breakthrough ResultsPacked with actionable ideas, references, links, and resources, this book shows readers how to create a business case for innovation linked to business vision and goals, and reveals how to reduce time-to-market while expanding the "idea landscape" and building a pipeline of corporate innovators.
By Jatin Desai
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Innovation for Media Content Creation: Tools and Strategies for Delivering Successful ContentProviding the framework and tools needed to deliver innovative, creative content successfully and consistently in today's multi-platform television landscape, this book offers a fresh approach to the strategic, logistic, creative, and managerial aspects of media content and television programming development.
By Marlon Quintero
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Innovation for Social Change: How Wildly Successful Nonprofits Inspire and Deliver ResultsIn Innovation for Social Change, distinguished author Leah Kral delivers a practical manual for nonprofits and charitable organizations seeking to innovate their way toward new and exciting possibilities.
By Leah Kral
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Innovation for the Fatigued: How to Build a Culture of Deep CreativityWith unique, relatable and varied examples, this timely and thoughtful book provides a practical model for getting innovation back on track, and instilling change at speed with real concern for market demands.
By Alf Rehn
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Innovation in Environmental Leadership: Critical PerspectivesBy taking the natural environment seriously as a foundational context for leadership, this book offers fresh insights and compelling visions of leadership pertinent to 21st century environmental and social challenges.
By Benjamin W. Redekop, Deborah Rigling Gallagher, Rian Satterwhite
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Innovation is Everybody's BusinessThis book is for those looking for solutions to the daily pain of "how do I prove my worth," a reality for many people whether they work in the C-Suite or on the front-lines.
By Tamara Ghandour
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Innovation Leaders: How Senior Executives Stimulate, Steer and Sustain InnovationIllustrated by many company examples and case stories from a broad range of industries in the US and Europe, this book is a systematic presentation of innovation drivers and their implications in terms of what leaders need to do to make it work.
By Jean-Philippe Deschamps
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Innovation LeadershipProviding an exciting and comprehensive resource for readers that are currently seeking to build success in organizations with new ideas, this book includes success stories and real-world examples of how innovation leadership has been used and applied in organizations.
By David G. Gliddon, William J. Rothwell (eds)
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Innovation Management: Systemic Framework and China's ExplorationThe key for lasting competitive advantage lies in embracing innovation as a core value and managing it effectively. This book provides a comprehensive overview of innovation theory and a framework for implementation.
By Gang Zheng, Jin Chen
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Innovation on DemandDescribing a revolutionary methodology for enhancing technological innovation called TRIZ, this groundbreaking book will show you how to use TRIZ tools for conceptual development of novel technologies, products and manufacturing processes.
By Eugene Rivin, Victor Fey
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Innovation Soup: A Recipe for Organizational SuccessNot your average cookbook. This is a research-based recipe for innovation. This book is perfect for leaders, innovators, managers, and students.
By Don Waisanen, Sanjay Puligadda
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Innovation the Cleveland Clinic Way: Powering Transformation by Putting Ideas to WorkPacked with enterprising solutions and inspiring examples, this practical guide will equip any individual or institution seeking to affect purposeful transformation. Use these best practices to put ideas to work and turn yours into a high-innovation organization.
By Thomas J. Graham
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Innovation the NASA Way: Harnessing the Power of Your Organization for Breakthrough SuccessTaking readers on a tour through the programs that pushed the envelope on NASA's leadership and managerial capacity, this book provides practical, proven lessons that will help you envision the future of your organization with clarity, meet every challenge with tenacity, and manage innovation with groundbreaking creativity.
By Rod Pyle
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Innovation TrainingAfter watching this video, you will be able to outline the deployment of verified and approved APIs.
By Joyce Wycoff, Ruth Ann Hattori
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Innovation, Product Development and Commercialization: Case Studies and Key Practices for Market LeadershipPresenting analytical tools to support insightful and intuitive explanations, this comprehensive reference provides a unique holistic approach to innovation, product development and commercialization.
By Dariush Rafinejad
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Innovations in Healthcare Management: Cost-Effective and Sustainable SolutionsIncluding case studies of actual results in healthcare innovation from three continents, this book provides concrete examples of the five levels of innovation present in healthcare, and presents new concepts, methods, and tools for advancing processes and operational flow.
By Paul Lillrank (eds), VK Singh
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Innovative B2B Marketing: New Models, Processes and TheoryFeaturing real-life examples from diverse sectors, plus topical discussion points and problems from key B2B marketing forums and associations, this book offers new approaches, models and solutions to help deal with any B2B marketing challenge.
By Simon Hall
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Innovative Economic, Social, and Environmental Practices for Progressing Future SustainabilityInnovative Economic, Social, and Environmental Practices for Progressing Future Sustainability explores the current practices in economic, social, and environmental sustainable development.
By Chai Lee Goi
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Innovative Entrepreneurship in Action: From High-Tech to Digital EntrepreneurshipThis book analyses prevailing approaches and policies in innovative entrepreneurship. It explores the ways in which entrepreneurs learn and develop innovation-based businesses to drive increased regional competitiveness.
By Giuseppina Passiante
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Innovative Performance Support: Strategies and Practices for Learning in the WorkflowFrom free, open-source applications like blogs and wikis to sophisticated new system software, this concise yet comprehensive guide will help you implement the right performance support (PS) strategy for your team.
By Bob Mosher, Conrad Gottfredson
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Innovative Pricing Strategies to Increase ProfitsSummarizing various pricing strategies, including price discrimination, two-part tariffs, bundling, peak-load pricing, and dynamic pricing, this book explains the necessary ingredients that cause them to succeed or fail.
By Daniel Marburger
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Innovative Pricing Strategies to Increase Profits, Second EditionSummarizing various pricing strategies, this book covers topics including price discrimination, two-part tariffs, bundling, peak-load pricing, and dynamic pricing and explains the necessary ingredients that cause them to succeed or fail.
By Daniel Marburger
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Innovative Strategic Planning and International Collaboration for the Mitigation of Global CrisesInnovative Strategic Planning and International Collaboration for the Mitigation of Global Crises provides relevant theoretical frameworks and current empirical research findings in the field of international strategic management.
By Gabriela Antošová
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Innovator's Playbook: How to Create Great Products, Services & Experiences That Your Customers Will Love!Written for entrepreneurs, corporate teams, startups and leaders across all levels, this authoritative book provides hands-on experience, tools and methods for developing a winning customer-centric approach to innovation.
By Nathan Baird
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Insanely Simple: The Obsession that Drives Apple's SuccessIn Insanely Simple, author Ken Segall reveals the secret of how Apple managed to use, maintain, and enforce the philosophy of simplicity to reach its goals. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Ken Segall
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Inside the Competitor's Mindset: How to Predict Their Next Move and Position Yourself for SuccessIn Inside the Competitor's Mindset, John Horn shares proven techniques to help businesses think like their competition and understand why they act the way they do.
By John Horn
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INSPIRED: How to Create Tech Products Customers Love, 2nd EditionThrough cross-collaborative innovation and robust delivery processes, Marty Cagan's INSPIRED illustrates how you can reshape your organization's product culture and improve business results. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Marty Cagan
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Inspired: How to Create Tech Products Customers Love, Second EditionFilled with the author's own personal stories and profiles of some of today's most-successful product managers and technology-powered product companies, this book will show you how to turn up the dial of your own product efforts, creating technology products your customers love.
By Marty Cagan
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Inspiring Green Consumer Choices: Leverage Neuroscience to Reshape Marketplace BehaviorThis book explains the factors that underlie the discrepancy between consumers' expressed preferences and their incongruous behavior in the marketplace.
By Michael E. Smith
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Instant Digital: Tech Accelerates to a New Normal: Part 1Mike Hendrickson, VP, Technology & Developer Products at Skillsoft takes a look at some of the issues being brought to the forefront today because of this Instantly Digital phenomenon.
By Mike Hendrickson
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Instant Digital: Tech Accelerates to a New Normal: Part 2Mike Hendrickson, VP, Technology & Developer Products at Skillsoft discusses how "Instantly Digital" has been a genuine challenge for even the most prepared organizations. But, it's opened new opportunities as well.
By Mike Hendrickson
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Institutional Change and GlobalizationThis book is about institutional change, how to recognize it, when it occurs, and the mechanisms that cause it to happen.
By John L. Campbell
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Institutions, Resilience, and Dynamic Capabilities of Entrepreneurial Ecosystems in Emerging EconomiesInstitutions, Resilience, and Dynamic Capabilities of Entrepreneurial Ecosystems in Emerging Economies presents innovative research that helps entrepreneurs to understand emerging economies in a better way and to gain meaningful insights.
By Amandeep Singh, Sandhir Sharma, Shivani Inder
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Intellectual Property, Valuation, Exploitation, and Infringement Damages, 2019 Cumulative Supplement, 5th EditionIncluding practical real-world case studies, this book is designed to simplify the process of attaching a dollar amount to intangible assets, be it for licensing, mergers and acquisitions, loan collateral, or investment purposes.
By Russell L. Parr
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Intended Consequences: How to Build Market-Leading Companies with Responsible InnovationIntended Consequences is designed as the ultimate playbook for founders, entrepreneurs, leadership teams, and investors on how to build and maintain a responsible innovation company.
By Hemant Taneja, Kevin Maney
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Intercultural Readiness: Four Competences for Working across CulturesCombining their practical experience as intercultural management consultants with a decade of research into how to improve team-working and communication, the authors of this book present practical strategies for how to develop these competencies and provide useful insights into the broader landscape of intercultural management.
By Oscar van Weerdenburg, Ursula Brinkmann
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Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Future of Africa and Policy DevelopmentInterdisciplinary Approaches to the Future of Africa and Policy Development addresses critical issues and challenges in Africa and seeks to examine and understand the future trends in Africa through a deconstructive interrogation of present trends.
By Icarbord Tshabangu
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International BusinessThis book explains about International Business strategies.
By James Oldroyd, Shad Morris
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International Economics: Understanding the Forces of Globalization for ManagersExplaining economics in everyday language, using little or no math, this brief, easy-to-read book gives businesspeople better tools to interpret current events as well as long-term economic and political developments.
By Paul Torelli
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International Financial Economics: Corporate Decisions in Global MarketsWritten from a practical, financial perspective versus one of pure economic theory, this detailed resource applies the principles of financial economics to explain how international corporate finance decisions are made in the real world.
By Thomas J. O'Brien
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International Marketing in Times of Sustainability and DigitalizationThis book provides insights into the fundamentals of international marketing with a focus on these topics because they are commonplace in today's international marketing.
By Erika Graf
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International Operations: How Multiple International Environments Impact Productivity and Location DecisionsIntroducing various theories and examples describing forms of internationalization processes, this book examines the complexity of international operations including the opportunities as well as pitfalls companies face when attempting to implement their operations on a multi-national scale.
By Harm-Jan Steenhuis
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International Supply Chain Relationships: Creating Competitive Advantage in a Globalized EconomyWith numerous case studies throughout, this book aims to provide supply chain practitioners with ideas, tools and strategies that they can readily access, interpret and put into practice speedily and pragmatically to create value for their own international business.
By Patrick Daly
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Into Africa: A Guide to Sub-Saharan Culture and Diversity, Second EditionCovering changes in politics and business practices, as well as trade with the United States and Europe, this book examines the significance of culture, community, ethnicity and language when establishing relationships or doing business in African countries.
By Phyllis Gestrin, Yale Richmond
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Introduction to Global Logistics: Delivering the Goods, Second EditionOffering a step-by-step guide to global logistics, this highly accessible text provides an in-depth definition, description, and exploration of the strategic principles and practices in transportation modes and supply chain verticals.
By John Manners-Bell
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Introduction to Global Logistics: Delivering the Goods, Second EditionIntroduction to Global Logistics, Second Edition offers a comprehensive overview of the logistics industry and how it shapes the modern global economy. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By John Manners-Bell
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Invention: A LifeIn Invention: A Life, James Dyson shares his vision for a world that's dedicated to sustainability and innovation in all areas, including science, engineering, farming, and healthcare. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By James Dyson
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ISO 22301:2019 and Business Continuity Management - Understand How to Plan, Implement and Enhance a Business Continuity Management System (BCMS)Safeguard your organisation's future with business continuity management
By Alan Calder
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IT Sustainability for Business AdvantageSpeaking to modern managers in all functions as well as to IT professionals, this detailed book shows that implementing an effective IT sustainability strategy is essential for organizations pursuing sustainability as a means of business advantage, and explains how to do it.
By Brian Moore
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Japanization: What the World Can Learn from Japan's Lost DecadesFor many investors, businesspeople, and economists, Japan's long economic struggle is difficult to comprehend, particularly given the economic advantages it appears to have over its neighbors. This book offers a ground-level look at why its problems continue and what it can do to change course.
By William Pesek
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Jobs to be Done: A Roadmap for Customer Centered InnovationIn Jobs to Be Done, the authors lay out the theory of the Jobs Roadmap in an effort to enable companies to seek new opportunities and ideas and promote growth. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By David Farber, Jessica Wattman, Stephen Wunker
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Jobs to Be Done: A Roadmap for Customer-Centered InnovationPacked with examples from every industry, this guide gives you a clear-cut framework for thinking about your business, outlines a roadmap for discovering new markets, new products and services, and helps you generate creative opportunities to innovate your way to success.
By David Farber, Jessica Wattman, Stephen Wunker
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John Adair's 100 Greatest Ideas for Amazing CreativityConcise, punchy, and packed with real solutions, this book provides 100 proven and effective ideas for businesspeople in need of fresh new ideas, whether they work for a small firm or a Fortune 100 giant.
By John Adair
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Keynes: Useful Economics for the World EconomyJohn Maynard Keynes (1883-1946) created the branch of economics now known as macroeconomics. In this book, Peter Temin and David Vines provide an accessible introduction to Keynesian ideas that connects Keynes's insights to today's global economy and offers readers a way to understand current policy debates.
By David Vines, Peter Temin
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Kill The Company: End the Status Quo, Start an Innovation RevolutionPresenting a call to arms and a revolution in how we think and work, this groundbreaking book urges companies to shift the mindset from business as usual to the company of the future, and to embrace smaller, positive behavioral changes that create ripple effects throughout the organization.
By Lisa Bodell
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Killing Marketing: How Innovative Businesses are Turning Marketing Cost Into ProfitBuilding the case for transforming the purpose of marketing within your organization, this book provides the insight, approaches, and examples you need to understand disruptive forces in ways that turn your marketing from cost center to revenue creator.
By Joe Pulizzi, Robert Rose
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Knowledge Management and Sustainable Value Creation: Needs as a Strategic Focus for OrganizationsThis book describes how knowledge can facilitate this process and amplifies the idea of knowledge management to strategically serve multiple stakeholders in a sustainable and responsible way.
By Florian Kragulj
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Knowledge, Learning and Innovation: Research Insights on Cross-Sector CollaborationsProviding fresh insights into ways to stimulate cross-sector collaboration, this book presents diverse methods and approaches to unify the dimensions of knowledge, learning and innovation and discusses how collaboration can be created, sustained, and expanded.
By Carla Susana Marques (eds), Vanessa Ratten, Vitor Braga
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Landlording On Autopilot: A Simple, No-Brainer System for Higher Profits, Less Work, and More Fun (Do It All from Your Smartphone or Tablet!), Second EditionWhether you're looking for your first rental property, or just looking for a better way to manage the ones you have, this book shows you strategies, tools and technologies to make your rental business a boatload easier while giving you a lot more time to do what you want.
By Mike Butler
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Lateral Management: A New Approach to Strategic Transformation in the Digital EraThis book highlights lateral management as the answer to the strategic opportunities and challenges posed by digital transformation. Digitalization is now changing the economy and society as dramatically as the dawn of electrification a century ago.
By Martina Nieswandt, Roland Geschwill
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Launchpad Republic: America's Entrepreneurial Edge and Why It MattersIn Launchpad Republic: America's Entrepreneurial Edge and Why it Matters to All of Us, Howard Wolk and John Landry provide an insightful and thought-provoking history of entrepreneurship in the United States, with a focus on the political, legal, and cultural forces that have sustained "creative destruction" and propelled the country forward for more than 200 years.
By Howard Wolk, John Landry
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Lead and Disrupt: How to Solve the Innovator's DilemmaLead and Disrupt teaches CEOs and other high-level business leaders how to survive and thrive when confronted with today's disruptive technologies. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Charles A. O'Reilly III, Michael L. Tushman
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Lead and Disrupt: How to Solve the Innovator's Dilemma, Second EditionFully revised, this second edition offers a proven strategy for using ambidexterity to build incremental growth for mature organizations, and the flexibility to adapt in fast-changing environments.
By Charles A. O’Reilly III, Michael L. Tushman
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Leader Evolution: From Technical Expertise to Strategic LeadershipLeader Evolution provides a valuable, practical set of tools and advice for developing critical leadership skills. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Alan Patterson
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Leaders in Lockdown: Inside Stories of COVID-19 and the New World of BusinessThis book is a unique insight from the women and men who were on the front line of leading the business world's fight against COVID-19.
By Atholl Duncan
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Leadership Communication: How Leaders Communicate and How Communicators Lead in Today's Global EnterpriseDemonstrating the importance of communication strategies in moving a corporation through the numerous challenges faced by leaders and others in the C-suite, this book presents lessons of both past and current corporate leadership challenges, drawing on leadership history and organizational thought-leader influence, and exposes students to modern realities.
By E. Bruce Harrison, Judith Mühlberg
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Leading and Managing Innovation: What Every Executive Team Must Know about Project, Program, and Portfolio Management, Second EditionIncluding a helpful quick reference summary of all of the key information in the book, this guide provides executives with the understanding and knowledge needed to best take advantage of the power of effective project management and thereby lead and manage innovations within their enterprise.
By Russell D. Archibald, Shane C. Archibald
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Leading Culture Change in Global Organizations: Aligning Culture and StrategyFilled with case studies from firms such as GT Automotive, GE Healthcare China, Vale, Dominos, Swiss Re Americas Division, and Polar Bank, this book combines research and survey results to illustrate a critical set of cultural dynamics that firms need to manage in order to remain competitive.
By Colleen Lief, Daniel Denison, Nancy Lane, Robert Hooijberg
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Leading for Innovation: Leadership Actions to Enhance Follower CreativityCreativity, the generation of novel and useful ideas, and innovation, the transformation of these ideas into new products, processes, and services, are both critical for the long-term viability, profitability, and growth of organizations.
By Mark Fichtel, Michael D. Mumford, Samantha England, Tanner R. Newbold
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Leading from the Emerging Future: From Ego-System to Eco-System EconomiesFilled with real-world examples that will help leaders and change makers transform and renew business, society, and the self, this book offers a practical method that will enable leaders to address key challenges and create an economy that generates well-being for all.
By Katrin Kaufer, Otto Scharmer
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Leading Latino Talent to Champion InnovationGoing beyond diversity, and providing management with definitive answers on how Latinos accept and react to innovation imperatives, this book provides tools and methods to help manage the workforce to achieve innovative results.
By Greg McLaughlin, Heidi McLaughlin, Vinny Caraballo
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Leading Open InnovationDescribing a range of open innovation (OI) practices, participants, and trends, this book explains the ways that OI expands the space for innovation, reporting on a variety of OI initiatives, offering theoretical frameworks, and considering new arenas for OI from manufacturing to education.
By Anne Sigismund Huff, Kathrin M. Möslein, Ralf Reichwald (eds)
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Leading Organizations of the Future: A New FrameworkThis book delves into uncharted territory, offering an extensive exploration of the future of organizations and how they should be led.
By Olivier Serrat
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Leading the Epic Revolution: How CIOs Drive Innovation and Create Value Across the EnterprisePresenting repeatable processes, detailed methodologies, and robust frameworks for innovation and continuous transformation in today's fast-paced business environments, this insider's guide will show you how to make innovation strategies work in the modern enterprise.
By Hunter Muller
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Leading the High-Performing Company: A Transformational Guide to Growing Your Business and Outperforming Your CompetitionWith real-world examples from accomplished leaders, this transformational guide provides the crucial tools and insights to grow your business and outperform peers, and pinpoints how successful leaders and companies position themselves to lead in their industries.
By Heidi Pozzo
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Leading Through Leaders: Driving Strategy, Execution and ChangeProviding unique insights into 'effective leadership' in some of the world's best known enterprises, this essential book presents an integrated suite of proven and durable principles and tools, and the leadership psychology, that may be adapted and used by any leader.
By Jeremy Tozer
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Leading with Strategic Thinking: Four Ways Effective Leaders Gain Insight, Drive Change, and Get ResultsBringing together insights from cognitive psychology, systems theory, and other fields to show that the importance of strategic thought transcends planning, this book will inspire you to have a greater impact, today and into the future.
By Aaron K. Olson, B. Keith Simerson
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Lean But Agile: Rethink Workforce Planning and Gain a True Competitive EdgePacked with practical advice, examples, guides, worksheets, diagrams, and metrics, this book presents a system for analyzing work and selecting the ideal combination of cost-effective resources-employees, consultants, contractors, temporary workers, vendors-to accomplish it.
By James Graber, Neil McCormick, William J. Rothwell
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Lean Impact: How to Innovate for Radically Greater Social GoodVividly illustrated with real stories from interviews with over 200 organizations across the US and around the world, this hands-on resource is the essential guidebook for social change that will help you think big, start small, and relentlessly seek impact.
By Ann Mei Chang
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Lean Innovation: A Fast Path from Knowledge to ValueProviding innovation insights from Apple, Google, Toyota, IDEO and others, this book addresses key challenges facing leaders of knowledge organizations, and presents principles they can use to bring more leadership into the innovation work.
By Claus Sehested, Henrik Sonnenberg
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Lean on Civility: Strategies for Changing Culture in Manufacturing WorkplacesThis book explains about strategy for manufacturing places.
By Christian Masotti, Lewena Bayer
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Lean Out: The Truth About Women, Power, and the WorkplaceBased on both in-depth research and personal experiences, this timely book offers a new and refreshingly candid perspective on what it's really like for today's corporate underdogs.
By Marissa Orr
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Lean Production for Competitive Advantage: A Comprehensive Guide to Lean Methodologies and Management PracticesFrom fundamental concepts to integrated planning and control in pull production and the supply chain, this practical book introduces the Lean philosophy and illustrates the effective application of Lean tools with real-world case studies.
By John Nicholas
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Lean Today, Rich Tomorrow: Succeeding in Today's Globalization ChaosPresented in a compelling story format, this practical work will give managers the tools to succeed in rallying and training a workforce to achieve Lean goals through a substantive change in culture.
By Joe Bichai
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Lean-Driven Innovation: Powering Product Development at The Goodyear Tire & Rubber CompanyProviding an unprecedented look at the successful application of lean to the innovation creation process, this insightful book illustrates validated lean principles and key concepts with a case study of The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company.
By Norbert Majerus
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Learning Analytics: Measurement Innovations to Support Employee DevelopmentLearning Analytics discusses the importance of developing an important asset-employees-to build a skilled workforce and add value to your business. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Jean Martin, John Mattox, Mark Van Buren
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Learning Analytics: Measurement Innovations to Support Employee DevelopmentProviding a framework for understanding how to work with learning analytics, this book shows learning & development and HR practitioners the power that effective analytics has on building an organization and the impact this power has on performance, talent management, and competitive advantage.
By Jean Martin, John R Mattox II, Mark Van Buren
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Learning and Innovation in Hybrid Organizations: Strategic and Organizational InsightsReflecting the emergence of new organizational forms and hybrid organizations, this edited collection explores the processes of exchange, collaboration and technological management that have changed organizational structures.
By Federica Brunetta, Maria Carmela Annosi, Mats Magnusson (eds), Paolo Boccardelli
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Learning for Life: How Continuous Education Will Keep Us Competitive in the Global Knowledge EconomyGathering insights from key thought leaders and exemplary programs, this book examines how America's existing educational models are failing employees and employers; the policies and programs that are working in the U.S. and abroad; and the shift from content knowledge toward new ways of thinking and working.
By Jason Wingard, Michelle LaPointe
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Learning for the Long Run: 7 Practices for Sustaining a Resilient Learning OrganizationLearning for the Long Run explores practices that help organizations adapt to the fast-paced and ever-changing business world. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Holly Burkett
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Learning to Think StrategicallyExamining the relationship between strategic thinking and the learning process involved in taking learning from the academic to the everyday, this authoritative book identifies five key attributes for learning to think strategically.
By Julia Sloan
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Learning to Think StrategicallyLearning to Think Strategically provides a theoretical framework that links a continuous cycle of learning to strategic thinking and performance. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Julia Sloan
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Learning with Lean: Unleashing the Potential for Sustainable Competitive AdvantageExamining the performance gap between good organizations and great ones, this book guides you through the implementation of new knowledge and skills around Lean, and explains how to find and improve on areas where waste exists so your organization can reinvent the way it learns.
By James Zurn, Perry Mulligan
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Lessons from 12 of History's InnovatorsHelping you to start developing your own innovation skills, this book presents stories, anecdotes and examples from some of history's greatest innovators, including da Vinci, Copernicus, Galileo, Thomas Jefferson, Flagler, Curie, and more.
By Jeff Davidson
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Lessons from the Titans: What Companies in the New Economy can Learn from the Great Industrial Giants to Drive Sustainable SuccessFilled with illuminating case studies and brilliant in-depth analysis, this invaluable book provides a multitude of insights that will help you weather market upheavals, adapt to disruptions, and optimize your resources to your best advantage.
By Carter Copeland, Rob Wertheimer, Scott Davis
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Leveraging Cultural Diversity in Emerging MarketsMost people still see cultural differences as a barrier to success. This book demonstrates how one can leverage from the cultural diversity and create better, more competitive companies, better leaders, and hopefully a safer and more sustainable world.
By Finn Majlergaard, Marcus Goncalves
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Listen up or Lose Out: How to Avoid Miscommunication, Improve Relationships, and Get More Done FasterBreaking down listening into a set of learnable skills, this step-by-step book pulls this underused tool out from the shadows and highlights its role in effective communications.
By Dorothy Grover Bolton, Robert Bolton
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Listening to the Voice of the Market: How to Increase Market Share and Satisfy Current CustomersDemonstrating how to apply the proper tools and processes to move your organization from a production or sales orientation to a truly market-based focus, this eye-opening book teaches you how to identify and capture the Voice of the Market.
By R. Eric Reidenbach
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Loonshots: How to Nurture the Crazy Ideas That Win Wars, Cure Diseases, and Transform IndustriesSolidly grounded in principles of physics and backed up by sound studies in human behavior, Loonshots offers ideas that are eminently plausible and sure to be of interest to anyone who is skeptical about bringing zany, unconventional ideas to life. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Safi Bahcall
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Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others DieMade to Stick examines the intriguing question of why some ideas gain traction while others simply fade, away and it offers invaluable tips on how to make your ideas "stickier." In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Chip Heath, Dan Heath
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Mainstreaming Corporate Sustainability: Using Proven Tools to Promote Business Success, Second EditionProviding an understanding of the pitfalls and challenges of this ever-changing field, this book is a practical guide to the leading tools and resources used to successfully integrate sustainability into a company's corporate culture.
By Suzanne Farver
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Make It New: The History of Silicon Valley DesignDrawing on unprecedented access to a vast array of primary sources and interviews with nearly every influential design leader, this thought provoking book reveals design to be the missing link in Silicon Valley's ecosystem of innovation.
By Barry M. Katz
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Make the Deal: Negotiating Mergers & AcquisitionsMerging business, finance, and law, this insightful, accessible guide offers an examination of M&A strategy that is designed to help you understand M&A negotiations and the ways in which the final outcome affects your financial future.
By Christopher S. Harrison
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Make Winning a HabitIdentifying five universal areas of sales effectiveness, this practical, hands-on book presents more than 20 best practices from top sales organizations around the world and shows readers how to turn them into winning results.
By Rick Page
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Make Your Brain Work: How to Maximize Your Efficiency, Productivity and EffectivenessMake Your Brain Work shows how neuroscience is helping us better understand how our brain functions so that we can become more productive in our professional and personal lives. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Amy Brann
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Make Your People before You Make Your Products: Using Talent Management to Achieve Competitive Advantage in Global OrganizationsAn authoritative guide to the evolution of talent management, this book offers a practice-based philosophy where readers will learn more effective talent management strategies for a complex market in which people are often the only competitive advantage.
By Danny Kalman, Paul Turner
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Making in America: From Innovation to MarketInspired by the MIT Made in America project of the 1980s, this book examines how we can rebuild the industrial landscape to sustain an innovative economy, and how we can link innovation to production to spur a renaissance in American manufacturing.
By MIT Task Force on Production in the innovation economy, Suzanne Berger
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Making Innovation Work: How to Manage It, Measure It and Profit From ItMaking Innovation Work shows how your company can profit if you manage innovation intelligently. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Marc J. Epstein, Robert D. Shelton, Tony Davila
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Making Sense of Change Management: A Complete Guide to the Models, Tools and Techniques of Organizational Change, 4th EditionMaking Sense of Change Management, 4th Edition aims to explore why change happens, how it happens successfully, and how to make the idea of change a welcomed philosophy. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Esther Cameron, Mike Green
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Making Strategy Work: Leading Effective Execution and ChangeMaking Strategy Work is ideal for today's goal-oriented managers who wish to accomplish organizational change. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Lawrence G. Hrebiniak
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Making Sustainability Work: Best Practices in Managing and Measuring Corporate Social, Environmental, and Economic Impacts, 2nd EditionIncluding best practices from dozens of companies in Europe, Asia, North America, South America, Australia, and Africa, this book is the ultimate how-to guide to implementing and measuring the effectiveness of sustainability initiatives.
By Adriana Rejc Buhovac, Marc J. Epstein
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Making the Compelling Business Case: Decision-Making Techniques for Successful Business GrowthFeaturing insightful case-studies and valuable hands-on tools, this book simplifies the decision-making process by explaining the key theories and practices behind corporate investments, and is designed to help executives make smart decisions and to maximize enterprise value.
By Wolfgang Messner
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Making the Connection: Practical Steps in ESG Management NEW!This book views ESG as interconnected challenges. It provides a usable and coherent ‘roadmap' to make assured strides in meeting - and beating - these challenges. Uniquely, it highlights and explores the win-win opportunities within your organization's economic value chain.
By Peter Sammons
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Management in Islamic Countries: Principles and PracticePresenting an informative read for managers who want to know how to better function in Islamic business environments from a management perspective, this book will fill the present gap in academic texts by fully addressing Islamic management theory and practice.
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Management Innovation and Big DataThis book summarizes the basic concepts and methods in management and big data analysis at home and abroad and introduces a large number of relevant practical cases, especially new cases in the Internet era, to help readers integrate theoretical knowledge into practical applications.
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Management of Healthcare Organizations: An Introduction, Fourth EditionBy studying Management of Healthcare Organizations: An Introduction, students will acquire the knowledge and skills necessary to analyze managerial problems and develop practical solutions in health care organizations.
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Management Skills in IT: Shaping Your CareerFeaturing a collection of articles and blog posts by IT industry experts, this book explores the challenges IT professionals face when moving from a technical into a managerial role, such as from a first job it IT to CIO.
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Managerial Dilemmas: Exploiting Paradox for Strategic LeadershipAn invaluable guide to the most current management issues, this book will assist executives and management students to make better sense of the different spheres of management activity by exploring them in relation to each other.
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Managing Across Cultures: The Seven Keys to Doing Business with a Global MindsetProviding actionable tactics for succeeding in today's global business environment, this in-depth, strategic guide is filled with case studies illustrating the importance of understanding and dealing with cultural differences in all aspects of business.
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Managing Corporate Impacts: Co-Creating ValueDrawing on the insights and experiences of managers from around the world, this book examines how companies can manage corporate impacts to co-create enduring value for business and society.
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Managing Corporate Innovation: Determinants, Critical Issues and Success FactorsThis book covers the aspects analyzed in detail, and not merely from an economic standpoint, but also with regard to innovativeness and regional social development.
By Adalberto Rangone
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Managing Corporate Responsibility in the Real World: Lessons from the Frontline of CSRDrawing on real world examples and stories, this book provides a comprehensive, road-tested framework for managing Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) in your organization.
By Jouko Kuisma
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Managing Creativity and InnovationInnovation is an undisputed catalyst for company growth. This ground-breaking guide explores the manager's role in sparking organizational creativity and offers insight into what managers and leaders must do to increase successful innovation.
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Managing Cultural Differences: Global Leadership for the 21st Century, Tenth EditionWith a wealth of examples, and case studies, this book guides students and practitioners to an understanding of how to do business internationally, providing practical advice on how competitive advantage can be gained through effective cross-cultural management.
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Managing Cultural Differences: Global Leadership Strategies for Cross-Cultural Business Success, Eighth EditionSeeking to form the inter-culturally competent leader, this book employs a wide range of cultural theories and multiple sets of skill development models and draws on real-world vignettes as well as case profiles, with five specific geographic areas of managerial guidance.
By Philip R. Harris, Robert T. Moran, Sarah V. Moran
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Managing Customers as Investments: The Strategic Value of Customers in the Long RunManaging Customers as Investments is a practical guide to re-evaluating the role of customers in business. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Donald Lehmann, Sunil Gupta
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Managing Growth and Expansion into Global Markets: Logistics, Transportation, and DistributionExplaining why some organizations transition new business units successfully while others struggle, this must-read book will help you properly assess your best options to grow your organization and expand your supply chain capabilities.
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Managing Innovation Adoption: From Innovation to ImplementationBased on the theory of reasoned action (TRA), the technology acceptance model (TAM) and other conceptual frameworks, this book provides a valuable alternative and comprehensive theoretical basis for improving our understanding of individual users' acceptance of innovation.
By Majharul Talukder
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Managing Innovation and Operations in the 21st CenturyComprehensive and all-encompassing with a well-structured approach, this book is for directors, consultants, practitioners, and professionals aspiring to effectively manage operations, but is targeted at applying innovation to the management of operations, including supply chains.
By Jose Arturo Garza-Reyes, Juan Luis Martinez-Covarrubias, Ming K. Lim, Vikas Kumar
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Managing Innovation, Design and Creativity, Second EditionBuilt around a collection of up-to-date case studies, this book offers insights into how innovation and knowledge of innovation management has evolved since the beginning of the millennium.
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Managing Innovation: Integrating Technological, Market and Organizational Change, Sixth EditionEmphasizing practical, evidence based tools and resources, this title provides students with the knowledge base to successfully manage innovation, technology, and new product development.
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Managing International Business in Relation-Based versus Rule-Based CountriesSummarizing the research in the past 10 years on how different governance environments at the national level affect business operations and management, this book distinguishes and examines the two major governance environments in the world.
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Managing Product Management: Empowering Your Organization to Produce Competitive Products and BrandsLaying the groundwork for moving Product Management out of a supporting role, this book provides a solid, implementable framework that takes you step-by-step through a process that will transform your company in profound ways.
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Managing Services: Challenges and InnovationsBringing together contributions from leading figures in service research, this comprehensive book makes a timely and significant multi-disciplinary contribution to the theory and practice of service management.
By Irena Grugulis, Kathryn Haynes
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Managing Sustainability: First Steps to First ClassThis book includes the latest trend to go beyond the organization's own "footprint" to integrate their values into their supply chains and build employee and customer loyalty by empowering these essential stakeholders to live their shared values.
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Managing the Modern Law Firm: New Challenges, New PerspectivesFeaturing contributions from both legal practitioners and management researchers, this book seeks to present the latest insights from Management Studies in an approachable, practical, and relevant manner for lawyers involved directly and indirectly with the management of law firms.
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Managing Your Outsourced IT Services Provider: How to Unleash the Full Potential of Your Global WorkforceIncluding examples and case studies that focus on offshoring, this thorough guide teaches executives and managers of organizations how to unleash the full potential of their outsourced IT services workforce and IT-enabled business processes safely and profitably.
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Mapping Innovation: A Playbook for Navigating a Disruptive AgeEngaging and informative without sacrificing substance and expertise, this groundbreaking guide offers a simple and accessible but powerful approach to developing a strategy that will put you light years ahead of the competition.
By Greg Satell
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Mapping Innovation: A Playbook for Navigating a Disruptive AgeMapping Innovation is a guide for anyone who wants to pursue innovation but doesn't know where to start. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
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Market Your Way to Growth: 8 Ways to WinWith the developed world facing slow economic growth, successfully competing for a limited customer base means using creative and strategic marketing strategies. This practical guide presents eight effective ways to grow in even the slowest economy.
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Master Data Management and Customer Data Integration for a Global EnterpriseHelping you gain a complete and timely understanding of your customers using MDM-CDI, this comprehensive volume explains how to grow revenue, reduce administrative costs, and improve client retention by adopting a customer-focused business framework.
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Master Scheduling: A Practical Guide to Competitive Manufacturing, Third EditionPacked with handy checklists, examples, case studies and illustrations, this easy-to-follow book delivers guidelines and techniques to help you understand the basic and more advanced concepts of master scheduling.
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Mastering Creativity and Innovation: Achieving the Innovator's AdvantageThe My Practical MBA Series provides the latest thinking as well as perennial techniques for a range of business challenges. This toolkit explains creativity and innovation, and outlines techniques for leaders to use to unlock their team's creative potential.
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Mastering the Business of Global Trade: Negotiating Competitive Advantage Contractual Best Practices, Incoterms, and Leveraging Supply Chain OptionsMuch of your company's success in global trade will be determined by how well you manage contracts and agreements for sale or purchase. This book's time-proven advice will show you that it is possible to engage in more deals and increase your returns, while reducing your overall risk exposure.
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Mastering the Circular Economy: A Practical Approach to the Circular Business Model TransformationWith many reflections and exercises throughout, this book draws a direct link between relevant recent theory and practice and offers students and practitioners a deeper understanding of the topic.
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Masters of Innovation: Building the Perpetually Innovative CompanyClearly and concisely explaining how managers make innovation more than just a breakthrough moment, this book offers the real experience of the world's best Innovators - not just the hot tech companies of the moment, but companies growing in traditional sectors automotive, train travel, household appliances where slow growth would be expected.
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Max Weber and International RelationsExploring how Max Weber's life and writings remain relevant to contemporary international relations and its study, this book identifies key tensions in Weber's epistemology and the ways his successors have addressed and finessed them.
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Maximizing Corporate Value through Mergers and Acquisitions: A Strategic Growth GuideExamining how M&A fits in corporate growth strategies, this insider guide covers the various strategic reasons for companies entering mergers and acquisitions (M&A), with a look at those that are based on sound strategy, and those that are not.
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Maximum Success with LinkedIn: Dominate Your Market, Build a Global Brand, and Create the Career of Your DreamsRevolutionizing the way busy professionals use LinkedIn, this step-by-step guide explains how to use LinkedIn to find customers, partners, investors, or advisors; build a personal brand; build networks; find and land the perfect job; develop business relationships; and much more.
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Measuring and Addressing Talent Gaps GloballyExploring the need to think about talent gaps in a global context, this book examines strategies that can define talent gaps in your global workforce, and identifies ways to assess and close negative gaps and leverage positive gaps.
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Measuring ROI in Learning & Development: Case Studies from Global OrganizationsRepresenting settings and cultures from around the world including India, Australia, Canada, Germany, and other countries, as well as the US, this book describes the improvements made to L&D programs as a result of evaluation.
By Jack J. Phillips, Patricia Pulliam Phillips (eds)
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Measuring the Success of Organization Development: A Step-by-Step Guide for Measuring Impact and Calculating ROIMeasuring the Success of Organization Development explain how a strong working knowledge of ROI can aid in the creation and assessment of the OD process. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
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Medical Device Design: Innovation from Concept to MarketProviding the bridge between engineering design and medical devices development, this thorough guide shows the essential methodologies medical designers must understand to ensure their products meet requirements.
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Megachange: The World in 2050Rich in supporting facts and graphics, this compelling and valuable book is elegantly outlined by contributors from The Economist, and examines sweeping, fundamental trends that are changing the world faster than at any time in human history.
By Daniel Franklin, John Andrews
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Mental Illness at Work: A Manager's Guide to Identifying, Managing and Preventing Psychological Problems in the WorkplaceAuthored by leading psychologists, this timely and informative book explores the psychiatric classification of mental illness and offers practical and solid advice on the identification, mitigation and prevention of mental illness in the workplace.
By Adrian Furnham, Mary-Clare Race
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Mergers and Acquisitions Strategy for Consolidations: Roll Up, Roll Out and Innovate for Superior Growth and ReturnsTaking you step-by-step through the process of using M&A rollups as a key part of your business strategy, this groundbreaking guide will help you lurch past your competition and produce returns that far exceed the investment yields possible from any large transaction.
By Norman W. Hoffmann
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Metagility: Managing Agile Development for Competitive AdvantageThis book provides a comprehensive approach for managing a new and highly effective breed of agility from the executive level on down.
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Methods in Product Design: New Strategies in ReengineeringBy defining customer focused design and discussing ways to assess changing demands and sources, this book delves into what is needed to successfully manufacture goods in a demanding market.
By Abdulrahman M. Al-Ahmari (eds), Ali K. Kamrani, Maryam Azimi
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Mind Gym: Achieve More by Thinking DifferentlyInsightful, proven, and practical, this hands-on guide presents a fitness program for the mind that will help you transform your personal and professional life by changing the way you think.
By Octavius Black, Sebastian Bailey
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Mind Mapping For DummiesInvestigating advanced mind mapping techniques for a range of purposes, including studying for exams, improving memory, project management, and maximizing creativity, this book shows you how to unlock your brain's potential.
By Florian Rustler
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Mindfulness at Work: How to Avoid Stress, Achieve More, and Enjoy Life!Mindfulness at Work explains how you can employ some simple mindfulness techniques to make your work life much more relaxed, enjoyable, and meaningful. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
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MIT Sloan Management Review Article on Corporate Sustainability at a CrossroadsThis article from MIT Sloan Management Review reveals eight critical insights that can help executives accelerate their company's contribution to our common future.
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MIT Sloan Management Review Article on Designing for ResilienceThis article from MIT Sloan Management Review discusses how designing for resilience can ensure survival of critical systems in times of crisis.
By MIT Sloan Management Review
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MIT Sloan Management Review Article on Economic Incentives Are Key to Driving Sustainability at ScaleCompanies need financial incentives, in addition to regulation, to make transformational sustainability efforts a higher priority.
By Satoshi Ikeda, Simon Glynn
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MIT Sloan Management Review Article on Five Ways to Improve Communication in Virtual TeamsIn this article from MIT Sloan Management Review, you'll learn that implementing simple strategies with your team will engender more effective virtual communication.
By MIT Sloan Management Review
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MIT Sloan Management Review Article on From Risk to Resilience: Learning to Deal with DisruptionThis article from MIT Sloan Management Review discusses how organizations need to improve how they deal with unexpected disruptions to complex supply chains in order to prosper in the face of turbulent change.
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MIT Sloan Management Review Article on Get Ready for More Transparent Sustainability ReportingMandatory disclosures will give investors and other stakeholders a clearer picture of the future of your business. What story does yours tell?
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MIT Sloan Management Review Article on Health Care Platforms Need a Strategy OverhaulTo succeed, digital health platforms must shift their approach in three key areas.
By Anna Essén, Joakim Björkdahl, Johan Frishammar, Marcus Holgersson
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MIT Sloan Management Review Article on How Cognitive Technologies Can Help Managers During the COVID-19 CrisisIn this article from MIT Sloan Management Review, you'll learn how companies that optimize how they use automation tools can relieve pressure on teams.
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MIT Sloan Management Review Article on How Legacy Businesses Can Compete in the Sharing EconomyThis article from MIT Sloan Management Review reveals how providers of traditional products and services can participate in the sharing economy.
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MIT Sloan Management Review Article on How the 2024 Paris Olympics Fast-Tracked DecarbonizationParis pledged to radically reduce its greenhouse gas emissions compared with recent Olympic Games. Here's what the team learned on the fly.
By Atalay Atasu, Luk N. Van Wassenhove
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MIT Sloan Management Review Article on How to Make Your (Now Virtual) Event ShineThis article from MIT Sloan Management Review offers seven tips will help you make your online presentation interesting, interactive, and specific for your audience.
By Nancy Duarte
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MIT Sloan Management Review Article on How to Manage Risk (After Risk Management has Failed)This article from MIT Sloan Management Review suggests how the key shortcomings of traditional risk management can be addressed by adopting a more sophisticated alternative - the Bayesian approach.
By Adam Borison, Gregory Hamm
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MIT Sloan Management Review Article on How Vigilant Companies Gain an Edge in Turbulent TimesThis article from MIT Sloan Management Review discusses how the costs of being slow to sense threats and opportunities on the competitive horizon can be devastating.
By George S. Day, Paul J.H. Schoemaker
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MIT Sloan Management Review Article on Leading RemotelyIn this article from MIT Sloan Management Review, you'll learn how to make the most of your distributed workforce.
By Whitney Johnson
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MIT Sloan Management Review Article on Leading Through COVID-19In this article from MIT Sloan Management Review, you'll learn that the art of effective crisis leadership focuses on three interdependent areas of activity that help foster sustained high - even heroic - performance by your teams and the larger enterprise.
By MIT Sloan Management Review
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MIT Sloan Management Review Article on Leading Through DisruptionIn this collection of articles from MIT Sloan Management Review, you'll learn the effects disruption can have on strategy, and the best ways to keep your company going when a disruptive technology affects your industry.
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MIT Sloan Management Review Article on Looking for Opportunity in the Midst of CrisisIn this article from MIT Sloan Management Review, learn how most crises create longer-term opportunities as well as threats because they produce rapid, sustained shifts in organizations' external and internal environments.
By Michael Watkins, Michael Yaziji
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MIT Sloan Management Review Article on Make a Stronger Business Case for SustainabilityWhen greener products and processes add costs, managers can shift other levers to maintain profitability.
By Atalay Atasu, Karel Cool, Nathan Furr
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MIT Sloan Management Review Article on Overcoming Remote Work ChallengesThis article from MIT Sloan Management Review reveals how to overcome the three biggest challenges of remote work.
By Josh Lowy
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MIT Sloan Management Review Article on Preparing for Disruptions Through Early DetectionThis article from MIT Sloan Management Review discusses how a company can substantially increase its resilience by improving its ability to detect - and respond to - disruptions quickly.
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MIT Sloan Management Review Article on R&D Leaders Must Play a Key Role in the Journey to Net ZeroCTOs and other executives who lead research and innovation are positioned to be critical change agents in cutting enterprises' carbon footprints.
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MIT Sloan Management Review Article on Ranking How National Economies Adapt to Remote WorkIn this article from MIT Sloan Management Review, learn how understanding how a country's mix of occupations, technology infrastructure, and demographic characteristics have affected people's ability to work from home can help government and business leaders prepare for future disruptions.
By Rodrigo Razo Solares, Sarah H. Bana, Seth G. Benzell
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MIT Sloan Management Review Article on Set Ambitious but Realistic Environmental GoalsHow far from business realities can companies stretch when setting critical goals to reduce carbon emissions?
By Elsa Olivetti, Jason Jay, Jeremy Gregory, Kate Isaacs
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MIT Sloan Management Review Article on Sustainability Progress Is Stalled at Most CompaniesLess than one-third of U.S. employees surveyed reported that their organizations engage in practices that embed sustainability goals in business models and employee roles.
By CB Bhattacharya, Rob Jekielek
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MIT Sloan Management Review Article on Sustaining SustainabilityIn this article from MIT Sloan Management Review, you'll learn that investing in the intangibles are what keep sustainability policies alive - and evolving.
By Gregory Unruh
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MIT Sloan Management Review Article on The 11 Sources of Disruption Every Company Must MonitorThis article from MIT Sloan Management Review reveals that seeking out weak signals by intentionally looking through the lenses of macro change is the best possible way to make sure your organization stays ahead of the next wave of disruption.
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MIT Sloan Management Review Article on The Looming Challenge of Chemical DisclosuresNew sustainability rules make consumer brands accountable for the composition of their products, but most companies are in the dark.
By Colleen McLoughlin, Jillian Stacy, Lori Bestervelt
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MIT Sloan Management Review Article on Using Scenario Planning to Reshape StrategyThis article from MIT Sloan Management Review explains that a new approach to scenario planning can help companies reframe their long-term strategies by developing several plausible scenarios.
By Alejandra Palermo, Jonas Hoffmann, Rafael Ramírez, Steve Churchhouse
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MIT Sloan Management Review Article on What New Normal Should We Create?This article from MIT Sloan Management Review reveals how we are living in a moment rich with opportunities to fundamentally improve how we live, how we relate to society, how we interact with government, and how we do business.
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MIT Sloan Management Review Article on Why Companies Need to Lobby for Climate PolicyOrganizations that want to make real progress on sustainability need to build a business case for climate lobbying.
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MIT Sloan Management Review Article on Why Territorial Managers Stifle Innovation - and What to Do About ItManagers who feel insecure about their status tend not to encourage novel ideas from their employees. Fostering their identification with the organization can change this behavior.
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MIT Sloan Management Review on Sustainable Strategy: Rightsizing Goals and Assessing ImpactAs climate change looms large, business leaders can - and must - take practical steps to limit their companies' impacts on the global environment. This report offers insights into ways companies can accomplish this.
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Mobilizing for Elections: Patronage and Political Machines in Southeast AsiaThe book draws on an extensive, multi-country, multi-year research effort involving interactions with hundreds of politicians and vote brokers, as well as surveys of voters and political campaigners across the region.
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More Great Ideas a Day: 365 More Business Ideas for Each Day of the YearTo help you meet the challenges of modern-day business and work with energy and creativity, this guide offers 365 ideas in a simple but potentially powerful book for anyone seeking new inspiration and that killer application in their business and work life.
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Moving from the Millennium to the Sustainable Development Goals: Lessons and RecommendationsThis book presents a collection of chapters that examine various dimensions of development.
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MRI from Picture to Proton, Third EditionMR is a powerful modality. At its most advanced, it can be used not just to image anatomy and pathology, but to investigate organ function, to probe in vivo chemistry, and even to visualise the brain thinking.
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MRI in Practice, Fifth EditionThoroughly revised and updated with many new illustrations and images, this essential resource provides a comprehensive introduction to MRI, describing the essential concepts in a clear and accessible style.
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Multinational Banks and Foreign Expansion DecisionThis book presents a systematic review of the literature on the foreign expansion decisions of multinational banks (MNBs).
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Myths of Strategy: Dispel the Misconceptions and Deliver a Winning StrategyChallenge strategy-speak, banish management hyperbole and discard the worst myths and misconceptions in business today replacing them with tried-and-tested truths that will make your company more successful.
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Narrative Organizations: Making Companies Future Proof by Working With StoriesThis book shows how to work with stories and narrative approaches in almost all fields of action of a company, and demonstrates the added value resulting from a holistic narrative perspective.
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Navigating Sustainability Data: How Organizations can use ESG Data to Secure Their FutureWith sustainability now a fundamental strategic pillar for organizations, ESG metrics are vital for decision making, yet this data is complex and ever evolving.
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Navigating the New Normal: How New & Small Companies Can Succeed Despite Economic Uncertainty, 1st EditionThis book explains about navigating the new normal.
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Negotiating Globally: How to Negotiate Deals, Resolve Disputes, and Make Decisions Across Cultural Boundaries, Third EditionRather than centering on country-specific protocol and customs, this book provides a general framework to help negotiators anticipate and manage cultural differences complete with cases and examples to reflect recent global and cultural changes.
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Net Zero Business Models: Winning in the Global Net Zero EconomyNet Zero Business Models: Winning in the Global Net Zero Economy delivers a breakthrough approach to transition from business models contributing to climate disaster to Net Zero Business Models crucial to sustainability and profitability.
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Netter Atlas of Human Anatomy: Classic Regional Approach, 8th EditionFor clinical professionals or students who are learning anatomy, participating in a dissection lab, sharing anatomy knowledge with patients, or refreshing their anatomy knowledge, the Netter Atlas of Human Anatomy illustrates the body, region by region, in clear, brilliant detail from a clinician's perspective.
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Neuroradiology: The Requisites, 4th EditionNow in its 4th Edition, this bestselling volume in the popular Requisites series, by Drs. Rohini Nadgir and David M. Yousem, thoroughly covers the extensive field of neuroradiology in an efficient and practical manner.
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New Approaches to CSR, Sustainability and AccountabilityThis book provides a platform for discussing the challenges that organizations face in order to implement sustainability, ethics, and effective corporate governance, all of which are important elements of "standing out" from other companies.
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New Thinking on Leadership: A Global PerspectivePresenting a groundbreaking collection of the latest thinking from leading global figures in leadership studies from the corporate and academic world, this book provides a global picture of where our understanding of leadership is and where it could go if we tackle the issues facing leaders today.
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NLP: The Essential Handbook for Business: Communication Techniques to Build Relationships, Influence Others, and Achieve Your GoalsWhether you want to be a better leader, manager, negotiator, salesperson, or decision-maker, this book contains numerous examples and practical exercises that will help you use neurolinguistic programming (NLP) to improve your career and achieve success at work, whether in the private or public sector, and regardless of your current role.
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No-Excuses Innovation: Strategies for Small- and Medium-Sized Mature EnterprisesWith case studies and narrative examples drawn from their time in industry and the academy, the authors present a valuable strategy guide specific to SMMEs and to one of the biggest existential dilemmas they encounter.
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Non-market Strategies in International Business: How MNEs capture value through their political, social and environmental strategiesThis book provides theoretical and empirical insights into non-market political and social strategies that firms use when conducting international business.
By Roger Strange, Steven McGuire, Vikrant Shirodkar
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Now, Build a Great Business! 7 Ways to Maximize Your Profits in Any MarketUsing proven examples from successful businesses, Now, Build a Great Business! explores seven powerful principles that offer clear and practical ways to grow your business, even in difficult economic times. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
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Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging: The Requisites, Fifth EditionNow in its 5th Edition, this outstanding volume in the popular Requisites series thoroughly covers the fast-changing field of nuclear medicine and molecular imaging.
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On Leadership: The Challenge of Execution, An Interview with Chris McChesney on The 4 Disciplines of ExecutionDedicated to improving leadership capabilities, this book takes readers through all of the challenges, insights, and needed disciplines for character-based leadership.
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Open Design and Innovation: Facilitating Creativity in EveryoneDrawing on academic research, practical experience of the author in delivering open design projects and first hand interviews with leaders in the fields, this book challenges the notion of the designer as 'fountain-head' of innovation and, equally, the idea of 'user creativity' as a replacement for traditional design and innovation.
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Open Innovation: Corporate Incubator, Volume 7Using testimonials and real case studies, this book takes a dive into the structural and social mysteries of corporate incubators, and by analyzing the complex mechanisms of interactions, it decrypts and reveals the keys to the success of these devices.
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Open Innovation: New Product Development Essentials from the PDMAOffering a comprehensive guide to the theory and practice of the Open Innovation method, this book packages a collection of Open Innovation tools, with real-world case studies illustrating the concepts presented, providing accurate representation of the opportunities and challenges of implementation.
By Abbie Griffin, Charles H. Noble, Serdar S. Durmusoglu
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Open Innovation: The New Imperative for Creating and Profiting from TechnologyOpen Innovation dives into the importance of promoting and encouraging innovative practices within the workplace. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
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Open Strategy: Mastering Disruption from Outside the C-SuiteOpen Strategy presents a new philosophy, key tools, step-by-step advice, and fascinating case studies-from companies that range from Barclays to Adidas-to guide business leaders in this groundbreaking approach to strategy.
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Operational Empowerment: Collaborate, Innovate, and Engage to Beat the CompetitionOffering illuminating case studies of the world's most empowering employers, from Black & Decker and PepsiCo to McDonald's and Amazon, this book shows forward-thinking leaders how to build a continuous improvement community that thrives on personal engagement - and survives on commitment and autonomy.
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Operations Management for Environmental Sustainability: Operational Measures, Regulations and Carbon Constrained DecisionsThis book explores optimal decisions for companies and governments to build a sustainable supply chain and economy by applying analytical models from new perspectives.
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Optimizing Growth: Predictive and Profitable Strategies to Understand Demand and Outsmart Your CompetitorsA resource for how to succeed in the age of big data, this book provides the approaches, analytics, frameworks, and organizational capabilities required to gain competitive advantage, and describes the new mindset required to leverage these tools into sustainable growth.
By Dimitar Antov, Jason Green, Mark Henneman
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Organizational Change for Corporate Sustainability, Fourth EditionProviding new insights into how organizations can transition towards a more responsible way of conducting their business, this book charts new thinking on value creation, business models and organizational purpose as the basis of a broader-based transition to a sustainable society.
By Melissa Edwards, Suzanne Benn, Tim Williams
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Organizational Mindset of Entrepreneurship: Exploring the Co-Creation Pathways of Structural Change and InnovationThis book focuses on how to promote innovation and an entrepreneurial mindset within organizations in the context of structural changes.
By Andrea Caputo, Léo-Paul Dana, Norris Krueger, Ramo Palalić, Veland Ramadani
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Organizational Strategy, Structure, and ProcessThis book focuses on how organizations adapt to their environments and provides a framework to define subsequent research on topics like configurational analysis, organizational fit, strategic human resource management and multi-firm network organization.
By Charles C. Snow, Raymond E. Miles
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Organizing for the New Normal: Prepare Your Company for the Journey of Continuous DisruptionAs your organization faces new disruptions before completing a current transformation, develop the leadership competencies to sustain the "permanent" sense of urgency necessary for your organization's long-term success. This book will show you how.
By Constantinos C. Markides
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Out Think: How Innovative Leaders Drive Exceptional OutcomesFor current and aspiring business leaders, Out Think is a comprehensive guide to changing the way you think and act to drive innovation and success. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By G. Shawn Hunter
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Out Think: How Innovative Leaders Drive Exceptional OutcomesThrough interviews and collaboration with thought-leaders across industries, this groundbreaking book gathers insights, stories, and actionable take-aways, with an emphasis on results, that can drive the change that leaders want and need in their organizations.
By G. Shawn Hunter
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Outlast: How ESG Can Benefit Your BusinessIn Outlast, Mukund Rajan and Rajeev Kumar explore the nature and history of environmental, social, and governance (ESG) policies in business enterprises. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Mukund Rajan, Rajeev Kumar
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Outside Innovation: How Your Customers Will Co-Design Your Company's FutureIn Outside Innovation, Patricia B. Seybold shares her trailblazing views on customer collaboration in the strategic planning of businesses, backed up by her wealth of experience with Fortune 500 companies. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Patricia B. Seybold
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Own The Future: 50 Ways To Win From The Boston Consulting GroupDrawing on The Boston Consulting Group's experience advising organizations on how to achieve and sustain competitive advantage, this insightful book offers 50 ideas to help readers chart their organization's path to future leadership.
By David Rhodes, Janmejaya Sinha (eds), Michael Deimler, Richard Lesser
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Oxford Handbook of Strategy, Volume I: A Strategy Overview and Competitive StrategyFor researchers, graduate students, teachers, managers and consultants who seek an authoritative, accessible and up-to-date discussion of the fundamentals of strategy.
By Andrew Campbell (eds), David O. Faulkner
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Packaging Sustainability: Tools, Systems and Strategies for Innovative Package DesignA comprehensive guide to thinking outside the box to create practical, cost-effective, and eco-responsible packaging, this book gives you all the tools for maximizing a product's shelf impact-while minimizing its ecological footprint.
By Wendy Jedlicka
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Pandemics: A SummaryIn this summary, we review key facts about pandemics and the viruses that cause them. We also explore the measures that the US government and other agencies have in place to limit the spread of viruses. Finally, we examine strategies that organizations, institutions, and individuals can use to develop a plan for pandemic preparedness and prevention.
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Paradigm Shift in Management Philosophy: Future Challenges in Global OrganizationsThis book will serve as a valuable resource to researchers interested in the future management challenges facing global organizations.
By Bharat S. Thakkar
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Patents and Strategic Inventing: The Corporate Inventor's Guide to Creating Sustainable Competitive AdvantageSpelling out exactly what a corporate inventor needs to know about patents and patent strategy, this book explains in clear, easy-to-understand language how to secure patents that deliver the most possible value to the organization and build legal protections into properties from the outset.
By Nicholas J. Nissing
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Pediatric Radiology: The Requisites, Fourth EditionPediatric Radiology: The Requisites focuses on new and emerging trends in pediatric imaging, with expanded content in all core clinical areas. The authors are prominent pediatric radiologists with extensive clinical experience in each of the subspecialty areas covered.
By Michele Walters, Richard L. Robertson
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People Centric Innovation Ecosystem: Japanese Management and PracticesAn overview of Japanese management is provided, from publications in English to the insiders' view of Japanese scholars, combining these sources with interviews and dynamic groups with local managers and case studies to illustrate the state and evolution of Japanese management and practices.
By Takeo Kikkawa, Yingying Zhang-Zhang
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People, Planet, Profit: Environmentally and Socially Sustainable Business StrategiesPeople, Planet, Profit describes the ten internal issues - five technical, two leadership, and three managerial - and solutions to these issues.
By Kit Oung
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Performance Management Success: A Best Practices and Implementation Guide for Leaders and Managers of All OrganizationsFeaturing hands-on resource reference tools for immediate use and application, this valuable book provides a critical understanding of the interrelationship of organizational culture with performance management process (PMP) planning and implementation.
By Anthony L. Barth, Wiaan de Beer
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Pervasive Intelligence Now: Enabling Game-Changing Outcomes in the Age of Exponential DataLooking at strategies to help companies become more intelligent, connected, and agile, this informative book discusses how they can define and measure high-impact outcomes and effectively use analytics technology to achieve them.
By Anu Jain
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Philanthropy, Innovation and Entrepreneurship: An IntroductionThis book explores philanthropists and their motivations.
By David Gann, Mark Dodgson
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Pitch Anything: An Innovative Method for Presenting, Persuading, and Winning the DealWhether you're selling ideas to investors, pitching a client for new business, or even negotiating for a higher salary, this unique and practical book will transform the way you position your ideas.
By Oren Klaff
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Pitch Anything: An Innovative Method for Presenting, Persuading, and Winning the DealIn Pitch Anything, author Oren Klaff presents a unique approach to pitching ideas based on principles of neuroscience. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Oren Klaff
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Playing to Win: How Strategy Really WorksPlaying to Win clearly outlines the right-and wrong-approach to defining and implementing strategy in the business context by providing clear, actionable advice for establishing the framework and processes that must underpin strategic direction and choices. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By A.G. Lafley, Roger L. Martin
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Policies and Procedures for the Implementation of Safe and Healthy Educational Environments: Post-COVID-19 PerspectivesPolicies and Procedures for the Implementation of Safe and Healthy Educational Environments: Post-COVID-19 Perspectives discusses the policies and procedures used in the implementation of safe and healthy educational environments both during and after the COVID-19 pandemic.
By Malika Haoucha
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Positioning: The Battle For Your MindIn Positioning, by Al Ries and Jack Trout, you'll discover how to target customers who are familiar with competing brands, and to use that familiarity to differentiate your products. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Al Ries, Jack Trout
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Power Play: Game Changing Influence Strategies For LeadersShowing you how to use influence to create the change you want as a leader, in your organization and in the world, this powerful and practical 21st century guide will help you turbocharge your influence and build the power to initiate seismic change with authenticity and integrity.
By Yamini Naidu
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Power Systems Operation with 100% Renewable Energy Sources, First EditionPower Systems Operation with 100% Renewable Energy Sources combines concepts of renewable energy integration into power systems with real-world case studies to bridge the gap between theory and implementation.
By Sanjeevikumar Padmanaban, Sharmeela Chenniappan, Sivaraman Palanisamy
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Powerful, Different, Equal: Overcoming the Misconceptions and Differences Between China and the USThis book provides a timely analysis of the US-China relationship. Each model is deeply rooted in their respective histories and cultures, with both models highly successful in achieving their main goals and highly resilient over time.
By Peter B. Walker
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Practical Sustainability Strategies: How to Gain a Competitive AdvantageBased on the authors' many years of research and hands-on experience, this book provides tested and proven practical strategies that make it possible for organizations to develop, maintain, or extend their competitive advantage without causing harm to the environment and society.
By George P. Nassos, Nikos Avlonas
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Predatory Value Extraction: How the Looting of the Business Corporation Became the U.S. Norm and How Sustainable Prosperity Can Be RestoredAn explanation how an ideology of corporate resource allocation known as 'maximizing shareholder value' (MSV) that emerged in the 1980s came to dominate strategic thinking in business schools and corporate boardrooms in the United States.
By Jang-Sup Shin, William Lazonick
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Preparing Faculty for Technology Dependency in the Post-COVID-19 EraPreparing Faculty for Technology Dependency in the Post-COVID-19 Era is a comprehensive guide that focuses on preparing pre-service teachers, in-service teachers, and higher education faculty to harness technology dependence in an emergency remote teaching era by discussing current and post-pandemic preparedness.
By Papia Bawa
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Preparing Globally Competent Professionals and Leaders for Innovation and SustainabilityPreparing Globally Competent Professionals and Leaders for Innovation and Sustainability is centered on international higher education's role for the global common good.
By Linyuan Guo-Brennan, Michael J. Guo-Brennan
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Presumptive Design: Design Provocations for InnovationProviding actionable approaches to inform strategy and problem definition through design thinking, this book offers a design-based research method to complement existing market, ethnographic and customer research methods.
By Charles Lambdin, Leo Frishberg
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Pricing for Profit: How to Develop a Powerful Pricing Strategy for Your BusinessPricing for Profit is a practical, accessible guide to prioritizing pricing. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Peter Hill
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Pricing for Profitability: Activity-Based Pricing for Competitive AdvantageOffering a wealth of examples including activity-based pricing models, this simply organized and nontechnical book covers the ten vital topics of activity-based pricing to help you make more accurate and more profitable pricing decisions.
By John L. Daly
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Principles of Sustainable FinanceThis textbook combines theory, empirical data, and policy to explain the sustainability challenges for corporate investment.
By Dirk Schoenmaker, Willem Schramade
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Problem Solving: Finding Creative SolutionsThe My Practical MBA Series provides the latest thinking as well as perennial techniques for a range of business challenges. This guide explains how problem solving involves a logical and systematic approach to defining the problem, generating solutions and then choosing and implementing the best option.
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Production in the Innovation EconomyFocusing on innovation as a rationale for why manufacturing still matters to the U.S. economy, this book argues that a holistic concept of production is intertwined with the process of innovation.
By Rachel L. Wellhausen (eds), Richard M. Locke
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Productive Tensions: How Every Leader Can Tackle Innovation's Toughest Trade-OffsHow leaders can recast innovation's toughest trade-offs-efficiency vs. flexibility, consistency vs. change, product vs purpose-as productive tensions.
By Christopher B. Bingham, Rory M. McDonald
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Profitable Growth is Everyone's Business: 10 Tools You Can Use Monday MorningProfitable Growth is Everyone's Business is a clearly-written, practical guide to help organizations become more growth focused and increase revenue on a routine, consistent basis. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Ram Charan
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Profits and Sustainability: A History of Green EntrepreneurshipExploring the history of green entrepreneurship since the nineteenth century, this unique book uses the lens of the extraordinary and often eccentric men and women who defied convention and imagined that business could help save the planet, rather than consume it.
By Geoffrey Jones
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Progress in Sustainable Development: Sustainable Engineering PracticesProgress in Sustainable Development: Sustainable Engineering Practices provides readers with the latest research and best practices in sustainable engineering in the fields of urban, environmental, energy and sustainability sciences, reflecting a focus on state-of-the art insights and the latest developments.
By David S-K. Ting, Paul G. O'Brien
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Progressive Business Models: Creating Sustainable and Pro-social EnterpriseShowcasing a number of companies from a range of industries with global reach and an international impact, this book presents and analyzes exemplary cases of progressive business, understood as ecologically sustainable, future-respecting and pro-social enterprise.
By Eleanor O'Higgins, László Zsolnai (ed)
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Project Management Best Practices: Achieving Global ExcellenceWith contributions from more than fifty global Fortune 500 companies, this book presents unique, first hand accounts of how corporations around the world incorporate project management into their strategic business operations.
By Harold Kerzner
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Project Management Implementation as Management Innovation: A Closer LookBy examining project management as an example of management innovation, this book presents an empirical investigation of the implementation journeys of organizations seeking to improve this specific management practice.
By Janice Thomas, Stella George, Svetlana Cicmil
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Project Zero Trust: A Story about a Strategy for Aligning Security and the BusinessIn Project Zero Trust: A Story About a Strategy for Aligning Security and the Business, George Finney, Chief Security Officer at Southern Methodist University, delivers an insightful and practical discussion of Zero Trust implementation
By George Finney
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Provoke: How Leaders Shape the Future by Overcoming Fatal Human FlawsIn Provoke, authors Goldbach and Tuff outline biases that can hamper success, and explain how to overcome these. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Geoff Tuff, Steven Goldbach
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Purposeful Brands: How Purpose and Sustainability Drive Brand Value and Positive ChangeDefine and communicate an authentic brand purpose and close the say-do gap to drive growth, innovation and loyalty.
By Sandy Skees
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Questions That Get Results: Innovative Ideas Managers Can Use to Improve Their Teams' PerformanceProfiling several managers struggling to communicate, this innovative and powerful book offers practical tools to help you increase your effectiveness by asking the right questions in order to bring out the best in your employees for improved, sustained performance.
By Patrick Connor, Paul Cherry
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Quick Brainstorming Activities for Busy Managers: 50 Exercises to Spark Your Team's Creativity and Get Results FastFilled with clear, concise guidance and quick, easily implemented techniques, this book provides supervisors, managers, and team leaders the fun, proven activities they need to get idea-packed brainstorming sessions started, and keep them going.
By Brian Cole Miller
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QuickValue: Discover Your Value and Empower Your Business in Three Easy StepsThis book provides a clear, reliable way to determine your business's value in real time-transforming valuation from a reactive, defensive burden into an active, indispensable part of daily operations.
By Charles Slack, Reed Phillips
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Race for Tomorrow: Survival, Innovation, and Profit on the Front Lines of the Climate CrisisIn Race for Tomorrow, author Simon Mundy explores how climate change is impacting the earth and the lives of countless communities around the world. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Simon Mundy
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Radical Business Model Transformation: Gaining the Competitive Edge in a Disruptive WorldFor leaders who want to seize the opportunity of new business models and gain a competitive advantage, this step-by-step guide explains how to assess the status quo, identify the value of future business models and develop a transformation path.
By Alexander Zimmermann, Carsten Linz, Günter Müller-Stewens
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Radical Business Model Transformation: How Leading Organizations Have Successfully Adapted to Disruption, Second EditionLearn how to complete a major business model transformation with a cutting-edge framework developed with leaders who successfully guided their business through a transformation journey.
By Alexander Zimmermann, Carsten Linz, Günter Müller-Stewens
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Radical Product Thinking: The New Mindset for Innovating SmarterThis book offers refreshing solutions to the shortcomings of our current model for product development; be prepared to toss out everything you know about a good vision and learn how to measure progress to create revolutionary products.
By R. Dutt
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Rapid Growth, Done Right: Lead, Influence and Innovate for SuccessUnderstand why innovation in organizations shouldn't be left to chance and develop those key skills that will allow you to build an innovative company, increase the quantity and quality of ideas, lead effectively and accelerate success.
By Val Wright
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Rapid Growth, Done Right: Lead, Innovate and Influence for SuccessIn Rapid Growth, Done Right, author Val Wright equips leaders with what they need to lead an organization through rapid growth and dazzling innovation. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Val Wright
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Ready? Set? Engage!: A Field Guide for Employees to Create Their Own Culture of Participation and Implement Innovative IdeasPresented in a conversational, down-to-earth writing style, this step-by-step book identifies the benefits of-and strategies for-developing engaged employees who will implement and sustain your Lean processes.
By Janis Allen, Michael McCarthy
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Reality Check: The Irreverent Guide to Outsmarting, Outmanaging, and Outmarketing Your CompetitionIn Reality Check, author Guy Kawasaki provides an informative, witty, and candid discussion of all aspects of starting and maintaining a vibrant enterprise. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Guy Kawasaki
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Redesigning CapEx Strategy: A Groundbreaking Systems Approach to Sustainably Maximize Company Cash FlowThis book is about more than ‘redesigning capex.' It's about transforming the way you look at capital allocation and seeing that you're completely wrong. It's about realizing that capex strategy is the enterprise's strategy.
By Daniel Lindén, Fredrik Weissenrieder
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Reinventing Discovery: The New Era of Networked ScienceReinventing Discovery argues that we are living at the dawn of the most dramatic change in science in more than three hundred years.
By Michael Nielsen
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Reinventing the Product: How to Transform your Business and Create Value in the Digital AgeFeaturing case studies from global organizations and interviews with thought leaders and business executives from top, this book provides practical advice for product-making companies as they embark on, or accelerate, their digitization journey.
By David Sovie, Eric Schaeffer
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Relationship Management in Banking: Principles and PracticeConsidering the nature of commercial relationships, this book will help the reader synthesize complex factors in order to develop a robust relationship management methodology.
By Richard Abley, Steve Goulding
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Research Analytics: Boosting University Productivity and Competitiveness Through ScientometricsProviding techniques for measuring the growth of scientific knowledge at the university level, this book covers research assessment and evaluation at individual and institutional levels and the main methodologies for measuring scientific impact and reputation.
By Francisco J. Cantú-Ortiz
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Resilience: Powerful Practices for Bouncing Back from Disappointment, Difficulty, and Even DisasterA brain-training program to help you strengthen your capacities to bounce back, this book offers clear guidance to help you develop somatic, emotional, relational, and reflective intelligence - the skills you need to confidently and effectively cope with life's inevitable challenges and crises.
By Linda Graham
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Responsible Business in a Changing World: New Management Approaches for Sustainable DevelopmentThis book explores the current state of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) from an international perspective, the goal being to share ideas and visions for a sustainable future and to provide useful guidelines for academics, practitioners and policymakers in the context of the 2030 "Agenda for Sustainable Development" released by the United Nations.
By Belen Díaz Díaz, Nicholas Capaldi, Samuel O. Idowu
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Responsible Business: Making Strategic Decisions to Benefit People, the Planet and ProfitsWith diverse case studies from organizations who have benefited from this approach, this book is essential reading for everyone needing to evaluate their investment decisions.
By Annemieke Roobeek, Jacques de Swart, Myrthe van der Plas
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Responsible Consumption and Sustainability: Case Studies from Corporate Social Responsibility, Social Marketing, and Behavioral EconomicsThis book presents high-quality cases on the actions carried out by companies to minimize the social and environmental impact of the products (goods and services) they launch on the market.
By Ana Lanero Carrizo, Enrique Carlos Bianchi, Jose Luis Vazquez Burguete, M. Mercedes Galan-Ladero
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Responsible Corporate Governance: Towards Sustainable and Effective Governance StructuresAddressing the tasks and functions of corporate governance in the light of current challenges, this book discusses the dynamics that arise from a broader approach to company management and the integration of corporate governance with CSR and sustainability.
By Maria Aluchna, Samuel O. Idowu (eds)
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Results That Last: Hardwiring Behaviors That Will Take Your Company to the TopResults That Last is a carefully crafted, step-by-step manual for senior administrators or business owners who want to make successful business strategies a permanent part of their infrastructure. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Quint Studer
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Retail and Digital Banking: Principles and PracticeBringing the journey of modern banking to life, this book considers the evolution of retail banking services and the major role that technology has played in providing quality, cost-effective services to consumers.
By John Henderson
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Rethinking Capitalism: Economics and Policy for Sustainable and Inclusive GrowthIn this book some of the world's leading economists propose new ways of thinking about capitalism.
By Mariana Mazzucato, Michael Jacobs
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Review Questions for MRIHelping students prepare for the registry examination, this comprehensive book provides questions that follow the structure of the syllabus and are intended to help readers test their understanding of the subject and identify any gaps in their knowledge.
By Carolyn Kaut Roth, William Faulkner
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Revolutionizing IT: The Art of Using Information Technology EffectivelyRevolutionizing IT removes some of the mystery from IT by approaching its effective use in a language that anyone can understand. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By David H. Andrews, Kenneth R. Johnson
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Riding the Indian Tiger: Understanding India-The World's Fastest Growing MarketProviding an exciting look at "new India," this book offers individuals and organizations a detailed picture of the economic opportunities India has to offer, and shows how to get in on the ground floor and profit from India's economic boom.
By Ashish Sinha, William Nobrega
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Riding the Waves of Culture: Understanding Cultural Diversity in Business, Second EditionThis book aims to dispel the idea that there is only one way to manage and encourages readers to get to know their own culture before doing business with others.
By Charles Hampden-Turner, Fons Trompenaars
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Risk Management, Strategic Thinking and Leadership in the Financial Services Industry: A Proactive Approach to Strategic ThinkingRevealing the broader context behind decision models and approaches to risk management in the financial industry, this book links the regulatory landscape for capital management and risk to strategic thinking, together with behavioral and cultural assessments.
By Hasan Dinçer, Ümit Hacioğlu
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Road to Net Zero: Strategic Pathways for Sustainability-Driven Business TransformationWith this open access book, delve into the insights of respected leaders from academia and industry as they unravel the intricacies of sustainability-driven business transformation.
By Irene Feige, Joachim Hornegger, Markus Beckmann, Markus Schober, Michael Bengsch, Oliver Zipse, Thomas Becker
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Rocket: Eight Lessons to Secure Infinite GrowthRocket reveals the intelligent, strategic, and astonishing decisions behind the genesis of exceptional brands. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Dylan Bolden, Michael J. Silverstein, Rohan Sajdeh, Rune Jacobsen
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Rule-Making Rules: An Analytical Framework for Political InstitutionsThe book will appeal to researchers of political institutions in comparative politics, and in political science and political sociology more broadly.
By Stefano Bartolini
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Ruthless Consistency: How Committed Leaders Execute Strategy, Implement Change, and Build Organizations That WinIntroducing an intuitive yet comprehensive model for success, this book details each element of the model and offers ready-to-apply processes, practices, techniques, and tools to make it happen.
By Michael Canic
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Safety Culture: An Innovative Leadership ApproachA reference for safety and risk professionals and a training text for corporate-based learners and students at university level, this complete and comprehensive guide will provide the tools needed to develop consistent and effective organizational safety protocols.
By James Roughton, Nathan Crutchfield
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Sales Mastery: The Sales Book Your Competition Doesn't Want You to ReadReady for greater sales success and bigger commission checks? This book offers a proven methodology to distinguish yourself, build your sales skills, and win deals again and again.
By Chuck Bauer
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Scaling Global Change: A Social Entrepreneur's Guide to Surviving the Start-up Phase and Driving ImpactThrough the story of Room to Read, one of the fastest-growing nonprofits in the last 18 years, this book features clear, real-world lessons for growing a non-profit or social enterprise, with special insight into girls' education and literacy programming in lower-income countries.
By Cory Heyman, Erin Ganju
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Scaling Up Excellence: Getting to More Without Settling for LessBased on extensive research and insightful case studies, Scaling Up Excellence comprehensively addresses the problems faced by businesses as they grow in size and geographic market presence. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Huggy Rao, Robert I. Sutton
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Scenario Planning: Understanding the Present, Preparing for the FutureThe My Practical MBA Series provides the latest thinking as well as perennial techniques for a range of business challenges. This brief guide explains how scenario planning enables organizations to rehearse the future, and walk the battlefield before battle commences so that they are better prepared.
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Scenario Thinking: A Historical Evolution of Strategic ForesightThis Element infuses established scenario planning routines with an exploration of cognitive reasoning, by contextualising scenario thinking within the wider human endeavour of grappling with future uncertainties.
By Brad MacKay, Peter McKiernan
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Scenario Thinking: Preparing Your Organization for the Future in an Unpredictable WorldBased on up-to-date academic research and years of application and iteration in the real world, this book, illustrated with examples of the value delivered in Europe, Australia and the Middle East, will transfer practical skills in scenario thinking using step-by-step instructions.
By George Cairns, George Wright
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Seduced by Success: How the Best Companies Survive the 9 Traps of WinningAuthored by the former COO of Microsoft, this strategic guide offers proven tactics for preventing arrogance, bloat, and neglect while capitalizing on your accomplishments, sustaining momentum, and retaining your position in the marketplace.
By Robert J. Herbold
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Seeding Innovation: The Path to Profit and Purpose in the 21st CenturyIn Seeding Innovation: The Path to Profit and Purpose in the 21st Century, veteran entrepreneur, award winning author, global strategist, speaker, and Rice University Innovation and Entrepreneurship professor, Robyn O'Brien, delivers an insightful and data driven roadmap to authenticity and smart leadership in the face of accelerating technological, environmental, and social change.
By Robyn O'Brien
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Seeing Red Cars: Driving Yourself, Your Team, and Your Organization to a Positive FutureDrawing on scientific research and illustrated with dozens of entertaining and enlightening stories, this guide explains why we fixate on negative thoughts and how we can actually rewire our brains to focus on positive outcomes.
By Laura Goodrich
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Seeing the Elephant: Understanding Globalization from Trunk to TailWith bold suggestions on how America can reassert its historic leadership in the new global arena, this book demystifies globalization, and analyzes the megatrends and interconnections of the 21st century.
By Peter Marber
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Seeing the Forest for the Trees: A Manager's Guide to Applying Systems ThinkingThis resource shows how to apply systems thinking with tools, techniques and practical examples.
By Dennis Sherwood
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Seeing What Others Don't: The Remarkable Ways We Gain InsightsIn Seeing What Others Don't, author Gary Klein attempts to demystify the rare and inexplicable "aha!" moment-including what causes this phenomenon and why trying our best to come up with a genius idea is often counterproductive or futile. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Gary Klein
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Seizing the White Space: Business Model Innovation for Growth and RenewalSeizing the White Space hands today's executives the key to unlocking potential for growth. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Mark W. Johnson
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SelfMade Boss: Advice, Hacks, and Lessons from Small Business OwnersThis book is the product of that research. Part starter-kit, part encyclopedia, part inspiration, Self-Made Boss is filled with information not just about who these small business owners are, but how they built their companies, step by step.
By Jackie Reses, Lauren Weinberg
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Sell Different!: All New Sales Differentiation Strategies to Outsmart, Outmaneuver, and Outsell the CompetitionOutsmart, outmaneuver, and outsell your competition with revolutionary new strategies that differentiate how you sell. Sales professionals of all types, turn to this groundbreaking guide to win more deals at the prices you want.
By Lee B. Salz
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Semi-Organic Growth: Tactics and Strategies behind Google's SuccessPresenting a unique analysis of Google's distinctive expertise in the area of mergers and acquisitions, this in-depth book shows you the thinking behind the company's successful methods, and demonstrates the mechanisms behind the success.
By George T. Geis
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Serial Innovators: Firms that Change the WorldFor company leaders who find their organizations stagnating in a fast-paced, ever-evolving business world, faced with the challenges from ambitious (and often younger) competitors, Serial Innovators combines wide-ranging academic research set against the backdrop of a fable where a young CEO is charged with reinventing his new company. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Claudio Feser
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Service Management and Marketing: Customer Management in Service Competition, 3rd EditionUsing current academic research and business practice to make organizations more successful, this book explains how to manage any organization as a service business, showing how to move closer to current and future customers.
By Christian Grönroos
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Setting and Reaching GoalsCovering the three elements of setting and reaching effective goals, this book provides several tips that will make taking action to achieve those goals within your reach.
By Jeff Davidson
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Seven Strategy Questions: A Simple Approach for Better ExecutionSeven Strategy Questions identifies the questions you should ask yourself and ask others to lay the groundwork for successful strategy implementation. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Robert Simons
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Sexuality and Gender Diversity Rights in Southeast Asia: Elements in Politics and Society in Southeast AsiaSexuality and gender diversity rights in Southeast Asia are deeply controversial and vigorously contested. Debate and protest have been accompanied by both legislative reform and discriminatory violence.
By Anthony J Langlois
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Shapers: Reinvent the Way You Work and Change the FutureThis book guides you seek the freedom to approach work in your own unique way and become energised by what you do.
By Jonas Altman
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Shock of the New: The Challenge and Promise of Emerging TechnologyRaising awareness of technological changes that may be coming your way, this book gives you the tools to assess emerging learning technologies and their relevance to your enterprise.
By Chad Udell, Gary Woodill
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Signals for Strategists: Sensing Emerging Trends in Business and TechnologyFor strategists who are so caught up in the daily pressures of business that they're missing key signals of their future reality, this book is devoted to the practice of sensing, or scanning the horizon for signs of emerging trends. The sooner we see them, the better our response.
By David Schatsky
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Silos, Politics, and Turf Wars: A Leadership Fable About Destroying the Barriers That Turn Colleagues Into CompetitorsFor businesspeople looking for a way to break into consulting, consultants who want to improve, and leaders who want to understand their business, Silos, Politics, and Turf Wars is a unique approach to establishing a broad framework for success. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Patrick Lencioni
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Simply Brilliant: How Great Organizations Do Ordinary Things In Extraordinary WaysSimply Brilliant challenges the reader to stop thinking small and to boldly grab success. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By William C. Taylor
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Simply Brilliant: Powerful Techniques to Unlock Your Creativity and Spark New IdeasUsing his CreativityWorks framework, creativity and innovation expert Bernhard Schroeder explains how to break out of your mental box, reignite natural curiosity, and move step-by-step through a set of exercises that help individuals and teams.
By Bernhard Schroeder
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Simply Brilliant: Powerful Techniques to Unlock Your Creativity and Spark New IdeasSimply Brilliant provides valuable tools for anyone looking to be more creative and innovative in the workplace. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Bernhard Schroeder
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Six Figure Management Method: How to Grow Your Business with the Only 6 KPIs You'll Ever NeedAuthored by the creator of the widely-used performance management and decision support system The Management Cockpit, this practical handbook presents a streamlined, straightforward framework for managing activities effectively on a day-to-day basis while still aiming for long-term goals.
By Josephine Hus, Patrick M. Georges
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Skilling India: Challenges and OpportunitiesFocusing on the status of vocational education programs, this book looks at the challenges of achieving quality and attaining competitive excellence in a globalized socioeconomic order, and the role of government and industry in achieving these avowed goals.
By N.S. Sanath Kumar, S. Nayana Tara
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Smarketing: How to Achieve Competitive Advantage Through Blended Sales and MarketingWith clearly defined implementation strategies that can be applied by any company, regardless of size or sector, this book is an invaluable resource for any marketing or sales professional looking to drive growth and success in the new era of marketing.
By Adam Gray, Hugo Whicher, Tim Hughes
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Smart Cities, Smart Future: Showcasing TomorrowIn crisp language and sharp detail, this strong and compelling book explains why smart cities are powerful forces for positive change and describes the impact of smart city projects on people in towns, cities and nations around the world.
By Cornelia Lévy-Bencheton, Mike Barlow
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Smartcuts: How Hackers, Innovators, and Icons Accelerate SuccessIn Smartcuts, author Shane Snow leads the reader through the stories of how successful people achieved their success and maintained it. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Shane Snow
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Smartcuts: How Hackers, Innovators, and Icons Accelerate SuccessDelving into the reasons why some people and some organizations are able to achieve incredible things in implausibly short time frames, this thoughtful book shows how each of us can use "smartcuts" to rethink convention and accelerate success.
By Shane Snow
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Smarter, Sharper Thinking: Reduce Stress, Banish Fatigue and Find FocusSmarter Sharper Thinking reveals how you can expand your brain's capability to think well under stress, focus and get more out of your day, be more creative and innovative, and prepared for future challenges.
By Jenny Brockis
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Social Entrepreneurship for the 21st Century: Innovation across the Nonprofit, Private, and Public SectorsFeaturing in-depth coverage of cutting-edge social programs and philanthropic initiatives, this straightforward book provides the knowledge and tools you need to be a responsibly engaged investor and citizen in the coming decades.
By Georgia Levenson Keohane
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Solar Energy Advancements in Agriculture and Food Production SystemsThis comprehensive book is intended to serve as a practical guide for scientists, engineers, policymakers, and stakeholders involved in agriculture and related primary industries, as well as sustainable energy development, and climate change mitigation projects.
By Pietro Elia Campana, Shiva Gorjian
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Sourcing to Support the Green InitiativeDiscussing best practices in green sourcing, this book begins with an introduction to the idea of sustainability and to the concept of what it means to source to support organization's green initiatives, and why this is important from a holistic, life cycle perspective.
By Lisa Ellram, Wendy Tate
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Speaking of India: Bridging the Communication Gap When Working with IndiansFrom the secrets of a successful conference call, to the changing status of women in the Indian workplace, to the do's and don'ts of daily interaction, this guide helps us realize the ambitious dreams of working together...once we understand each other.
By Craig Storti
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Stability, Growth and Sustainability: Catalysts for Socio-Economic Development in Brunei DarussalamThis book examines the current socio-economic development in the journey toward a diversified social economy, as targeted in Brunei Vision 2035.
By Aris Ananta, Mahani Hamdan, Yau Hoon Chang
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Stand Up!: How to Get Involved, Speak Out, and Win in a World on FireFor those frustrated by what they see happening in the world but not sure what they can do about it, this book describes five types of conversations that enable people to build organizations that can solve local problems and confront the greatest challenges facing our country.
By Gordon Whitman
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Startup CEO: A Field Guide to Scaling Up Your BusinessWhile big company CEOs are usually groomed for the job for years, startup CEOs aren't. This engaging, reliable resource addresses what it takes to master the "How" of being a CEO, from leading an executive team to managing in any type of market.
By Hanny Hindi, Matt Blumberg
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Startupland: How Three Guys Risked Everything to Turn an Idea into a Global BusinessDesigned to inspire and empower you to follow your own dream and create your own story, this book chronicles entrepreneurship from people still in the trenches who acutely remember the difficult daily decisions, the thrill (and fears) of the early days, the problems that scale with growing a business, and the reason why they all went on the adventure in the first place.
By Carlye Adler, Mikkel Svane
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Straight Through Processing for Financial Services: The Complete GuideKeeping readers up to date and well informed, this book provides the knowledge and tools required by operations managers and systems architects to develop and implement STP processing systems that streamline business processes to maintain competitiveness in the market.
By Ayesha Khanna
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Strategic Alliances & Marketing Partnerships: Gaining Competitive Advantage through Collaboration and PartneringWith case studies from prominent, global organizations, this innovative book will help you to understand the problems that affect partnering and how to make effective management decisions to improve both the relationship and productivity.
By Andrew Humphries, Richard Gibbs
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Strategic Analysis and Choice: A Structured ApproachFrom assessing the general industry environment to analyzing industry forces and firm resources, this book will help develop the idea that strategic development is a broad-based and ongoing process.
By Alfred G. Warner
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Strategic Consulting: Tools and Methods for Successful Strategy MissionsWhether you are a business leader, internal business partner or external consultant, there are six key strategy missions that you will need to undertake as you deal with the re-positioning and growth issues that all businesses face at one stage or another during their life-cycle.
By Philippe Chereau, Pierre-Xavier Meschi
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Strategic Decision Making: A Discovery-Led Approach to Critical Choices in Turbulent TimesIn Strategic Decision Making, authors Simon Haslam and Ben Shenoy discuss how greater flexibility and a scientific, discovery-based approach to making decisions can allow companies to thrive. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretations of its content.
By Ben Shenoy, Simon Haslam
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Strategic Direction: The Airline IndustryOffering convincing arguments regarding the airline industry recovery, this collection of articles provides strategic insights and practical thinking that have influenced some of the world's leading organizations.
By Emerald Group Publishing
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Strategic Healthcare Management: Planning and ExecutionThrough cases, examples, and assignments, this practical book comprehensively explores the planning, management, and implementation of mission-driven healthcare strategy.
By Stephen L. Walston
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Strategic Healthcare Management: Planning and Execution, Second EditionThrough topical and timely case studies that depict strategic challenges healthcare leaders commonly face, this book provides both the theoretical concepts and the practical tools leaders need to make better strategic decisions.
By Stephen L. Walston
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Strategic Intelligence for the Future 2: A New Information Function ApproachInformation in all its forms is at the heart of the economic intelligence process. It is also a powerful vector of innovation and, more than ever, a balance between economic and societal forces.
By Alain Juillet, Henri Dou, Philippe Clerc
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Strategic Intelligence: Business Intelligence, Competitive Intelligence, and Knowledge ManagementWith case studies written by recognized experts, this book describes synergies among component pieces of strategic intelligence and demonstrates how executives can best use this internal and external information toward making better decisions.
By Jay Liebowitz
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Strategic Leadership: How to Think and Plan Strategically and Provide DirectionFull of checklists, summaries and historical examples, this book explores the nature and origin of strategic leadership, assesses the skills you need to be effective, and reveals the seven generic functions that make up the role of strategic leader.
By John Adair
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Strategic Leadership: The General's ArtWith contributions from military leaders and experts in the fields of transformational leadership, systems, critical and historical thinking, and corporate culture, this work teaches mid-level managers how to become high-level executives.
By Georgia Sorenson (eds), Mark R. Grandstaff
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Strategic Management of Global Manufacturing Networks: Aligning Strategy, Configuration, and CoordinationWith vivid examples for the application of the presented concepts, this book provides a holistic perspective on manufacturing network management considering the interplay between strategy, configuration, and coordination.
By Andreas Mundt, Stefan Thomas, Thomas Friedli
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Strategic Management of Health Care Organizations, Eighth EditionA comprehensive guide to effective strategic management of health care organizations, this book fully explains how strategic managers must become strategic thinkers with the ability to evaluate a changing industry, analyze data, question assumptions, and develop new ideas.
By Linda E. Swayne, Peter M. Ginter, W. Jack Duncan
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Strategic Management of Healthcare Organizations: A Stakeholder Management ApproachIncluding state-of-the art thinking on stakeholder theory and strategic management to encourage a broader and more enlightened view of management, this practical book outlines a process that is applicable to all levels of a healthcare organization, including evaluation of trends in the external environment that need to be addressed.
By Jeffrey S. Harrison, Steven M. Thompson
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Strategic Management: An Executive PerspectiveWritten for for practicing executives getting ready to assume executive responsibilities and for MBA and EMBA students who aspire to senior management responsibilities, this concise book discusses how to formulate sound strategies which reflect a solid grasp of relevant forces in the external and competitive environment, a clear strategic intent, and a deep understanding of an organization's core competencies and assets.
By Cornelis A. de Kluyver
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Strategic Management: From Theory to Implementation, Fourth EditionA thorough text which helps understand where strategic management comes from, and how a corporate strategy can be formed and implemented.
By David Hussey
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Strategic Management: State of the Field and Its FutureThe book focuses heavily on the future developments and research opportunities available in the field, while also providing a solid base of knowledge for understanding strategic management as a whole.
By Irene M. Duhaime, Marjorie A. Lyles, Michael A. Hitt
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Strategic Modelling and Business Dynamics: A Feedback Systems Approach, Second EditionCovering all stages of model building, from conceptual to analytical, this insightful book demonstrates a range of in-depth practical examples that vividly illustrate important or puzzling dynamics in firm operations, strategy, public policy, and everyday life.
By John D.W. Morecroft
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Strategic MRO Powered by DSC: A Roadmap for Transforming Assets into Competitive AdvantageThis book provides the roadmap for showing how a proper focus on enterprise asset management and the associated MRO supply chain can be a source of huge savings and strategic advantage.
By Richard L. MacInnes, Stephen L. Pearce
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Strategic Organizational Alignment: Authority, Power, ResultsThrough stories, illustrations, and step-by-step guides, this detailed resource shows you a simple, profound, and repeatable way to ensure your business aligns its employees and has a clear path to success.
By Chris Crosby
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Strategic Planning for Public and Nonprofit Organizations: A Guide to Strengthening and Sustaining Organizational Achievement, Fifth EditionFrom identifying stakeholders and clarifying a shared vision, to implementing plans and revising strategies, this comprehensive, practical guide covers all aspects of the planning process to help you keep your organization united and on track into the future.
By John M. Bryson
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Strategic Planning for Public and Nonprofit Organizations: A Guide to Strengthening and Sustaining Organizational Achievement, Sixth Edition NEW!The authority on developing strategies and a strategic plan for any public and nonprofit organization
By Bert George, John M. Bryson
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Strategic Planning for SustainabilityThis book is a comprehensive guide to the key steps required to strategically approach becoming a successful sustainable business including conducting a CSR assessment, developing a CSR strategy and the accompanying business case, developing and implementing CSR commitments, and measuring the performance and effectiveness of the planning initiative.
By Alan S. Gutterman
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Strategic Planning Kit For Dummies, Second EditionFor companies of all types and sizes looking to build and sustain a competitive edge, set up an ongoing process for market assessment and trend analysis, and develop a vision for future growth, this book shows you how to make strategy a habit for all organizations, no matter the size, type, or resource constraints.
By Erica Olsen
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Strategic Planning, Execution, and Measurement (SPEM): A Powerful Tool for CEOsProviding parameters for assessing the status of your organization that can help to pinpoint perceptional gaps between top executives and owners, this book discusses the most important prerequisites of strategic planning and will help you evaluate operations, systems, and structure in your organization.
By Girish P. Jakhotiya
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Strategic Procurement: Organising Suppliers and Supply Chains for Competitive Advantage, 2nd editionShowing how to cut costs without harming a business, this book emphasizes the importance of supplier relationship management, making it a valuable resource for understanding of the true worth of procurement in the boardroom.
By Caroline Booth
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Strategic Risk Management: New Tools for Competitive Advantage in an Uncertain AgePresenting a new approach to risk management, this book enables executives to think systematically and strategically about future risks and deal proactively with threats to their competitive advantages in an ever more volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous world.
By Emanuel V. Lauria, John Bugalla, Kristina Narvaez, Paul C. Godfrey
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Strategic Thinking Illustrated: Strategy Made Visual Using Systems ThinkingThis book is about the behaviour of systems. Systems are important, for we interact with them all the time, and many of the actions we take are influenced by a system - for example, the system of performance measures in an organisation influences, often very strongly, how individuals within that organisation behave.
By Dennis Sherwood
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Strategic Thinking in Complex Problem SolvingWhether you are a student or a working professional, you can benefit from being better at solving the complex problems that come up in your life. This practical book provides a general framework and the necessary tools to help you do so.
By Arnaud Chevallier
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Strategic Thinking: A Nine Step Approach to Strategy and Leadership for Managers and Marketers, 3rd editionIncluding prompt sheets, objectives, action plans and summaries, this book will enable you to gain a deeper understanding of your market, forecast where your organization is heading, think critically about proposals and write an effective strategic plan.
By Simon Wootton, Terry Horne
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Strategic Thinking: A Nine Step Approach to Strategy and Leadership for Managers and Marketers, 3rd EditionStrategic Thinking offers a nine-step approach for becoming a strategic thinker and, consequently, a strong, strategic leader. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Simon Wootton, Terry Horne
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Strategic Value Chain Management: Models for Competitive AdvantageIntroducing the theory behind strategic value chain management, this book examines its impact on an organization's performance with examples of its implementation in practice.
By Qeis Kamran
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Strategic Value Creation: Design and Execute a Strategy for Breakthrough ReturnsStrategic Value Creation shows how senior business leaders can design and execute a data-driven strategy for their organizations to ensure that value creation is focused on the customer segments most integral to business success.
By Jon Andrew, Rupert Morrison
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Strategic Workforce Planning: Developing Optimized Talent Strategies for Future GrowthWhether you're a start-up, small business or a large corporate, this practical book will show you how to align people strategy with company strategy to ensure your organization maintains its competitive advantage.
By Ross Sparkman
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Strategic: The Skill to Set Direction, Create Advantage, and Achieve Executive ExcellenceThe book offers business leaders a proven framework-the Strategic Fitness System-containing dozens of tools, techniques, and checklists to confidently master every area of the business, from designing market-winning strategies to shaping the organization's culture.
By Rich Horwath
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Strategy and Training: Making Skills a Competitive AdvantageDrawing on real-life client examples and the inspirational stories of highly successful individuals, this book highlights approaches that have transformed organisations and re-invented training, while bringing to light the effectiveness of new methods and approaches.
By Philippe Korda
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Strategy As Action: Competitive Dynamics and Competitive AdvantageFor start-up firms entering a market, growth firms, mature firms, and firms that have no decisive resource advantage, this practical book presents an action plan for all firms to build, improve, and defend their competitive advantage.
By Curtis M. Grimm, Hun Lee, Ken G. Smith
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Strategy as Leadership: Facing Adaptive Challenges in OrganizationsThis book claims that strategy is leadership as, in this framework, these environmental changes demand shifts in strategic priorities that result in a consistent pattern of resistance.
By Natalia Weisz, Roberto S. Vassolo
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Strategy Beyond the Hockey Stick: People, Probabilities, and Big Moves to Beat the OddsThis is not another by-the-book approach to strategy. It's not another trudge through frameworks or small-scale case studies promising a secret formula for success. It's an irreverent, fact-driven, and humorous take on the real world of strategic decision making.
By Chris Bradley, Martin Hirt, Sven Smit
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Strategy Builder: How to Create and Communicate More Effective StrategiesThe best way to engage and involve people is through pictures. This visual, interactive guide shows you how to creatively combine the best strategy frameworks to orient and animate strategy discussion and development in your team.
By Duncan Angwin, Rebecca Walthall, Stephen Cummings
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Strategy for the Corporate Level: Where to Invest, What to Cut Back and How to Grow Organisations with Multiple Divisions, 2nd EditionGrounded in academic literature and using real-life examples from industry, this guide addresses both business and management strategy to help executives deal with major decisions relating to investment, acquisitions, market entry, supervision of management, and corporate centralization of activities.
By Andrew Campbell, Jo Whitehead, Marcus Alexander, Michael Goold
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Strategy Genius: 40 Insights from the Science of Strategic ThinkingQuick to read and intensely practical, this book cuts through the noise to bring you proven research and techniques for applying it that will simply make you a better strategist.
By Richard A D Jones
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Strategy in 3D: Essential Tools to Diagnose, Decide, and DeliverIncluding a novel organizational framework and never-before-published application examples, this book helps build foundational skills and prepares the reader for success as a strategist in the 21st century.
By Greg Fisher, John E. Wisneski, Rene M. Bakker
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Strategy in a Week: Strategic Thinking Skills in Seven Simple StepsTaking you on a journey to explore what organizational strategy is, where it fits within the context of each business, this book explore failures and successes, and provides a platform for the reader to acquire the vital skills of strategic thinking.
By Stephen Berry
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Strategy Safari: Your Complete Guide Through the Wilds of Strategic Management, Second EditionStrategy Safari is a delightful yet thorough examination of popular strategy theories. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Bruce Ahlstrand, Henry Mintzberg, Joseph Lampel
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Strategy Sprints: 12 Ways to Accelerate Growth for an Agile BusinessStrategy Sprints will teach you to identify the bottlenecks that are weighing your business down, turn you and anyone in your team into a sales superstar and streamline processes so you spend time where it matters.
By Simon Severino
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Stretch: How to Future-Proof Yourself for Tomorrow's WorkplaceStretch, by Karie Willyerd and Barbara Mistick offers a guide to navigating an ever-changing workplace where relevancy is the defining factor. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Barbara Mistick, Karie Willyerd
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Successful Acquisitions: A Proven Plan for Strategic GrowthAuthored by an M&A expert with more than $1 billion in transactions under his belt, this practical and comprehensive book offers a complete roadmap to buying companies and achieving proactive strategic growth, from building the foundation to growing the relationships to cementing the deal.
By David Braun
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Successful Global Account Management: Key Strategies and Tools for Managing Global CustomersThis reference will provide any manager responsible for implementing a GAM program with a range of tools for success.
By Kevin Wilson, Nick Speare, Samuel J. Reese
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Successful Global TrainingUnderstanding how talent is developed in different cultures is essential for global talent development (TD) professionals. This book will help you discover the challenges of training globally, including how they relate to leadership and communication, and explains the core competencies of global TD professionals.
By Michael Marquardt
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Successful Time Management: How to be Organized, Productive and Get Things DoneThis book is packed with proven tips, tools and techniques to help you review and assess your time management and adopt new work practices to improve it.
By Patrick Forsyth
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Sun Tzu and the Art of Business: Six Strategic Principles for Managers, Revised EditionBy using modern examples from Google, Zappos, Amazon, Dyson, Aflac, Singapore Airlines, Best Buy, the NFL, Tata Motors, Starbucks, and many others, this book illustrates how executives can avoid the pitfalls of management fads and achieve lasting competitive advantage.
By Mark R. McNeilly
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Sun Tzu: The Art of WarSun Tzu's 2300-year-old masterpiece of military strategy remains remarkably relevant to 21st-century business leaders.
By Samuel B. Griffith
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Sun Tzu's Art of War: A modern expositionThis book by Sam Hua, bestselling author on Ancient Chinese philosophy and wisdom, provides today's reader with a thorough understanding of The Art of War, both in its original context and how it can be applied in modern times.
By Sam Hua
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Supertrends: 50 Things You Need to Know About the FutureDiscover how we can expect the world to evolve in terms of demographics, economics, technology, environment and beyond. Whatever it is that you do, you will be able to better prepare for the future if you can just get a clear view of it.
By Lars Tvede
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Supply Chain Ethics: Using CSR and Sustainability to Create Competitive AdvantageThrough case studies, surveys and unique research, this invaluable book identifies and outlines best practice employed by global manufacturers, retailers and logistics companies.
By John Manners-Bell
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Supply Chain Management: A Global PerspectiveContaining a rich set of current examples, extensive pedagogy and solved problems to make difficult concepts easy to understand, this book provides supply chain managers with a completely unique approach, presenting SCM from a balanced, integrative, and business-oriented viewpoint.
By Nada R. Sanders
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Supply Chain Management: A Global Perspective, Second EditionIncluding a broad overview of supply chain management and real-world examples of SCM in companies, this book provides the foundational material required to understand the subject matter and practical tips that demonstrate how the latest techniques are being applied.
By Nada R. Sanders
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Supply Chain Risk: Understanding Emerging Threats to Global Supply ChainsCovering global issues, trends and developments, this book clearly describes the evolving risks to supply chains and how multinational corporations should be dealing with them at a strategic level.
By John Manners-Bell
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Survival Analysis: A New Guide for Social ScientistsThis Element provides a guideline to new techniques and models in survival analysis, particularly in three areas: non-proportional covariate effects, competing risks, and multi-state models. It also revisits models for repeated events.
By Alejandro Quiroz Flores
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Survival of the Greenest: Economic Transformation in a Climate-conscious WorldThe pathways to economic development are changing. Environmental sustainability is no longer a choice but a necessity to maintain a competitive edge in the global economy. Just like in nature, where survival hinges on adaptation, this Element shows how nations adjust to -and take advantage of- the new dynamics of structural transformation induced by climate change.
By Amir Lebdioui
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Surviving Office Politics: Succeeding in the Competitive JungleIncluding key guidelines to success, this book will help you if you want to excel, progress or even just survive in the jungle of the modern office.
By Patrick Forsyth
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Sustainability Analytics Toolkit for Practitioners: Creating Value in the 21st CenturyThis book solicits meaningful contributions from key experts and practitioners that have been dealing with the emerging area of sustainability analytics. In doing so, readers would understand the cost, impact and performance of their sustainability initiatives.
By Renard Siew
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Sustainability and Competitiveness in the Hospitality IndustrySustainability and Competitiveness in the Hospitality Industry focuses on complex issues from a hotel industry perspective. It surveys existing research by reflecting on the pandemic's impacts and generates scenarios for how to strengthen business structures.
By Carlos Costa, Vânia Costa
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Sustainability and Human Resource Management: Developing Sustainable Business OrganizationsThis book brings together the views of academics and practitioners and provides many ideas for conceptual development, empirical exploration and practical implementation, this book intends to advance the international academic and practice-based debates on the potential of sustainability for HRM and vice versa.
By Ina Ehnert, Klaus J. Zink, Wes Harry (eds)
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Sustainability and Interprofessional Collaboration: Ensuring Leadership Resilience in Collaborative Health CareThis book focus is on the sustainability of these initiatives, sharing insights into factors that promote sustainability including leadership approaches and organisational resilience, as well as frequently encountered difficulties, and ways to overcome them.
By Dawn Forman, Jill Thistlethwaite, Marion Jones
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Sustainability in Agriculture: Issues in Environmental Science and TechnologyPresenting an authoritative and balanced overview of many of the key factors that impact upon world agricultural practices, this timely book discusses many hotly debated issues such as free trade, GM crops, pesticides, and much more.
By Ronald E. Hester, Roy M. Harrison (eds)
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Sustainability in Business: A Financial Economics AnalysisThis book provides an approach to sustainable decision-making rooted in financial and economic literature. Financial economic techniques have the power to frame the discussion of sustainability to explain who, how, and why sustainability is a growing phenomenon in business and investing.
By David Hobson Myers
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Sustainability in Innovation and Entrepreneurship: Policies and Practices for a World with Finite ResourcesPresenting some of the most current research and best practices in the field, this book showcases pioneering efforts among companies, citizens, and government agencies that are moving from theory to practice by placing sustainability at the core of their development strategies.
By Antonio L. Leal-Rodríguez (eds), Antonio Leal-Millan, Marta Peris-Ortiz
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Sustainability Leader in a Green Business Era: A Middle East PerspectiveProviding a brief history of the concept of sustainability as it applies to both performance and reporting, this book highlights the principles and practices that lead to sustainable and positive leadership within SME.
By Amr Sukkar
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Sustainability Performance and ReportingThis book provides a step-by-step approach for organizations to reap benefits from a more sustainable approach. As organizations tackle global challenges, the faces of our businesses and our economic system are changing to consider the interests of all stakeholders rather than just shareholders. This book provides a step-by-step approach for organizations to reap benefits from a more sustainable approach.
By Irene M. Herremans
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Sustainability Reporting and CommunicationsThis book is intended to be a practical introduction to sustainability reporting and communications that begins by discussing material legal and regulatory considerations and the some of the major sustainability reporting frameworks and then continues with detailed illustrations of how companies might create and distribute their sustainability reports and develop and implement their CSR communications strategies.
By Alan S. Gutterman
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Sustainability Reporting: Getting Started, Second EditionIncluding detailed examples of sustainability metrics from numerous organizations, this in-depth book discusses the internal and external benefits of sustainability reporting, the basics of existing reporting frameworks, and the reaction of the investment community.
By Gwendolen B. White
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Sustainability to Social Change: Lead Your Company from Managing Risks to Creating Social ValueThe book reveals the inside story of how socially innovative companies are making the strategic shift from minimizing risk to creating social value.
By Bradley Googins, Philip Mirvis
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Sustainable and Green Supply Chains and Logistics Case Study Collection:This book contains real-life scenarios from leading companies who are pursuing a sustainability agenda.
By Dr Ozlem Bak
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Sustainable Business Development: Inventing the Future Through Strategy, Innovation, and LeadershipIncluding case studies of companies in the U.S., Europe, the Pacific Rim and South America, this book provides comprehensive and practical analysis of what sustainable business development is and how companies can use it to make a significant difference.
By David L. Rainey
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Sustainable Business Model InnovationSustainable Business Model Innovation offers inspiration and guidance to create more competitive and sustainable companies. Your company's future, our environment, and society depend on doing so.
By David Young, Martin Reeves
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Sustainable Business Strategy: Analysis, Choice and ImplementationThis book is written to be used as a core text for students studying business or corporate strategy at undergraduate and master's levels.
By Andrew Grantham
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Sustainable Business: Managing the Challenges of the 21st CenturyThis open access book is a compact guide to the development of sustainable business, which has become the central concept in discussions about the future development of humanity and planet earth.
By Daniel Foord, David Risi, Ingrid Kissling-Näf, Jan Frecè, Kirsten Hillebrand, Manuel Fischer, Marie Peskova, Rahel Meili, René Schmidpeter, Tobias Stucki
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Sustainable Business: People, Profit, and Planet at The Tiger CenterThis book presents the story of this remarkable center. It argues that to save an endangered species, you have to save its environment, and to save those, you must "save" the people that live with them, by providing eco-sensitive ways to grow economically, without encroaching on the natural environment or helping poachers.
By CJ Meadows
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Sustainable Development: Knowledge and Education About StandardisationThis book examines education about standardization in the context of sustainable management. It shows the role of standardization education in the global economy, and in markets, industries and businesses.
By Donggeun Choi, Henk J. de Vries, Ivana Mijatovic, Samuel O. Idowu
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Sustainable Enterprise Performance: A Comprehensive Evaluation MethodThis book details a method for evaluating an enterprise's readiness and progress toward sustainable performance through a comprehensive set of qualitative and quantitative indicators.
By Emmanuel Ménager, Jean-Louis Leignel, Serge Yablonsky
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Sustainable Innovation: Trends in Marketing and ManagementThis book provides insights into sustainable innovation trends in various marketing- and management-related fields.
By Amit Arora, Anshu Saxena Arora, Mohamad Sepehri, Sabine Bacouel-Jentjens
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Sustainable Leadership: Lessons of Vision, Courage, and Grit from the CEOs Who Dared to Build a Better WorldIn Sustainable Leadership: Lessons of Vision, Courage, and Grit from the CEOs Who Dared to Build a Better World, accomplished leadership expert Clarke Murphy shares a can't-miss toolkit for delivering remarkable sustainability results.
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Sustainable Logistics and Supply Chain Management: Principles and Practices for Sustainable Operations and Management, 3rd EditionConnect the principles with the practice of sustainability in logistics and supply chain with this textbook based on extensive research and supported by detailed online resources.
By Alexander Trautrims, Chee Yew Wong, David B. Grant
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Sustainable Manufacturing ProcessesSustainable Manufacturing Processes provides best practice advice on sustainable manufacturing methods, with examples from industry as well as important supporting theory.
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Sustainable Marketing: The Industry's Role in a Sustainable FutureTransform your marketing practice into a force for good by understanding marketing's complicity in the sustainability crisis and learning how to embed sustainable thinking and practice in your day-to-day work.
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Sustainable Markets for Sustainable Business: A Global Perspective for Business and Financial MarketsAddressing the need for business and market sustainability reforms, this thoughtful book explores the relationship between markets and business and sustainable development, as well as issues such as climate change, pollution, land degradation and biodiversity loss.
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Sustainable Operations and Closed-Loop Supply ChainsWritten from the perspective of a medium to large firm's journey towards sustainability, this book focuses on the triple bottom line - economic, environmental, and social impacts - and explores the various steps in the decision-making process toward sustainability.
By Gilvan C. Souza
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Sustainable Procurement: A Practical Guide to Corporate Social Responsibility in the Supply ChainTransform procurement practices with this step-by-step process to successfully drive sustainability in direct suppliers and up the supply chain.
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Sustainable Product Innovation: Entrepreneurship for Human Well-BeingDetailing sustainability challenges facing our global society in the 21st century, this unique text makes a well-supported business case for sustainable product development.
By Dariush Rafinejad
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Sustainable Smart Healthcare: Lessons Learned from the COVID-19 PandemicThis book shows how smart technology applications to mobile healthcare will be different in the post-pandemic era.
By Tin-Chih Toly Chen
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Sustainable Transformation Strategy: Casebook on Corporate Sustainability in PracticeThis casebook demonstrates how companies can design and execute corporate sustainability strategies into their overall business strategy to achieve sustainable transformation.
By Melina Corvaglia-Charrey, Melissa Demartini, Paolo Taticchi
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Sustainable Value Creation: An Inevitable Challenge to Business and SocietySustainability sheds a whole new light on economic value creation. Sustainable value creation means looking critically at both revenues and costs. Not everything that makes money is of value. Not everything for which no bill is sent is 'free'.
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Sustainable: Moving Beyond ESG to Impact InvestingIn Sustainable, a finance-industry veteran offers an insider's look at the promises, prospects, and perils of ESG investing.
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Sustaining Continuous Innovation Through Problem SolvingDetailing how to creatively re-engineer processes, sustain innovation and continually improve an enterprise through repetitive methods, this book offers a step-by-step approach that includes the steps, the templates, and the metrics to keep it on track.
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Take Your Company Global: The New Rules of International Expansion NEW!If you're on the internet, you're already global. Now, get access to an innovative data-driven model for profitably expanding the international presence you already have.
By Nataly Kelly
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Talent Economics: The Fine Line Between Winning and Losing the Global War for TalentTalent Economics offers a comprehensive guide to attracting, developing, and retaining the best talent that the global market has to offer. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
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Talent Relationship Management: Competitive Recruiting Strategies in Times of Talent ShortagePresenting useful and competitive solutions for hiring talented and motivated employees, this book emphasizes the fact that employers must sell relevant functions just like they would as part of an employer branding strategy, and that they must maintain and manage relations with promising talent once they have been identified.
By Armin Trost
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Talent, Transformation, and the Triple Bottom Line: How Companies Can Leverage Human Resources to Achieve Sustainable GrowthBy educating HR professionals about sustainability, sustainability professionals about HR, and business leaders about how to marry the two to accelerate progress on both fronts, this book demonstrates how leading companies are using sustainability to strengthen core HR functions.
By Andrew W. Savitz, Karl Weber
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Talent: Making People Your Competitive AdvantageIntroducing two approaches to HC-centric management, this book outlines the unique human capital strategy for each approach, shows what it looks like in action, and provides the foundation and tools for creating competitive and innovative organizations.
By Edward E. Lawler III
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Teaching Old Dogs New Tricks: Driving Corporate Innovation Through Start-ups, Spinoffs, and Venture CapitalWith this book, companies can monetize employee's ideas in a manner that doesn't cost a fortune or create conflicts of interest within the ranks.
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Tech-Led Culture: Unlock the Full Potential of Your Business and PeopleWhether you are running a start-up or multinational organization, there is always scope to optimize your processes and reinvigorate your teams.
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Technological Advancements in Library Service InnovationTechnological Advancements in Library Service Innovation examines the recent activities of successful and groundbreaking research and practices around the world surrounding library service innovation and presents various forward-thinking initiatives.
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Technological Development and Impact on Economic and Environmental SustainabilityTechnological Development and Impact on Economic and Environmental Sustainability explores the determinants of economic, social, and environmental sustainability from a multidisciplinary perspective in the globalized world, analyzes the impacts of applied sustainable policies, and considers the improvements in the Sustainable Development Goals.
By Mahmut Unsal Sasmaz, Omer Faruk Ozturk, Yilmaz Bayar
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Technological Innovation and International Competitiveness for Business Growth: Challenges and OpportunitiesThis book explores how companies combine technological innovation and competitive actions that create new opportunities for business growth in the international market.
By Hussain G. Rammal, João J. M. Ferreira, Sérgio J. Teixeira
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Technologies for Solar Thermal Energy: Theory, Design and, OptimizationTechnologies for Solar Thermal Energy: Theory, Design and Optimization presents concepts surrounding industrial process heat and thermal power generation, including detailed theory and practical considerations for design, performance analysis, and economic assessments.
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Technology-Driven Sustainability: Innovation in the Fashion Supply ChainThis book provides a critical overview of technologies that are used within the fashion industry and supply chain, with a special emphasis on how they engender sustainability and the circular economy.
By Claudia E. Henninger, Daniella Ryding, Gianpaolo Vignali, Louise F. Reid
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Ten Types of Innovation: The Discipline of Building BreakthroughsTen Types of Innovation provides you with the practical steps and smarts you need to break down barriers to success. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Brian Quinn, Helen Walters, Larry Keeley, Ryan Pikkel
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Ten Types of Innovation: The Discipline of Building BreakthroughsShowing you how to look beyond new products to other powerful types of innovation which can be combined for competitive advantage, this book lays out fresh ways to think, and then explains the actions that allow teams or firms to innovate reliably and repeatedly.
By Brian Quinn, Helen Walters, Larry Keeley, Ryan Pikkel
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The 30 Day MBA: Your Fast Track Guide to Business Success, 3rd EditionIn The 30 Day MBA, author Colin Barrow provides you with the key skills you need to fast-track your way to MBA success. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Colin Barrow
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The 4 Disciplines of Execution: Achieving Your Wildly Important GoalsIn The 4 Disciplines of Execution, Authors Chris McChesney, Sean Covey, and Jim Huling reveal the four essential principles that help individuals and organizations realize their most important goals. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Chris McChesney, Jim Huling, Sean Covey
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The 8 Steps to Strategic Success: Unleashing the Power of EngagementPresenting a process for creating a strategy that really delivers, this book describes the key parts of the process for each step, explains how to avoid the potential pitfalls, and points to the most useful strategic models and frameworks.
By Gerben van den Berg, Paul Pietersma
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The Accidental Creative: How to Be Brilliant at a Moment's NoticeThe Accidental Creative establishes a structure to help people get the most out of their creative process, and preserve their innovative ability. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Todd Henry
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The Achievement Habit: Stop Wishing, Start Doing and Take Command of Your LifeThe Achievement Habit takes a good, hard look at many of the obstacles in our lives, and offers insight on how to overcome ego to make dreams a reality. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Bernard Roth
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The Adventure of Sustainable Performance: Beyond ESG Compliance to Leadership in the New EraThe Adventure of Sustainable Performance seeks out bold pioneers or forgotten pioneers who need reinvigorating and to be inspired with renewed purpose. Leaders who want more than just modest incremental efficiency gains, who want to create value, to deliver positive impact and meaningful change, should welcome this book.
By Dean Sanders, Stuart McLachlan
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The Adversity Advantage: Turning Everyday Struggles Into Everyday GreatnessThe Adversity Advantage synergizes the inspiring true story of the world's foremost blind athlete with a thorough academic analysis of steps any individual can use to overcome seemingly insurmountable adversity. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Erik Weihenmayer , Paul Stoltz
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The Agile Marketer: Turning Customer Experience into Your Competitive AdvantageRich with examples, case studies, illustrations, and exercises, this insightful book will help you transform marketing in your organization, in spirit and practice-and help you realize its critical roles in product management and the customer experience.
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The Agility Advantage: How to Identify and Act on Opportunities in a Fast-Changing WorldWith a wealth of valuable information and practical strategies, this essential book shows how to identify those aspects of your business where agility is most crucial and which elements have the greatest impact on the customer's decision to buy.
By Amanda Setili
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The Agility Mindset: How Reframing Flexible Working Delivers Competitive AdvantageBased on rigorous research, but packed with practical diagnostics and frameworks, this book shows you how to create a fit-for-purpose workplace in a world where only the agile will flourish.
By Fiona Cannon
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The Agility Mindset: How Reframing Flexible Working Delivers Competitive AdvantageIn The Agility Mindset, Fiona Cannon explores how an agile workforce can offer a strategic advantage to companies as traditional work models come under pressure from technological advancement, increased customer demands, and the influence of globalization. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Fiona Cannon
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The AI Advantage: How to Put the Artificial Intelligence Revolution to WorkIn The AI Advantage, Thomas Davenport discusses how AI can be used to enhance workplace solutions and to achieve a competitive advantage. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Thomas H. Davenport
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The Airbnb Way: 5 Leadership Lessons for Igniting Growth through Loyalty, Community, and BelongingIn The Airbnb Way, author Joseph A. Michelli reveals how to excel at customer service to create a lasting impression. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
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The Alignment Advantage: Transform Your Strategy, Culture and Customers to SucceedUncover the ultimate competitive edge by reshaping your strategy, transforming your culture and prioritizing your customers and clients.
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The Art and Discipline of Strategic LeadershipThis text goes far beyond most other strategy books to offer business strategists an integrated five-phase model for setting and implementing strategy, and provides executives with a powerful framework for assessing and tweaking current strategies.
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The Art of Breathing: The Secret to Living MindfullyInternational bestselling author Dr. Danny Penman provides a concise guide to letting go, finding peace, and practicing mindfulness in a messy world, simply by taking the time to breathe.
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The Art of Connection: 7 Relationship-Building Skills Every Leader Needs NowWith memorable stories, relevant scientific research, and hands-on exercises, this compelling, entertaining book, argues that the meaningful relationships that come from real interaction are the key to creating innovative ideas and solving our most intractable problems.
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The Art of Creative ThinkingNew ideas help businesses gain an advantage over their rivals. Let this succinct book show you practical ways to become a more creative thinker.
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The Art of Doing Business Across Cultures: 10 Countries, 50 Mistakes, and 5 Steps to Cultural CompetenceThe go-to guide for intercultural competence in the global business arena, this book is a quick tour of the most common cultural differences Americans/No. Europeans encounter when doing business in ten of the world's key markets.
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The Art of Insight: How to Have More AHA! MomentsProviding friendly practices and helpful exercises, this insightful book will help you develop your own personal approach to cultivating a mindset where insights come readily so that new or longstanding problems are solved with confidence and ease.
By Charles Kiefer, Malcolm Constable
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The Art of Opportunity: How to Build Growth and Ventures Through Strategic Innovation and Visual ThinkingYour company's goal is to grow, and to turn non-customers into customers. The old ways are becoming less tenable and less cost-effective. This invaluable book outlines the new growth paradigm and gives you a solid framework for putting new ideas into practice.
By Marc Sniukas, Matt Morasky, Parker Lee
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The Art of Product Design: Changing How Things Get MadeThe Art of Product Design explores how the digital revolution impacts the future of product design. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
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The Art of Quantum Planning: Lessons from Quantum Physics for Breakthrough Strategy, Innovation, and LeadershipTaking seven concepts from the scientific study of tiny particles, this book applies them in the larger world, showing how they can pry open minds, spur creativity, and make the planning process far more innovative and effective.
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The Art of Strategic Leadership: How Leaders at All Levels Prepare Themselves, Their Teams, and Organizations for the FutureUsing a unique approach to examine what it means to be a strategic leader, this book will help you develop the qualities of strategic leadership and become an active contributor to the short- and long-term success of your organization.
By Stephanie S. Mead, Steven J. Stowell
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The Art of Woo: Using Strategic Persuasion to Sell Your IdeasAllowing you to dive into the act of persuasion, The Art of Woo provides you with clear directions for how to make your pitches more successful. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
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The Assessment Book: Applied Strategic Thinking and Performance Improvement Through Self-AssessmentsContaining seven self-assessments to help you define "what to accomplish" before deciding "how to accomplish it," this book shows you how to collect, analyze and interpret the data necessary to confirm your suspicions before making recommendations.
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The Autonomous Revolution: Reclaiming the Future We've Sold to MachinesIncluding bold and visionary recommendations, this book describes how the rise of artificial intelligence and virtual environments are ushering in an epic cultural transformation--and how we can thrive in this new era.
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The Big Shift in IT Leadership: How Great CIOs Leverage the Power of Technology for Strategic Business Growth in the Customer-Centric EconomyWritten in accessible and easy-to-understand language, and filled with real-world stories and illustrative anecdotes, this important guide offers an actionable blueprint for executing the leadership strategies that have proven to work in thriving organizations.
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The Boston Consulting Group on StrategyOffering a broad and up-to-date selection of the firm's best ideas on strategy, this book is filled with fresh ideas, insights and practical lessons for managers, executives, and entrepreneurs in every industry facing the need to rethink their businesses.
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The Brains and Brawn Company: How Leading Organizations Blend the Best of Digital and PhysicalThis book provides everything you need to set your company apart from your competitors in real and measurable ways-and take the lead in your industry for years to come.
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The Breakthrough Manifesto: 10 Principles to Spark Transformative InnovationInnovation is a process by which new ideas, services, and sources of value are brought to life. Yet approaches to the pursuit of innovation often rely on stale methodologies.
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The Business Analyst as Strategist: Translating Business Strategies into Valuable SolutionsProviding a five-step process to set well-formed strategies, this book shows you how to set the stage for change, and how to translate your strategy into operational terms through a portfolio of programs and supporting projects.
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The Business Model Innovation Factory: How to Stay Relevant When The World is ChangingYour organization must be a business model innovator to stay competitive in today's turbulent world. This timely book provides leaders with the survival skills to create a pipeline of new business models in the face of disruptive markets and competition.
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The Business Models Handbook: The Tools, Techniques and Frameworks Every Business Professional Needs to Succeed, Second EditionIn this second edition, these include Kay's distinctive capabilities, Customer Activity Cycle and the 3C framework. It also covers the most recent developments in applying these models, including how to embed them remotely.
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The Business of Healthcare Innovation, Second EditionProviding a thorough overview and introduction to the innovative sectors fueling improvements in healthcare, this book explains why healthcare sectors are such an important source of growth in any nation's economy.
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The Business of Music Management: How To Survive and Thrive in Today's Music IndustryThis book guides you through specialized occupations filled by musicians is lengthy, e.g. performer, producer, arranger, composer, songwriter, lyricist, music editor, publicist, recording engineer, conductor, sound technician, manager, entertainment lawyer, promoter, booking agent, tour manager, music educator, vocal coach, private instructor, music supervisor, music programmer, electronic DJ, etc.
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The Business of Relationships: Creating Enterprise Success With ChinaThis book helps you build, and maintain, success with China. How? Through the often neglected, but vital, area of creating relationships that work and endure in China.
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The Business of Winning: Insights in Transformation from F1 to the Boardroom, Second EditionThis book explains what it takes to succeed in a competitive business with high technology, high finance and immensely high stakes.
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The Business Student's Guide to Sustainable Management: Principles and Practice, Second EditionWith a full introduction to sustainable management, this textbook provides a true treasure chest of materials to support staff wanting to integrate sustainability into their teaching and provides support to effectively embed sustainability in the curriculum.
By Petra Molthan-Hill
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The Cambridge Handbook of Creativity Across DomainsBringing together top experts in the field from around the world to discuss creativity across many different domains, this book includes clear definitions, intriguing research, potential measures, and suggestions for development or future directions.
By James C. Kaufman, John Baer (eds), Vlad P. Glăveanu
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The Carlsberg Story: Founders, Foundations, and FortunesThis book offers a comprehensive business history of one of the largest global brewing companies. By combining industrial history with insights from corporate management and strategy, it reveals the success story of a family-owned company that has achieved a market-leading position worldwide.
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The Carpenter: A Story About the Greatest Success Strategies of AllDrawing upon the author's work with countless leaders, sales people, professional and college sports teams, non-profit organizations and schools, this book shares an entertaining and enlightening story that will inspire you to build a better life, career, and team with the greatest success strategies of all.
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The Caterpillar Way: Lessons in Leadership, Growth, and Shareholder ValueRevealing the remarkable inside story of Caterpillar and the way it runs its business, this book shows how the Caterpillar leaders responded quickly to changing markets, allocated capital efficiently throughout the firm, and nourished a cultish team spirit that wins.
By Craig T. Bouchard, James V. Koch
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The CEO Activist: Putting the 'S' in ESG NEW!Discover the 10 key factors that will impact the success or failure of your diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts
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The Challenge Culture: Why the Most Successful Organizations Run on PushbackIf you are a leader in your company, you have to learn to cultivate a culture in which civil, productive challenge is the norm-and in The Challenge Culture, Nigel Travis shows you how to do just that. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Nigel Travis
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The Change Maker's Playbook: How to Seek, Seed and Scale Innovation in Any EconomyIn The Change Maker's Playbook, Amy J. Radin divulges the secrets on how to build and grow your company using durable business practices. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
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The Commercial Charity: How Business Thinking Can Help Non-Profits Grow Impact and IncomeWith interviews from leaders of many of the most successful charities, this book provides a process for creating a clear, integrated strategy, outlining a methodology for developing ideas and scaling innovations, while providing an ethical model for marketing and selling them.
By Martyn Drake
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The Core Competence of the CorporationAn analysis of C.K. Prahalad and Gary Hamel's 1990 article, this book discusses how the authors provided a compelling argument for how corporations can gain a competitive advantage in the marketplace.
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The Creative Mindset: Mastering the Six Skills That Empower InnovationIntroducing six essential creative-thinking skills that can be easily mastered with limited practice, this book brings how-to advice, tools, and techniques from two master innovators who have taught and worked with over half of all Fortune 500 companies.
By Jeff DeGraff, Staney DeGraff
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The Creative Society: How the Future Can Be WonExplaining why internal decay is normal, this important and fascinating book shows how and why solutions can be found by countries and companies enabling more creativity and adaptability than ever before.
By Lars Tvede
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The Creativity Leap: Unleash Curiosity, Improvisation, and Intuition at WorkBased on The Creativity Leap by Natalie Nixon, we explore how creativity is key to staying ahead of the curve. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
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The Creator Mindset: 92 Tools to Unlock the Secrets to Innovation, Growth, and SustainabilityIf you've ever felt overwhelmed by vague advice to "think outside the box," this book can help put you on a proven track to harnessing your best, most creative ideas, and feel confident you're performing to your fullest potential-analytically and creatively.
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The Critical Thinking Tool Kit: Spark Your Team's Creativity with 35 Problem Solving ActivitiesWith an aim to get employees thinking better and faster with hands-on activities and ready-to-use assessments, this book helps team members work on challenging assumptions, brainstorm divergent ideas, and then pinpoint the ones that best benefit an organization.
By Marlene Caroselli
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The Culture Advantage: Empowering Your People to Drive Innovation, 1st EditionHarness the innovative powers of your company's people by creating an unstoppable culture of innovation that will unlock growth and business opportunities.
By Daniel Strode
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The Curriculum: Everything You Need to Know to Be a Master of Business ArtsThe Curriculum uses a humorous approach to deliver hard-hitting truths about what it really takes to excel in business. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
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The Customer Experience Edge: Technology and Techniques for Delivering an Enduring, Profitable, and Positive Experience to Your CustomersDrawing on over sixty years of experience in shaping customer centric strategies and technologies for leading companies, this book brings you practical and proven ways to create your customer experience programs and overall business strategies.
By Reza Soudagar, Vinay Iyer, Volker G. Hildebrand
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The Customer Loyalty Loop: The Science Behind Creating Great Experiences and Lasting ImpressionsContaining a wide variety of simple but powerfully effective strategies, this book includes proven, science-backed secrets for building legions of loyal customers who will become evangelists for your business, buy from you repeatedly, and actually enjoy doing business with you.
By Noah Fleming
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The Decision Book: 50 Models for Strategic ThinkingThe Decision Book offers an easy-to-understand look at various models that not only simplify the decision-making process, but also help readers to better understand themselves and others. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Mikael Krogerus, Roman Tschäppeler
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The Demographics of Innovation: Why Demographics is a Key to the Innovation RaceWritten by a Stanford-trained economist and demographics expert, who is also a prominent internet entrepreneur, this insightful book examines demographic trends across nations and digs into the divergence to find awakening innovation.
By James Liang
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The Digital Mind: How Science is Redefining HumanityDescribing how advances in science and technology could enable us to create digital minds, this book wonders what will be the social, legal, and ethical implications if digital minds come into existence,? Will digital minds be our partners, or our rivals?
By Arlindo Oliveira
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The Digital Transformation and Japan's Political EconomyDigital transformation and demographic change are usually seen as two separate but equally threatening events that foreshadow job replacement, industrial decline, and social bifurcation.
By Kay Shimizu, Ulrike Schaede
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The Disney Way: Harnessing the Management Secrets of Disney in Your Company, Second EditionProfiling a new set of diverse organizations, this step-by-step book shows how companies of any size, whether an entrepreneurial startup or a Fortune 500, can reach their utmost potential by embracing Walt Disney's techniques to create a consumer-centric culture.
By Bill Capodagli, Lynn Jackson
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The DNA of Physician-Leadership: Creating Dynamic ExecutivesPractical and realistic with case studies and recommendations, this book provides you with the understanding of what is required to be a successful physician-leader and the tools necessary for the transition.
By Myron J. Beard, Steve Quach
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The Dream Cafe: Lessons in the Art of Radical InnovationRecreating the convivial, collaborative, creative world of the avant-garde, this book explains how space and process can be harnessed to produce the kind of unanticipated multicultural and interdisciplinary encounters that lead to unpredictable outcomes.
By Duncan D. Bruce, Geoff Crook
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The Emergence of Start-ups, Volume 1Including theoretical and empirical studies, this book provides concrete solutions aimed at developing innovative entrepreneurship in France.
By Camille Jouvet, David Heller, Lana Halaoui, Sylvain de Chadirac
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The Essential Guide to Training Global Audiences: Your Planning Resource of Useful Tips and TechniquesWith numerous examples throughout, this book is filled with proven guidelines for multicultural training, solid techniques for training international adult learners, and advice for the preparation of culturally sensitive presentations.
By LuAnn Irwin, Renie McClay
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The Execution Challenge: Delivering Great Strategy at ScaleYou'll find proven techniques that you can implement to ensure that changes in business strategy are reflected in complementary changes to the organizational project portfolio. The Execution Challenge includes over 70 diagrams and figures, an organizational assessment, and reusable frameworks.
By Brian H. Cameron, Whynde Kuehn
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The Execution Premium: Linking Strategy to Operations for Competitive AdvantageBuilding on their breakthrough works on strategy-focused organizations, the authors of this informative book describe a multistage system that enables you to gain measurable benefits from your carefully formulated business strategy.
By David P. Norton, Robert S. Kaplan
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The Extreme Future: The Top Trends That Will Reshape the World in the Next 5, 10, and 20 YearsIn The Extreme Future, James Canton offers clear-sighted advice on how to navigate the many complex trends that are likely to challenge leaders in the coming years. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
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The Fearless Organization: Creating Psychological Safety in the Workplace for Learning, Innovation, and GrowthWritten for leaders and teams, this step-by-step resource is filled with illustrative scenario-based examples and provides a clear path forward for implementing a culture that thrives on the free expression of ideas and nurturing engagement.
By Amy C. Edmondson
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The Financial Services Guide to Fintech: Driving Banking Innovation Through Effective PartnershipsWritten by an experienced fintech advisor and influencer, this book offers practical guidance, use cases and business models for banks and financial services firms to use when working with fintech companies.
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The Forces Changing Business: Social, Economic and Commercial Factors at WorkThe My Practical MBA Series provides the latest thinking as well as perennial techniques for a range of business challenges. This toolkit reviews the social, cultural and commercial influences that continue to change the world of business: how attitudes, behaviours and expectations are changing and the implications of this for business.
By LID Editorial
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The Founder's Mentality: How to Overcome the Predictable Crises of GrowthThe Founder's Mentality is a practical and eloquent guide to anticipating, dealing with-and ultimately, avoiding-the internal upheavals that many companies face as they develop. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Chris Zook, James Allen
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The Four Intelligences of the Business Mind: How to Rewire Your Brain and Your Business for SuccessThe Four Intelligences of the Business Mind provides a practical methodology to help you improve organizational processes and behaviors and strategize business transformation. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Valeh Nazemoff
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The Four Lenses of Innovation: A Power Tool for Creative ThinkingWith a unique full-color design, thought-provoking examples, and features like the 8-Step Model for Building a Breakthrough, this thorough book identifies four key business perspectives that will enable you to discover groundbreaking opportunities for innovation and growth.
By Rowan Gibson
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The Four Lenses of Innovation: A Power Tool for Creative ThinkingWhether you're struggling with writer's block or just can't seem to conjure a brilliant idea at the drop of a hat, The Four Lenses of Innovation provides a road map to becoming more inventive with less effort. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Rowan Gibson
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The Frugal Innovator: Creating Change on a Shoestring BudgetLooking at the phenomenon of low-cost innovation, this insightful book explores what we can learn from the innovators in developing nations who are making amazing technical and social advances with scarce capital and resources.
By Charles Leadbeater
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The Fundamentals of Hedge Fund Management, Second EditionProviding an in-depth analysis of the world of hedge funds, the people working in it, and where it's headed, this book is an indispensable reference and research tool for helping professional money managers, traders, and others to launch and grow successful hedge fund businesses.
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The Future of InnovationA collection of the thoughts and ideas of the most creative innovators from business, professional practice and academia from nearly 60 countries, this book offers an unparalleled view of innovation from almost every angle.
By Anna Trifilova (eds), Bettina von Stamm
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The GAME of Innovation: Conquer Challenges. Level Up Your Team. Play to WinThis uncommon, easy-to-read, visual book is packed with actionable strategies that will help you and your community thrive when playing The GAME of Innovation.
By David Cutler
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The Gamification Revolution: How Leaders Leverage Game Mechanics to Crush The CompetitionDrawing inspiration from the most popular games of all time--from Angry Birds to World of Warcraft--this easy-to-use, strategic guide reveals the secrets of market leaders that you can apply immediately to your business.
By Gabe Zichermann, Joselin Linder
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The Generosity Crisis: The Case for Radical Connection to Solve Humanity's Greatest ChallengesIn Generosity Crisis: The Case for Radical Connection to Solve Humanity's Greatest Challenges, accomplished philanthropy experts Nathan Chappell, Brian Crimmins, and Michael Ashley deliver a startlingly insightful exploration of the decline of American generosity.
By Brian Crimmins, Michael Ashley, Nathan Chappell
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The Global Business Handbook: The Eight Dimensions of International ManagementBased on the structure of the very successful IÉSEG International School of Management's programme on international management, this handbook concentrates on the big developments that currently are happening at an international level.
By David J. Newlands, Mark J. Hooper (eds)
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The Global Carbon Cycle and Climate Change: Scaling Ecological Energetics from Organism to the Biosphere, Second EditionThe Global Carbon Cycle and Climate Change: Scaling Ecological Energetics from Organism to the Biosphere, Second Edition examines the global carbon cycle and energy balance of the biosphere, following carbon and energy through increasingly complex levels of metabolism-from cells to ecosystems.
By David E. Reichle
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The Global Supply Chain: How Technology and Circular Thinking Transform Our FutureDrawing on a wealth of operational and managerial expertise in the global supply chain industry that drive the world's economies, this book provides readers with an in-depth understanding of the inner mechanisms and principles of the global supply chain.
By Wolfgang Lehmacher
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The Good Company: Sustainability in Hospitality, Tourism, and WineSharing the stories of over 30 inspiring companies around the world that are among the ethical leaders in the industry, this book reveals the steps they have taken and what has motivated them or enabled them to pursue such noble aims.
By Heather Dawn Gordy, Pamela Lanier, Robert H. Girling
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The Google Model: Managing Continuous Innovation in a Rapidly Changing WorldPresenting a unique synthesis of findings from leading research on long-term competitiveness in fast changing industries, this book shows how companies like Google have reinvented the common practice in management in order to continuously innovate in fast changing industries.
By Annika Steiber
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The Great Fragmentation: And Why the Future of All Business is SmallPresenting a business survival manifesto for the technology revolution, this book how technological changes such as Big Data, gamification, crowdfunding, Bitcoin, 3D printing, social media, mashup culture and artisanal production will forever change business and the way we live our lives.
By Steve Sammartino
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The Great Lockdown: Lessons Learned During the Pandemic from Organizations Around the WorldThe Great Lockdown: Lessons Learned During the Pandemic from Organizations Around the World provides a set of unforgettable accounts of organizational responses during one of the most unexpected and unprecedented crises in modern history: the COVID-19 pandemic.
By Aroop Zutshi, Janesh Janardhanan, Shivaji Das
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The Great Remobilization: Strategies and Designs for a Smarter Global FutureHow can leaders faced with tremendous global upheaval create more resilient and trustworthy systems? In The Great Remobilization, Olaf Groth, Mark Esposito, and Terence Tse (along with research partner Dan Zehr) diagnose tectonic shifts in the global economy with an eye toward designing a smarter "operating system" for the world.
By Mark Esposito, Olaf Groth, Terence Tse
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The Handbook of Global Outsourcing and Offshoring: The Definitive Guide to Strategy and Operations, 3rd EditionFrom how to source new relationships to managing business processes in a national and global context, this book offers a broad but coherent guide to the strategy, operations and management of outsourcing and offshoring IT and business processes and services.
By Ilan Oshri, Julia Kotlarsky, Leslie P. Willcocks
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The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building A Business When There are No Easy AnswersIn The Hard Thing About Hard Things, author Ben Horowitz argues that failure and struggle are part of the reality of the tech startup environment, and he recounts, in his engaging and conversational writing style, the sometimes-painful lessons he had to learn as a young CEO when confronting the utter collapse of his company. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Ben Horowitz
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The Healthcare Mandate: How to Leverage Disruptive Innovation to Heal America's Biggest IndustryA top healthcare futurist and consultant shows healthcare professionals and stakeholders how to redirect resources and leverage innovation to improve wellness and lower costs.
By Nicholas J. Webb
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The Heart of Innovation: A Field Guide for Navigating to Authentic Demand NEW!Four innovation experts from the startup world, large enterprises, nonprofits, and academia come together to reveal the secret of uncovering authentic demand to build successful innovations.
By Daniel Sabbah, Mark Wegman, Matt Chanoff, Merrick Furst
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The Heartbeat of Excellence: The Design of Changing Sustainably, the Swiss WayThe book offers a detailed alternative to changing culture for anybody to understand and follow fostering a human process with Emerging Change, creating high performing human relations, and consequently installing change sustainably, the Swiss Way.
By Curt Blattner
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The Hidden Tier of Social Services: Frontline Workers' Provision of Informal Resources in the Public, Nonprofit, and Private SectorsThis Element presents two large-scale qualitative studies of Israeli frontline providers of social services.
By Einat Lavee
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The High-Speed Company: Creating Urgency and Growth in a Nanosecond CultureThe High-Speed Company offers insightful, real-world strategies to help the smart business avoid the pitfall of complacency and instead dominate the marketplace. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Jason Jennings, Laurence Haughton
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The High-Velocity Edge: How Market Leaders Leverage Operational Excellence to Beat the CompetitionBy examining internal operations of dominant organizations across a wide spectrum of industries, this book will help put you on the fast track to operational excellence, where you'll generate faster, better results-using less capital and fewer resources.
By Steven J. Spear
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The Human-Centric Workplace: Enabling People, Communities And Our Planet To ThriveThis book aims to inform, inspire and drive change through demystifying the ‘how' to ensure our people, communities and planet thrive.
By Simone Fenton-Jarvis
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The Hybrid Sales Channel: How to Ignite Growth by Bridging the Gap Between Direct and Indirect SalesOffering sales-targeted tips for choosing the right coverage for the right opportunity, money-saving strategies to avoid duplicate work, and cross-checking techniques to keep direct and indirect sales running smoothly, this book will show you how you can turn your direct and indirect engines into one perfectly running machine that generates sales, ignites growth, and keeps your customers coming back for more.
By Rich Blakeman
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The Idea Hunter: How to Find the Best Ideas and Make them HappenPresenting an eclectic band of idea hunters, ranging from Thomas Edison, Mary Kay Ash, and Walt Disney, to Warren Buffett and Apple's Phil Schiller, this myth-busting book unveils a strategy for unearthing new ideas in any industry or organization.
By Andy Boynton, Bill Fischer, William Bole
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The Ideas Book: 50 Ways to Generate Ideas More EffectivelyIn The Ideas Book, author Kevin Duncan outlines tools that represent a fast and effective way to clear the mind, thus enabling you to formulate fresh ideas effectively. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Kevin Duncan
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The Ideas Book: 50 Ways to Generate Ideas More EffectivelyIncluding tips and advice on how you can apply them to your own situations, this book presents 50 of the most useful diagrams and visual techniques, many of which are used by consultants, academics, MBA students and smart managers globally, that will help you think of and create great ideas.
By Kevin Duncan
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The IKEA Edge: Building Global Growth and Social Good at the World's Most Iconic Home StoreProviding the inspiration and information you need to develop a social-good/good-business agenda for your company, this book shows how IKEA became a leader in the furniture industry by combining traditional business with social responsibility and environmental stewardship.
By Anders Dahlvig
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The Impact of Climate Change and Sustainability Standards on the Insurance MarketThe book explores the role of the insurance industry in contributing and responding to the harms that climate change has brought.
By Balamurugan Balusamy, Ercan Özen, Kiran Sood, Peter Young, Simon Grima
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The Informal Regulation of Criminal Markets in Latin AmericaThis book explains how states informally regulate drug markets in Latin America. It shows how and why state actors, specifically police and politicians, confront, negotiate with, or protect drug dealers to extract illicit rents or prevent criminal violence.
By Hernán Flom
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The Innovation Code: The Creative Power of Constructive ConflictUsing vivid examples, this rigorous but highly accessible guide offers four steps to normalize conflict and channel it to develop breakthrough innovations that are both good for you and your customers.
By Jeff DeGraff, Staney DeGraff
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The Innovation Handbook: How to Profit from Your Ideas, Intellectual Property and Market Knowledge, Third EditionDesigned as a practical guide to the effective management of ideas and knowledge, this book explores how individuals and companies can stimulate new innovation and protect their best ideas in a competitive and aggressive marketplace.
By Adam Jolly (ed)
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The Innovation Mandate: The Growth Secrets of the Best Organizations in the WorldOffering a clear and straightforward pathway to profitable innovation, this step-by-step book demystifies the concept, making it easy to understand, implement, and measure.
By Nicholas J. Webb
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The Innovation Mindset: Eight Essential Steps to Transform Any IndustryLorraine Marchand lays out a step-by-step framework for spurring success. She shares her eight laws of innovation, a formula for driving significant and lasting transformation in any organization.
By Lorraine Marchand
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The Innovation Mode: How to Transform Your Organization into an Innovation PowerhouseThis book presents unique insights and advice on defining and managing the innovation transformation journey.
By George Krasadakis
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The Innovation Playbook: A Revolution in Business ExcellenceA complete roadmap to a revolution in business excellence founded on innovation, this book shares the 56 ways in which innovations fail and includes an abundance of anecdotes and examples of successful and unsuccessful innovation.
By Nicholas J. Webb
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The Innovation Race: How to Change a Culture to Change the GameTaking readers on a lively global adventure to explore the current state of innovation, this book provides concrete strategies to support purpose-driven sustainable innovation through deep cultural transformation.
By Andrew Grant, Gaia Grant
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The Innovation Secrets of Steve Jobs: Insanely Different Principles for Breakthrough SuccessBased on interviews with hundreds of successful professionals, from CEOs, managers, and entrepreneurs to teachers, consultants, and stay-at-home moms, this book will show you how to rethink your business, reinvent your products, and revitalize your vision of success--the Steve Jobs way.
By Carmine Gallo
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The Innovation Ultimatum: How Six Strategic Technologies Will Reshape Every Business in the 2020sUsing straightforward, jargon-free language, this important resource provides a set of strategic questions every leader will need to ask and answer in order to prepare for the impending changes to the business landscape.
By Steve Brown
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The Innovation-Friendly Organization: How to Cultivate New Ideas and Embrace the Change They BringPacked with personal insights, case studies, and clear, actionable recommendations, this practical book defines a new corporate culture grounded in diversity of thought and attitude that creates an environment conducive to innovation.
By Anna Simpson
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The Innovative Leader: How to Inspire Your Team and Drive CreativityStressing the importance of innovation and creativity in modern business to help organizations secure competitive advantage, this book shows how to apply methods of innovation and creativity to the individual, to business peers, and to the organization.
By Paul Sloane
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The Innovative Sale: Unleash Your Creativity for Better Customer Solutions and Extraordinary ResultsPacked with real-life examples and powerful principles, this groundbreaking, game-changing book draws on the work of pioneering geniuses in design, architecture, and the arts to help salespeople develop a predictable creative process.
By Mark Donnolo
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The Innovative Sale: Unleash Your Creativity for Better Customer Solutions and Extraordinary ResultsThe Innovative Sale provides a logical framework for generating innovation in your sales strategy, enabling you to harness your creativity and grow your revenue in new and original ways. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Mark Donnolo
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The Innovative Team: Unleashing Creative Potential for Breakthrough ResultsIntroducing a uniquely effective set of tools built on FourSight - a measure of problem-solving preferences, this engaging business fable presents a breakthrough thinking process for developing successful teams.
By Chris Grivas, Gerard J. Puccio
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The Innovator's Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to FailHow do leaders lead when technological change radically alter the ways their companies do business?
By Clayton M. Christensen
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The Innovator's Hypothesis: How Cheap Experiments Are Worth More than Good IdeasThe Innovator's Hypothesis shows you how to get creative with experiments in order to become the innovator you want to be. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Michael Schrage
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The Innovator's Hypothesis: How Cheap Experiments Are Worth More Than Good IdeasAddressing the innovation priorities of companies that live in the real world of limits, this book introduces the 5X5 framework: giving diverse teams of five people up to five days to come up with portfolios of five business experiments costing no more than $5,000 each and taking no longer than five weeks to run.
By Michael Schrage
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The Innovator's Imperative: Rapid Technology Adoption for Digital TransformationPresenting a five-step framework for digital transformation, this book explains each of these steps to guide business leaders in architecting digital transformation projects according to their organization's market positions, budgets, objectives, and corporate culture.
By Kaung M. Khin, Stephen J. Andriole, Thomas Cox
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The Innovator's Prescription: A Disruptive Solution for Health CareApplying the principles of disruptive innovation to the broken health care system, this book examines a range of symptoms and offers a comprehensive analysis of the strategies that will improve health care and make it affordable.
By Clayton M. Christensen, Jason Hwang, Jerome H. Grossman
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The Innovator's Prescription: A Disruptive Solution for Health CareThe Innovator's Prescription applies models for managing innovation in the health care industry to understand why it has become so inaccessible, and how we can change this. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Clayton M. Christensen, Jason Hwang, Jerome H. Grossman
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The Innovator's Toolkit: 50+ Techniques for Predictable and Sustainable Organic Growth, Second EditionPresenting several brand new techniques such as Idea Harvesting and Treatment, Seventy-six Standard Solutions, and Six Thinking Hats, this easy-to-use reference helps readers understand why, when, and how to apply each technique for maximum benefits and results.
By David Silverstein, Neil DeCarlo, Philip Samuel
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The Innovator's Way: Essential Practices for Successful InnovationBy charting the path to innovation mastery, from individual practices to teams and social networks, this book identifies and describes eight personal practices that can boost a fledgling innovator to success.
By Peter J. Denning, Robert Dunham
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The Intelligent International NegotiatorThoroughly illustrated with examples and critical incidents, this practical book integrates both negotiation and culture in an intelligent model drawn on cultural intelligence, instead of separating local traditions from international negotiations.
By Eliane Karsaklian
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The Intercultural Mind: Connecting Culture, Cognition, and Global LivingIllustrated with a wealth of examples and memorable stories, this pioneering book is a fascinating look at how intercultural experiences can transform the geography of our minds.
By Joseph Shaules
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The International Business Environment, Second EditionFeaturing examples from BP, Dell, Domino's Pizza, Apple, and Procter & Gamble, this engaging book discusses the process of globalization, the global economy, and the impact of that economy on international business organizations.
By Leslie Hamilton
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The International Manager: A Guide for Communicating, Cooperating, and Negotiating with Worldwide ColleaguesIncluding 100 practical tips for the manager of international teams, this invaluable book provides practical insight into interpersonal communication against a cross-cultural background, and applies these frameworks to four key aspects of the manager's responsibilities.
By Frank Garten
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The Is No Planet B: A Handbook for the Make or Break Years Updated EditionThis updated edition has new material on protests, pandemics, wildfires, investments, carbon targets and of course, on the key question: given all this, what can I do.
By Mike Berners-Lee
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The Joy of Strategy: A Business Plan for LifeYour life is serious business, but who says you can't find joy along the way? Delivered with compassion and humor, this guide provides a structured, step-by-step program will get you organized and on your way to a fulfilling life.
By Allison Rimm
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The Knowledge Manager's Handbook: A Step-by-Step Guide to Embedding Effective Knowledge Management in Your OrganizationThe Knowledge Manager's Handbook provides a simple step-by-step guide to how an organization can use the knowledge it has to maximize efficiency and increase performance. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Nick Milton, Patrick Lambe
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The Laws of Lifetime Growth: Always Make Your Future Bigger Than Your Past, Second EditionOffering simple laws you can use to keep a fresh, innovative perspective on your life and the world around you, this book includes stories of people who exemplify the law in action, common pitfalls often run into, and practical strategies for getting past those obstacles.
By Catherine Nomura, Dan Sullivan
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The Leader's Guide to Lateral Thinking Skills: Unlock the Creativity and Innovation in You and Your Team, Third EditionPacked with real-life examples, practical methods, and lateral thinking exercises, this lively and energetic resource will teach you dynamic, up-to-date techniques to unleash the creative energies of your people and show you how to put the techniques to work immediately.
By Paul Sloane
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The Leader's Guide to Lateral Thinking Skills: Unlocking the Creativity and Innovation in You and Your Team, Second EditionPacked with real-life examples, practical methods and lateral thinking exercises, this lively and energetic book will teach you dynamic, up-to-date techniques to unleash the creative energies of your people and shows you how to use them immediately.
By Paul Sloane
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The Leadership Campaign: 10 Political Strategies to Win at Your Career and Propel Your Business to VictoryOffering a playbook for winning in the reality of today's competitive global business environment, this book presents the ten steps that were learned on the most intensely competitive global battlefields for companies such as Apple, Coca-Cola, Citigroup, Verizon, Visa, and the Walt Disney Company.
By David Morey, Scott Miller
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The Lean Enterprise: How Corporations Can Innovate like StartupsPresenting the tools and methodologies large businesses need to compete with a new generation of highly-empowered entrepreneurs, this book offers a comprehensive, practical approach for developing exciting products and services and opening vast new markets.
By Obie Fernandez, Trevor Owens
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The Lean Entrepreneur: How Visionaries Create Products, Innovate with New Ventures, and Disrupt MarketsCombining powerful customer insight, rapid experimentation and easily actionable data from the Lean Startup methodology, this book will empower individuals, companies, and entire teams to evolve their vision, solve problems, and create value at the speed of the Internet.
By Brant Cooper, Patrick Vlaskovits
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The Lean Machine: How Harley-Davidson Drove Top-Line Growth and Profitability with Revolutionary Lean Product DevelopmentBy examining how Harley-Davidson was able to adapt in an ever-changing world and accelerate product development, this book identifies universal change and improvement issues so companies in any industry can incorporate Knowledge-Based Innovation.
By Dantar P. Oosterwal
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The Lean Product Playbook: How to Innovate with Minimum Products and Rapid Customer FeedbackIn The Lean Product Playbook, author Dan Olsen examines core Lean concepts and shows you how to apply them to relevant, real-life scenarios. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Dan Olsen
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The Lean Product Playbook: How to Innovate with Minimum Viable Products and Rapid Customer FeedbackAuthored by an entrepreneur and Lean product expert whose experience spans product management, UX design, coding, analytics, and marketing across a variety of products, this book is a practical guide to building products that customers love.
By Dan Olsen
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The Lean Strategy: Using Lean to Create Competitive Advantage, Unleash Innovation, and Deliver Sustainable GrowthIn The Lean Strategy, the authors combine their rich experience with Lean to help you explore novel ways to think about business problems and find innovative solutions. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Daniel Jones, Jacques Chaize, Michael Balle, Orest Fiume
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The Lean Strategy: Using Lean to Create Competitive Advantage, Unleash Innovation, and Deliver Sustainable GrowthAddressing popular misconceptions about the basics of lean/TPS, this groundbreaking book shows the true purpose of the tools, methods, and attitudes that leverage the intelligence of every employee doing the work.
By Daniel Jones, Jacques Chaize, Michael Ballé, Orest Fiume
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The Lenovo Way: Managing a Diverse Global Company for Optimal PerformanceShowing business leaders how to gain market share and develop new business models, this powerful book provides key insights into the topics most critical to leaders of global businesses, and shares the strategies of Lenovo's ascent to the leading position in the PC industry.
By Gina Qiao, Yolanda Conyers
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The Limits of Judicialization: From Progress to Backlash in Latin AmericaThe Limits of Judicialization brings together a cross-disciplinary group of scholars to assess the role that law and courts play in Latin American politics.
By Daniel M. Brinks, Ezequiel A. Gonzalez-Ocantos, Sandra Botero
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The Little Book of Results: A Quick Guide to Achieving Big GoalsUsing transformational coaching techniques, examples, exercises and metaphors, this book talks the reader through the three key changes they need to achieve the results they are after and inspire others to do the same.
By Jamie Smart
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The Logistics Outsourcing Handbook: A Step-by-Step Guide from Strategy Through to ImplementationContaining tools, models, online resources and case studies, this practical book provides step-by-step guidance on the process of logistics outsourcing and explains how to apply this information for commercial success.
By Gwynne Richards, Jo Godsmark
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The Long Game: How to Be a Long-Term Thinker in a Short-Term WorldIn The Long Game, author Dorie Clark presents a practical approach on how to redefine success on your own terms and cultivate the habits necessary to achieve it. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Dorie Clark
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The M&A Formula: Proven Tactics and Tools to Accelerate Your Business GrowthProviding case studies of successful deals that illustrate on-the-ground implementation of a new M&A model, this book shares tactics formulated by M&A specialists that will equip you with the wisdom to avoid common pitfalls and costly errors.
By Ian Horley, Peter Zink Secher
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The Maker Movement Manifesto: Rules for Innovation in the New World of Crafters, Hackers, and TinkerersTaking you deep into the Maker Movement, this book describes the remarkable technologies and tools now accessible to you and shares stories of how ordinary people have devised extraordinary products, giving rise to successful new business ventures.
By Mark Hatch
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The Maker Movement Manifesto: Rules for Innovation in the New World of Crafters, Hackers, and TinkerersThe Maker Movement Manifesto explores the so-called Maker Movement and the exciting developments at the forefront of this innovative revolution. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Mark Hatch
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The Maker Revolution: Building a Future on Creativity and Innovation in an Exponential WorldA guide to the new industrial revolution, this cutting-edge book brings you into the fold to show you the power of breaking away from the status quo and it will teach you how you too can help change the world.
By Mark R. Hatch
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The Making of Asian America: A HistoryIn The Making of Asian America, Erika Lee chronicles the history of Asian immigrants in America and dissects their increasing prominence in American life. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Erika Lee
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The Managerial Sources of Corporate Social Responsibility: The Spread of Global StandardsWhy and under which conditions do companies voluntarily adopt high social and environmental standards? This book looks inside the firm to illustrate the internal drivers of the social conduct of business, and argues that corporate social responsibility (CSR) assists decision-makers to resolve managerial dilemmas.
By Christian R. Thauer
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The Many Faces of StressCombining outstanding content with humor, flair, and inspiration, Work Life Balance Expert Jeff Davidson explains how and why the choice to have less stress in your life is yours for the taking.
By Jeff Davidson
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The Marvel Studios Story: How a Failing Comic Book Publisher Became a Hollywood SuperheroWhat can you learn from the world's most successful companies? This book educates readers on how one of the largest creative companies in the planetary universe runs their business and keeps their fans and their parent company, Disney, counting the profits.
By Charlie Wetzel, Stephanie Wetzel
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The Mastery of Innovation: A Field Guide to Lean Product DevelopmentDescribing the experiences of 19 companies that have achieved significant results from Lean Product Development, this book demonstrates how to focus innovation on the problems that would maximize customer and business value, and deliver on your best ideas.
By Katherine Radeka
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The Metail Economy: 6 Strategies for Transforming Your Business to Thrive in the MeCentric Consumer RevolutionThe Metail Economy provides innovative methods for connecting with the Me-centric consumer and shows how to thrive in this consumer revolution.
By Joel Bines
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The Mind of the Strategist: The Art of Japanese BusinessThe Mind of the Strategist provides strategic business thinking methods first popularized by Japanese business culture. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Kenichi Ohmae
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The Modern Firm: Organizational Design for Performance and GrowthWritten by a leading economist and expert on business strategy and organization, this introspective book develops powerful frameworks for analyzing interrelations between organizational design features, competitive strategy, and the business environment.
By John Roberts
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The Most Dangerous Business Book You'll Ever ReadIncluding concrete case studies, tables, diagrams, and more, this career-focused guide features former Army interrogator Gregory Hartley's unique system of profiling, formula for persuasion, and framework for establishing expertise quickly.
By Gregory Hartley, Maryann Karinch
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The Multicultural Mind: Unleashing the Hidden Force for Innovation in Your OrganizationMaking a compelling business case for recognizing and cultivating a new dimension of diversity, this insightful book cites extensive research and examples showing that multiculturals have developed skills and abilities that organizations can leverage in the service of innovation.
By David C. Thomas
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The Multiple Facets of Innovative Project ManagementExploring the multiple facets of innovation project management, this book combines research experience, in cooperation with practitioners, and a theoretical, transversal and global overview inspired from different research streams.
By Sandrine Fernez-Walch
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The Myth of the Global CorporationCritics and defenders of multinational corporations often agree on at least one thing: that the activities of multinationals are creating an overwhelmingly powerful global market that is quickly rendering national borders obsolete.
By Louis W. Pauly, Paul Doremus, Simon Reich, William W. Keller
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The Myths of Creativity: The Truth About How Innovative Companies and People Generate Great IdeasFor anyone who struggles with creativity, or who makes excuses for delaying the work of innovation, this book highlights the mistaken ideas that hold us back and shows us how anyone can embrace a practical approach to finding the best new ideas, projects, processes, and programs.
By David Burkus
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The Native Advertising Advantage: Build Authentic Content that Revolutionizes Digital Marketing and Drives Revenue GrowthGleaned from dozens of interviews with advertisers, marketers, software developers, journalists, and publishers, this book reveals why native advertising is an effective tool in any company's digital marketing strategy-and how to use it to build new revenue streams.
By Mike Smith
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The New Corporate Facts of Life: Rethink Your Business to Transform Today's Challenges Into Tomorrow's ProfitsThe New Corporate Facts of Life presents the stark choice facing many organizations: either cling to outdated practices or embrace innovative ideas in order to thrive and gain competitive advantage. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Diana Rivenburgh
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The New Emerging Market Multinationals: Four Strategies for Disrupting Markets and Building BrandsFeaturing case studies from LG, HTC, Tata, Haier, Lenovo, Arcelik, and Natura, this book presents the results of an in-depth study of 39 EMNCs to reveal the innovative compete-from-below strategies and tactics fueling these companies' meteoric rise.
By Amitava Chattopadhyay, Aysegul Ozsomer, Rajeev Batra
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The New Enlightenment: Reshaping Capitalism and the Global Order in the 21st CenturyThis Element provides an overview of the series, explains the background of its development and contains eight sections that deal with various facets of the subject from the perspectives of a group of top-notch authors.
By Arie Y. Lewin, David J. Teece, Greg Linden
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The New Leader: Harnessing The Power of Creativity to Produce ChangeAllowing readers to develop an understanding of the relationship between creativity, leadership, and change, this book will help them analyze the creative process, learn how to develop a creative culture, and understand effective leadership styles that promote creativity and change.
By Renee Kosiarek
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The New Nature of Business: The Path to Prosperity and Sustainability NEW!In The New Nature of Business: The Path to Prosperity and Sustainability, businessman Andre Hoffmann and journalist Peter Vanham describe how companies should change their ways to have continued success, and why the current modus operandi is not working. They present a template for creating "sustainable prosperity", and case-studies of companies that survived and thrived by opting for change. In doing so, they provide a way out of long-standing dilemmas, such as how to balance business needs with impact on nature, shareholders with stakeholders, and short-term vs. long-term profits.
By Andre Hoffmann, Peter Vanham
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The New Normal in IT: How the Global Pandemic Changed Information Technology ForeverThe New Normal in IT is an indispensable resource for IT professionals, executives, graduate technology management students, and managers in any industry.
By Gregory S. Smith
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The New Normal: A Roadmap to Resilience in the Pandemic EraIn The New Normal, Jennifer Ashton and Sarah Toland provide invaluable insight and advice on how to cope in a world that has been turned upside down, seemingly overnight, by the coronavirus. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Jennifer Ashton, Sarah Toland
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The New Power Base Selling: Master the Politics, Create Unexpected Value and Higher Margins, and Outsmart the CompetitionBased on data from a comprehensive sales survey in the sales training industry, along with over 50,000 deal reviews, this book will help salespeople quickly outfox the competition, impress customers with unexpected value, and achieve new levels of professional success.
By Jim Holden, Ryan Kubacki
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The New Strategic Selling: The Unique Sales System Proven Successful by the World's Best Companies, Revised and UpdatedThe New Strategic Selling offers an in-depth look at complicated selling strategies, and how to leverage them in any selling situation. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Robert B. Miller, Stephen E. Heiman, Tad Tuleja
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The New Strategist: Shape your Organization and Stay Ahead of ChangeUsing a rich and unique data set, this timely and authoritative text looks at the roles of different strategists in an organization and emphasizes the importance of managers and strategy consultants as well as Chief Strategy Officers and other leaders.
By Günter Müller-Stewens
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The New World of Work: Shaping a Future That Helps People, Organizations and Our Societies to ThriveUse this practical guide from the leading voice in the people profession to ensure your business and your workforce thrive in the new world of work.
By Peter Cheese
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The Opening Playbook: A Professional's Guide to Building Relationships that Grow RevenueIn the world of business development and sales, getting into scoring position means being in the room with decision makers and influencers. This hands-on guide takes you step-by-step through the process of getting yourself into the ideal position to sell your services, whether you're a one-person operation or work for a major firm.
By Andrew Dietz
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The Outsourcer: The Story of India's IT RevolutionFrom the tradition of technical education to the rise of entrepreneurship to advances in communication technology, this comprehensive book chronicles the circumstances and events that have made the spectacular growth of India's IT industry possible.
By Dinesh C. Sharma
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The Ownership Quotient: Putting the Service Profit Chain to Work for Unbeatable Competitive AdvantageThe Ownership Quotient reveals that the most effective way to run an efficient, long-lasting business is to know what business you're in, make your employees happy, and let those employees make your customers happy. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By James L. Heskett, Joe Wheeler, W. Earl Sasser Jr
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The Oxford Handbook of InnovationAn introductory overview, concluding remarks, and guide to further reading for each chapter, make this book a key introduction and vital reference work for researchers, academics, and advanced students of innovation.
By David C. Mowery, Jan Fagerberg, Richard R. Nelson (eds)
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The Oxford Handbook of International BusinessAuthored by the world's leading scholars in the field of international business, this handbook reflects both the present structure of the field and the major intellectual issues of current and likely future interest.
By Alan M. Rugman, Thomas L. Brewer (eds)
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The People Equation: Why Innovation is People, not ProductsTeaching leaders how to focus on people development rather than product development, this book provides you with a formula for exponentially increasing out-of-the-box thinking in your organization and multiplying your chances for greater growth and success.
By David Crawley, Deborah Perry Piscione
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The Phoenix Encounter Method: Implementation GuideWhether you're a corporate leader, academic, consultant, or executive trainer, this hands-on playbook provides everything you need to embrace the firestorm of change raging through today's business world, to drive revenue, profits, and long-term sustainability.
By Ian C. Woodward, Ram Charan, Sameer Hasija, V. Paddy Padmanabhan
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The Physics of Clinical MR Taught Through Images, Fifth EditionThe book is highly recommended for radiologists, physicists, and technologists interested in the background of image acquisition used in standard as well as specialized clinical settings.
By Johannes T. Heverhagen, Val M. Runge
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The Pivotal Generation: Why We Have a Moral Responsibility to Slow Climate Change Right NowIn The Pivotal Generation, renowned political philosopher Henry Shue makes an impassioned case for taking immediate, radical action to combat global warming.
By Henry Shue
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The Platform Paradox: How Digital Businesses Succeed in an Ever-Changing Global MarketplaceIn The Platform Paradox, Wharton professor Mauro F. Guillén argues that many platforms misunderstand key aspects of what it takes to succeed globally, from culture and institutions to local competitive dynamics. He offers an integrated framework for digital platforms to identify and implement a strategy on a truly global scale.
By Mauro F. Guillén
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The Power of Global Teams: Driving Growth and Innovation in a Fast Changing WorldFeaturing exclusive interviews with influential global leaders from a range of sectors, including: Barclays, AMEC, Acumen Fund, Rockefeller Foundation, Rolls Royce, Petrofac, BBA Aviation, and more, this book skillfully reveals how to build high-performance executive teams that win international clients, turn businesses around, and accelerate international growth in a globally competitive market.
By Elisabeth Marx
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The Power of Leadership Metaphors: 200 Prompts to Stimulate Your Imagination and CreativityMetaphors can be used in coaching conversations and lead to creative and stimulating dialogue. The metaphors featured are drawn from myriad sources.
By Dr Peter Shaw
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The Power of Paradox: Harness the Energy of Competing Ideas to Uncover Radically Innovative SolutionsTaking readers through the same steps she's used to help Fortune 500 companies, author Deborah Schroeder-Saulnier reveals a critical-thinking process anyone can use to define strategic tensions in their organization, identify the potential of conflicting options, and develop action steps to maximize the benefits of each.
By Deborah Schroeder-Saulnier
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The Power of Strategy Innovation: A New Way of Linking Creativity and Strategic Planning to Discover Great Business Opportunities, Revised EditionApplicable to any organization in any industry, this book presents a Discovery Process for staging, aligning, exploring, creating, and mapping paths between analytical, numbers-oriented, day-to-day planning and market-centric, discovery-driven, forward-thinking innovation.
By J. Douglas Bate, Robert E. Johnston, Jr.
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The Power of Sustainable Thinking: How to Create a Positive Future for the Climate, the Planet, Your Organization and Your LifeThe Power of Sustainable Thinking challenges us all at a deeply personal level to make the fundamental shift in our beliefs and behavior required to build more efficient and responsible economic and social systems. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Bob Doppelt
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The Power to Predict: How Real-Time Businesses Anticipate Customer Needs, Create Opportunities, and Beat the CompetitionBringing you news from the frontlines of the "Predictive Business" revolution with real-life stories from leading-edge businesses, this groundbreaking book shows you what you'll need to do to prepare your company for the shape of things to come.
By Vivek Ranadivé
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The PrincePresenting a philosophy on psychology and power to achieve everything you set out to do, this book will provide you with the fundamental traits that help to cultivate a successful leader.
By Mitch Horowitz, Niccolò Machiavelli
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The Process Mind: New Thoughtware for Designing Your Business on PurposeWith game-changing thinking, thought-provoking principles, and eye-opening examples, this insightful book brings to life the operating intelligence of a process mind and demonstrates why process is the most innovative product you can build.
By Philip Kirby
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The Profit of Kindness: How to Influence Others, Establish Trust, and Build Lasting Business RelationshipsThe Profit of Kindness shows leaders how acting with kindness toward everyone will create stronger work environments and more productive staff. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Jill Lublin
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The Progress Principle: Using Small Wins to Ignite Joy, Engagement and Creativity at WorkThe Progress Principle is the ultimate leadership handbook for creating an environment that encourages passion, creativity, and a desire to excel. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Steven Kramer, Teresa Amabile
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The Progress Principle: Using Small Wins to Ignite Joy, Engagement, and Creativity at WorkBrimming with honest examples from 238 employees in 7 companies, this enlightening book equips aspiring and seasoned leaders alike with the insights they need to maximize their employees' performance.
By Steven Kramer, Teresa Amabile
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The Psychology of Fear in Organizations: How to Transform Anxiety into Well-being, Productivity and InnovationThe Psychology of Fear in Organizations examines why large organizations have become fear-based cultures and makes suggestions for eliminating that fear, making it more agile, innovative, and open to positive change. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Sheila M. Keegan
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The Psychology of Fear in Organizations: How to Transform Anxiety into Well-being, Productivity and InnovationUsing a psychological approach to explain how fear manifests itself within organizations, this practical book looks at how fear impacts the workforce and how, by reducing willingness to take risks, it can inhibit economic growth and innovation, at both an individual and corporate level.
By Sheila M. Keegan
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The Psychology of Innovation in OrganizationsDrawing on a wealth of psychological research in the field of creativity, this book illustrates practical methods for conceptualizing and managing organizational innovation and presents a dynamic model of the interactions between four key components of creativity.
By Arthur J. Cropley, David H. Cropley
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The Purpose Economy: How Your Desire for Impact, Personal Growth and Community is Changing the WorldIn The Purpose Economy, author Aaron Hurst investigates the way in which the landscape of personal, social, and societal purpose is changing. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Aaron Hurst
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The Purpose Revolution: How Leaders Create Engagement and Competitive Advantage in an Age of Social GoodIn The Purpose Revolution, John Izzo and Jeff Vanderwielen masterfully reveal that finding your company's moral objective and allowing it to guide your business decisions is the key to success. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Jeff Vanderwielen, John Izzo
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The Pursuit of Sustainability: Creating Business Value through Strategic Leadership, Holistic Perspectives, and Exceptional PerformanceFor strategic leaders, professionals, and practitioners, this book provides insights, guidance, and methods for developing and implementing sustainable solutions and holistic management systems without prescribing a generalized model that supposedly would fit every situation.
By David L. Rainey, Robert J. Araujo
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The Resilient Enterprise: Overcoming Vulnerability for Competitive AdvantageProviding tools for companies to reduce the vulnerability of the supply chain they live in, this book provides an insider's view on high-impact/low-probability disruptions, and how resilience investments can be turned into competitive advantage.
By Yossi Sheffi
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The Responsible Business: Reimagining Sustainability and SuccessThe Responsible Business lays out the operational principles for conducting a sustainable business in a responsible way, and provides a coherent framework for applying those principles systemically. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Carol Sanford
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The Restart Roadmap: Rewire and Reset Your CareerTake back control of your happiness and fulfillment with a monumental restart in your career. Jason Tartick, a fan favorite as a top-three contestant on The Bachelor turned motivational business speaker and coach, shares clear action steps to define and reach your vision of financial, professional, and emotional success.
By Jason Tartick
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The Retail Value Chain: How to Gain Competitive Advantage through Efficient Consumer Response (ECR) StrategiesAnalyzing the changes in the retail industry and the strategic options now open to companies, this book describes the key concepts of Efficient Consumer Response (ECR) and provides several illustrative cases to demonstrate the results.
By Hanna Sivonen, Sami Finne
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The Road to Reinvention: How to Drive Disruption and Accelerate TransformationThe Road to Reinvention will arm you with the confidence and tools to shake things up with disruptive change and steer your company on the road to success. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Josh Linkner
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The Road to Reinvention: How to Drive Disruption and Accelerate TransformationLaying out a systematic approach for continually challenging and reinventing yourself and your business, this book identifies six elements in any business that are ripe for reinvention and shares examples, methods, and step-by-step techniques for creating deliberate, productive disruption.
By Josh Linkner
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The Role of Legal Compliance in Sustainable Supply Chains, Operations, and MarketingAuthored by an expert in sustainable law and policy, this book offers concise and accessible discussions of the legal frameworks relevant to sustainable enterprise and perspectives on the sustainable use of corporate legal resources.
By John D. Wood
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The Role of the Board in Corporate Purpose and StrategyThis Element is an attempt to contribute to the extant literature on boards and corporate governance by exploring in detail the active involvement of the board in the purpose and strategy of the corporation in order to cope with a complex and uncertain environment.
By Hans van Ees, Robert Bood, Theo Postma
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The Sales Growth Imperative: How World Class Sales Organizations Successfully Manage the Four Stages of GrowthShowing you the four stages of business growth and illustrating the challenges of each one, this book uses a game-changing approach to help you anticipate these challenges and take the right action, enabling the growth to continue and the sales department to flourish.
By David J. Cichelli
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The Samsung Way: Transformational Management Strategies from the World Leader in Innovation and DesignBased on ten years of research and interviews with 80 top executives, this book is a definitive guide to the groundbreaking management principles that transformed a lagging electronics company into one of the most successful brands in the world.
By Jaeyong Song, Kyungmook Lee
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The Scorecard Solution: Measure What Matters and Drive Sustainable GrowthIntroducing a data-centric tool that precisely measures the capabilities needed for sustainable growth, this book analyzes the dimensions of talent, strategy, and execution, produces a baseline score, and shines a light on the performance gaps that hold a business back.
By Dan E. King
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The Self-Driving Company: A Conceptual Model for Organizations of the Future"The Self-Driving Company" offers strategic insights to management professionals seeking to navigate the evolving business landscape.
By Florian Schnitzhofer
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The Sephora Story: The Retail Success You Can't MakeupThrough Sephora's story, this book will teach entrepreneurs, innovators, marketers, and executives everything they need to know about creating an iconic experience for their customers.
By Mary Curran Hackett
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The Services Shift: Seizing the Ultimate Offshore OpportunityThe Services Shift provides comprehensive and practical guidelines for navigating the global market and for understanding the future of our economy. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Ajay Sharma, Robert E. Kennedy
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The Simplicity Playbook for Innovators: Creating Lovable Experiences in a Complicated WorldThe Simplicity Playbook for Innovators shows the way. It introduces five strategic shifts that will transform the way you look at your business - from customer research to product/service development.
By Jin Kang Moller
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The Smashing Idea Book: From Inspiration to ApplicationOffering a lavish array of timeless and enduring graphic designs, photos, images, and web site designs, this helpful guide presents practical guidance on how to apply this inspirational selection to your own designs.
By Cameron Chapman
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The Social Media MBA: Your Competitive Edge in Social Media Strategy Development & DeliveryGiving you the tools to make a difference to your organization's social media strategy development and delivery, this informative book aims to inspire you to see how you can raise the bar further to reap new rewards.
By Christer Holloman
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The Solutionists: How Businesses Can Fix the FutureJoin the army of pioneering business leaders that are finding solutions to the climate emergency and transforming business by putting sustainability first.
By Solitaire Townsend
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The Startup Checklist: 25 Steps to a Scalable, High-Growth BusinessProviding the concrete steps that will get your new business off to a strong start, this invaluable guide helps you sidestep the messy and expensive clean-up process by giving you the specific actions you need to take right from the very beginning.
By David S. Rose
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The Startup Gold Mine: How to Tap the Hidden Innovation Agendas of Large Companies to Fund and Grow Your BusinessThe startup playbook for partnering with big business, this guide reveals how the world's largest and most prestigious brands make innovation decisions, including new product launches, vendor-startup partnerships, and even billion-dollar acquisitions.
By Neil Soni
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The Storm Of CreativityDescribing creativity as a path with no beginning or end; it is ongoing, this revelatory view of the creative process will be an essential guide for anyone engaged in creative discovery.
By Kyna Leski
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The Strategic Alliance Handbook: A Practitioners Guide to Business-to-Business CollaborationsEnabling readers to understand the commercial, technical, strategic, cultural and operational logic behind any alliance, this book helps establish an approach that is appropriate for the type of alliance they are seeking and the partner organization(s) with whom they are working.
By Mike Nevin
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The Strategic CIO: Changing the Dynamics of the Business EnterpriseThe Strategic CIO discusses the opportunities and challenges that CIOs face in delivering value-driven business services and solutions that support both internal personnel and external stakeholders. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Philip Weinzimer
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The Strategic CIO: Changing the Dynamics of the Business EnterpriseFeaturing templates, best practices, and assessments, this book provides insight, success stories, and a step-by-step methodology to transform your IT organization into a strategic asset that drives customer value, increases revenues, and enhances shareholder wealth.
By Phil Weinzimer
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The Strategic Leader's Roadmap, Revised and Updated Edition: 6 Steps for Integrating Leadership and StrategyIn The Strategic Leader's Roadmap, Updated and Revised Edition: 6 Steps for Integrating Leadership and Strategy, Wharton management professors Harbir Singh and Michael Useem offer a six-point checklist for today's leaders to follow. They explain how leading strategically will help managers strengthen their capacity to develop strategy and to lead its execution.
By Harbir Singh, Michael Useem
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The Strategic Planning Workbook, Third EditionA practical, eclectic, pragmatic guide to creating a strategic plan, this book provides exercises, data gathering, analysis, two workshops and an implementation plan to help your company create a map to the best future possible.
By Neville Lake
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The Strategic Procurement Practice Guide: Know-how, Tools and Techniques for Global BuyersBringing together methods and tools used by global purchasers across different industries, this practice guide on procurement strategy lays major focus on the themes of global sourcing, risk management, and the dynamic topic of negotiation strategy.
By Marco Ruecker, Ulrich Weigel
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The Strategic Project Leader: Mastering Service-Based Project Leadership, Second EditionIn The Strategic Project Leader, Jack Ferraro presents the innovative model of the leadership competency pyramid to create a new approach to leadership in turbulent times. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Jack Ferraro
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The Strategic Treasurer: A Partnership for Corporate GrowthFilled with examples contrasting proper and improper perspectives with real-world support for the theory, this book provides treasurers and CFOs with the guidance they need to become true partners within a corporation.
By Craig A. Jeffrey
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The Strategist: Be the Leader Your Business NeedsBased on an acclaimed professor's legendary strategy course at Harvard Business School, this book offers a radically new perspective on a leader's most vital role, illuminating what strategy is, why it's important, and what it takes to lead the effort.
By Cynthia A. Montgomery
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The Strategist: Be the Leader Your Business NeedsThe Strategist presents an inspiring and passionate defense of the value of strategic thinking in business, and provides insights and instruction to help leaders develop their own strategy skills. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Cynthia A. Montgomery
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The Strategy Paradox: Why Committing to Success Leads to Failure (And What to Do About It)With detailed case studies of success and failure, this book presents a concrete framework for strategic action that allows companies to seize today's opportunities while simultaneously preparing for tomorrow's promise.
By Michael E. Raynor
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The Strategy Pathfinder: Core Concepts and Live Cases, Third EditionUsing real-world case examples from companies like Apple, the BBC, Hyundai, LEGO, McDonalds, Nike and SpaceX to illustrate critical concepts, this book enables readers to actively participate in real-world strategy dilemmas and create their own solutions.
By Duncan Angwin, Stephen Cummings
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The Stress Test Every Business Needs: A Capital Agenda for Confidently Facing Digital Disruption, Difficult Investors, Recessions and Geopolitical ThreatsProviding a roadmap to future-proof your business today for stronger performance tomorrow, this book offers a comprehensive approach to creating value and flexibility in an increasingly volatile business environment that presents both great risks and opportunities every day.
By Harsha Basnayake, Jeffrey R. Greene, Julie Hood, Steve Krouskos, William Casey
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The Structure of Scientific RevolutionsAn analysis of Thomas Kuhn's landmark text, this book shows that Kuhn's highly creative re-imagining of scientific thinking has proved enduringly influential.
By Jo Hedesan, Joseph Tendler
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The Supply Chain Revolution: Innovative Sourcing and Logistics for a Fiercely Competitive WorldTechnology is disrupting business models. Strategies must change. This practical book flips conventional thinking and offers a powerful way for companies to compete in challenging times.
By Suman Sarkar
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The Supply Chain Revolution: Innovative Sourcing and Logistics for a Fiercely Competitive WorldIn The Supply Chain Revolution, author Suman Sarkar discusses the changing roles and growing importance of supply chain and sourcing teams in improving modern business operations. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Suman Sarkar
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The Sustainability Mindset: Using the Matrix Map to Make Strategic DecisionsFilled with compelling examples of how The Matrix Map helps nonprofits with strategic decision-making, this book provides an easy-to-follow process complete with tools and templates to help organizations visualize their business model and engage in strategic inquiry.
By Jeanne Bell, Steve Zimmerman
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The Sustainability Scorecard: How to Implement and Profit from Unexpected SolutionsUsing a rigorous, straightforward scorecard as a guide, this book shows business leaders and innovators how to create breakthrough sustainable products and processes that are good for the planet, human health, and profits.
By Paul Anastas, Urvashi Bhatnagar
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The Sustainable Business Handbook: A Guide to Becoming More Innovative, Resilient and SuccessfulThis indispensable book is based around twenty top tips for transforming your business and is interspersed with a range of individual profiles and case studies of organizations successfully embracing sustainability.
By Chris Coulter, David Grayson, Mark Lee
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The Sustainable Development Theory: A Critical Approach, Volume 1: The Discourse of the FoundersThis book argues that the theory of sustainable development lost some of its rigor because of two main reasons. The first manifests itself as an inflation of concepts that hampers the correct understanding of sustainability's essence. The second one consists of a departure from the traditional scientific sources of the classicists and, in part, neoclassicists.
By Delia-Elena Diaconaşu, Ion Pohoaţă, Vladimir-Mihai Crupenschi
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The Sustainable MBA: A Business Guide to Sustainability, Second EditionBased on interviews with experts in business, international organizations, NGOs and universities from around the world, this book provides the knowledge and tools to help you to turn sustainability talk into action for the benefit of your bottom line and society as a whole.
By Giselle Weybrecht
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The Talent Management Handbook: Creating a Sustainable Competitive Advantage by Selecting, Developing, and Promoting the Best People, Second EditionFilled with key insights from renowned HR thought leaders and CEOs, this definitive all-in-one guide is designed to help you place the best people in the most critical jobs to assemble the building blocks of organizational excellence and create value--one person at a time.
By Dorothy R. Berger, Lance A. Berger
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The Talent Powered Organization: Strategies for Globalization, Talent Management and High PerformanceThrough case-studies and real-life metrics, The Talent Powered Organization demonstrates how aligning talent with your business strategy outcomes will make you a powerhouse in your market. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Elizabeth Craig, Peter Cheese, Robert J. Thomas
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The Technology Fallacy: How People are the Real Key to Digital TransformationIn The Technology Fallacy, the authors discuss ways in which companies can respond successfully to digital disruption. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Anh Nguyen Phillips, Garth R. Andrus, Gerald C. Kane, Jonathan R. Copulsky
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The Technology Fallacy: How People are the Real Key to Digital TransformationOffering managers and business leaders a guide for surviving digital disruptions, this book explains why an organization's response to digital disruption should focus on people and processes and not necessarily on technology.
By Anh Nguyen Phillips, Garth R. Andrus, Gerald C. Kane, Jonathan R. Copulsky
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The Ten Faces of Innovation: Strategies for Beating the Devil's Advocate and Driving Creativity Throughout Your OrganizationThe Ten Faces of Innovation outlines, with interesting case studies, how IDEO's ten organizational roles have been adopted by several major companies to create a corporate culture that is open to innovation. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Jonathan Littman, Tom Kelley
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The Thinking Executive's Guide to SustainabilitySupported by empirical research and applied to corporate rationales, decision-making, and business processes, this concise, reliable guide offers a practical, relevant, and easily grasped overview of sustainability issues and the systems logic that informs them.
By Kerul Kassel
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The Timeless Principles of Successful Business Strategy: Corporate Sustainability as the New Driving Force, Second EditionDiscussing key innovation, change and transformation strategies for corporate sustainability, this book is intended for those who run, or want to run, a business whatever its size or activity, with the objective of making it sustainable so that it will be a legacy for future generations.
By Eric Viardot
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The Toolbox: Strategies for Crafting Social ImpactThe Toolbox: Strategies for Crafting Social Impact is an incisive strategic guide that will prove to be indispensable for everyone who seeks to collaboratively build something better.
By Jacob Harold
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The Trend Management Toolkit: A Practical Guide to the FutureIn a fast moving world, businesses need to keep up with data analysis and pattern spotting to identify future opportunities. This book presents a unique methodology for global trend spotting along with practical tools and approaches to help companies and organizations analyze market changes and determine the way ahead.
By Anne Lise Kjaer
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The Triple Bottom Line: How Today's Best-Run Companies Are Achieving Economic, Social, and Environmental Success: and How You Can Too, Revised and UpdatedFeaturing in-depth success stories of sustainability practices at major firms, this essential guide includes reporting and analysis on the practice of sustainability and the triple bottom line in business today, providing new insights on where sustainability is headed.
By Andrew W. Troelsen, Karl Weber
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The Trusted Learning Advisor: The Tools, Techniques and Skills You Need to Make L&D a Business PriorityThis essential guide includes strategies for developing skills needed to build trust and relationships with stakeholders, practical advice on connecting the learning strategy to business strategy, and communicating all of this to the organization.
By Keith Keating
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The Ultimate Competitive Advantage: Why Your People Make All the Difference and the 6 Practices You Need to Engage ThemLaying out the steps leaders can take to tap into their companies' most valuable and unique resource, this book offers six highly effective practices that will propel your company to success by unleashing the potential of your people.
By Shawn D. Moon, Sue Dathe-Douglass
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The Ultimate Question: Driving Good Profits and True GrowthBased on extensive research and rich with vivid examples of organizations that have pioneered the Net Promoter Score, this practical and compelling book offers hands-on guidance that will help you solve your organization's growth dilemma.
By Fred Reichheld
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The Unequal Effects of GlobalizationFrom a former Chief Economist of the World Bank, a brief, balanced, and sobering discussion of globalization trends, their drivers, and effects on inequality.
By Greg Larson, Pinelopi Koujianou Goldberg
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The Unicorn Project: A Novel about Developers, Digital Disruption, and Thriving in the Age of DataThe Age of Software is here, and another mass extinction event looms--this is a story about rebel developers and business leaders working together, racing against time to innovate, survive, and thrive in a time of unprecedented uncertainty...and opportunity.
By Gene Kim
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The Value Trail: How to Effectively Understand, Deploy and Monitor Successful Business ModelsAllowing readers to understand how companies can set corporate goals and leverage internal resources to deliver successful value propositions, this book offers a comprehensive approach to competitive analysis and strategy, considering value as a central theme and from a customer based perspective.
By Marc Sansó
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The Way You Do Anything is the Way You Do Everything: The Why of Why Your Business Isn't Making More MoneyOffering specific daily practices to make more money even when every odd is stacked against you, this book presents a realistic, sarcastic, and fiercely honest look at how business owners fail to commit, and shows how to take complete control over your life, build wealth faster, and create a business that not only makes money but also makes a difference.
By Suzanne Evans
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The Well-Managed Healthcare Organization, 9th EditionThe Well-Managed Healthcare Organization has been building students' skills, and this ninth edition once again prepares students to apply evidence-based practices that lead to high performance in healthcare organizations of all types and sizes.
By John R. Griffith, Kenneth R. White
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The Well-Timed Strategy: Managing the Business Cycle for Competitive AdvantageThe Well-Timed Strategy is for business executives who are looking to better navigate the global economic cycle on a smaller-scale company level. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Peter Navarro
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The What's Next Handbook for EmployeesUse this handbook to help guide you as you prepare to return to your workplace in the post-pandemic world.
By Skillsoft Corporation
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The What's Next Handbook for ManagersUse this handbook to help guide your decision-making as you prepare to reopen your workplace in the post-pandemic world.
By Skillsoft Corporation
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The Winning Link: A Proven Process to Define, Align, and Execute Strategy at Every LevelHighlighted by Taylor's personal experiences working with companies across the globe, The Winning Link offers you a step-by-step playbook for creating a corporate culture-driven approach to success.
By Billy Ray Taylor
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The Wolf in CIO's Clothing: A Machiavellian Strategy for Successful IT LeadershipThe Wolf in CIO's Clothing discusses the reconceptualization of leadership as styles that can be defined through natural animal characteristics. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Tina Nunno
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The World Café: Shaping Our Futures Through Conversations That MatterFilled with stories of actual Cafe dialogues in business, education, government, and community organizations across the globe, this uniquely crafted book demonstrates how the World Cafe can be adapted to any setting or culture.
By David Isaacs, Juanita Brown
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There's Nothing Micro about a Billion Women: Making Finance Work for WomenWhy it takes more than microloans to empower women and promote sustainable, inclusive economic growth.
By Mary Ellen Iskenderian
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Think and Grow Digital: What the Net Generation Needs To Know To Survive and Thrive In Any OrganizationShowing millennials how to excel in a corporate environment still dominated by an older generation, this book explains how to systematically create their own job roles, drive their personal growth engine, and connect effectively with people allowing them to do meaningful work with great rewards.
By Joris Merks-Benjaminsen
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Think Better: An Innovator's Guide to Productive Thinking (Your Company's Future Depends On It . . . and So Does Yours)Think Better discusses how we can use the six-step Productive Thinking Model to more efficiently arrive at concrete, effective solutions through creative and critical thinking. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Tim Hurson
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Think Big, Start Small, Move Fast: A Blueprint for Transformation from the Mayo Clinic Center for InnovationOffering a wealth of transformative ideas and strategies, this concise book contains easy-to-implement methods that can help jump-start your employees' creative potential, involve them in the collaborative process, and pave the way to the future of sustainable innovation.
By Barbara Spurrier, Gianrico Farrugia, Nicholas LaRusso
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Think Bigger: Developing a Successful Big Data Strategy for Your BusinessThink Bigger gives a comprehensive picture of what it takes to make and manage Big Data for the benefit of your organization and the people in it. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Mark Van Rijmenam
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Think Bigger: Developing a Successful Big Data Strategy for Your BusinessSharing best practices from companies that have implemented a big data strategy including Walmart, InterContinental Hotel Group, Walt Disney, and Shell, this book provides a roadmap for organizations looking to develop a profitable big data strategy, and reveals why it's not something to leave up to the IT department.
By Mark Van Rijmenam
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Think Bigger: How to InnovateIn Think Bigger, Sheena S. Iyengar-an acclaimed author and expert in the science of choice-provides essential tools to spark creative thinking and help us make our most meaningful choices. She draws from recent advances in neuro- and cognitive sciences to give readers a set of practical steps for coming up with powerful new ideas.
By Sheena Iyengar
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Think Like a CTOThink Like a CTO shares hard-won lessons on how to thrive in the fast-paced role of Chief Technology Officer. Inside, you'll learn to establish successful technology platforms and teams, with practical frameworks for software selection and implementation, bias-free interviews and performance reviews, and earning your place at the table with other senior leaders.
By Alan Williamson
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Think Like a Futurist: Know What Changes, What Doesn't, and What's NextFilled with tools and models for a new world, this book shows how to track changes, explore questions, and engage in new thinking that connects today's pressures with tomorrow's realities.
By Cecily Sommers
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Think Like Zuck: The Five Business Secrets of Facebook's Improbably Brilliant CEO Mark ZuckerbergPacked with examples of Facebook's success principles in action, this groundbreaking book gives you the inspiration, knowledge, and insight to make your own mark in the world, to build a business that makes a difference, and to lead your organization to long-term profitability and growth.
By Ekaterina Walter
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Think to Win: Unleashing the Power of Strategic ThinkingHelping business leaders expand strategic thinking out of the purview of "the elite few" and into the company culture as whole, this book offers a simple, proven approach to analyzing and solving old or new challenges, and provides a common language at any level in the organization can understand.
By John Manfredi, Paul Butler, Peter Klein
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Think to Win: Unleashing the Power of Strategic ThinkingThink to Win teaches you how to leverage the power of strategic thinking to your advantage. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By John F. Manfredi, Paul Butler, Peter Klein
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Thinkers 50: Business Thought Leaders from India: The Best Ideas on Innovation, Management, Strategy, and LeadershipRevealing the uniquely Indian approach to management, this book provides authoritative explanations of the concepts, ideas, and practices that are making a difference today and offers an expert perspective on this critical topic.
By Des Dearlove, Stuart Crainer
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Thinking like an Economist: How Efficiency Replaced Equality in U.S. Public PolicyIn Thinking like an Economist, Elizabeth Popp Berman tells the story of how a distinctive way of thinking-an "economic style of reasoning"-became dominant in Washington between the 1960s and the 1980s and how it continues to dramatically narrow debates over public policy today.
By Elizabeth Popp Berman
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Thirteeners: Why Only 13 Percent of Companies Execute Their Strategy - and How Yours Can Be One of ThemThirteeners offers an in-depth look at why 87 percent of companies fail to stick to their strategy, and examines what the 13 percent who manage to realize their strategies well, do differently. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Daniel F. Prosser
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Thoracic Imaging The Requisites, Third EditionNow in its 3rd Edition, this outstanding volume by Dr. Jo-Anne O. Shepard in the popular Requisites series thoroughly covers the fast-changing field of chest imaging. Ideal for residency, clinical practice, and board certification, it covers the full range of basic and advanced modalities used in thoracic imaging including digital radiography, chest fluoroscopy, CT, PET, and MRI.
By Jo-Anne O Shepard
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Three Pillars of Organization and Leadership in Disruptive Times: Navigating Your Company Successfully Through the 21st Century Business WorldThis book, written by an interdisciplinary team of authors, explores the transformation of organizations in today's volatile, uncertain, and ambiguous (VUCA) world.
By Frank Kühn, Michael Kempf, Peter Wollmann
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Tips for Maintaining Balance While Working RemotelyNorm Ford, VP of Operations for Compliance Solutions at Skillsoft discusses how to eliminate stress and imbalance in our lives while working from home.
By Norm Ford
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To-Not-Do List: The Working From Home EditionRyan Tidwell, Content Marketing Specialist at Skillsoft talks about how it can be challenging to adapt to working remotely and how we can keep ourselves in check.
By Ryan Tidwell
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Too Fast to Think: How to Reclaim Your Creativity in a Hyper-Connected Work CultureSupported by cutting-edge research and insightful interviews with business leaders, academics, artists, politicians and psychologists, this book takes a holistic approach to explain the 8 crucial traits that are inherently linked to creation and innovation.
By Chris Lewis
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Tourist Health, Safety and Wellbeing in the New NormalThis book offers a unique perspective on the challenges facing the world's largest service industry to protect and care for customers in a rapidly evolving environment where borders have closed, social distancing rules apply and personal hygiene has become a key focus in everyday life.
By Damian Morgan, Donna Pendergast, Jeff Wilks, Peter A. Leggat
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Transcending Cultural Frontiers: Practices, Challenges, and Strategy for International BusinessThis book focuses on the cultural challenges often faced by international managers and global business operations.
By Andrea Amelinckx, Asmat-Nizam Abdul-Talib, Norhayati Zakaria
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Transportation and Information: Trends in Technology and PolicyAimed at researchers, graduate students, industry professionals, and decision-makers, this book provides a review of recent developments at the intersection of Information and Communications Technology (ICT) and surface transportation.
By D. Glenn Geers, Piyushimita (Vonu) Thakuriah
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Trends and Challenges in Digital Business InnovationSupported by informative illustrations and tables, as well as reported case studies and highlighted insights and recommendations, this book offers academic coverage of the digital transformation of business organizations and the associated challenges, and also describes concrete, real-world issues in clear, easy-to-understand language.
By Vincenzo Morabito
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Trillion Dollar Economists: How Economists and Their Ideas have Transformed BusinessAuthored by the former Director of Economic Research at Bloomberg Government, the Kauffman Foundation and the Brookings Institution, this book describes the ways in which economists have helped shape the world - in some cases, dramatically enough to be recognized with a Nobel Prize or Clark Medal.
By Robert E. Litan
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Truth. Growth. Repeat. A Business Manual for Generation WhyBy mapping the way business works today at a very honest and human level, this street-smart book is a must-read for any business owner who wants to achieve growth and success without compromising their personal values.
By Mike Edmonds
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Tuned In: Uncover the Extraordinary Opportunities That Lead to Business BreakthroughsFor salespeople, leaders, entrepreneurs, and anyone who wants to change their outlook on marketing, Tuned In will guide you on your journey to creating, launching, or selling products that "resonate." In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Craig Stull, David Meerman Scott, Phil Myers
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Turning Good Ideas Into Great BusinessesWhether you are thinking about starting a business, taking the first steps, already running your own business, managing a company, or simply interested in investing in a business, this comprehensive guide provides you with a structured way to study a business from a fresh perspective.
By Francis Tay
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Turning Trainers into Strategic Business PartnersAs learning professionals, we need to make sound decisions about which talent development strategies to pursue, ones that will provide the biggest benefit to our organization. This TD at Work describes how LTD professionals can reinvigorate their roles in the organization, how to uncover stakeholder perspectives, optimize strategic alignment, and more.
By Ingrid Guerra-López, Karen Hicks
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Überpreneurs: How to Create Innovative Global Businesses and Transform Human SocietiesCharting the lives and achievements of 36 extraordinary individuals, this book tells their unique stories and demonstrates how their entrepreneurial spirit and heroic visions are changing the world for the better.
By Fiona Wood, Peter Andrews
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Ultrasound: The Requisites, Third EditionThis bestselling volume in The Requisites(tm) Series provides a comprehensive introduction to timely ultrasound concepts, ensuring quick access to all the essential tools for the effective practice of ultrasonography.
By Barbara S. Hertzberg, William D. Middleton
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Uncommon Leadership: How to Build Competitive Advantage by Thinking DifferentlyIn order to energize managers and leaders, they need to feel challenged, stretched and inspired. This thorough resource captures ideas specifically designed to motivate executives to develop their own distinctive approach to thinking differently about business.
By Anthony Sturgess, Phil Higson
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Understanding and Managing Strategic GovernanceThe book explains the impact that governance actors have on a firm's strategic choices and the quality of such choices as well as the unintended consequences of that impact. The authors also describe how executives can manage the conflicting interests of multiple governance actors and leverage the influence of these actors to make effective strategic decisions.
By Robert E. Hoskisson, Wei Shi
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Understanding Japanese Management PracticesIllustrating the many teachings that Japanese management practice can offer the rest of the world, this book outlines the particulars of Japanese management and how modern Japanese management employs many practices which are very successful and worth adopting.
By Parissa Haghirian
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Understanding Markets and Strategy: How to Exploit Markets for Sustainable Business GrowthExplaining the context, meaning and value of markets while debunking myths around how markets are defined, this book provides ways to take advantage of the assets a company possesses and develop new assets for the target market.
By Malcolm Morley
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Understanding Michael Porter: The Essential Guide to Competition and StrategyTranslating Porter's powerful insights into practice while correcting the most common misconceptions about them, this book stresses the importance of clear, strategic thinking and lays out the basic principles and frameworks you need to master.
By Joan Magretta
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Understanding Organizations...Finally! Structure in SevensUnderstanding Organizations ... Finally! offers a revised perspective on what modern organizations are, who the key players are within them, and the intricate interplay of art and science in organizing. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Henry Mintzberg
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Understanding the Dynamics of the Value ChainWhether you are a practicing business professional or a student seeking to expand your knowledge, this book introduces a new conception of the value chain commensurate with the demands of the 21st-century global economy.
By John R. Mawhinney, William D. Presutti, Jr
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Understanding the Indian Economy from the Post-Reforms of 1991, Volume I: History, Evolution, and GrowthThis book is intended to serve as an introduction to the Indian Economy from the Post Reform of 1991.The author makes an endeavor to present how India's economic fortunes dwindled over the centuries. This first volume begins with an analysis of the history, evolution, and growth of the Indian economy through several periods along with their positive and negative aspects.
By Shrawan Kumar Singh
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Understanding the Indian Economy from the Post-Reforms of 1991, Volume II: Anatomy of the Indian EconomyThe objective of this book is to provide an understanding of the economy with its nature and structure, dominance of unorganized sector, natural resources, economic and social infrastructure, demographic features, poverty, unemployment, inequality, national income, saving and investment, role of noneconomic factors, and sources of data.
By Shrawan Kumar Singh
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Unleashing Creativity And Innovation: Nine Lessons From Nature For Enterprise Growth And Career SuccessDrawing upon the author's twenty-two years of first-hand experience helping FedEx grow into a global icon, and the last ten years consulting around the world, this book provides proven and practical answers to unleashing your natural creative potential.
By Madan Birla
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Unlocking Creativity: How to Solve Any Problem and Make the Best Decisions by Shifting Creative MindsetsHighly relevant to the growth crises many enterprises face in today's economic landscape, this insightful and informative book examines how to break barriers to spark creativity and foster new ideas.
By Michael A. Roberto
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Up Your Creativity and InnovativenessIf you want to make progress in your career and life, you have to be an innovator: the type of person who can approach problems creatively and figure out better ways to get things done. This book provides 60 tips on becoming more creative on the job to solve problems.
By Jeff Davidson
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Urban Sustainability and Energy Management of Cities for Improved Health and Well-BeingUrban Sustainability and Energy Management of Cities for Improved Health and Well-Being highlights the interdisciplinary connections between the environment and human health, focusing on new ideas and suggestions for promoting both sustainable development and human health and well-being.
By Roberto Alonso González-Lezcano
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User-Driven Applications for Research and Science: Building Programs for Fields with Open Scenarios and Unpredictable User ActionsGet ready to learn by example, using an algorithm of total movability and experience, implemented in different situations. You will begin with the simplest code examples and work your way up to real, complicated programs applicable in STEM fields.
By Sergey Andreyev
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Using Information Technology Advancements to Adapt to Global PandemicsUsing Information Technology Advancements to Adapt to Global Pandemics provides insights and understanding on how companies and organizations are using advances in IT to adapt to global pandemics such as COVID-19.
By Efosa C. Idemudia, Irja Naambo Shaanika, Patrick Ndayizigamiye, Tiko Iyamu
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Using Scenarios: Scenario Planning for Improving Organizations - AudioThis is the first book to offer detailed guidance on how scenarios can be used to help organizations make their toughest decisions in a world of ever-escalating crisis and opportunity.
By Thomas J. Chermack
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Utopianism for a Dying Planet: Life after ConsumerismUtopianism for a Dying Planet examines the ways the expansive history of utopian thought, from its origins in ancient Sparta and ideas of the Golden Age through to today's thinkers, can offer moral and imaginative guidance in the face of catastrophe.
By Gregory Claeys
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Value-Added Selling: How to Sell More Profitably, Confidently, and Professionally by Competing on VALUE, Not Price, Third EditionProviding the strategies you need to close more sales and improve repeat business, this book will help you deliver meaningful value to your customers, compete at a higher level than your competition, and protect your profits in any kind of economy.
By Tom Reilly
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Value-Driven Business Process Management: The Value-Switch for Lasting Competitive AdvantageAuthored by a team of BPM experts from the global management consulting company Accenture, this book explains how to launch value-driven BPM in synchronicity with existing efforts, and reveals common roadblocks along with clear steps for overcoming them.
By Mathias Kirchmer, Peter Franz
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Venture Capital in Asia: Investing in Emerging CountriesAnalyzing the development of private equity, this book examines the investment strategies of both types of private equity investors who face significant challenges when investing in emerging economies lacking the legal and financial institutions needed to support effective private equity investing.
By William Scheela
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Virtual Leadership: Practical Strategies for Getting the Best Out of Virtual Work and Virtual TeamsVirtual Leadership explores the challenges associated with working remotely, and guides you on how to lead virtual teams. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Penny Pullan
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Virtual Teams: How We Are Connecting InternallyRyan Tidwell, Content Marketing Specialist at Skillsoft discusses how we all need to pause throughout the day and have human interaction, even if it's virtual.
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Visual Strategy: A Workbook for Strategy Mapping in Public and Nonprofit OrganizationsFeaturing detailed examples, actual strategy maps, process guidelines and hand-drawn illustrations, this book will help leaders, managers, students and other professionals see patterns across mission, goals, strategies and actions while helping to identify areas of alignment and misalignment and determine, real time, where elements are needed, missing or not useful in a strategic plan.
By Colin Eden, Fran Ackermann, John M. Bryson
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Visualization Techniques for Climate Change with Machine Learning and Artificial IntelligenceThis book covers different types of tools for the prediction of climate change and alternative systems which can reduce the levels of threats observed by climate change scientists. Moreover, the book will help to achieve at least one of 17 sustainable development goals i.e., climate action.
By Abhishek Kumar, Arun Lal Srivastav, Ashutosh Kumar Dubey, Moonis Ali Khan, Sushil Kumar Narang
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War, States, and International Order: Alberico Gentili and the Foundational Myth of the Laws of WarUnder contemporary international humanitarian law, this right is essentially restricted to sovereign states. It has been conventionally assumed that this arrangement derives from the ideas of the late-sixteenth century jurist Alberico Gentili.
By Claire Vergerio
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Well-Being in the Workplace: Governance and Sustainability Insights to Promote Workplace HealthThis book is intended for human resources management academics, researchers, students, organizational leaders and managers, HR Practitioners, and those responsible for helping support employees in the 21st-century workplace.
By Nicole Cvenkel
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What Customers Want: Using Outcome Driven Innovation To Create Breakthrough Products and ServicesChallenging everything you have learned about being customer driven, this this paradigm-changing book details an eight-step approach that uses outcome-driven thinking to dramatically improve every aspect of the innovation process.
By Anthony Ulwick
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What Is Global Leadership?: 10 Key Behaviors That Define Great Global LeadersDrawing on cutting-edge research conducted by Aperian Global, as well as first-hand interviews with successful global leaders, this essential guide highlights 10 key behaviors critical to international settings and provides an important resource for developing global leadership talent.
By Ernest Gundling, Karen Cvitkovich, Terry Hogan
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What Matters Now: How to Win in a World of Relentless Change, Ferocious Competition, and Unstoppable InnovationWhat Matters Now is a multi-faceted outline of the challenges and issues organizations must face in order to be primed to flourish in the years ahead. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Gary Hamel
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What Matters Now: How to Win in a World of Relentless Change, Ferocious Competition, and Unstoppable InnovationPresenting a blueprint for creating organizations that are fit for the future, this concise book will inspire you to rethink your business, your company and how you lead, and will help you discover the make-or-break issues that will determine whether your organization thrives or dives in the years ahead.
By Gary Hamel
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What You Need to Know about StrategyBy cutting out the theory, and focusing on the things you need to know and do to come up with a killer strategy, this book offers advice on how to involve the right people in the stimulating and challenging strategy creation process.
By Jo Whitehead
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Where in the World is My Team?: Making A Success Of Your Virtual Global WorkplaceIdeal for managers and those interested in succeeding in a global economy, this easy-to-follow guide introduces new technologies and focuses on the Key Performance Zones for global team collaboration with briefing report summaries to emphasize key points.
By Terence Brake
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Who Killed Creativity?: ...And How Can We Get It Back? Seven Essential Strategies to Make Yourself, Your Team and Your Organisation More InnovativeUsing a unique, mystery-style forensic approach, this fascinating book allows you to match your knowledge against that of the latest brain researchers, psychologists, and sociologists as you are taken on a humorous and often startling journey to discover why creativity is dying an untimely death.
By Andrew Grant, Gaia Grant, Jason Gallate
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Who Says Elephants Can't Dance? Inside IBM's Historic TurnaroundWho Says Elephants Can't Dance tells the riveting story of one man's quest to save a giant from obsolescence. Louis V. Gerstner, Jr., the man behind IBM's rebirth, reveals how he succeeded. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Louis V. Gerstner, Jr.
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Who Wins in a Digital World?: Strategies to Make Your Organization Fit for the FutureHow organizations can adapt to a constantly changing business environment by being flexible but focused, embracing change, and moving fast.
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Why Democracies Develop and DeclineThe Varieties of Democracy project (V-Dem) pioneered new ways to conceptualize and measure democracy, producing a multidimensional and disaggregated data set on democracy around the world that is now widely used by researchers, activists, and governments.
By Amanda B. Edgell, Carl Henrik Knutsen, Michael Coppedge, Staffan I. Lindberg
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Why Digital Transformations Fail: The Surprising Disciplines of How to Take Off and Stay AheadThis book gives you the keys to a successful digital transformation: a proven five-stage model and a disciplined process for executing it.
By Tony Saldanha
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Why Home Office Ergonomics MattersDonna McEntee, Director, EHS Compliance Products at Skillsoft talks about the necessity of creating an ergonomic workspace while working from home.
By Donna McEntee
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Why International Cooperation Is Failing: How the Clash of Capitalisms Undermines the Regulation of FinanceThis book offers an alternative to the popular notion that this failure is the result of the 'nature' of international relations, the clash of national egoisms, or ineffective national leadership.
By Thomas Kalinowski
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Win Every Day: Proven Practices for Extraordinary ResultsUsing a business fable format, this book shows how any organization can cultivate the kind of everyday habits that yield extraordinary results and offers a proven, research-based method for creating workplaces where everyone performs at the highest level.
By Mark Miller
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Winning Global Markets: How Businesses Invest and Prosper in the World's High-Growth CitiesAuthored by Philip Kotler, one of the world's foremost marketing experts, and his brother Milton, an international marketing strategist, this book explains why the future of marketing must focus on top global cities and their metro regions, and not squandered resources on small cities.
By Milton Kotler, Philip Kotler
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Winning Government Business: Gaining the Competitive AdvantageThis invaluable, step-by-step handbook provides you with techniques to sharpen your competitive edge at every stage of the proposal development process. The GovEssentials collection from Books24x7 is offered in partnership with Management Concepts.
By Steve R. Osborne
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Winning Now, Winning Later: How Companies Can Succeed in the Short Term While Investing for the Long TermPresenting a comprehensive solution to a perennial problem, this book is a go-to guide for leaders everywhere who seek to finally transcend short-termism's daily grind and leave an enduring legacy of success.
By David M. Cote
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Winning Through Innovation: A Practical Guide to Leading Organizational Change and RenewalWhy do leading firms often lose their innovative edge, and how can they retain it?
By Charles A. O'Reilly III, Michael L. Tushman
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With Respect to the Japanese: Going to Work in Japan, Second EditionDiscussing the salient features of Japanese values and behaviors, and contrasting them with that of Americans, this book offers concrete guidelines for establishing effective relationships.
By John C. Condon, Tomoko Masumoto
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Women as Global LeadersProviding conceptualizations and theory related to women as global leaders, this book looks at recent empirical investigations of the phenomenon, analysis of effective global leadership development programs, and portraits of women who lead, or have led, in a global role.
By Faith Wambura Ngunjiri, Susan R. Madsen (eds)
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Work and Employment in a Changing Business EnvironmentUse this brand new CIPD textbook to understand the theory and practice of the developments that have changed the world of work including technology, sustainability and globalization.
By Graham Perkins, Stephen Taylor
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Work without Stress: Building a Resilient Mindset for Lasting SuccessIn Work Without Stress, authors Derek Roger and Nick Petrie teach you how to build resilience, cope with challenges, and thrive under adversity. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Derek Roger, Nick Petrie
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Working at a Distance: A Global Business Model for Virtual Team CollaborationOrganizations are implementing virtual teams using web technologies as a cost-effective measure for training and project development. This timely book provides a detailed, comprehensible virtual team business model for managers, professionals, teachers or students involved globally with such initiatives.
By Cassandra J. Smith
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Working GlobeSmart: 12 People Skills for Doing Business Across BordersThis text bridges the gap between what we know about business success and what we know about differences in values, abilities, and behavioral characteristics across various cultural dimensions.
By Ernest Gundling
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Workplace Learning and Development: Delivering Competitive Advantage for Your OrganizationWith real-life examples of workplace learning, this book identifies a variety of learning strategies and methods, explains how to select the right method for a specific situation, and illustrates how these methods can add value to overall performance.
By Jackie Clifford, Sara Thorpe
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Yes, And: How Improvisation Reverses "No, But" Thinking and Improves Creativity and CollaborationWritten by two masters of comedy and improv, Yes, And uses hilarious but insightful real-life anecdotes to show how improv can be incorporated into the business world. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Kelly Leonard, Tom Yorton
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You Can't Make Money From a Dead Planet: The Sustainable Method for Driving ProfitsLearn how to make your business more sustainable while not sacrificing growth, profits and innovation.
By Mark Shayler
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Your Creative Brain: Seven Steps to Maximize Imagination, Productivity, and Innovation in Your LifeExplaining the seven brain states or "brainsets" and their functions as related to creativity, productivity, and innovation, this book provides quizzes, exercises, and self-tests to activate each of these seven brainsets to unlock our maximum creativity.
By Shelley Carson
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Your Creative Mind: Disrupt Your Thinking, Abandon Your Comfort Zone, and Develop Bold New StrategiesIn Your Creative Mind, author Scott Cochrane wakes up dormant creativity so you can innovate purposefully. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Scott Cochrane
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Your Creative Mind: Disrupt Your Thinking, Abandon Your Comfort Zone, and Develop Bold New StrategiesFilled with practical steps and techniques, this book will help you infuse your company with creative power and drive innovation. Break free of business as usual and create the dynamic growth you deserve!
By Scott Cochrane
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Your Health at Work: An Indispensable Guide to Physical and Mental WellbeingYour fully researched and up-to-date guide to the most common health risks at work in the UK and how you can tackle them, this comprehensive book expertly explains your legal rights, how to avoid injury and illness and what support is available to you.
By Becky Allen, Howard Fidderman
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Zentrepreneur: Get Out of the Way and Lead-Create a Culture of Innovation and FearlessnessCombining profound spiritual wisdom and emotional intelligence with intellectual capital and the author's 30 years of practical business experience, this book demonstrates a new level of leadership free from self-imposed barriers.
By John J. Murphy
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Zero Harm: How to Achieve Patient and Workforce Safety in HealthcareWith case studies and success stories from your industry colleagues, this step-by-step book shares practical, day-to-day solutions that combine the latest tools and technologies in healthcare today with the best safety practices from high-risk, yet high-reliability industries.
By Carole Stockmeier, Craig Clapper, James Merlino
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Zero to $10 Million: How To Build an 8-Figure Technology BusinessThis book explains about how to build technology business.
By Shane Brett
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"Leadership Matters?" Finding Voice, Connection and Meaning in the 21st CenturyBased on the premise that true and influential leadership comes from the inside, this thought-provoking book presents what it means to lead respectfully, critically, responsibly and humbly in the gritty reality of the twenty first century workplace.
By Chris Mabey, David Knights (eds)
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#POSITIVITY AT WORK tweet Book01: 140 Bite-Sized Ideas to Help You Create a Positive Organization Where Employees ThriveBy defining and describing a positive workplace, this concise guide will show you how to create a healthy, affirmative environment where every individual contributes, connects, succeeds, and thrives.
By Lisa Zigarmi, S. Chris Edmonds
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10 Business Change Situations: How You Can Come Out on TopCombining outstanding content with humor, flair, and inspiration, Work Life Balance Expert Jeff Davidson will give you the tools and techniques to meet the constant challenge of change and rise to the top.
By Jeff Davidson
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10 Steps to Successful Change Management10 Steps to Successful Change Management discusses how change and innovation is essential for company growth, especially in an ever-growing technological world. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By George Vukotich
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10 Steps to Successful Change ManagementOutlining a 10-step approach to handle any type of internally- or externally-driven change, this book will help you understand why change happens, assess different impact scenarios, assemble the right change management team, put a strategy in place, measure success, and more.
By George Vukotich
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100 Great Business LeadersProfiling business leaders and executives such as Henry Ford, Bill Gates, Liu Chuanzhi of Lenova, Jack Welch, Lee Iacocca, Indra Nooyi, and others, this book presents an account of their business careers, innovations, business principles, and opportunities introduced in their companies.
By Jonathan Gifford
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100 Great Handling Rapid Change IdeasIncluding a number of hypothetical examples of leaders handling rapid change, this thoughtful book is designed to enable the reader to respond to change in a constructive way and to see opportunities rather than threats.
By Peter Shaw
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100 Great Leading Well IdeasAn invaluable companion for anyone who manages a team of staff, this book includes inspiring case studies drawn from successful leaders and how they have managed to build a team of confident and competent staff that functions as a cohesive and successful unit.
By Peter Shaw
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100 More Great Leadership Ideas: From Successful Leaders And Managers Around The WorldOffering 100 more solutions researched from companies and organizations around the world, this book shows you how to apply each idea to your own company or specific work situation - a simple formula which could potentially lead to rich rewards.
By Jonathan Gifford
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100 Things Successful Leaders Do: Little lessons in leadershipThis book distills all the wisdom and knowledge of a lifetime of coaching great leaders into 100 short chapters showing you how to build your own leadership skills quickly and confidently.
By Nigel Cumberland
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100 Ways to Motivate Others: How Great Leaders Can Produce Insane Results without Driving People Crazy, Third Edition100 Ways to Motivate Others explains how to be the best leader you can be and the many ways you can encourage and drive those you lead to success. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Scott Richardson, Steve Chandler
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100 Ways to Motivate Others: How Great Leaders Can Produce Insane Results without Driving People Crazy, Third EditionBased on years of successful live workshops, seminars, and personal coaching programs on communication and leadership, this user-friendly book offers fresh insights into communication and rapid decision-making, the importance of personal self-leadership and physical energy, and more.
By Scott Richardson, Steve Chandler
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101 Leadership Actions for Creating and Managing Virtual TeamsWhatever your role, this what-to-do guide provides a wealth of new ideas for making your virtual team more effective. This up-to-the-minute book provides practical ideas for anyone getting started with virtual teams, or supporting or managing one.
By Ollie Malone
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101 Leadership Actions for Managing Change in the 21st CenturySharing the author's perspective, which has been shaped and informed by more than 30 years of leading and managing change in and with some of the largest corporations in America, this guide offers proven insights to help leaders considering their approach to change.
By Ollie Malone, Jr.
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101 Leadership Actions For Performance ManagementUse this handbook to build your business, strengthen the bottom line and generate better results. This book will add to your understanding of performance and help you improve and manage performance for your employees' benefit and your company's benefit.
By Ollie Malone
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12 Disciplines of Leadership Excellence: How Leaders Achieve Sustainable High PerformancePresenting five clear strategies and tools to help you convince clients that you can add to what they already know, this book will show you how to create and shape opportunities, prepare and probe in an entirely new way, gain client consensus, and use sales process and tools to guide and accelerate closing.
By Brian Tracy, Peter Chee
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12 Steps to Power Presence: How to Assert Your Authority to LeadWhat's the single most important quality a leader should possess? In this succinct, no-punches-pulled book, acclaimed author-speaker-coach John Baldoni defines what genuine leadership presence is, and discusses right and wrong ways to demonstrate leadership.
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131 Ways to Win with Accountability: Best Practices for Driving Better ResultsYour guide to ensure that your organization drives accountability and is on track to outperform your competitors, this book provides practical but essential tips you can implement today and start driving better results at work and at home.
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14 Easy Ways to Start Achieving GoalsDiscussing the importance of establishing work-life balance goals, this book helps you become a well-rounded career professional who is more effective on the job while having a greater sense of participation and enjoyment in life.
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15 Secrets to Making Big AchievementsDiscussing the importance of establishing work-life balance goals, this innovative book helps you to become a well-rounded career professional who is more effective on the job while having a greater sense of participation and enjoyment in life.
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18 Ways to Create Lifelong GoalsDiscussing the importance of establishing work-life balance goals, this book helps you become a well-rounded career professional who is more effective on the job while having a greater sense of participation and enjoyment in life.
By Jeff Davidson
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18 Ways to Reprogram Your Subconscious For SuccessThe inability of your subconscious to pass judgment, something you might consider to be a limitation, can actually be used to great advantage. This insightful book explains how.
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19 Ways to Set and Reach 7 Life GoalsWhat's the difference between an objective and a goal, a goal and a strategy, a priority and a strategy, a tactic, a maneuver, a mission, a mission statement, and so on? This concise guide will show you exactly how to establish and reach seven important life goals.
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21 Ways to Create a Mental Atmosphere for SuccessDiscussing the importance of establishing work-life balance goals, this innovative book helps you to become a well-rounded career professional who is more effective on the job while having a greater sense of participation and enjoyment in life.
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22 Ways to Reach Your Goals by Reaching Out to OthersDiscussing the importance of establishing work-life balance goals, this innovative book helps you to become a well-rounded career professional who is more effective on the job while having a greater sense of participation and enjoyment in life.
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23 Ways to Set High GoalsDiscussing the importance of establishing work-life balance goals, this innovative book helps you to become a well-rounded career professional who is more effective on the job while having a greater sense of participation and enjoyment in life.
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25 Legendary Leadership ActivitiesChallenging, fun and a must read in your legendary leadership journey, this book is packed with activities, assessments, questionnaires and charts designed to ensure you are remembered as a good - or even great - leader.
By Peter R. Garber
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26 Ways to Avoid Obstacles to Your GoalsDiscussing the importance of establishing work-life balance goals, this innovative book helps you to become a well-rounded career professional who is more effective on the job while having a greater sense of participation and enjoyment in life.
By Jeff Davidson
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2600 Phrases for Setting Effective Performance Goals: Ready-to-Use Phrases That Really Get ResultsGiving you the language you need to establish compelling, actionable performance goals, this uniquely practical guide provides insightful strategies to accomplish more through others, serve as an effective career mentor and coach, and help your company stand out from the competition.
By Paul Falcone
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2600 Phrases for Setting Effective Performance Goals: Ready-to-Use Phrases That Really Get Results2600 Phrases for Setting Effective Performance Goals is a guide to help your employees achieve realistic performance goals, and set them on the path to become successful and accomplished contributors to the organization. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Paul Falcone
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30 Reasons Employees Hate Their Managers: What Your People May Be Thinking and What You Can Do About ItTaking you inside troubled organizations to show how management problems translate to poor results, this book offers eye-opening and refreshing stories of how such companies overcame and eliminated these dysfunctions.
By Adam Snyder, Bruce L. Katcher
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360 Degrees of Influence: Get Everyone to Follow Your Lead on Your Way to the TopIn 360 Degrees of Influence, Harrison Monarth argues persuasively that the most effective leaders are those who influence colleagues in all levels of the organization. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
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4D Leadership: Competitive Advantage Through Vertical Leadership DevelopmentRevealing three dimensions to viewing the world when it comes to business, this book explains that when leaders are proficient in all three dimensions and can move effortlessly between the three, they have achieved 4D leadership.
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5 Change Management Strategies from the ExpertsCombining outstanding content with humor, flair, and inspiration, Work Life Balance Expert Jeff Davidson will give you the tools and techniques to meet the constant challenge of change.
By Jeff Davidson
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5 New Approaches to Change ManagementCombining outstanding content with humor, flair, and inspiration, Work Life Balance Expert Jeff Davidson will give you the tools and techniques to meet the constant challenge of change.
By Jeff Davidson
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5 Voices: How to Communicate Effectively with Everyone You LeadAn easy-to-use self-assessment for pinpointing who you are and how you contribute in life in the best possible way, this book will help you identify your natural leadership style, and give you a framework for leveraging your strengths.
By Jeremie Kubicek, Steve Cockram
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5 Ways to Overcome Resistance to ChangeCombining outstanding content with humor, flair, and inspiration, Work Life Balance Expert Jeff Davidson will give you the tools and techniques to meet the constant challenge of change.
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50 Activities for Achieving ChangeThrough the activities, questionnaires and role-plays in this guide, you can reduce conflict and improve communication skills in your oganization. This book covers developing goals for change, accepting change, understanding change, and more.
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50 Activities For Self-Development: A Companion Volume to The Unblocked ManagerWhile exploring aspects of managerial competence, this book focuses on increasing management effectiveness by applying new principles of management education to individual managers and groups.
By Dave Francis, Mike Woodcock
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50 Companies That Changed the World: Incisive Profiles of the 50 Organizations, Large and Small, that Have Shaped the Course of Modern BusinessThe perfect book for everyone fascinated with the history of business.
By Howard Rothman
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50 Top Tools for Employee Engagement: A Complete Toolkit for Improving Motivation and ProductivityIntroducing practical tools which can be used to make an immediate difference to engagement, this complete resource provides guidance on how to measure the impact of each tool to show what's working and where efforts are best focused.
By Debbie Mitchell
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50 Top Tools for Employee Wellbeing: A Complete Toolkit for Developing Happy, Healthy, Productive and Engaged EmployeesAddressing all the key areas of the subject, from career development and workplace culture to physical, mental and financial wellbeing, this practical book is a complete resource for improving your workforce's wellbeing.
By Debbie Mitchell
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50 Ways to Break Through Barriers and Achieve Your GoalsIn the pursuit of any challenging goal, you are likely to face a fair share of second guessing and self-doubt. This practical book shows you how to overcome your obstacles and sail right on through to completion of your goals.
By Jeff Davidson
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60-Minute CEO: Mastering Leadership an Hour at a TimeExplaining that being a successful leader, running a business, and doing it extraordinarily well isn't a full-time job, this book reveals that the essential elements of the CEO role can be accomplished in several 60-minute sessions every week.
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7 Moments ... That Define Excellent LeadersFilled with inspiring stories and practical wisdom you can apply immediately, this book will help you step closer to leadership excellence in a matter of moments.
By Lee J. Colan
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7 Paths to Managerial Leadership: Doing Well by Doing it Right7 Paths to Managerial Leadership provides strategies for improving your relationships with your employees. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Fred Mackenzie
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7 Paths to Managerial Leadership: Doing Well by Doing it RightPresenting seven simple paths to an effective relationship between managers and staff, this step-by-step guide covers principles evaluated and fine-tuned over the course of several decades, and offers management wisdom that focuses on action, not position, and inspires others to do their best work.
By Fred Mackenzie
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7 Principles of Transformational Leadership: Create a Mindset of Passion, Innovation, and Growth7 Principles of Transformational Leadership provides self-evaluation tools and strategies for personal and business transformation. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Hugh Blane
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7 Principles of Transformational Leadership: Create a Mindset of Passion, Innovation, and GrowthYou may have employees with all the talent in the world, but you'll never achieve remarkable results until you change your employees' mindset. This thoughtful resource will help you convert your human potential into accelerated business results.
By Hugh Blane
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7 Rules for Positive, Productive Change: Micro Shifts, Macro ResultsThis book offers seven guidelines for change by attraction, an approach that draws people into the process so that instead of resisting change, they embrace it.
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7 Ways to Lead ChangeCombining outstanding content with humor, flair, and inspiration, Work Life Balance Expert Jeff Davidson offers creative leadership strategies that are crucial for leading your business during change.
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7-Phase Consulting Model for Change Projects: Human Capital, Volume 35, Issue 1801, January 2018Describing the work of change agents and the competencies they need to succeed, this practical book guides readers step-by-step through how they can work with clients who are trying to transform their organizations.
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78 Important Questions Every Leader Should Ask and AnswerThis valuable book reveals how to encourage questions from employees and managers, and how to answer them clearly and honestly.
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8 Ways to Achieve More by Using DeadlinesDiscussing the importance of establishing work-life balance goals, this book helps you to become a well-rounded career professional who is more effective on the job while having a greater sense of participation and enjoyment in life.
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9 Powerful Practices of Really Great BossesFor the busy manager seeking effective and timely results from leadership development training, this sensible book can become a springboard for solid professional growth and accelerated success in the development of all-important people-management skills.
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A Blueprint for Corporate Governance: Strategy, Accountability, and the Preservation of Shareholder ValueAddressing shareholder value from a managerial perspective, this unique book covers all essential corporate governance issues from this angle, providing detailed information and insights on: contemporary asset pricing models, and how they can help managers determine optimal returns on shareholder funds; financial structures and dividend policies designed to advance shareholder interests; and more.
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A Class with Drucker: The Lost Lessons of the World's Greatest Management TeacherShowing how Drucker's ideas can be applied to the real-world challenges managers face today, this enlightening and intriguing book will enable anyone to gain from the timeless wisdom of the inspiring man himself.
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A Culture of Purpose: How to Choose the Right People and Make the Right People Choose YouFor leaders ready to build and strengthen a winning business, this book changes dated preconceptions to show that sustainability is not an ideological mindset but a cultural trait of a resilient business and is an education, a revelation, and an invitation to the next generation of success.
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A Cure for the Common Company: A Well-Being Prescription for a Happier, Healthier, and More Resilient WorkforceMake your workforce happier, healthier-and more productive-with strategies from a world-leader in company culture and health
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A Girl's Guide to Being Fearless: How to Find Your BraveThis book is an essential book for our time, this guide reflects the challenging world facing teens.
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A Great Place to Work for All: Better for Business, Better for People, Better for the WorldThrough inspiring stories and compelling research, this book provides the benchmarks, frameworks, and expertise needed to create, sustain, and recognize outstanding workplace cultures.
By Michael C. Bush, The Great Place to Work Research Team
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A Great Place to Work for All: Better for Business, Better for People, Better for the WorldIn A Great Place to Work for All, author Michael C. Bush explores an approach which implores the power of leaders to strengthen, motivate, and uplift the morale of employees. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
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A History of Organizational Change: The case of Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA), 1946-2020This book is the first independent exploration of the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile's (FIA) institutional history. Virtually unexamined compared with similar institutions like the FIFA and the IOC, the FIA has nevertheless changed from being a small association in 1904 to becoming one of the world's most influential sport governing bodies. Through chronologically organised chapters, this book explains how the FIA manages to link together motorsport circuses like Formula 1 with the automotive industry and societal issues like road safety and environmental sustainability.
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A Holistic Approach to Lessons Learned: How Organizations Can Benefit from Their Own KnowledgeBased on knowledge management methods and the author's experience in lesson learning and knowledge management, this book offers an expanded approach that enables a substantial reduction of recurring mistakes and lessons repeatedly learned.
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A Leadership Kick in the Ass: How to Learn from Rough Landings, Blunders, and MisstepsBased on the author's work with thousands of leaders, this book is a survival guide, coach, and morale booster to help you use that kick to move forward instead of fall down. If you succeed, the next place you get kicked might be upstairs.
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A Manager's Guide to Human Behavior, Fifth EditionIncluding self-assessments, worksheets, checklists, and questionnaires, the self-study course guide will prepare managers to better understand, motivate, and focus the energies of individual employees and the collective energy of their work teams.
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A Safe Place for Dangerous TruthsMost employees don't feel free to speak the complete truth -- and the accumulation of half-truths can cripple an organization.
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A Seat at the C-Suite Table: Insights from the Leadership Journeys of African American ExecutivesThis book was inspired by data suggesting that there is racial/ethnic underrepresentation in corporate leadership roles in the United States. This underrepresentation ranges from the presidency of colleges and universities to the U.S. Senate to corporate boardrooms.
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A Software Engineer's Guide to Seniority: A Guide to Technical LeadershipThere are few books in the market that talk about the effort within and outside of the job that helps software engineers advance in their careers. This book is a truthful and introspective look at technical careers and a consolidation of that information and advice for engineers that are looking to elevate their career to the senior level.
By Jocelyn Harper
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A Team of Leaders: Empowering Every Member to Take Ownership, Demonstrate Initiative and Deliver ResultsA Team of Leaders provides the methods and tools to transform conventional manager-led teams into empowered, high-performing teams of leaders. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Paul Gustavson, Stewart Liff
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A Team of Leaders: Empowering Every Member to Take Ownership, Demonstrate Initiative, and Deliver ResultsFilled with real-world examples and best practices, this practical guide shows readers how to design systems that nurture the leadership potential of every employee--the key to creating high-performance teams.
By Paul Gustavson, Stewart Liff
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A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the FutureThe future is full of possibilities and, in A Whole New Mind, Daniel H. Pink analyzes the creative skills that will be needed in order to thrive in a fast-changing word. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Daniel Pink
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A Woman 's Guide to Successful Negotiating: How to Convince, Collaborate, & Create Your Way to Agreement, Second EditionPresenting the three keys to negotiating success for women, this helpful guide will show you how to get what you deserve in every aspect of your life, whether it is earning more money, buying your next car, or just getting your husband to help around the house.
By Jessica Miller, Lee Miller
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A Woman's Guide to Claiming Space: Stand Tall. Raise Your Voice. Be Heard.For too long, women have been told to confine themselves-physically, socially, and emotionally. Eliza VanCort says now is the time for women to stand tall, raise their voices, and claim their space.
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A Year with Peter Drucker: 52 Weeks of Coaching for Leadership EffectivenessBrilliantly honing a lifetime of wisdom into a single essential volume, this book distills the essence of Peter Drucker's personal mentorship program into an easy-to-follow 52-week course, exploring the themes Drucker felt were most important to leadership development.
By Joseph A. Maciariello
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Absolute Honesty: Building a Corporate Culture that Values Straight Talk and Rewards IntegrityThis book shows how to establish and maintain a culture where honest communication is the norm, and employees can speak openly without fear of retribution.
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Accelerated Leadership Development: How to Turn Your Top Talent into LeadersPacked with insights from HR experts and business leaders from across the globe, this book shows how accelerated leadership development works in practice, what makes it successful and highlights the potential pitfalls to look out for.
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Accelerating Leadership Development through Executive Coaching: A Guide for HR Professionals and High-Potential LeadersDesigned to support self-study and self-directed development for high-potential leaders, this tookit can help accelerate leadership development on the job and help leaders and their managers become better prepared to tackle broader leadership responsibilities within their organizations.
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Accelerating Leadership Development: Practical Solutions for Building Your Organization's PotentialFeaturing actionable, effective principles and strategies for leadership development using a results-oriented framework, this book offers solutions for leadership development, management, and retention from award-winning development firm Global Knowledge.
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Accountability Leadership: How to Strengthen Productivity Through Sound Managerial LeadershipThe book's author presents a radical and revisionist point of view in support of hierarchy and accountability as tools to boost organizational productivity.
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Accountability: Taking Ownership of Your ResponsibilityFocusing on support, freedom, information, resources, and goal and role clarity, this guidebook explains how your organization and its leaders can create a culture that fosters accountability.
By Henry Browning
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Accountability: The Key to Driving a High-Performance CultureAs a business leader's guide to the best practices to turn long term vision into reality, this book introduces the Seven Pillars of Accountability and shows how each pillar is a crucial part of effective leadership.
By Greg Bustin
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Accountability: The Key to Driving a High-Performance CultureAccountability provides an engaging exploration of seven essential pillars for effective leadership, illustrated with concrete examples and personal stories. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Greg Bustin
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Accountable Leaders: Inspire a Culture where Everyone Steps Up, Takes Ownership, and Delivers ResultsIn Accountable Leaders, Vice Molinaro explores ways to become a more effective leader, team, or organization. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
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Achieve with Accountability: Ignite Engagement, Ownership, Perseverance, Alignment, & ChangeProviding the keys to take control of your destiny to achieve what matters most, this book is your guide to applying the accountability fundamentals that have allowed thousands of individuals, teams, and organizations to achieve and exceed their desired results.
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Achieving Business Agility: Strategies for Becoming Pivot Ready in a Digital WorldProviding a pragmatic framework for leading your business toward shifting to an agile mindset, this how-to book offers strategies and concrete examples to engage business executives and will teach you how to effectively execute these strategies.
By John Orvos
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Achieving Goals: Define and Surpass Your High Performance GoalsBy following through and completing what you've set out to do, you can truly outperform your competitors. This comprehensive guide shows you how to set smart goals for yourself and your employees, help employees meet their objectives, measure progress, and more.
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Actualized Leadership: Meeting Your Shadow & Maximizing Your PotentialBased on the seminal works of Carl Jung, Abraham Maslow, David McClelland, and Viktor Frankl, this book shows how Actualized Leaders think, feel, and manage differently while providing practical strategies for developing a more actualized approach to leadership.
By William L. Sparks
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Agile Change Management: A Practical Framework for Successful Change Planning and ImplementationCombining agile project management methodologies and a practical life cycle approach, this book offers pioneering tools and techniques to ensure change projects or strategies are delivered successfully and that benefits are realized earlier on in the process.
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Agile Change Management: A Practical Framework for Successful Change Planning and Implementation, Second EditionThis book emphasis on behavioural change and decomposition in planning iterations, and new material on prototyping for business needs and virtual leadership. Whether implementing a large-scale transformation or working through projects at micro-level, Agile Change Management provides tools, frameworks and examples necessary to adapt to and manage change effectively.
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Agile Development & Business Goals: The Six Week SolutionEschewing long-winded "agile philosophy" in favor of a formally prioritized process, this book serves as a distilled learning guide for managing technical resources in a manner that directly boosts your bottom line.
By Bill Holtsnider, George Stragand, Joseph Gee, Tom Wheeler
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All In: How Obsessive Leaders Achieve the ExtraordinaryExtraordinary leaders share a passionate commitment to achieving their vision that borders and sometimes crosses the line into obsession. This book shows why obsession, if properly focused and managed, is both necessary and productive.
By Robert Bruce Shaw
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All the Leader You Can Be: The Science of Achieving Extraordinary Executive PresenceAll the Leader You Can Be details the three dimensions of a leader - character, substance, and style - and the five qualities that correspond to shaping executive presence in each dimension. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
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All the Leader You Can Be: The Science of Achieving Extraordinary Executive PresenceCracking the code on executive presence: what it is, why it matters, and how you can achieve it, this book uses the research-based, scientifically-grounded Bates Executive Presence Index-Bates ExPI(tm) to show you how to assess your ability to influence results and maximize your impact, scientifically and systematically.
By Suzanne Bates
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Amp It Up: Leading for Hypergrowth by Raising Expectations, Increasing Urgency, and Elevating Intensityn Amp It Up, author Frank Slootman shares his insights on how to nurture consistent growth and organizational enthusiasm without spending money on outside consultants or an influx of new employees. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
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Amplifiers: How Great Leaders Magnify the Power of Teams, Increase the Impact of Organizations, and Turn Up the Volume on Positive ChangeThis book is perfect for executives, managers, and other business leaders responsible for change management and strategic execution, Amplifiers also belongs on the bookshelves of anyone who hopes to contribute to or lead organizations as they change direction.
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An Analysis of John P. Kotter's Leading ChangeTaking an in-depth look at John P. Kotter's classic business book, this analysis describes his eight-step process for leading change and his challenge to readers to continue to grow, both personally and professionally throughout life.
By Nick Broten, Yaamina Salman
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Anticipate: The Art of Leading by Looking AheadPacked with stories and practices, this complete guide provides proven techniques for looking ahead and exploring many plausible futures-including the author's trademarked FuturePriming process, which helps distinguish signal from noise.
By Rob-Jan de Jong
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Anticipate: The Art of Leading by Looking AheadAnticipate provides practical techniques for leaders to develop their vision for the future of their business, enabling them to anticipate change and thus gain strategic advances over their competitors. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Rob-Jan de Jong
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Applied Leadership: Developing Stages for Creating Exceptional LeadersDesigned to be a complete self-training guide for individuals in all stages of leadership, from entry level to advance stages.
By Sam Altawil
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Appreciative Inquiry for Change Management: Using AI to Facilitate Organizational DevelopmentIllustrating the method of asking particular questions and envisioning the future, this jargon-free book demonstrates how to encourage staff to consider both the positive and negative systems in place and to recognize the need to implement change.
By Jonathan Passmore, Sarah Lewis, Stefan Cantore
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Appreciative Inquiry Handbook: For Leaders Of Change, Second EditionOffering sample project plans, designs, agendas, course outlines, interview guidelines, participant worksheets, resources and more, this book provides background on AI, explains how it works, and shows how you can implement AI in your organization.
By David L. Cooperrider, Diana Whitney, Jacqueline M. Stavros
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Armstrong's Handbook of Management and Leadership for HR: Developing Effective People Skills for Better Leadership and Management, Fourth EditionWith case studies, practitioner interviews, exercises and clear learning objectives, this book provides guidance on the processes of management and leadership with particular reference to what HR managers and aspiring managers need to know and do to make a difference.
By Michael Armstrong
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Army of Entrepreneurs: Create an Engaged and Empowered Workforce for Exceptional Business GrowthIn Army of Entrepreneurs, author Jennifer Prosek shows how you can foster independent, entrepreneurial thought and action in your staff to maintain and grow your business. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Jennifer Prosek
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Arrive and Thrive: 7 Impactful Practices for Women Navigating LeadershipThe book captures seven practices that help you understand and leverage your unique personal powers so you can thrive in leadership.
By Dr. Lynn Perry Wooten, Janet Foutty, Susan Mackenty Brady
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Ask More: The Power of Questions to Open Doors, Uncover Solutions, and Spark ChangeIn Ask More, author Frank Sesno illustrates how powerful the right questions can be if employed in the right way at the right time. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Frank Sesno
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Asserting Yourself at WorkAsserting Yourself at Work offers various techniques you can use to make a bigger impact in the workplace, influence fellow employees, and prevent anyone from walking (or talking) over you. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Constance Zimmerman, Richard A. Luecke
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Athena Rising: How and Why Men Should Mentor WomenA book for men about how to mentor women deliberately and effectively, this text is a straightforward, no-nonsense manual for helping men of all institutions, organizations, and businesses to become excellent mentors to women.
By David Smith, W. Brad Johnson
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Attention Pays: How to Drive Profitability, Productivity, and AccountabilityIncluding powerful tips and tricks to increase profitability, this book shows you how to achieve maximum accountability and results, provides strategies to help you productively manage daily tasks, and offers guidance on improving your daily attention and focus.
By Neen James
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Authentic Leadership: Rediscovering the Secrets to Creating Lasting ValueWritten for the new generation of leaders, this timely book examines the relationship between leaders and the organizations they lead, and shows how leaders grow from the interaction with their organizations in creating authentic companies.
By Bill George
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Authority, Cooperation, and AccountabilityAuthority, Cooperation, and Accountability develops a novel strategy for addressing this issue. Saba Bazargan-Forward makes the case for thinking that distinct aspects of human agency, normally wrapped up in a single person, can be 'distributed' practically across different people.
By Saba Bazargan-Forward
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Bad Boss: What to Do if You Work for One, Manage One or Are OneThis book will take the edge off your stressful work environment and provide you with key actionable steps to turn things around.
By Michelle Gibbings
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Balanced Leadership: Making the Best Use of Personal and Team Leadership in ProjectsThis book describes balanced leadership in projects. Based on an award winning global program of research studies on leadership reality in projects, this book shows that leadership changes constantly and is not as static as existing literature may suggests.
By Nathalie Drouin, Ralf Müller, Shankar Sankaran
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Bankable Leadership: Happy People, Bottom-Line Results, and the Power to Deliver BothBankable Leadership uses decades of research and entertaining anecdotes to debunk common leadership myths and reveal the true secret to unleashing the full potential of your team. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Tasha Eurich
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Be A Better ManagerHelping readers identify areas for improvement and plan for development, this Infoline describes a group of competencies that are widely believed to be important for managers including people management, communication and personal effectiveness.
By Tora Estep (ed)
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Be the Boss Everyone Wants to Work For: A Guide for New LeadersOffering practical, research-based advice and examples, this book is your guide to internalizing a leader's perspective and will explain how you can "flip your script" so you'll know what to do to help yourself and the team you lead to success.
By William Gentry
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Be the Boss Your Employees DeserveHere is a book that breaks the mold of how bosses view their employees and replaces it with an approach that is far more in tune with today's work force. It shows how to build a work environment that is exactly what your employees deserve.
By Ken Lloyd
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Be, Know, Do: Leadership The Army WayOffering access to the Army's successful leadership philosophy, this book makes this critical information available to civilian leaders in all sectors and gives them the guidelines they need to create an organization where leadership thrives.
By Eric K. Shinseki, Frances Hesselbein, Richard E. Cavanagh
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Beans of Wisdom: 7 Gifts for Great Leadership in Business and LifePresenting a homeless man's account of a life-changing journey to acquire the 7 gifts of leadership and life, this fascinating parable takes readers on an incredible journey of discovery and redemption, and reveals that the gifts of success are available to each of us from the moment we are born.
By Joe Swinger
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Beans of Wisdom: 7 Gifts for Great Leadership in Business and LifeIn Beans of Wisdom, author Joe Swinger shows readers how to adjust their worldview to be in an exceptional position to succeed. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Joe Swinger
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Beating the Workplace Bully: A Tactical Guide to Taking ChargeBeating the Workplace Bully identifies varieties of bullying and outlines mental and practical strategies to combat them. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Lynne Curry
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Become: The Path to Purposeful LeadershipBecome a leader worth following by using the proven, evidence-based methods of the widely respected, global leadership firm Linkage, Inc. and leadership development expert Mark Hannum.
By Mark Hannum
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Becoming a Can-Do Leader: A Guide for the Busy ManagerBecoming a Can-Do Leader addresses how to be a productive, hands-on manager and why it's key to many management roles today. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Frank Satterthwaite, Jamie Millard
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Becoming a Can-Do Leader: A Guide for the Busy ManagerSharing essential guidelines for can-do leadership, this book offers workplace examples that ring true, as well as unique strategies and tools that both help you identify your values and provide insight into your natural leadership style.
By Frank Satterthwaite, Jamie Millard
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Becoming A Coaching Leader: The Proven Strategy for Building a Team of ChampionsShowing you how to move beyond the theoretical to the very practical "how to" of coaching, this valuable book equips you with the skills, disciplines, and knowledge to turn your paycheck-driven teams into vibrant and successful growth cultures.
By Daniel Harkavy
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Becoming a Conflict Competent Leader: How You and Your Organization Can Manage Conflict EffectivelyCombining research, conceptual models, and practitioner experience that highlight core conflict competencies, this book stresses the importance for leaders to develop critical skills to help them and their organizations deal effectively with conflict.
By Craig E. Runde, Tim A. Flanagan
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Becoming a Leader-Coach: A Step-by-Step Guide to Developing Your PeopleProviding an introduction to the basics of leader-coaching, including a structure and a set of guidelines to conduct effective formal and informal coaching conversations with your direct reports, this guidebook will help you leverage your people's everyday experiences at work, drive development, and build leadership capacity in others.
By Florence Plessier, Johan Naudé
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Becoming a Master Manager: A Competing Values Approach, 6th EditionDeveloped from both theory and empirical evidence, this book provides a compelling case for why managerial and leadership competencies are essential for employee engagement, effective communication, and sustainable organizational success.
By Robert E. Quinn, et al.
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Becoming a Person of Influence: How to Positively Impact the Lives of OthersAmerica's leadership expert teaches that if your life in any way connects with other people, you are an influencer. Whatever your vocation or aspiration is, you can increase your impact with Maxwell's simple, insightful ways to interact more positively with others.
By Jim Dornan, John C. Maxwell
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Becoming a Person of Influence: How to Positively Impact the Lives of OthersJohn C. Maxwell examines how influential leadership can help people grow and develop to their full potential, ultimately allowing them to become responsible leaders who can inspire another generation. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By John C. Maxwell
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Becoming a Strategic Leader: Your Role in Your Organization's Enduring SuccessBased on the Center for Creative Leadership's (CCL) Developing the Strategic Leader program, this practical, hands-on text offers executives and managers a handbook for implementing a strategic leadership process that reaches leaders at all levels.
By Katherine Colarelli Beatty, Richard L. Hughes
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Becoming a Successful Manager: Powerful Tools for Making a Smooth Transition to Managing a Team, Second EditionPresenting numerous exercises throughout, this book aims to help you, as a new manager, quickly assimilate some of the basic knowledge you must have and actions you must put into practice in order to succeed.
By Gary Grossman, J. Robert Parkinson
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Becoming an Effective LeaderToday, leaders are expected to be both reassuring and authoritative, emotionally open and tough, empowering and powerful. This hands-on book offers practical guidelines for mastering this challenging role.
By Harvard Business School Publishing
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Becoming an Effective Mentoring Leader: Proven Strategies for Building Excellence in Your OrganizationUsing case studies, tools, and impactful learning concepts, this book shows you how to use mentoring's core skills to create a winning approach tailored to your own style, be it the 'reflective mentor,' the 'storytelling mentor,' or 'the example-based mentor.'
By Peter Chee, William J. Rothwell
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Becoming the Best: Build A World-Class Organization Through Values-Based LeadershipFeaturing powerful case studies from Campbell's Soup, Ernst & Young, Target, Northern Trust, and others to demonstrate the four principles of values-based leadership in action, this definitive, actionable guide demonstrates how thinking beyond the corporation can trigger positive outcomes for both the company and the world.
By Harry M. Jansen Kraemer Jr.
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Becoming the Boss: New Rules for the Next Generation of LeadersLeadership demographics are changing and, in Becoming the Boss, Lindsey Pollak presents an engaging roadmap for new leaders trying to navigate the challenges that this brings. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Lindsey Pollak
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Becoming the Boss: New Rules for the Next Generation of LeadersWritten exclusively for Gen Y readers to address their unique needs, this fresh and relevant book is a brisk, tech savvy success manual filled with real-world, actionable tips that will help you identify your next professional move and show you how to get there.
By Lindsey Pollak
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Becoming Your Best: The 12 Principles of Highly Successful LeadersIn Becoming Your Best, author Steven Shallenberger describes 12 guiding principles and explains how they form the foundation of leadership success. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Steven Shallenberger
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Becoming Your Best: The 12 Principles of Highly Successful LeadersPacked with advice, tools, and examples for turning your thoughts into action, this book reveals the lessons you need to follow in order to reach your highest potential and drive the kind of innovation that turns good companies into industry leaders-all while living a well-balanced personal life.
By Steven R. Shallenberger
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Begin Boldly: How Women Can Reimagine Risk, Embrace Uncertainty, and Launch a Brilliant CareerBegin Boldly inspires women to take chances on themselves and turns risk-taking into an enlightening and empowering antidote for self-doubt.
By Christie Hunter Arscott
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Behind the Cloud: The Untold Story of How Salesforce.com Went from Idea to Billion-Dollar Company--and Revolutionized an IndustryShowing how salesforce.com not only survived the dot-com implosion of 2001, but also went on to define itself as the leader of the cloud computing revolution and spark a $46 billion industry, this book shows how any business can achieve lasting success.
By Carlye Adler, Marc Benioff
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Being the Boss: The 3 Imperatives for Becoming a Great LeaderPacked with compelling stories and practical guidance, this indispensable guide explains how to manage yourself, a network, and a team to help you ultimately master the most daunting challenges of leadership.
By Kent Lineback, Linda A. Hill
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Being: The Six Principles For Leading in an Age of Fast ChangeThis is true in all walks of life but has heightened significance in the leadership domain. As a leader, the risk of being dominated by ‘doing' can cause you to lose touch with the essential qualities required to provide great leadership.
By Ben Renshaw
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Benefit Realisation Management: A Practical Guide to Achieving Benefits Through Change, Second EditionIncluding a methodology that fits closely with existing programme and project management approaches such as MSP and Prince 2, this book will enable organisations to eliminate wasted investment, realise more benefits and realise them earlier.
By Gerald Bradley
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Best Practices in Organization Development and Change: Culture, Leadership, Retention, Performance, CoachingHelp Human Resource Managers modify strategies in your organization to implement plans, tools and techniques toward development and change.
By David Giber, Louis Carter, Marshall Goldsmith (eds)
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Better Together: 8 Ways Working with Women Leads to Extraordinary Products and ProfitsThis book offers a rare and startling look at the business world through the lens of an expert looking in and plots out how ALL types of businesses can gain a competitive advantage and excel past competitors by simply nurturing an equal blend of men and women on leadership teams and staff.
By Jonathan Sposato
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Better Under Pressure: How Great Leaders Bring Out the Best in Themselves and OthersDeeply personal, brimming with compelling stories from real-life CEOs, and packed with powerful insights, tools, and practices, this potent book explains how you can transform yourself into a leader who only shines brighter as the pressure intensifies.
By Justin Menkes
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Beyond Change Management: Advanced Strategies for Today's Transformational LeadersThis guide provides the proven strategies and tools necessary for implementing transformational change, and introduces organization development to leaders' efforts toward change.
By Dean Anderson, Linda Ackerman Anderson
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Beyond Change Management: How to Achieve Breakthrough Results Through Conscious Change Leadership, Second EditionProviding worksheets, tools, case examples, and assessments that you can immediately apply to all types of change efforts, this comprehensive book presents the foundation for successful change leadership and consulting.
By Dean Anderson, Linda Ackerman Anderson
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Beyond Goals: Effective Strategies for Coaching and MentoringFrom psychology to neuroscience, from chaos theory to social network theory, this book offers diverse and compelling insights into both the advantages and limitations of goal pursuit in coaching and mentoring programs.
By David Clutterbuck, David Megginson (eds), Susan David
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Beyond Happy: Women, Work, and Well-BeingIn Beyond Happy, author Beth Cabrera explores how you can change your life and be happier and more fulfilled. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Beth Cabrera
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Beyond Happy: Women, Work, and Well-BeingExamining the challenges women face and presenting a simple yet powerful model for enhancing well-being that can both improve and transform lives, this helpful guide offers pathways to reducing stress, experiencing greater joy, and enduring family ties and relationships.
By Beth Cabrera
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Beyond Learning Objectives: Develop Measurable Objectives That Link to the Bottom LineBy linking learning objectives to program return on investment (ROI), this book shows readers how to write specific and meaningful learning objectives that address six outlined components.
By Jack J. Phillips, Patricia Pulliam Phillips
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Beyond the Babble: Leadership Communication That Drives ResultsTeaching you how to connect with and inspire employees throughout an organization, this book explores why communication is crucial, how and when to do it, how to embed it in an organization's culture, and how to measure results.
By Bob Matha, Macy Boehm
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Beyond the Babble: Leadership Communication That Drives ResultsBeyond the Babble presents a methodology for communication that provides unambiguous and straightforward information to help everyone work towards the goals of their company. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Bob Matha, Macy Boehm
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Big Brown: The Untold Story of UPSAuthored by a UPS "lifer," this riveting book reveals the remarkable 100-year history of UPS and the life of its founder Jim Casey, and shares the behind-the-scenes story of how a small messenger service became a business giant.
By Greg Niemann
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Blind Ambition: How to Envision Your Limitless Potential and Achieve the Success You WantBlind Ambition provides a unique approach to setting and achieving goals and teaches you how to achieve even your most lofty ambitions. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Patricia Walsh
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Boundaries for Leaders: Results, Relationships, and Being Ridiculously in ChargeOffering practical advice on how to manage teams, coach direct reports, and instill an organization with strong values and culture, this book is essential for those who want to create successful companies with satisfied employees and customers, while becoming more resilient leaders themselves.
By Henry Cloud
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Boundary Spanning Leadership: Six Practices for Solving Problems, Driving Innovation, and Transforming OrganizationsPowered by a decade of global research and practice by the top-ranked Center for Creative Leadership, this book takes you from rural towns in the U.S. to Hong Kong's skyline and from a modernizing South Africa to the bustling streets of India, showing you how to build bridges across boundaries.
By Chris Ernst, Donna Chrobot-Mason
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Break Your Own Rules: How to Change the Patterns of Thinking That Block Women's Paths to PowerIn Break Your Own Rules, authors Jill Flynn, Kathryn Heath, and Mary Davis Holt aim to help women take on more positions of power and join the ranks of America's top leadership over the next decade. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Jill Flynn, Kathryn Heath, Mary Davis Holt
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Breaking the Cycle of Failed Change ManagementProviding step-by-step guidance to successful change, this practical resource offers tips and techniques to help you with getting your staff ready for change, communicating clearly about the change, and making the work meaningful to the entire team.
By Jennifer Stanford
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Breaking the Fear Barrier: How Fear Destroys Companies From The Inside Out and What To Do About ItBreaking the Fear Barrier shows leaders how to act proactively to tear down the counterproductive and destructive obstacles that fear can cause, and to put in their place a culture of courage. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Tom Rieger
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Breaking Through: Stories and Best Practices from Companies that Help Women SucceedMaking a compelling case for the effectiveness of mentoring, with real women's stories of success, this book shows how mentoring women entrepreneurs and women managers provides the key that opens the door to the new economy.
By Martine Liautaud
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Breakthrough IT Change Management: How to Get Enduring Change ResultsBreakthrough IT Change Management provides guidelines, checklists, score-cards, and concrete examples to inspire change from the bottom up. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Bennet Lientz, Kathryn Rea
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Brilliance Beyond Borders: Remarkable Women Leaders Share the Power of ImmigraceA diverse group of women leaders share their incredible stories and empower other immigrant women to reach their full potential and succeed on their own terms.
By Chinwe Esimai
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Bring Work to Life by Bringing Life to Work: A Guide for Leaders and OrganizationsUsing examples and real-world experiences from senior executives and employees, this book is your go-to guide to work-life support, providing easy-to-read strategies for building and implementing your organization's strategies to harness work-life supports, increasing positive impact to your bottom line.
By Tracy Brower
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Bring Work to Life by Bringing Life to Work: A Guide for Leaders and OrganizationsBring Work to Life by Bringing Life to Work provides you with several ways to transform your work environment into a quality-of-life setting. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Tracy Brower
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Bring Your Human to Work: 10 Sure-Fire Ways to Design a Workplace That Is Good for People, Great for Business, and Just Might Change the WorldIn Bring Your Human to Work, author Erica Keswin explores the ways in which being a better human can positively impact business, the workday, and the bottom line. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Erica Keswin
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Bring Your Human to Work: 10 Surefire Ways to Design a Workplace That Is Good for People, Great for Business, and Just Might Change the WorldFeaturing case studies from top brands such as Lyft, Starbucks, Mogul, and SoulCycle, to name a few, this book distills the key practices of the most human companies into applicable advice that any business leader can use to build a "human workplace."
By Erica Keswin
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Bringing Mindfulness to Your WorkplaceHas your mind ever wandered during a meeting? Would you like to reduce stress and improve focus among your employees? Mindfulness training can help. This TD at Work discusses some of the benefits of mindfulness and offers four steps to launching a mindfulness training program for your employees.
By Juliet Adams, Zhengzi (Jenny) Wang
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Bringing Out the Best in People: How to Apply the Astonishing Power of Positive Reinforcement, New & Updated EditionMake the most of people performance with this introspective resource.
By Aubrey C. Daniels
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Bringing Out the Best in People: How to Apply the Astonishing Power of Positive Reinforcement, Third EditionHelping you to maximize employee performance, this book presents proven strategies that have been successfully adopted by hundreds of organizations worldwide, and delivers step-by-step instruction and positive practices to help you implement and sustain positive change.
By Aubrey Daniels
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Bringing Strategy Back: How Strategic Shock Absorbers Make Planning Relevant in a World of Constant ChangeIn Bringing Strategy Back, author Jeffrey Sampler offers a fresh look at how strategic planning can be approached in a more efficient way. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Jeffrey Sampler
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Building a Business with a Beat: Leadership Lessons from Jazzercise: An Empire Built on Passion, Purpose, and HeartTransform your passion into a profitable business with the help of the legendary entrepreneur who turned an innovative idea into a $100 million global powerhouse.
By Judi Sheppard Missett
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Building a New Leadership Ladder: Transforming Male-Dominated Organizations to Support Women on the RiseStrategies for transforming workplace cultures to support a new generation of women leaders.
By Carol J. Geffner
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Building Leadership Development Programmes: Zero Cost to High-Investment Programmes that WorkStructured around detailed case studies from around the world, this book offers unique insights into the process of building effective leadership development, looking at a range of approaches from almost zero cost options to high-end investment that actually works.
By Nigel Paine
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Building Organizational Capacity for Change: The Strategic Leader's New MandateBuilding on the author's previous consulting experience and anecdotal evidence, this book demonstrates that while organizational change capacity is not easy, it is essential for effective leadership and organizational survival in the 21st century.
By William Q. Judge, Jr.
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Building the Bridge As You Walk On It: A Guide for Leading ChangeThrough compelling and transformational stories from those who have come to an alternative view of leadership, this book shows readers how to enter the fundamental state of leadership by engaging in eight practices, centering on ever-increasing integrity.
By Robert E. Quinn
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Building the Learning Organization: Achieving Strategic Advantage through a Commitment to Learning, 3rd EditionRich in hands-on tools, this essential best-practices toolkit shows how to transform an organization into one that continually learns from its experiences, and more importantly, translates that knowledge into improved performance.
By Michael J. Marquardt
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Business Analysis and Leadership: Influencing ChangeShowing business analysts how to become outstanding catalysts for change, this book offers advice on the very tricky role of working with people from the shop floor to board directors, and provides the confidence to challenge the easy way forward and point out what will really work in practice.
By James Archer, Penny Pullan
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Business Boot Camp: Management and Leadership Fundamentals That Will See You Successfully Through Your CareerCovering everything from management and leadership to project management and strategy, this one-of-kind reference serves as a crash course in the fundamentals required for lasting success.
By Edward T. Reilly (ed)
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Business Ethics: An Economically Informed PerspectiveThis book is intended for students in the social sciences, particularly economics, business, and psychology, as well as the computer sciences, engineering, and the natural sciences.
By Christoph Lutge, Matthias Uhl
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Business Leadership: Becoming Management Material Study Guide, Student EditionThis title will be removed from the Skillsoft library on May 24, 2024.
By GTS Learning
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Business, The Universe & Everything: Conversations with the World's Greatest Management ThinkersThis fascinating collection of interviews provides first-hand insights from some of the world's most brilliant and compelling business thinkers, offering a smorgasbord of business ideas.
By Des Dearlove, Stuart Crainer
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Care to Dare: Unleashing Astonishing Potential Through Secure Base LeadershipFrom extensive interviews with executives from all over the world, as well as from surveys with more than a thousand executives, the book reveals the nine characteristics that Secure Base Leaders display on a daily basis.
By Duncan Coombe, George Kohlrieser, Susan Goldsworthy
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Career and Family: Women's Century-Long Journey toward EquityThis book provides a look at the diverse experiences of college-educated women from the 1900s to today, examining the aspirations they formed-and the barriers they faced-in terms of career, job, marriage, and children.
By Claudia Goldin
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Change Agents: The Role of Organizational Learning in Change ManagementChange Agents shows leaders how they can ensure that change remains a positive and rewarding experience for their companies. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By ASTD Research
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Change BasicsIn addition to useful tools, tips, and strategies that will enable you to skillfully introduce and manage change, this book offers an essential baseline education on the effects of change and why people tend to resist it.
By Jeffrey Russell, Linda Russell
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Change by Design: How Design Thinking Transforms Organizations and Inspires InnovationBy elucidating the thought processes designers use to satisfy real-world problems, Change by Design shows you how to graft design thinking into your business process. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Tim Brown
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Change Fatigue Revisited: A New Framework for Leading ChangeThis book will enable leaders to manage change in a more proactive, tailored and engaged manner to increase the likelihood of achieving the expected outcomes of the change initiatives.
By Richard Dool, Tahsin I. Alam
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Change from the Inside Out: Making You, Your Team, and Your Organization Change-CapableThis book guides you through Clarify the change and why it's needed, Envision the future state, Build the change, Lead the transition, Keep the change going.
By Erika Andersen
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Change Leadership in Emerging Markets: The Ten Enablers ModelThis book presents and demonstrates a 'Ten Enablers' model as a framework to help change leaders successfully lead and manage change.
By Caren Scheepers, Sonja Swart
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Change Makers: A Woman's Guide to Stepping Up Without Burning Out at WorkIn "Change Makers", expert leadership coach Katy Murray presents an actionable plan to expand your influence, step forward and make a difference at work. The book shares powerful habits that will reshape your brain and shift your behaviour.
By Katy Murray
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Change Management and the Human Factor: Advances, Challenges and Contradictions in Organizational DevelopmentPlacing focus on people and values in change management, this book brings together interdisciplinary perspectives on the role of human beings in organizational change and identifies opportunities and fundamental contradictions in current change management practices.
By Frank E.P. Dievernich, Jie Gong (eds), Kim Oliver Tokarski
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Change Management and the Human Factor: Advances, Challenges and Contradictions in Organizational DevelopmentChange Management and the Human Factor aims to provide research and studies from different perspectives from a wide range of sources, all with the focus on understanding the various aspects of change management and the role of human beings in the process. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its content.
By Frank E.P. Dievernich, Jie Gong (eds), Kim Oliver Tokarski
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Change Management TrainingChange Management Training presents several workshop resources and the tools needed to conduct effective change management training. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Elaine Biech
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Change Management TrainingPresenting a complete lineup of workshop resources and tools needed to conduct effective change management training, this innovative resource will help managers understand their expanded role, practice new management techniques, and demystify the people side of change.
By Elaine Biech
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Change Management: Talent Development's Critical RoleChange Management: Talent Development's Critical Role helps organizations better understand the landscape of change and the role of talent development in change initiatives.
By ATD Research
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Change Manager: Careers in IT Service ManagementDescribing the change manager role in-depth including purpose, typical responsibilities and required skills, this book covers change management methods, techniques, useful tools and relevant standards and frameworks, and also discusses career progression opportunities.
By Tracey Torble
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Change Now! Five Steps to Better LeadershipSuccessful leaders have the ability to adapt, change, and reinvent themselves. They thrive on change. Do you? Use this book to identify where to focus your development energy, create goals that work for you, craft a plan for achieving your goals, overcome obstacles, and stay on course.
By Cynthia D. McCauley, Jean Brittain Leslie, Peter Scisco, Rob Elsey
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Change the Culture, Change the Game: The Breakthrough Strategy for Energizing Your Organization and Creating Accountability for ResultsChange the Culture, Change the Game will help business leaders gain competitive advantage and make real changes that benefit any company. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Roger Connors, Tom Smith
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Change with Confidence: Answers to the 50 Biggest Questions that Keep Change Leaders Up at NightOffering practical, experience-based advice on a difficult and stressful challenge, this book addresses the 50 biggest questions that change leaders ask time and again, and provides the context, examples, and advice to answer them well.
By Phil Buckley
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Change with Confidence: Answers to the 50 Biggest Questions That Keep Change Leaders Up at NightFor any business professional tasked with leading change within their company, Change with Confidence will help you as you forge ahead to enact transformative change. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Phil Buckley
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Change Your Space, Change Your Culture: How Engaging Workspaces Lead to Transformation and GrowthRevealing what companies lose by viewing office space as something to manage or minimize, this practical and insightful guide demonstrates how the workspace is, in fact, a crucial driver of productivity and morale.
By Mabel Casey, Mark Konchar, Rex Miller
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Change-Friendly Leadership: How to Transform Good Intentions into Great PerformanceChange-Friendly Leadership offers a broad spectrum of proven techniques and tools to introduce positive and effective change into any organization. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Rodger Dean Duncan
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Change: How Organizations Achieve Hard-to-Imagine Results in Uncertain and Volatile TimesThis book is perfect for managers, executives, and leaders at companies of all types and sizes, Change will also prove to be a valuable asset to other professionals who serve these organizations. This book is for anyone seeking a proven approach for delivering fast, sustainable and comprehensive results.
By Gaurav Gupta, John P. Kotter, Vanessa Akhtar
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Changemaker PlaybookThis book will show you how to thrive in every aspect of today's transformed societal landscape.
By Henry De Sio
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Charismatic Leadership: The Skills You Can Learn to Motivate High Performance in OthersExplaining why charisma is a vital asset in any organization, this practical book will help you understand its essential components, find out how to grow your charismatic presence and discover why you need the companion skills of coaching, problem-solving and empathy.
By Kevin Murray
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Charting Change: A Visual Toolkit for Making Change StickDesigned to be an easy reference during your change planning process, this accessible guide will help you effectively plan for change with a handy toolkit, best practices, inspiring case studies and contributions from experts in the field.
By Braden Kelley
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Chess Not Checkers: Elevate Your Leadership GameBased around a business fable of Blake Brown, newly appointed CEO of a company troubled by poor performance and low morale, this book presents four essential strategies from the game of chess that can transform your leadership and your organization.
By Mark Miller
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Chess Not Checkers: Elevate Your Leadership GameIn Chess Not Checkers, author Mark Miller focuses on four strategies from the game of chess to teach you how to achieve exceptional performance in the workplace. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Mark Miller
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Choosing Change: How Leaders and Organizations Drive Results One Person at a TimeTaking you step-by-step through the authors' dynamic model for leading any company to success, this book offers a proven new way for not just facing inevitable change--but leveraging it as a tool for long-term success.
By Susan Goldsworthy, Walter McFarland
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CIOs and the Digital Transformation: A New Leadership RoleCIOs and the Digital Transformation discusses how to harness the power and potential of digital transformation to thrive within the ongoing digital revolution. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Daniele Rizzo, Giorgio Bongiorno, Giovanni Vaia (Eds.)
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Claiming Your Place at the Boardroom Table: The Essential Handbook for Excellence in Governance and Effective DirectorshipFeaturing fascinating discussions of legal cases, reporting requirements, regulatory matters, reputational risks, and lessons on all the overarching fiduciary duties of directors, this book helps you identify and navigate nuances that will make all the difference in becoming an outstanding board member.
By James J. Darazsdi, Thomas F. Bakewell
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Clarity First: How Smart Leaders and Organizations Achieve Outstanding PerformanceIn Clarity First, author Karen Martin explores the ways in which a lack of clarity hinders performance, and the ways in which actively choosing to pursue clarity leads to increased performance. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Karen Martin
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Clarity First: How Smart Leaders and Organizations Achieve Outstanding PerformanceAward-winning business performance improvement and Lean management expert Karen Martin diagnoses a ubiquitous business management and leadership problem--the lack of clarity--and outlines specific actions to dramatically improve organizational performance.
By Karen Martin
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Climbing the Corporate Ladder in High HeelsFavoring neither the "in-your-face" tactics of the "break-through-the-glass-ceiling" school of thought, nor the "sugar-and-spice-and-everything-nice" approach, this practical book shows women how to achieve both a rewarding career and a fulfilling life.
By Kathleen Archambeau
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Climbing The Ladder In Stilettos: 10 Strategies for Stepping Up to Success and Satisfaction at WorkHelping you discover new joy, meaning, success, and satisfaction in your life's work, this go-to guide features stories of incredible women who made the precarious climb up the ladder while keeping their stilettos and heart intact.
By Lynette Lewis
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Climbing the Spiral Staircase: How Women Can Navigate Their Careers and Accelerate SuccessLeanne Meyer's Climbing the Spiral Staircase is a practical guide for women who are ready to be intentional about the next chapter in their careers. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Leanne Meyer
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Closing the Communication Gap: An Effective Method for Achieving Desired ResultsDefining and discussing both the formal and the informal communication systems within an organization, this straightforward book demonstrates the importance of good communication and details the four types of poor-quality communication.
By H. James Harrington, Robert Lewis
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Co-Active Leadership: Five Ways to LeadProviding a model that harnesses the possibility of many rather than relying on the power of one, this visionary book will prove to be both a practical guide and an inspiring journey for leaders that will support them in generating an experience of wholeness and success in their work and world.
By Henry Kimsey-House, Karen Kimsey-House
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Co-Active Leadership: Five Ways to Lead, Second EditionAs leaders, how we are is as important as what we do. The second edition of a leadership classic, updated with new chapters, shows how to master the inner and outer work needed to build relationships that unleash the transformational creative potential in everyone.
By Henry Kimsey-House, Karen Kimsey-House
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Coach Wooden's Leadership Game Plan for Success: 12 Lessons for Extraordinary Performance and Personal ExcellenceWhen you base your leadership style and substance on Coach's straightforward attitudes, values, and principles, you'll lead your team and business to success the Wooden way.
By John Wooden, Steve Jamison
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Coaching for Emotional Intelligence: The Secret to Developing the Star Potential in Your EmployeesProviding strategies to help managers address personality traits, communications styles, and personal behaviors, this book will help readers feel comfortable with sensitive, often personal issues that arise in managing and developing employees.
By Bob Wall
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Coaching for Resilience: A Practical Guide to Using Positive PsychologyPresenting seven key strategies for managing stress, this comprehensive resource contains practical exercises and examples to show readers effective ways to deal with daily stressors that will enhance personal and work-related performance.
By Adrienne Green, John Humphrey
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Coaching People through Organizational Change: Practical Tools to Support Employees through Business Transformation, 1st EditionCoaching People through Organizational Change is a practical guide for professional coaches and managers alike.
By Amy Tarrant, Sue Noble
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Coaching Yourself to Leadership: Five Key Strategies for Becoming an Integrated LeaderIntegrating competencies from three domains of leadership, this no-nonsense book provides proven practices and techniques that will transform you into a more positive, authentic leader so you can make work better for yourself and those you currently lead.
By Ginny O’Brien
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Coherence: The Science of Exceptional Leadership and Performance, Second EditionThis book contains upgraded practical tools and new insights on how to transform productivity, manage complexity, accelerate innovation and drive greater commercial performance, all while becoming healthier and happier.
By Alan Watkins
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Collaboration, How Leaders Avoid the Traps, Create Unity, and Reap Big ResultsBased on the author's long-running research, in-depth case studies, and company interviews, this book delivers practical advice and tools to help your organization collaborate-for real results.
By Morten T. Hansen
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Collaboration: How Leaders Avoid the Traps, Build Common Ground, and Reap Big ResultsIn Collaboration, author Morten T. Hansen draws on his widespread exploration into the art of collaboration to present a book that will transform the manner in which you approach collaboration. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Morten T. Hansen
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Collective Skill Formation in the Knowledge EconomyThe book argues that collective skill formation systems remain attractive for firms and governments. However, continuous and profound adjustments will be needed if they are to fulfil their objectives in terms of equity and efficiency.
By Giuliano Bonoli, Patrick Emmenegger
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Communicate Like a Leader: Connecting Strategically to Coach, Inspire, and Get Things DoneThis title will be removed from the Skillsoft library on May 24, 2024.
By Dianna Booher
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Communicate to Inspire: A Guide for LeadersUsing charts and information gathered from dozens of successful training programs, this book will show you how to turn a department, division or company into a better listening, faster responding, more innovative entity, just by holding more and better structured conversations.
By Kevin Murray
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Communication Skills for Managers, Fifth EditionUtilize techniques to improve your communication skills by increasing reading, writing, speaking, and listening proficiency.
By Janis Fisher Chan
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Communication Strategies for Today's Managerial LeaderProviding the communication principles that are so critical for today's managerial leader, this book builds a solid foundation while it guides readers in strategies to enhance their written, oral, and interpersonal communication skills.
By Deborah Britt Roebuck
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Compassionate Accountability: How Leaders Build Connection and Get ResultsThis book is a compass for leaders lost in the paradoxical space between being showing people compassion and holding them accountable.
By Nate Regier Ph.D.
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Compassionate Leadership: For Individual and Organisational ChangeA practical guide, this book provides evidence-based tools, appraisals, and frameworks which emphasise everyday applications that leaders, managers, and business students can adopt both individually and for their organisations.
By Kirstie Drummond Papworth
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Complete MBA For Dummies, 2nd EditionFull of useful information, tips, and checklists that will help you lead, manage, or participate in any business at a high level of competence, this fun, easy-to-access guide covers all the basics of a top-notch MBA program.
By Kathleen Allen, Peter Economy
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Conflict without Casualties: A Field Guide for Leading with Compassionate AccountabilityProvocative, illuminating, and highly practical, this book helps us avoid the casualties of conflict through openness, resourcefulness, and persistence.
By Nate Regier
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Connect First: 52 Simple Ways to Ignite Success, Meaning, and Joy at WorkRevealing the key to greater success, meaning, and joy at work, this insightful book shows you an impactful approach to connect first as fellow humans, then as coworkers and colleagues, to forge the deep bonds that make a significant difference.
By Melanie A. Katzman
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Connecting the Dots: To Inspire the Leader in YouNow through the pages of this book, they will inspire readers to stay positive during challenging times and create new opportunities for growth and success.
By Shirley Taylor
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Connection CultureProviding a fresh way of thinking about leadership with recommendations for how to tap into the power of human connection, this inspiring and practical book is your game-changing opportunity to begin fostering a connection culture in your organization.
By Michael Lee Stallard
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Conscious Accountability: Deepen Connections, Elevate ResultsIn Conscious Accountability, Yale faculty, psychologists and leadership consultants David C. Tate, Marianne S. Pantalon, and Daryn H. David invite you to think about yourself and your working relationships more completely and integrate a practice of conscious accountability in your daily life.
By Daryn H. David, David C. Tate, Marianne S. Pantalon
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Consultancy, Organizational Development and Change: A Practical Guide to Delivering ValueComplete with case studies from the 'Big Four' consultancy groups as well as boutique firms, this expert guide shows how to identify and execute interventions in a variety of organizational settings to deliver value.
By Julie Hodges
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Contagious Culture: Show Up, Set the Tone, and Intentionally Create an Organization That ThrivesContagious Culture describes and explores the important influence that leadership's attitude and presence has on the overall culture in an organization. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Anese Cavanaugh
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Contagious Culture: Show Up, Set the Tone, and Intentionally Create an Organization that ThrivesDeveloped by the award-winning creator of The IEP Method to strengthen your "Intentional Energetic Presence," this game-changing guide shows you how to set the tone, engage the team, and create a dynamic working environment that encourages growth, productivity, and innovation.
By Anese Cavanaugh
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Conversational Intelligence: How Great Leaders Build Trust and Get Extraordinary ResultsPresenting a framework for knowing what kind of conversations trigger the more primitive brain and what activates higher-level intelligences such as trust, integrity, empathy, and good judgment, this book explains how to level conversations so they give us the power to transform reality.
By Judith E. Glaser
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Conversational Intelligence: How Great Leaders Build Trust and Get Extraordinary ResultsIn Conversational Intelligence, Judith E. Glaser presents simple ways to improve your professional and personal communication skills, with clear and helpful tips and tools to create trust and understanding in your relationships. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Judith E. Glaser
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Conversations at Work: Promoting a Culture of Conversation in the Changing WorkplacePitched at the practicing manager, this essential guide will challenge, stretch, and develop your communication skills and, in the process, enable you to improve the quality of your team and organization - one conversation at a time.
By Aubrey Warren, Tim Baker
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Conversations for Change: 12 Ways to Say It Right When It Matters MostWhether you're trying to motivate a team, negotiate a contract, make a sale, ask for a raise, land a new job, or terminate an employee, this book shows you how to reach your maximum potential by using conversations effectively.
By Shawn Kent Hayashi
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Convinced!: How to Prove your Competence & Win People OverCompetence is the most highly valued professional trait. But it's not enough to be competent, you have to convey your competence. With this book's help you can showcase your expertise, receive the recognition you deserve, and achieve lasting success.
By Jack Nasher
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Corporate ReputationPresenting different measurement tools developed over the last two decades, this book is an in-depth investigation of the psychosocial nature of corporate reputation, and invites the reader to join the journey of discovery.
By Ana Carreras, Enrique Carreras, Àngel Alloza
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Corporate Social Responsibility in a Globalizing WorldDemonstrating the impact of global CSR frameworks on corporate behavior, this book proposes a global approach to understanding the rise and spread of corporate social responsibility, explaining the origin of CSR and the reasons for its growing popularity across the globe.
By Alwyn Lim (eds), Kiyoteru Tsutsui
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Could You Succeed as a Business Leader? Find Out if You Have What it TakesHave you ever thought about moving from an individual contributor role or management role into a business leadership role? This informative, fun book explores the ups and downs of business management, and includes a short personality quiz to see if you have what it takes.
By Herb Greenberg, Patrick Sweeney
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Counselling Skills for DummiesPresenting a thorough guide to the qualities, knowledge and skills needed to become a listening helper, this practical book goes on to provide a framework for a counselling session, helping you to successfully manage a potentially daunting process.
By Gail Evans
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Courage: The Backbone of LeadershipProviding the tools for creating and sustaining courageous action in the workplace, this insightful guide helps the reader develop the "moral intelligence" necessary to root out unethical practices and behaviors.
By Diane Elliott-Lee, Gus Lee
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Courageous Leadership: The Missing Link to Creating a Lean Culture of ExcellenceDiscussing the types of courage and what it means to be a courageous leader while leading change in difficult situations, this book shows what leaders do differently to put their organization on a path to excellence and culture transformation.
By Sumeet Kumar
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Cracking the Digital Ceiling: Women in Computing around the WorldBy providing an insider look at how different cultures worldwide impact the experiences of women in computing, this book introduces theories and evidence that support the need to turn to environmental factors to understand what determines women's participation in this growing field.
By Carol Frieze, Jeria L. Quesenberry
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Cracking the Leadership Code: Three Secrets to Building Strong LeadersBecome the effective, proactive leader you aspire to be with this practical tool kit for leading people and organizations.
By Alain Hunkins
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Create Successful Organizational ChangeChange happens regardless of whether anyone wants it, and most people don't like change. The change journey can be bumpy and messy. But the rewards of achieving individual and organizational goals are wonderful.
By Scott Span
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Creating a VisionWhatever your leadership role, developing a vision is a powerful tool for achieving your goals. This practical guide will help you to create your vision and become an effective leader.
By Corey Criswell, Talula Cartwright
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Creating Healthy Workplaces: Stress Reduction, Improved Well-being, and Organizational EffectivenessCreating Healthy Workplaces offers recommendations to guide you in making your workplace friendlier for all company members. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Caroline Biron, Cary L. Cooper, Ronald J. Burke
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Creating Healthy Workplaces: Stress Reduction, Improved Well-being, and Organizational EffectivenessIncluding a number of interventions that relate the efforts undertaken by researchers and organizations together, this book aims to help reduce stress and improve the mental and physical health of employees through positive change initiatives.
By Caroline Biron, Cary L. Cooper (eds), Ronald J. Burke
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Creating Introvert-Friendly Workplaces: How to Unleash Everyone's Talent and PerformanceIn Creating Introvert-Friendly Workplaces, author Kahnweiler reveals how you can cultivate an environment where introverted employees can flourish. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Jennifer B. Kahnweiler
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Creating Introvert-Friendly Workplaces: How to Unleash Everyone's Talent and PerformanceProviding an assessment to determine how introvert friendly your organization is, this book offers a road map for everyone in the workplace-including leaders, human resource managers, and team members-to create inclusive, introvert-friendly cultures.
By Jennifer B. Kahnweiler
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Creating Leadership: How to Change Hippos into GazellesCreating Leadership explores how leaders can successfully lead mergers and other significant changes in an organization. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Philip Goodwin and Tony Page
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Creating Mindful Leaders: How to Power Down, Power Up, and Power ForwardProviding an informed, humorous and expert peak into the sources of stress caused by the modern pace of living, this book offers actionable tools and techniques to manage stress, increase resilience, and improve your wellbeing, performance, relationships, sleep and physical health.
By Joe Burton
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Creating the Accountable Organization: A Practical Guide to Improve Performance ExecutionCreating the Accountable Organization is an essential guide for accelerating your organization's evolution into a leaner, stronger, and incredibly agile competitor. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Mark Samuel
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Credibility: How Leaders Gain and Lose It, Why People Demand It, 2nd EditionCredibility challenges the reader to explore leadership not as a pinnacle to be reached, but as a relationship that is nurtured and cultivated over time. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Barry Z. Posner, James M. Kouzes
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Credibility: How Leaders Gain and Lose It, Why People Demand It, 2nd EditionExploring why leadership is above all a relationship, with credibility as the cornerstone, this personal, inspiring, and genuine guide helps readers understand the fundamental importance of credibility for building personal and organizational success.
By Barry Z. Posner, James M. Kouzes
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Crucial Accountability: Tools for Resolving Violated Expectations, Broken Commitments, and Bad Behavior, Second EditionCrucial Accountability provides you with tips, techniques, and skills for navigating each stage of a complex accountability conversation. Based on years of research, the authors present a guide that will help you initiate thoughtful dialogue that can help strengthen your relationship with another person, but also reach common understandings and action-driven results. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its content.
By Al Switzler, David Maxfield, Joseph Grenny, Kerry Patterson, Ron McMillan
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Crucial Accountability: Tools for Resolving Violated Expectations, Broken Commitments, and Bad Behavior, Second EditionOffering the tools for improving relationships in the workplace and in life, this book teaches you how to deal with violated expectations in a way that solves the problem at hand without harming the relationship--and, in fact, even strengthens it.
By Al Switzler, David Maxfield, Joseph Grenny, Kerry Patterson, Ron McMillan
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Crucial Confrontations: Tools for Resolving Broken Promises, Violated Expectations, and Bad BehaviorIn Crucial Confrontations, the authors delve into the art of holding someone accountable in a face-to-face conversation. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Al Switzler, Joseph Grenny, Kerry Patterson, Ron McMillan
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Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes Are High, Second EditionPresenting the tools you need to conquer life's most difficult and important conversations, this book will help you speak your mind safely and gently, yet powerfully and effectively, and achieve positive outcomes.
By Al Switzler, Joseph Grenny, Kerry Patterson, Ron McMillan
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Cultural Transformations: Lessons of Leadership and Corporate ReinventionProviding intimate interviews with fourteen CEOs from top organizations, this comprehensive book offers valuable insights, through experiences from these fine business minds, on how to introduce and sustain cultural change in your organization.
By John Mattone, Nick Vaidya
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Culturally Intelligent Leadership: Leading Through Intercultural InteractionsServing as a tool to further develop your proficiency, this book outlines important ideas of cultural intelligence and the steps that must be considered and then practiced to become a culturally intelligent leader.
By Mai Moua
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Culture Renovation: 18 Leadership Actions to Build an Unshakeable CompanyIncluding practical insights and examples from top companies, this thorough resource delivers everything you need to plan, build, and maintain a corporate culture that drives profits, growth, and business sustainability now and well into the future.
By Kevin Oakes
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Dare to Lead: Brave Work. Tough Conversations. Whole Hearts.In Dare to Lead, author Brené Brown effortlessly outlines the skills that underpin courageous leadership and shows how being vulnerable can actually help you on your way to leadership excellence. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Brené Brown
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Dare to Serve: How to Drive Superior Results by Serving Others, 2nd EditionEver engaging and inspirational, this inspiring book takes you firsthand through the transformation of Popeyes and shows how anyone, at any level can become a Dare-to-Serve leader.
By Cheryl Bachelder
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Dare: Straight Talk on Confidence, Courage, and Career for Women in ChargeIncluding insights and mentoring lessons from top women business leaders, this must-read book features straightforward, honest advice on gaining confidence, speaking up, finding mentors, learning to fail, building a network of allies, managing others, and more.
By Becky Blalock
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Dear Black Girl: Letters From Your Sisters on Stepping into Your PowerA collection of letters written by Black women to Black girls and young women about shared experiences, this book offers positive messages for black women-to-be-and for the girl who still lives inside every black woman who may need reminding sometimes that she is alright.
By Tamara Winfrey Harris
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Death by Meeting: A Leadership Fable...About Solving the Most Painful Problem in BusinessThis book is a blueprint for leaders who want to eliminate waste and frustration among their teams, and create environments of engagement and passion.
By Patrick Lencioni
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Deciding Who Leads: How Executive Recruiters Drive, Direct & Disrupt the Global Search for Leadership TalentDeciding Who Leads looks at the role of the executive recruiter, the role of the hiring company, and the issues that may arise when expectations between the two are cloudy. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Joseph Daniel McCool
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Defying Doom: Leading Urgent Large-Scale TransformationsCombining theory and analysis with large doses of common sense and concepts based on the author's broad experience, this book provides a pragmatic framework for adapting to change and transforming an organization to meet the needs of an evolving future.
By Bernardo Quinn
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Delivering Benefit: Technical Leadership CapabilitiesWith real life examples, tips and mini exercises, this practical book describes six management techniques to help you develop your leadership capabilities and deliver benefit to your customers, team and organization.
By Brian Sutton, Robina Chatham
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Designing Creative High Power Teams and Organizations: Beyond LeadershipBy analyzing the pros and cons of the various strategies for business transformation, this book examines the critical success factors to developing high performance teams through the implementation of robust methods of selection, knowledge sharing and leveraging the power of roles.
By Eric W. Stein
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Designing Knowledge Organizations: A Pathway to Innovation LeadershipAn incisive discussion of the cultural, practice, and social aspects of knowledge management, this text takes an interdisciplinary and original approach to assess and synthesize the disciplines of knowledge management and organizational design.
By Anilkumar Bhate, Ira Sack, Joseph Morabito
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Designing Web-Based TrainingA step-by-step guide, packed with practical advice, for anyone who wishes to offer training courses over the Internet.
By William Horton
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Detonate: Why - And How - Corporations Must Blow Up Best Practices (and Bring a Beginner's Mind) to SurviveWith a focus on optimism and empowerment, this book focuses on an approach and mindset which are critical to successfully compete in an era characterized by profound technological advances and uncertainty.
By Geoff Tuff, Steven Goldbach
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Develop your Leadership Skills: Fast, Effective Ways to Become a Leader People Want to FollowThis essential guide will boost your confidence levels, inspire you and guide you on your journey to becoming a leader of excellence.
By John Adair
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Develop Your Leadership Skills: Fast, Effective Ways to Become a Leader People Want to Follow, 5th EditionThis indispensable guide from leadership guru John Adair, will boost your confidence levels, inspire you and help you on your journey to becoming a leader of excellence.
By John Adair
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Developing a Leadership PipelineDescribing the challenges companies face when filling leadership positions, this book explain how to differentiate high potentials from high performers, and presents an action plan for developing high-potential employees.
By Annette M. Cremo, Tom Bux
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Developing Audacity and Avoiding Mistakes: Instilling Confidence and a Bold, Adventurous AttitudeThe My Practical MBA Series provides the latest thinking as well as perennial techniques for a range of business challenges. This succinct book discusses how employees, instead of waiting to be told what to do, increasingly need to respond boldly and to proactively control events themselves.
By LID Editorial
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Developing Change Leaders: The Principles and Practices of Change Leadership DevelopmentProviding the detailed practical guidance, frameworks and tools to help you develop the necessary skills to make change successful, this how-to book will help you address the challenges of change and develop your own interventions.
By Malcolm Higgs, Paul Aitken
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Developing Emotional and Social Intelligence: Exercises for Leaders, Individuals, and TeamsWritten for leaders, teams, organizations, and other skilled professionals responsible for helping people achieve their best, this book offers practical exercises you can use for building emotional and social intelligence in your clients and your organizations.
By Amy Miller, Marcia Hughes
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Developing Leaders at All LevelsBased on a consortium benchmarking study, this report reveals a variety of findings in four scope areas: identifying leadership competencies, finding leaders at all levels, leadership development as a process, and measurement and communication.
By American Productivity & Quality Center
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Developing Leaders by Executive Coaching: Practice and EvidenceFor practitioners, academics and researchers with an interest in coaching or leadership development, this book provides a comprehensive overview of the executive coaching field both in terms of practice and in terms of relevant research on executive coaching outcomes.
By Andromachi Athanasopoulou, Sue Dopson
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Developing Leadership and Management SkillsWith a thorough grounding in scientific management, leadership theories and the similarities and differences between leaders and managers, this book will help you to fully understand the distinction between the two roles.
By Jeff Gold, Lisa Anderson
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Developing Mental Toughness: Improving Performance, Wellbeing and Positive Behaviour in OthersFull of sample exercises, case studies, and a unique self-assessment tool to determine your mental toughness score, this resource contains practical guidance on delivering techniques that will radically improve peoples' abilities to harness the effects of stress and pressure.
By Doug Strycharczyk, Peter Clough
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Developing Political Savvy: For the Practicing ManagerFilled with powerful ideas and exercises, this guidebook will help you become a more politically savvy leader, and build your capacity to lead effectively in your organization.
By Jean Brittain Leslie, William A. Gentry
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Developing The Leader Within YouShowing readers how to develop the vision, value, influence, and motivation required of successful leaders, this book examines the five characteristics that set "leader managers" apart from "run-of-the-mill managers."
By John C. Maxwell
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Developing the Leader Within You 2.0In this thoroughly revised and updated 25th-anniversary edition of his now-classic work, John C. Maxwell reveals how to develop the vision, value, influence, and motivation required of successful leaders---now in paperback.
By John C. Maxwell
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Developing Women Leaders: A Guide for Men and Women in OrganizationsOffering practical solutions drawn from current literature and the author's personal interviews with high-achievers in companies and universities, this book will help HR leaders and CEOs make informed decisions regarding leadership development for women.
By Anna Marie Valerio
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Developmental Assignments: Creating Learning Experiences without Changing JobsDesigned to help you continuously stretch and grow as a leader, this fieldbook focuses on how to shape your current job and non-work pursuits that will enable your learning and development.
By Cynthia D. McCauley
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Diagnosing and Changing Organizational Culture: Based on the Competing Values Framework, Third EditionOffering lists of suggestions for improving management skills and competencies, this book provides a framework, a sense-making tool, a set of systematic steps, and a methodology for helping managers and their organizations carefully analyze and alter their fundamental culture.
By Kim S. Cameron, Robert E. Quinn
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Dialogic Organization Development: The Theory and Practice of Transformational ChangePresenting a compelling alternative to the classical action research approach to planned change, this book shows how leaders and consultants can help foster change by encouraging disruptions to taken-for-granted ways of thinking and acting, and encourage the use of generative images to stimulate new organizational conversations and narratives.
By Gervase R. Bushe, Robert J. Marshak (eds)
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Dig Your Heels in: Navigate Corporate BS and Build the Company You DeserveIncluding case studies, practical exercises, and inspiring stories, this book is an indispensable resource for women seeking to build the confidence and conviction to secure the seat at the table they've earned and create a welcoming workplace for everyone.
By Joan Kuhl
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Digital Goddess: The Unfiltered Lessons of a Female EntrepreneurBeing a female entrepreneur just may be the toughest job in the world. In Coming Out on Top, Victoria Montgomery-Brown the founder of Big Think, the world's largest archive of lessons from the world's greatest thinkers and doers shares her firsthand, in-the-trenches experiences to inspire women to take the leap into entrepreneurship.
By Victoria R. Montgomery Brown
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Digital to the Core: Remastering Leadership for Your Industry, Your Enterprise, and YourselfIn Digital to the Core, authors Mark Raskino and Graham Waller urge you to embrace digital change and integrate it into your business practices. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Graham Waller, Mark Raskino
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Digital to the Core: Remastering Leadership for Your Industry, Your Enterprise, and YourselfDrawing on interviews with over 30 top C-level executives in some of the world's most powerful companies and government organizations, including GE, Ford, Tory Burch, Babolat, McDonalds, Publicis and UK Government Digital Service, this book delivers practical insights from those on the front lines of major digital upheaval.
By Graham Waller, Mark Raskino
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Directing the Agile Organisation: A Lean Approach to Business ManagementUsing a combination of first-hand research and in-depth case studies, this practical guide offers a fresh approach to business management, and will enable you to embrace and shape change within your organisation while taking advantage of new opportunities and outperforming your competition.
By Evan Leybourn
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Direction, Alignment, Commitment: Achieving Better Results Through LeadershipLeadership is not just about the people at the top, but is a social process, enabling individuals to work together as a cohesive group to produce collective results. This book will show you how to diagnose problems in your team by focusing on the three outcomes of effective leadership: direction, alignment, and commitment.
By Cynthia McCauley, Lynn Fick-Cooper
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DISC for LeadersWith guidelines for understanding and adjusting to the differences in people through observation of their behaviors, this book presents tools that will enable you to see yourself and your world through someone else's eyes and ears.
By Tony Alessandra
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Discover Your True North, Expanded and Updated EditionBeing a leader is about much more than title and management skills-it's fundamentally a question of who we are as human beings. This book offers a concrete and comprehensive program for becoming an authentic leader, and shows how to chart your path to leadership success.
By Bill George
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Discovering the Leader in You: How to Realize Your Leadership Potential, New and RevisedPresenting a systematic framework that connects leaders to the realities of their organizational contexts and the realities of their personal lives, this book provides a guide for tackling the job of leadership with personal enthusiasm, vision, and constant energy.
By David G. Altman, Robert J. Lee, Sara N. King
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Distributed Leadership: The Dynamics of Balancing Leadership with FollowershipAddressing the area of shared leadership, also known as collective or distributed leadership, this edited book embraces the underlying idea that leadership is a dynamic process that intersects closely with followership.
By Neha Chatwani (ed)
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Do What Matters Most: Lead with A Vision, Manage with A Plan, Prioritize Your TimeTime management remains a huge challenge for most people. This book shares the three powerful habits that will help you minimize distractions, maximize accomplishments, and find time to do what matters most.
By Rob Shallenberger, Steve Shallenberger
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Do You Care to Lead?: A 5-Part Formula for Creating Loyal and Results-Focused Teams and OrganizationsThis book discusses how to build real trust on your teams and/or organizations and explode creativity and the volume of ideas.
By Michael G. Rogers
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Doing the Right Things Right: How the Effective Executive Spends TimeIn Doing the Right Things Right, author Laura stack explores tried-and-tested, productive ways for executives to make the most of their time. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Laura Stack
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Domino: The Simplest Way to Inspire ChangeBrimming with compelling stories and grounded in research, this thought-provoking resource is a radically simple book that highlights a new approach for executing change and inspiring agility in the workplace.
By Nick Tasler
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Driven by Intention: Own Your Purpose, Gain Power, and Pursue Your Passion as a Woman at WorkDriven by Intention shows how intention is about so much more than simply setting goals: it's figuring out why we choose what we want to do and how we get this done in order to seamlessly execute and achieve our passions.
By Erika Roman Saint-Pierre, Michelle Gadsden-Williams
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Driving Change: The UPS Approach to BusinessDriving Change explores the tumultuous 100-year journey of the United Parcel Service (UPS), and effectively underlines how a company dedicated to its customers can focus its globally diverse workforce on a vision of continuous improvement and employee investment. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Frederick Dalzell, Mike Brewster
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Drucker on Leadership: New Lessons from the Father of Modern ManagementWritten for anyone who values the insights of the man whose name is synonymous with excellence in management, this book offers a deeper understanding of what makes an extraordinary leader.
By William A. Cohen
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Eastern Perspectives on Women's Roles and Advancement in BusinessEastern Perspectives on Women's Roles and Advancement in Business presents the real-life stories of Eastern women in business, giving particular focus to how these women overcame challenges and broke the glass ceiling.
By Ela Burcu Uçel
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Educating for Values-Driven Leadership: Giving Voice to ValuesIntroducing readers to the Giving Voice to Values (GVV) curriculum and pedagogy, this useful guide offers examples, strategies, and assistance in applying the GVV approach in any business discipline, across any organization.
By Mary C. Gentile
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Effective Succession Planning: Ensuring Leadership Continuity and Building Talent from Within, Fifth EditionEffective Succession Planning, 5th Edition provides ways in which SP&M helps companies best prepare for long-term success and efficiency. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By William J. Rothwell
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EGO vs. EQ: How Top Leaders Beat 8 Ego Traps With Emotional IntelligenceDrawing on real-life anecdotes from the author's 20-years of coaching and consulting, this book teaches you how to identify the most common reasons for leadership ineffectiveness, including the cascading consequences they create, and learn tools to prevent them.
By Jennifer Shirkani
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Eight Paradoxes of Great Leadership: Embracing the Conflicting Demands of Today's WorkplaceBecome a next generation leader---rich in emotional and social intelligence and orchestrating outstanding collaborative results by mastering these eight status quo-shattering paradoxes.
By Tim Elmore
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Eisenhower on Leadership: Ike's Enduring Lessons in Total Victory ManagementBased on findings in recently released archive papers and letters, as well as library and historical resources, this fascinating book offers a compelling profile of the remarkable leadership discipline of a general often called a "military CEO."
By Alan Axelrod
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Embracing Change: 4 Core Strategies Essential to Managing ChangePresenting the reasons why people automatically resist change, this book reveals tactics to overcome the fear of change, and shows you what you can do to expand the boundaries of your comfort zone and how to help team members expand theirs too.
By Larry Iverson
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Emergent: Ignite Purpose, Transform Culture, Make Change StickMore than a simple DIY for change, this book empowers organizations to diagnose change risk, address current shortcomings and adapt to the increasing current away from hierarchies to autonomous and interdependent networks.
By Stephen Scott Johnson
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Emerging Systems for Managing Workplace Conflict: Lessons from American Corporations for Managers and Dispute Resolution ProfessionalsInvestigating the systems organizations have developed to manage common workplace conflicts, this vital resource presents real-life examples as well as new methods and tools for integrating systems of dispute resolution into corporate procedures.
By David B. Lipsky, Richard D. Fincher, Ronald L. Seeber
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Emotional Fitness Coaching: How to Develop a Positive and Productive Workplace for Leaders, Managers and CoachesProviding a toolkit, a range of techniques and numerous exercises, this book presents a practical approach to applying the principles of emotional intelligence to the workplace to create a healthy, positive and creative environment in every situation.
By Warren Redman
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Emotional Intelligence 2.0Whether you're looking to climb the corporate ladder, gain a leadership position, or simply increase the depth of your professional relationships, this book will help you improve your EQ skills to get you where you want to be. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Jean Greaves, Travis Bradberry
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Emotional Intelligence for Managing Results in a Diverse World: The Hard Truth About Soft Skills in the WorkplaceContaining how-tos, action tips, assessment tools, and workplace examples, this book shows how to capture and use the energy of emotions to bridge difference, turn difficult relationships into satisfying ones, and create a healthier workplace.
By Lee Gardenswartz
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Emotional Intelligence for Project Managers: The People Skills You Need to Achieve Outstanding Results, Second EditionEmotional Intelligence for Project Managers explains how to improve your interpersonal skills to enhance your working relationships and become a better leader. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Anthony Mersino
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Emotional Intelligence for RookiesEmotional Intelligence for Rookies explains how enhanced awareness of our emotions, feelings, and moods can positively influence our ability to control our actions and ensure positive outcomes in attaining our goals and building relationships. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Ali Dawson, Andrea Bacon
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Emotional Intelligence TrainingIn Emotional Intelligence Training, author Karl Mulle shows how you can learn new ways to help people understand themselves, interact well, and enhance the overall effectiveness of their companies. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Karl Mulle
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Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQEmotional Intelligence is essential for anyone who wants to bring more balance to his or her life. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Daniel Goleman
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Emotions in the Workplace: Understanding the Structure and Role of Emotions in Organizational BehaviorThe resource to understanding the impact emotions have on work behaviorisms.
By Richard J. Klimoski, Robert G. Lord, Ruth Kanfer (eds)
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Employee EngagementIn Employee Engagement, author Emma Bridger makes use of case studies to explain how to facilitate employee engagement in work environments. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Emma Bridger
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Employee Engagement and Burnout: Maintaining Morale in Changing TimesEmployee Engagement and Burnout: Maintaining Morale in Changing Times draws on a sample of 424 organizations to investigate key questions around engagement and burnout, provide benchmarking data, and highlight best practices.
By ATD Research
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Employee Engagement in Contemporary Organizations: Maintaining High Productivity and Sustained CompetitivenessThis book reviews, analyses and presents evidence from academic researchers and supplements this with practice-based case studies from a range of international organizations.
By Paul Turner
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Employee Engagement: A Practical Introduction, 3rd EditionEquip yourself with the knowledge and tools to build, drive and measure employee engagement with this essential guide from the HR Fundamentals series.
By Emma Bridger
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Employee Experience by Design: How to Create an Effective EX for Competitive AdvantageA motivated, engaged and productive workforce is essential for a company to achieve its goals. This book is a practical guide for HR professionals on how they can create exceptional employee experience that drives staff to perform to the best of their abilities.
By Belinda Gannaway, Emma Bridger
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Employee Experience by Design: How to Create an Effective EX for Competitive Advantage, Second EditionDelivering a great employee experience is crucial, but how can organizations create an experience that enables their teams to unlock their potential and thrive?
By Belinda Gannaway, Emma Bridger
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Employee Experience Strategy: Design an Effective EX Strategy to Improve Employee Performance and Drive Business ResultsUse this practical guide to design, build and implement an effective employee experience strategy to improve workforce performance, develop a people-centred culture and drive business results.
By Ben Whitter
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Employee Experience: Develop a Happy, Productive and Supported Workforce for Exceptional Individual and Business PerformanceFull of tools, tips and advice, this practical guide will help HR professionals and business leaders motivate, support and develop their staff to achieve exceptional individual and organizational performance.
By Ben Whitter
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Employee Experience: Develop a Happy, Productive and Supported Workforce for Exceptional Individual and Business Performance, Second EditionMotivate, support and develop employees from pre-hire to retirement to ensure that they can perform to the best of their abilities.
By Ben Whitter
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Employees First!: Inspire, Engage, and Focus on the Heart of Your OrganizationEmployees First! presents recognition strategies and appreciation techniques, but it goes deeper than that. You will learn how giving your team members a voice in your company, supporting them with knowledge and training, giving them purpose and equitable pay, translates into higher productivity and happier customers.
By Donna Cutting
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Enabling Success through Learning and Knowledge SharingProviding an overview of the current situation of how learning and knowledge management teams work together, this book identifies key forces driving both teams to change, and presents a strategy for building a partnership focused on delivering faster time to competency.
By Adam Krob, Emily Dunn
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Enchantment: The Art of Changing Hearts, Minds, and ActionsIn Enchantment, author Guy Kawasaki takes you on a guided tour of the art of captivating those around you. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Guy Kawasaki
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Encouraging the Heart: A Leader's Guide to Rewarding and Recognizing OthersThis resource provides leaders with the techniques and strategies to foster employees' self-esteem and confidence, thus improving performance.
By Barry Z. Posner, James M. Kouzes
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Encouraging the Heart: A Leader's Guide to Rewarding and Recognizing OthersFor the new manager, team leader, business owner, and supervisor, Encouraging the Heart teaches readers to learn the skills needed to implement a guidance system within their businesses that engages and rewards employees. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Barry Z. Posner, James M. Kouzes
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Energy Leadership: The 7 Level Framework for Mastery In Life and Business, 2nd EditionIn the newly revised second edition of Energy Leadership: The 7 Level Framework for Mastery In Life and Business, Bruce D Schneider, Master Certified Coach and founder of iPEC, the global coach training and leadership development company, offers a simple yet powerful answer to that question, and it all boils down to one word-energy.
By Bruce D Schneider
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Engaging Change: A People-Centred Approach to Business TransformationIllustrated throughout with case studies, this book gives change managers the confidence and knowledge to assess the elements affecting an organization's "change readiness" and to effectively manage them throughout the change life cycle.
By Mark Jenkins, Mark Wilcox
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Engaging the Workplace: Using Surveys to Spark ChangeShowing you how to let the employee survey make you a valuable strategic adviser in your company, this book will help you design a process that collects employees' views on critical issues, wring as much insight out of the data as possible, and drive organization performance.
By Sarah R. Johnson
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EPIC Change: How to Lead Change in the Global AgeBased on a landmark study of 53 cases of large-scale organizational change in various sectors, this important resource provides leaders with new research-based tools to increase and sustain the energy of any change effort.
By Timothy R. Clark
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EQ and Leadership In Asia: Using Emotional Intelligence To Lead And Inspire Your PeopleOffering practical exercises, real-life examples, and valuable applications from Asia, this compelling book is essential reading for leaders who want to inspire and influence their people and organizations to greater success.
By Sebastien Henry
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Equity: How to Design Organizations Where Everyone ThrivesThis book explains how leaders can effectively raise awareness of systemic bias and craft new policies that lead to better outcomes and lasting behavioral changes.
By Minal Bopaiah
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Essence of a ManagerBased on actual experience, this succinct book describes the nine fundamental qualities and attributes of a "good" manager, and will help the aspiring manager accelerate their overall development as an international manager.
By Krishna Pillai
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Essential Leadership: Develop Your Leadership Qualities Through Theory and PracticeSupported by exercises, practical examples, rigorous self-assessments, advice and suggestions, this book is a pragmatic resource for new and experienced leaders looking to navigate the leadership literature and start to fully realize their own leadership potential.
By Esther Cameron, Mike Green
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Essential Leadership: Develop Your Leadership Qualities Through Theory and PracticeEssential Leadership helps you get to grips with the theory of leadership quickly so you can start applying the best practices to your life immediately. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Esther Cameron, Mike Green
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Essentials of Business Ethics: Creating an Organization of High Integrity and Superior PerformanceBased on more than two decades of consulting, teaching, and research, the author of this nuts-and-bolts book provides you with practical "how-to" examples and best practices on every area of managing ethics inside your organization.
By Denis Collins
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Ethics of Transitions: What World Do We Want to Live in Together?This book covers all forms of ethical assessment of research and innovation at the European Commission, including the implications of the concept of RRI which has emerged as a new framework to be used by the European Commission, and indeed including the newer concepts of Open Innovation and Open Science which are designed to subsume and reconfigure RRI.
By Jim Dratwa
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Everything I Know About Success I Learned from Napoleon Hill: Essential Lessons for Using the Power of Positive ThinkingFilled with fascinating stories from iconic figures who have applied Napoleon Hill's principles to their own lives, such as Dolly Parton, Jeffrey Gitomer, Chief Poly Emenike, and Joe Dudley, Jr., this book explains how to uncover the secrets of growth, creativity, power, and achievement inside all of us.
By Don M. Green
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Evolution of Peace Leadership and Practical ImplicationsEvolution of Peace Leadership and Practical Implications develops essential themes in the field of peace leadership and combines theoretical frameworks and practical applications to provide a comprehensive discussion on the history and current state of peace leadership and peace leadership education.
By Erich Paul Schellhammer
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Evolving Digital Leadership: How to be a Digital Leader in Tomorrow's Disruptive WorldGet ready to be an effective digital leader, influencer, disruptor, and catalyst for change in the digital world! This book is a framework and set of tools that will help you develop a deep awareness of yourself, your teams, and your stakeholders.
By James Brett
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Exceptional Leadership: 16 Critical Competencies for Healthcare ExecutivesElevate your leadership skills! This informative book focuses on the 16 key competencies that distinguish good leadership and great leadership.
By Andrew N. Garman, Carson F. Dye
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Exceptional Leadership: 16 Critical Competencies for Healthcare Executives, Second EditionDetailing 16 competencies grouped in four cornerstone categories that define each competency, provide examples and advice, and explain the common skill deficits that prevent its mastery, this book provides a solid understanding of the tools needed by great leaders.
By Andrew N. Garman, Carson F. Dye
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Executing Crisis: A C-Suite Crisis Leadership Survival GuideLoaded with practical case studies, this informative resource lays out the key concepts that business leaders need to apply to their own organizations so they don't have to rely on outside crisis advisors to swoop in and save the day.
By Jo Robertson
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Execution IS the Strategy: How Leaders Achieve Maximum Results in Minimum TimeExecution IS the Strategy shows how to quickly build a limber plan, and how to build your business to adjust to the constantly changing business environment. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Laura Stack
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Execution IS the Strategy: How Leaders Achieve Maximum Results in Minimum TimeIncluding a leadership team assessment, group reading guides, and bonus self-development resources, this book shows you how to quickly drive strategic initiatives and get great results from your team.
By Laura Stack
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Execution Plain and Simple: Twelve Steps to Achieving Any Goal On Time and On BudgetA practical job aid for any manager who needs to get an organization to execute better, this book provides a proven 12-step plan to get results, overcome delays, and achieve tough goals faster.
By Robert A. Neiman
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Executive Advantage: Resilient Leadership for 21st-Century OrganizationsBacked by current thinking and leadership research on authenticity, psychotherapy and neuroscience, this book presents a framework for leaders who are looking to make sense of the complexities they face, especially in times of growth or, conversely, recession and downsizing.
By Jacqui Grey
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Executive Being: Humanizing Business One Leader at a Time NEW!The business world is clamoring for authentic leadership, but you don't know what to share, what to wear or how to show up as your ‘whole self' or for people bringing their ‘whole selves' to work. Executive Being: Humanizing Business One Leader at a Time has the answers.
By Katherine Lazaruk
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Executive Charisma: Six Steps to Mastering the Art of LeadershipPresenting a proven six-step process that will propel you to the top of the corporate ladder, this detailed guide clearly defines executive charisma and explains why projecting a commanding professional demeanor is so fundamental to corporate success.
By D. A. Benton
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Executive Charisma: Six Steps to Mastering the Art of LeadershipExecutive Charisma teaches you the six qualities that are vital to being an effective and personable leader. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By D. A. Benton
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Executive Engagement Strategies: How to Have Conversations and Develop Relationships that Build B2B BusinessFilled with global case studies and examples, this highly practical resource is a comprehensive guide to engaging with the senior professionals making the buying decisions - to win sustainable, long-lasting business.
By Bev Burgess
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Executive Finance and Strategy: How to Understand and Use Financial Information to Set Strategic GoalsBy using finance as a record keeper and predictor of success, this book works on the premise that financial models can clearly demonstrate where a particular strategy might lead, and helps quantify strategy to gain support from colleagues and take the right actions to ensure sustainable growth.
By Ralph Tiffin
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Executive Intelligence: What All Great Leaders HaveDrawing on the author's background in psychology and bolstered by interviews with accomplished CEOs, this book - inspired by the work of Peter Drucker and Jim Collins - reveals the cognitive skills necessary to excel in senior management positions.
By Justin Menkes
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Executive Ownershift: Creating Highly Effective Leadership TeamsThis book introduces a top-down team approach that enables leadership teams to dramatically improve their performance.
By Norenberg
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Executive Toughness: The Mental-Training Program to Increase Your Leadership PerformancePresenting a complete regimen from a leading expert on developing the mindset for attaining goals, this book provides hands-on daily exercises for breaking old, self-defeating patterns of behavior and replacing them with the can-do attitude and positive behavior.
By Jason Selk
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ExecutiveHealth.com's Leading Under Pressure: Strategies to Avoid Burnout, Increase Energy, and Improve Your Well-BeingStress-related disorders are fast becoming the most prevalent reason for worker disability. This book offers effective strategies for maximizing your productivity while also maximizing your health and well-being.
By Gabriela Cora
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Exercise Your Executive Brain: Games, Puzzles, and Activities to Get in Mental Shape on the JobPacked with 500 fun and invigorating puzzles, this inviting book is specifically designed to stimulate the frontal lobes of the brain, which kick starts creativity and sharpens decision-making--the most critical functions for high performance on the job.
By Charles Timmerman
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Experience-Driven Leader Development: Models, Tools, Best Practices, and Advice for On-the-Job DevelopmentIncluding tools, techniques, processes, and other practical resources, this essential resource offers a wealth of best practices that clearly demonstrate how organizations can use on-the-job experiences to enhance their leadership talent.
By Cynthia D. McCauley, D. Scott DeRue, Paul R. Yost, Sylvester Taylor
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Extraordinary Influence: How Great Leaders Bring Out the Best in OthersBrain science tells us that we can establish a connection between the employee's work and his or her aspirations. This book calls for a new approach to align workers with an organization's mission, strategy and goals, called Alliance Feedback.
By Tim Irwin
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Extraordinary Leadership in Australia and New Zealand: The Five Practices that Create Great WorkplacesDrawing upon empirical data from more than 75,000 people in the Australian and New Zealand workforce, this book presents a data-driven framework for being an effective leader, with expert guidance toward the actions that you can take to improve the performance of your team and organization.
By Barry Posner, James Kouzes, Michael Bunting
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Extreme Ownership: How U.S. Navy SEALs Lead and WinAuthored by two retired Navy SEALs, Extreme Ownership presents a master course in leadership, demonstrating that an effective leader must take ownership of everything the team does and everything that happens to the team. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Jocko Willink, Leif Babin
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Facilitating Breakthrough: How to Remove Obstacles, Bridge Differences, and Move Forward TogetherThis book describes a new approach: transformative facilitation. It doesn't choose either the bossy vertical or the collegial horizontal approach: it cycles back and forth between them. Rather than forcing or cajoling, the facilitator removes the obstacles that stand in the way of people contributing and connecting equitably.
By Adam Kahane
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Factory Physics for Managers: How Leaders Improve Performance in a Post-Lean Six Sigma WorldMaking it easier to choose and execute the best strategy for better productivity-and even bigger profits, this comprehensive guide cuts through the hodgepodge of copycat initiatives, overblown buzzwords, confusing mathematics, and misguided software.
By Edward S. Pound, Jeffrey H. Bell, Mark L. Spearman
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Fearless and Free: How Smart Women Pivot and Relaunch Their CareersIn Fearless and Free, author Wendy Sachs discusses what it means to be a woman working in today's corporate world and the triumphs and challenges you'll encounter as you work to achieve the life you envisioned. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Wendy Sachs
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Fearless and Free: How Smart Women Pivot and Relaunch Their CareersBased on talks with a wide range of women who faced down fears, roadblocks, and failures to reinvent themselves, this inspiring book weaves their insights and experiences together with current research and actionable advice.
By Wendy Sachs
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Fearless at Work: Achieve Your Potential by Transforming Small Moments into Big OutcomesFearless at Work will help you to recognize your fears and adopt strategies to acquire more valuable attributes. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Molly Fletcher
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Fearless at Work: Achieve Your Potential by Transforming Small Moments into Big OutcomesFilled with play-by-play insights and field-tested strategies-and anchored by inspiring stories from an all-star roster of sports and business leaders, this book provides the winning game plan for channeling fear into world-class performance.
By Molly Fletcher
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Fearless Leadership: How to Overcome Behavioral Blind Spots and Transform Your OrganizationIntroducing a groundbreaking behavior-based methodology, this book provides you with the tools to successfully drive change, overcome obstacles, and engage and align people in working effectively together to achieve your business objectives.
By Loretta Malandro
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Feet to the Fire: How to Exemplify and Create the Accountability that Creates Great CompaniesDiscussing the benefits of an accountable organization, this book reveals that the highest level of leadership performance is grounded in self-awareness and provides you with exercises, assessments, and stories to chart your leadership journey.
By Lorraine A. Moore
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Female Entrepreneurs in the Long Nineteenth Century: A Global PerspectiveThis book explains about impact on the economy and the economy's impact on them challenge gender historians to think more about business and business historians to think more about gender and create a global history that is inclusive of multiple perspectives.
By Catherine Bishop, Jennifer Aston
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Female Founders' Playbook: Insights from the Superwomen Who Have Made ItHow do female entrepreneurs overcome hurdles, redress power imbalances and create a business with coveted unicorn status?
By Anne Boden
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Female Innovators at Work: Women on Top of TechThis book describes the experiences and successes of female innovators and entrepreneurs in the still largely male-dominated tech-world in twenty candid interviews.
By Danielle Newnham
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Fierce Leadership: A Bold Alternative to the Worst "Best" Practices of Business TodayFierce Leadership debunks current thinking about best practices in leadership and skillfully lays out Susan Scott's down-to-earth and imaginative alternatives in her unique, no-nonsense style. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Susan Scott
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Find Your Strongest Life: What The Happiest And Most Successful Women Do DifferentlyFull of practical, realistic, and life-changing advice, this guide shows you how to make the most of the role you were born to play, how to get others to understand who you really are and the successful strategies of other women like you.
By Marcus Buckingham
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Fired Up!: A Guide to Transforming Your Team from Burnout to EngagementFired Up! offers a framework and collection of interconnected principles that can help you build a positive and effective work environment.
By Girvin Liggans, Mia B. Russell
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First Line Supervision, 5th EditionInspirational, instructive and encouraging, novice and experienced supervisors alike can use this course to develop skills to orient, train, coach, and manage employees using self-assessments, action plans and relevant work examples.
By Charles M. Cadwell
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First-Time Leader: Foundational Tools for Inspiring and Enabling Your New TeamContaining illustrative examples and stories from a range of experienced leaders and experts, this indispensable guide provides basic frameworks, processes, and tools to help first-time leaders and their teams deliver better results faster.
By George B. Bradt, Gillian Davis
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First, Break All the Rules: What the World's Greatest Managers Do DifferentlyContaining vital performance and career lessons for managers at every level, this book presents the remarkable findings of Gallup's massive in-depth study of great managers across a wide variety of situations.
By Curt Coffman, Marcus Buckingham
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First, Fast, Fearless: How to Lead Like a Navy SEALPresenting a practical guide for the business leader who wants to learn from the best of the best, this book shows how to build and lead effective teams in conditions of volatility, uncertainty, complexity, ambiguity, and constant change.
By Brian “Iron Ed” Hiner
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Five Dimensions of Quality: A Common Sense Guide to Accreditation and AccountabilityProviding a simple, straightforward model for understanding and meeting the calls for increased quality in higher education ever-present in today's culture, this book outlines five dimensions that will help you to identify ways to improve institutional quality and demonstrate that quality to constituents.
By Linda Suskie
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Five-Week Leadership Challenge: 35 Action Steps to Become the Leader You Were Meant to BeDevelop and expand your innate leadership abilities through daily exercises and challenges designed to help you grow into the leader you want to be and prepare you or the job you were made to have.
By Patrick R. Leddin
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Flex: The New Playbook for Managing Across DifferencesCreating flex in a company's management style will impact all aspects of developing the talent you have, attracting future talent and building relationships with customers in this competitive marketplace. This exciting book shows you how.
By Audrey S. Lee, Jane Hyun
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Flux: 8 Superpowers for Thriving in Constant ChangeThis book tells us whether readers are sizing up their career, reassessing their values, designing a product, building an organization, trying to inspire their colleagues, or simply showing up more fully in the world, enjoying a flux mindset and activating their flux superpowers will keep readers grounded even when the ground is too often shifting beneath them.
By April Rinne
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Focal Point: A Proven System to Simplify Your Life, Double Your Productivity, and Achieve All Your GoalsAnalyze your life, develop your goals, and succeed!
By Brian Tracy
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Focus: The Hidden Driver of ExcellenceIn Focus, author Daniel Goleman takes us through an understanding of our selves, others, and the world around us to improve our focus skills and equip us with the tools to make us better leaders. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Daniel Goleman
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Followership: What It Takes to LeadIntended for a broad audience including both students and practitioners of Leadership, this book takes a look at both current leadership and followership theories and describes how to apply them in an organizational setting.
By James H. Schindler
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Force for Good: How to Thrive as a Purpose-Driven Leader NEW!As a leader, understand how you can navigate from behaviours that solely lead to profit, profit, profit, to behaviours that lead to profit, people, purpose and planet.
By John Blakey
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Four Cornered Leadership: A Framework for Making DecisionsPresenting information in bite-sized chunks supported by charts and graphs, this book supplies you with a new way to view leadership that is based on learning and continual modification in response to prevailing conditions.
By John Roland Schultz
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From Analyst to Leader: Elevating the Role of the Business AnalystUncovering the unique challenges for the business analyst to transition from a support role to a central leader, this strategic guide presents the principles, knowledge, practices, and tools needed to assume a leadership role in an organization.
By Kathleen B. Hass, Kimi Ziemski, Lori Lindbergh, Richard Vander Horst
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From Bud to Boss: Secrets to a Successful Transition to Remarkable LeadershipFocusing on the difficulties that new leaders experience, this much-needed book will help them get beyond the stress and fear to focus on becoming the most effective leader they can be-starting right now.
By Guy Harris, Kevin Eikenberry
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From Bud to Boss: Secrets to a Successful Transition to Remarkable LeadershipFrom Bud to Boss systematically addresses the challenges that any person in a newly acquired position of authority will face and gives excellent advice on how to deal with them. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Guy Harris, Kevin Eikenberry
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From Ideas to Impact: A Playbook for Influencing and Implementing Change in a Divided Worldin From Ideas to Impact: A Playbook for Influencing and Implementing Change in a Divided World, he delivers an inspiring and insightful discussion on how to implement social impact by driving policy change.
By Michael Sheldrick
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From Know-How to Do-How: The Short and Simple Guide to Making Change HappenDrawing on dozens of real-life stories and illustrated with remarkable, real-life breakthroughs, this book sets out the practical and proven steps that can help you develop the "do-how" you need to make the changes you want in any aspect of your work or life.
By David Corbet, Ian Roberts
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From Management to Leadership: Strategies for Transforming Health, Third EditionPresenting concepts and skills that can be immediately applied to everyday situations, this practical book identifies the fundamental interpersonal skills that every leader - health care or otherwise - needs to develop in order to be a successful executive or manager.
By Jo Manion
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From Sabotage to Support: A New Vision for Feminist Solidarity in the WorkplaceWomen are acculturated within systems that encourage them to sabotage one another. This book shows how they can break free of this cultural programming and use whatever privilege and power they have to raise each other up.
By Joy L. Wiggins, Kami J. Anderson
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From Smart to Wise: Acting and Leading with WisdomDrawing on inspiring real-life stories of historical and contemporary wise leaders such as Bill Gates, Warren Buffet, and even Mahatma Gandhi, this book identifies six characteristics of wise leaders and offers a practical framework to help readers develop their own style of wise leadership.
By Navi Radjou, Prasad Kaipa
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From Techie to Boss: Transitioning to LeadershipTeaching you a whole new set of interpersonal, organizational, and metrical skills you never needed before, this easy-to-read guide shows you how to translate and adapt the analytic skills that made you an outstanding techie to your new responsibilities as a technical manager.
By Scott Cromar
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From Techie to Boss: Transitioning to LeadershipFrom Techie to Boss teaches you the necessary interpersonal skills and techniques for the successful transition from a technical role to a leadership position. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its content.
By Scott Cromar
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From Values to Action: The Four Principles of Values-Based LeadershipBased on the author's popular Kellogg MBA course on values-based leadership, this highly-anticipated book offers a framework for adopting the principles of values-based leadership, self-reflection, balance, true self-confidence, and genuine humility, to lead organizations effectively.
By Harry M. Jansen Kraemer Jr.
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From Values to Action: The Four Principles of Values-Based LeadershipFrom Values to Action shows you how to become a more effective leader and make a positive impact in any type of organization by cultivating values-driven leadership principles. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Harry M. Jansen Kraemer Jr.
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Front-Line Leadership: How to Eliminate Complacency and Build All-In Engagement NEW!Expand your leadership toolkit and help others achieve their full potential with these empowering stories and lessons from the battlefield
By Patrick Nelson
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Frontline Leaders: Developing Tomorrow's ExecutivesProviding insights on current training and development practices that are aimed at frontline leaders, this report examines the importance of frontline leadership (FLL) development and what organizations are doing to prepare their emerging leaders.
By ASTD Research
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Full Steam Ahead!: Unleash the Power of Vision in Your Work and Your Life, Second EditionOffering numerous examples of effective visions from real companies, this book shows you how to create an enduring vision that will guide you on a daily basis and willl engage the hearts and minds of everyone on your team.
By Jesse Lyn Stoner, Ken Blanchard
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Fun Works: Creating Places Where People Love to WorkLearn how integrating fun with work has serious benefits.
By Leslie Yerkes
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Fundamentals of Level Three Leadership: How to Become an Effective ExecutiveIn Fundamentals of Level Three Leadership, author James G.S. Clawson explores myriad questions you can ask yourself as you take on the role of business executive. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By James G. S. Clawson
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Gender Perspectives on Industry 4.0 and the Impact of Technology on Mainstreaming Female EmploymentGender Perspectives on Industry 4.0 and the Impact of Technology on Mainstreaming Female Employment discusses gender perspective and its impact on the fourth industrial revolution, particularly in the realm of employment structure, and analyzes the impact of technology on mainstreaming women in paid employment.
By Puja Singhal, Shashi Bala
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Generating Buy-In: Mastering the Language of LeadershipIn Generating Buy-In, Mark S. Walton shows how to build and implement the communication methodologies used by successful business leaders, enabling you to wield the influence you need to succeed. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Mark S. Walton
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George Washington's Leadership Lessons: What the Father of Our Country Can Teach Us About Effective Leadership and CharacterRevealing not only George Washington's character, but also his leadership, his vision, and most surprising of all, his business skills and acumen, this insightful book brings to light a man of true character, worthy of emulation.
By James C. Rees, Stephen Spignesi
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Get Better or Get Beaten: 29 Leadership Secrets from GE's Jack Welch, Second EditionLearn how to think, talk and lead like GE's legendary Jack Welch.
By Robert Slater
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Getting Change Right: How Leaders Transform Organizations from the Inside OutOffering business insights and field-tested, practical techniques that can be put to work immediately, this innovative guide presents a new view of leadership communication that says change doesn't flow top-down, bottom-up, or sideways, but inside-out.
By Seth Kahan
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Getting Things Done When You Are Not in Charge, Second EditionHow to lead change in your organization when you're lacking authority.
By Geoffrey M. Bellman
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Girl, Stop Apologizing: A Shame-Free Plan for Embracing and Achieving Your GoalsWith a challenge to women everywhere to stop talking themselves out of their dreams, this book identifies the excuses to let go of, the behaviors to adopt, and the skills to acquire on the path to growth, confidence, and believing in yourself.
By Rachel Hollis
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Global Vision: How Companies Can Overcome the Pitfalls of GlobalizationGlobal Vision offers a critical analysis of the globalization process and lays bare the failures of the majority of businesses undertaking global expansion. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Robert Salomon
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Go With It: Embrace the Unexpected to Drive ChangeBringing you discoveries from the front lines of innovation where executives use improve techniques, this book shows you that anyone can learn to be more creative and innovative with flexibility, humor, and focus.
By Karen Hough
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Goal Setting StrategiesCovering several influences on one's life that can be positive or negative depending on the individual, this book introduces several processes to follow that can lead to both a more successful career and a happier life in general.
By Tony Alessandra
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Goal Setting: How to Create an Action Plan and Achieve Your GoalsGoal Setting guides you through the process of setting, planning, and achieving your goals as effectively as possible in order for you to obtain the success you desire. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Michael S. Dobson, Susan B. Wilson
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Goal Setting: How to Create an Action Plan and Achieve Your Goals, Second EditionFeaturing worksheets, quizzes, and other practical tools, this guide gives readers powerful techniques they can use to set a goal, make a plan, and acquire the resources and power necessary to achieve their objective.
By Michael S. Dobson, Susan B. Wilson
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Goals! How To Get Everything You Want-Faster Than You Ever Thought PossibleUsing Brian Tracy's trademark simple language and real-life examples, this practical book explores the seven key elements of goal setting and the 12 steps necessary to set and accomplish goals of any size.
By Brian Tracy
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Goals! How To Get Everything You Want-Faster Than You Ever Thought PossibleAre you ambitious? Do you want to get ahead faster? Goals! outlines a twelve-step methodology that anyone can follow to achieve any goal. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its content.
By Brian Tracy
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Golf and the Game of Leadership: An 18-Hole Guide for Success in Business and in LifeThis book shows how qualities like focus, consistency, confidence, and "playing by the rules" all apply to the way you perform in the professional realm. By using strategies that work on the course in the office, you will be able to stand out as a leader.
By Donald E. McHugh
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Good Boss, Bad Boss: How to Be the Best...And Learn from the WorstGood Boss, Bad Boss takes an insightful look at managers and leaders and offers them practical advice on how to assess and improve their own contribution to a positive working environment. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Robert Sutton
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Good Leaders Ask Great Questions: Your Foundation for Successful LeadershipWhether you're new to a leadership position, or a veteran leader, Good Leaders Ask Great Questions shows that you must learn to ask questions that lead to solutions to be effective in your role. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By John C. Maxwell
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Grace Meets GRIT: How to Bring Out the Remarkable, Courageous Leader WithinNavigating the previously unexplored subject of gender differences in the workplace specifically applied to critical leadership behaviors, this book shows how to compensate for your innate style by "dialing up" leadership qualities you may not naturally possess.
By Daina Middleton
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Grateful Leadership: Using the Power of Acknowledgment to Engage All Your People and Achieve Superior ResultsDemonstrating how to create a more positive and meaningful connection between you and the people you lead, this book presents an essential approach for leaders who want to achieve the bottom line and foster a value-driven workforce.
By Judith W. Umlas
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Great By Choice: Uncertainty, Chaos, and Luck--Why Some Thrive Despite Them AllGreat by Choice provides an in-depth look at what successful companies do differently in order to keep on winning, even in extreme conditions. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Jim Collins, Morten T. Hansen
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Great Communication Secrets of Great LeadersGreat leadership begins with great communication. Who better to learn about great leadership from than the great leaders? The author has distilled the communication techniques of various great leaders into key strategies and solutions.
By John Baldoni
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Great Leaders Grow: Becoming a Leader for LifeWhether you're a CEO or an entry-level employee, the wisdom in this insightful book will encourage you to design your own unique long-term growth plan, leading to not only continuing professional success but personal fulfillment as well.
By Ken Blanchard, Mark Miller
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Great Leadership: What It Is and What It Takes in a Complex WorldFor any current or aspiring leader looking to take charge of his or her growth, this book introduces a leadership model and plenty of practical tools to help assess when and how to achieve greatness in leading organizations, operations, and people.
By Antony Bell
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Great Mondays: How to Design a Company Culture Employees LoveWith real-life case studies, expert guidance and tried-and-true strategies, this book introduces a proven formula for building and managing a workplace culture that maximizes employee engagement, performance, and retention for long-term business success.
By Josh Levine
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Great Motivation Secrets of Great LeadersThrough the incredible life stories of highly successful men and women, this book's combination of leadership principles and real-life stories can easily be applied to your own career and dreams, linking personal actions to organizational results.
By John Baldoni
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Grounded: How Leaders Stay Rooted In An Uncertain WorldBased on in-depth research with hundreds of executives around the world, this provocative book argues that leaders at every level can be more self-aware, develop their untapped potential, and drive significantly better results-for themselves, their teams, and their organizations.
By Bob Rosen
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Grow Leaders With a Virtual Development ProgramThis book explains about Leadership with virtual development.
By Gerhard Redelinghuys, Lindsay Fletcher
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Growing Yourself as a Leader: Technical Leadership CapabilitiesWith real life examples, tips and mini exercises, this book describes six management techniques that will help you develop your leadership capabilities and grow as a leader, including unlocking your creative potential, learning by developing others and managing your time.
By Brian Sutton, Robina Chatham
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H3 Leadership: Be Humble. Stay Hungry. Always Hustle.Brad Lomenick has created a practical road map for helping anyone implement and live out the twenty transformational habits that he discovered to be common among the world's most innovative leaders.
By Brad Lomenick
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Hacking Leadership: The 11 Gaps Every Business Needs to Close and the Secrets to Closing Them QuicklyBased on actionable, topical leadership and management hacks to bridge eleven gaps every business needs to cross, this book offers a fresh perspective that makes it easy for leaders to create a roadmap to identify, refine, develop, and achieve their leadership potential--and to create a more effective business that is financially solvent and professionally desirable.
By Mike Myatt
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Hacking Leadership: The 11 Gaps Every Business Needs to Close and the Secrets to Closing Them QuicklyHacking Leadership motivates business leaders to take a hard look at their management and business blind spots and offers up actionable solutions to close those leadership gaps. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Mike Myatt
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Handbook of Global Leadership and Followership: Integrating the Best Leadership Theory and PracticeThis handbook integrates the best leadership and followership theories and practices between the Global North-West (countries of Western individualistic cultures in Europe, North America, Australia and Oceana) and the Global South-East (countries of Eastern collectivistic cultures in Asia, Africa, South America, and South-East Asian and Oceana).
By Joan F. Marques, June Schmieder-Ramirez, Petros G. Malakyan, Satinder K. Dhiman
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HAPPY@WORK: 60 Simple Ways to Stay Engaged and Be SuccessfulHAPPY@WORK is a detailed guide on how to find joy in your work and set yourself on the right path to success. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Jim Donovan
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HAPPY@WORK: 60 Simple Ways to Stay Engaged and Be SuccessfulPresenting strategies and real workplace vignettes that demonstrate the benefits and results that can be gleaned from simple shifts and actions, this book will empower you with the knowledge that no matter the circumstance, you can think, act, and feel in ways that create purpose, success, and, yes, happiness.
By Jim Donovan
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Hard Goals: The Secret to Getting from Where You Are to Where You want to BeExplaining how success and the satisfaction it brings, comes from knowing how to set goals, this book offers the hard science and practical techniques to conquer procrastination and unlock your brain's potential for realizing your goals.
By Mark Murphy
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Hard Optimism: How to Succeed in a World Where Positive WinsDrawing upon research from the influential field of positive psychology, this book offers 12 powerful, proven practices for reducing negative thinking and adopting the attitude of a winner.
By Price Pritchett
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Hard-Won Wisdom: True Stories from the Management TrenchesProviding sometimes funny, always cautionary tales that reinforce crucial lessons for managers, this book highlights the role management plays in exacerbating (or easing) trouble, and suggests simple strategies to turn the situation around.
By Jathan Janove
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Head, Heart and Guts: How the World's Best Companies Develop Complete LeadersHead, Heart and Guts is for project managers, heads of companies, or anyone looking to climb the corporate ladder so they can find the right blend of skills that constitute an effective leader. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By David L. Dotlich, Peter C. Cairo, Stephen H. Rhinesmith
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Head, Heart and Guts: How the World's Best Companies Develop Complete LeadersTo be successful in a complex, matrixed, fast-moving world, this book argues that "whole" leaders must set strategy, develop trusting relationships with others, and consistently do the right thing based on personal values.
By David L. Dotlich, Peter C. Cairo, Stephen H. Rhinesmith
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Healing Our Future: Leadership for a Changing Health SystemThis book is a practical, evidence-based guide to seven key leadership disciplines that will help anyone working in healthcare to pursue brighter futures.
By Andrew Garman
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Healing the Wounds: Overcoming the Trauma of Layoffs and Revitalizing Downsized OrganizationsProviding a precise and concise set of instructions for coping with "layoff survivor sickness," Healing the Wounds is the definitive work on dealing with the trauma of downsizing for individuals and organizations. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By David Noer
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Healing the Wounds: Overcoming the Trauma of Layoffs and Revitalizing Downsized Organizations, Revised and UpdatedCombining front-line case studies and original research that deals with both downsized organizations and layoff survivors, this book offers clear guidelines and much-needed perspective on personal and organizational revitalization following layoffs.
By David M. Noer
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Health and Safety at Work: An Essential Guide for Managers, Revised Eighth EditionUpdated to include the latest legislation and considerations required for your workplace, this practical book cuts through the legal complexities to enable your full understanding of the law and your peace of mind when putting procedures in place.
By Jeremy Stranks
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Healthcare Leadership Excellence: Creating a Career of ImpactEnhancing the authors' experiences and wisdom with interviews with respected healthcare leaders who have built lasting legacies, this book will motivate you to think beyond the pressing day-to-day challenges of healthcare management and plan a career with purpose.
By Frankie Perry, James A. Rice
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Hidden Strengths: Unleashing the Crucial Leadership Skills You Already HaveIn today's work environment, not growing and stretching yourself translates into lack of innovation, stagnation, and obsolescence. Using assessments, exercises, and case studies, this book will help you identify your most promising middle skills and create a plan to turn them into strengths.
By Milo Sindell, Thuy Sindell
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Hidden Strengths: Unleashing the Crucial Leadership Skills You Already HaveHidden Strengths provides a results-driven approach to leadership by demonstrating how to identify, develop, and leverage your overlooked "middle" skills. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Milo Sindell, Thuy Sindell
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Hooked: How Leaders Connect, Engage and Inspire with StorytellingUsing real-world examples and proven, effective techniques to teach the skill of great business storytelling, this book explains what good storytelling is, why business leaders need to learn it, how to create effective stories, and how to practice for perfection.
By Gabrielle Dolan, Yamini Naidu
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Hostage at the Table: How Leaders Can Overcome Conflict, Influence Others, and Raise PerformanceBased on the author's experience as an international leadership professor, consultant, and veteran hostage negotiator, this step-by-step book outlines seven key factors anyone can use to remove the blocks that stand in the way of resolving tough problems.
By George Kohlrieser
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How Asian Women Lead: Lessons for Global CorporationsBy highlighting obstacles Asian women face in reaching the top, while looking beneath the corporate surface to show cultural and family perspectives, this book offers a new perspective to help business leaders and human capital professionals understand leadership diversity, build inclusive and engaged organizations, and sustain success.
By Jane Horan
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How Did That Happen? Holding People Accountable for Results the Positive, Principled WayHow Did That Happen? will enable you to guide your group to meet-or exceed-expectations, and to be accountable for the outcome of any endeavor. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Roger Connors, Tom Smith
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How Full is Your Bucket? Expanded Anniversary EditionIn How Full is Your Bucket? the authors show how the simple analogy of a bucket and dipper can be used as a starting point to create and spread positive emotions. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Donald O. Clifton, Tom Rath
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How Full Is Your Bucket?: Positive Strategies for Work and LifeAfter your last interaction with another person, did you feel positive, or were you left feeling more negative than before? Based on a metaphor of a dipper and a bucket, this book will show you how to increase the positive moments in your work and life.
By Donald O. Clifton, Tom Rath
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How Great Leaders Get Great ResultsRevealing proven execution strategies to consistently get your people to perform to their fullest, this book offers a concrete plan of action that will help you cultivate a results-driven culture and drive your business to the top.
By John Baldoni
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How Great Leaders Think: The Art of ReframingHow Great Leaders Think offers a selection of contemporary examples and case studies showing you how to think and act like the leader you were destined to be. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Lee G. Bolman, Terrence E. Deal
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How Great Leaders Think: The Art of ReframingFeaturing examples from leaders like Jeff Bezos at Amazon, Howard Schultz at Starbucks, Tony Hsieh at Zappos, Ursula Burns at Xerox, and the late Steve Jobs at Apple, this book presents an accessible guide for understanding four major aspects of organizational life: structure, people, politics, and culture.
By Lee G. Bolman, Terrence E. Deal
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How the Best Leaders Lead: Proven Secrets to Getting the Most Out of Yourself and OthersIn How the Best Leaders Lead, Brian Tracy examines the leadership strategies of successful businesspeople and shows how, by putting their ideas into practice, anyone can become an effective leader. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Brian Tracy
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How To Be A CEO: Purpose - People - PerformanceThe book will help unlock your thinking about what you stand for as a leader and the impact that you want to have. It will challenge you to leverage your strengths and address your development opportunities.
By Ben Renshaw
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How To Be A CEO: Purpose. People. PerformanceHow to be a CEO outlines a compelling journey to leadership greatness. Based on a simple 3P Model: Purpose, People & Performance it provides a practical guide to accelerate leadership development for those who want to be at the front of evolution in the uncertain world of work.
By Ben Renshaw
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How to Be a Leader: 15 Minutes a Day to Establish Communication, Resiliency, Creativity, and Humility NEW!How to Be a Leader is a 60-day daily reader that teaches aspiring and current leaders how to pursue goals, grow their mind-set, be creative, and bring out the best in others while also being the best version of themselves.
By David M. Cote
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How to Be a Positive Leader: Small Actions, Big ImpactPositive leaders are able to dramatically expand their people's-and their own-capacity for excellence without enormous expenditures or huge heroic gestures. This book describes how this is being done at Wells Fargo, Ford, Kelly Services, Burt's Bees, Connecticut's Griffin Hospital, the Michigan-based Zingerman's Community of Businesses, and many other organizations.
By Gretchen M. Spreitzer (eds), Jane E. Dutton
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How to be an Even Better Manager: A Complete A-Z of Proven Techniques and Essential Skills, Ninth EditionProviding sound guidelines that will help managers develop a broad base of managerial skills and knowledge, this valuable guide covers over 60 essential topics across the three key areas in which any manager needs to be competent: managing people; managing activities and processes; and managing and developing yourself.
By Michael Armstrong
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How to Be Exceptional: Drive Leadership Success By Magnifying Your StrengthsProviding a revolutionary approach to leadership development, this book shows how to develop your current strengths into ones that truly distinguish you and enable you to make the highest contribution to your organization.
By Barbara A. Steel, John H. Zenger, Joseph R. Folkman, Robert H. Sherwin, Jr.
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How To Deal With Difficult People: Smart Tactics for Overcoming the Problem People in Your LifeArming you with all the tools and tactics you need to handle all kinds of people, this book explains how to cope with a range of situations with difficult people and to focus on what you can change. Why let someone else's bad attitude ruin your day?
By Gill Hasson
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How to Fail at Change Management: A Manager's Guide to the Pitfalls of Managing ChangeSuccessful change management need not be a mystery, but perhaps change management success is best learned from failed attempts at change that seemed reasonable at the time according to theory-but proved to be bad ideas in retrospect.
By James Marion, John Lewis
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How to Grow Leaders: The Seven Key Principles of Effective Leadership DevelopmentHow to Grow Leaders provides seven principles that can be applied to ensure the selection and growth of effective leaders within a company. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By John Adair
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How to Grow Leaders: The Seven Key Principles of Effective Leadership DevelopmentLeadership is not a soft skill; it is a key factor in business success. This thought-provoking and highly readable text will help you to develop these skills in others while guiding you on your own personal journey toward excellence as a leader.
By John Adair
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How to Heal a Workplace: Tackle Trauma, Foster Psychological Safety and Boost Happiness at WorkHow to Heal a Workplace shares the insights and hands-on advice that you need to better understand how your culture impacts your team.
By Kerry Howard
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How to Lead by The Book: Proverbs, Parables, and Principles to Tackle Your Toughest Business ChallengesConcise, to-the-point, and highly useable, this practical and inspiring guide presents a series of personal and business challenges recognizable to leaders, then deals with each through insight, personal experience, and a discussion of why conventional approaches often fail.
By Dave Anderson
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How to Reduce Workplace Conflict and Stress: How Leaders and Their Employees Can Protect Their Sanity and Productivity from Tension and Turf WarsProtect your career and workplace from the hidden costs of workplace tension and hostility. This insider's guide shows you how to protect productivity and maintain unity between leaders and employees, even during periods of uncertainty and rapid change.
By Anna Maravelas
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Humanise: Why Human-Centred Leadership is the Key to the 21st CenturyPresenting A deep examination of the concept of moral leadership, this book examines what it is, how it's acquired, and how it can be applied in business, government, and society. It shows you how to be a leader wherever you are, build your leadership capability, and make a positive impact on the world.
By Anthony Howard
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Humble Leadership: The Power of Relationships, Openness, and TrustBestselling author and father of organizational culture studies, Edgar Schein and Peter Schein trail-blaze with a creative perspective on leadership that encourages vulnerability and empathy as a form of strength.
By Edgar H. Schein, Peter A. Schein
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Humble Leadership: The Power of Relationships, Openness, and TrustIn Humble Leadership, father and son duo Schein and Schein add to the conversation about the need for humility in the business world. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Edgar H. Schein, Peter A. Schein
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Humble Leadership: The Power of Relationships, Openness, and Trust, Second EditionDiscover a more agile, democratic, and effective model of leadership, from legendary business scholar Edgar Schein and Silicon Valley executive Peter Schein.
By Edgar Schein, Peter A. Schein
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I Hear You: Repair Communication Breakdowns, Negotiate Successfully, and Build Consensus . . . in Three Simple StepsProviding techniques that will work in every situation, this book gives you the insights and practical tools to view communication challenges through a wider, more nuanced lens, and to locate the words, the tone, and the perspective needed to empathetically hear the other side-and help them hear you.
By Donny Ebenstein
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I Wish I'd Known This: 6 Career-Accelerating Secrets for Women LeadersIn this book, they outline six challenges women commonly face on their professional journeys and map a way to accelerate through them for higher-impact careers.
By Brenda Wensil, Kathryn Heath
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Ice Cold Leader: Leading from the Inside OutAnchored in gripping tales from his time in the elite services, the author describes the unique process he created to not only survive but thrive in challenging situations.
By Errol Doebler
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If Harry Potter Ran General Electric: Leadership Wisdom from the World of the WizardsBlending an array of provocative examples from J. K. Rowling's novels with thought-provoking commentary on contemporary management practices, this book offers readers a master's course on leadership and ethics, told in an engaging and insightful way.
By Tom Morris
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Ignite All: Leadership, Team Enablement, & Sparking That Inner Flame NEW!Putting a team together is easy. Creating a dynamic team culture is hard.
By The Fusion Team
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IGNITE: Real Leadership, Real Talk, Real ResultsOffering an honest guide to achieving lasting business success by becoming a more authentic leader, this guide leaves behind the boring and mundane, and cuts to the chase with a frank and forthright style to provide insight that can radically transform your business.
By Gabrielle Dolan
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Ignite! The 4 Essential Rules for Emerging LeadersBy highlighting common errors that new managers make, this how-to business book features a learning parable that illustrates the pitfalls and possibilities of leadership at every turn, and provides emerging leaders with the tools they need for successful transition.
By Sal Silvester
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Impact Redefined: Transforming Partnerships, Social Moments, and Personal Connections to Drive ChangeCreate opportunities for your nonprofit or social enterprise with partnerships and social media
By Nick Lynch
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Implementing Culture Change: Organization DevelopmentPresenting a roadmap for culture change from the first steps of getting leaders prepared and on board, this Infoline teaches ways of communicating the change and identifying action plans and projects that will support it.
By Patricia Carr
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Implementing Positive Organizational Change: A Strategic Project Management ApproachWith examples, tips, and mini case studies, this book explains how to develop a continuous improvement culture of change that will be perceived by employees as a positive opportunity to create something new, exciting and valuable, instead of something negative to confront and resist.
By Gina Abudi
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Impromptu: Leading in the MomentDrawing upon the best impromptu moments from the Greeks to the present, this book shows you how to think on your feet and respond eloquently in every situation, and provides clear, actionable guidance to help you reach your full leadership potential.
By Judith Humphrey
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In Command of Guardians: Executive Servant Leadership for the Community of RespondersFeaturing case studies and questions as meditative exercises, this book explains how executive level/chief officers can lead their teams by helping responders develop and perform as highly as possible and meet the needs of their followers.
By Eric J. Russell
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In Great Company: How to Spark Peak Performance By Creating an Emotionally Connected WorkplacePresenting a practical approach to ensure that your employees perform at their highest possible levels, this groundbreaking book takes you step-by-step through the process of building a lasting emotional connection between your staff and your company.
By Louis Carter
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In Your Power: React Less, Regain Control, Raise OthersIn In Your Power, Dr. Sharon Melnick provides revolutionary advice and relevant skills to help disheartened individuals become invigorated powerhouses. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Sharon Melnick
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Inclusive Leadership: A Framework for the Global EraContaining ideas and concepts illustrated with many real-life examples, this insightful management book introduces an inspirational new ethics-oriented approach to business and leadership for current and future leaders.
By Peter A. Wuffli
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Influencer: The New Science of Leading Change, Second EditionInfluencer helps readers understand how to effect change in human behavior. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Al Switzler, David Maxfield, Joseph Grenny, Kerry Patterson, Ron McMillan
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Influencer: The New Science of Leading Change, Second EditionCombining the remarkable insights of behavioral scientists and business leaders with the astonishing stories of high-powered influencers from all walks of life, this book presents robust strategies for making change inevitable in your personal life, your business, and your world.
By Al Switzler, David Maxfield, Joseph Grenny, Kerry Patterson, Ron McMillan
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Influential Leadership: A Leader's Guide to Getting Things DoneUsing a simple new framework, this practical book demonstrates how to become a leader who is strong, inspirational, and able to drive results, and also helps readers better understand their leadership potential by discussing purpose and passion, and vision and strategy.
By Colin Gautrey
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Innovation LeadershipProviding an exciting and comprehensive resource for readers that are currently seeking to build success in organizations with new ideas, this book includes success stories and real-world examples of how innovation leadership has been used and applied in organizations.
By David G. Gliddon, William J. Rothwell (eds)
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Innovative Business Development: Implementing Transformation from Within NEW!This book is ideal for executives who aspire to transform their companies into more innovative organizations but are uncertain about the most effective strategies or have encountered previous failures.
By Yaron Flint
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Inside CEO Succession: The Essential Guide to Leadership TransitionBringing together business acumen and psychological insight, this book provides businesses, leaders, and boards with the strategies they need to execute their responsibilities with a heightened level of professionalism and ensure the sustained success of the companies they serve.
By Paul Winum, Thomas J. Saporito
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Inside the Ford-UAW Transformation: Pivotal Events in Valuing Work and Delivering ResultsDrawing on the authors' many decades of experience in the auto industry, this book provides an unprecedented inside look at how core operating assumptions are shifted and at the emergence of integrated operating systems for quality, safety, and other aspects of the enterprise.
By Dan Brooks, Joel Cutcher-Gershenfeld, Martin Mulloy
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Inspirational Leadership: Timeless Lessons for Leaders from Shakespeare's Henry VDrawing on his intimate knowledge of Shakespeare's play, Henry V, and its absorbing central character, acclaimed stage director and creative consultant Richard Olivier unmasks the secrets of inspirational leadership and reveals the timeless lessons it holds for managers and leaders today.
By Richard Olivier
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Inspire! What Great Leaders DoIncluding countless examples, stories, and case studies, this book offers business leaders a clear vision of what a positive, productive, inspiring organization looks like in these challenging and chaotic times, and how to get there.
By Lance Secretan
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Inspiring Leadership: Learning from Great LeadersRich in example and wide-ranging in scope, this thought-provoking book illustrates different facets of leadership, from the servant-leader to women as leaders, and explores the cardinal qualities of inspiring, communicating and decision making.
By John Adair
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Intangibles: The Unexpected Traits of High-Performing Healthcare LeaderOffering an engaging exploration of evidence-based practices from an array of leaders in different settings, this practical and thoughtful book demonstrates that you can embrace humility and still be excellent at your job.
By Amer Kaissi
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Intelligent Disobedience: The Difference between Good and Great LeadersWith an aim to enhance the reader's business success, this rich and sophisticated book explains how to determine instances in which improved outcomes are better than ensuring compliance with corporate norms or management directions.
By Bob McGannon
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Intelligent Leadership: What You Need to Know to Unlock Your Full PotentialFeaturing best practices, authoritative research, practical assessments, and enlightening examples of both good and bad leadership, this groundbreaking book equips readers with the knowledge, skills, and passion they need to become the leaders they were meant to be.
By John Mattone
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Intentional Leadership: The Big 8 Capabilities Setting Leaders ApartRevealing how leaders can enhance their abilities in our current uncertain and fast-paced times, Intentional Leadership speaks to the importance of being intentional and offers eight key capabilities for success.
By Rose M. Patten
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Intentional Power: The 6 Essential Leadership Skills for Triple Bottom Line ImpactIntentional Power: The 6 Essential Leadership Skills for Triple Bottom Line Impact is THE playbook for modern leaders.
By Corey Jones, JeanAnn Nichols, Lisen Stromberg
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Introduction to Health PolicyReinforcing the theories and concepts throughout the book with real-world cases and examples, this book will introduce students to health policy making, critical health policy issues, health policy research/evaluation methods, and international perspectives on health policy.
By Leiyu Shi
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Introduction to Theory of Control in OrganizationsIncluding a set of exercises in each chapter that vary from simple to advanced, this book provides the reader with the understanding required to integrate advanced methods of optimization, game theory, and mechanism design into daily managerial practice.
By Dmitry Novikov, Mikhail Goubko, Nikolay Korgin, Vladimir N. Burkov
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IT Change Management: A Practitioner's GuideEssential reading for anyone wishing to understand how IT change management can be implemented and put into practice within the workplace, this book bridges the gap between best practice training and the realities faced in real world implementation.
By Greg Sanker
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IT Project Management: A Geek's Guide to LeadershipAddressing leadership issues in the IT industry to help IT practitioners lead from the lowest level, this in-depth book includes a case study to show how to put leadership principles and practices into action and how an IT geek can transform into an effective IT geek leader.
By Byron A. Love
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IT Project Management: A Geek's Guide to LeadershipIn IT Project Management, author Byron Love empowers tech geeks to turn into efficient, trusted leaders. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Byron A. Love
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It's the People: What Really Drives Great Management and Leadership, Second EditionGreat managers and leaders, at whatever level, are ones capable of driving performance and change through people. This book provides essential actions and behaviours to pursue (and those to avoid) for any manager who is seeking the path to great management and leadership.
By John A. Dembitz
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Jack Welch and the 4 E's of Leadership: How to Put GE's Leadership Formula to Work in Your OrganizationBy examining Jack Welch's seminal 4e leadership model, this pragmatic, hands-on book outlines a step-by-step blueprint anyone can follow to stock an organization with performance-ready leaders and leaders-in-training.
By Jeffrey A. Krames
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Jack Welch and the GE Way: Management Insights and Leadership Secrets of the Legendary CEOPresenting a brilliant portrait of what makes Jack Welch tick, this book will show you how to work the Welch magic on your own company as you find out how he dismantled the boundaries between management layers, between engineers and marketers, and between GE and its customers to streamline the process of getting products and services to market.
By Robert Slater
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Jefa in Training: The Business Startup Toolkit for Entrepreneurial and Creative WomenJefa in Training isn't your typical small business book. Part Latinx book, it is a conversation with a special tribe of Latina immigrants, Hispanic American generations, and women of color in financial, media, entrepreneurial, and creative spaces.
By Ashley K. Stoyanov Ojeda
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John Adair's 100 Greatest Ideas for Effective LeadershipProviding accessible advice and practical exercises from one of the world's best-known and most sought-after authorities on leadership and management, this book presents the answers and inspiration you need to lead successfully.
By John Adair
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John F. Kennedy on Leadership: The Lessons and Legacy of a PresidentDrawing on the life and presidency of JFK, from the volatile civil rights movement to the nearly catastrophic Cuban missile crisis, this text outlines eleven core principles that made Kennedy a unique and dominant force.
By John A. Barnes
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Judgment: How Winning Leaders Make Great CallsIn Judgment, two renowned pioneers in the field of leadership studies present the elements of sound decision-making. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Noel Tichy, Warren Bennis
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Just Promoted!: A 12-Month Road Map for Success in Your New Leadership Role, Second EditionFilled with essential knowledge, practical advice and proven strategies, handy checklists, tips from the pros, and revealing real-world stories, this book will help you navigate the challenges of the first critical year in your new leadership role.
By Edward Betof, Nila Betof
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Kanban Change Leadership: Creating a Culture of Continuous ImprovementExplaining how and why Kanban offers a new approach to change in 21st Century businesses, this book aims to guide readers in the process of building a culture of continuous improvement by reviewing real case studies and seeing how Kanban is applied in various situations.
By Klaus Leopold, Siegfried Kaltenecker
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Keeping Employees Accountable for Results: Quick Tips for Busy ManagersLight on theory and heavy on practical application, this book contains checklists, how-tos, and other tools give gives time-pressed managers the proven, practical information they need to help their people accomplish more.
By Brian Cole Miller
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Kindness in LeadershipCombining an innovative mix of personal views from leaders with explorations of organizational philosophies and practices, this unique book explores both the concept and practice of kindness in leadership and considers them in different societal and organizational settings.
By Gay Haskins, Lalit Johri (eds), Mike Thomas
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Launching and Leading Change Initiatives in Health Care Organizations: Managing Successful ProjectsGiving leaders and managers the practical, easy-to-implement ideas and methodologies to start and manage projects successfully, this book offers a deep understanding of how hard the process of change really is, and how the difficulties can be eased by a systematic approach.
By David A. Shore
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Lead 4 Success: Learn the Essentials of True LeadershipSetting your development as a leader on the right track, this practical book provides tools and ideas that will help you develop and apply the skills that you need to demonstrate true leadership.
By George Hallenbeck
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Lead and Disrupt: How to Solve the Innovator's DilemmaLead and Disrupt teaches CEOs and other high-level business leaders how to survive and thrive when confronted with today's disruptive technologies. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Charles A. O'Reilly III, Michael L. Tushman
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Lead by Example: 50 Ways Great Leaders Inspire ResultsFilled with examples of visionary leaders who have overcome their shortcomings and achieved greatness, this practical guide will show readers how to build trust, drive results, and win the respect of the people they lead.
By John Baldoni
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Lead Inside the Box: How Smart Leaders Guide Their Teams to Exceptional ResultsIn Lead Inside the Box, authors Victor Prince and Mike Figliuolo provide a proven method to achieve performance excellence in the teams that you lead. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Mike Figliuolo, Victor Prince
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Lead Inside the Box: How Smart Leaders Guide Their Teams to Exceptional ResultsThrough simple frameworks brought to life with stories from the trenches, this book gives leaders a way to get the best out of their teams by focusing their energy where it will make the biggest difference.
By Mike Figliuolo, Victor Prince
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Lead Like an EntrepreneurFeaturing in-depth profiles and success stories from some of today's top companies, including IBM, 3M, Intel, GE, and many others, this essential guide will help put your business on a direct path of growth, renewed energy, and spectacular success.
By Neal Thornberry
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Lead Like it Matters...Because it Does: Practical Leadership Tools to Inspire and Engage Your People and Create Great ResultsPacked with handy charts, helpful questionnaires, step-by-step checklists, and other must-haves, this definitive workbook explains how to make those connections with others count--to leverage your skills and play on your strengths--to lead like it matters…because it does.
By Roxi Bahar Hewertson
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Lead More, Control Less: 8 Advanced Leadership Skills That Overturn ConventionDescribing eight essential skills for establishing a culture that encourages people to take charge of themselves, this book uses examples and case studies to show leaders how they can share responsibility, defuse group conflicts, enable everyone to get the big picture, and more.
By Marvin Weisbord, Sandra Janoff
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Lead Positive: What Highly Effective Leaders See, Say and DoTaking the fundamentals of Asset-Based Thinking (ABT) and turning them into a playbook for successful leadership, this guide shows leaders how to apply ABT to shift their attention away from what is negative and learn to intentionally shine the spotlight on the positive, beneficial facts of a situation.
By Kathryn D. Cramer
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Lead Positive: What Highly Effective Leaders See, Say and DoFor business leaders who see corporate vistas but also crave rewarding personal encounters, Lead Positive presents strategies that capitalize on personal strengths to get the best out of yourself, others, and problematic situations. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Kathryn D. Cramer
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Lead Through Anything: Harness Purpose, Vitality, and Agility to Thrive in the Face of Unrelenting ChangeThe logical, inspirational, and simplified approach you need to lead through unprecedented chaos-and help your teams and organizations thrive
By Dustin Seale, Ed Manfre
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Lead with a Story: A Guide to Crafting Business Narratives That Captivate, Convince, and InspireIn Lead with a Story, author Paul Smith discusses the role of storytelling in the modern business world and the ways stories can be used to deal with common leadership challenges. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Paul Smith
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Lead With Humility: 12 Leadership Lessons from Pope FrancisLead with Humility presents Pope Francis's life as a case study for becoming a successful leader who focuses on, empathizes with, and inspires the people under your management. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Jeffrey A. Krames
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Lead with Purpose: Giving Your Organization a Reason to Believe in ItselfFeaturing illuminating stories, interviews, and profiles of leaders from a variety of fields, this practical book shows readers how to take their organizations to the next level with renewed focus and improved direction.
By John Baldoni
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Lead with Speed: Fire Up Your Team, Power Your Engine of Development, and Make Your Organization SoarIn Lead with Speed, author Alan Willett challenges you to embrace the concept of speed to value and ultimately transform your organization's approach to development for the better. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Alan Willett
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Lead with Your Customer: Transform Culture and Brand into World-Class ExcellencePresented in an engaging and straight-forward style with many interesting case studies, this book provides a model that serves as a guiding beacon for leaders, aligning the work to bottom-line results, long-term success, and a world-class reputation.
By J. Jeff Kober, Mark David Jones
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Leader Evolution: From Technical Expertise to Strategic LeadershipIdeally suited for technical professionals and leaders in technical organizations looking to develop critical leadership skills distinct from technical expertise, this book describes a road map for leadership development, a series of four stages that expand personal competence as well as create a broader impact on the organization or business.
By Alan Patterson
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Leader Evolution: From Technical Expertise to Strategic LeadershipLeader Evolution provides a valuable, practical set of tools and advice for developing critical leadership skills. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Alan Patterson
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Leader to Leader 2: Enduring Insights on Leadership from the Leader to Leader Institute's Award-Winning JournalBringing together the best and most popular articles from the award-winning journal "Leader to Leader," this unique book provides valuable lessons for all leaders and emerging leaders, whatever their role and wherever they find themselves.
By Alan Shrader, Frances Hesselbein
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Leader's Mind: How Great Leaders Prepare, Perform, and PrevailClear and concise steps to develop the confidence and mental edge that sets you apart as a trailblazing leader the same approach thousands of professional athletes have used to become champions.
By PhD Afremow Jim, Phil White
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Leaderocity : Leading at the Speed of NowThis book explains about Leadership principles.
By Richard Dool
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Leaders as Teachers: Unlock the Teaching Potential of Your Company's Best and BrightestProviding detailed plans, exercises, worksheets, and sample training agendas, this book offers a complete explanation of why the leaders-as-teachers approach works, and gives you a thorough guide to creating your own program.
By Edward Betof
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Leaders Eat Last: Why Some Teams Pull Together and Others Don'tLeaders Eat Last provides a compass for aspiring leaders wishing to really make a difference and point their teams in one direction-toward success. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Simon Sinek
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Leaders Made Here: Building A Leadership CultureOutlining a clear and replicable approach to creating the leadership bench every organization needs, this book provides a practical plan that any organization can use to create a leadership culture, sustained competitive advantage, and long-term success.
By Mark Miller
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Leaders Make the Future: Ten New Leadership Skills for an Uncertain World, Second EditionDrawing on the latest ten-year forecast from the Institute for the Future, this powerful book explores the external forces that are shaking the foundations of leadership and unveils ten critical new skills that will be required in the future that you can easily learn.
By Bob Johansen
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Leaders Make the Future: Ten New Leadership Skills for an Uncertain World, Second EditionLeaders Make the Future argues that, in order to thrive in today's business world, leaders have to develop new skills that enable them to proactively embrace the future. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Bob Johansen
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Leaders Open Doors: A Radically Simple Leadership Approach to Lift People, Profits, and PerformanceCombining personal stories and anecdotes to illustrate how (and how not) to inspire people, this book presents a fresh and unique take on leadership that will benefit experienced leaders and those just starting their leadership journeys.
By Bill Treasurer
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Leaders Without TitlesRevealing six attributes that are necessary to be a complete leader, this book challenges the way we determine who our leaders should be, and uncover the factors that really influence the ability to lead.
By Stephen J. Sampson
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Leadershift: Making Leadership Everyone's BusinessLeaderShift highlights the six vital shifts that organizations must make in order to institute a culture of leadership responsibility amongst all team members. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By David Cottrell, Ken Carnes
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LeaderShift: Making Leadership Everyone's BusinessReinforcing that long-lasting leadership requires as much courage as it does insight, this book is a gripping fable that serves as a timeless reminder that the foundation of leadership is not about power but rather truth, humility, and allowing others to take ownership for their success.
By David Cottrell, Ken Carnes
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Leadershift: The 11 Essential Changes Every Leader Must EmbraceWritten by an internationally recognized leadership expert, this book helps leaders gain the ability and willingness to make leadership changes that will positively enhance their organizational and personal growth.
By John C. Maxwell
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Leadership (The Brian Tracy Success Library)Packed with practical, proven methods, this indispensable, concise yet powerful guide will help you unlock your leadership potential: inspire trust, confidence and loyalty; instill a sense of meaning and purpose in your organization; clearly communicate goals and strategies, and much more.
By Brian Tracy
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Leadership 101: What Every Leader Needs to KnowGuiding readers through practical steps to develop true leadership in their lives and the lives of others, this concise, straightforward book focuses on essential, time-tested qualities necessary for true leadership: influence, integrity, attitude, vision, problem-solving, and self-discipline.
By John C. Maxwell
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Leadership 2030: The Six Megatrends You Need to Understand to Lead Your Company into the FutureDrawn from original research conducted jointly with foresight company Z-Punkt and further analyzed by Hay Group, this forward-thinking book will help businesses everywhere prepare for the seismic changes on the horizon.
By Georg Vielmetter, Yvonne Sell
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Leadership 2030: The Six Megatrends You Need to Understand to Lead Your Company into the FutureLeadership 2030 describes the most impactful coming business trends and identifies the skills needed to tackle them and strategies to steer businesses successfully through the turbulent times to come. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Georg Vielmetter, Yvonne Sell
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Leadership Agility: Five Levels of Mastery for Anticipating and Initiating ChangeRichly illustrated with stories based on original research and decades of work with clients, this groundbreaking book identifies five levels that leaders move through in developing their agility.
By Stephen A. Josephs, William B. Joiner
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Leadership and Motivation: The Fifty-Fifty Rule and the Eight Key Principles of Motivating OthersAuthored by leadership guru John Adair, this introspective book reassesses the theories of Herzberg and Maslow - still the major contributors to our understanding of motivation - in the context of Action-Centred Leadership.
By John Adair
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Leadership and Self-Deception: Getting Out of the Box, 3rd EditionRevealing that the key to leadership lies not in what we do but in who we are, this practical book details powerful insights on motivation, conflict, and collaboration and explains how they can benefit organizations as well as individuals.
By The Arbinger Institute
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Leadership and Self-Deception: Getting Out of the Box, Second EditionLeadership and Self-Deception uses an engaging, character-led story to reveal the profound psychological behavior that conceals our motivations and intentions, trapping us in a "box" of self-justification. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By The Arbinger Institute
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Leadership and Self-Deception: Getting Out of the Box, Second EditionExplaining how leaders can discover their own self-deceptions and learn how to escape destructive patterns, this book demonstrates how doing so leads to improved teamwork, commitment, trust, communication, motivation, and leadership.
By The Arbinger Institute
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Leadership and the Art of Struggle: How Great Leaders Grow through Challenge and AdversityOffering a host of unique tools and specific, hands-on practices, this book will help you learn how to cultivate the best mindset for confronting challenges, explore multiple tactics for dealing with struggle, and keep your energy high so you can continue to learn and grow.
By Steven Snyder
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Leadership and the Sexes: Using Gender Science to Create Success in BusinessThrough examples and case studies from companies like Kodak, Nike, Nintendo, Home Depot, Proctor & Gamble, Avon, and Disney, the book shows readers how ignoring gender diversity actually impedes the true potential of any business.
By Barbara Annis, Michael Gurian
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Leadership and the Sexes: Using Gender Science to Create Success in BusinessLeadership and the Sexes is an enlightening, insightful, and thought-provoking book that illustrates a science-based approach to gender. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Barbara Annis, Michael Gurian
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Leadership Assessment for Talent DevelopmentComprised of contributions from business leaders who have become experts in leadership development, and academics in work-based learning, this engaging and accessible book offers practical ways to use leadership assessments to enhance talent, rather than stifle it.
By John Knights (eds), Tony Wall
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Leadership at Scale: Better Leadership, Better ResultsUsing extensive research, distilled insights from McKinsey's leadership development work in practice, and lessons from a highly successful leadership development program, this book focuses on the leadership behaviors that matter most.
By Claudio Feser, Michael Rennie, Nicolai Chen Nielsen
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Leadership Basics for Frontline Managers: Tips for Raising Your Level of Effectiveness and CommunicationIllustrating key concepts with realistic scenarios drawn from actual work situations, this practical guide is focused on interpersonal management skills and explains what it takes to improve how you communicate and relate to your employees, customers, and bosses.
By Bill Templeman
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Leadership Blindspots: How Successful Leaders Identify and Overcome the Weaknesses That MatterContaining examples, worksheets and surveys that illustrate the practical application of the advice presented, this book is a comprehensive guide to recognizing and acting on the weak points that can impair effectiveness, diminish results, and harm a career.
By Robert Bruce Shaw
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Leadership Blindspots: How Successful Leaders Identify and Overcome the Weaknesses That MatterLeadership Blindspots takes a direct and honest look at the flaws and foibles that are hardest to see in ourselves, and provides a template for how those looking to lead can limit the impact that these weaknesses have in their professional lives. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Robert Bruce Shaw
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Leadership Brand: Deliver on Your PromiseFrom proven strategies from CCL experts, to practical advice you can implement immediately, this practical resource can help you figure out the leader you want to be, and how to build the brand that can get you there.
By David Magellan Horth, Lynn B. Miller, Portia R. Mount
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Leadership by Choice: Increasing Influence and Effectiveness Through Self-ManagementProviding applicable ideas in an entertaining manner, this concise book looks at key strategies for leaders to excel not just through ability and smarts, but by connecting with others and establishing strong decision-making skills.
By Eric Papp
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Leadership Can Be Learned: Clarity, Connection, and ResultsInterspersed with conversational stories and quizzes throughout, this clear, how-to resource delivers a practical, yet unique guide to leading organizations to higher performance by blending theory and lessons learned through practice.
By Gilmore Crosby
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Leadership Coaching: Working with Leaders to Develop Elite Performance, 2nd EditionLeadership Coaching discusses the models, tools, and frameworks that can be used to develop effective coaching strategies. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Jonathan Passmore (ed)
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Leadership Coaching: Working with Leaders to Develop Elite Performance, 2nd EditionDrawing on top coaching practitioners' thinking and writing, this book presents an in-depth understanding of the tools, techniques, and frameworks that can be used to enhance the coach/coachee relationship.
By Jonathan Passmore (ed)
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Leadership Communication: How Leaders Communicate and How Communicators Lead in Today's Global EnterpriseDemonstrating the importance of communication strategies in moving a corporation through the numerous challenges faced by leaders and others in the C-suite, this book presents lessons of both past and current corporate leadership challenges, drawing on leadership history and organizational thought-leader influence, and exposes students to modern realities.
By E. Bruce Harrison, Judith Mühlberg
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Leadership Conversations: Challenging High Potential Managers to Become Great LeadersIdentifying four types of conversations every leader must master, this book provides practical guidance for connecting with others in ways that transform each interaction into an opportunity for organizational and personal growth.
By Alan S. Berson, Richard G. Stieglitz
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Leadership Defense: Mastering Progressive Discipline and Structuring TerminationsGreatly reduce the stress of managing a team with this quick and reliable information on how to correctly master both legally and ethically progressive discipline and structured termination, from the leading voice in HR expertise.
By Paul Falcone
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Leadership Development BasicsAddressing leadership traits and competency areas necessary for potential leaders, this book is a comprehensive guide for creating leadership development programs and measuring the impact of leadership development activities against organizational goals.
By Karen Lawson
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Leadership for a Fractured World: How to Cross Boundaries, Build Bridges, and Lead ChangeLeadership for a Fractured World shows you what leadership looks like in a world divided, and how to lead without letting it break you. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Dean Williams
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Leadership for a Fractured World: How to Cross Boundaries, Build Bridges, and Lead ChangeDrawing on the author's years of working in countries and organizations around the world, this book outlines an approach that enables leaders to transcend internal and external boundaries and help people to collaborate, even people over whom they technically have no power.
By Dean Williams
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Leadership for Great Customer Service: Satisfied Employees, Satisfied Patients, Second EditionPresenting the authors' model for achieving customer service excellence in three parts, this entertaining, yet practical book is a definitive source for healthcare leaders seeking to transform their organizations' approach to elevating and sustaining service excellence.
By Robert J. Cates, Thom A. Mayer
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Leadership for Health Professionals: Theory, Skills, and Applications, Fourth EditionThis comprehensive and well-organized text is grounded in real-world applications of theoretical concepts, and focuses on practical examples of leadership in actual healthcare scenarios. Themes such as organizational culture, cultural competency, ethical frameworks and moral practice, scientific methodology, and leader competencies are woven through the entire text.
By Gerald R. Ledlow, Michele Bosworth, Thomas Maryon
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Leadership for Health Professionals: Theory, Skills, and Applications, Second EditionGrounded in real-world applications of theoretical concepts, and focused on practical examples of leadership practice in actual healthcare scenarios, this comprehensive book applies classical knowledge of leadership theory and time-honored best practices of industry leaders to a health organization context.
By Gerald (Jerry) R. Ledlow, M. Nicholas Coppola
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Leadership for Public Health: Theory and PracticeWith examples and cases specific to the field of public health, this book aims to develop the leadership necessary to galvanize organizations and communities in transformational change to improve the public's health.
By Erik L. Carlton, James W. Holsinger Jr.
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Leadership from the Inside Out: Becoming a Leader for Life, Second EditionWith case studies and best practices, this book serves as an integrated coaching experience that helps leaders understand how to harness their authentic, value-creating influence and elevate their impact as individuals, in teams, and in organizations.
By Kevin Cashman
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Leadership from the Inside Out: Becoming a Leader for Life, Third EditionBalancing timeless principles with emerging research, this book serves as an integrated growth experience that helps leaders understand how to harness their authentic, value-creating influence and elevate their impact.
By Kevin Cashman
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Leadership Genius: 40 Insights from the Science of LeadingQuick to read and intensely practical, this book cuts through the noise to bring you proven research and techniques for applying it that will simply make you a better leader.
By Rus Slater
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Leadership Gold: Lessons I've Learned from a Lifetime of LeadingIn Leadership Gold, John C. Maxwell shares the invaluable insights he has gained in over forty years of leadership expertise, offering practical advice and encouragement to leaders everywhere. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By John C. Maxwell
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Leadership Hacks: Clever Shortcuts to Boost Your Impact and Results, Expanded and Updated Second EditionThis is a book for leaders looking for the life, work, and business hacks that will help you manage and inspire others. Whether you're feeling burned out or thriving but still looking for better strategies to get things done and stay on top, this book will open your mind to new possibilities.
By Scott Stein
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Leadership in a Time of Continuous Technological Change: Align, Strengthen, And Mobilize Your TeamAn unmatched resource fit for our new decade, this book analyzes detailed case studies so you will see how understanding your identity paves the way to achieving emancipation, capability, and autonomy.
By Bar Schwartz
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Leadership in a Week: Be a Leader in Seven Simple StepsA simple and straightforward guide to leadership success, this book introduces you to the main themes and ideas of leading, giving you a basic knowledge and understanding of the key concepts, together with practical and thought-provoking exercises.
By Carol O'Connor
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Leadership in Complexity and Change: For a World in Constant MotionLeadership in Complexity and Change draws on complexity science to paint a picture of a world in constant motion, where leadership is enacted in the midst of complexity and continuous change.
By Sharon Varney
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Leadership in Healthcare: Essential Values and Skills, Third EditionWith case studies, exercises, and self-assessment tools, this valuable resource provides a comprehensive overview of leadership principles specific to the healthcare environment and explores both personal and team values that drive appropriate and effective behavior.
By Carson F. Dye
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Leadership in Higher Education: Practices That Make a DifferenceThis book offers five practices that can make any college or university leader into an exemplary leader.
By Barry Z. Posner, James M. Kouzes
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Leadership in Higher Education: Practices That Make A DifferenceIn Leadership in Higher Education, Kouzes and Posner debunk the traditional stereotypes around leadership, proving that the act of leading for positive change isn't reliant on your title, but rather on your determination and passion. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Barry Z. Posner, Jim Kouzes
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Leadership in New Working Environments: Realizing the Potential of Flexible Workplace ConceptsThis book discusses the challenges that modern and flexible workplace concepts pose for managers.
By Sandra Gauer
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Leadership in the Digital Age: Renaissance of the Renaissance ManThe world is in the midst of a digital transformation that is transcending all industries. This is a book for anyone intrigued by the complexities of digital leadership that require a capability to constantly balance the routines of everyday business with the ability to innovate.
By Niklas Hageback
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Leadership in the Era of Economic Uncertainty: The New Rules for Getting the Right Things Done in Difficult TimesNothing is certain in the business world, but Leadership in the Era of Economic Uncertainty equips you with the practical tools needed to thrive during an economic crisis. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Ram Charan
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Leadership is a Relationship: How to Put People First in the Digital WorldIn Leadership is a Relationship, accomplished founders and authors Michael S. Erwin and Willys DeVoll deliver an insightful collection of interviews with leaders who have succeeded by prioritizing the wellbeing of other people.
By Michael S. Erwin, Willys DeVoll
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Leadership Language: Using Authentic Communication to Drive ResultsFrom student leaders to the C-suite, there is only one way for a leader to make an impact: communication. This clear and practical book is your personal guide to mastering critical skills and unveiling your authentic potential.
By Chris Westfall
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Leadership Lessons for Any Occasion: Stories of Our MothersOffering bite-size anecdotes about how a mother's wisdom shapes the lives of leaders, coaches, trainers, and each one of us, this book provides stories from a wide range of professionals about how their mothers guided their paths to helping others lead resourceful, meaningful lives.
By Ed Betof, Nila Betof
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Leadership Lessons from a UPS Driver: Delivering a Culture of We, Not MeA must-read for anyone aspiring to become a great leader, this book offers straightforward and easy-to-understand lessons which provide a blueprint to build on past successes and adapt to future challenges.
By Ron Wallace
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Leadership Lessons from the Cherokee Nation: Learn From All I ObserveOffering a holistic approach to the subject, this book combines Cherokee wisdom handed down from generation to generation with a smart leadership approach to explain how to become a powerful leader inside and direct your energy outward to accomplish any goal you set your mind to.
By Chad “Corntassel” Smith
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Leadership Lessons from West PointAuthored by those who are teaching or have taught at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point and have served in positions of leadership that span the globe, this book offers insight into what leadership means to these experts-in both war and peacetime.
By Doug Crandall (ed)
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Leadership Lessons of the Navy SEALs: Battle-Tested Strategies for Creating Successful Organizations and Inspiring Extraordinary ResultsLeadership Lessons of the Navy SEALs shows how leadership techniques learned in the midst of war can be applied to today's business environment. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Jeff Cannon, Jon Cannon
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Leadership Lexicon: A Handbook of Leadership Competencies with Skills and Development ActionsWritten for busy leaders with little time on the job to devote to improving their effectiveness, this handbook is packed with concrete behaviors for becoming the type of leader others follow.
By Rick Bellingham, William O'Brien
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Leadership Material: How Personal Experience Shapes Executive PresenceThis book shows how to make enduring behavioral changes that will produce better business results and create alignment among disparate groups using empathy and leadership language.
By Diana Jones
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Leadership Offense: Mastering Appraisal, Performance, and Professional DevelopmentReady-to-use words, phrases, descriptions, and action items right at your fingertips to organize and streamline employee reviews, create clear and effective career development plans, and monitor performance year-round, from the leading voice in HR expertise.
By Paul Falcone
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Leadership on the Line: Staying Alive through the Dangers of LeadingBoth uplifting and practical, this essential book enables each of us to lead courageously and confidently in today's risky world-without losing ourselves.
By Marty Linsky, Ronald A. Heifetz
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Leadership Passages: The Personal and Professional Transitions That Make or Break a LeaderBased on research, interviews and coaching of senior executives in such well-known companies, this breakthrough book offers some of their highs and lows, and what effective leaders have done to navigate and grow from the challenge.
By David L. Dotlich, James L. Noel, Norman Walker
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Leadership Philosophy in the Fiction of C.S. LewisThis book aims to develop a philosophy of leadership.
By Aaron Perry
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Leadership Pocketbook, 2nd EditionBy setting out the principles of leadership, the role of the leader, the skills required for effective leadership and the key challenges facing leaders in today's business environment, this practical guide shows you how to get to know yourself - to realise what your leadership strengths and weaknesses are, and when you must continue to develop.
By Fiona Elsa Dent
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Leadership Pure and Simple: How Transformative Leaders Create Winning OrganizationsGiving you the tools to turn today's toughest business challenges into transformative opportunities for profitability and growth, this book will show you how to adapt your company to the upheaval going on around it and lead it to ultimate success.
By David Wilkins, Greg Carolin
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Leadership Revolution: The Future of Developing Dynamic LeadersAn invaluable and practical strategy guide for leadership and talent development, Leadership Revolution is the perfect resource for managers, executives, coaches, and other business leaders looking for proven ways to shape the next generation of leaders in their firms.
By Lori Mazan
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Leadership Rules: 50 Timeless Lessons for LeadersComplete with engaging illustrations, this dip-in, dip-out book presents 50 practical rules that we can all follow and use to become the effective leaders we aspire to be.
By Jo Owen
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Leadership Secrets: The Experts Tell All!Whether you're a leader or an aspiring leader, this book will show you how to be a memorable leader! This quick, easy guide will help you understand and develop your leadership style, identify strategic goals for your department, motivate and manage teams, build a culture of results and responsibility, and more.
By Michael Heath
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Leadership Skills for Managers, Fourth EditionManaging in today's complex workplace demands a new type of leadership. This course delivers the knowledge, skills and guidance managers need to become twenty-first century leaders.
By Charles M. Cadwell
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Leadership Skills that Inspire Incredible ResultsOutlining the skills needed to be an effective leader, this book provides you with new insights and perspectives on what these skills are and how you can use them with confidence and create even greater success for you, for your team, and for the entire organization.
By Fred Halstead
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Leadership Solutions: The Pathway to Bridge the Leadership GapOffering concrete and precise strategies to close the leadership gap, this organizational guide challenges traditional approaches of building leadership capacity with a new perspective that recognizes leadership as a source of competitive advantage.
By David S. Weiss, Liane Davey, Vince Molinaro
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Leadership Step by Step: Become the Person Others FollowHelping you accomplish the inner work and gain the social skills required for great leadership, this book walks you through what to do and how to do it in an integrated progression of exercises designed to cultivate key abilities, behaviors, and beliefs through experience.
By Joshua Spodek
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Leadership Step by Step: Become the Person Others FollowLeadership Step by Step demonstrates, in a collection of structured exercises, how anyone can develop the skills necessary to become a leader. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Joshua Spodek
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Leadership Strategies for Women: Lessons from Four Queens on Leadership and Career DevelopmentTelling the stories of four powerful women who knew how to make it to the top - and stay there, this book explicitly identifies the key factors in these leaders' career success, and elucidates the competencies that enabled the women to exercise leadership effectively.
By Paul Vanderbroeck
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Leadership the Barack Obama Way: Lessons on Teambuilding and Creating a Winning Culture in Challenging TimesBreaking down Obama's style into easily digestible pieces that you can apply in any situation, this book presents all the skills of extraordinary leadership and explains how to thrive in any business setting by adopting the same skill set.
By Shel Leanne
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Leadership TrainingLeadership Training is designed to provide all the tools necessary for organizing and offering leadership development workshops and seminars for facilitators of all levels of expertise and experience. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Lou Russell
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Leadership Training, Association for Talent Development (c) 2015Complete with effective training methodologies, this book helps you accelerate learning and leverage technology for maximum efficiency, and presents a step-by-step blueprint for developing and delivering dynamic, powerful leadership training.
By Lou Russell
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Leadership Training, First EditionContaining exercises, handouts, assessments and tools, this guide will help you develop strong leaders at all levels, encourage growth of key leadership competencies, become a more effective facilitator, ensure training is on target and get results.
By Lou Russell
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Leadership Transitions: How Business Leaders Take Charge in New RolesBy Identifying and analyzing why some leaders flounder or fail in new positions - whether they arrived as an external appointment or were promoted internally - this book offers strategies for successfully managing their new roles.
By Bridget Farrands, Richard Elsner
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Leadership Trust: Build It, Keep ItAimed at managers and executives who are concerned with their own and others' development, this book helps leaders create a common language and understanding around issues of trust that show up in the organizational environment.
By Christopher Evans
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Leadership Wisdom: Discovering the Lessons of ExperienceDescribing the processes of inquiry and reflection, this guide will help you develop your capacity to make wise choices so you will begin to see a broad range of possible responses and wisely choose the ones that will work best.
By Jeffrey Yip, Rola Ruohong Wei
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Leadership Without Excuses: How to Create Accountability and High-Performance (Instead of Just Talking About It)Helping you put your team on the path to success, this game-changing book is the definitive guide to taking excuses out of the system and creating an environment where accountability and performance are consistently high.
By Gregg Baron, Jeff Grimshaw
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Leadership: All You Need to KnowCombining the author's insights with numerous practical examples, this authoritative book presents a leadership model for the future which creates the right conditions for people to thrive, individually and collectively, and achieve significant goals.
By Adrian Furnham, David Pendleton
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Leadership: Essential Selections on Power, Authority, and InfluenceSometimes practical, sometimes philosophical, always enlightening and enlivening, this book illuminates some of the most seminal and salient leadership lessons from the greatest leadership literature that has stood the test of time.
By Barbara Kellerman (ed)
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Leadership: In Turbulent TimesDoris Kearns Goodwin provides a comprehensive look at how true leaders are able to rise above themselves and lead even in times of utmost crises. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Doris Kearns Goodwin
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Leadership: The Inner Side of Greatness, A Philosophy for LeadersFor the business professional who's interested in inspiring instead of managing, Leadership provides a fresh take on garnering success by building up a company's greatest asset: its people. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Peter Koestenbaum
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Leadership: The Multiplier EffectSupplemented with anecdotes, pithy quotes and asides that help bring the content to life, this book is crammed with the latest thinking on leadership, strengths, positive psychology, purpose, employee engagement, coaching, emotional intelligence and life.
By Andy Cope, Jonathan Peach, Mike Martin
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Leadership: The Power of Emotional IntelligenceProviding a comprehensive collection of key findings on leadership, this one-stop guide will help develop stellar management, performance and innovation.
By Daniel Goleman
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Leadersights: Creating Great Leaders Who Create Great WorkplacesOffering a new leadership model blending existing theories into an integral structure, this book focuses on the critical few leadership skills that provide better results and demonstrates proven improvement techniques, tools, and structures for higher satisfaction.
By David Veech
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Leading and Managing LeanLean is a comprehensive, integral system consisting of four interdependent elements: leadership, culture, team, and practices and tools. This book examines these elements following a systematic, hierarchical orientation and explains their relevance for guiding lean initiatives.
By Gene Fliedner
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Leading Apple With Steve Jobs: Management Lessons From a Controversial GeniusAuthored by the late Steve Jobs' right-hand man and key troubleshooter, this book details how Steve managed and motivated his people-and what every manager can learn from Jobs about motivating people to do the best work of their lives.
By Jay Elliot
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Leading at The Edge: Leadership Lessons from the Extraordinary Saga of Shackleton's Antarctic Expedition, Second EditionPart adventure tale, part leadership guide, this inspiring book reveals ten timeless leadership lessons that will help leaders bring order to chaos and achieve success in the face of adversity.
By Dennis N.T. Perkins, Jillian B. Murphy, Margaret P. Holtman
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Leading Beyond Change: A Practical Guide to Evolving Business AgilityThis book explain the steps of leading beyond change-evolving beyond servant leadership to make the inner shift needed to unlock the practical skills and techniques.
By Audree Tara Sahota, Michael K. Sahota
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Leading Beyond Change: A Practical Guide to Evolving Business AgilityIn Leading Beyond Change, the authors discuss a framework of practical tools and insights that organizational leaders can employ to foster a high-performing business. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Audree Tara Sahota, Michael K. Sahota
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Leading beyond the Ego: How to Become a Transpersonal LeaderAn essential read for current and aspiring organizational leaders, HR professionals, executive coaches and mentors, this book is a vital point of reference for anyone in a leadership position and who wants to embrace this new world and Transpersonal Leadership.
By Danielle Grant, Greg Young (eds), John Knights
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Leading Business Change: A Practical Guide to Transforming Your OrganizationPresenting an easy and fun read that will inspire you to think more closely about how you implement change as a leader, this book offers a proven approach to help leaders of global initiatives grapple with impossible projects and deliver on their goals.
By Karin Stumpf
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Leading ChangeFor the modern business professional striving to make a positive difference in the workplace, Leading Change breaks down barriers by exploring the reasons why change initiatives fail or succeed. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By John P. Kotter
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Leading ChangeAn eight-step process for leaders to create permanent transformation in their organizations.
By John P. Kotter
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Leading Change Toward Sustainability: A Change-Management Guide for Business, Government and Civil Society , 2nd EditionCrammed with case examples, interviews and checklists on how to move corporate and governmental cultures toward sustainability, this book demonstrates how leaders can transform their organizations into better social and environmental citizens.
By Bob Doppelt
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Leading Change TrainingThis workbook is for those seeking to create solid change programs within their organizations. Users will be able to quickly create half-day, full-day, and multi-day workshops that integrate change leadership models and theories into training programs.
By Jeffrey Russell, Linda Russell
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Leading Change: How Successful Leaders Approach Change ManagementSupported by academic research, and grounded with a range of examples and cases, this valuable book provides a framework for change that opens opportunities for people within the organization to play a significant role in the process.
By Paul Lawrence
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Leading Change: How Successful Leaders Approach Change ManagementLeading Change provides a multi-pronged and empowering framework for anyone looking to effectively administer a transitional period in a workplace. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Paul Lawrence
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Leading Change: Moving Your Team in the Right DirectionThe My Practical MBA Series provides the latest thinking as well as perennial techniques for a range of business challenges. This brief guide explains that leading change is about being flexible, overcoming the boundaries and achieving results that benefit customers and the business.
By LID Editorial
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Leading Change: Overcoming the Ideology of Comfort and the Tyranny of CustomIn Leading Change, author James O'Toole suggests that while many modes of leadership can achieve degrees of success, the only real leadership comes from a place of integrity and morality. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By James O’Toole
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Leading Continuous Change: Navigating Churn in the Real WorldOffering detailed advice, practical tools, and real-world examples for navigating change, this comprehensive guide presents a four-part model and four mindsets that allow leaders to deal with multiple changes simultaneously without drowning in the churn.
By Bill Pasmore
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Leading Cultural Change: The Theory and Practice of Successful Organizational TransformationUsing theories and methods rooted in behavioral sciences, this practical guide aims to broaden managers' and consultants' understanding of cultural change to help them lead a successful change intervention in their organization.
By David Potter, James McCalman
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Leading Culture Change in Global Organizations: Aligning Culture and StrategyFilled with case studies from firms such as GT Automotive, GE Healthcare China, Vale, Dominos, Swiss Re Americas Division, and Polar Bank, this book combines research and survey results to illustrate a critical set of cultural dynamics that firms need to manage in order to remain competitive.
By Colleen Lief, Daniel Denison, Nancy Lane, Robert Hooijberg
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Leading for Organisational Change: Building Purpose, Motivation and BelongingAn invaluable resource for professional services and people-focused organizations, this book provides advice that can cross sectors and lend insight to any major change program.
By Jennifer Emery
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Leading for Success: Unleash Your Leadership Potential to Achieve Extraordinary ResultsProviding IT managers with practical advice and tips on how to become an effective leader, this concise book will help you develop effective communication skills to inspire and enthuse your team.
By Sarah Cook
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Leading from the Front: No-Excuse Leadership Tactics for WomenPassing on field-tested strategies and hard-fought insights, this book delivers 10 key practices to becoming a powerful leader and will help you improve your decision-making, focus, and performance.
By Angie Morgan, Courtney Lynch
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Leading from the Front: No-Excuse Leadership Tactics for WomenLeading from the Front presents powerful leadership strategies, designed to help women take control of all facets of their lives. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Angie Morgan, Courtney Lynch
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Leading From the Top: Presidential Lessons in Issues ManagementReading the book, you will learn why asking permission, reframing the issue, and knowing the length of your runway are all important components in successful issues management.
By Dennis M. Powell
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Leading in a Culture of ChangeIncorporating case examples of large scale transformation, this detailed guide offers new and seasoned leaders' insights into the dynamics of change and presents a unique and imaginative approach for navigating the intricacies of the change process.
By Michael Fullan
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Leading in a Culture of Change, Second EditionDescribing the key dimensions of leadership that are crucial in times of change, this book includes precise definitions of the core competencies of change, case studies of their development and practical application, and guidance on their effective use through concrete examples.
By Michael Fullan
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Leading in Tough Times: The Manager's Guide to Responsibility, Trust, and MotivationIn this guide you'll learn step-by-step how to lead authentically and genuinely, help people feel empowered, conduct yourself with character, embrace change and more.
By Richard S. Deems, Terri A. Deems
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Leading LeadersThe My Practical MBA Series provides the latest thinking as well as perennial techniques for a range of business challenges. This concise guide shows leaders how to proactively look for ways to reinforce their direct report's own position as a leader, setting high standards for communication, support and focused energy
By LID Editorial
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Leading Leaders: How to Manage Smart, Talented, Rich, and Powerful PeopleRather than relying on top-down processes that may apply in a typical leadership hierarchy, this book shows how to develop one-on-one, up-close-and-personal relationships with influential people and how to leverage their expertise toward strong results.
By Jeswald W. Salacuse
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Leading Loyalty: Cracking the Code to Customer DevotionFull of eye-opening examples and practical tools, this book will show you how building loyalty and modeling great customer service behavior to develop frontline teams is the key to building raving fans.
By Leena Rinne, Sandy Rogers, Shawn Moon
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Leading Mindfully: How to Focus on What Matters, Influence for Good, and Enjoy Leadership MoreIn a world where we regularly feel captured by a never ending 'To Do' list, expanding demands and depleted energies, this engaging book provides a practical, simple and powerful path to leadership that is not only sustainable but full of delights and pleasures.
By Amanda Sinclair
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Leading on the Edge: Extraordinary Stories and Leadership Insights from The World's Most Extreme WorkplaceOffering a deeply honest and humorous account of what it takes to survive and lead in the harshest environments, this book shares the lessons the author learned while leading a year-long expedition to the wilds of Antarctica, and explains what it's like to take charge when you've no place to hide.
By Rachael Robertson
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Leading Organizations: Ten Timeless TruthsLeading Organizations offers insights on enduring organizational leadership topics for managers, leaders, and senior executives alike who are keen to improve, uplift, and inspire their organizations toward success. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretations of its contents.
By Mary Meaney, Scott Keller
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Leading Out Loud: A Guide for Engaging Others in Creating the Future, Third Edition, Newly RevisedOffering information, stories and experiences that demonstrate success in authentic leadership communication, this important book shows leaders in all sectors how to communicate their values and vision to inspire commitment.
By Terry Pearce
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Leading People: The EssentialsThe My Practical MBA Series provides the latest thinking as well as perennial techniques for a range of business challenges. While there may be differences in emphasis and priority, there is a significant amount of consensus about the essentials of leading people - and these are explained in this toolkit.
By LID Editorial
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Leading Professionals: Power, Politics, and Prima DonnasThis book uncovers the complex, messy, and surprisingly emotional challenges of leading professional organizations-revealing the realities that lies beneath the 'professional' surface which these organizations present to the outside world.
By Laura Empson
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Leading So People Will FollowFilled with examples from forward-thinking organizations such as Apple, NBC Universal, Union Square Hospitality Group, and MTV Networks, this innovative, practical book explores the six leadership characteristics that inspire followers to fully support their leaders.
By Erika Andersen
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Leading the Lean Enterprise Transformation, Second EditionDetailing the steps required to sustain improvements, this practical book supplies time-tested guidance for effective leadership throughout a Lean transformation in any organization.
By George Koenigsaecker
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Leading the Malcolm Baldrige Way: How World-Class Leaders Align Their Organizations to Deliver Exceptional ResultsFrom the renowned experts at BaldrigeCoach, this action-ready guide will help you master the principles of Baldrige Criteria, harness the power of performance excellence, and achieve award-worthy results.
By Glenn Bodinson, Kay Kendall
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Leading the Unleadable: How to Manage Mavericks, Cynics, Divas, and Other Difficult PeopleLeading the Unleadable reveals how to use exceptional leadership to deal with difficult personalities and challenges to create a more productive workplace. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Alan Willett
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Leading the Unleadable: How to Manage Mavericks, Cynics, Divas, and Other Difficult PeopleWritten by an insider in the tech industry, where personality issues routinely wreck projects, this book offers simple steps, examples, and scripts that explain how to right even the most hopeless situations.
By Alan Willett
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Leading through Disruption: A Changemaker's Guide to Twenty-First Century LeadershipThe traditional corporate leadership playbook your grandparents wrote no longer works. This book from one of the world's top executives is a new leadership paradigm for resilience and agility in a rapidly changing world.
By Andrew Liveris
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Leading When There's Too Much ChangeHelping leaders prioritize change initiatives and support employees during times of transition, this book provides guidance for assessing change, readiness tips for reducing and preventing change overload, and advice on assessing change burnout.
By Kristin Cullen-Lester, William Pasmore
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Leading When You're Not the Boss: How to Get Things Done in Complex Corporate CulturesWith an entertaining mix of real-world examples and a fictitious case study, this book illustrates how its leadership lessons can be serviceable only when intelligently tailored to the dynamic complexities of specific situations, including the personalities and competencies of the people involved.
By Roger Strathausen
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Leading with Character and Competence: Moving Beyond Title, Position, and AuthorityAn on-demand resource that you can read based on need, this book spotlights the four most important components of character and competence and offers a series of eloquent, inspiring, and actionable reflections on what's needed to build each one.
By Timothy R. Clark
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Leading with Emotional Courage: How to Have Hard Conversations, Create Accountability, and Inspire Action on Your Most Important WorkProviding practical, real-world advice for building your emotional courage muscle, this book offers short, easy-to-read chapters detailing a distinct step in this emotional "workout," giving you grounded advice for handling the difficult situations without sacrificing professional ground.
By Peter Bregman
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Leading with Emotional Intelligence: Hands-On Strategies for Building Confident and Collaborative Star PerformersPresenting more than 100 cutting-edge tools and strategies used by the most effective leaders in the world, this hands-on guide offers worksheets, exercises, self-quizzes, and much more to show how great leaders put Emotional Intelligence (EI) to work.
By Reldan S. Nadler
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Leading with Gratitude: Eight Leadership Practices for Extraordinary Business ResultsIn Leading with Gratitude, authors Gostick and Elton provide examples and testimonials from business leaders who have employed gratitude with great success. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Adrian Gostick, Chester Elton
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Leading With GRIT: Inspiring Action and Accountability with Generosity, Respect, Integrity, and TruthOffering pragmatic insight on value-based strategies that improve the individual and the business, this book describes how working toward individual improvement produces better organizational results than traditional approaches that focus on collective improvement.
By Laurie Sudbrink
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Leading with Joy: Practices for Uncertain TimesThis book takes the form of a series of vignettes about the authors' insights and stories, with reflection questions at the end of each one.
By Akaya Windwood, Rajasvini Bhansali
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Leading with Noble Purpose: How to Create a Tribe of True BelieversLeading with Noble Purpose shows how to realign your business along terms of customer impact and employee engagement. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Lisa Earle McLeod
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Leading with Noble Purpose: How to Create a Tribe of True BelieversWith the assertion that many organizations are unconsciously squandering their greatest asset-their people's passion, this practical book tackles the employee engagement crisis by showing leaders how to put workplace meaning front and center.
By Lisa Earle McLeod
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Leading with Questions: How Leaders Discover Powerful Answers by Knowing How and What to Ask, Third EditionIn this newly revised third edition of Leading with Questions, renowned global leadership consultants Michael Marquardt and Bob Tiede describe how to ask powerful questions that generate short-term and long-term results and success.
By Bob Tiede, Michael J. Marquardt
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Leading with Questions: How Leaders Find the Right Solutions by Knowing What to Ask, Revised and UpdatedRevealing how to determine which questions will lead to solutions to even the most challenging issues, this book will help you encourage participation and teamwork, foster outside-the-box thinking, empower others, build relationships with customers, solve problems, and more.
By Michael J. Marquardt
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Leading with Strategic Thinking: Four Ways Effective Leaders Gain Insight, Drive Change, and Get ResultsBringing together insights from cognitive psychology, systems theory, and other fields to show that the importance of strategic thought transcends planning, this book will inspire you to have a greater impact, today and into the future.
By Aaron K. Olson, B. Keith Simerson
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Leading with Uncommon Sense: Slowing Down, Looking Inward, Taking ActionThis book offers alternatives to typical leadership, highlighting new ways of thinking about how individuals can lead effectively.
By Duncan Spelman, Wiley C. Davi
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Leading with Values: Positivity, Virtue, and High PerformanceOffering practical advice that can be applied to individual leadership styles and roles, this book describes the characteristics of leaders who focus on positivity and virtues to create and sustain highly successful organizations.
By Edward D. Hess, Kim Cameron (eds)
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Leading with Vision: The Leader's Blueprint for Creating a Compelling Vision and Engaging the WorkforceSupplemented with real-world examples from thoughtful leaders who exemplify the core principles of leading with vision, this book includes an actionable blueprint developed by the authors that leaders and their organizations can implement on day one of their journey.
By Bonnie Hagemann, John Maketa, Simon Vetter
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Leading with Vulnerability: Unlock Your Greatest Superpower to Transform Yourself, Your Team, and Your OrganizationHow do some of the world's top leaders unlock the potential of others, create trust, and lead through change?
By Jacob Morgan
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Leading with Wisdom: Sage Advice From 100 ExpertsCapturing the insights of heavyweights such as Warren Bennis, Peter Senge, Stephen Covey, Marshall Goldsmith, Peter Block, and Margaret Wheatley, this book distills the advice of these respected leaders and more into what it means to be a connected, engaged, and successful leader.
By Jann E. Freed
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Leading Work Teams: Management DevelopmentUse this Infoline to guide you in the application of basic leadership principles in a team setting and show you how to effectively engage in leadership, build core leadership behaviors and skills, influence team members, and much more.
By Kathryn Gaines
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Lean Applications in Sales: How a Sales Manager Applied Lean Tools to Sales Processes and Exceeded His GoalsCovering lean methods and tools applications in various sales environments in a story book format, this book will help sales team leaders understand how these methods and tools can be applied in their organizations to drive sales, identify and reduce waste, improve performance, and speed delivery.
By Jaideep Motwani, Rob Ptacek
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LEAN IN: Women, Work and the Will To LeadIn Lean In, Sheryl Sandberg shares her insightful theories on women's empowerment and leadership, showing how women can deliver immense impact by making even small changes. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Sheryl Sandberg
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Lean Thinking for Emerging Healthcare Leaders: How to Develop Yourself and Implement Process ImprovementsThe purpose of this book is to help you understand how to develop yourself and your leadership in such a way that will best benefit your team and your patients.
By Arnout Orelio
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Learn Like a Leader: Today's Top Leaders Share Their Learning JourneysPortraying the power of storytelling in teaching, training and mentoring, this book offers powerful lessons reflecting key learning moments in the lives and careers of each of the contributors.
By Beverly Kaye, Ken Shelton (eds), Marshall Goldsmith
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Learning Leadership: The Five Fundamentals of Becoming an Exemplary LeaderAn exemplary leader must master many skills, but one of the most important is the ability to learn. Whether you're an experienced leader or someone new to the role, this comprehensive guide offers evidence-based strategies for taking charge of your own leadership development and unleashing the leader within.
By Barry Z. Posner, James M. Kouzes
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Learning Transformational Leadership: A Pedagogical and Practical PerspectiveBased on empirical research, theoretical frameworks and practice examples, this book presents a deep dive into the topic of transformational leadership. In particular, it investigates whether participants in transformational leader courses will practice more potent transformation leader qualities after completion of the courses than before.
By Johan Olaisen, Stig Ytterstad
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Leaves from a President's Notebook: Lessons on life and LeadershipLeaves from a President's Notebook shares the wisdom of Thomas K. Hearn Jr., former President of Wake Forest University, and past chairman and board member of the Center for Creative Leadership. These short essays reflect Dr. Hearn's thoughts ranging from growing up in rural Alabama to current topics including leadership development, college athletics, and the role of the modern university.
By Thomas K Hearn
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Level-Up Leadership: Engaging Leaders for SuccessThis book focuses on six that every leader must master to be successful. In addition to the seven chapters, four complimentary case studies apply your knowledge and leadership competency.
By Provitera Michael J.
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Leverage Change: 8 Ways to Achieve Faster, Easier, Better ResultsOrganizational change doesn't have to be so difficult. Leading change expert Jake Jacobs shares eight fail-safe ways to make any change initiative at any organization easier, faster, and more effective.
By Robert W. Jake Jacobs
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Lift: The Fundamental State of Leadership, Second EditionPresenting engaging personal stories that illustrate how to apply the concepts at work, at home, and in the community, this book draws on recent advances in positive psychology and organizational science to describe four questions that will help us experience the fundamental state of leadership.
By Robert E. Quinn, Ryan Quinn
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Live ON Purpose: Why Great Leaders Start with the PLOTPresenting a witty, insightful guide to rediscovering purpose and leading like you mean it, this practical resource is a modern-day business book for those who want to steer their work - and life - back on course.
By Karen James
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Live with Intent: Creating Your FutureUsing practical exercises, meditations, and unique techniques, this book teaches you how to get from where you are to where you want to be, increase your confidence and live with passion and purpose.
By Justin Tomlinson, Thomas Reichart
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Living a Leadership Lifestyle: A Guide for New and Aspiring LeadersLiving a Leadership Lifestyle is a different type of leadership book that approaches leadership from a unique perspective.
By Ross Emerson
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Magnificent Leadership: Transform Uncertainty, Transcend Circumstance, Claim the FutureMagnificent Leadership is a resource for senior business executives and general professionals who wish to transform their leadership, build resilience, and make positive changes for their company and their careers. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Sarah Levitt
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Make Their Day! Employee Recognition That Works, Second EditionIn Make Their Day!, Cindy Ventrice reveals a fresh approach to employee recognition in today's virtual and multicultural work environments, using examples from successful ground-breaking businesses. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Cindy Ventrice
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Make Your Moment: The Savvy Woman's Communication Playbook for Getting the Success You WantGuiding you through what she has learned on the career battlefield and what it means for other working women today, the author takes you through the treacherous-and often entertaining-landscape of the modern workplace, covering virtually every situation you're likely to experience.
By Dion Lim
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Make Your Own Map: Career Success Strategy for WomenDevelop a resilient and effective strategy for your career by using the tools and methods which organizations use for their strategic planning.
By Kathryn Bishop
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Make Your Workplace Great: The 7 Keys to an Emotionally Intelligent OrganizationBased on the author's proprietary and cutting-edge research, this book shows you how to implement the necessary changes to make your workplace a happier and more productive one.
By Steven J. Stein
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Making Sense of Change Management: A Complete Guide to the Models, Tools and Techniques of Organizational Change, 4th EditionIncluding international examples and case studies throughout, this in-depth book explains the theory and practice of change management and comprehensively covers the models, tools, and techniques of successful change management.
By Esther Cameron, Mike Green
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Making Sense of Change Management: A Complete Guide to the Models, Tools and Techniques of Organizational Change, 4th EditionMaking Sense of Change Management, 4th Edition aims to explore why change happens, how it happens successfully, and how to make the idea of change a welcomed philosophy. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Esther Cameron, Mike Green
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Making Sense of Change Management: A Complete Guide to the Models, Tools and Techniques of Organizational Change, Fifth EditionSupported by "food for thought" and "stop and think" features to aid critical thinking and understanding, as well as checklists, tips and helpful summaries, this definitive guide on change management provides a thorough and accessible overview for students and practitioners alike.
By Esther Cameron, Mike Green
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Making Sense of Change Management: A Complete Guide to the Models, Tools and Techniques of Organizational Change, Sixth EditionThis book provides comprehensive guidance on adapting mindsets, structures and strategies to achieve success.
By Esther Cameron, Mike Green
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Making Strategy Work: Leading Effective Execution and ChangeMaking Strategy Work is ideal for today's goal-oriented managers who wish to accomplish organizational change. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Lawrence G. Hrebiniak
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Making the Matrix Work: How Matrix Managers Engage People and Cut Through ComplexityIntroducing new ideas and practical tools, this book will help you develop your matrix mindset and will show you how to establish and engage networks that do not depend on role, control, or authority to get things done.
By Kevan Hall
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Making Work Work: The Solution for Bringing Positive Change to Any Work EnvironmentIn Making Work Work, Shola Richards presents a timely and galvanizing call for creating workplaces built on the foundation of civility, kindness and respect. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Shola Richards
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Making Yourself Indispensable: The Power of Personal AccountabilityMaking Yourself Indispensable is an inspiring read for anyone who wants to figure out what success looks like for them and learn how to get on-and stay on-a path to achieve it. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Mark Samuel
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Man-Made: Why So Few Women Are in Positions of PowerProviding a rigorous and convincing analysis of the inadequacy of current policy while proposing a more thorough program to achieve fairness and equality in the workplace, this book examines whether a new generation of female activists can produce the political pressure to change the existing man-centric leadership culture.
By Eva Tutchell, John Edmonds
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Management and Leadership in the 4th Industrial Revolution: Capabilities to Achieve Superior PerformanceLearn how to thrive in the increasingly uncertain context of the fourth industrial revolution by building key capabilities as part of a long-term strategy to achieve superior performance.
By Stephen Wyatt
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Management and Leadership Skills for Medical Faculty: A Practical Handbook, Second EditionThis book meets its primary objective: to provide medical faculty, healthcare executives and other leaders with a contemporary, directly relevant resource that emphasizes practical skills and leadership development advice, including personal improvement, which can be used at any stage of one's career.
By Anthony J. Viera, Rob Kramer
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Management as Consultancy: Neo-bureaucracy and the Consultant ManagerManagers are becoming more like consultants, focusing on projects, functional integration, change and clients. This timely book is based on a large-scale, international study of new management practices and examines the emergence of consultant managers.
By Andrew Sturdy, Christopher Wright, Nick Wylie
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Management Challenges for the 21st CenturyWith a sweeping command of the social, economic, and demographic changes already at work, this incisive book offers a head start on fundamental issues to anyone who will be working with any sort of organization in the next century.
By Peter F. Drucker
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Management Communication, 3rd EditionHelping readers build the essential writing, speaking, and listening skills needed to succeed, this practical book applies communication concepts and techniques in such fields as retail sales, manufacturing, real estate and corporate financial management.
By Arthur H. Bell, Dayle M. Smith
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Management Design: Managing People and Organizations in Turbulent TimesPresenting management as a system or a model through a combination of graphics, diagrams and text, this guide offers an exciting visual-thinking approach to help managers, leaders and entrepreneurs think through their options and find a way that best meets the needs of their businesses, that supports their talent to perform at their peak, and simultaneously builds the capabilities to cope with turbulent times.
By Lukas Michel
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Management In A Changing World: How to Manage for Equity, Sustainability, and ResultsIn Management In a Changing World: How to Manage for Equity, Sustainability, and Results renowned social changemakers Jakada Imani, Monna Wong, and Bex Ahuja deliver an effective and practical how-to guide for the equitable management of nonprofit and social change organizations.
By Bex Ahuja, Jakada Imani, Monna Wong
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Management Lessons from Taiichi Ohno: What Every Leader Can Learn from the Man who Invented the Toyota Production SystemOffering much more than a set of rules for managers and executives to implement, this guidebook puts you in touch with the actual people who learned that the key to success is creating a workforce of smiling employees who find purpose to their work.
By Takehiko Harada
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Management Level Psychometric Assessments: Over 400 Numerical, Verbal and Non-verbal Practice Questions to Help You Land that Senior JobWith emphasis on new trends such as online testing, critical thinking and situational tests, this invaluable guide is a useful resource providing all the practice you need to pass any challenging psychometric tests and succeed against the competition.
By Mike Bryon
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Management Mess to Leadership Success: 30 Challenges to Become the Leader You Would FollowManagement Mess to Leadership Success explores several challenges that managers of all levels may face and discusses how to overcome each on the path to becoming a better leader. In this Summary we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Scott Jeffrey Miller
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Management Mess to Leadership Success: 30 Challenges to Become the Leader You Would FollowIllustrated with the author's real-life experiences, this practical book provides 30 leadership challenges that can, when applied, change the way you manage yourself, lead others, and produce results.
By Scott Jeffrey Miller
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Management, Revised EditionExploring how managers--in the for-profit and public service sectors alike--can perform effectively, this seminal work lays out the essentials of performance, how a manager interacts with their organization, and the social and cultural environment in which they operate.
By Joseph A. Maciariello, Peter F. Drucker
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Manager 3.0: A Millennial's Guide to Rewriting the Rules of ManagementPacked with interviews and examples from companies like Zappos, Groupon, Southwest Airlines, and Google, this book will help Millennial managers enhance their unique talents while developing an effective leadership style all their own.
By Brad Karsh, Courtney Templin
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Manager vs Leader: Untying the Gordian KnotProviding both academic and practical organizational examples, this book challenges readers with ranging experience and knowledge to explore management and leadership in a new and comprehensive way.
By Kathleen M. Murphy, Robert M. Murphy
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Manager's Guide to Navigating ChangeWritten so that you can put organizational change management concepts to work right away, this guidebook provides the tools, techniques and tips to lead a change effort in a structured manner so you can operationalize the changes that your executives want.
By Stephen Rock
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Manager's Pocket Guide to Systems Thinking and LearningHow to apply "Systems Thinking" to improve the management of key business processes.
By Stephen G. Haines
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Managerial Dilemmas: Exploiting Paradox for Strategic LeadershipAn invaluable guide to the most current management issues, this book will assist executives and management students to make better sense of the different spheres of management activity by exploring them in relation to each other.
By Graeme Salaman, John Storey
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Managerial Economics, Eighth EditionPresenting a detailed introduction for undergraduates, MBAs, and executives, this book illustrates the central decision problems managers face, and provides the economic analysis they need to guide their decisions.
By Stephen G. Marks, William F. Samuelson
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Managerial Ethics in Healthcare: A New PerspectiveThrough conceptual and practical tools, including 30 cases, this book provides a new perspective that recognizes that every decision you make and every activity you undertake have the potential to compromise or enhance the moral core of your healthcare organization.
By Ann E. Mills, Gary L. Filerman, Paul M. Schyve (eds)
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Managers not MBAs: A Hard Look at the Soft Practice of Managing and Management DevelopmentThe author of this text believes that business education leaves a distorted view of management. This book explains how to cultivate managers who are balanced, dedicated and engaging, and how they can transform the business world and, ultimately, society.
By Henry Mintzberg
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ManagingBy identifying twelve factors that influence managing, this provocative book provides insightful ways of dealing with some of the most vexing conundrums managers face, and offers a comprehensive picture of true managerial effectiveness.
By Henry Mintzberg
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Managing a Hospital: How to Succeed as a Clinical Leader in the Post-Pandemic AgeThis book demonstrates how hospitals can be transformed into dynamic, patient-centered, and cost-effective organizations. It describes systems for providing safe, high-quality medical services and outlines the importance of data for health outcomes.
By Otto Armin Smiseth
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Managing and Leading People through Organizational Change: The Theory and Practice of Sustaining Change through PeopleManaging and Leading People through Organizational Change explores the various theories and approaches to managing change, whether it's a slight alteration or radical transformation. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Julie Hodges
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Managing and Leading People through Organizational Change: The Theory and Practice of Sustaining Change through PeopleUsing case studies and interviews with people from organizations in different industries across the globe, this detailed guide provides a critical analysis of change and transformation in organizations from both a theoretical and practical perspective.
By Julie Hodges
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Managing and Leading People Through Organizational Change: The Theory and Practice of Sustaining Change Through People, Second EditionEquip yourself with the practical skills you need to manage people through the emotional aspects of change and drive business performance with this evidence-based guide.
By Julie Hodges
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Managing at the Leading Edge: Navigating and Piloting Business Strategy at Critical MomentsThrough case studies, discussion of relevant research, and practical tools and templates, this book provides a new evidence-based roadmap for leadership success in a dynamic context, and proposes a framework of leadership with a dual focus on navigating and piloting.
By Tom Rose
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Managing Business Transformation: A Practical GuideUsing real-life examples, up-to-date information and clear diagrams, this practical handbook will guide you through all the stages of change management and equip you to be an agent of change, whatever your role.
By Melanie Franklin
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Managing Care: How Clinicians Can Lead Change and Transform HealthcareHealthcare systems worldwide are swamped with demand, short of resources, and ill-equipped to respond to global health crises like COVID-19. This book is a guide for reforming healthcare delivery.
By Richard M.J. Bohmer
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Managing ChangeA practical introduction to understanding both infrequent and everyday changes, this book offers helpful advice on how best to anticipate and approach them and helps managers through the maze of change, allowing them to regain control and embrace transformation.
By Patrick Forsyth
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Managing Change Across Corporate CulturesBy demystifying corporate culture to reveal why it has such a powerful influence on every aspect of the performance of a business, this timely text shows how to shape high-performing corporate cultures in a complex international environment.
By Fons Trompenaars, Peter Prud’Homme
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Managing Change in Organizations: A Practice GuideHighly approachable and written for a wide range of audiences, this unique book will be of value to anyone whose livelihood depends on an organization's ability to successfully change and meet the needs of an evolving business landscape.
By Project Management Institute
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Managing Change in Organizations: Develop Your Employees for Business TransformationYou don't have to be a change manager to be managing change. Written for managers, HR and OD professionals, this practical guide tells you everything you need to know to support effective business transformation.
By Tony Nicholls
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Managing Change Pocketbook, Third EditionFor those responsible for managing change or wishing to understand an imposed change, this concise guide explains what change is and why it is necessary, why some change needs proactive management, the effects of change on people, how to gain commitment, how to manage change, and more.
By Neil Russell-Jones
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Managing Change: Manga for SuccessManaging Change is an indispensable roadmap to effective change management that will help you shift the mindset of your team members from individualism to one focused on the good of the organization and the team as a whole.
By Kazuhiko Nakamura
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Managing Employee Burnout: How to Develop A Happy, Healthy and Engaged WorkforceBurnout is a state of emotional, physical and mental exhaustion. In the workforce, it leads to higher levels of stress, greater sickness absence, sluggish productivity and increased staff turnover so addressing this is urgent.
By Shauna Moran
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Managing for AccountabilityThis book contains everything business owners and managers need to hire, inspire, manage, and retain accountable, high performing, engaged employees who invest one hundred percent in their jobs.
By Lynne Curry
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Managing Humans: Biting and Humorous Tales of a Software Engineering ManagerWhether you're an aspiring manager, a current manager, or just wondering what the heck a manager does all day, there is a story in this book that will speak to you.
By Michael Lopp
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Managing in a Service Focused World: I, Team, Stewards and MarketplaceAdapting tried and trusted principles of IT service management (ITSM) into a framework for personal and professional development, this book lets you quickly appreciate and apply the ideas in a way that engages staff at all levels and gives tangible benefits to all stakeholders.
By Roger K. Williams
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Managing Innovation: Integrating Technological, Market and Organizational Change, Sixth EditionEmphasizing practical, evidence based tools and resources, this title provides students with the knowledge base to successfully manage innovation, technology, and new product development.
By Joe Tidd, John Bessant
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Managing Organizational Change: A Practical Toolkit for LeadersFeaturing case studies, reflection questions, checklists, action planning and summaries, this book brings together all the different roles and functions within an organization that a leader has to manage effectively in order to bring about successful and sustainable organizational change.
By Helen Campbell
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Managing Organizational Change: Tools to Help Your Team Through ChangeManaging the challenge of change is a powerful responsibility; it is not easy and it is often expensive. This Learning Short-take will assist you in managing organizational change by identifying the reactions to change within your team, lead you through the steps to individual acceptance, and help you produce the results you desire.
By Catherine Mattiske
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Managing People for the First Time: Simple Ideas for Leading Your TeamManaging People for the First Time is full of tips, scenarios, and support to get you tuned in to taking on the responsibility of management in a new environment. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Ronald Bracey
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Managing to Change the World: The Nonprofit Manager's Guide to Getting ResultsDesigned to teach new and experienced nonprofit managers the fundamental skills of effective management, this book provides step-by-step guidance and contains the tools you need to make it easier for you to get results.
By Alison Green, Jerry Hauser
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Managing to Manage: The Essential Guide to People ManagementExplaining the skills needed to make the right decisions for both the people involved and the business itself, this book aims to give managers the essentials to cope with the core demands of people management when their expertise is in a completely different area of business.
By Derek Torrington
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Managing with Sense and Sensitivity: Professionalism in LeadershipsThis book helps managers strike a balance between feeling and reason in a professional and ethical manner with attention to the manager's position in the hierarchy of the organization. The authors argue that all managers need to develop their own leadership style based on who they are as persons, their convictions and the circumstances in which they find themselves..
By Christer Sandahl, Mia von Knorring
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Managing Workplace NegativityThis valuable resource will give managers, team leaders, trainers, and other HR professionals much-needed help in treating the negativity bug. It will also help readers recognize negativity trigger points, create a positive environment, and more.
By Gary S. Topchik
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Marketing Accountability: How to Measure Marketing EffectivenessBased on seven years of research into global best practice in marketing, this book will enable senior executives to measure the impact of marketing activities against the goals of an organization, and empower marketers to justify their actions to both CEOs and their Chief Financial Officers.
By Malcolm McDonald, Peter Mouncey
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Mastering Leadership: A Vital Resource for Health Care OrganizationsWith contributions from leading scholars and experts in the field, this detailed guide skillfully demonstrates how the transformational demands of leadership can be effectively integrated with the transactional and operational necessities of managing.
By Alan T. Belasen, Barry Eisenberg, John W. Huppertz
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Mastering Leadership: An Integrated Framework for Breakthrough Performance and Extraordinary Business ResultsA comprehensive roadmap for optimal leadership, this timeless, authoritative text involves developing the effectiveness of leaders-individually and collectively-and turning that leadership into a competitive advantage.
By Robert J. Anderson, William A. Adams
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Mastering Leadership: An Integrated Framework for Breakthrough Performance and Extraordinary Business ResultsOffering a blueprint for a brand-new leadership skillset, which unlocks record-breaking results through prioritizing personal development, Mastering Leadership is a rousing invitation to embark on a journey of self-development. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Robert J. Anderson, William A. Adams
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Mastering Organizational Change ManagementIdentifying the internal and external barriers to successful change with a focus on the human factors, this book shows how to gain a thorough understanding of the business ecosystem before planning, initiating, or executing any change effort.
By Barbara A. Davis
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Mastering the Challenges of Leading Change: Inspire The People And Succeed Where Others FailWritten by a change leader with an extensively triumphant track record, this informative, insightful guide shows you why, and how to get the tools, strategies, and people you need at the helm of your initiative to come out the other side much stronger as an organization.
By H. James Dallas
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Maximizing the Value of Consulting: A Guide for Internal and External ConsultantsSponsored by the ROI Institute and the Association of Internal Management Consultants, this detailed manual provides a roadmap to relevance for consultants operating in the increasingly fast-paced, changing, dynamic environment.
By Jack J. Philips, Patricia Pulliam Phillips, William D. Trotter
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Mean Girls at Work: How to Stay Professional When Things Get PersonalPacked with proven advice from two of today's leading experts in workplace relationships, this one-of-a-kind guide gives women the tools they need to navigate difficult situations unique to women-to-women relationships-whether with a boss, a colleague, a client, or an employee.
By Katherine Crowley, Kathi Elster
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Measure What Matters: How Google, Bono, and the Gates Foundation Rock the World with OKRsIn Measure What Matters author John Doerr systematically examines how to implement an effective goal-setting system to help organizations identify-and attain-their objectives. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By John Doerr
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Measuring and Maximizing the Impact of Talent DevelopmentExplaining how a systems approach can increase the impact of talent development efforts, this book shows that when leaders measure talent across the organization, they can eliminate the gaps between where the organization is and where it ought to be.
By Alec Levenson
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Measuring Leadership Development: Quantify Your Program's Impact and ROI on Organizational PerformanceIllustrated with colorful case studies from some of the world's best-known companies, this one-of-a-kind book gives talent managers a full toolkit for presenting their leadership development programs in terms of identifiable business benefits.
By Jack Phillips, Patricia Pulliam Phillips, Rebecca L. Ray
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Micro Messaging: Why Great Leadership is Beyond WordsExamining the nuanced behaviors that we all blindly use and react to in our dealings with others, this practical book offers a common language for encouraging open discussion in the workplace, and skills to identify and address familiar micromessages.
By Stephen Young
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Middle Management AcumenThis Infoline focuses on the skills that are needed to succeed in middle management, specifically, the top five capabilities every middle manager needs to succeed.
By Lisa Haneberg
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Mindfulness Based Leadership: The Art of Being A Leader - Not Becoming OneIlluminating the ways in which we can unlock the leader within ourselves, this thoughtful book shows us how to balance self and organizational goals; to erase the real and imagined internal conflicts between what we believe in and what we do in reality.
By Kathirasan K
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Mining Software Engineering Data for Software Reus:This book can prove handy for graduate-level students in software engineering. It illustrate how the phases of the software engineering life cycle can benefit from unlocking the potential of data.
By Diamantopoulos
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Mission Transition: Navigating the Opportunities and Obstacles to Your Post-Military CareerIncluding advice from other veterans, illustrations of key concepts, summaries, and suggested resources, this book is an essential career-change guide for any transitioning veteran that wants to avoid false starts and make optimal career choices following active duty.
By Matthew J. Louis
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MIT Sloan Management Review Article on A Change in PerspectivePersistent problems often seem intractable because of the frame through which we view them. A fixed point of view on an issue might lead us to struggle because we are trying to solve the wrong problem.
By Elizabeth Heichler
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MIT Sloan Management Review Article on Eight Essential Leadership Tips for 2024Jump-start the new year with leadership strategies from MIT SMR experts.
By Laurianne McLaughlin
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MIT Sloan Management Review Article on Why Businesses Need to Embrace the BioeconomyDeveloping and using planet-friendly materials can yield new, more sustainable business models - and contribute to building a robust infrastructure for renewable biological resources.
By Aideen O’Dochartaigh, Andrea Prothero, Donna Marshall, Enrico Secchi, Orlagh Reynolds
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MIT Sloan Management Review Article on Workplace Toxicity Is Not Just a Mental Health IssueWomen of color are getting physically sick from work. How can managers disrupt this "tox-sick" pattern?
By Deepa Purushothaman, Valerie Rein
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Moments of Leadership: How to become a Professional Leader, Manager and CoachThis book describes over 60 such opportunities, pragmatic, solution-oriented, and tested for many years. Based on concrete examples, it thus provides impulses for effective strategies and new ways of solving problems in all areas of cooperation and leadership.
By Hanspeter Zürcher
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Monday Morning LeadershipMonday Morning Leadership is a story that can help your career! Everyone likes a good story, especially if there are lessons that can be immediately applied to life.
By David Cottrell
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Monday Morning Leadership for WomenWritten with vivid passages and keen insights, this easy-to-read book takes you on a journey with a struggling manager and her mentor.
By Valerie Sokolosky
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Monitors and Meddlers: How Foreign Actors Influence Local Trust in ElectionsThe book draws on diverse evidence, including new surveys conducted around elections with varying levels of democracy in Georgia, Tunisia, and the United States.
By Lauren Prather, Sarah Sunn Bush
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Move the World: Persuade Your Audience, Change Minds, and Achieve Your GoalsIntroducing a step-by-step process that will dramatically increase your ability to persuade your audience to follow your lead, buy your product, or invest in your idea, this book will help make you more effective, influential, and persuasive.
By Dean M. Brenner
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MOVE: How Decisive Leaders Execute Strategy despite Obstacles, Setbacks, and StallsYour guide to mobilizing your whole organization to take your business forward, this practical book identifies the chronic challenges that keep organizations from decisively executing strategy, and gives you a practical game plan for breaking through.
By Patty Azzarello
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Moxie: The Secret to Bold and Gutsy LeadershipMoxie reveals how leaders can accomplish greater goals for themselves and their businesses by exploring the key attributes of highly effective leaders. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By John Baldoni
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Multipliers: How the Best Leaders Make Everyone SmarterAn essential leadership handbook, Multipliers examines how effective leaders can foster creativity, innovation, and excellence in their teams. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Greg McKeown, Liz Wiseman
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My Life in Full: Work, Family, and Our FutureIn My Life in Full, Indra Nooyi lays bare the events that have shaped her life, from a young girl in India during the 1960s to a respected leader and role model who is regarded as one of the world's most influential women today. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Indra Nooyi
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My Steam Engine is BrokenExploring the way in which the Steam Engine organizational model is no longer offering job satisfaction to its managers, this book calls on a new generation of organizational leaders to stop trying to fix a broken and outmoded structure, and to create new, successful working structures that work with, not against, people s natural modes of behavior.
By Jonathan Gifford, Mark Powell
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My Way or the Highway: The Micromanagement Survival GuideWith shoot-from-the-hip style and many real-world examples, this book illustrates how micromanagement interferes with performance and productivity, resulting in huge costs--hidden, direct, and indirect--to individuals and organizations.
By Harry E. Chambers
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Myths of Leadership: Banish the Misconceptions and Become a Great LeaderUsing case studies, leadership theory and insightful interviews, this book looks at the most pervasive misconceptions about leadership that will help you elevate your own abilities, better inspire your team, and empower your organization by thinking differently.
By Jo Owen
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Myths of Management: Dispel the Misconceptions and Become an Influential Manager, Second EditionUncover the myths that dominate popular conceptions of management, and become a better manager with this compelling, entertaining and practical guide.
By Cary Cooper, Stefan Stern
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Neuroscience for Leaders: A Brain-Adaptive Leadership ApproachWith case studies, self-assessment tools and useful exercises, this step-by-step book uses the latest insights from applied neuroscience, behavioral economics and psychology to demonstrate how to become a better leader through brain-based learning.
By Alexandros Psychogios, Nikolaos Dimitriadis
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Neuroscience for Leaders: Practical Insights to Successfully Lead People and Organizations, Second EditionUnlock the potential of your brain with the latest neuroscience insights to succeed as a leader in complex business environments.
By Alexandros Psychogios, Nikolaos Dimitriadis
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Neuroscience for Organizational Change: An Evidence-based Practical Guide to Managing Change, 2nd EditionWith a better understanding of what our brains need to focus and perform at their best, organizations and leaders can increase employee engagement, productivity and well-being to successfully manage such periods of uncertainty.
By Hilary Scarlett
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New Horizons in Positive Leadership and Change: A Practical Guide for Workplace TransformationThis edited volume provides managers, as well as students, with the best practices in effectively leading the 21st century workforce and managing change.
By Joan Marques, Satinder Dhiman
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New Leadership for Today's Health Care Professionals: Concepts and CasesWritten with the undergraduate health professional student in mind, this comprehensive book covers essential leadership concepts and offers many pedagogical features to engage the student in learning.
By Louis G. Rubino, Salvador J. Esparza, Yolanda S. Reid Chassiakos (eds)
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New Leadership ImperativesThis book aims to guide leaders in making the right choices for their teams, their organizations, their stakeholders, and society as a whole.
By François Candelon, Martin Reeves
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New Thinking on Leadership: A Global PerspectivePresenting a groundbreaking collection of the latest thinking from leading global figures in leadership studies from the corporate and academic world, this book provides a global picture of where our understanding of leadership is and where it could go if we tackle the issues facing leaders today.
By Hilarie Owen
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Next Generation Leadership: How to Ensure Young Talent will Thrive with Your OrganizationEmployers who refuse to adapt to the expectations of younger generations are losing out on top talent, as they leave for positions at companies with more modern practices. Learn what companies need to do to fit into the new normal in the workplace.
By Adam Kingl
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Next Generation Safety Leadership: From Compliance to CareNext Generation Safety Leadership illustrates practical applications that bring theory to life through case studies and stories from the author's years of experience in high-risk industries.
By Clive Lloyd
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Nine Minutes on Monday: The Quick and Easy Way to Go from Manager to LeaderNine Minutes on Monday provides managers with nine fundamental needs for a realistic approach to sustaining long-term working relationships between employers and employees. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By James Robbins
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Nine Minutes on Monday: The Quick and Easy Way to Go from Manager to LeaderShowing you the nine keys to raising productivity, boosting morale, and increasing employee engagement, this essential guide combines proven engagement drivers and principles of human motivation into a simple system of execution that will show immediate results.
By James Robbins
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NLP: The Essential Handbook for Business: Communication Techniques to Build Relationships, Influence Others, and Achieve Your GoalsNLP: The Essential Handbook for Business takes a detailed look at how Neurolinguistic Programming (NLP) methods can be used to improve your workplace performance. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Jeremy Lazarus
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NLP: The Essential Handbook for Business: Communication Techniques to Build Relationships, Influence Others, and Achieve Your GoalsWhether you want to be a better leader, manager, negotiator, salesperson, or decision-maker, this book contains numerous examples and practical exercises that will help you use neurolinguistic programming (NLP) to improve your career and achieve success at work, whether in the private or public sector, and regardless of your current role.
By Jeremy Lazarus
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No Excuses: How You Can Turn Any Workplace into a Great OneRevealing the most common excuses managers use for why they can't create a great workplace, this book explores how managers can interrupt their own negative thought patterns and instead create lasting change.
By Jennifer Robin, Michael Burchell
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No Explanation Required!: A Woman's Guide to Assert Your Confidence and Communicate to Win at WorkFrom this book you'll be better equipped to stop explaining and start negotiating-for gender parity, better compensation, opportunities, and so much more.
By Carol Sankar
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No More Excuses: The Five Accountabilities for Personal and Organizational GrowthIn No More Excuses, author Sam Silverstein examines the pivotal role that accountability plays in our personal and organizational success. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Sam Silverstein
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No-Drama Leadership: How Enlightened Leaders Transform Culture in the WorkplaceUsing case studies, checklists, and examples from various levels of hierarchy in leadership and from a variety of industries, this book introduces the mindset shifts and practical skills needed to develop enlightened leaders, whose decision making flows from a much more grounded and aligned place.
By Marlene Chism
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Nothing But the Truth: Secrets from Top Intelligence Experts to Control Conversations and Get the Information You NeedShowing how top intelligence experts from the worlds of espionage, business, and law enforcement get the truth, this book reveals the key tools you need to get the information you're seeking, whether your aim is to grill suspects and witnesses, figure out who is lying or cheating, or you want to upgrade your ability to be honest with yourself.
By Maryann Karinch
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On Becoming a Leadership Coach: A Holistic Approach to Coaching Excellence, Second EditionDrawing upon the curriculum of one of the premier coach training programs in the world, this practical guide focuses on coaching leaders in the context of the organizational systems within which they lead.
By Beth Bloomfield, Christine Wahl, Clarice Scriber
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On Leadership: Starting with Trust, An Interview: Interview with Stephen M. R. Covey on Starting with TrustTaking readers through all of the challenges, insights, and needed disciplines for character-based leadership, this book reveals that there is nothing more impactful on people and work performance than trust, and it provides actionable strategies to nurture and inspire trust in every encounter.
By Scott Jeffrey Miller, Stephen M. R. Covey
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On Leadership: The Challenge of Execution, An Interview with Chris McChesney on The 4 Disciplines of ExecutionDedicated to improving leadership capabilities, this book takes readers through all of the challenges, insights, and needed disciplines for character-based leadership.
By Chris McChesney, Scott Jeffrey Miller
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On War and Leadership: The Words of Combat Commanders from Frederick the Great to Norman SchwarzkopfOffering a unique distillation of two and a half centuries of military wisdom, this book identifies a pattern of proven leadership, and will benefit anyone who aspires to lead a country, a squadron, a company, or a basketball team.
By Owen Connelly
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One Bold Move a Day: Meaningful Actions Women Can Take to Fulfill Their Leadership and Career PotentialAn essential roadmap to help women at every stage of their career feel stronger, more confident, and more intentional in their goals
By Shanna A. Hocking
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One Piece of Paper: The Simple Approach to Powerful, Personal LeadershipBased on leadership expert Mike Figliuolo's popular "Leadership Maxims" training course, this book helps readers create a living document that communicates their values, passions, goals and standards to others, maximizing their leadership potential.
By Mike Figliuolo
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One Piece of Paper: The Simple Approach to Powerful, Personal LeadershipOne Piece of Paper is a workbook that provides step-by-step instructions for the creation of your own leadership philosophy statement. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Mike Figliuolo
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Open Source Leadership: Reinventing Management When There's No More Business as UsualOpen Source Leadership describes the daring new practices leaders must adopt to succeed in the rapidly changing 21st century. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Rajeev Peshawaria
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Open Source Leadership: Reinventing Management When There's No More Business as UsualProviding a new, counterintuitive model for seizing a competitive edge in any industry, this book rewrites the rules of management, giving you a unique look at the most common misperceptions, illusions, and downright wrong information you've been getting about what works and what doesn't.
By Rajeev Peshawaria
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Operational Empowerment: Collaborate, Innovate, and Engage to Beat the CompetitionOffering illuminating case studies of the world's most empowering employers, from Black & Decker and PepsiCo to McDonald's and Amazon, this book shows forward-thinking leaders how to build a continuous improvement community that thrives on personal engagement - and survives on commitment and autonomy.
By Shawn Casemore
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Optimizing the Power of Action Learning: Real-Time Strategies for Developing Leaders, Building Teams, and Transforming OrganizationsOptimizing the Power of Action Learning is a powerful rallying call for a radical new approach to how we solve problems and manage change. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Michael J. Marquardt
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Optimizing the Power of Action Learning: Real-Time Strategies for Developing Leaders, Building Teams, and Transforming Organizations, Second EditionFrom Saudi Arabia to Singapore, Sweden to South Africa, and profiles of GE, Sony, and Boeing, this book tells the story of the power of action learning to create new products, improve service quality, and transform organizational cultures for competitive advantage and sustained success.
By Michael J. Marquardt
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Optimizing the Power of Action Learning: Solving Problems and Building Leaders in Real TimeThis distinctive guidebook delivers the next-generation tools and techniques to make action learning successful each and every time, in any organization by focusing on the six essential components that make action learning work.
By Michael J. Marquardt
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Organising for Change: Social Change Makers and Social Change OrganisationsThe book delves into a vast array of compelling social justice issues, from tackling inequality to championing human rights, bridging the realms of social movement and third sector research.
By Clare Saunders, Silke Roth
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Organization Development Fundamentals: Managing Strategic ChangeExploring the many facets of organization development and change management, including the theories, models, and steps necessary to complete the process, this book is a perfect resource for professionals who are just starting out in the OD field or who want to brush-up on the basics.
By William J. Rothwell (ed), et al.
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Organizational Behavior and Theory in Healthcare: Leadership Perspectives and Management ApplicationsThrough chapter cases, activities, and questions that reinforce essential concepts, this book explores theories of organizational design, leadership, and management and the social psychology of organizations as they apply to healthcare.
By Stephen L. Walston
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Organizational Change Explained: Case Studies on Transformational Change in OrganizationsSharing stories and insights from experienced change practitioners, this invaluable book will help professionals reflect on their own work, respond critically to what others have done, and take away new tools and techniques to apply to their own change management practice.
By Bob Thomas, Sarah Coleman
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Organizational Change for the Human ServicesThis book outlines the process for organizational change from identifying a problem to following a strategy for success.
By Thomas Packard
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Organizational Change: Creating Change Through Strategic CommunicationIntegrating major empirical, theoretical and conceptual approaches to implementing communication in organizational settings, this book explores how the practices and processes of communication work in real-world cases of change implementation.
By Laurie K. Lewis
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Organizational Culture and Achieving Business Excellence: Emerging Research and OpportunitiesThis title was removed from the Skillsoft library.
By Mian M. Ajmal (eds), Rassel Kassem
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Organizational Management: Approaches and SolutionsFusing together theory and the application of organizational management, this detailed book provides useful and practical guidelines for planning, leading, and engaging a workforce and its resources to achieve organizational goals.
By Caroline Rowland, Neil Moore, Peter Scott, Peter Stokes, Simon M. Smith
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Organizational Psychology for ManagersClearly indicating how to understand and leverage the psychological underpinnings of any corporate environment, this book identifies a framework and offers key methodologies managers need to define behavioral tendencies and navigate complex organizational systems.
By Stephen R. Balzac
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Organizational Traps: Leadership, Culture, Organizational DesignArguing that we are all trapped by our own behaviors, this book examines how traps can begin to be changed and reduced during relatively straightforward interventions that emphasize social and cognitive skills.
By Chris Argyris
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Out Think: How Innovative Leaders Drive Exceptional OutcomesFor current and aspiring business leaders, Out Think is a comprehensive guide to changing the way you think and act to drive innovation and success. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By G. Shawn Hunter
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Out Think: How Innovative Leaders Drive Exceptional OutcomesThrough interviews and collaboration with thought-leaders across industries, this groundbreaking book gathers insights, stories, and actionable take-aways, with an emphasis on results, that can drive the change that leaders want and need in their organizations.
By G. Shawn Hunter
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Outliers: The Story of SuccessOutliers offers insight into unexpected parts of our lives that can affect whether we reach our goals. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its content.
By Malcolm Gladwell
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Overcoming Bad Leadership in Organizations: The Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology Professional Practice SeriesOvercoming Bad Leadership in Organizations brings together the foremost experts on the dark side of leadership to offer groundbreaking insights to leaders, talent management professionals, and psychologists.
By Derek Lusk, Theodore L. Hayes
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Own Your Authority: Follow Your Instincts, Radiate Confidence, and Communicate as a Leader People TrustSharing hard-won secrets to being a resilient leader, this book lays out a step-by-step blueprint for building the confidence you need at any stage of your career, whether you are an executive, a mid-career senior professional, an emerging leader, or consultant.
By Marisa Santoro
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Ownership Thinking: How to End Entitlement and Create a Culture of Accountability, Purpose, and ProfitExplaining how providing the right education, the right measures, and the right incentives will engage employees, this book will show you how to get your employees to think and act like owners and become active participants in the financial performance of the business.
By Brad Hams
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Partnering: The New Face of LeadershipA definitive exploration of the many forms forging relationships can take--and their very real benefits in a new corporate landscape.
By James Belasco (eds), Larraine Segil, Marshall Goldsmith
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Peak Leadership Fitness: Elevating Your Leadership GameIllustrated with true-to-life vignettes, sample leadership fitness plans, templates, and tip sheets, this book points out the opportunities for leadership development that are all around you-you just need to know where to look and how to integrate the activities into your regular routine.
By Timothy J. Tobin
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People First Leadership: How the Best Leaders Use Culture and Emotion to Drive Unprecedented ResultsPeople First Leadership presents a business model based on establishing a strong organizational culture and managing the emotions involved in running an organization. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Eduardo P. Braun
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People First Leadership: How the Best Leaders Use Culture and Emotion to Drive Unprecedented ResultsThrough thousands of hours of conversations with world-class leaders, the author presents a refreshingly human approach to leadership where you will learn how to make stronger connections that get better results and create a culture of inspiration and success.
By Eduardo P. Braun
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People Follow You: The Real Secret to What Matters Most in LeadershipRelevant to middle and high level managers, this highly engaging book provides a foundation for managing people and offers practical lessons that will help you employ winning interpersonal skills to move others to take action.
By Jeb Blount
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People Management in a Week: Managing People in Seven Simple StepsThis book provides practicing, junior and aspiring managers with a fundamental understanding of the principles and challenges of managing people, together with guidance on how to be an effective people manager.
By Norma Barry
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People Ops: Lessons in Culture and Leadership From Building StartupsLearn how to deal with difficult employee demands, what candidates actually think about recruitment processes, how to navigate layoffs, address the gender pay gap, and protect your time and wellbeing.
By Patrick Caldwell
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People Strategy: How to Invest in People and Make Culture Your Competitive AdvantageThis book provides readers with a powerful framework in which to develop high-performing teams, increase employee motivation, and use data to build an inviting and effective company culture.
By Jack Altman
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Perfect Phrases for Managers and SupervisorsAn indispensable tool for novice to mid-level managers and frontline supervisors, this practical guide provides expert advice on effective communication, tips on what to say and what not to say, using the right tone, establishing authority, and more.
By Meryl Runion
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Perfect Phrases for Setting Performance Goals: Hundreds of Ready-to-Use Goals for Any Performance Plan or ReviewThis timesaving job aid provides managers with precisely-worded phrases and goals that describe expected future performance from their direct reports.
By Douglas Max, Robert Bacal
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Performance LeadershipWalking managers through the steps of Performance Leadership, discussing the benefits and pitfalls of each step, this book explains that managers must incorporate the entire model of performance management and use it to lead within their workgroup, department, or organization.
By Fatma Pakdil, Karen Moustafa Leonard
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Permission to Speak Freely: How the Best Leaders Cultivate a Culture of CandorIllustrating the benefits of candor, this practical book explains the inhibitors that cause it to feel unsafe, and provides tools for leaders to encourage their people and embed trust and openness into the foundation of their organizational culture.
By Doug Crandall, Matt Kincaid
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Personality at Work: The Drivers and Derailers of LeadershipPersonality at Work demonstrates the importance of personality in leadership and discusses which traits are truly useful or detrimental. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Ron Warren
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Personality at Work: The Drivers and Derailers of LeadershipHelping you to recognize your own personality patterns and those of colleagues, this essential guide lays out the key personality traits that drive high performance?and the common traits that derail it.
By Ron Warren
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Persuadable: How Great Leaders Change Their Minds to Change the WorldIn Persuadable, author Al Pittampalli guides leaders through the process of developing ideas that can be enhanced through qualities of flexibility and openness. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Al Pittampalli
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Peter Drucker: Shaping the Managerial MindHighlights Peter Drucker's accomplishments and theories of managerial success.
By John E. Flaherty
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Peter Drucker's Five Most Important Questions: Enduring Wisdom for Today's LeadersProviding insightful guidance and stirring inspiration for today's leaders and entrepreneurs, this book will show readers how to focus on why they are doing what they're doing, how to do it better, and how to develop a realistic, motivational plan for achieving their goals.
By Peter F. Drucker, et al.
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Pivot Points: Five Decisions Every Successful Leader Must MakePivotal decisions can turn an ordinary career into an extraordinary journey to success. The journey is a highly individual one, and this thought-provoking book will inspire and guide you in the processes of finding your own path to exceptional results.
By Julia Tang Peters
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Pivoting: A Coach's Guide to Igniting Substantial ChangeWith an aim to inform and enlighten readers of the profound awakening human beings are experiencing to the power of individual choice, this book reveals how coaches play a key facilitative role in helping unleash the capacities and power of these pivots.
By Ann L. Clancy, Jacqueline Binkert
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Planning and Managing ChangeDesigned to help managers gain skills to plan and manage every aspect of the organizational change process, this course will allow you to foster adaptability and continuous learning.
By Vivette Payne
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Positive Leadership: Strategies for Extraordinary Performance, Second EditionConcise, inspiring, and practical, this guide describes four positive leadership strategies, lays out a proven process for implementing them, and includes a self-assessment instrument.
By Kim Cameron
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Positive Psychology at Work: How Positive Leadership and Appreciative Inquiry Create Inspiring OrganizationsFocused on specific organizational challenges to allow readers to quickly find ideas relevant to their unique situation, this book provides leaders and change agents with a powerful new approach to achieving organizational excellence.
By Sarah Lewis
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Positive Thinking: Find Happiness and Achieve Your Goals Through the Power of Positive ThoughtThe single most important step you can take to reach your goals is to train your brain to think positively. This practical book is your program for learning the new language of positive thought and finding the strength in those beliefs to act and make things happen.
By Gill Hasson
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Positively Energizing Leadership: Virtuous Actions and Relationships That Create High PerformanceThis book reveals one of the most important but frequently ignored factors that lead to spectacular performance in organizations.
By Kim Cameron, Sean Pratt
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Power Through Partnership: How Women Lead Better TogetherFeaturing lessons learned from women partners in all kinds of industries, this book shows that when women work together they discover a level of support, balance, confidence, accountability, and a freedom to be themselves that is rarely found in other work relationships.
By Betsy Polk, Maggie Ellis Chotas
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Power to the Middle: Why Managers Hold the Keys to the Future of WorkIn Power to the Middle, authors Schaninger, Hancock, and Field contend that mid-level managers are instrumental in unlocking an organization's true potential. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Bill Schaninger, Bryan Hancock, Emily Field
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Powered by Change: How to Design Your Business for Perpetual SuccessAsking leaders to adopt a more radical view about the way business is done, this book is filled with examples and stories from around the world, colorful insights, and above all, actionable steps to take to achieve competitive advantage.
By Jonathan MacDonald
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Powered by Happy: How to Get and Stay Happy at WorkFilled with upbeat coaching, practical advice, and proven techniques, this concise book is packed with ways to boost not only workplace happiness, but also your-and your company's-performance.
By Beth Thomas
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Practical Guide To Mentoring: How to Help Others Achieve Their GoalsIncluding a number of case studies, or scenarios, relating to a variety of possible mentoring situations, this concise book will clarify the whole mentoring process from start to finish, and support you every step of the way.
By David Kay, Roger Hinds
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Practice Perfect: 42 Rules for Getting Better at Getting BetterPresenting a clear set of rules to make us better in virtually every performance of life, this hands-on resource puts practice on the front burner of all who seek to instill talent and achievement in others as well as in themselves.
By Doug Lemov, Erica Woolway, Katie Yezzi
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Practicing Organization Development: Leading Transformation and Change, Fourth EditionIncluding sample exercises, a test bank, and case studies, this comprehensive book explores the cutting edge of change management, leadership development, organizational transformation, and society benefit.
By Jacqueline M. Stavros, Roland L. Sullivan (eds), William J. Rothwell
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Practicing Positive Leadership: Tools and Techniques that Create Extraordinary ResultsDescribing the breakthrough results that any organization can achieve by practicing positive leadership, this concise, how-to guide features a wealth of specific tools and techniques for implementing positive leadership in five different areas.
By Kim Cameron
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Practicing Servant-Leadership: Succeeding Through Trust, Bravery, and ForgivenessUsing examples from a variety of organizations such as businesses, nonprofits, churches, schools, foundations, and leadership organizations, this text explores how servant-leadership works in the real world.
By Larry C. Spears, Michele Lawrence (eds), Warren Bennis
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Preparing for Leadership: What It Takes to Take the LeadContaining practical tools, including assessments, tips, and evaluations, this invaluable book shows readers how to take their organizations into the future, inspire those around them - and achieve beyond what is expected.
By Deborah Dennis Meola, Donna J. Dennis
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Preventing Stress in Organizations: How to Develop Positive ManagersBalancing rigorous research grounding with real-world vignettes, case studies and exercises, this innovative book is designed to enhance the portfolio of behaviours managers can use to manage work-related stress and develop a positive team and working environment.
By Emma Donaldson-Feilder, Joanna Yarker, Rachel Lewis
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Preventing Workplace Bullying: An Evidence-Based Guide for Managers and EmployeesOutlining what constitutes bullying at work, demystifying some controversial issues, and discussing the various factors which influence workplace bullying, this evidence-based book shows how to apply best practice to preventing and managing workplace bullying.
By Anne Wyatt, Carlo Caponecchia
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Primal Leadership: Realizing the Power of Emotional IntelligenceFor readers in any managerial role across the world, Primal Leadership draws on the basic instincts inherent in those who guide teams through the complex modern-day business world. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Annie McKee, Daniel Goleman, Richard Boyatzis
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Principle-Centered LeadershipSharing the powerful principles taught to many of the world's top executives and most influential leaders, this book will help you align your organization's resources and structures to increase long-term performance and create a high-trust culture.
By Stephen R. Covey
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Principles of Healthcare LeadershipBeginning with foundational leadership theory, including a discussion of power and influence, this book then explores distinct leadership styles and skills, the importance of organizational culture building, and strategies for leading people in healthcare delivery.
By Bernard J. Healey
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Profit from the Positive: Proven Leadership Strategies to Boost Productivity and Transform Your BusinessIn Profit from the Positive, authors Greenberg and Maymin explore various ways to boost team morale and productivity. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Margaret Greenberg, Senia Maymin
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Project LeadershipThis book traces the development of project leadership, and helps the reader develop wisdom in making decisions. The GovEssentials collection from Books24x7 is offered in partnership with Management Concepts.
By Arthur Shriberg, Jayashree Venkatraman, Timothy J. Kloppenborg
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Project-Oriented LeadershipExplaining the key leadership models of managerial, intellectual and emotional leadership, this book shows how they can be applied within projects to lead processes, functions and people, and ensure an ethical and inclusive approach within projects and programs.
By J. Rodney Turner, Ralf Müller
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Promoting Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion for Women After the COVID-19 PandemicPromoting Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion for Women After the COVID-19 Pandemic provides relevant theoretical frameworks and the latest empirical research findings in the fields of diversity, equity, and inclusion impacting women's empowerment after the COVID-19 pandemic.
By Siham El-Kafafi
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Propeller: Accelerating Change by Getting Accountability RightIn Propeller, the authors illustrate principles and techniques to shift your organization from a culture of blame, where people evade problems and dislike taking initiative, to a culture where people take action and tackle problems proactively. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Craig Hickman, Jared Jones, Tanner Corbridge, Tom Smith
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Provoke: How Leaders Shape the Future by Overcoming Fatal Human FlawsThis book is perfect for leaders or aspiring leaders in all walks of life where uncertainty abounds-which is to say, almost everywhere -Provoke will become your go-to guide to overcoming those natural human instincts that keep us frozen in place and prevent us from seizing our opportunities.
By Geoff Tuff, Steven Goldbach
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Pushback: How Smart Women Ask--and Stand Up--for What They WantDrawing on interviews with high-level leaders from Charles Schwab Investment Management, UPS, and Campbell's Soup, this insightful, timely book will help savvy women leverage their skills, promote themselves effectively, and fast track their careers.
By Selena Rezvani
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Put Emotional Intelligence to Work: Equip Yourself for SuccessHelping you understand how emotions have a direct and profound effect on how well you perform on the job and life, this book presents great techniques to advance emotional self-awareness and tips on building self-esteem, confidence, and peak performance.
By Jeff Feldman, Karl Mulle
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Put Happiness to Work: 7 Strategies to Elevate Engagement for Optimal PerformancePresenting a step-by-step program that includes specific activities to enhance engagement and generate happiness at work, this book lays out strategies that are easy to implement and critical to helping leaders unlock the kind of engagement organizations need to thrive.
By Eric Karpinski
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QBQ! The Question Behind the Question: What to Really Ask Yourself to Eliminate Blame, Complaining and ProcrastinationIn QBQ, J. G. Miller demonstrates how asking the right questions will inspire you to apply personal accountability to your business and life decisions. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By John G. Miller
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Quick Emotional Intelligence Activities for Busy Managers: 50 Team Exercises That Get Results in Just 15 MinutesFilled with powerful, proven exercises, this simple, easy-to-use book gives managers, supervisors, and team leaders activities to help their teams overcome emotional obstacles and become more effective.
By Adele B. Lynn
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Quick Guide Change Management for all Cases: What Case Studies Teach UsThis Quick Guide to Change Management for all cases serves as a short guide. It offers those responsible and those affected a quick overview of how corporate change can succeed. To ensure practical transfer, it provides valuable tips based on real-life experiences and illustrated by a series of case studies drawn from the author's own research and consulting experience.
By Thomas Lauer
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R&D ManagementCovering issues in R&D management on the basis of a detailed assessment of the field in India over the last 30 years, this book provides a thorough understanding of the activities to be performed in R&D functions and integrates the R&D functions to the strategic goals of the organization.
By K.B. Akhilesh
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Rapid Mass Engagement: Driving Continuous Improvement through Employee Culture CreationProviding everything you need to boost individual, team, and organizational performance, Rapid Mass Engagement delivers a new, more effective approach to creating a solid corporate culture that fuels long-term business success.
By Frank Devine
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Re-writing your Leadership Code: How your Childhood Made You the Leader You Are, and What You Can Do About ItIn this ground-breaking book, leadership experts Nik Kinley and Shlomo Ben-Hur reveal how our instincts are the products of childhood experience - lessons learnt that have become written into the structure of our brains.
By Nik Kinley, Shlomo Ben-Hur
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Reaching the Goal: How Managers Improve a Services Business Using Goldratt's Theory of ConstraintsPresenting a breakthrough management approach that embraces what makes services different, this book shows how to apply practical techniques to crucial business functions--from project management to finance, process improvement to sales and marketing.
By John Arthur Ricketts
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Ready? Set? Engage!: A Field Guide for Employees to Create Their Own Culture of Participation and Implement Innovative IdeasPresented in a conversational, down-to-earth writing style, this step-by-step book identifies the benefits of-and strategies for-developing engaged employees who will implement and sustain your Lean processes.
By Janis Allen, Michael McCarthy
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Real Women, Real Leaders: Surviving and Succeeding in the Business WorldProviding the personal, relatable testimonials from women who have navigated the opportunities and pitfalls of the business world, this book sheds light on women's unique leadership attributes, and offerss guidance for professional women charting their own professional advancement.
By Kathleen Hurley, Priscilla Shumway (eds)
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Reality-Based Leadership: Ditch the Drama, Restore Sanity to the Workplace, and Turn Excuses into ResultsFilled with dynamic examples, innovative tools, and diagnostic tests, this inspiring book reveals how to be the kind of leader who changes the way people think about and perceive their circumstances.
By Cy Wakeman
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Rebuilding Trust in the Workplace: Seven Steps to Renew Confidence, Commitment, and EnergyOffering a proven seven-step process to heal pain and rebuild trust, this compassionate, practical book will help you reframe the experience, take responsibility, forgive, let go and move on. Through healing, you will want to go to work again.
By Dennis Reina, Michelle Reina
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Reframing Organizations: Artistry, Choice, and Leadership, 6th EditionProviding clear guidance and up-to-date insight for anyone facing the challenges of contemporary leadership, this book presents a four-frame model that offers an accessible, compact, and powerful set of ideas for navigating complexity and turbulence.
By Lee G. Bolman, Terrence E. Deal
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Reframing Organizations: Artistry, Choice, and Leadership, Fourth EditionFilled with case examples such as Hurricane Katrina and profiles of great leaders such as Mother Theresa, Thomas Keller, and others, this book explains a clear and insightful approach to "big picture" management.
By Lee G. Bolman, Terrence E. Deal
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Rehumanizing Leadership: Putting purpose back into businessThe book has become one of the most pressing issues of our times. This book offers an antidote to the linear and fragmented leadership models that emerged out of the industrial age.
By Michael Chavez, Sudhanshu Palsule
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Relationships 101: What Every Leader Needs to KnowMaking straightforward, practical information accessible to you, this concise book offers time-tested principles for connecting with people and building positive working relationships within an organization.
By John C. Maxwell
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Remarkable Leadership: Unleashing Your Leadership Potential One Skill at a TimeOutlining the most important leadership competencies, this book offers a proven method for learning leadership skills, and shows approaches for applying these skills in today's multitasking and overloaded world of work.
By Kevin Eikenberry
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Research Anthology on Feminist Studies and Gender PerceptionsThe Research Anthology on Feminist Studies and Gender Perceptions explores the application of feminist theory and women empowerment in the 21st century and the role that gender plays in society. This book analyzes media representation, gender performativity, and theory to present a comprehensive view of gender and society.
By Information Resources Management Association
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Restoring Sanity: Practices to Awaken Generosity, Creativity, and Kindness in Ourselves and Our Organizations NEW!We need to restore sanity by awakening the human spirit. We can achieve this only if we undertake the most challenging and meaningful work of our leader lives: Creating Islands of Sanity.
By Margaret Wheatley
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Results-Based LeadershipLeadership is defined by its attributes, but measured in results. This book is a guide to connecting the two. Leadership is defined by its attributes, but measured in results. This book is a guide to connecting the two.
By Dave Ulrich, Jack Zenger, Norm Smallwood
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Results: Get Clarity. Achieve ResultsHelping you de-clog your mind so you can make better decisions, prioritize and focus on achieving important goals, this book will help you develop a deeper understanding of why you act the way you and awaken your inner potential.
By Jamie Smart
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Riding the Leadership Rollercoaster: An Observer's GuideA collection of short, bite-sized nuggets of insight into the psychological ups and downs of the leadership journey, this book provides leaders and their coaches with the insights that can help them take some control of the ride.
By Manfred F.R. Kets de Vries
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Rise to the Top: How Women Leverage Their Professional Persona to Earn MoreWritten from the inside perspective of a leading female executive-compensation advisor who understands how pay is determined and rewards and benefits are granted in corporate America, this book reveals the four female "powerhouse personality types" and shares specific strategies on how women can leverage these work styles to earn more money and rewards.
By Stacey Hawley
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Rituals for Work: 50 Ways to Create Engagement, Shared Purpose, and a Culture That Can Adapt to ChangeThis book shows us how creative rituals can make our personal and business lives more meaningful and rewarding.
By Kursat Ozenc, Margaret Hagan
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Road to Power: How GM's Mary Barra Shattered the Glass CeilingWhen 52-year-old Mary Barra was named CEO of General Motors in 2013, only people outside of the company were surprised. This book tells the story of how she drove herself to the pinnacle of a company that steers the nation's wealth.
By Laura Colby
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Road to Power: How GM's Mary Barra Shattered the Glass CeilingRoad to Power is a well-researched narrative of how Mary Barra, a woman from a working-class background, managed to work her way up the ranks at General Motors. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Laura Colby
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Rogue Waves: Future-Proof Your Business to Survive and Profit from Radical ChangeThis book shows you how to prepare your business to survive and thrive through the most radical upheavals.
By Jonathan Brill
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Rule Breaker: Rebellious Leadership for the Future of WorkIn Rule Breaker, author Jackie Fast encourages leaders to break the traditional "rules" and go against industry standards in order to become successful. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Jackie Fast
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Rule Breaker: Rebellious Leadership for the Future of WorkLead the organization of the future with a new type of leadership that is grounded in trust, value and reinvention in today's changing business landscape.
By Jackie Fast
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S.K.I.R.T.S in the Boardroom: A Woman's Survival Guide to Success in Business & LifeIf you're a working woman who wants to get ahead, this sensible, straightforward book will equip you with the strategies you need to combine confidence and compassion, style and substance, and beauty and brains for professional success.
By Marshawn Evans
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Scaling Conversations: How Leaders Access the Full Potential of PeopleIn this book you'll learn how to better facilitate conversations with a wider and more representative array of clients and employees, and not just the loudest ones in the town hall meeting or Slack channel. Perfect for any leader who's responsible for understanding what employees are really feeling and thinking.
By Dave MacLeod
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Scaling Leadership: Building Organizational Capability and Capacity to Create Outcomes That Matter MostProviding effective techniques, real-world examples, and expert guidance, this innovative resource is for organizations seeking to improve performance, align and execute strategies, and transform their business with scalable leadership capability.
By Robert J. Anderson, William A. Adams
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Secrets of Great Leaders: 50 Ways to Make a DifferenceThis book reveals the 50 things you need to know to motivate and inspire those around you.
By Carol O'Connor
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Seeing People Through: Unleash Your Leadership Potential with the Process Communication ModelNASA, Pixar Animation Studios, and BMW all use the Process Communication Model as a way of training leaders to connect effortlessly with anyone. This book simplifies the complex model to make it easy for anyone to use.
By Nate Regier
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Self Leadership and the One-Minute Manager: Increasing Effectiveness Through Situational Self LeadershipSelf Leadership and the One Minute Manager uses a simple and entertaining business parable to illustrate how you can become a self-leader. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Ken Blanchard, Laurence Hawkins, Susan Fowler
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Self-Improvement 101: What Every Leader Needs to KnowThe best leaders know that success is about more than winning--it's about improving and developing. This book provides the essentials all leaders need to keep striving for excellence no matter where they are or what they are doing.
By John C. Maxwell
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Self-Leadership: How to Become a More Successful, Efficient, and Effective Leader from the Inside OutSharing the self-leadership path, this book provides you with tools and insights take more control of your life, create healthier relationships, live more authentically, or positively influence others.
By Ana Lucia Kazan, Andrew Bryant
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Self-Leadership: Study Guide, Student EditionThis title will be removed from the Skillsoft library on May 24, 2024.
By GTS Learning
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Selling Boldly: Applying the New Science of Positive Psychology to Dramatically Increase Your Confidence, Happiness, and SalesLeveraging positive psychology to help you sell more, this book will teach you exactly how to overcome your destructive fear in sales, and replace it with confidence, optimism, gratitude, joy, and proactive sales work.
By Alex Goldfayn
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Selling Vision: The X-XY-Y Formula for Driving Results by Selling ChangeProviding immediate actions you can take and experiments you can conduct to find the right direction for future sales efforts at any level of an organization, this book presents a proven sales strategy to help any sales leader, manager, or professional.
By Lou Schachter, Rick Cheatham
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Selling Yourself Without Selling Out: Leader's Guide to Ethical Self-PromotionProviding numerous strategies and activities that can become part of your repertoire, this book discusses how you can benefit from self-promotion and maintain your integrity and authenticity.
By Cindy McLaughlin, Gina Hernez-Broome, Stephanie Trovas
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Servant Leadership in Action: How You Can Achieve Great Relationships and ResultsServant leaders lead by serving their people, not by exalting themselves. This collection features forty-four renowned servant leadership experts and practitioners who offer advice and tools for implementing this proven, but for some still radical, leadership model.
By Ken Blanchard, Renee Broadwell (eds)
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Servant Leadership in Action: How You Can Achieve Great Relationships and ResultsServant Leadership in Action demonstrates that you can have a much greater influence to enact meaningful change if you're willing to put your ego aside and focus on being of service to the people who look to you for guidance and motivation. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Ken Blanchard, Renee Broadwell (eds)
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Serve to Be Great: Leadership Lessons from a Prison, a Monastery, and a Board RoomOffering a practical guide to becoming a leader people want to follow, this straightforward book reveals the author's life experiences and unique insights to help leaders apply the powerful principles of servant leadership.
By Matt Tenney
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Setting and Reaching GoalsCovering the three elements of setting and reaching effective goals, this book provides several tips that will make taking action to achieve those goals within your reach.
By Jeff Davidson
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Setting Your Development Goals: Start with Your ValuesHow to set goals you can stick with.
By Bill Sternbergh, Sloan R. Weitzel
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Seven Disciplines of a Leader: How to Help Your People, Team, and Organization Achieve Maximum EffectivenessA great leader makes everyone shine, and provides the vision, the tools, and the support people need to do their very best work. This comprehensive book describes how it's done, and how greatness can be learned.
By Jeff Wolf, Ken Shelton
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Shakti Leadership: Embracing Feminine and Masculine Power in BusinessReaching into ancient spiritual and mythical teachings, this book revives a feminine archetype of leadership and guides us through our own heroic journey to discover and responsibly access this source of infinite energy and begin to lead with our whole selves.
By Nilima Bhat, Raj Sisodia
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She Made It: The Toolkit for Female Founders in the Digital AgeDiscover how to launch a successful business and find your voice in the often male-dominated world of business and start-ups.
By Angelica Malin
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Shift Ahead: How the Best Companies Stay Relevant in A Fast-Changing WorldPacked with insightful interviews, this straightforward book offers a smart, calculated approach to knowing when to change course and how to pull it off.
By Allen Adamson, Joel Steckel
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Shock of the New: The Challenge and Promise of Emerging TechnologyRaising awareness of technological changes that may be coming your way, this book gives you the tools to assess emerging learning technologies and their relevance to your enterprise.
By Chad Udell, Gary Woodill
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Show Your Worth: 8 Intentional Strategies for Women to Emerge as Leaders at WorkDelivering must-have tools to harness the power of intention and strategy to achieve career success-tailor-made for women who are underrepresented in their fields.
By Shelmina Babai Abji
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Silos, Politics and Turf Wars: A Leadership Fable About Destroying the Barriers That Turn Colleagues Into CompetitorsThis book addresses the costly and maddening issue of silos, the barriers that create organizational politics.
By Patrick M. Lencioni
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Silos, Politics, and Turf Wars: A Leadership Fable About Destroying the Barriers That Turn Colleagues Into CompetitorsFor businesspeople looking for a way to break into consulting, consultants who want to improve, and leaders who want to understand their business, Silos, Politics, and Turf Wars is a unique approach to establishing a broad framework for success. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Patrick Lencioni
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Simple Habits for Complex Times: Powerful Practices for LeadersJennifer Garvey Berger and Keith Johnston provide a playbook to navigate the various leadership challenges many of us face at one time or another. In this Review we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Jennifer Garvey Berger, Keith Johnston
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Simple Truths of LeadershipThis book will show readers how to incorporate simple but essential practices into their leadership style, build trust through servant leadership, and enhance their own lives and the lives of everyone around them.
By Ken Blanchard, Randy Conley
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Small Acts of Leadership: 12 Intentional Behaviors That Lead to Big ImpactWeaving in personal life stories and meaningful interviews with business leaders around the world, this book presents the reader with twelve critical competencies that are consistently present in the daily behaviors of today's most successful leaders.
By G. Shawn Hunter
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Small Data, Big Disruptions: How to Spot Signals of Change and Manage UncertaintySMALL DATA, BIG DISRUPTIONS explains how to scan data to determine the events, patterns, and narratives that signal the possible outcomes you'll need to prepare for in order to futureproof your organization. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Martin Schwirn
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Smart Girls Screw up Too: The No-Nonsense Guide to Creating The Life You WantDelivered with no-holds-barred honesty, humor and compassion, this practical book is THE no-nonsense guide for a generation of women who secretly muse about what might be possible in their careers, health and relationships but don't know where to start or are too afraid to.
By Bella Zanesco
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Solutions Focus: Transforming Change for Coaches, Leaders and Consultants, Third EditionSolutions Focus Practice is transforming coaching, consulting and leadership in organisations all over the world. A powerful yet simple approach to positive change, a solutions focus approach to people problems explores what works in a given situation and aims do more of it.
By Mark McKergow, Paul Z Jackson
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Solving the Productivity Puzzle: How to Engage, Motivate and Develop Employees to Improve Individual and Business PerformanceIncluding case studies from global organizations, this book is a practical guide for all people management professionals to address the challenge of stagnating people productivity.
By Tim Ringo
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Speak Like a CEO: Secrets for Commanding Attention and Getting ResultsWith self-assessments, exercises, and customizable self-improvement plans, this sophisticated book proves that you don't have to be a natural-born speaker to develop a compelling communication style all your own.
By Suzanne Bates
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Speaking as a Leader: How to Lead Every Time You Speak - From Board Rooms to Meeting Rooms, From Town Halls to Phone CallsSpeaking as a Leader is an essential handbook of effective communication skills for leaders in all fields, and for anyone who aspires to be a great leader. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Judith Humphrey
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Speaking As a Leader: How to Lead Every Time You Speak...From Board Rooms to Meeting Rooms, From Town Halls to Phone CallsWritten by one of the world's leading communications coaches, this eye-opening guide shows you how to make the most of your daily communications, creating a presence on the job as a genuine and constant leader.
By Judith Humphrey
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Speaking Up at Work: Leading Change as an Independent ThinkerIf you have ever feared speaking up about your ideas or have done so but are frustrated by your lack of success, this book is for you.
By Ryan E. Smerek
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Stacking the Deck: How to Lead Breakthrough Change Against Any OddsOffering a proven, practical approach for inspiring meaningful, lasting change across an organization, this book presents a nine-step course of action leaders can follow from the first realization that change is needed through all the steps of implementation, including assembling the right team of close advisors and getting the word out to the wider group.
By David S. Pottruck
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Stacking the Deck: How to Lead Breakthrough Change Against Any OddsStacking the Deck offers a nine-step process that leaders can take to help reduce the risks that are often associated with implementing change. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By David S. Pottruck
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Stand Out: How to Build Your Leadership PresenceLeadership presence doesn't come with a title or promotion - good leaders develop presence over time. This practical book walks you through achieving this presence so you get that next promotion and give your career that extra boost.
By Carol Kinsey Goman
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StandOut: The Groundbreaking New Strengths Assessment from the Leader of the Strengths RevolutionIn StandOut, author Marcus Buckingham introduces a fresh approach to identifying your inherent strengths and offers valuable insight into how to utilize them in your career. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Marcus Buckingham
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Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take ActionIf you find that your career doesn't provide fulfillment, it may be because your work culture has lost sight of WHY it exists. In Start with WHY, Simon Sinek opens readers' eyes to the intrinsic motivations of companies. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Simon Sinek
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Staying Power: 30 Secrets Invincible Executives Use for Getting to the Top - and Staying ThereWhat personal and professional attributes seem time and again to propel successful people to the top? The notable figures in this text reveal 30 key characteristics that seem to be consistently present in those who experience breakthrough success.
By Thomas A. Schweich
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Step Up: Lead in Six Moments That MatterStep Up identifies six critical leadership opportunities an individual can use to step into a leadership role. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Colm Foster, Henry Evans
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Stepping Up : How Taking Responsibility Changes Everything, Second EditionFilled with stories that illustrate the incredible power of stepping up, this insightful book shows that by seeing ourselves as the locus of control rather than the victims of change, we are happier, less stressed, and more powerful.
By John Izzo
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Stepping Up: How Taking Responsibility Changes EverythingIn Stepping Up, author John Izzo examines the value in taking responsibility for actions and events in your life and shows you just how to do so. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By John Izzo
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Stewardship: Choosing Service Over Self-Interest, Second EditionOffering tactical advice on gearing up to implement reforms, this book covers both the theory of stewardship (in particular how it ameliorates the shortcomings of traditional leadership) and the practice (how it transforms every function and department for the better).
By Peter Block
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Stop Complainers and Energy Drainers: How to Negotiate Work Drama to Get More DoneUsing scenarios, engaging questions, and survey results to provide strategies that can be implemented immediately, this book shows how to identify and manage conversations with venters, complainers, whiners, and energy drainers in order to boost morale and increase productivity.
By Linda Byars Swindling
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Storytelling in Organizations: Why Storytelling Is Transforming 21st Century Organizations and ManagementExplaining why narrative and storytelling should be part of the mainstream of organizational and management thinking, this unique book profiles four busy executives, and the role narrative played in their organizations.
By John Seely Brown, Katalina Groh, Laurence Prusak, Stephen Denning
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Strategic Business Partner: Aligning People Strategies with Business GoalsWhat must you do day to day to work successfully as a Strategic Business Partner? This groundbreaking text discusses the behaviors and actions needed to perform this role in five key areas.
By Dana Gaines Robinson, James C. Robinson
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Strategic Leadership: How to Think and Plan Strategically and Provide DirectionFull of checklists, summaries and historical examples, this book explores the nature and origin of strategic leadership, assesses the skills you need to be effective, and reveals the seven generic functions that make up the role of strategic leader.
By John Adair
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Strategic Leadership: The General's ArtWith contributions from military leaders and experts in the fields of transformational leadership, systems, critical and historical thinking, and corporate culture, this work teaches mid-level managers how to become high-level executives.
By Georgia Sorenson (eds), Mark R. Grandstaff
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Strategic Thinking: A Nine Step Approach to Strategy and Leadership for Managers and Marketers, 3rd editionIncluding prompt sheets, objectives, action plans and summaries, this book will enable you to gain a deeper understanding of your market, forecast where your organization is heading, think critically about proposals and write an effective strategic plan.
By Simon Wootton, Terry Horne
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Strategic Thinking: A Nine Step Approach to Strategy and Leadership for Managers and Marketers, 3rd EditionStrategic Thinking offers a nine-step approach for becoming a strategic thinker and, consequently, a strong, strategic leader. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Simon Wootton, Terry Horne
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Strategy-Driven Talent Management: A Leadership ImperativeFilled with case studies and CEO interviews, this guide presents best practices and guidance on how to recruit, select, assimilate, develop, and retain exceptional talent and integrate talent management efforts with organizational strategy.
By Ben E. Dowell, Rob Silzer
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Strength-Based Leadership Coaching in Organizations: An Evidence-based Guide to Positive Leadership DevelopmentOffering a review of strength-based approaches to positive leadership development, this book evaluates the evidence for their effectiveness, critically assesses their apparent distinctiveness, and considers how strengths can be reliably assessed and developed in their organizational context.
By Doug MacKie
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Strength-Based Leadership Coaching in Organizations: An Evidence-based Guide to Positive Leadership DevelopmentStrength-Based Leadership Coaching in Organizations offers you an improved, multifaceted, and positive approach to the traditional leadership training methods that have left you wanting. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Doug MacKie
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Strengths Oriented Leadership: The World Through Bee GlassesThis book presents the overwhelming scientific evidence that strengths-based leadership and collaboration lead to more productivity, more innovation, better well-being at work, lower absenteeism, and better health.
By Matt L. Beadle
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Strengths-Based Leadership: Great Leaders, Teams, and Why People FollowLoaded with novel research, inspiring stories, and actionable ideas, this book identifies three keys to being an effective leader, and uses firsthand accounts from highly successful leaders to show how each person's unique talents can drive their success.
By Barry Conchie, Tom Rath
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Strengths-Based Leadership: Great Leaders, Teams, and Why People FollowStrengths-Based Leadership proposes a new way of looking at the relationship between leadership and individual strengths. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Barry Conchie, Tom Rath
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Strong Women Lift Each Other UpThis book is an evidence-based, actionable guide to creating a better life for yourself and a better world with more opportunity for women and girls.
By Molly Galbraith
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Success 101: What Every Leader Needs to KnowPacked with wisdom and instruction, this concise, straightforward book focuses on the timeless, time-tested, essential qualities necessary for true leadership success.
By John C. Maxwell
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Successful Organizational Transformation: The Five Critical ElementsWalking readers through a five-ingredient framework to transformation, this book discusses what skills are needed at the organizational, group, and individual level to maximize improvement efforts.
By Marla Hacker, Marvin Washington, Stephen Hacker
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Successfully Managing Complex Companies: Challenge for Supervisory and Executive BoardsThis book begins by providing an overview of the most important tasks for both the supervisory and executive boards.
By Rudolf Grünig
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Succession: Mastering the Make-or-Break Process of Leadership TransitionSuccession offers both analytic and clinical interpretations of complex decision-making techniques and directs leaders toward best practice decisions when faced with leadership transition. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Noel M. Tichy
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Suddenly In Charge: Managing Up, Managing Down, Succeeding All Around, Revised and Updated, 3rd EditionThis third edition is fully revised and updated for the post-Covid world of work, with new chapters on difficult conversations, how to ask for a raise and actually get it, and weaving in advice and stories to guide readers who are working in a hybrid or remote environments.
By Roberta Chinsky Matuson
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Supercharged Goal SettingPresenting a five-step, goal-setting process, this exciting book will explain how to turn your dreams into goals that you want to strive for and commit to achieving.
By Warren Greshes
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Superfast: Lead at SpeedGiving you the tools to lead well and make change happen, this book provides cutting edge inspiration and a host of exciting ideas about how to accelerate performance in an agile and thoughtful way, shedding new light on leading in a world which is fluid and uncertain.
By Sophie Devonshire
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Supervision in the Hospitality Industry, Seventh EditionWith industry examples, profiles, and key word definitions, this practical, concrete, and results-oriented guide provides comprehensive coverage of the principles, theories, and decision-making skills required to manage a workforce to profitable results.
By Jack E. Miller, John R. Walker
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Swim!: How a Shark, a Suckerfish, and a Parasite Teach You Leadership, Mentoring, and Next-Level SuccessWritten as an engaging parable, book is an entertaining read that highlights the significant concept of connecting and building relationships and includes the tools needed to become more self-aware about our roles and contributions in our industries.
By Walter Bond
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Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is HardIn Switch, Chip and Dan Heath analyze our internal struggles when dealing with change in our professional and personal lives, and enthusiastically share anecdotal proof of successful strategies for achieving lasting change. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Chip Heath, Dan Heath
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Synchronicity: The Inner Path of Leadership, Second EditionLeaders will learn how to use the power of synchronicity to manifest new realities into their organizations and unlock wisdom and creativity.
By Joseph Jaworski
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Systems Approaches to Making Change: A Practical Guide, Second EditionThis book offers an excellent introduction for those seeking to understand systems thinking and to enact systems thinking in practice. The book helps practitioners from all professions to better understand inter-relationships, engage with multiple perspectives, and reflect on boundary judgements that can inhibit or enhance improved purposeful change.
By Dr Martin Reynolds, Sue Holwell
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Systems Leadership: Creating Positive Organisations, Second EditionPresenting tools to help you consider, analyze and predict the consequences of your decisions, this book was written to help leaders create conditions that actively encourage people to use their capabilities in achieving constructive goals.
By Catherine Burke, Ian Macdonald, Karl Stewart
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Tackling Depression at Work: A Practical Guide for Employees and ManagersWith insightful advice from workers who have learned to manage their disorder on the job, this thorough book offers invaluable support for any worker with depression, whether it's temporary or an ongoing condition.
By Gordon Parker, Kerrie Eyers
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Taking Charge of Change: How Rebuilders Solve Hard ProblemsThe social challenges facing us in the 2020's are radically different than those we faced even one generation ago. Meet the new leaders who are moving us forward and learn how to apply their same effectiveness, qualities, and attributes to you own leadership.
By Paul Shoemaker
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Taking Smart Risks: How Sharp Leaders Win When Stakes are HighTo stay competitive today, you have to think and act quickly; but the last thing you want to do is make reckless business decisions. This groundbreaking book explains how to find balance between comfort and danger for generating the sustained ability to work at the highest level of performance.
By Doug Sundheim
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Taking the Reins as CIO: A Blueprint for Leadership TransitionsThis book provides keen insights into the challenges faced by today's CIOs while transitioning into a new role and enlightens readers on how to navigate the organizational environment in order to implement necessary changes.
By Joe Peppard, Tony Gerth
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Taking the Stage: How Women Can Speak Up, Stand Out, and SucceedBased on a program from the Humphrey Group that has been delivered to over 400,000 women worldwide, this book presents a practical, broad-based solution that will allow women to speak up confidently, gain respect, earn the promotions they deserve, and secure their places at the boardroom table.
By Judith Humphrey
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Talent Keepers: How Top Leaders Engage and Retain Their Best PerformersAchieve higher levels of workforce engagement and retain more employees
By Christopher Mulligan, Craig R. Taylor
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Ten Virtues of Outstanding Leaders: Leadership and CharacterAuthored by two renowned business ethicists, this book combines theory with fascinating biographical detail on exemplary leaders such as Abraham Lincoln, Winston Churchill, and Oprah Winfrey to show how an individual's character is the defining factor of successful leadership.
By Al Gini, Ronald M. Green
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That's What She Said: What Men and Women Need To Know About Working TogetherIn That's What She Said, Joanne Lipman shares her views of why equality within the corporate world still seems out of reach for some women and minority groups. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Joanne Lipman
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The 100 Absolutely Unbreakable Laws of Business Success100 principles to achieve success written by someone who has spent a lifetime inspiring others.
By Brian Tracy
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The 100X Leader: How to Become Someone Worth FollowingForget everything you know about motivating others and building a harmonious workplace. If you want to get the best out of people, you must be willing to fight. But, that doesn't mean you become a dominator, nor does coddling others work.
By Jeremie Kubicek, Steve Cockram
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The 108 Skills of Natural Born LeadersIdentifying the skill set that causes others to see people as natural born leaders, this introspective book helps readers assess their current level of these skills, and coaches readers to master their weak areas.
By Warren Blank
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The 21 Indispensable Qualities of a Leader: Becoming the Person Others Will Want to FollowIn The 21 Indispensable Qualities of a Leader, author John C. Maxwell highlights the specific characteristics that exemplify exceptional leaders. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By John C. Maxwell
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The 21 Indispensable Qualities Of A Leader: Becoming The Person Others Will Want To FollowWith daily readings highlighting twenty-one essential leadership qualities, this book provides a concise, accessible book that helps readers become more effective leaders from the inside out.
By John C. Maxwell
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The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership Workbook: Follow Them and People Will Follow You, Revised & Updated 10th Anniversary EditionInternationally recognized leadership expert, speaker, and author John C. Maxwell has taken this million-seller and made it even better.
By John C. Maxwell
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The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership: Follow Them and People Will Follow You, Revised and Updated 10th Anniversary EditionIncluding seventeen new leadership stories, two new Laws of Leadership, and a new evaluation tool to reveal your leadership strengths and weaknesses, this updated version of the bestseller will help you grow your leadership skills more than you thought possible.
By John C. Maxwell
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The 21 Most Powerful Minutes In A Leader's Day: Revitalize Your Spirit and Empower Your LeadershipOffering thoughts on proven leadership qualities and crucial issues that affect leadership success, this book will help leaders maximize their assets and overcome their weaknesses, encouraging them to lead with their hearts as well as their minds.
By John C. Maxwell
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The 27 Challenges Managers Face: Step-by-Step Solutions to (Nearly) All of Your Management ProblemsAn indispensable resource for managers at all levels, this book offers clear approaches for turning around bad attitudes, reducing friction and conflict, improving low performers, retaining top performers, and even addressing your own personal burnout.
By Bruce Tulgan
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The 360 Degree Leader: Developing Your Influence from Anywhere in the OrganizationDebunking myths and shedding light on the challenges, this book offers specific principles for Leading Down, Leading Up, and Leading Across to help you expand your influence and ultimately be a more valuable team member.
By John C. Maxwell
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The 360 Degree Leader: Developing Your Influence from Anywhere in the OrganizationThe 360 Degree Leader offers a new perspective on leadership-one that emphasizes expanding your sphere of influence from the position you occupy right now, instead of chasing a title first. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By John C. Maxwell
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The 4 Disciplines of Execution: Achieving Your Wildly Important GoalsIn The 4 Disciplines of Execution, Authors Chris McChesney, Sean Covey, and Jim Huling reveal the four essential principles that help individuals and organizations realize their most important goals. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Chris McChesney, Jim Huling, Sean Covey
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The 5 Levels of Leadership: Proven Steps to Maximize Your PotentialThe 5 Levels of Leadership offers a unique perspective on the progressive nature of leadership, and offers advice on growing your influence as you climb up the leadership ladder. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By John C. Maxwell
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The 5 Steps to Peak Performance: The Secret to Overcoming Limiting BeliefsHelping you learn the primary beliefs essential to all ongoing success, this thoughtful resource gives you proven strategies for rapidly breaking through limiting beliefs so you feel great, while boosting your confidence and self-esteem.
By Larry Iverson
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The 5 Truths for Transformational Leaders: How Nonprofit Organizations Thrive, Grow, and Make a Profound DifferenceIn The Five Truths for Transformational Leaders: How Nonprofit Organizations Thrive, Grow, and Make a Profound Difference, former Chief Strategy Officer for the Boys and Girls Clubs of America, Ed Mishrell, delivers an insightful and practical discussion of how to achieve extraordinary results when leading nonprofit organizations.
By Ed Mishrell
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The 60 Second Leader: Everything You Need to Know About Leadership, in 60 Second BitesWhether you are the CEO of a public company or the head of your own little empire of one, this shortcut book offers a high impact, time-saving guide to the essentials of leadership.
By Phil Dourado
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The 7 Hidden Reasons Employees Leave: How to Recognize the Subtle Signs and Act Before It's Too Late, Second EditionThe 7 Hidden Reasons Employees Leave provides practical solutions to the problem of employee turnover and shows you how to engage and retain those people upon whom your organization depends. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Leigh Branham
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The 7 Secrets of Responsive Leadership-Drive Change, Manage Transitions, and Help Any Organization Turn AroundRichly illustrated with stories from the author's decades of experience as a CEO, this book explores spotlights how to build the skills to be a leader in any environment.
By Jackie Jenkins-Scott
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The 8 Dimensions of Leadership: DiSC Strategies for Becoming a Better LeaderBased on the recently developed third generation of the DiSC personality assessment, this book identifies eight individual leadership styles and will help you understand your own style and show what you can learn from other styles.
By Emma Wilhelm, Jeffrey Sugerman, Mark Scullard
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The 80/20 Manager: The Secret to Working Less and Achieving MoreIf you're looking to become a more effective manager, The 80/20 Manager will show you how to achieve results without stress or long hours. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Richard Koch
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The 85% Solution: How Personal Accountability Guarantees Success: No Nonsense, No ExcusesFilled with self-assessments that will encourage you to take the needed risk-taking actions to reach your goals, this book explains that you must become willing to answer for the outcomes that result from your choices and actions.
By Linda Galindo, Versera Performance Consulting
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The Advantage: Why Organizational Health Trumps Everything Else in BusinessIn The Advantage, author Patrick Lencioni offers a no-nonsense, strategic framework to achieve organizational health and, in due course, success. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Patrick Lencioni
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The Advantage: Why Organizational Health Trumps Everything Else In BusinessComplete with stories, tips and anecdotes from the author's experiences consulting to some of the nation's leading organizations, this book provides leaders with a groundbreaking, approachable model for achieving organizational health.
By Patrick Lencioni
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The Age of Overwhelm: Strategies for the Long HaulOffering concrete strategies to help us mitigate harm, cultivate our ability to be decent and equitable, and act with integrity, this thoughtful book aims to help ease our burden of overwhelm, restore our perspective, and give us strength to navigate what is yet to come.
By Laura van Dernoot Lipsky
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The Age of Speed: How to Thrive in a More-Faster-Now WorldThe Age of Speed offers the business professional in today's world of globalization and technology a strategy for succeeding in our more-faster-now environment. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Vince Poscente
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The Agile Leader: A Playbook for LeadersUsing sports imagery in a modern fable, this inspirational and motivational book is full of insights and perspectives on conflicts, resistive culture and company politics that all leaders must know how to handle in order to be successful.
By Steve Gladis
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The AIG StoryCapturing an impressive saga in business history--one of innovation, vision and leadership at a company that was almost destroyed with a few strokes of governmental pens, this book chronicles the origins of AIG and its relentless pioneering of open markets everywhere in the world from 1970 to 2005.
By Lawrence A. Cunningham, Maurice R. Greenberg
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The Airbnb Way: 5 Leadership Lessons for Igniting Growth Through Loyalty, Community, and BelongingThe shared economy is the future, but it introduces business challenges never before faced: How do you serve a broad range of customers across varying geographies through a distributed network of partners? Airbnb has solved the puzzle, and this book shows you how.
By Joseph A. Michelli
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The Allure of Toxic Leaders: Why We Follow Destructive Bosses and Corrupt Politicians: and How We Can Survive ThemToxic leaders charm, manipulate, mistreat, weaken, and ultimately devastate their followers. This practical resource tells us how to recognize these leaders before it's too late.
By Jean Lipman-Blumen
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The AMA Dictionary of Business and ManagementContaining legal terminology, slang and buzzwords, acronyms, management theories, historical figures, economic concepts, performance metrics, and more, this resource presents clear, authoritative, explanations of more than 6,000 key business terms.
By George Thomas Kurian
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The AMA Handbook Of LeadershipFilled with powerful examples and case studies, this book covers a wide range of leadership challenges such as sustainability, competitive advantage through leadership, leading across cultures, and many more timeless (and timely) issues.
By John Baldoni, Marshall Goldsmith, Sarah McArthur
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The Anatomy of a Turnaround: Transforming an Organization by Prioritizing People, Performance, and PurposeAn extraordinary business turnaround delivers actionable strategies for driving profit and growth in organizations in healthcare and beyond.
By Paul Kusserow
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The Aperture of Modern CEOs: Aligning Purpose and FocusThis book examines and assesses how CEOs defines, navigate and instill key activities of organizational life and provokes and challenges the nature of their practice.
By Sylvana Storey
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The Arc of Ambition: Defining the Leadership JourneyThe Arc of Ambition tackles the subject of determination as both the driving force for all human progress and an impulse that needs to be checked regularly to stay on the path of progress. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its content.
By James Champy, Nitin Nohria
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The Art of Action: How Leaders Close the Gaps between Plans, Actions and ResultsUsing the battle tactics of the 19th-century Prussian army, this informative book teaches managers how to strategize in the workplace to succeed in their careers and close the gap between plans, action and results.
By Stephen Bungay
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The Art of Authenticity: Tools to Become an Authentic Leader and Your Best SelfA guide to becoming a better leader by achieving your best self, this insightful book shows you how to find your authentic self, and leverage that into an effective, executable leadership strategy.
By Karissa Thacker
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The Art of Caring Leadership: How Leading with Heart Uplifts Teams and OrganizationsIf your people know you care about them, they will move mountains. Employee engagement and loyalty expert Heather Younger outlines nine ways to manifest the radical power of caring support in the workplace.
By Heather R. Younger
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The Art of Change Leadership: Driving Transformation In a Fast-Paced WorldIllustrating how to increase speed and agility during times of intense technological innovation and fast change, this resource focuses on the ways in which you can harness your unique abilities to lead cultural change and personal leadership in a positive and proactive way.
By Cheryl Cran
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The Art of Connection: 7 Relationship Building Skills Every Leader Needs NowThe Art of Connection explores how success and happiness can be achieved and enhanced by forging strong social ties with others-both professionally and at home. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Michael J. Gelb
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The Art of Connection: 7 Relationship-Building Skills Every Leader Needs NowWith memorable stories, relevant scientific research, and hands-on exercises, this compelling, entertaining book, argues that the meaningful relationships that come from real interaction are the key to creating innovative ideas and solving our most intractable problems.
By Michael J. Gelb
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The Art of Influence: Your Competitive EdgeThis book is a must-read for businesspeople, salespeople, entrepreneurs, and anyone wanting to improve their place of influence in life.
By Jim Stovall
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The Art of WarThis timeless classic on leadership, motivation, and organization provides an abundance of winning strategies for those looking to get ahead in the modern battlefield: the corporate world. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Sun Tzu
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The Art of WarAlthough it was meant to be a practical guide to warfare in the age of chariots, this seminal work on the philosophy of successful leadership is as applicable to contemporary business as it is to war, and has become increasingly popular among today's corporate and political leaders.
By Mitch Horowitz, Sun Tzu
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The ASTD Leadership HandbookA who's who of gurus in the leadership field, this handbook is an exciting compilation of insights, ideas, and tools that will enable individuals, teams, and organizations to develop their leadership capabilities.
By The American Society for Training & Development
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The ASTD Leadership HandbookThe ASTD Leadership Handbook is a comprehensive guide full of insights from major players in the industry that will help individuals and teams gain the knowledge and tools necessary to develop effective leadership. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Elaine Biech
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The Attacker's Advantage: Turning Uncertainty into Breakthrough OpportunitiesIn The Attacker's Advantage, author Ram Charan explains the practices you need to put in place to predict change, go on the offensive, and make sure your business is the one that comes out on top. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Ram Charan
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The Best Leadership Advice I Ever Got: 75 Successful Leaders Share Their SecretsCovering subjects like change, integrity, motivation, courage and perseverance, this book can help every member of your team become more motivated, more effective and more committed to accomplish your organizational goals.
By Paul B. Thornton
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The Best Place to Work: The Art and Science of Creating an Extraordinary WorkplaceThe Best Place to Work uses cutting-edge research and engaging case studies to examine how organizations can attract the best talent and create environments that foster growth and success. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Ron Friedman
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The Bible on Leadership: From Moses to Matthew: Management Lessons for Contemporary LeadersOffers leadership lessons from dozens of biblical figures, illuminating their ability to face and overcome extraordinary challenges.
By Lorin Woolfe
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The Big Book of Low-Cost Training Games: Quick, Effective Activities that Explore Communication, Goal Setting, Character Development, Team Building, and More-And Won't Break the Bank!From painless icebreakers to group challenges and meaningful community-building projects, this book is your winning game plan for maximizing group engagement and getting the most ROI from your training budget.
By Jim Cain, Mary Scannell
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The Black SwanThe Black Swan presents a delightful and insightful exploration of how improbable events can enrich our understanding of the world around us. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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The Blueprint: 6 Practical Steps to Lift Your Leadership to New HeightsAlong with serving as a leadership manifesto, this book is also a practical manual. It provides exercises and practices readers can use to leverage six essential leadership steps in virtually any situation.
By Amy Federman, Douglas R. Conant
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The Brain Advantage: Become a More Effective Leader Using the Latest Brain ResearchThe Brain Advantage illuminates the dark recesses of the subconscious mind, allowing you to emerge with heightened perceptions and a keener awareness of how and why you think and react the way you do in social and business settings. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Brad Kolar, Ken A. Paller, Lisa P. Callahan, Madeleine L. Van Hecke
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The Brain and Emotional Intelligence: New InsightsExplaining what we now know about the brain basis of emotional intelligence in clear and simple terms, this book will deepen your understanding of emotional intelligence and enhance your ability for its application.
By Daniel Goleman
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The Bully-Free Workplace: Stop the Jerks, Weasels & Snakes From Killing Your OrganizationOutlining a step-by-step, thoughtful and detailed program to correct and prevent workplace bullying, this book offers in-depth advice leaders can use to address the issue of bullying in order to protect the company's bottom line.
By Gary Namie, Ruth F. Namie
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The Bully-Proof Workplace: Essential Strategies, Tips, and Scripts for Dealing with the Office SociopathThe Bully-Proof Workplace describes the types of bullying most often encountered in the workplace and offers concrete suggestions as to how to cope with them. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Molly D. Shepard, Peter J. Dean
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The Business Case for Love: How Companies Get Bragged About TodayThis book will help you to make the business case for love. It will help you to find a more rewarding and invigorating way of working - both emotionally and financially.
By Marc Cox
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The Camino Way: Lessons in Leadership from A Walk Across SpainLeadership is a journey. This thoughtful and inspiring book prepares you to tackle it with a pilgrim's heart, a wayfarer's grit, and a leader's vision.
By Victor Prince
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The Camino Way: Lessons in Leadership from a Walk Across SpainIn The Camino Way, author Victor Prince shares the insights and lessons learned as he navigated the Camino de Santiago that you can integrate into your approach to leadership. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Victor Prince
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The Caterpillar Way: Lessons in Leadership, Growth, and Shareholder ValueRevealing the remarkable inside story of Caterpillar and the way it runs its business, this book shows how the Caterpillar leaders responded quickly to changing markets, allocated capital efficiently throughout the firm, and nourished a cultish team spirit that wins.
By Craig T. Bouchard, James V. Koch
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The Center for Creative Leadership Handbook of Leadership DevelopmentWritten for those organization members striving to devise and execute development processes, this assessment highlights maximizing potential and developing higher management-level postions for women and people of color, and more.
By Cynthia D. McCauley (ed), Ellen Van Velsor (ed), Russ S. Moxley (ed)
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The Challenger SpiritProviding an analysis of the practices and disciplines that underpin the successful challenger organization, this book examines the leadership skills and the organizational culture required for companies to become challengers in their marketplace.
By Claire Genkai Breeze, Khurshed Dehnugara
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The Change Champion's Field Guide: Strategies and Tools for Leading Change in Your Organization, Second EditionProviding sage advice, practical applications, and examples of change methods that work, this thorough book is filled with the information, tools, and strategies needed to implement a best practice change or leadership development initiative where everyone wins.
By David Ulrich, Louis Carter, Marshall Goldsmith, Norm Smallwood (eds), Roland L. Sullivan
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The Change Cycle: How People Can Survive and Thrive in Organizational ChangeHelping readers at all levels take responsibility for how they react and respond in a changing work environment, this book explains the stages of change and offers examples, tools, and success strategies so you can move resourcefully through each stage.
By Ann Salerno, Lillie Brock
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The Change Leader's Roadmap: How to Navigate Your Organization's Transformation, Second EditionA comprehensive guide for building a successful transformational change, this book provides a proven change process methodology, as well as pragmatic guidance and tools for each key step in a complex transformational change process.
By Dean Anderson, Linda Ackerman Anderson
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The Change Maker's Playbook: How to Seek, Seed and Scale Innovation in Any EconomyIn The Change Maker's Playbook, Amy J. Radin divulges the secrets on how to build and grow your company using durable business practices. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Amy J. Radin
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The Change Mindset: The Psychology of Leading and Thriving In An Uncertain WorldThe Change Mindset, leadership development expert Andy Craggs unpicks the main reasons why teams fail when it comes to dealing with change and navigating uncertainty.
By Andy Craggs
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The Character of OrganizationsHow Meyers-Briggs personality types apply to organizations--and impact their performance.
By William Bridges
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The CIO Paradox: Battling the Contradictions of IT LeadershipThrough interviews with a wide array of successful CIOs, this timely book offers guidance to CIOs on how to attack, reverse, or neutralize the paradoxical elements of the CIO role and level the playing field for IT success.
By Martha Heller
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The CIO Playbook: Strategies and Best Practices for IT Leaders to Deliver ValueWith proven strategies, tools, and techniques, this handy reference is the ultimate how-to resource for creating a high-performance IT organization that delivers value-added products and services to employees, customers, and shareholders.
By Nicholas R. Colisto
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The Coaching Habit: Say Less, Ask More & Change the Way You Lead ForeverIn The Coaching Habit, author Michael Bungay Stanier shares his interactive training tools and approaches for cranking up your team's performance from acceptable to exceptional. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Michael Bungay Stanier
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The Communication Problem Solver: Simple Tools and Techniques for Busy ManagersEasily accessible and filled with real-world examples, this book helps readers analyze their communication skills and challenges and explains how they can use simple problem-solving techniques to resolve the people issues that derail productivity at work.
By Nannette Rundle Carroll
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The Competent Leader: 19 Critical Skills Any Manager or Supervisor Must Know, 3rd EditionLight on theory and heavy on practical suggestions that work, this book concentrates on the relationship-building skills you need to be a stronger and more competent leader -from communicating and delegating to coaching and motivating, hiring and leading and beyond.
By Jane Flaherty, Peter Stark
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The Competent Leader: A Powerful and Practical Tool Kit for Managers and SupervisorsWritten in an easy-to-understand, "how-to" format, this guide will aid both new and experienced leaders in concentrating on the necessary skills to fine-tune their relationship-building skills.
By Jane S. Flaherty, Peter B. Stark
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The Complete CFO Handbook: From Accounting to AccountabilityFilled with numerous examples, this desktop toolbook expertly provides financial executives with an extensive review of cost accounting as well as the background and tools for managing a company's financial functions.
By Frank J. Fabozzi, Pamela Peterson Drake, Ralph S. Polimeni
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The Confidence Code: The Science and Art of Self-Assurance: What Women Should KnowCombining cutting-edge research in genetics, gender, behavior, and cognition, this inspiring book provides an informative and practical guide to understanding the importance of confidence-and learning how to achieve it-for women of all ages and at all stages of their career.
By Claire Shipman, Katty Kay
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The Confidence Effect: Every Woman's Guide to the Attitude That Attracts SuccessThe Confidence Effect reveals the frameworks and methods that can help women succeed in business, while maintaining their close relationships and personal brand. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Grace Killelea
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The Confidence Effect: Every Woman's Guide to the Attitude That Attracts SuccessHelping women speak out, take risks, and assume leadership positions with assurance, this powerful book moves beyond research and statistics to focus on what's really important: how women can become more confident, one step at a time, and claim the success they deserve.
By Grace Killelea
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The Connection Quotient: How a culture of understanding transforms teams and organizationsThis book enables an honest, courageous and humane interconnection to form while still focusing on financial outcomes and results - developing these relations to improve the business networks they serve.
By Marco Buschman
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The Conscious Leader: Nine Principles and Practices to Create a Wide-Awake and Productive WorkplaceThrough the application of psychology, The Conscious Leader seeks to reduce suffering in the workplace as leaders become conscious of their idiosyncrasies and the reasons behind them. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Shelley Reciniello
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The Contrarian's Guide to LeadershipThe Contrarian's Guide to Leadership offers readers the opportunity to learn how to think differently, solve problems within their workplace, and ultimately guide their teams to success. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Steven B. Sample
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The Cornerstones of Engaging LeadershipRevealing the key actions leaders must take to connect with and engage others, this book offers practice tools and exercises that will challenge readers to explore, reflect upon, and apply the key concepts and techniques of the engaging leader approach.
By Casey Wilson
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The Courage to Take Command: Leadership Lessons from a Military TrailblazerProviding invaluable leadership lessons drawn from the author's three decades of military service, this book offers the strategies and tactics to help you develop an authentic brand of leadership and succeed at all levels of any organization.
By Jill Morgenthaler
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The Courageous Leader: How to Face Any Challenge and Lead Your Team to SuccessThe more you exercise courage, the stronger it gets; this book shows you how to use it every day to more effectively navigate small challenges-when the big problems arise, you'll face them with the unshakeable foundation you build from the lessons within.
By Angela Sebaly
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The Critical Few: Energize Your Company's Culture by Choosing What Really MattersWithout a deep understanding of your company's culture, any change effort you undertake will fail. Bestselling author Jon Katzenbach and his coauthors identify the four most critical cultural elements leaders need to focus on.
By Gretchen Anderson, James Thomas, Jon Katzenbach
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The Crowdsourced Performance Review: How to Use the Power of Social Recognition to Transform Employee PerformanceShowing you how to create a review system that gathers the feedback of many, so you can make better, more informed decisions, this book provides the key to seizing your company's competitive edge with a new ground-breaking performance management system.
By Eric Mosley
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The Daily DruckerWith Peter Drucker's trademark clarity, vision, and humanity, this inspirational guide features his ideas on a broad swath of key topics, from time management, to innovation and outsourcing, and provides useful insights for each day of the year.
By Joseph A. Maciariello, Peter F. Drucker
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The Decision to Trust: How Leaders Create High-Trust OrganizationsShowing how any organization can improve trust and the bottom line, this book outlines a proven Decision to Trust Model (DTM) of ten factors that establish whether or not one party will trust the other.
By Robert F. Hurley
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The Deep Change Field Guide: A Personal Course to Discovering the Leader WithinIncluding exercises, reflective questions, action plans and worksheets, this guide takes readers through an introspective journey of personal transformation and shows them how to become powerful agents of change in their organizations.
By Robert E. Quinn
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The Definitive Drucker: Challenges for Tomorrow's Executives: Final Advice From the Father of Modern ManagementThe Definitive Drucker presents the legendary management theorist's poignant final thoughts on the challenges that leaders face as they navigate today's business world. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Elizabeth Haas Edersheim
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The Definitive Executive Assistant and Managerial Handbook: A Professional Guide to Leadership for all PAs, Senior Secretaries, Office Managers and Executive AssistantsContaining helpful tips from award winning assistants and industry experts, this guide provides best practice advice on meeting the demands of the 21st century administrative professional's role, emphasizing personal leadership development.
By Sue France
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The Devil's Casino: Friendship, Betrayal, and the High Stakes Games Played Inside Lehman BrothersTaking readers inside Lehman Brothers' highly charged offices, this book reveals how good men lose their way, and how a firm that rose with the glory and bravado of Icarus fell burning in flames not so much from a sun, but from a match lit from within.
By Vicky Ward
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The Dichotomy of Leadership: Balancing the Challenges of Extreme Ownership to Lead and WinIn The Dichotomy of Leadership, Jocko Willink and Leif Babin illustrate the central role a leader plays in determining the accomplishment of any team. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Jocko Willink, Leif Babin
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The Disciplined Leader: Keeping the Focus on What Really Matters: 52 Concise, Powerful LessonsAll leaders have scores of things they could do, but a disciplined leader is one who identifies and focuses on the Vital Few: the 20 percent of activities that will drive 80 percent of the results. This helpful guide offers succinct lessons to help you hone in on the activities that will drive results in the areas of leading yourself, leading your team, and leading your organization.
By John Manning
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The Discomfort Zone: How Leaders Turn Difficult Conversations Into BreakthroughsIn the Discomfort Zone, author Marcia Reynolds explains how leaders can manage a difficult conversation and achieve a desired outcome. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Marcia Reynolds
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The Discover Your True North Fieldbook: A Personal Guide to Becoming an Authentic Leader, Second EditionWhether you are just starting your leadership journey or leading a large organization, this step-by-step guide will help you find your leadership purpose, that internal Compass that provides direction and keeps you oriented-your True North.
By Bill George, Nick Craig, Scott Snook
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The Disney Way: Harnessing the Management Secrets of Disney in Your CompanyProfiling a diverse set of organizations that have redefined their businesses by embracing Disney's success formula--Dream, Believe, Dare, Do, this insightful book provides practical applications of the princples that you can apply in your own business.
By Bill Capodagli, Lynn Jackson
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The Disruption DilemmaCutting through the chatter to focus on disruption in its initial use as a business term, this expert guide identifies new ways to understand it and suggests new tools to manage it.
By Joshua Gans
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The DNA of Leadership: Creating Healthy Leaders and Vibrant OrganizationsThe DNA of Leadership reveals the practical application of changes you can make to achieve leadership success. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Alan Weiss, Myron Beard
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The Economics of Higher Purpose: Eight Counterintuitive Steps for Creating a Purpose-Driven OrganizationTwo distinguished scholars offer eight steps to help organizations discover and embrace an authentic higher purpose--something that will dramatically improve every aspect of any enterprise, including the bottom line.
By Anjan V. Thakor, Robert E. Quinn
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The Effective Change Manager's Handbook: Essential Guidance to the Change Management Body of KnowledgeOffering practical tools, techniques and models to effectively support any change initiative, this handbook is explicitly designed to help practitioners, employers and academics define and practice change management successfully and to develop change management maturity within their organization.
By Dan Skelsey (eds), David King, Ranjit Sidhu, Richard Smith
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The Effective Change Manager's Handbook: Essential Guidance to the Change Management Body of KnowledgeThe Effective Change Manager's Handbook reveals how change managers can best plan for, organize, implement, and control organizational change. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Dan Skelsey (eds), David King, Ranjit Sidhu, Richard Smith
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The Effective Executive: The Definitive Guide to Getting the Right Things DoneIn The Effective Executive, Drucker presents timeless strategies for managing others, as well as yourself. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretations of its contents.
By Peter F. Drucker
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The Effective Executive: The Definitive Guide to Getting the Right Things DoneRanging widely through the annals of business and government, this timeless book identifies five practices essential to business effectiveness that can, and must, be learned.
By Peter F. Drucker
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The Effective Manager: Management Skills for High PerformanceDesigned to assist you in understanding the characteristics of a high-performance manager, this book will help you assess where your strengths and development areas lie as a manager and to create a plan of action for realizing your management potential.
By Sarah Cook
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The Eight Constants of Change: What Leaders Need to Know to Drive Change and WinHelping you and your team produce immediate, tangible, real-world results, this practical, easy-to-use guide provides your management team a framework for working through change that will improve employee morale, efficiency and your bottom line.
By Kate Nelson, Stacy Aaron
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The Elegant Pitch: Create a Compelling Recommendation, Build Broad Support, and Get it ApprovedGetting ideas or projects approved and securing the resources needed to implement them is one of the greatest challenges business leaders face. Employing the same method used by elite strategy consulting firms such as McKinsey & Co and Bain Consulting, this book provides a simple, proven process to go from idea to approval more quickly and effectively than ever before.
By Mike Figliuolo
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The Elements of Power: Lessons on Leadership and InfluenceFilled with revealing case stories, insightful examples, and practical tips and techniques you can use immediately, this book reveals where power comes from, how it works, and how you can tap into it to achieve your own personal and professional goals.
By Terry R. Bacon
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The Elephant in the Boardroom: How Leaders Use and Manage Conflict to Reach Greater Levels of SuccessIn The Elephant in the Boardroom, author Edgar Papke discusses how to become a better leader by engaging with and addressing conflict. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Edgar Papke
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The Emerging Healthcare Leader: A Field Guide, Second EditionPacked with tactics, tips, and illuminating straightforward examples, this essential resource is an indispensable guide to building your career in healthcare leadership.
By Laurie K. Baedke, Natalie D. Lamberton
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The Emotional Intelligence Activity Kit: 50 Easy and Effective Exercises for Building EQThe Emotional Intelligence Activity Kit provides practical exercises to help you boost the emotional intelligence of individuals and teams in the workplace. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Adele B. Lynn, Janele R. Lynn
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The Emotional Intelligence Activity Kit: 50 Easy and Effective Exercises for Building EQFrom setup instructions to debriefing questions, this book offers simple exercises that are quick to deploy and target key areas that benefit most from EQ training, including leadership, project management, customer service, teamwork, sales, and more.
By Adele B. Lynn, Janele R. Lynn
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The Emotional Intelligence Quick Book: Everything You Need to Know to Put Your EQ to WorkThe Emotional Intelligence Quick Book provides invaluable tools, backed by real world examples, which anyone can use to become more aware of their emotional intelligence. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Jean Greaves, Travis Bradberry
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The Emotionally Intelligent Manager: How to Develop and Use the Four Key Emotional Skills of LeadershipThe Emotionally Intelligent Manager is an invaluable guide to improving your emotional intelligence and with it, your ability to make suitable, equitable decisions and solve problems in the workplace. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By David R. Caruso, Peter Salovey
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The Emotionally Intelligent Manager: How to Develop and Use the Four Key Emotional Skills of LeadershipThis practical guide to understanding, developing, and applying emotional intelligence in the workplace details a four-part hierarchy of emotional skills: identifying emotions, using them to facilitate thinking, and understanding and managing emotions.
By David R. Caruso, Peter Salovey
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The Employee Engagement Mindset: The Six Drivers for Tapping into the Hidden Potential of Everyone in Your CompanyOutlining a simple six-part shared manager/employee model for increasing engagement, this book will help you create and deploy the most powerful competitive weapon in business today: the self-empowered employee!
By Timothy R. Clark
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The Encyclopedia of Leadership: A Practical Guide to Popular Leadership Theories and TechniquesQuick summaries and skill development worksheets for 130 of the most important leadership theories and techniques.
By Bruce Klatt, Murray Hiebert
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The End of LeadershipAuthored by one of the pioneers in the field of leadership studies, this insightful book reveals a provocative reassessment of how people lead in the digital age, and presents a new way of thinking about leadership-and followership-in the twenty-first century.
By Barbara Kellerman
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The End of Leadership as We Know It: What It Takes to Lead in Today's Volatile and Complex WorldIn The End of Leadership as We Know It, a team of veteran executive and leadership strategists delivers an expert analysis of the ten most common errors leaders make when attempting to address disruption and concrete strategies for avoiding them.
By Dan Fisher, Steve Garcia
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The Energized Workplace: Designing Organizations Where People FlourishEssential reading for those needing to deal with the wellbeing crisis and productivity puzzle in the new world of work, this book provides a blueprint for how practitioners can redesign their organizations to support employees and ensure the business outperforms the competition.
By Perry Timms
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The Energy Bus: 10 Rules to Fuel Your Life, Work, and Team with Positive EnergyThe Energy Bus illustrates ten simple rules to help you cultivate positive energy in your personal and professional life and share it with those around you. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Jon Gordon
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The Energy Bus: 10 Rules to Fuel Your Life, Work, and Team with Positive EnergyUtilizing a business parable format, this enlightening book teaches readers how to find their inner motivation and pass on that positive energy to others in their organization.
By Jon Gordon
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The Enlightened Leader: An Introduction to the Chakras of LeadershipWith a wealth of stories, sharp wit, and self-deprecating humor, this book takes the scalpel to some deeply engrained, but nefarious management theory, and shows the way to healing, opening fresh fields of ambition, new degrees of passion and creativity.
By Fons Trompenaars, Peter Ten Hoopen
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The Enthusiastic Employee: How Companies Profit by Giving Workers What They WantThe Enthusiastic Employee offers proven strategies to make-and keep-your employees energized and engaged. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By David Sirota, Douglas Klein
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The EQ Difference: A Powerful Plan for Putting Emotional Intelligence to WorkThis guide offers practical tips for developing emotional intelligence and reaping its benefits in any work environment. It also helps professionals understand how emotions can have a profound effect on performance, values and workplace relationships.
By Adele B. Lynn
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The EQ Leader: Instilling Passion, Creating Shared Goals, and Building Meaningful Organizations Through Emotional IntelligenceIn The EQ Leader, author Steven J. Stein explores the significance of emotional intelligence in effective leadership. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Steven J. Stein
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The EQ Leader: Instilling Passion, Creating Shared Goals, and Building Meaningful Organizations Through Emotional IntelligenceA roadmap to success for tomorrow's leaders, this step-by-step guide provides an evidence-based model for exceptional leadership, and a four-pillar roadmap for real-world practice.
By Steven J. Stein
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The Essential Deming: Leadership Principles from the Father of QualityPresenting legendary thinker W. Edwards Deming's insightful views, ideas, and commentary on management and quality control, this book provides the rationale and best practices you need to transform your organization.
By Joyce Nilsson Orsini (ed)
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The Essentials of Theory U: Core Principles and ApplicationsA guide to the key concepts and applications in the author's classic book, this accessible resource illuminates the blind spot in leadership today and offers hands-on methods to help change makers overcome it through the process, principles, and practices of Theory U.
By C. Otto Scharmer
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The Ethical Challenge: How to Lead with Unyielding IntegrityOffering insights that will help build better leaders, communities, and organizations, this book shows how to present a Teachable Point of View about business ethics that will help all leaders within an organization.
By Andrew R. McGill (eds), Noel M. Tichy
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The Executive and the Elephant: A Leader's Guide for Building Inner ExcellenceThrough compelling real-life coaching examples, and recent findings in psychology, management, neuroscience, and Eastern spirituality, this book provides guidance to all of us who want to follow our best intentions when leading ourselves and others.
By Richard L. Daft
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The Executive Checklist: A Guide for Setting Direction and Managing ChangeThe Executive Checklist provides readers with a master checklist to help them better navigate change in their organizations. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By James M. Kerr
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The Executive Checklist: A Guide For Setting Direction And Managing ChangeOrganized into easily accessible checklists, each chapter of this book demystifies a key aspect of today's leadership challenge and outlines the steps necessary to revitalize today's businesses, and serves as a primer for how to set direction and manage change within the 21st century enterprise.
By James M. Kerr
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The Executive Warrior: 40 Powerful Questions to Develop Mental Toughness for Career SuccessWhether you're a fresh school-leaver, ambitious young executive or seasoned corporate-world veteran, you'll find the answers you've been seeking in this inspiring and indispensable self-coaching book.
By Victor Ng
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The Extraordinary Coach: How the Best Leaders Help Others GrowBuilding a firm foundation in the correlation between coaching effectiveness and employee engagement, this immersion course in multi-layered training guide will ensure you make a powerful contribution to the long-term success of your organization.
By John H. Zenger, Kathleen Stinnett
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The Extraordinary Leader: Turning Good Managers into Great LeadersA no-nonsense, battle-tested program for developing exceptional leadership skills--both in your organization and yourself.
By John H. Zenger, Joseph Folkman
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The Extraordinary Leader: Turning Good Managers into Great Leaders, Revised and Expanded EditionA remarkable combination of expert insight and extensive research, this up-to-date, essential leadership guide for the twenty-first century explains how to build leadership skills that will take you and your organization to unimagined success.
By John H. Zenger, Joseph R. Folkman
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The Extraordinary Leader: Turning Good Managers into Great Leaders, Revised and Expanded EditionIn the Extraordinary Leader, authors Jack Zenger and Joseph Folkman discuss the competencies and actions that good leaders need to take to become great leaders. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Jack Zenger, Joseph Folkman
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The Extraordinary Power of Leader Humility: Thriving Organizations - Great ResultsOn the most fundamental level, leaders must bring divergent groups together and forge a consensus on a path forward. But what makes that possible? Humility--a deep regard for the dignity of others--is the key, says distinguished leadership educator Marilyn Gist.
By Marilyn Gist
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The Female Brand: Using The Female Mindset To Succeed In BusinessFor women who want to avoid getting stuck and who want to build a powerful self-brand, network, and confidence, this guide is a how-to and how-to-think book for women of all ages who want to create more success, fulfillment, or options.
By Catherine Kaputa
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The First 90 Days: Critical Success Strategies for New Leaders at All LevelsThis innovative text provides a framework for transition acceleration that will help leaders diagnose their situations, craft winning transition strategies, and take charge quickly.
By Michael Watkins
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The First 90 Days: Critical Success Strategies for New Leaders at All Levels, Updated and ExpandedThe First 90 Days offers a practical guide to navigating the challenges of a new role and generating momentum that you can ride to the top. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Michael D. Watkins
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The First Two Rules of Leadership: Don't Be Stupid, Don't Be a JerkGiving you the expert tips and tricks you need to treat your team with dignity and respect, this book offers tried-and-true leadership strategies that stand the test of time-all of which you can put into practice today to positive results.
By David Cottrell
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The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership FableThe Five Dysfunctions of a Team provides a fresh take on teamwork, and pinpoints the main dysfunctions in teams while offering advice on how to resolve them. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Patrick Lencioni
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The Five Practices of Exemplary Leadership: Financial ServicesIdeal for leaders with limited time and budgets, this book proides a concise overview of Kouzes and Posner's model and overall thoughts on leadership in the realm of financial services.
By Barry Z. Posner, James M. Kouzes
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The Five Roles of a Master Herder: A Revolutionary Model for Socially Intelligent LeadershipExploring "the way of the horse," an experiential wisdom gained by studying the nonpredatory power of horses, this book adapts these horse-inspired insights into useful tools for developing collaborative leadership and managing change.
By Linda Kohanov
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The Five Temptations of a CEO: A Leadership Fable, Commemorative EditionRefreshingly original and utterly compelling, this razor-sharp book plus self-assessment serves as a timeless reminder that success as a leader can come down to practicing a few simple behaviors that are painfully difficult for each of us to master.
By Patrick Lencioni
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The Front Line Guide to Communicating with EmployeesProviding a variety of quizzes, checklists and exercises, this useful guide focuses on the communication abilities, skills and practices commonly associated with highly effective leaders.
By Woodrow H. Sears
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The Future Built by Women: Creating a Brighter Tomorrow Through Tech and InnovationIn The Future Built by Women, Startup Product Leader of Riveter and veteran keynote speaker, Brooke Markevicius, delivers a compelling guide to entrepreneurship for women.
By Brooke Markevicius
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The Future Leader: 9 Skills and Mindsets to Succeed in the Next DecadeBased on exclusive interviews with over 140 of the world's top CEOs and a survey of nearly 14,000 people, this is the book that you, your team, and your organization must read in order to lead in the future of work.
By Jacob Morgan
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The Future-Ready Leader: Accelerated Learning for Business SuccessIf you're a business leader looking to stay ahead of the curve, this book is an essential guide.
By Karin Mugnaini, Peter Lorange
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The Futurist LeaderProviding a framework that will give leaders greater visibility about the future, this TD at Work defines strategic foresight and outlines the business imperative for the approach; describes how to leverage both the push and pull of the future; provides guidance on putting strategic foresight in place; and explains how applying the Natural Foresight framework can help you become a futurist leader.
By Yvette Montero Salvatico
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The Gender Communication Handbook: Conquering Conversational Collisions between Men and WomenThrough empirical research and extensive anecdotal evidence, this book shows the specific verbal and nonverbal behaviors men and women employ that define our sex roles' expectations, yet paradoxically often result in barriers to effective inter-gender communication.
By Audrey Nelson, Claire Damken Brown
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The Gift of Struggle: Life-Changing Lessons About LeadingWhether you're a CEO, middle manager, or new to the workforce, The Gift of Struggle offers a novel look at how you can use your past (or current) struggles to help you grow as a leader. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Bobby Herrera
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The Gift of Transformative LeadersIn this Element, Nathan Hatch, a former university president and provost at two top-30 national universities, draws on their more than forty-year career in higher education to showcase leaders the author recruited and empowered to advance and transform institutions.
By Nathan O. Hatch
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The Girls' Guide to Power and SuccessThe author of this text offers advice on how to negotiate effectively, dress appropriately and find mentors, as well as how to speak directly, exude confidence, and pinpoint companies that are committed to women's advancement.
By Susan Wilson Solovic
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The Great Workplace: How to Build it, How to Keep it, and Why it MattersPacked with anecdotes, best practices, and quotes from employees working at the best workplaces in the U.S., this book explores the model of a Great Place to Work-one which fosters employee trust, pride in what they do, and enjoyment in the people they work with.
By Jennifer Robin, Michael Burchell
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The Greats on Leadership: Classic Wisdom from Lincoln, Austen, Lao Tzu, and Many More…In a style both thought provoking and entertaining, this remarkably readable and practical guide shows how history's great writers have always been, and still are, the real leadership gurus.
By Jocelyn Davis
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The Gumbo Coalition: Ten Leadership Lessons That Help You Inspire, Unite, and AchieveSharing insights through stories and life lessons, this thoughtful book shows readers what it means to be a leader who can unite voices and create meaningful change.
By Marc Morial
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The Handbook of Dealing with Workplace BullyingPresenting the collective wisdom and knowledge of a number of lawyers, management experts and academics from around the world, this book reflects the variety of options for dealing with bullying that are relevant in different parts of the world, and focuses on advice that is pertinent in real life, rather than presenting a collection of academic theories.
By Anne-Marie Quigg (ed)
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The Happiness Advantage: The Seven Principles of Positive Psychology That Fuel Success and Performance at WorkBased on Shawn Achor's own fascinating research at Harvard University, The Happiness Advantage clearly and amusingly demonstrates how a happy and positive outlook is the starting point for any successful outcome. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Shawn Achor
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The Healthcare Leader's Guide to Actions, Awareness, and Perception, Third EditionLeaders at every level from newcomers to experienced executives will find guidance in this book. It examines key leadership principles, illustrates core concepts with stories and examples, and sets forth a framework of protocols tailored to specific interactions and situations.
By Brett D. Lee, Carson F. Dye
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The Healthy Workplace Nudge: How Healthy People, Cultures, and Buildings Lead to High PerformanceIf you're a leader who cares about the health and happiness of your employees, a human resource professional, or a professional who develops, designs, builds, or outfits workplace environments to improve employee health and wellbeing, this is one book you'll want to have on hand.
By Michael O'Neill, Phillip Williams, Rex Miller
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The Healthy Workplace: How to Improve the Well-Being of Your Employees-and Boost Your Company's Bottom LineThe Healthy Workplace explores how to create a healthier working culture and improve financial earnings. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Leigh Stringer
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The Heart of Change: Real-Life Stories of How People Change Their OrganizationsThe Heart of Change presents a compelling, on-the-ground look at what it really takes to bring about and sustain large-scale change. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Dan S. Cohen, John P. Kotter
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The Heart of Leadership: Becoming a Leader People Want to FollowUsing an appealing and accessible fable format, this book identifies five specific leadership character traits required for maximum influence and impact, and also shows how to cultivate them.
By Mark Miller
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The HERO Effect: Being Your Best When It Matters the MostA personal revelation that also holds profound implications for business, this book is an insightful narrative that challenges conventional thinking and reveals a brand-new paradigm in the world of everyday heroes.
By Kevin Brown
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The Hidden Leader: Discover and Develop Greatness Within Your CompanyThe Hidden Leader shows you how to recognize and nurture talented but underused members of your organization and gives you the practical skills to unleash their potential and maximize their influence. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Laurie Sain, Scott K. Edinger
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The High Impact Middle Manager: Powerful Strategies to Thrive in the MiddleProviding all the direction and encouragement needed, this book offers a powerful set of practices that will transform key organizational players from task and crisis managers to strategic business partners.
By Lisa Haneberg
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The High Potential Leader: How to Grow Fast, Take on New Responsibilities, and Make an ImpactOffering real-world lessons and practical advice, this insightful book will help you discover who you are as a leader, chart your path, accelerate your growth, and ultimately, become the high-potential leader your organization needs to succeed.
By Ram Charan
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The Human Factor in Mergers, Acquisitions, and Transformational ChangeThis book looks at the financial due diligence, cultural compatibility, and emotional sensitivity at various stages of the M&A and offers a practical process model.
By Muhammad Rafique
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The Human Side of Project Management: Leadership SkillsAs part of its ongoing commitment to advancing the profession of project management, Project Management Institute (PMI) funded a multi-part study of the leadership characteristics and traits that are shared by successful project leaders.
By Jianguo Chen, Qian Shi
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The Human Workplace: People-Centred Organizational DevelopmentPacked with interviews and case studies from global companies that have benefited from a people-centered approach, this practical book redefines our view of the organization, its relationship with people and how we interact with it.
By Andy Swann
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The Hunt: Target, Track, and Attain Your GoalsOffering a way of thinking about work, life, and our connection with the world based upon the ancient discipline of hunting, this book will give you a clearer, sharper lens for making better decisions, forming stronger alliances, building better strategies, targeting bigger wins, and uncovering more opportunities.
By David Farbman
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The Illusion of Accountability: Transparency and Representation in American LegislaturesThe Illusion of Accountability contends that it does not. Leveraging a wealth of data from decades of legislative politics in the American states, the book assesses the causes and consequences of 'open meetings laws,' which require public access to proceedings in state legislatures.
By Jeffrey J. Harden, Justin H. Kirkland
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The Infinite GameIn The Infinite Game, Simon Sinek presents a playbook for leaders looking to learn how to create a business that endures and inspires. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Simon Sinek
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The Infinite Leader: Balancing the Demands of Modern Business LeadershipIn The Infinite Leader, authors Lewis and Malmgren believe that to lead with conviction and poise in the modern workplace, we need to embrace a life of balance. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Chris Lewis, Pippa Malmgren
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The Infinite Leader: Balancing the Demands of Modern Business LeadershipA roadmap to introducing balance back into organizations, this book will help you to be what your people need you to be and learn what they don't teach you in business schools, remain analytical and numbers-focused when needed, but also bring your heart, person and integrity to leadership.
By Chris Lewis, Pippa Malmgren
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The Influence Agenda: A Systematic Approach to Aligning Stakeholders in Times of ChangeFeaturing easy-to-use stakeholder management templates, 'here's how' checklists, and 'advice from the professionals', this book sets out a way to understand who you need to influence, what tactics will work the best, and how to plan and execute your strategy.
By Mike Clayton
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The Influence Edge: How to Persuade Others to Help You Achieve Your GoalsHow do you move people to action if you don't have direct authority --or would rather not use it?
By Alan A. Vengel
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The Insider's Guide to Culture Change: Creating a Workplace That Delivers, Grows, and AdaptsFrom disengaged employees to underserved customers, business failures invariably stem from a culture problem. This book shares a proven four-step process to demystifying culture transformation and starting down the path to positive change.
By Siobhan McHale
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The Inspiration Code: How the Best Leaders Energize People Every DayThe Inspiration Code discusses the insights and actions that allow leaders to become the catalysts that motivate those around them. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Kristi Hedges
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The Inspiring Leader: Unlocking the Secrets of How Extraordinary Leaders MotivateDrawing from statistically significant data and objective empirical evidence, this book reveals the 16 key competencies that separate the top 10 percent of leaders from the rest and shows you how to put those strategies to work in your own business.
By John H. Zenger, Joseph R. Folkman, Scott K. Edinger
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The Intelligent Leader: Unlocking the 7 Secrets to Leading others and Leaving Your LegacyUsing real-world examples, tools, and assessments, this book lays out an accessible, practical, and compelling path that anyone can take to become the kind of leader that brings enrichment to the lives of others, enjoys a more fulfilling life, and leaves a lasting legacy.
By John Mattone
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The Introverted Leader: Building on Your Quiet StrengthLaying out a progressive four-step strategy for succeeding in an extroverted world, this book will help readers to embrace the experience, and as a result advance their careers and contribute more fully to their organizations.
By Jennifer B. Kahnweiler
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The Introverted Leader: Building on Your Quiet Strength, Second EditionPointing to Mark Zuckerberg, Arianna Huffington, and Warren Buffett as prime examples of self-identified introverts who have done quite well for themselves, this book lays out a well-tested strategy introverts can use to build on their quiet strength and make it a source of great power.
By Jennifer B. Kahnweiler
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The Jossey-Bass Handbook of Nonprofit Leadership and Management, Fifth EditionAn expansive discussion of the most current scholarship, theory, and best-practices in the field of nonprofit leadership and management
By David O. Renz, Fredrik O. Andersson, William A. Brown
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The Law of Small Things: Creating a Habit of Integrity in a Culture of MistrustRefuting the usual definitions of integrity, this book will demonstrate how to practice truthfulness in order to build trust and to create a habit of integrity that can transform our lives and our nation.
By Stuart H. Brody
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The Leader LabThis book helps us to learn high-leverage skills that new managers at the world's most innovative organizations are using to create impactful change in business and in life
By LeeAnn Renninger, Tania Luna
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The Leader of the Future 2: Visions, Strategies and Practices for the New EraIn The Leader of the Future 2, editors Frances Hesselbein and Marshall Goldsmith have collected a series of essays from insightful visionaries of what future leaders will look like and the challenges they will have to face. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Frances Hesselbein, Marshall Goldsmith (eds)
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The Leader Phrase Book: 3000+ Powerful Phrases That Put You in CommandContaining dynamic phrases that will enable you to prevail in virtually all of life's important situations, this easy-to-use reference book will help you take command of your words and always stay ahead of the game.
By Patrick Alain
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The Leader You Want to Be: Five Essential Principles for Bringing Out Your Best Self-Every DayIn The Leader You Want to Be, author Amy Jen Su examines how some leaders flourish, while others are hindered by weak leadership skills. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Amy Jen Su
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The Leader's Checklist: 16 Mission-Critical Principles, 10th Anniversary EditionIn this illuminating guide, Useem offers a Leader's Checklist that will help you develop your ability to make good and timely decisions in unpredictable and stressful environments-for those moments when leadership really matters.
By Michael Useem
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The Leader's Greatest Return: Attracting, Developing, and Multiplying LeadersSharing important lessons about the leadership development process, this practical book is for anyone who wants to take the next step in their leadership, build their organization or team today, and create their legacy for tomorrow.
By John C. Maxwell
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The Leader's Guide to Lateral Thinking Skills: Powerful Problem-Solving Techniques to Ignite Your Team's PotentialIn The Leader's Guide to Lateral Thinking Skills, author Paul Sloane shows business leaders how to go about creating organizations that are innovative and lateral thinking. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Paul Sloane
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The Leader's Guide to Storytelling: Mastering The Art and Discipline of Business NarrativeThe right kind of story at the right time can make an organization "stunningly vulnerable" to a new idea. Learn how to use storytelling to spark action, get people to work together, and lead people into the future.
By Stephen Denning
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The Leaders Within: Engagement, Leadership Development, and Succession PlanningThe Leaders Within: Engagement, Leadership Development, and Succession Planning presents an integrated model for creating an organizational infrastructure in which leadership development acts as a funnel for succession planning.
By Kathryn G. Dies, Larry Morgan, Stephen R. Mason
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The Leadership Accelerator: The Playbook for Transitioning into Your New Executive RoleThe Leadership Accelerator reveals the research and practices Kambil has undertaken for more than a decade to learn exactly how real leaders have successfully transitioned into high-level roles.
By Ajit Kambil
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The Leadership Challenge Workbook: How to Make Extraordinary Things Happen in Organizations, Fourth EditionIn the thoroughly revised and updated Fourth Edition of The Leadership Challenge Workbook, renowned leadership educators James M. Kouzes and Barry Z. Posner deliver their latest update to one of the world's bestselling works on leading others in organizational settings.
By Barry Z. Posner, James M. Kouzes
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The Leadership Challenge, Fourth EditionThe Leadership Challenge offers a compelling examination of vital leadership qualities and the tools to help you integrate them into your own approach to leadership. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Barry Z. Posner, James M. Kouzes
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The Leadership Challenge, Fourth EditionOffering inspiring stories of real people achieving extraordinary results, this trusted resource reveals practices leaders use to transform values into actions, visions into realities, obstacles into innovations, separateness into solidarity, and more.
By Barry Z. Posner, James M. Kouzes
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The Leadership Challenge: How to Make Extraordinary Things Happen in Organizations, Fifth EditionFocusing on the toughest organizational challenges leaders face today, this indispensable landmark resource addresses changes in how people work and what people want from their work.
By Barry Z. Posner, James M. Kouzes
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The Leadership Challenge: How to Make Extraordinary Things Happen in Organizations, Seventh EditionBased on The Leadership Challenge: How to Make Extraordinary Things Happen in Organizations by James M. Kouzes and Barry Z. Posner, we discuss ways in which today's leaders can motivate their employees and maintain a competitive advantage in a rapidly changing business landscape. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Barry Z. Posner, James M. Kouzes
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The Leadership Challenge:How to Make Extraordinary Things Happen in Organizations, Seventh EditionIn the new seventh edition of The Leadership Challenge: How to Make Extraordinary Things Happen in Organizations, best-selling leadership authors and business scholars James Kouzes and Barry Posner deliver an essential strategic playbook for effective leadership.
By Barry Z. Posner, James M. Kouzes
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The Leadership CoachMost business books just tell you what to do. This book will guide you every step of the way.
By Tony Buon
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The Leadership Constant: Audacious Strategies for Navigating ChangeA leader must motivate people out of their natural preference for inertia and into a new level of excitement about making changes that they are programmed to resist. History provides excellent examples of audacious leadership strategies.
By Judy Morley
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The Leadership Contract Field Guide: The Personal Roadmap to Becoming a Truly Accountable LeaderProviding a practical blueprint for implementing the Leadership Contract, this book offers activities, exercises and ideas for sustaining your impact as an accountable leader, and insights on how to leverage the leadership contract with your team and across your organization.
By Vince Molinaro
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The Leadership Contract: The Fine Print to Becoming an Accountable Leader, Second EditionRecent studies show that only 7 percent of employees have trust and confidence in their senior leaders. How can organizations succeed without the support of their employees? This book aims to build better leaders and establish a true leadership culture that inspires the entire organization.
By Vince Molinaro
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The Leadership Contract: The Fine Print to Becoming an Accountable Leader, Third EditionProviding a proven and practical framework used by companies and leaders around the world, this book offers insights to help you chart your own path to build strong leadership accountability at a personal and organizational level.
By Vince Molinaro
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The Leadership Habit: Transforming Behaviors to Drive ResultsBy articulating a clear, well-defined standard of what it means to be a leader, this book condenses volumes of advice and opinion into ten key areas and teaches leaders how they can create daily habits surrounding these centers of excellence.
By Katie Fritchen, Peter Lindsay, Tammy R. Berberick
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The Leadership House: A Leadership Tale about the Challenging Path to Becoming an Effective LeaderIn The Leadership House, Patrick Flesner provides the answers you've been looking for. In this leadership story about a CEO who walks the challenging path to becoming an effective leader, he shares the long missing framework.
By Patrick Flesner
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The Leadership Journey: How to Master the Four Critical Areas of Being a Great LeaderEffective leaders help people do more-and become more-than even they ever thought possible. This invaluable book gives you a practical framework for becoming the kind of leader your team needs to succeed.
By Gary Burnison
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The Leadership Lab: Understanding Leadership in the 21st CenturyIncluding exclusive interviews with top executives grappling with the new world order, this book is for those seeking to develop a real intuition when it comes to dealing with the global currents disrupting business and how to build an empathetic, credible, stable and strong leadership path.
By Chris Lewis, Pippa Malmgren
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The Leadership Mind Switch: Rethinking How We Lead in the New World of WorkShowing you how to embrace new technologies without sacrificing the human touch, this insightful book provides the critical lessons you need to lead your company in a fully globalized business world where radical technologies reign supreme.
By Debra Benton, Kylie Wright-Ford
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The Leadership Mind Switch: Rethinking How We Lead in the New World of WorkIn The Leadership Mind Switch, authors Benton and Wright-Ford discuss how to understand leadership in the context of the fourth industrial revolution. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Debra Benton, Kylie Wright-Ford
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The Leadership of MuhammadA business book that crosses boundaries, this personal study weaves the story of Muhammad's life together with aspects of Bedouin culture and ancient proverbs to provide key points for leaders and aspiring leaders.
By John Adair
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The Leadership Pipeline: How to Build the Leadership Powered Company, Second EditionDrawing on their experiences at many Fortune 500 companies, the authors of this book show how organizations can develop leadership at every level by identifying future leaders, assessing their corporate confidence, planning their development, and measuring their results.
By Jim Noel, Ram Charan, Stephen Drotter
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The Leadership Pipeline: How to Build the Leadership-Powered CompanyFor managers and human resource professionals, The Leadership Pipeline is a proven method of leadership development a corporation can use to develop a pool of talent from which to build strong, effective management. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By James Noel, Ram Charan, Stephen Drotter
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The Leadership PocketbookIllustrated throughout, this book adopts a practical approach, setting out the principles of leadership, the role of the leader, the skills required for effective leadership and the key challenges facing leaders in today's business environment.
By Fiona Elsa Dent
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The Leadership Secrets of Colin PowellThis solid text takes an in-depth look into the foundations of Colin Powell's compelling leadership style, and explains his phrases, quotes, anecdotes and principles.
By Oren Harari
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The Leadership Skills Handbook: 100 Essential Skills You Need to be a Leader, Fifth EditionRevealing the essential skills you need to be an effective leader, this easy-to-follow book shows you what works in practice, not in theory, in crucial areas such as people skills, career skills, mindset skills, organization skills, personal values and behaviors.
By Jo Owen
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The Leadership Skills Handbook: 100 Essential Skills You Need to be a Leader, Fifth EditionIn The Leadership Skills Handbook, author Jo Owen explores the characteristics that readers can emulate within the framework of learning experiences, role models, and practical skills to become exceptional leaders. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Jo Owen
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The Leadership Skills Handbook: 100 Essential Skills You Need to Be A Leader, Sixth EditionFeaturing everything you need to know about being an effective leader, The Leadership Skills Handbook will help you develop signature strengths and accelerate leadership success.
By Jo Owen
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The Leadership Skills Handbook: 50 Essential Skills You Need to be a Leader, 3rd EditionBased on research that identifies the five different groups of skills that leaders must have, this book is filled with tips, exercises and advice that explains how to become a leader that people want to follow.
By Jo Owen
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The Leadership Skills Handbook: 50 Essential Skills you Need to Be a Leader, Second EditionFull of exercises and practical wisdom, this handy guide reveals the essential skills needed to lead successfully and how to become a leader that people want to follow.
By Jo Owen
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The Leadership Skills Handbook: 90 Essential Skills You Need to be a Leader, Fourth EditionBased on research from over a thousand leaders throughout the world at all levels in the public, private, and voluntary sectors, this indispensable guide identifies practical skills that will boost your confidence, technical abilities, and give you the edge on your peers.
By Jo Owen
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The Leadership Wisdom of Jesus: Practical Lessons for Today, Second Edition, Revised and ExpandedApproaching the New Testament with an open mind to see what insights it reveals for today's business world, this book will challenge you to evaluate your own leadership style and to consider time-tested spiritual wisdom that can make you more effective.
By Charles C. Manz
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The Lean Leader: A Personal Journey of TransformationUsing a compelling novel format, this insightful book will help you realize that a leader's greatest skill must be in coaching great performance from your people, and you will learn exactly what it takes to lead a Lean organization that thrives socially, as well as financially.
By Robert B. Camp
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The Lean Leader: A Personal Journey of TransformationThe Lean Leader discusses how you can build a sustainable organization built on respect, learning, and continuous improvement. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Robert B. Camp
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The Lean Turnaround: How Business Leaders Use Lean Principles to Create Value and Transform Their CompanySharing everything he has learned during his remarkable career as a Lean practitioner, the author reveals how Lean strategy can be applied in many types of businesses and explains the ins and outs of applying it successfully.
By Art Byrne
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The Little Book of Leadership Development: 50 Ways to Bring Out the Leader in Every EmployeeFree of complicated theories, this straightforward book focuses on what really works to get people motivated, working effectively, and acting as leaders themselves so they can design a system of development tailored to their team and organization.
By Mitchell Kusy, Scott J. Allen
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The Little Book of Results: A Quick Guide to Achieving Big GoalsUsing transformational coaching techniques, examples, exercises and metaphors, this book talks the reader through the three key changes they need to achieve the results they are after and inspire others to do the same.
By Jamie Smart
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The Littlest Green Beret: On Self-Reliant LeadershipIn The Littlest Green Beret, author Jan Rutherford describes how to use hardships and setbacks as an opportunity to learn and grow, which is pivotal to becoming a good leader. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Jan Rutherford
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The Living Code: Embedding Ethics into the Corporate DNAIllustrated with results from an empirical study of the Fortune Global 200, this concise book articulates why a code of conduct is necessary, what it should cover, and demonstrates through practical tips and examples how to make full use of it.
By Muel Kaptein
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The Manager's Answer Book: Practical Answers to More Than 200 Questions Every Manager AsksContaining a spectrum of ideas, tools, and inspirations for being a manager, this book covers more than 200 common questions and issues for managers, ranging from the basics of how to be a manger to the subtle nuances of handling sticky situations.
By Susan Benjamin
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The Manager's Phrase Book: 3,000+ Powerful Phrases That Put You in Command in Any SituationPresenting the latest compilation of the author's research on how managers really communicate in today's world, this amazingly fast-paced, easy-to-use reference offers thousands of ready-to-use phrases that will enable you to move into the ranks of today's most competent managers.
By Patrick Alain
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The Manager's Pocket Guide to Emotional IntelligenceA primer for managers, to help them develop and apply the personal-management and social skills required for leadership success.
By Emily A. Sterrett, Ph.D.
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The Manager's Pocket Guide to Influence with Integrity: Power, Principles, and PersuasionFilled with tips to help you develop your persuasion skills, this guide will help you be powerfully influential, more positive, and make your sphere of influence wider and wiser.
By Marlene Caroselli
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The McKinsey Edge: Success Principles from the World's Most Powerful Consulting FirmWhether you're climbing your way up the corporate ladder, starting on the very first rung, or feeling stuck somewhere in the middle, this practical guide presents rigorously selected, battle-tested tips that will give you the edge you need to up your game, raise your profile, and take your career to the next level using a proven four-step program.
By Shu Hattori
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The McKinsey Edge: Success Principles from the World's Most Powerful Consulting FirmThe McKinsey Edge looks at the habits and traits of some great leaders and provides detailed explanations on how to practice these habits and the benefits of doing so. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Shu Hattori
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The Mentor Leader: Secrets to Building People and Teams That Win ConsistentlyThe Mentor Leader provides deep insight into leadership methods that will benefit not only aspiring leaders, but also those around them. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Tony Dungy
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The Mindset of Success: From Good Management to Great LeadershipDrawing on psychological research, interviews and key examples, this book identifies seven key mindsets that highlight the consistent, predictable thought behavior patterns that every great manager employs, and shows how it is possible to go from 70 percent efficiency to 95 percent effectiveness.
By Jo Owen
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The Mission-Driven Venture: Business Solutions to the World's Most Vexing Social ProblemsProviding actionable guidance for leveraging the power of the marketplace to solve the world's most vexing social problems, this book effectively illustrates the transformative potential of social enterprise, inspiring the reader to be an agent of change.
By Marc J. Lane
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The Moment of Lift: How Empowering Women Changes the WorldIn The Moment of Lift, Melinda Gates takes readers on an inspirational journey towards a greater understanding of how women's equality and self-determination lies at the heart of a society's ability to thrive. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Melinda Gates
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The Most Powerful You: 7 Bravery-Boosting Paths to Career BlissHelping women identify the 7 most damaging power gaps that are holding them back, this book outlines the key steps you can take today to access greater positive power, become the true author of your life, and reach your highest and most rewarding goals.
By Kathy Caprino
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The Motive: Why so Many Leaders Abdicate Their Most Important ResponsibilitiesIn The Motive, bestselling author Patrick Lencioni demonstrates how to be a responsible leader who's motivated and driven to succeed-for the right reasons. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretations of its contents.
By Patrick Lencioni
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The Network Trap: Why Women Struggle to Make it into the BoardroomThis book draws on unique, unprecedented access to Chairs of FTSE 350 Chairs, boardroom aspirants and executive head-hunters, to explain why this is the case.
By Deborah Dean, Kim Hoque, Meryl Bushell
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The New Alpha: Join the Rising Movement of Influencers and Changemakers Who are Redefining LeadershipThe New Alpha is a step-by-step guide to becoming an exemplary, well-balanced, admired, and inspiring leader for the 21st century. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Danielle Harlan
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The New Boss: How to Survive the First 100 DaysOffering tried and tested models and self-assessment techniques, this handy guide provides you with the structure and guidance you need to minimize disruption and maximize performance during the crucial first 100 days.
By Peter Fischer
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The New Extraordinary Leader: Turning Good Managers into Great Leaders, 3rd EditionProviding proven lessons based on feedback from 120,000 leaders from all corners of the globe, this definitive guide delivers the information and insight you need to lead effectively in today's volatile, global economy.
By John H. Zenger, Joseph R. Folkman
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The New IT: How Technology Leaders are Enabling Business Strategy in the Digital AgeWhether you're an executive, department head, or IT manager, this tactical guide provides an action-ready blueprint for building and strengthening the role of IT in your company and prescribing IT's future.
By Jill Dyché
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The New Leader: Harnessing The Power of Creativity to Produce ChangeAllowing readers to develop an understanding of the relationship between creativity, leadership, and change, this book will help them analyze the creative process, learn how to develop a creative culture, and understand effective leadership styles that promote creativity and change.
By Renee Kosiarek
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The New Leader's 100-Day Action Plan: How to Take Charge, Build or Merge Your Team, and Get Immediate Results, Fourth EditionWith updated stories and case studies which provide real-life glimpses at how successful leaders navigate tricky situations, this practical playbook gives you a concrete framework for successful leadership and a clear roadmap to the critical first 100 days.
By George B. Bradt, Jayme A. Check, John A. Lawler
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The New Leader's 100-Day Action Plan: How to Take Charge, Build Your Team, and Get Immediate Results, Third EditionFor anyone looking to achieve a successful transition into a new leadership role, The New Leader's 100-Day Action Plan is a practical handbook designed to accelerate the success of new leaders and their teams in the first 100 days. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By George B. Bradt, Jayme A. Check, Jorge E. Pedraza
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The New Leader's 100-Day Action Plan: Take Charge, Build Your Team, and Deliver Better Results Faster, 5th EditionThe New Leader's 100-Day Action Plan has sold over 100,000 copies because it's so practical. The author team of accomplished private equity/M&A transition leaders explains in great detail, how to succeed in new leadership roles, build high-performance teams, execute winning strategies, and achieve organizational goals.
By George B. Bradt, Jayme A. Check, John A. Lawler
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The New Leadership Literacies: Thriving in a Future of Extreme Disruption and Distributed EverythingProviding a vivid description of the ideal talent profile for future leaders, this book proposes five new leadership literacies-combinations of disciplines, practices, and worldviews-that will be needed to thrive in a world of increasing volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity.
By Bob Johansen
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The New Nimble: Leading in the Age of ChangeIn The New Nimble: Leading in the Age of Change, accomplished author, professor, and consultant Jay Sullivan delivers a clear, tangible, and actionable guide to implementing flexibility and creativity in your enterprise.
By Jay Sullivan
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The Next Gen Leader: Cutting Edge Strategies to Make You the Leader You Were Born to BeThe Next Gen Leader shows readers how to maximize their potential by zeroing in on previously untapped leadership abilities and integrating them across a broad spectrum of outlets. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Robert C. McMillan
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The Next Level: Leading Beyond the Status QuoDemonstrating how to move beyond the comfort of the status quo, this book is designed to help each reader discover that reaching a higher and greater Next Level requires dedication, hard work and perseverance.
By Alice Adams, David Cottrell
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The Next Level: What Insiders Know About Executive Success, Second EditionExplaining that often the thrill of promotion to an executive position is followed by the sobering reality of just how difficult it is to succeed at this level, this book shows that in order to succeed at the Next Level, you need to adopt new behaviors and beliefs, and, more importantly, let go of old ones.
By Scott Eblin
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The Nine Types of Leader: How the Leaders of Tomorrow Can Learn from the Leaders of TodayThrough candid interviews and encounters with some of the world's most successful business people, find out what makes great leaders tick, learn what it takes to be credible and read about the things that they'd do differently if they had to do it all again.
By James Ashton
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The No Complaining Rule: Positive Ways to Deal with Negativity at WorkBased on one company's successful No Complaining Rule, the powerful principles and actionable plan are practical and easy-to-follow, making this book an ideal read for managers, team leaders and anyone interested in generating positive energy.
By Jon Gordon
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The NTL Handbook of Organization Development and Change: Principles, Practices, and Perspectives, Second EditionFeaturing contributions from leading practitioners and scholars in the field, this book is a vital tool for anyone who wants to know how to effectively bring about meaningful and sustainable change in organizations-even in the state of turbulence and complexity that today's organizations encounter.
By Brenda B. Jones, Michael Brazzel
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The One-Percent Edge: Small Changes That Guarantee Relevance and Build Sustainable SuccessWith hundreds of strategies, examples, and a six-step process, this straightforward book explains how to continually grow, improve, and move the business forward.
By Susan Solovic
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The Optimistic Workplace: Creating an Environment That Energizes EveryoneIn The Optimistic Workplace, Shawn Murphy discusses best practices that will help you create a workplace that promotes positivity and happiness. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Shawn Murphy
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The Optimistic Workplace: Creating an Environment That Energizes EveryoneFar from being a wish-upon-a-star discussion of workplace happiness, this book presents an array of surprisingly simple strategies as well as practical 30-, 60-, and 90-day plans designed to focus your actions and make employee optimism not just a worthy goal--but a real and measurable result.
By Shawn Murphy
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The Orange Line: A Woman's Guide to Integrating Career Family & LifeThe Orange Line aims to help women challenge existing assumptions and ultimately integrate their work, families, and selves across any life or career stage. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Jodi Ecker Detjen, Kelly Watson, Michelle A. Waters
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The Other Kind of Smart: Simple Ways to Boost Your Emotional Intelligence for Greater Personal Effectiveness and SuccessUsing the proven techniques of storytelling, combined with quotes and exercises, this guide shows readers how they can increase their emotional intelligence and overcome the barriers that are preventing them from realizing their true potential.
By Harvey Deutschendorf
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The Outside Edge: How Outsiders Can Succeed in a World Made by InsidersDesigned to debunk the ever pervasive myths around the trail-blazing rebel outsider, this book is a manual for positively directing your insecurity, awkwardness and role-confusion - towards a meaningful future, shaped and pursued on your own terms.
By Robert Kelsey
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The Outward Mindset: How to Change Lives and Transform Organizations, Second EditionThis book helps individuals and organizations shift to a new mindset that will improve performance, spark collaboration, accelerate innovation, and make your life and the lives of everyone around you better.
By The Arbinger Institute
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The Oxford Handbook of Organizational Change and Innovation, Second EditionThis book focuses on processes of change -- or the sequence of events in which organizational characteristics and activities change and develop over time -- and the factors that influence these processes, with the organization as the central unit of analysis.
By Andrew Van de Ven, Marshall Scott Poole
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The Oz Principle: Getting Results Through Individual and Organizational AccountabilityA thought-provoking read for leaders in business both large and small, The Oz Principle is a tough love book that takes on the harsh realities of accountability and ownership in the workplace. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Craig Hickman, Roger Connors, Tom Smith
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The Palgrave Handbook of Servant LeadershipThis reference work offers comprehensive perspectives on servant leadership. Featuring a cadre of leading world-class scholars, practitioners, and contributing authors from diverse fields of inquiry, it aims to collate research on servant leadership with a particular focus on its moral and spiritual dimensions.
By Gary E. Roberts, Satinder K. Dhiman
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The Pause Principle: Step Back to Lead ForwardIn The Pause Principle, author Kevin Cashman makes a compelling case that to move forward, we sometimes need to step back, and pause. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Kevin Cashman
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The Pfeiffer Book of Successful Leadership Development Tools: The Most Enduring, Effective, And Valuable Training Activities For Developing LeadersIncluding the most successful leadership development tools selected from three decades of the Pfeiffer Annuals and Handbooks, this extraordinary resource offers the tools you need to help build better organizations for working people everywhere.
By Jack Gordon (ed)
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The Phoenix Encounter Method: Lead Like Your Business is on Fire!Whatever your sector or industry, if you're responsible for your organization's ability to use change as a transformative opportunity, you'll appreciate the dramatic impact this book will have on you, your leadership, and your organization.
By Ian C. Woodward, Ram Charan, Sameer Hasija, V. Paddy Padmanabhan
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The Politics of Promotion: How High-Achieving Women Get Ahead and Stay AheadOffering women the tools and guidance they need to successfully navigate the realities of their organization, this book provides a unique and proven method for becoming a bigger player in the workplace and avoiding unexpected trip-ups that can add years to the climb-or end it for good.
By Bonnie Marcus
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The Portable MBA, 5th EditionFeaturing leading content from faculty of the prestigious Darden School at the University of Virginia, this authoritative book gives you a complete business school curriculum in one convenient volume, from the basics to the latest cutting-edge topics.
By Kenneth M. Eades, et al.
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The Positive Organization: Breaking Free from Conventional Cultures, Constraints, and BeliefsUsing dozens of memorable stories, this book helps leaders to see new possibilities that lie within the acknowledged realities of organizational life, and provides five keys for learning to be "bilingual"--speaking the conventional language of business as well as the language of the positive organization.
By Robert E. Quinn
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The Positive WorkplaceDescribing how positive priming can improve employee performance, this Infoline offers practical suggestions for achieving high productivity using a new approach called positive performance.
By Kim Rowe, Patrick Howell
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The Power Laws of Business: The Science of SuccessIn this sequel to the "The 80/20 Principle," the author explores the sciences to reveal the powerful patterns and universal principles that can be successfully applied to business today: The Power Laws.
By Richard Koch
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The Power of Appreciative Inquiry: A Practical Guide to Positive Change, Second EditionExamining recent developments in the field of AI, this book describes a popular approach to organizational change which improves performance by encouraging people to study, discuss, learn from, and build on what's working, rather than focus on what's not.
By Amanda Trosten-Bloom, Diana Whitney
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The Power of Community: How Phenomenal Leaders Inspire Their Teams, Wow their Customers, and Make Bigger ProfitsBusiness leaders often tell their people, "We're all in this together," but very few follow through on this sentiment. Separate yourself from the pack by implementing the simple but profoundly effective methods in this book.
By Howard Partridge
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The Power of Company Culture: How Any Business Can Build a Culture That Improves Productivity, Performance and ProfitsIn The Power of Company Culture, author Chris Dyer explains how to create an inspiring and powerful work environment. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Chris Dyer
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The Power of Employee Resource Groups: How People Create Authentic ChangeWhether you're new to ERGs or looking to leverage your existing group better, The Power of Employee Resource Groups is a guide for launching an ERG successfully and ensuring that it has long-lasting benefits for your organization. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Farzana Nayani
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The Power of Framing: Creating the Language of LeadershipWritten in an easy-to-read style with plenty of practice exercises, this book shows leaders and managers how to tap into the power of language so they can persuade effectively and communicate credibly in today's business environment.
By Gail T. Fairhurst
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The Power of Mandate: How Visionary Leaders Keep Their Organization Focused on What Matters MostThis book reveals how today's most successful leaders turn vision into reality--featuring original interviews and profiles with Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, Steve Jobs, Reed Hastings, Brian Chesky, and Mike Lawrie
By Scott Stawski
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The Power of People Skills: How to Eliminate 90% of Your HR Problems and Dramatically Increase Team and Company Morale and PerformanceIn The Power of People Skills, author Trevor Throness provides you with the tools to facilitate stellar communication with your employees so you can gain a better understanding of one another. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Trevor Throness
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The Power of Positive Coaching: The Mindset and Habits to Inspire Winning Results and RelationshipsShowing you how to elevate your coaching game and drive winning results and relationships, this book will help you to develop a more positive mindset and build proven, positive coaching habits by using simple tools and techniques.
By Julie Davis-Colan, Lee J. Colan
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The Power of Positive CriticismHow to give and take criticism to get better results.
By Hendrie Weisinger, Ph.D.
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The Power of Positive Leadership: How and Why Positive Leaders Transform Teams and Organizations and Change the WorldProviding a comprehensive framework on positive leadership, this book is filled with proven principles, compelling stories, practical ideas and practices that will help anyone become a positive leader.
By Jon Gordon
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The Power of Positive Leadership: How and Why Positive Leaders Transform Teams and Organizations and Change the WorldIn The Power of Positive Leadership, author Jon Gordon explores the role of constructive thinking as it relates to leadership. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Jon Gordon
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The Power of Thanks: How Social Recognition Empowers Employees and Creates a Best Place to WorkThe Power of Thanks presents a three-part framework for social recognition that empowers employees and creates a best place to work. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Derek Irvine, Eric Mosely
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The Power of Thanks: How Social Recognition Empowers Employees and Creates a Best Place to WorkRevealing how leading companies like Intuit, JetBlue Airways, IHG, Symantec, ConAgra Foods, and The Hershey Company empower employees through social recognition, this book provides practical advice and proven examples for devising a powerful, growth-generating strategy that modernizes employee recognition for today's social, global, multi-generational and 24x7 wired workforce.
By Derek Irvine, Eric Mosley
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The Power to Change: How to Harness Change, to Make it Work for YouFace change with confidence and learn how to turn even the toughest challenge to your advantage. This book provides a genuinely unique approach to celebrating change that will resonate with readers, no matter what sort of change they have to confront.
By Campbell Macpherson
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The Powers to LeadDrawing examples from the careers of leaders as disparate as Gandhi, Churchill, Lee Iacocca, and George W. Bush, this concise, lucid book argues that the most effective leaders are actually those who combine hard and soft power skills in proportions that vary with different situations.
By Joseph S. Nye Jr.
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The Practical CIO: A Common Sense Guide for Successful IT LeadershipGuiding you in redefining your role as a chief information officer in a global marketplace, this unique book helps you brace yourself for the coming changes and deal successfully with the challenges ahead of you.
By José Carlos Eiras
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The Practical Drucker: Applying the Wisdom of the World's Greatest Management ThinkerPinpointing applicable truths for solving real-world problems, this concise book distills the practical wisdom from Drucker's myriad books, essays, articles and his decades of teaching and consulting into a set of fresh, vital lessons that will resonate today and for years to come.
By William A. Cohen
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The Practical Guide to Transforming Your CompanyThis book is a concise handbook for conducting business transformations-defining and implementing a redirection in the company's core business or in its strategic positioning.
By Connie Krull, Daniel Plung
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The Practice of Leadership: Developing the Next Generation of LeadersIncluding contributions from top scholars who outline the best leadership practices for the benefit of the practicing leader, this quick-reference highlights how leaders can improve their own effectiveness across a wide range of situations.
By Jay A. Conger, Ronald E. Riggio
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The Principles and Practice of Effective LeadershipThis insightful book is essential reading for professionals, coaches, consultants, and academics interested in techniques and ethics of leadership and executive education.
By Christopher Bennett, John Zinkin
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The Proactive Leader: How to Overcome Procrastination and Be a Bold Decision-MakerProcrastination is a business' worst enemy, but it is most damaging when it affects the ability to lead. This book explains how procrastination has led to major contemporary leadership failures and shows how to recognize and resolve the problem in yourself and others.
By David De Cremer
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The Problem Behaviour PocketbookDiscussing the various bad behavioural types found in the workplace, this book identifies the likely causes and effects, and explains how to identify and deal with the problems.
By Angelena Boden
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The Progress Principle: Using Small Wins to Ignite Joy, Engagement, and Creativity at WorkBrimming with honest examples from 238 employees in 7 companies, this enlightening book equips aspiring and seasoned leaders alike with the insights they need to maximize their employees' performance.
By Steven Kramer, Teresa Amabile
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The Promises of Giants: How YOU Can Fill the Leadership VoidIn The Promises of Giants, author John Amaechi examines the behaviors and practices of leaders who have a positive impact on the world around them. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretations of its contents.
By John Amaechi
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The Psychology of Fear in Organizations: How to Transform Anxiety into Well-being, Productivity and InnovationUsing a psychological approach to explain how fear manifests itself within organizations, this practical book looks at how fear impacts the workforce and how, by reducing willingness to take risks, it can inhibit economic growth and innovation, at both an individual and corporate level.
By Sheila M. Keegan
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The Psychology of Human Leadership: How to Develop Charisma and AuthorityBy seamlessly linking fundamental insights and practical approaches to address the most important leadership problems and challenges, this book explains how to develop personal leadership qualities, such as charisma, the ability to motivate others, assertiveness, and how to overcome crises and conflicts to create new structures.
By Erich Dihsmaier, Michael Paschen
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The Psychology of Human Leadership: How to Develop Charisma and AuthorityThe Psychology of Human Leadership examines the fundamentals of leadership, and teaches you how to become a memorable leader. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Erich Dihsmaier, Michael Paschen
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The Q-Loop: The Art and Science of Lasting Corporate ChangeIn The Q-Loop, author Brian Klapper discusses how you can foster sustained change in your organization. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Brian Klapper
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The Real Warren Buffett: Managing Capital, Leading PeopleThis book offers an original study of Warren Buffett's leadership and the art of acting like an owner.
By James O'Loughlin
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The Remedy: Bringing Lean Thinking Out of the Factory to Transform the Entire OrganizationIf your business is treading water-or sinking in the waves, this powerful business fable will show you how to put Lean processes to work in every functional area for long-term business survival and success.
By Pascal Dennis
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The Respect Effect: Using the Science of Neuroleadership to Inspire a More Loyal and Productive WorkplaceTeaching leaders how to create positive situations, avoid negative ones, and ultimately build a better work environment for everyone, this book offers proven strategies to help you understand the initial, biological reactions to what people (This means you!) say and do.
By Paul B. Meshanko
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The Respectful Leader: Seven Ways To Influence Without IntimidationPresenting an engaging, thought-provoking lesson for companies seeking off-the-charts performance, this enlightening story will help you recognize and analyze your own behaviors and interactions, and show you how to create a winning culture based on leading with respect.
By Gregg Ward
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The Reward Management Toolkit: A Step-by-Step Guide to Designing and Delivering Pay and BenefitsSupporting each tool by questionnaires, checklists and opinion surveys that can be used as the basis for analysis, discussions in workshops, project teams and focus groups, this book provides practical, step-by-step guidance on designing and delivering rewards across organizations.
By Ann Cummins, Michael Armstrong
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The Right Choice: Using Theory of Constraints for Effective LeadershipEmphasizing the importance of consequences when making choices, this book supplies the understanding required to manage effectively well into the future through the use of the coaching cycle and the reflection process.
By Ted Hutchin
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The Road to Reinvention: How to Drive Disruption and Accelerate TransformationThe Road to Reinvention will arm you with the confidence and tools to shake things up with disruptive change and steer your company on the road to success. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Josh Linkner
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The Sales Leader's Problem Solver: Practical Solutions to Conquer Management Mess-ups, Handle Difficult Sales Reps, and Make the Most of Every OpportunityA 24/7 coach for beleaguered sales leaders dealing with perplexing dilemmas, this book is a powerful tool that will help new and experienced sales managers lead their teams and develop their reputations as fair, effective, no-nonsense problem solvers.
By Suzanne M. Paling
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The Sales Leader's Problem Solver: Practical Solutions to Conquer Management Mess-ups, Handle Difficult Sales Reps, and Make the Most of Every OpportunityThe Sales Leader's Problem Solver offers solutions to 15 of the most commonly cited challenges that sales leaders face from their sales teams. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Suzanne Paling
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The Samsung Way: Transformational Management Strategies from the World Leader in Innovation and DesignBased on ten years of research and interviews with 80 top executives, this book is a definitive guide to the groundbreaking management principles that transformed a lagging electronics company into one of the most successful brands in the world.
By Jaeyong Song, Kyungmook Lee
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The Science of Change Management: The 7 Phases of Change & Breaking Through Resistance to ChangeBy explaining seven levels all change goes through and how to deal with them, this book shares tactics that instantly increase your resilience to managing change or hardship, and shows you not only how to survive change, but how to thrive during change.
By Larry Iverson
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The Secret Language of Leadership: How Leaders Inspire Action Through NarrativeWith lucid explanations, vivid examples and practical tips, this book introduces the concept of narrative intelligence and shows why it is key to the central task of leadership, what its dimensions are, and how you can measure it.
By Stephen Denning
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The Secret: What Great Leaders Know and Do, Third EditionAs practical as it is uplifting, this insightful book reveals the fundamental ways that leaders succeed through service in a form that anyone can easily understand and implement. The book will benefit not only those who read it but also the people who look to them for guidance and the organizations they serve.
By Ken Blanchard, Mark Miller
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The Self-Aware Leader: A Proven Model for Reinventing YourselfBy integrating the concepts of reinvention, servant leadership, and business transformation into a single framework that has been validated in research, this unique book emphasizes taking a calculated approach to change rather than merely reacting to change.
By Daniel Gallagher, Joseph Costal
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The Serving Leader: Five Powerful Actions to Transform Your Team, Business, and Community, 10th Anniversary Edition, Revised and UpdatedUsing a compelling fictional story to outline the basics of Serving Leadership, this book is about personal growth and how good leaders become great leaders through their willingness to face and be changed by the greatest challenges of their lives.
By John Stahl-Wert, Kennetg R. Jennings
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The Silent Language of Leaders: How Body Language Can Help--or Hurt--How You LeadDrawing on the author's more than twenty years of experience, and on compelling psychological and neuroscience research, this book helps leaders stay ahead of the curve by mastering the silent language of leadership.
By Carol Kinsey Goman
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The Social Impact Advantage: Win Customers and Talent By Harnessing Your Business For GoodIn The Social Impact Advantage, she offers tools, resources, and insights to help you successfully navigate the modern business climate in an authentic way.
By Tynesia Boyea-Robinson
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The Steadfast Leader: Control Anxiety, Make Confident Decisions, and Focus Your Team Using the New Science of LeadershipDiscover how integrating rational thought and "gut feelings" together will make you a calmer, more powerful leader
By Geoffrey VanderPal, Randy Brazie
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The Storytelling PocketbookExplaining how to use storytelling in a pragmatic way to achieve results, this book guides readers in how to find stories, develop their own stories, how to tell them and use them in situations as diverse as training sessions, induction programs, customer service, coaching, selling and more.
By Roger E. Jones
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The Strategic Project Leader: Mastering Service-Based Project Leadership, Second EditionIn The Strategic Project Leader, Jack Ferraro presents the innovative model of the leadership competency pyramid to create a new approach to leadership in turbulent times. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Jack Ferraro
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The Strategist: Be the Leader Your Business NeedsThe Strategist presents an inspiring and passionate defense of the value of strategic thinking in business, and provides insights and instruction to help leaders develop their own strategy skills. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Cynthia A. Montgomery
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The Ten Golden Rules of Leadership: Classical Wisdom for Modern LeadersThe Ten Golden Rules of Leadership explores using ten ancient philosophical tenets in a contemporary context to develop strong and moral leadership skills. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By M. A. Soupios, Panos Mourdoukoutas
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The Ten Golden Rules of Leadership: Classical Wisdom for Modern LeadersExploring ideas from Aristotle, Heraclitus, Sophocles, Hesiod, and other great thinkers, this book shows you how to take each idea - along with what you've learned about yourself - and apply it to the challenges of the modern workplace.
By M. A. Soupios, Panos Mourdoukoutas
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The Third Opinion: How Successful Leaders Use Outside Insight to Create Superior ResultsThe Third Opinion introduces the emerging concept that every great leader must cultivate advisors outside their organization. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Saj-nicole A. Joni
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The Three Signs of a Miserable Job: A Fable for Managers (And Their Employees)Filled with actionable advice you can put into effect immediately, this book includes a detailed model examining the three signs of job misery and how they can be remedied for increased productivity, greater retention, and competitive advantage.
By Patrick Lencioni
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The Titleless Leader: How to Get Things Done When You're Not in ChargeNo one needs to appoint you, promote you, or nominate you. This book will show you how to turbocharge your career and discover how to get things done...even without the title.
By Nan S. Russell
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The Together Leader: Get Organized for Your Success - and Sanity!With an emphasis on time management, this practical, step-by-step book provides all of the tools, templates, and checklists necessary for leaders to stay organized and keep on top their responsibilities.
By Maia Heyck-Merlin
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The Toyota Way to Lean Leadership: Achieving and Sustaining Excellence through Leadership DevelopmentFeaturing case studies from Toyota to clearly illustrate the methods that create powerful, effective Lean leadership, this book will help executives and senior managers get employees to refocus their efforts so they continuously improve in collaboration across the organization.
By Gary L. Convis, Jeffrey K. Liker
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The Tracks We Leave: Ethics & Management Dilemmas in Healthcare, Second EditionThrough a series of timely and relevant cases based on real-life experiences, this book explores the kinds of management dilemmas and moral challenges that confront healthcare managers on a day-to-day basis.
By Frankie Perry
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The Transformational CIO: Leadership and Innovation Strategies for IT Executives in a Rapidly Changing WorldFeaturing real-world stories and revealing anecdotes from CIOs and IT thought leaders from Disney, Microsoft, IBM, Cisco, Citigroup, and others, this book is a concise guide for staying ahead of the competition and seizing opportunities for success in a turbulent global economy.
By Hunter Muller
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The Transformational Leader: How the World's Best Leaders Build Teams, Inspire Action, and Achieve Lasting Success NEW!Lead teams and organizations to unparalleled excellence through transformational leadership
By Matt Mayberry
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The Transforming Leader: New Approaches To Leadership For The Twenty-First CenturyDrawing upon psychology, sociology, neuroscience, social networking theory, organizational change theory, myths and traditions, and actual experiences, this book offers an overview of what transformational leadership is, how it works, and how it is evolving.
By Carol S. Pearson (ed)
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The Trust Edge: How Top Leaders Gain Faster Results, Deeper Relationships, and a Stronger Bottom LineThe Trust Edge explains how trust has the power to improve your bottom line and businesses relationships, and how adhering to the Eight Pillars of Trust gives you a lasting edge over your competition. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By David Horsager
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The Trust Factor: Negotiating in SMARTnershipDesigned to shift your thinking about the most effective approach to deal-making, this book offers deal-makers techniques to access mutually beneficial solutions that cannot make their way to the bargaining table without a cooperative strategy that enables the parties to together with mutual benefit and success.
By Keld Jensen
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The Trusted Advisor Fieldbook: A Comprehensive Toolkit for Leading with TrustDelivering tools, exercises, resources, and actionable to-do lists, this pragmatic workbook spells out - in concrete terms -how to dramatically improve your results in sales, relationship management, and organizational performance.
By Andrea P. Howe, Charles H. Green
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The Trusted Executive: Nine Leadership Habits that Inspire Results, Relationships and ReputationThrough innovative coaching exercises, personal anecdotes, inspirational CEOs and well-researched business models, this thoughtful book provides the tools leaders need to create a strategy for building trust in themselves and their companies.
By John Blakey
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The Trusted Executive: Nine Leadership Habits That Inspire Results, Relationships and Reputation, Second EditionUnderstand why trust-building is key to a leader's ability to transform an organization and learn how build a positive relationship with your workforce and stakeholders.
By John Blakey
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The Trusted Executive: Nine Leadership Habits that Inspire Results, Relationships and Reputation, Second EditionTHE TRUSTED EXECUTIVE is a practical guide, built on solid theoretical foundations, that shares the author's inspiring journey in a format that's accessible to anyone who wishes to follow in his footsteps. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By John Blakey
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The Trustworthy Leader: Leveraging the Power of Trust to Transform Your OrganizationFeaturing interviews with leaders from great companies such as REI, Wegman's, R.W. Baird, TDIndustries, and more, this book offers a key to developing high levels of trust - a critical endeavor in an age when seemingly every day a story of a leader's lapse in ethical behavior makes headlines.
By Amy Lyman
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The Truth About Leadership: The No-Fads, Heart-of-the-Matter Facts You Need to KnowBased on "Ten Truths about Leadership," The Truth About Leadership provides guidance to any entry-level or experienced leader who wants to lead more effectively. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Barry Z. Posner, James M. Kouzes
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The Truth about Leadership: The No-fads, Heart-of-the-Matter Facts You Need to KnowDrawing from cases spanning three generations of leaders from around the world, this engaging book reveals ten time-tested truths that show what every leader must know, the questions they must be prepared to answer, and the real-world issues they will likely face.
By Barry Z. Posner, James M. Kouzes
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The Truth About Lies in the Workplace: How to Spot Liars and What to Do about ThemA comprehensive guide to spotting, exposing, and minimizing workplace lies, this entertaining yet necessary book focuses on truly destructive lies and how you can prevent them from wreaking havoc on individuals and organizations.
By Carol Kinsey Goman
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The TWI Workbook: Essential Skills for SupervisorsReaders of this innovative workbook will be able to perform detailed step-by-step methods for the three most essential tasks people in management positions must perform.
By Patrick Graupp, Robert J. Wrona
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The Ultimate Leadership Book: Inspire Others, Make Smart Decisions, Make a DifferenceThis book is a dynamic collection of tools, techniques, and strategies for success.
By Teach Yourself
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The Unlocked Leader: Dare To Free Your Own Voice, Lead with Empathy, And Shine Your Light in The WorldUnlock your power by learning to lead with empathy, authenticity, and humanity
By Hortense le Gentil
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The Unseen Leader: How History Can Help Us Rethink LeadershipThe Unseen Leader delivers one simple but immensely powerful point: we need to radically rethink how we discuss leadership.
By Martin Gutmann
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The Way of the Shepherd: 7 Ancient Secrets to Managing Productive PeopleA concise story that's full to the brim, this heartwarming book is a must-read for busy leaders at all levels who want to call forth greatness from the people around them by cultivating it in themselves.
By Bill Pentak, Kevin Leman
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The Well-Balanced Leader: Interactive Learning Techniques to Help You Master the 9 Simple Behaviors of Outstanding LeadershipContaining activities, action steps, games, and thought exercises, this book gives you the tools for making the small, incremental changes in behavior that lead to big changes in awareness-and huge changes in your leadership effectiveness.
By Ron Roberts
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The Wisdom of Oz: Using Personal Accountability to Succeed in Everything You DoDrawing from stories of personal change, both historical and present-day, The Wisom of Oz attacks the culture of blame that rears its head when things go awry. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Roger Connors, Tom Smith
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The Wolf in CIO's Clothing: A Machiavellian Strategy for Successful IT LeadershipThrough compelling case studies, this book charts a viable way to master the Machiavellian principles of power, manipulation, love, and war and demonstrates how CIOs and IT leaders can adjust their leadership styles in extreme situations for their own success and that of their teams.
By Tina Nunno
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The Wolf in CIO's Clothing: A Machiavellian Strategy for Successful IT LeadershipThe Wolf in CIO's Clothing discusses the reconceptualization of leadership as styles that can be defined through natural animal characteristics. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Tina Nunno
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The Women of Berkshire Hathaway: Lessons from Warren Buffett's Female CEOs and DirectorsPresenting a unique look at the gradual shattering of the glass ceiling at one of America's top firms, this fascinating book is an inspirational read about the triumph of a group of remarkable women within a company once dominated by men.
By Karen Linder
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The Workplace Engagement Solution: Find a Common Mission, Vision, and Purpose With All of Today's EmployeesThe Workplace Engagement Solution reveals how to cultivate a caring culture that ultimately fosters engagement at work. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By David Harder
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The Workplace Engagement Solution: Find a Common Mission, Vision, and Purpose With All of Today's EmployeesOffering a process that shows how to "crack the code" of employee engagement, this book will help you build cultures that are energized, enthused, fluid, and capable of not only absorbing enormous change, but actually exploiting change to everyone's benefit.
By David Harder
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The YOU of Leadership: An Intuitive Approach to Effective Business LeadershipThrough unique research and observation, this fascinating book provides new modern perspective on what business leaders have to do to drive their businesses in today's complex business world.
By Twan van de Kerkhof
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The YOU of Leadership: An Intuitive Approach to Effective Business LeadershipThe YOU of Leadership takes you along a U-shaped journey to becoming a more effective leader in today's complex and changing business climate. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Twan van de Kerkhof
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The Zen Leader: 10 Ways to go from Barely Managing to Leading FearlesslyHelping you discover how you can get out of your own way and realize The Zen Leader in you, this book shows you, chapter by chapter, how to make the "flips" that reframe your life, your leadership, and your world.
By Ginny Whitelaw
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Think Simple: How Smart Leaders Defeat ComplexityIn Think Simple, author Ken Segall explains the concept and benefits of a simplicity-based mindset. In this Review, we discuss the salient concepts of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Ken Segall
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Thinkers 50: Business Thought Leaders from India: The Best Ideas on Innovation, Management, Strategy, and LeadershipRevealing the uniquely Indian approach to management, this book provides authoritative explanations of the concepts, ideas, and practices that are making a difference today and offers an expert perspective on this critical topic.
By Des Dearlove, Stuart Crainer
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Thinkers50 Leadership: Organizational Success through LeadershipOffering an in-depth exploration of a fascinating subject, this book reveals the best practices, the most intriguing insights, and the most innovative theories and concepts on leadership from the world's top experts.
By Des Dearlove, Stuart Crainer
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Three Commitments of Leadership: How Clarity, Stability, and Rhythm Create Great LeadersDigging deep into what leaders must focus on to truly be exceptional, this groundbreaking book provides a framework for creating an effective and efficient workplace in which all employees are engaged and successful.
By Jay Therrien, Jon Wortmann, Tom Endersbe
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Three Key Success Factors For Transforming Your Business: Mindset, Infrastructure, and CapabilityIn Three Key Success Factors For Transforming Your Business, author Michael Hagemann reveals how to use a change management model to achieve sustainable and professional change. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Michael Hagemann
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Three Key Success Factors for Transforming Your Business: Mindset, Infrastructure, CapabilityThis book is aimed at consultants and managers, HR managers, and project managers who need to lead or implement change programs. Executives and their teams will benefit from the book as much as individuals who want to change or face change in their lives.
By Michael Hagemann
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Thriving in the Fight: A Survival Manual for Latinas on the Front Lines of ChangeOffering wise and compassionate advice on some of the most important leadership challenges facing Latina activists, this honest, practical, and inspirational book will help Latina activists to burn bright, not burn out.
By Denise Padín Collazo
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Thriving Through Change: A Leader's Practical Guide to Change MasteryFilled with templates, checklists, useful advice, and on-the-ground guidance, this practical guide is designed to help today's change leaders and change agents efficiently move their organizations through change initiatives.
By Elaine Biech
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Timeless Leadership: 18 Leadership Sutras from the Bhagavad GitaUsing an ancient religious text to highlight and explain key Western management concepts, this book explores the leadership ideas in the Bhagavad Gita and helps managers and leaders apply them to modern business life.
By Debashis Chatterjee
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To the Top: How Women in Corporate Leadership Are Rewriting the Rules for SuccessIn To the Top: How Women in Corporate Leadership Are Rewriting the Rules for Success, accomplished leadership advisor Jenna Fisher reveals how the world faces a once-in-a-generation opportunity to close the gender gap at the top of organizations today.
By Jenna C. Fisher
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Today's Lean Leader: A Practical Guide to Applying Lean Six Sigma and Emerging Technologies to Leadership and SupervisionProviding valuable insight into the "How To's" of leadership and supervision, this hands-on training and reference guide will assist the supervisor, front-line or team leader with the time-proven tools and practices to be more effective in helping an organization in meeting its performance goals.
By Mark Coats, Rob Ptacek, Todd Ptacek
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Top Business Psychology Models: 50 Transforming Ideas for Leaders, Consultants and CoachesExplaining all the main theories and models used by psychologists, this quick and accessible guide gives coaches, trainers and project leaders all the essential information to immediately implement business and positive psychology techniques in an organization.
By Jonathan Passmore, Stefan Cantore
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Total Leadership: Be a Better Leader, Have a Richer LifeWith engaging examples and clear instruction, this book brings you the possibility of four-way wins, showing step-by-step how to be a better leader by having a richer life and how to have a richer life by being a better leader.
By Stewart D. Friedman
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Total Leadership: Be a Better Leader, Have a Richer LifeTotal Leadership by Stewart D. Friedman is a practical, step-by-step guide on how to achieve harmony in all aspects of your life. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Stewart D. Friedman
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Touching People's Lives: Leaders' Sorrow or JoyWritten by a former SHRM CEO and master storyteller, this book offers experience and inspiration on the challenge for all leaders charged with the development of people to responsibly cultivate compassion, integrity, courage, and accountability in all they do.
By Michael R. Losey
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TouchPoints: Creating Powerful Leadership Connections in the Smallest of MomentsMost leaders feel the inevitable interruptions in their jam-packed days are troublesome. This book argues that these points of contact with other people are overlooked opportunities for leaders to increase their impact and promote their organization's strategy and values.
By Douglas R. Conant, Mette Norgaard
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Toy Box Leadership: Leadership Lessons from the Toys You Loved as a ChildTaking you back to some of the fun and playful benchmarks of your childhood, this book will help you recall the leadership qualities you had as a child that may have been lost along the way.
By Michael E. Waddell, Ron Hunter Jr.
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Toyota by Toyota: Reflections from the Inside Leaders on the Techniques that Revolutionized the IndustryFocusing on the purpose of Lean methodologies, techniques, and principles, this insightful book compiles more than a century of combined experience from management-level employees who supply little-known insights about the Toyota Production System (TPS).
By Darril Wilburn (eds), Samuel Obara
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Trampled by Unicorns: Big Tech's Empathy Problem and How to Fix ItThis book guides you through exploration of the promise and dangers of technology is perfect for anyone with an interest in entrepreneurship, tech, and global commerce, and a hope of technology's all-empowering prospect.
By Maelle Gavet
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Transform: Habits of Superior ManagersBy asking Teresa Amabile, Howard Gardner and Daniel Siegel what the key traits are that differentiate top executives, this book looks at the psychology of innovative, ethical and emotionally intelligent leaders.
By Daniel Goleman
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Transformation Management: Towards the Integral EnterpriseDrawing on seminal theses and practical examples from the four corners of the world, this significant book provides leaders, students of leadership, managers and change agents with a trans-culturally tested, integrated approach to leadership and management.
By Alexander Schieffer, Ronnie Lessem
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Transforming Health Care Leadership: A Systems Guide to Improve Patient Care, Decrease Costs, and Improve Population HealthCombining concepts and tools, theory and proven practice, this book aims to show that with the right kind of leadership, health care organizations can improve patient care, decrease per capita cost, and improve community health.
By C. Jane Norman, Clifford L. Norman, Michael Maccoby, Richard Margolies
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Transforming NOKIA: The Power of Paranoid Optimism to Lead Through Colossal ChangeRevealing the inside story of Nokia's fall and resurrection, this insightful book provides everything you need to sharpen your foresight, expand your options, seize opportunities, and thrive, no matter what changes tomorrow brings.
By Risto Siilasmaa
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Transitions at the Top: What Organizations Must Do to Make Sure New Leaders SucceedProviding the specific principles, guidelines, and actions that boards, C-suite executives, and HR leaders need to guarantee a successful CEO transition, this insightful, informative guide spans the steps and events that take place from when the candidate accepts the offer, all the way through the point where a critical mass of followers have accepted him or her as the established leader.
By Dan Ciampa, David L. Dotlich
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Translating Training Into Leadership: The Reasons Psychologists Make Effective LeadersPiotrowski's Translating Training into Leadership illustrates that having a solid understanding of psychological principles and human behavior are an invaluable foundation to taking on a leadership role. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Andrea Piotrowski
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Transparency: How Leaders Create a Culture of CandorTransparency examines how leadership in any industry must take a straightforward approach when dealing with challenges that arise within the work environment. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Daniel Goleman, James O’Toole, Patricia Ward Biederman, Warren Bennis
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Transparency: How Leaders Create a Culture of CandorAuthored by a powerhouse trio in the field of leadership, this vital resource examines what conspires against "a culture of candor" in organizations to create disastrous results, and suggests ways that leaders can achieve healthy and honest openness.
By Daniel Goleman, James O’Toole, Patricia Ward Biederman, Warren Bennis
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True Leadership: Leadership Styles and the Kenotic RelationshipThis book addresses several forms of moral leadership within the context of kenosis, bringing together both secular and biblical perspectives on the role of morality and self-sacrifice in effective leadership theory and practice.
By David P. Peltz, John H. Wilson
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True North Fieldbook, Emerging Leader Edition: The Emerging Leader's Guide to Leading Authentically in Today's WorkplaceAn unmatched exercise in leadership and self-discovery, written by a best-selling author and the preeminent thought leader on authentic leadership today
By Bill George, Josh Hall, Lauren Schwenk, Nick Craig, Scott Snook
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True North Groups: A Powerful Path to Personal and Leadership DevelopmentDrawing on recent research in psychology and sociology, this book defines True North Groups and explains why they are so critical to helping us develop the self-awareness, compassion, emotional intelligence, and authenticity required to be inspired human beings and inspiring leaders.
By Bill George
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True North, Emerging Leader Edition: Leading Authentically in Today's WorkplaceIn True North: Emerging Leaders Edition, renowned leadership expert Bill George and Millennial tech entrepreneur Zach Clayton issue the challenge to emerging leaders-from Gen X to Millennials and Gen Z-to lead their organizations authentically through never-ending crises to make this world a better place for everyone.
By Bill George, Zach Clayton
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True North: Discover Your Authentic LeadershipBased on research and first-person interviews with 125 of today's top leaders, this leadership tour de force shares the wisdom of these outstanding leaders and describes how you can develop as an authentic leader.
By Bill George, Peter Sims
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True North: Discover Your Authentic LeadershipTrue North provides a guide to aligning your leadership with your own internal compass so that you can become a more authentic leader. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Bill George, Peter Sims
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Trust & Betrayal in the Workplace: Building Effective Relationships in Your OrganizationThis text explores the concept of trust: the successes when it exists, the problems when it doesn't, and the pain when it is betrayed.
By Dennis S. Reina, Michelle L. Reina
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Trust In Transition: Navigating Organizational ChangeBreaking down the entire change process-from the initial idea to the execution phases-identifying leverage points along the way that have a profound impact on the outcomes, this book features concepts and techniques that will help you successfully merge two groups into a single functional unit using successful, creative solutions.
By Bob Whipple
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Trusted Leader: 8 Pillars That Drive ResultsWithout trust, people and businesses fail. This practical resource provides a framework for building trust so that you and your organizations can perform at your best.
By David Horsager
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Truth from the Trenches: A Practical Guide to the Art of IT ManagementDescribing the key constituencies that an IT leader needs to influence, seduce, leverage, and manage to be successful, this book offers practical recommendations that will allow readers to improve their organizational impact and accelerate their career advancement.
By Mark Settle
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Tuned In: Uncover the Extraordinary Opportunities That Lead to Business BreakthroughsFor salespeople, leaders, entrepreneurs, and anyone who wants to change their outlook on marketing, Tuned In will guide you on your journey to creating, launching, or selling products that "resonate." In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Craig Stull, David Meerman Scott, Phil Myers
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Turn the Ship Around!: How to Create Leadership at Every LevelFor managers looking for more engaged, productive employees, Turn the Ship Around! provides a framework detailing how to transform a "leader-follower" relationship between employees and supervisors to one that is more collaborative. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By L. David Marquet
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Two Birds in a Tree: Timeless Indian Wisdom for Business LeadersUsing evocative parables and stories from the ancient Indian wisdom texts, the Upanishads, to introduce Being-centered leadership, this book describes a four-stage road map every aspiring leader can use to reconnect business to the wider world.
By Ram Nidumolu
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Understanding and Changing Your Management Style: Assessments and Tools for Self-Development, 2nd EditionIdentifying the six characteristics of successful managers, this research-based book offers the tools leaders need to improve their management style and succeed in the workplace, and shares personality-specific strategies for resolving conflicts, managing stress, and more.
By Robert C. Benfari
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Understanding Emotional Intelligence: Strategies for Boosting Your EQ and Using it in the WorkplaceUnderstanding Emotional Intelligence demystifies the concept of emotional intelligence and expands on its principles, making it accessible to anyone. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Frances Kay, Neilson Kite
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Understanding Emotional Intelligence: Strategies for Boosting Your EQ and Using it in the WorkplaceExploring self-awareness, self-motivation, relationship management, how to assess and develop your EI, habits of emotionally intelligent people, and more, this book will make the principles and practice of emotional intelligence more accessible to more people in the working environment
By Frances Kay, Neilson Kite
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Unfear: Transform Your Organization to Create Breakthrough Performance and Employee Well-BeingThis book shows the impact of fear, its biological underpinnings, and the archetypes through which it is expressed as patterns of behavior in organizations.
By Gaurav Bhatnagar, Mark Minukas
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Unfinished Business: Women, Men, Work, FamilyUnfinished Business revisits the longstanding question of whether equality is possible between the sexes. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Anne-Marie Slaughter
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Unlearn: Let Go of Past Success to Achieve Extraordinary ResultsPacked with relatable anecdotes and real-world examples, this unique resource presents a transformative system that shows leaders how to rethink their strategies, retool their capabilities, and revitalize their businesses for stronger, longer-lasting success.
By Barry O'Reilly
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Unleashing Your Inner Leader: An Executive Coach Tells AllFocusing on real life exercises and case studies to help you discover, release, and leverage your inner leader, this book helps you recognize where you fall on the leadership spectrum, and provides practical advice for shaping your brand of leadership to capitalize on your authentic capability and potential.
By Vickie Condolff Bevenour
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Unlock Your Leadership Story: How to Build Understanding and Motivate Teams Using Fables and Folktales NEW!Whether you are early in your career or a seasoned executive, this multigenerational book will meet you on your path as a perfect guide for all levels. Unlock Your Leadership Story is also a can't-miss resource for project and team leaders, human resources professionals, sales leaders, and anyone else responsible for helping others live up to their full potential.
By Pat Wadors
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Unstoppable: Using the Power of Focus to Take Action and Achieve Your GoalsIn Unstoppable, author Pete Wilkinson presents a clear, no-nonsense message: with one central vision, three core objectives, and five actionable goals, you can achieve your ambitions. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Pete Wilkinson
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Unstoppable: Using the Power of Focus to Take Action and Achieve Your GoalsContaining a practical, straightforward action plan for life, this book presents a roadmap to honing a razor sharp focus so you keep driving through to the finish line and become what you've always wanted to be.
By Pete Wilkinson
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Untapped Agility: Seven Leadership Moves to Take Your Transformation to the Next LevelNo, your transformation is not a failure. It turns out the buy-in, the talent, the alignment, and the growth you need to break through are already in front of you; it's all simply hidden under the surface-undiscovered, unutilized, and untapped.
By Jesse Fewell
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Untenable: A Leader's Guide to Addressing the Big Issues That Are Ignored, Falsely Explained, or Inappropriately ToleratedWith useful and practical insights for managers, leaders, and business owners, this book helps identify untenable situations, describes the barriers to addressing them, and suggests novel ways to approach them.
By Gary Covert
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Unusually Excellent: The Necessary Nine Skills Required for the Practice of Great LeadershipIn Unusually Excellent, author John Hamm provides a very truthful, behind-the-scenes analysis of what it takes to be an extraordinary leader. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By John Hamm
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Unusually Excellent: The Necessary Nine Skills Required for the Practice of Great LeadershipWritten for all leaders who need to develop and renew their leadership skills, this book provides a thoroughly practical, day-to-day primer for achieving and maintaining your highest level of leadership, for today and for a lifetime.
By John Hamm
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Value Stream Mapping for the Process Industries: Creating a Roadmap for Lean TransformationDetailing the unique features of process operations and why they require additions and adjustments to traditional VSMs, the straightforward book walks readers through the steps in analyzing the map.
By Jennifer S. King, Peter L. King
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Value Stream Mapping: How to Visualize Work and Align Leadership for Organizational TransformationWhether you are a novice, an experienced improvement practitioner, or a leader, this detailed guide presents a practical way to deeply understand how work gets done--in any environment--and how to design improved work systems.
By Karen Martin, Mike Osterling
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Values-Based Leadership for DummiesWhether you're in an entrepreneur, entry-level position or a CEO, employees at any level can benefit from leaning into values-based leadership-and this book shows you how
By Maria Gamb
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Vantage Points: How to create a culture where employees thriveThis book provides leaders of all levels - from team to department, from entrepreneur to CEO - with tools and insights to manage in the modern age of human-centric work.
By Paula Leach
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Virginia Mason's Story: A Leadership Journey in Health CareSupplying an inside look at process improvement from the world leader in applying Lean methods to health care, this book presents key lessons learned as well as the best practices developed at Virginia Mason during its 12-year process improvement journey.
By Charles Kenney
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Virtual Leadership: Practical Strategies for Getting the Best Out of Virtual Work and Virtual TeamsVirtual Leadership explores the challenges associated with working remotely, and guides you on how to lead virtual teams. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Penny Pullan
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Visionary Thinking: Guiding People with a Practical, Compelling VisionThe My Practical MBA Series provides the latest thinking as well as perennial techniques for a range of business challenges. This succinct book explains how the defining role of a leader is the ability to set the right course and then take people with them, with the result that the business develops, competes and succeeds.
By LID Editorial
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Visual Consulting: Designing & Leading ChangeFor consultants who want to use powerful visual tools, and visual practitioners who are moving into consulting, this book teaches you how to activate the full range of visual tools, methods, and models to support stepping into successful, contemporary consulting relationships.
By David Sibbet, Gisela Wendling
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Visual Leaders: New Tools for Visioning, Management, & Organization ChangeBringing tools, methods and frameworks to life with stories from real organizations, this book explores how leaders can support visioning and strategy formation, planning and management, and organizational change through visual meeting and visual team methodologies.
By David Sibbet
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Vocal Leadership: 7 Minutes a Day to Communication MasteryVocal Leadership will help you find the voice you need to communicate naturally, convincingly, and with the power of a true leader. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Arthur Samuel Joseph
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Vocal Leadership: 7 Minutes a Day to Communication MasteryHelping you become an effective and powerful speaker, this book provides techniques and exercises to help you develop a commanding voice and presence, and improve vocal quality, mental acuity, body language, and self-esteem to dramatically increase your influence.
By Arthur Samuel Joseph
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Wander Woman: How High-Achieving Women Find Contentment and DirectionThrough real-life stories, exercises, and development strategies, this book reveals the hopes and dreams, disappointments and challenges high-achieving women are facing, and guides them to peace and a sense of identity and purpose.
By Marcia Reynolds
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We Are All Leaders: Leadership is Not a Position, It's a MindsetProviding clear and functional examples drawn from real life experiences, this practical guide outlines strategies and tools for transforming anyone into an effective leader, and offers a simple, straightforward approach to developing the leader mindset.
By Fredrik Arnander
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We Need to Talk: Building Trust When Communicating Gets CriticalThis book reveals six unique, powerful strategies for communicating successfully when relationships and results are riding on your abilities.
By Phillip Van Hooser
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Web Analytics 2.0: The Art of Online Accountability and Science of Customer CentricityExplaining how to measure, analyze, and act upon today's quickly evolving web technologies and trends, this book debunks myths, identifies traps, and reveals specific, simple and advanced methodologies to transform your thinking.
By Avinash Kaushik
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Welcome to Management: How to Grow from Top Performer to Excellent LeaderThrough case studies, hundreds of interviews, and personal stories, this book will help high performers make the leap from individual contributor to manager with greater ease, grace, courage, and effectiveness.
By Ryan Hawk
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Wellbeing at Work: How to Design, Implement and Evaluate an Effective StrategyFull of advice, tips and insights from real-world case studies, this book is an essential, practical guide to designing and implementing an effective strategy that will reduce employee anxiety, increase staff engagement and improve overall performance.
By Cary Cooper, Ian Hesketh
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What are Your Blind Spots?: Conquering the 5 Misconceptions that Hold Leaders BackIdentifying the five most common leadership blind spots that hamper success, this practical book takes you straight into the board room of well-known leadership teams to illustrate how these blind spots play out and the impact they have on organizations.
By Jim Haudan, Rich Berens
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What Do Leaders Really Do?: Getting Under the Skin of What Makes a Great Leader TickStraight-forward, accessible and sometimes humorous, this no-nonsense guide will dissect popular leadership theory into the easily understandable basics, with reference to the practicalities of real-life leadership situations.
By Jeff Grout, Liz Fisher
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What Every Manager Needs to Know About Sexual HarassmentA manager's comprehensive resource to sexual harassment.
By Darlene Orlov, Michael T. Roumell
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What Is Global Leadership?: 10 Key Behaviors That Define Great Global LeadersDrawing on cutting-edge research conducted by Aperian Global, as well as first-hand interviews with successful global leaders, this essential guide highlights 10 key behaviors critical to international settings and provides an important resource for developing global leadership talent.
By Ernest Gundling, Karen Cvitkovich, Terry Hogan
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What it Takes to Be #1: Vince Lombardi on LeadershipUsing his father's legendary 1970 speech on the supreme importance of self-knowledge, character, and integrity as a jumping-off point, author Vince Lombardi, Jr. examines each of those qualities and offers guidelines on cultivating and applying them at work and in your personal life.
By Vince Lombardi Jr.
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What it Takes to Be #1: Vince Lombardi on LeadershipWhat it Takes to Be #1 explains the technique behind preparing for a leadership position and the principles that should be internalized to produce the best results for you and your team. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Vince Lombardi Jr.
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What Makes a Leader: Why Emotional Intelligence MattersPresenting Daniel Goleman's ground-breaking, highly sought articles from the Harvard Business Review and other business journals in one volume, this book reflects the evolution of his latest thinking about emotional intelligence, tracking the latest neuroscientific research on the dynamics of relationships, and the latest data on the impact emotional intelligence has on an organization's bottom-line.
By Daniel Goleman
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What Makes Great Leaders Great: Management Lessons from Icons Who Changed the WorldFeaturing insight from 56 icons in various fields, from business and sports to politics and pop culture, this book reveals specific management skills they used to reach the top, from strategy and innovation, to motivation and time management.
By Frank Arnold
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What People Want: A Manager's Guide to Building Relationships That WorkAddressing the changing demographics and differences in the workplace to highlight what matters most in employee-manager relationships, this innovative book explores in depth the seven most important needs.
By Terry R. Bacon
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What Philosophy Can Teach You about Being a Better LeaderTraditional management practices, rooted in economics and psychology, have led to a focus on numbers and productivity rather than the people who make those numbers happen.
By Alison Reynolds, David Lewis, Dominic Houlder, Jules Goddard
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What the Best MBAs Know: How to Apply the Greatest Ideas Taught in the Best Business SchoolsWhether you are pursuing an MBA, already have an MBA but need to refresh and update your information, or simply want to arm yourself with MBA-level knowledge, this all-in-one resource will help place you on the same playing field as your competitors.
By Peter Navarro (ed)
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What to Do When You're New: How to Be Comfortable, Confident, and Successful in New SituationsWhat to Do When You're New addresses some of the common concerns of anyone who's ever felt uncomfortable being new with actionable steps to make the situation much more bearable. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Keith Rollag
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What Type of Leader are You?: Using the Enneagram System to Identify and Grow Your Leadership Strengths and Achieve Maximum SuccessProviding guidance to both current and future leaders, this book reveals how you can use the powerful Enneagram system to determine your leadership personality type and use that information to maximize your effectiveness in the workplace.
By Ginger Lapid-Bogda
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What You Aren't Seeing: How Using Your Hidden Potential Can Help You Discover the Leader Within: The Inspiring Story of Herb GreenbergWhether you're beginning your career or want to become a more formidable leader, this life-changing guide uniquely combines the uplifting story of Herbert Greenberg, the founder of a global management consulting firm, with insights into the psychology of leaders and practical guidance on uncovering and developing true leadership potential in yourself and others.
By Patrick Sweeney
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When Leadership Goes Wrong: Destructive Leadership, Mistakes and Ethical FailuresOutlining the antecedents and consequences of bad leadership, this book brings together contributions by scholars from several different countries, addressing topics such as narcissistic and destructive leadership, ethical leadership and leader errors.
By Birgit Schyns, Tiffany Hansbrough (eds)
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Who Do We Choose To Be? Facing Reality, Claiming Leadership, Restoring SanityWritten from the author's desire to summon us to be leaders for this time as things fall apart, this book explains the need to reclaim leadership as a noble profession that creates possibility and humaneness in the midst of increasing fear and turmoil.
By Margaret J. Wheatley
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Who Do We Choose to Be?: Facing Reality, Claiming Leadership, Restoring Sanity, 2nd EditionThis book offers a path for leaders to engage well and wisely with the destructive dynamics of this time. Deepening the insights in her classic book, Leadership and the New Science, Wheatley uses two lenses to understand where we are and how we got here: the science of living systems and the pattern of collapse in complex civilizations.
By Margaret Wheatley
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Who Moved My Cheese? An A-Mazing Way to Deal with Change in Your Work and in Your LifeWho Moved My Cheese? is a light-hearted book that provides many invaluable messages about the change process and how to deal with it. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Spencer Johnson
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Who Rocked the Boat?: A Story about Navigating the Inevitability of ChangeIn this FranklinCovey book on responding to change, explore your own experiences with change using a river journey parable as a point-of-reference. Take this voyage and discover timeless principles and timely results from an industry leader who has helped numerous organizations turn disruptive change into individual and collective opportunity.
By Curtis Bateman
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Who Says It's a Man's World: The Girls' Guide to Corporate DominationPacked with insights from extraordinary women who have climbed the corporate ladder, this ultra-practical guide offers an ideal "Success Profile" to help women navigate the rocky path from cubicle to executive suite.
By Emily Bennington
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Who's in the Room? How Great Leaders Structure and Manage the Teams Around ThemWho's in the Room provides a corrective view of the proper role of the SMT and a map of modern corporations' organizational changes and outcomes needed to compete in the 21st century marketplace. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Bob Frisch
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Whole Person Promotion, Women, and the Post-Pandemic Era: Impact and Future OutlooksWhole Person Promotion, Women, and the Post-Pandemic Era: Impact and Future Outlooks provides the latest empirical research findings in the post-pandemic era with the household as the central unit of analysis.
By Julianna Faludi, Michelle Crosby
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Why CEOs Fail: The 11 Behaviors That Can Derail Your Climb to the Top - And How to Manage ThemWritten by two of the country's top executive coaches, educators and authors, this practical text shows that even the best leaders can sabotage their own success by succumbing to certain flawed behaviors that are often closely tied to factors for success.
By David L. Dotlich, Peter C. Cairo
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Why Great Leaders Don't Take Yes for an Answer: Managing for Conflict and ConsensusWhy Great Leaders Don't Take Yes for an Answer delivers insightful lessons about genuine team leadership and rising above adversities in the modern world. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Michael A. Roberto
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Why Humans Matter More Than Ever: MIT Sloan Management ReviewShowing why we should step back, take stock, and seize just a bit more control over how our world is evolving, this book offers strategies from management experts from both industry and academia for managing people in our brave new digital world.
By MIT Sloan Management Review
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Why Motivating People Doesn't Work...and What Does: The New Science of Leading, Energizing, and EngagingWhy Motivating People Doesn't Work…And What Does provides an indispensable guide to really understanding how motivation works for all employers and team leaders. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Susan Fowler
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Why the Best Man for the Job Is A Woman: The Unique Female Qualities Of LeadershipFilled with compelling insights gleaned from the country's highest-ranking businesswomen, this book reveals seven key, and uniquely female, qualities of leadership that are turning the world around -- and allowing more women to achieve success.
By Esther Wachs Book
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Wild Success: 7 Key Lessons Business Leaders Can Learn from Extreme AdventurersProviding powerful, proven-effective leadership lessons, this book takes you on a thrilling ride into the world of extreme adventurers-extraordinary men and women whose hard-earned wisdom can be applied to any business situation.
By Amy Posey, Kevin Vallely
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Wiley Practitioner's Guide to GAAP 2023: Interpretation and Application of Generally Accepted Accounting PrinciplesWiley GAAP 2023 offers the most comprehensive coverage of all Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) Topics-including all the latest updates.
By Joanne M. Flood
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Win the Heart: How to Create a Culture of Full EngagementEmployee engagement is shockingly low--but it's not an employee problem; it's a leadership problem. Bestselling author Mark Miller says it's up to leaders to create a workplace where their employees truly want to be--and he reveals four keys to doing it.
By Mark Miller
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WinningPacked with personal anecdotes and written in Jack's Welch's distinctive voice, this inspiring book offers deep insights, original thinking, and solutions to nuts-and-bolts problems that will change the way people think about the real "stuff" of work.
By Jack Welch, Suzy Welch
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Winning from Within: A Breakthrough Method for Leading, Living, and Lasting ChangeProviding a map for understanding your inner world and a method for sorting yourself out, this insightful book presents a contemporary approach for getting more of what you want, improving relationships, and enjoying life's deeper rewards.
By Erica Ariel Fox
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Winning Minds: Secrets from the Language of LeadershipPacked with insights into the effects of metaphors, stories, and sound bites on the brain, this thoughtful book blends ancient rhetoric and neuroscience to create the definitive guide to the Language of Leadership.
By Simon Lancaster
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Winning the NFL Way: Leadership Lessons from Football's Top Head CoachesAllowing you to be a fly on the wall as five top NFL coaches reveal how to win beyond the X's and O's, this extraordinary book presents valuable lessons on what it means to be a leader and a champion.
By Bob LaMonte, Robert L. Shook
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Winning with Accountability: The Secret Language Of High-Performing OrganizationsTaking you step-by-step through various methods and tools you can use to help achieve your objectives, this book offers experienced guidance to you, your colleagues and your team to reach new levels of excellence and success.
By Henry J. Evans
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Women and LeadershipOffering a comprehensive account of women's barriers to leadership, this essential book draws on extensive research and a survey of prominent female leaders, and explores the reasons for gender inequity in leadership and identifies compelling solutions.
By Deborah L. Rhode
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Women and Leadership: The State of Play and Strategies for ChangeOffering readers an informed analysis of the state of women and leadership, this groundbreaking book is indispensable for understanding recent progress toward equal opportunity and the challenges that remain.
By Barbara Kellerman, Deborah L. Rhode (eds)
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Women as Global LeadersProviding conceptualizations and theory related to women as global leaders, this book looks at recent empirical investigations of the phenomenon, analysis of effective global leadership development programs, and portraits of women who lead, or have led, in a global role.
By Faith Wambura Ngunjiri, Susan R. Madsen (eds)
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Women Change the World: Noteworthy Women on Cultivating Your Potential and Achieving SuccessPresenting a collection of world-changing women - from actresses, recording artists, and writers to businesswomen and other high-profile female professionals - on women's unique contributions to society, this book aims not only to show how women can be the heart of success, but also to inspire other women to go out and change the world themselves.
By Michelle Patterson (ed)
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Women Community Leaders and Their Impact as Global ChangemakersWomen Community Leaders and Their Impact as Global Changemakers examines how communities change based on cultural resilience advocates. It examines female leaders of local communities making an impact that either could be replicated at a global level or impact on a global scale.
By Patricia Goodman Hayward, Sahar Rehman, Zirui Yan
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Women Who BrandHelping women take charge of their personal brands and performance success, this book explains what happens when women start thinking and acting more confidently, more creatively and more strategically about themselves and their abilities.
By Catherine Kaputa
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Wooden on LeadershipOutlining the mental, emotional, and physical qualities essential to building a winning organization, this book shows you how to develop the skill, confidence, and competitive fire to "be at your best when your best is needed" - and teach your organization to do the same.
By Sharon Naylor
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Words of Wisdom from Women to Watch: Career Reflections from Leaders in the Commercial Insurance IndustryThrough essays and anecdotes about key issues, key moments, and crucial lessons, this book presents the advice, guidance, and lessons learned from the most successful women in risk management and insurance, providing a glimpse into what it takes to make it.
By Business Insurance
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Work Here Now: Think Like a Human and Build a Powerhouse WorkplaceWork Here Now explores ways in which leaders can embrace a new world of work, while meeting the needs of employees and organizations alike. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Melissa Swift
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Work Made Fun Gets Done!: Easy Ways to Boost Energy, Morale, and ResultsBob Nelson, author of the multimillion-copy bestseller 1001 Ways to Reward Employees, and human performance expert Mario Tamayo offer hundreds of practical, creative tips for helping employees-and their managers-make work more fun.
By Bob Nelson, Mario Tamayo
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Work That Works: Emergineering a Positive Organizational CultureProviding the practical guidance you need to build a better organization, this thoughtful book helps you improve communication, connection, and performance through an enlightening process of self-discovery and sharing.
By Geil Browning
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Work With Me: The 8 Blind Spots Between Men and Women in BusinessWork with Me offers guidance on how to foster work relationships based on mutual understanding and cooperation across the gender divide. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Barbara Annis, John Gray
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Working Relationships: Using Emotional Intelligence to Enhance Your Effectiveness with Others, Revised EditionFocusing exclusively in the power of EQ to influence success regardless of job type, level of education, or scope of responsibility, this book offers a classic toolkit for mastering the personal characteristics and social abilities of EQ.
By Bob Wall
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Working with Emotional IntelligenceWorking with Emotional Intelligence uses the experiences of business leaders to present a compelling case for the value of emotions in everyday business life. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Daniel Goleman
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Workplace Wellness That Works: 10 Steps to Infuse Well-Being and Vitality into Any OrganizationBased on the latest research and backed by real-world examples and case studies, this guide provides employers with the tools they need to start making a difference in their employees' health and happiness, and promoting an overall culture of well-being throughout the organization.
By Laura Putnam
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World Class Communication: How Great CEOs Win with the Public, Shareholders, Employees, and the MediaOffering proven advice for communicating effectively before the media, customers, employees, and investor relations, this book is packed with examples of good and bad handling of countless situations and expert instruction on how to manage them without breaking a sweat.
By Ken Scudder, Virgil Scudder
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World-Class Leadership: Leading Yourself, Your Team, The World and SocietyWritten in a simple and accessible manner, this book will be of interest to leaders, managers, business professionals, policy makers and to anyone who wishes to learn and implement excellent leadership styles in their personal lives, companies or country.
By Sachin Chowdhery, Tetsuya Abe
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Yes, I Can! Using Visualization To Achieve Your GoalsUsing the power of creative visualization and other well-understood psychological techniques, this practical book is filled with five minute exercises to help you lead the fulfilling life you've always dreamed of.
By Robin Nixon
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You Can't Order Change: Lessons From Jim McNerney's Turnaround at BoeingYou Can't Order Change details how Jim McNerney, Boeing's CEO, was able to move a company struggling with ethical scandals to a company once again respected and profitable. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Peter Cohan
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You Lead: How Being Yourself Makes You a Better LeaderWith practical advice, real-life stories and a simple framework, this book shows you how you can be authentic, own your individuality and encourage others to bring their whole selves at work to tap into genuine purpose and collaboration.
By Minter Dial
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You're Lying! Secrets From an Expert Military Interrogator to Spot the Lies and Get to the TruthPresenting the skills you need to take control of a situation, detect deception, and reveal the truth, this book offers an easy-to-follow five-step program on how to accurately detect verbal (both spoken and written) and non-verbal deceptive tells, how to conduct an effective line of questioning, and what to do after you identify the lies we all face every day.
By Lena Sisco
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Your First Leadership Job: How Catalyst Leaders Bring Out the Best in OthersOffering practical advice straight from others who have walked in your shoes, this book includes dozens of tools to ensure your success, but it's also based on the authors' and DDI's extensive experience and research, which ultimately has led to the development of millions of leaders around the world.
By Richard S. Wellins, Tacy M. Byham
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Your Leadership Legacy: The Difference You Make in People's LivesAs a leader, the legacy you live is the legacy you leave. Through an insightful parable, this book shows how to create a positive, empowering legacy that will endure and inspire.
By Julie Stark, Marta Brooks, Sarah Caverhill
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Your Leadership Story: Use Your Story to Energize, Inspire, and MotivateUsing story as both a metaphor and a process for self-development, this book offers activities and questions that will help you better understand your own leadership and how others perceive it.
By Timothy J. Tobin
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Your Own Terms: A Woman's Guide to Taking Charge of Any NegotiationFilled with guidelines, stories, and exercises to illuminate the psychology of negotiation, this empowering book will help women learn the skills to win on their own terms - and open doors they never knew were shut.
By Ann Bidou, Yasmin Davidds
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Your Second Phase: Reclaiming work and relationships during and after menopauseIn this book, Kate explores the best ways to cope with these changes, how to manage new and existing relationships, and how to manage your future - all in an accessible and entertaining way.
By Kate Usher
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10 Steps To Be A Successful ManagerOffering a short list of the most important management fundamentals, this book will help you build a great work team and ensure that your staff clearly understands performance success and expectations.
By Lisa Haneberg
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10 Steps to Successful CoachingWith a diverse array of tools to help you along the way, this guide includes self-preparation for the coaching process, advice about choosing someone to coach, and a thorough outline of the coaching process to guide you from beginning to end.
By Sophie Oberstein
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10 Steps to Successful Facilitation, 2nd EditionIncluding a wealth of methods, strategies, and tips, this book takes the guesswork out of this essential skill and gives you a step-by-step process for becoming an accomplished and successful facilitator.
By Association for Talent Development
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10 Steps to Successful MeetingsPresenting strategies to create and conduct fruitful, impactful meetings, this guide will show you how to successfully set meeting goals and agendas, boost participant involvement, and conduct timely, effective evaluation and follow-up.
By The American Society for Training & Development
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100 Great Coaching Ideas: From Leading Organisations around the WorldExamining your coaching approach, the practicalities, the coaching conversations and your own learning about coaching, this book explores ten different contexts where coaching skills can be applied to good effect to enable individuals and teams to reach practical outcomes.
By Peter Shaw
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100 Ways to Motivate Others: How Great Leaders Can Produce Insane Results without Driving People Crazy, Third Edition100 Ways to Motivate Others explains how to be the best leader you can be and the many ways you can encourage and drive those you lead to success. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Scott Richardson, Steve Chandler
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100 Ways to Motivate Yourself: Change Your Life Forever, Third Edition100 Ways to Motivate Yourself explores the techniques one can use to get motivated and start living passionately and with purpose in any given situation. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Steve Chandler
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101 Stupid Things Supervisors Do To Sabotage SuccessThis title will be removed from the Skillsoft library on May 24, 2024.
By Mark S. Loper, Peter R. Garber
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12: The Elements of Great ManagingUsing data from a groundbreaking workplace survey by the Gallup Organization, 12: The Elements of Great Managing follows exceptional managers through difficult challenges in order to identify the characteristics of successful leaders. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By James K. Harter, Rodd Wagner
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12: The Elements of Great ManagingWritten for managers and employees of companies large and small, this practical book explains what every company needs to know about creating and sustaining employee engagement.
By James K. Harter, Rodd Wagner
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151 Quick Ideas for Delegating and Decision Making151 Quick Ideas for Delegating and Decision Making empowers you to navigate the multilevel decision-making landscape and to use delegation to grow a cohesive team geared toward achievement. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Robert E. Dittmer, Stephanie McFarland
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151 Quick Ideas to Recognize and Reward EmployeesOffering you a full menu of recognition and reward strategies, this practical guide comes with detailed descriptions of the most popular ideas in business, plus others that are destined to become classics.
By Ken Lloyd
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20 Minutes to a Top Performer: Three Fast and Effective Conversations to Motivate, Develop, and Engage Your EmployeesOffering a blueprint to helping your people succeed, this book explains how to engage your employees through specific, focused conversations so they can contribute valuable talent to your organization for the long term.
By Alan Vengel
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201 Icebreakers: Group Mixers, Warm-Ups, Energizers, and Playful ActivitiesDesigned specifically for trainers, speakers and group facilitators, this cookbook contains an imaginative collection of playful games, exercises and activities to help you start any session, meeting, speech or presentation with a burst of energy and fun.
By Edie West
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25 Ways To Win With People: How to Make Others Feel Like a Million BucksFrom complimenting people in front of others, to encouraging others' dreams, this book includes a small sampling of the twenty-five specific actions readers can take to build positive, healthy relationships.
By John C. Maxwell, Les Parrott
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360-Degree FeedbackThis title will be removed from the Skillsoft library on May 24, 2024.
By Peter Ward
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42 Rules for Successful Collaboration: A Practical Approach to Working with People, Processes, and Technology, 2nd EditionProviding a holistic view on collaboration, this book shows how people who are on teams separated geographically, or anyone that has to work with other people at a distance every day can gain a much better idea of how to be successful in their interactions with others via the computer.
By David Coleman
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5 Critical Conversations to Talent Development: Tips, Tools & Intelligence for Developing TalentWith case studies of conversations in practice and sample questions to promote dialogue, this practical book describes five types of conversations that can help employees, managers, and talent development professionals align their goals and future plans and make better decisions.
By David Clutterbuck, Julie Haddock-Millar
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5 Ways to Manage Multiple PrioritiesCombining outstanding content with humor, flair, and inspiration, Work Life Balance Expert Jeff Davidson offers tips to help you safely drive on the information highway.
By Jeff Davidson
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50 Activities for Coaching and MentoringUse this activity guide to help your managers and supervisors develop the skills they need to be successful and to lead their organizations.
By Charles Cadwell, Donna Berry, Joe Fehrmann
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50 Activities for Employee EngagementFeaturing a collection of skill-building activities, this manual will help you understand what employee engagement really means, how it can help your organization and how to create and maintain an engaged workforce.
By Peter R. Garber
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50 Top Tools for Coaching: A Complete Toolkit for Developing and Empowering PeopleProviding a broad range of tools and techniques that can be easily applied to many situations, this book will help coaches assess the needs of their clients, select tools that address their needs, and allow them to coach with confidence.
By Gillian Jones, Ro Gorell
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50 Top Tools for Coaching: A Complete Toolkit for Developing and Empowering People, Fifth EditionFull of exercises, models, checklists and templates, this book covers how to assess the needs of clients, select the right tool for the circumstance and deliver effective coaching with confidence.
By Gillian Jones, Ro Gorell
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50 Top Tools for Coaching: A Complete Toolkit for Developing and Empowering People, Fourth EditionFull of exercises, models, checklists and templates, this complete resource for both in-house and external coaches presents the techniques required for every coaching situation.
By Gillian Jones, Ro Gorell
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50 Top Tools for Coaching: A Complete Toolkit for Developing and Empowering People, Second EditionProviding a broad range of techniques that can be easily applied to many situations along with new tools for today's coaches and trainers, this book will help coaches assess the needs of their clients, select tools that address their needs, and allow them to coach with confidence.
By Gillian Jones, Ro Gorell
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50 Top Tools for Coaching: A Complete Toolkit for Developing and Empowering People, Third EditionEquipping coaches with tools and techniques to face every coaching situation, this book explains how to how assess clients' needs, select the right tool for the circumstance, and deliver effective coaching with confidence.
By Gillian Jones, Ro Gorell
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50 Top Tools for Coaching: A Complete Toolkit for Developing and Empowering People, Third Edition50 Top Tools for Coaching provides you with everything you need to know to motivate and guide others towards success. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Gillian Jones, Ro Gorell
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9 Powerful Practices of Really Great BossesFor the busy manager seeking effective and timely results from leadership development training, this sensible book can become a springboard for solid professional growth and accelerated success in the development of all-important people-management skills.
By Stephen E. Kohn, Vincent D. O’Connell
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9 Powerful Practices of Really Great Mentors: How to Inspire and Motivate Anyone9 Powerful Practices of Really Great Mentors explores the nine practices you should follow to become a committed and effective mentor. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Stephen E. Kohn, Vincent D. O'Connell
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A Coach's Guide to Developing Exemplary Leaders: Making the Most of The Leadership Challenge and the Leadership Practices Inventory (LPI)Filled with best practices and success stories as well as worksheets and checklists, this practical guide hands you a powerful new tool to help your leaders move to excellence.
By Barry Z. Posner, Elaine Biech, James M. Kouzes
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A Complaint is a Gift: Using Customer Feedback as a Strategic ToolLearn to respond positively to negative feedback.
By Claus Moller, Janelle Barlow
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A Guide to Non-cash RewardBy exploring how to effectively use intrinsic rewards at a time when salaries are frozen and staff are more important than ever, this book shows how recognition programs increase employees' motivation and engagement in a sustainable way.
By Michael Rose
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A Manager's Guide To Coaching: Simple and Effective Ways to Get the Best Out of Your EmployeesGuiding managers through every step of the coaching process, from problem solving to developing accountability, this clear and practical book is an invaluable tool that will help all leaders coach employees, colleagues, and themselves to excellence.
By Anne Loehr, Brian Emerson
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A Manager's Guide to Financial Analysis: Powerful Tools for Analyzing the Numbers and Making the Best Decisions for Your Business, Sixth EditionA Manager's Guide to Financial Analysis, Sixth Edition explains how to analyze the separate components of financial statements and how they relate to each other, as well as demonstrates the various tools used in the valuation of potential business ventures, mergers, and acquisitions. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Eliot H. Sherman
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A Sense of UrgencyA Sense of Urgency calls attention to the dangers of organizational complacency and acts as a practical model for cultivating a culture where winning is the highest priority. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By John P. Kotter
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A Symphony of Choices: How Mentorship Taught a Manager Decision-Making, Project Management and Workplace Engagement -- and Saved a Concert SeasonIn A Symphony of Choices: How Mentorship Taught a Manager Decision-Making, Project Management and Workplace Engagement -- and Saved a Concert Season, workplace culture and strategy expert Gerald Leonard delivers a fascinating narrative following one Jerry Hall, the new Symphony Orchestra manager at a prestigious symphony concerned about the challenging plans for an upcoming season. In the book, you'll watch Jerry connect with a former college professor and learn the skills necessary to successfully manage his way through these unprecedented times in his business and personal life.
By Gerald J. Leonard
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A Team of Leaders: Empowering Every Member to Take Ownership, Demonstrate Initiative and Deliver ResultsA Team of Leaders provides the methods and tools to transform conventional manager-led teams into empowered, high-performing teams of leaders. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Paul Gustavson, Stewart Liff
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A Team of Leaders: Empowering Every Member to Take Ownership, Demonstrate Initiative, and Deliver ResultsFilled with real-world examples and best practices, this practical guide shows readers how to design systems that nurture the leadership potential of every employee--the key to creating high-performance teams.
By Paul Gustavson, Stewart Liff
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A Woman 's Guide to Successful Negotiating: How to Convince, Collaborate, & Create Your Way to Agreement, Second EditionPresenting the three keys to negotiating success for women, this helpful guide will show you how to get what you deserve in every aspect of your life, whether it is earning more money, buying your next car, or just getting your husband to help around the house.
By Jessica Miller, Lee Miller
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A Year with Peter Drucker: 52 Weeks of Coaching for Leadership EffectivenessBrilliantly honing a lifetime of wisdom into a single essential volume, this book distills the essence of Peter Drucker's personal mentorship program into an easy-to-follow 52-week course, exploring the themes Drucker felt were most important to leadership development.
By Joseph A. Maciariello
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Accelerating Leadership Development through Executive Coaching: A Guide for HR Professionals and High-Potential LeadersDesigned to support self-study and self-directed development for high-potential leaders, this tookit can help accelerate leadership development on the job and help leaders and their managers become better prepared to tackle broader leadership responsibilities within their organizations.
By Robert Barner
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Account-Based Growth: Unlocking Sustainable Value Through Extraordinary Customer FocusDeliver value and profitable business solutions to key B2B clients and build enduring relationships that will maximize growth, by aligning marketing, sales and customer success.
By Bev Burgess, Tim Shercliff
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Accounting Skills for New Supervisors: Study Guide, Student EditionThis title will be removed from the Skillsoft library on May 24, 2024.
By GTS Learning
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Achieving Excellence in Management: Identifying and Learning from Bad PracticesBacked up by case studies from real life business situations, this book gives executives an understanding of what bad management can entail and the damage that it can produce.
By Andrew Kilner
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Action Coaching: How To Leverage Individual Performance For Company SuccessAction Coaching will help leaders up their games when it comes to coaching individuals to change for success-and leverage this asset for business growth. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By David L. Dotlich, Peter C. Cairo
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Action Tools for Effective Managers: A Guide for Solving Day-to-Day Problems on the JobAn Everymanager's guide to solving daily problems, this book gives time-pressed managers succinct, pragmatic "tools" for taking action instantly on more than 65 common workplace problems.
By David Gootnick, Margaret Mary Gootnick
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Adaptive Coaching: The Art and Practice of a Client-Centered Approach to Performance ImprovementRich in detail from the authors' work with clients in Fortune 500 companies, this insightful book identifies the eight distinct coaching styles and offers a unique client-centered focus on how people prefer to be coached.
By Laurie Voss, Terry R. Bacon
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Advances in Motivation Science, Volume 9, First EditionAdvances in Motivation Science, Volume Nine, the latest release in Elsevier's serial on the topic of motivation science, contains interesting articles that cover topics such as The Relentless Pursuit of Acceptance and Belonging, Reward uncertainty and the aversion-attraction dilemma, Neurobiological Mechanisms of Selectivity in Motivated Memory, Accounting for long-term motivation and sustained motivated learning, Interest
By Andrew J. Elliot
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Advancing Executive Coaching: Setting the Course for Successful Leadership CoachingGrounded in scientific thinking and evidenced-based practices, this volume provides clear guidelines, practical advice, and illustrative case studies to produce an integrative understanding of the current state and insight into future directions critical to advancing leadership coaching as a profession.
By Gina Hernez-Broome, Lisa A. Boyce (eds)
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Adventures in CoachingThis book delivers the most rigorous and advanced textbook coaching theory, including the GROW model, contracting and feedback, in a uniquely engaging and mesmerising manner.
By Ben Dowman
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Agilizing the Enterprise: Collaborative Leadership, Dynamic Strategy, and Organizational FlexibilityHelping you to broaden your thinking and expand your horizons, this insightful book discusses the importance of agility and how it affects the solutions that are being delivered by an organization.
By Joseph Raynus
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Anytime Coaching: Unleashing Employee PerformanceWith real-life stories, and practical tips and techniques, this guide will equip managers with tools to help them transform the way they work with employees and colleagues, unleashing their best thinking and developing their overall competence.
By Teresa Wedding Kloster, Wendy Sherwin Swire
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Anytime Coaching: Unleashing Employee Performance, Second EditionWhether you lead a cross-functional team on a short-term project, or formally manage large groups of people on a daily basis, this book equips you with a set of coaching tools you can use immediately to transform the way you work with employees and colleagues.
By Teresa Wedding Kloster, Wendy Sherwin Swire
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Army of Entrepreneurs: Create an Engaged and Empowered Workforce for Exceptional Business GrowthIn Army of Entrepreneurs, author Jennifer Prosek shows how you can foster independent, entrepreneurial thought and action in your staff to maintain and grow your business. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Jennifer Prosek
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Be A Better ManagerHelping readers identify areas for improvement and plan for development, this Infoline describes a group of competencies that are widely believed to be important for managers including people management, communication and personal effectiveness.
By Tora Estep (ed)
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Be the Boss Everyone Wants to Work For: A Guide for New LeadersOffering practical, research-based advice and examples, this book is your guide to internalizing a leader's perspective and will explain how you can "flip your script" so you'll know what to do to help yourself and the team you lead to success.
By William Gentry
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Be the Boss Your Employees DeserveHere is a book that breaks the mold of how bosses view their employees and replaces it with an approach that is far more in tune with today's work force. It shows how to build a work environment that is exactly what your employees deserve.
By Ken Lloyd
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Beating the Global Odds: Successful Decision-Making in a Confused and Troubled WorldFor modern business leaders and individuals requiring a strong strategic plan to help tackle the challenges of the future brought on by the chaos resulting from an abundance of facts and figures, Beating the Global Odds will enable you to fight for your business and construct a sound path forward. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Paul A. Laudicina
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Becoming a Coach: The Essential ICF GuideThis book helps readers equip themselves with the skills and knowledge needed to develop as a professional coach. It encourages readers to reflect on who they are, what they can do, and how they can enhance their skills.
By Jonathan Passmore, Tracy Sinclair
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Becoming A Coaching Leader: The Proven Strategy for Building a Team of ChampionsShowing you how to move beyond the theoretical to the very practical "how to" of coaching, this valuable book equips you with the skills, disciplines, and knowledge to turn your paycheck-driven teams into vibrant and successful growth cultures.
By Daniel Harkavy
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Becoming a Leader-Coach: A Step-by-Step Guide to Developing Your PeopleProviding an introduction to the basics of leader-coaching, including a structure and a set of guidelines to conduct effective formal and informal coaching conversations with your direct reports, this guidebook will help you leverage your people's everyday experiences at work, drive development, and build leadership capacity in others.
By Florence Plessier, Johan Naudé
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Becoming a ManagerThe role of the new manager demands a new mindset, new activities, and new relationships with people throughout the organization. This hands-on course manual guides the first-time manager through these and other challenges.
By Perry McIntosh, Richard Luecke
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Becoming a New Manager: Expert Solutions to Everyday ChallengesIntroducing you to the truths about managerial work, this guide lays the foundation for succeeding in your new role and provides suggestions and tools that will help you make valuable contributions to your organization as you make your transition.
By Harvard Business School Press
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Becoming a Successful Manager: Powerful Tools for Making a Smooth Transition to Managing a Team, Second EditionPresenting numerous exercises throughout, this book aims to help you, as a new manager, quickly assimilate some of the basic knowledge you must have and actions you must put into practice in order to succeed.
By Gary Grossman, J. Robert Parkinson
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Becoming an Effective Mentoring Leader: Proven Strategies for Building Excellence in Your OrganizationUsing case studies, tools, and impactful learning concepts, this book shows you how to use mentoring's core skills to create a winning approach tailored to your own style, be it the 'reflective mentor,' the 'storytelling mentor,' or 'the example-based mentor.'
By Peter Chee, William J. Rothwell
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Becoming an Extraordinary Manager: The 5 Essentials For SuccessLively in style and thorough in content, this practical book offers steps to help you become a better manager or prepare for a management position.
By Len Sandler
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Becoming the Boss: New Rules for the Next Generation of LeadersWritten exclusively for Gen Y readers to address their unique needs, this fresh and relevant book is a brisk, tech savvy success manual filled with real-world, actionable tips that will help you identify your next professional move and show you how to get there.
By Lindsey Pollak
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Becoming the Boss: New Rules for the Next Generation of LeadersLeadership demographics are changing and, in Becoming the Boss, Lindsey Pollak presents an engaging roadmap for new leaders trying to navigate the challenges that this brings. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Lindsey Pollak
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Bedtime Stories for Managers: Farewell to Lofty Leadership. . . Welcome Engaging ManagementIn forty-two succinct, surprising essays, legendary scholar Henry Mintzberg brings management down from the clouds and onto solid ground.
By Henry Mintzberg
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Bedtime Stories for Managers: Farewell to Lofty Leadership...Welcome Engaging ManagementIn Bedtime Stories for Managers, author Henry Mintzberg makes it clear that stellar management focuses on engagement at all levels and offers up ample proof to substantiate his claims. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Henry Mintzberg
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Being the Boss: The 3 Imperatives for Becoming a Great LeaderPacked with compelling stories and practical guidance, this indispensable guide explains how to manage yourself, a network, and a team to help you ultimately master the most daunting challenges of leadership.
By Kent Lineback, Linda A. Hill
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Bending the Law of Unintended Consequences: A Test-Drive Method for Critical Decision-Making in OrganizationsThis book provides leaders and their support teams with important new tools for analyzing and refining complex decisions that are critical to organizational well-being and survival.
By Richard M. Adler
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Best Practice in Performance Coaching: A Handbook for Leaders, Coaches, HR Professionals and OrganizationsWith worksheets, exercises, evaluations and case studies, this book offers extensive guidance on coaching techniques, models and tools as well as advice on how to train as a coach, how to run a coaching practice and how to structure coaching sessions.
By Carol Wilson
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Best Practices in Organization Development and Change: Culture, Leadership, Retention, Performance, CoachingHelp Human Resource Managers modify strategies in your organization to implement plans, tools and techniques toward development and change.
By David Giber, Louis Carter, Marshall Goldsmith (eds)
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Better Business Decisions from Data: Statistical Analysis for Professional SuccessWith the arrival of Big Data, statistical processing has taken on a new level of importance. This book lays a foundation for understanding the importance and value of Big Data, and shows how mined data can help you see your business in a new light and uncover opportunity.
By Peter Kenny
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Beyond Collaboration Overload: How to Work Smarter, Get Ahead, and Restore Your Well-BeingIn Beyond Collaboration Overload author Rob Cross draws on interviews, anecdotes, science, and studies to explore the problems related to collaboration and ways you can overcome them. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Rob Cross
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Beyond Goals: Effective Strategies for Coaching and MentoringFrom psychology to neuroscience, from chaos theory to social network theory, this book offers diverse and compelling insights into both the advantages and limitations of goal pursuit in coaching and mentoring programs.
By David Clutterbuck, David Megginson (eds), Susan David
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Beyond Mentoring: A Guide for Librarians and Information ProfessionalsProviding case studies and perspectives from librarians who have been involved in mentoring programs, this detailed book looks at mentorship, mentorship programs, what works, what doesn't, and different techniques, such as group and peer mentoring.
By Dawn Lowe-Wincentsen (ed)
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Beyond Teams: Building the Collaborative OrganizationThe definitive handbook for working collaboratively in today's complex organizations.
By Craig McGee, Linda Moran, Michael M. Beyerlein, Sue Freedman
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Beyond the Myths and Magic of Mentoring: How to Facilitate an Effective Mentoring Process, New and Revised EditionIncluding expert advice, tools, and case studies, this book reveals how mentoring can maximize employee productivity and provides information on how to assess organizational needs and link them to the mentoring process.
By Margo Murray
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Big Book of Brainstorming Games: Quick, Effective Activities that Encourage Out-of-the-Box Thinking, Improve Collaboration, and Spark Great Ideas!Packed with physical and verbal exercises to help you organize and run a brainstorming session, this book gives you the tools and knowledge to build a solid, structured foundation for free-form interaction and fearless conceptualizing.
By Mary Scannell, Mike Mulvihill
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Blink: The Power of Thinking Without ThinkingIn Blink, author Malcolm Gladwell aims to give us a better understanding of our intuitive, reflexive decision-making systems so that we can make better decisions in the future. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Malcolm Gladwell
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Boosting Profitability: Succeeding as a Profit-Driven ManagerThe My Practical MBA Series provides the latest thinking as well as perennial techniques for a range of business challenges. This concise guide reveals that ensuring profitability requires a focus on the right priorities and an ability to influence attitudes and behavior.
By LID Editorial
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Boring Meetings Suck: Get More Out of Your Meetings, or Get Out of More MeetingsProviding tips and tactics to deliver "Get-In, Get-It-Done, or Get-Out" style meetings, this entertaining, take-no prisoners guide presents winning techniques to help make your next meeting both efficient and effective.
By Jon Petz
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Breakthrough Coaching: Creating Lightbulb Moments in Your Coaching Conversations NEW!Light bulb moments in coaching are the creative insights that change minds and lives.
By Marcia Reynolds
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Breakthrough Coaching: Creating Lightbulb Moments in Your Coaching ConversationsIn Breakthrough Coaching, author Marcia Reynolds presents a blueprint for creating stronger and more effective relationships between coaches and their coachees. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Marcia Reynolds
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Bridge the Gap: Breakthrough Communication Tools to Transform Work Relationships From Challenging to CollaborativeFocusing on personal responsibility and awareness, meta-cognition, and curiosity, they provide a reliable and replicable framework to enhance open communication.
By Jennifer Edwards, Katie McCleary
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Bridging Differences for Better Mentoring: Lean Forward, Learn, and LeverageA timely, evidence-based guide for helping mentors develop the level of cultural competency needed to bridge differences, this book uses three fictional scenarios featuring three pairs of diverse mentors and mentees to illustrate how key concepts can play out in real life.
By Lisa Z. Fain, Lois J. Zachary
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Bridging Differences for Better Mentoring: Lean Forward, Learn, LeverageIn Bridging Differences for Better Mentoring, Lisa Z. Fain and Lois J. Zachary provide insights on how to improve the development and growth of individuals through successful mentoring. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Lisa Z. Fain, Lois J. Zachary
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Bridging the Generation Gap: How to Get Radio Babies, Boomers, Gen Xers, and Gen Yers to Work Together and Achieve MoreFilled with strategies and solutions you can implement immediately, this book offers real-life cases and ground-breaking research on how members of any generation can better relate to minimize conflict, miscommunication, and wasted energy.
By Linda S. Gravett, Robin Throckmorton
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Bring Out the Best in Every Employee: How to Engage Your Whole Team by Making Every Leadership Moment CountAuthored by workplace performance experts Don Brown and Bill Hawkins, this unique road-map discusses what drives today's workforce - and what employees want from you in order to perform.
By Bill Hawkins, Don Brown
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Bringing Out the Best in Everyone You Coach: Use the Enneagram System for Exceptional ResultsIntroducing the Enneagram System, a highly effective tool for creating self-aware employees that are easy to manage, this book offers everything you need to ensure that every employee exceeds their goals and contributes valuable talent to the business.
By Ginger Lapid-Bogda
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Bringing Out the Best in People: How to Apply the Astonishing Power of Positive Reinforcement, Third EditionHelping you to maximize employee performance, this book presents proven strategies that have been successfully adopted by hundreds of organizations worldwide, and delivers step-by-step instruction and positive practices to help you implement and sustain positive change.
By Aubrey Daniels
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Build it: The Rebel Playbook for World-Class Employee EngagementFrom small startups to global powerhouses, this unique and practical book shows that courage, commitment and a people-centric mindset, rather than money and resources, are what you need to turn an average business into a category leader.
By Debra Corey, Glenn Elliott
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Building and Sustaining a Coaching CultureEasy to navigate and logically structured, this book is the ideal resource for everyone who is passionate about coaching and who has an interest in creating an environment that supports learning and growth.
By Agnieszka Bajer, David Clutterbuck, David Megginson
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Building Collaborative Trust in Construction Procurement StrategiesExploring the concept of trust as a tool in improved construction procurement strategies, this book provides important insight into the influence of trust on the success of construction projects and redevelopment programs.
By Jason Challender, Peter Farrell, Peter McDermott
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Business Analytics for Managers: Taking Business Intelligence Beyond Reporting, Second EditionFor everyone in a business- focused role who wants to establish or contribute to Business Analytics, this essential resource offers real-world guidance for organizations looking to leverage their data into a competitive advantage.
By Gert H. N. Laursen, Jesper Thorlund
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Business Coaching & Mentoring for DummiesWith insight into key coaching concepts and an impressive range of tools, this easy-to-use resource explores effective coaching strategies that guide you in coaching and mentoring your colleagues.
By Marie Taylor, Steve Crabb
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Business Coaching & Mentoring for Dummies, 2nd EditionPacked with business-led strategies, key concepts, and effective techniques, this book provides business owners and managers with the insight they need to successfully develop the next generation of leaders.
By Marie Taylor, Steve Crabb
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Business Leadership: Becoming Management Material Study Guide, Student EditionThis title will be removed from the Skillsoft library on May 24, 2024.
By GTS Learning
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Challenging Coaching: Going Beyond Traditional Coaching to Face the FACTSExploring in theory and in practice using case studies, example dialogues and practical exercises, this book breaks the mould of traditional coaching approaches to challenge coaches and their clients to achieve courageous goals that sustainably transform bottom line performance.
By Ian Day, John Blakey
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Changing Employee Behavior: A Practical Guide for ManagersIntroducing practical techniques drawn from the fields of psychology, psychotherapy, and behavioral economics, this book provides a single and comprehensive toolkit for change that managers can use to drive and improve the performance of their staff.
By Nik Kinley, Shlomo Ben-Hur
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Charismatic Leadership: The Skills You Can Learn to Motivate High Performance in OthersExplaining why charisma is a vital asset in any organization, this practical book will help you understand its essential components, find out how to grow your charismatic presence and discover why you need the companion skills of coaching, problem-solving and empathy.
By Kevin Murray
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Co-Active Coaching: Changing Business, Transforming Lives, Third EditionReflecting the expanded vision of the updated Co-Active Model and coaching course curriculum at The Coaches Training Institute, this book emphasizes evoking transformational change in the client and extends into leadership management and its effectiveness throughout organizations.
By Henry Kimsey-House, Karen Kimsey-House, Phillip Sandahl
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Co-Active Coaching: New Skills for Coaching People Toward Success in Work and Life, 2nd EditionIncluding a power-packed Coach's Toolkit of over 35 exercises, questionnaires, checklists, and forms, this book captures the essence of what it takes to design and maintain successful, collaborative, and empowering coaching relationships.
By Henry Kimsey-House, Karen Kimsey-House, Laura Whitworth, Phillip Sandahl
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Co-Active Coaching: The Proven Framework for Transformative Conversations at Work and in Life, Fourth EditionThe power-packed on-line Coach's Toolkit has been expanded to include more than 35 exercises, questionnaires, checklists to make these proven principles and techniques accessible and practical. Full of thoughtful exercises, relevant examples and concrete advice, this text is clear, direct, easy to read, and inspiring.
By Henry Kimsey-House, Karen Kimsey-House, Laura Whitworth, Phillip Sandhal
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Coach and Couch: The Psychology of Making Better Leaders, 2nd EditionPresenting a volume of essays on leadership development topics, this book provides the essential leadership models and equips practitioners with tools for developing executive coaches and working with business leaders.
By Elizabeth Florent-Treacy (eds), Konstantin Korotov, Manfred F. R. Kets de Vries
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Coach the Person, Not the Problem: A Guide to Using Reflective InquiryTaking the complexity out of coaching, this book gives tools, tips, and case studies to help you quickly apply the five essential practices along with the three mental habits to achieve more profound results from your coaching.
By Marcia Reynolds
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Coach to Coach: An Empowering Story about How to Be a Great LeaderReading like a simple parable, this engaging book gives you an easy-to-use yet highly effective formula for becoming a better coach for your teams, in your business, and in your personal life.
By Martin Rooney
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Coaching Across Cultures: New Tools for Leveraging National, Corporate and Professional DifferencesBridges the gap between coaching and interculturalism.
By Philippe Rosinski
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Coaching and Mentoring Employees: Helping Others Achieve Their Very BestMentoring has a significant beneficial impact on the life of the protégé. This book will show you how to effectively be a mentor for employees and help them achieve their highest visions of themselves.
By Laura Stack
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Coaching and Mentoring: How to Develop Top Talent and Achieve Stronger PerformanceCoaching and Mentoring provides the indispensable foundational knowledge required to establish a compatible coaching or mentoring environment within your organization. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Richard Luecke
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Coaching and Mentoring: How to Develop Top Talent and Achieve Stronger PerformanceCovering the full spectrum of effective mentoring and the nuts and bolts of coaching, this concise book shows managers how to master special mentoring challenges, improve listening skills, and provide ongoing support to their employees.
By Harvard Business School Press
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Coaching and Mentoring: Learning to ImproveThe My Practical MBA Series provides the latest thinking as well as perennial techniques for a range of business challenges. This concise guide explains that the value of coaching and mentoring is that they clarify issues, solve problems, create options, change patterns of behaviour, and support plans and actions to ensure that progress is made.
By LID Editorial
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Coaching and Mentoring: Practical Conversations to Improve Learning, 2nd EditionExploring the methods which help and support people to learn more effectively, this book examines how to create conversations which encourage personal development, and the ways in which we can interact to help support and improve performance.
By Eric Parsloe, Melville Leedham
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Coaching and Mentoring: Practical Techniques for Developing Learning and PerformanceCoaching and Mentoring offers readers a practical guide for implementing coaching and mentoring programs in the workplace. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Eric Parsloe, Melville Leedham
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Coaching and Mentoring: Practical Techniques for Developing Learning and Performance, Fourth EditionFeaturing tips, tools and checklists throughout, this book covers all the key aspects of the process, from delivering feedback that builds confidence and success and observant listening to evaluating the effectiveness of initiatives and coaching supervision.
By Diane Newell, Eric Parsloe, Melville Leedham
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Coaching and Mentoring: Practical Techniques for Developing Learning and Performance, Third EditionFor anyone looking to develop their coaching and mentoring skills at individual, team or organizational level, this clear and accessible resource uses practical tools and best practices to demonstrate how to relate theoretical models to specific situations to gain real benefits.
By Eric Parsloe, Melville Leedham
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Coaching at Work: Powering Your Team With Awareness, Responsibility and TrustA logical, practical guide to the many applications of coaching in business, this sound book presents an up to date synthesis of many disparate ideas on coaching at work albeit with the inner game at its core.
By Matt Somers
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Coaching Counseling & Mentoring: How to Choose & Use the Right Technique to Boost Employee Performance, Second EditionIn Coaching, Counseling & Mentoring, Florence M. Stone provides helpful tools and practical techniques to give managers the skills and confidence to encourage their employees and improve their performance. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Florence Stone
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Coaching Essentials for Managers: The Tools You Need to Ignite Greatness in Each EmployeeIn Coaching Essentials for Managers, leadership development expert Sara Canaday presents a solid business case for sharpening these skills by explaining the tangible, proven benefits for employees, managers, and their organizations, and reveals that coaching-like many other management skills-is one you can hone and perfect with the right information and tools.
By Sara Canaday
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Coaching Excellence: Best Practices in Business CoachingPresenting the best practices and techniques in business coaching, this thorough book is comprised of twelve case studies in coaching, based on individuals who were unhappy with their professional lives.
By Sylviane Cannio, Viviane Launer
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Coaching for Breakthrough Success: Proven Techniques for Making Impossible Dreams PossiblePacked with stirring personal stories, life changing case studies, crucial coaching conversations, exemplary coaching questions, and ready-to use tools, this practical manual guides you through the top 30 principles every coach needs to succeed.
By Jack Canfield, Peter Chee
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Coaching for Commitment: Achieving Superior Performance From Individuals And Teams, Third EditionFilled with easy to use tools, illustrative examples, and sample coaching conversations, this book includes the most current coaching strategies and methodologies, and provides the latest definitions of what coaching is and ways to succeed at coaching.
By Amy Zehnder, Cindy Coe, Dennis Kinlaw
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Coaching for Emotional Intelligence: The Secret to Developing the Star Potential in Your EmployeesProviding strategies to help managers address personality traits, communications styles, and personal behaviors, this book will help readers feel comfortable with sensitive, often personal issues that arise in managing and developing employees.
By Bob Wall
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Coaching for High PerformanceProviding an interactive learning experience with assessments, exercises and scenarios, this book demonstrates the value of coaching and the ways in which effective coaching enables the enterprise to deliver strong results both in the short and long term.
By Vivette Payne
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Coaching for High Performance: How to Develop Exceptional Results through CoachingDesigned to help you create an environment of high performance, this book will inspire IT managers with practical advice and tips on how to create a coaching environment in their department.
By Sarah Cook
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Coaching for Improved Work Performance, Revised EditionPacked with case studies from the author's research into the dynamics of the modern workplace, this classic guide takes all the guesswork out of becoming the kind of inspired, "hands-on" manager that every company today is looking for.
By Ferdinand F. Fournies
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Coaching for Innovation: Tools and Techniques for Encouraging New Ideas in the WorkplaceFull of models, tips, exercises, and examples, this practical step-by-step guide to coaching provides readers with the tools to maximize creativity and performance in the workplace and to manage innovation options.
By Cristina Bianchi, Maureen Steele
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Coaching for Leadership: The Practice of Leadership Coaching from the World's Greatest Coaches, Third EditionIncluding proven coaching techniques, key principles, and important learning points presented by renowned coaches Marshall Goldsmith, Paul Hersey, Beverly Kaye, Dave Ulrich, and many more, this book offers a concise overview of the foundations of coaching.
By Laurence S. Lyons, Marshall Goldsmith, Sarah McArthur (eds)
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Coaching For Peak Employee Performance: A Practical Guide to Supporting Employee Development, Second EditionThis title will be removed from the Skillsoft library on May 24, 2024.
By Bill Foster, Karen R. Seeker
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Coaching for Performance: GROWing Human Potential and Purpose: The Principles and Practice of Coaching and Leadership, Fourth EditionProviding an in-depth look into unlocking potential to maximize performance, this book describes and illustrates what coaching really is, what it can be used for, when and how much it can be used, who can use it well and who cannot.
By John Whitmore
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Coaching for Performance: The Principles and Practice of Coaching and LeadershipWith practical exercises, corporate examples, coaching dialogues, and a glossary, this book explains that a meaningful coaching culture has the potential to transform the relationship between organizations and employees and to put both on the path to long-term success.
By John Whitmore
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Coaching for Performance: The Principles and Practice of Coaching and Leadership, 6th EditionThe #1 book for coaches, leaders, talent managers and professionals around the world. This is the definitive and fully updated new edition.
By Sir John Whitmore, Tiffany Gaskell
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Coaching for Resilience: A Practical Guide to Using Positive PsychologyPresenting seven key strategies for managing stress, this comprehensive resource contains practical exercises and examples to show readers effective ways to deal with daily stressors that will enhance personal and work-related performance.
By Adrienne Green, John Humphrey
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Coaching in A Week: Be A Great Coach in Seven Simple StepsLooking in-depth at the skills and techniques involved in becoming an effective coach, this book aims to give you enough knowledge and appreciation of coaching that you can begin to develop your own approach.
By Matt Somers
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Coaching in Government: Stories and Tips for Coaching ProfessionalsThis book captures the story of how internal coaching was introduced and has since evolved in the U.S. Federal Government. It provides coaches and government agency leaders with skills and tools to help them implement their own successful coaching programs.
By Alan Lee Myers, Marykate Behan Dougherty, Theodora Fitzsimmons
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Coaching in Times of Crisis and Transformation: How to Help Individuals and Organisations FlourishTaking an in-depth look at crisis and change in the world and discussing their impact on both individuals and organizations, this book provides a practical guide and resource for managers and coaches on how to tackle challenges effectively and how to turn a crisis into an opportunity for transformation.
By Liz Hall (ed)
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Coaching Leaders: Guiding People Who Guide OthersFilled with illustrative examples, this book includes a wide variety of effective coaching concepts and the information needed to guide leaders and help them maintain the motivation to change; battle anxiety, fear, and resistance; and achieve emotional intelligence.
By Daniel White
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Coaching Presence: Building Consciousness and Awareness in Coaching InterventionsIdeal for coaches and anyone in the helping professions, this practical guide explores how to develop a coaching style that is as non-directive and non-judgmental as possible.
By Maria Iliffe-Wood
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Coaching Questions for Every SituationThe book explains the guiding principles behind great questions as well as the pitfalls to avoid, serving as a practical guide to becoming a highly effective questioner.
By Jeremy Kourdi
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Coaching Salespeople into Sales Champions: A Tactical Playbook for Managers and ExecutivesA guide to maximizing team productivity through executive sales coaching, this book shows you how to develop your own coaching skills so you can boost sales efficiency, train your staff to better performance, and hire and retain top sales talent.
By Keith Rosen
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Coaching Skills for Leaders in the Workplace: How to Develop, Motivate and Get the Best from Your StaffIncluding various coaching models, as well as useful tools and exercises, this book will enable you to set up coaching programs that can make a significant difference to staff retention and motivation.
By Jackie Arnold
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Coaching the Team at Work: The Definitive Guide to Team CoachingThis book helps team coaches develop their skills to support teams in understanding these complex dynamics and, as a result, in developing more effective ways of working together.
By David Clutterbuck
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Coaching TrainingTaking a service-oriented approach to workplace coaching, this practical workbook teaches the essential skills trainers must master to give learners what they need when they need it.
By Lisa Haneberg
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Coaching TrainingCoaching Training takes you through the workshop creation process from preparation to presentation, and from engagement to evaluation. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Lisa Haneberg
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Coaching Up and Down the GenerationsProviding insight into generational differences that can make communication difficult and coaching impossible, this fun, breezy book presents the fundamentals of coaching, such as acting like a catalyst, learning how to listen, and much more.
By Lisa Haneberg
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Coaching With NLP For DummiesWhether you want to become an NLP coach from scratch, or want to incorporate NLP skills into your existing coaching or managing role, this book shows you how to use your NLP skills within a coaching environment and guide your clients to success.
By Kate Burton
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Coaching, Counseling & Mentoring: How to Choose & Use the Right Technique to Boost Employee Performance, Second EditionAn essential guide for managers who want to build their confidence and skills in getting the most from their people, this book is filled helpful tools like self-assessments and real-life scenarios to assist in improving employee performance.
By Florence M. Stone
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Coaching: Evoking Excellence in Others, 3rd EditionBy examining the theory and practice of evoking excellence in yourself and others, this inspirational, thought-provoking guide will help you understand and master the coaching process.
By James Flaherty
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Cognitive Behavioural Coaching PocketbookTaking coaching a stage further, this guide uses a simple 5-step model to explain in clear, practical terms how coaches, L&D staff and managers can use CBC for the benefit of both the individual and the organization.
By Dorothy Spry
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Collaborating for Results: Silo Working and Relationships that WorkCombining psychology with broader organisation development theory and practice, this book focuses on the human reasons for unproductive silo working in organisations, and explores how to develop working relationships that save time and money and improve organisation performance.
By David Ian Willcock
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Collaborating with the Enemy: How to Work with People You Don't Agree with or Like or TrustTeaching us how to work with people whom we might not like or trust, this timely book outlines the five misunderstandings that keep people from effectively collaborating with those people and shows readers how they can successfully engage with positive results instead.
By Adam Kahane
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Collaboration Begins with You: Be a Silo BusterShowing you how to recognize and change erroneous beliefs and actions regarding collaboration, this book helps readers develop a collaborative culture where failures are turned into successes, and breakthrough results are achieved at every level.
By Eunice Parisi-Carew, Jane Ripley, Ken Blanchard
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Collaboration Tools for Project Managers: How to Choose, Get Started, and Collaborate with TechnologyShowing project managers how to lay a solid foundation for virtual collaboration, this book provides the latest information, success stories, and an easy-to-follow guide to implementing online collaboration tools and helping to overcome obstacles.
By Elizabeth Harrin
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Collaboration, How Leaders Avoid the Traps, Create Unity, and Reap Big ResultsBased on the author's long-running research, in-depth case studies, and company interviews, this book delivers practical advice and tools to help your organization collaborate-for real results.
By Morten T. Hansen
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Collaboration: How Leaders Avoid the Traps, Build Common Ground, and Reap Big ResultsIn Collaboration, author Morten T. Hansen draws on his widespread exploration into the art of collaboration to present a book that will transform the manner in which you approach collaboration. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Morten T. Hansen
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Collaborative Advantage: How Open Organizations Thrive in VolatilityIn this book, the authors analyze how exceptional leaders have not only survived but thrived in volatility by skillfully orchestrating agile collaborative networks with customers, partners and start-ups.
By Oliver Gassmann, Raphael Bömelburg
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Collaborative Intelligence: The New Way to Bring Out the Genius, Fun, and Productivity in Any TeamIn Collaborative Intelligence: Design Better Collaboration, Improve Team Productivity, and Build a Culture of Connection, the workplace collaboration experts at MURAL offer a holistic and comprehensive system for fixing today's broken teamwork culture.
By Jim Kalbach, Mariano Battan
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Collaborative Intelligence: Using Teams to Solve Hard ProblemsIdentifying six enabling conditions that increase the likelihood that teams will be effective in any setting or type of organization, this book discusses how leaders can create an environment where teamwork flourishes.
By J. Richard Hackman
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Communicate Like a Leader: Connecting Strategically to Coach, Inspire, and Get Things DoneThis title will be removed from the Skillsoft library on May 24, 2024.
By Dianna Booher
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Complete Guide to Facilitation: Enabling Groups to SucceedContaining practical information for novice group leaders as well as seasoned facilitators, this comprehensive resource will help them prepare for meetings, improve group processes, and follow up to ensure more productive outcomes from sessions.
By David Jamieson, Thomas Justice
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Confrontational Communication: Delivering Negative Feedback, Bad News, and Other Straight TalkThis title will be removed from the Skillsoft library on May 24, 2024.
By Dianna Booher
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Connect Relate Motivate: Master Communication in Any SituationProviding compelling reasons to get great at communicating, this book offers a holistic approach to professional and personal communication that will be a significant support in the boardroom, the living room and also the classroom.
By Rik Rushton
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Content Strategy at Work: Real-world Stories to Strengthen Every Interactive ProjectIncluding never-before-seen case studies from Johns Hopkins Medicine, MINI, Icebreaker, and more, this book offers real-world examples and approaches you can adopt for motivation, to use as talking points with colleagues in your team or organization, and when you collaborate with clients.
By Kristina Halvorson, Margot Bloomstein
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Contingent Collaboration: When to Use Which Models for Joined-up GovernmentThis Element reveals the deeply contingent nature of collaboration, rejecting the idea that collaboration can be reduced to a universal best practice.
By Eleanor R. K. Merton, Rodney J. Scott
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Conversations for Creating STAR Performers: Go Beyond the Performance Review to Inspire Excellence Every DayStraightforward and practical, this book is a vital tool for keeping team members motivated, engaged, and moving ahead every day-not just the days before an annual review.
By Shawn Kent Hayashi
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Conversations That Get Results and Inspire Collaboration: Engage Your Team, Your Peers, and Your Manager to Take ActionFeaturing case studies which illustrate best practices for engaging managers, peers, and employees to build momentum toward success, this book gives you the tools to create the right conversation at the right time to achieve any business goal.
By Shawn Kent Hayashi
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Conversations Worth Having: Using Appreciative Inquiry to Fuel Productive and Meaningful Engagement, Second EditionThis book updates us on the latest supporting research in neuroscience, positive science, and positive psychology; and a discussion guide. It also features a new chapter on what the authors call tuning in: cultivating awareness of how our physical and mental state affect our perceptions, emotions, and thoughts as we engage in conversation.
By Cheri Torres, Jackie Stavros
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Coordination, Cooperation, and Control: The Evolution of Economic and Political PowerThis book explains the ways people coordinate their actions: through cooperation, exercised by economic power, and through control, exercised by political power.
By Randall G. Holcombe
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Creating a Culture Of Collaboration: The International Association of Facilitators HandbookWith contributions from an international group of practitioners and researchers from around the world, this book provides proven approaches to creating a culture of collaboration within and among groups, organizations, communities, and societies.
By Sandy Schuman (ed)
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Creating a Modern Mentoring CultureMentoring has come a long way from the one-on-one exchange between an older mentor and younger mentee. Read this Infoline to learn modern mentoring techniques such as community, group, reverse mentoring that harness that power of technology to transfer knowledge and improve productivity.
By Randy Emelo
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Creating an Internal Coaching ProgramProviding case studies about different types of internal coaching programs, this concise book defines internal coaching, explains how it is unique, and discusses the benefits of internal coaching for coach, coachee, the learning & development function, and the organization as a whole.
By Lisa Ann Edwards
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Creating Engaged Employees: It's Worth the InvestmentCreating Engaged Employees discusses the skills, competencies, tools, and techniques required to manage and maintain a culture of engagement. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By William J. Rothwell
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Creating Engaged Employees: It's Worth the InvestmentExamining the importance of employee engagement, this book offers an explanation for the relationship between work engagement and job performance, and explores the strategies in which employers stay focused on "what to do" and "how to do it" and engage their employees to improve their performance.
By William J. Rothwell (ed)
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Creative Courage: Leveraging Imagination, Collaboration, and Innovation to Create Success Beyond Your Wildest DreamsChallenging you to step outside of your comfort zone and truly make an impact, this insightful book gives you the perspective, courage, and kick start you need to think differently about the things you do every day.
By Welby Altidor
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Cutting Through the Noise: The Right Employee Engagement Strategies for YOUManagers are flooded with theories, concepts, and ideas for how to improve employee engagement. This insightful book will help them cut through the clutter of all those strategies and find the one that works for them.
By Norma Dávila, Wanda Piña-Ramírez
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Dealing with Meetings You Can't Stand: Meet Less and Do MoreFilled with helpful checklists and change-making strategies, this practical resource provides key insights into the human behaviors that lead to unsuccessful meetings, along with psychologically-based tactics for addressing them.
By Rick Brinkman
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Dealing with Meetings You Can't Stand: Meet Less and Do MoreDealing with Meetings You Can't Stand presents the Meeting Jet process for carrying out and reaping the benefits of effective meetings. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Rick Brinkman
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Death by Meeting: A Leadership Fable...About Solving the Most Painful Problem in BusinessThis book is a blueprint for leaders who want to eliminate waste and frustration among their teams, and create environments of engagement and passion.
By Patrick Lencioni
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Decide: Better Ways of Making Better DecisionsFree from business jargon, and filled with relevant case studies, this thought-provoking and practical book helps readers make the right decisions and choose from their options wisely, whether they have 60 days, 60 minutes or just 60 seconds.
By David Wethey
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Decision Analysis for Managers: A Guide for Making Better Personal and Business DecisionsOrganizing and presenting otherwise formal decision-making tools in an intuitively understandable fashion, this book introduces you to tools that can help you make better personal decisions, and will help teams and work groups align quickly to make better recommendations and decisions.
By David Charlesworth
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Decision Leadership: Empowering Others to Make Better ChoicesA fresh, research-driven playbook for how successful leaders can maximize the potential of others.
By Don A. Moore, Max H. Bazerman
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Decision Making & Problem Solving StrategiesDecision Making & Problem Solving Strategies presents a simple framework for leveraging creativity to tackle difficult decisions and tasks. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By John Adair
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Decision Making using Game Theory: An Introduction for ManagersGrounded in well-established theory, this accessible book explains in simple terms the underlying mathematics behind games of skill, and how game theory can help improve negotiation and decision-making skills.
By Anthony Kelly
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Decision Making: 5 Steps to Better ResultsOffering a time-tested, five-step methodology, this book will help you dramatically improve your decision-making skills and avoid common traps that lead to bad results.
By Harvard Business School Publishing
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Decision Sprint: The New Way to Innovate into the Unknown and Move from Strategy to ActionIn Decision Sprint, innovation and growth expert Atif Rafiq argues that while talent is critically important to any company's success, the systems through which collaboration and decision-making happen are what separate industry leaders from the rest-and that systems designed to embrace unknowns are quickest and most enduring way to foster growth, continuous innovation, and realization of strategy.
By Atif Rafiq
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Decision-Making TrainingWhether you're a seasoned workshop facilitator or a novice instructor, this book provides a roadmap to helping people make decisions competently and confidently, leading to success for them - and for your organization.
By Robert H. Vaughn
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Develop Management Skills with the ACCEL ModelExploring the five key practices of effective managers that make up the ACCEL model, this concise book discusses practical ways to develop and practice each one of them individually and considers how they interrelate to form the foundation of management success.
By Katy Tynan
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Developing Collaboration and Operating in a Matrix Management Structure: Ensuring Collective, Cooperative ManagementThe My Practical MBA Series provides the latest thinking as well as perennial techniques for a range of business challenges. Written for people who operate across business divisions in a matrix management structure, this toolkit explains how to develop influencing skills, increase cooperation and collaboration across business divisions, and operate successfully within a matrix management structure.
By LID Editorial
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Developing Leaders at All LevelsBased on a consortium benchmarking study, this report reveals a variety of findings in four scope areas: identifying leadership competencies, finding leaders at all levels, leadership development as a process, and measurement and communication.
By American Productivity & Quality Center
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Developing Leaders by Executive Coaching: Practice and EvidenceFor practitioners, academics and researchers with an interest in coaching or leadership development, this book provides a comprehensive overview of the executive coaching field both in terms of practice and in terms of relevant research on executive coaching outcomes.
By Andromachi Athanasopoulou, Sue Dopson
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Developing Mental Toughness: Coaching Strategies to Improve Performance, Resilience and Wellbeing, 2nd EditionBased on scientific investigation, this book discusses how mental toughness relates to other behaviors and how it can be applied to leadership, emotional intelligence, and motivation.
By Doug Strycharczyk, Peter Clough
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Developing Mental Toughness: Coaching Strategies to Improve Performance, Resilience and Wellbeing, Second EditionDeveloping Mental Toughness is a comprehensive guide to understanding our own psychological fortitude in times of high stress. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Doug Strycharczyk, Peter Clough
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Developing Motivation and Employee Engagement: Enabling People to SucceedThe My Practical MBA Series provides the latest thinking as well as perennial techniques for a range of business challenges. This toolkit explains how employee engagement works and why it is so significant, and provides practical techniques to help you generate greater employee engagement within your team.
By LID Editorial
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Developing the Qualities of Success: How to Stay Motivated, Volume IIn Developing the Qualities of Success, author Zig Ziglar maps the path to achieving balance and fulfillment in your work and home life. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Zig Ziglar
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Diversity in Coaching: Working with Gender, Culture, Race and Age, 2nd editionAuthored by an international team of 21 coaching professionals from 10 countries, this book provides guidance on understanding diversity and on adapting coaching styles and techniques to meet individual needs, local demands and cultural preferences.
By Jonathan Passmore (ed)
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Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates UsDrive challenges the widely accepted notion that people are motivated by financial rewards and presents a revolutionary theory on what really motivates people to perform at their best. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Daniel Pink
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Earned Value Management in Easy StepsAimed at anyone who needs to understand and work with Earned Value Management (EVM), this book will guide you through the processes and technique of EVM in easy steps, showing you how to use it and how to implement it on a project.
By John Carroll
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Economics for Business: A Guide to Decision Making in a Complex Global MacroeconomyMerging business content with economics, this book is an ideal introduction to economics for MBA students, and explains key concepts while providing the tools needed to make decisions, sustain competitive advantage, and confront business complexities with confidence.
By Ivan K. Cohen
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Economics for Business: A Guide to Decision Making in a Complex Global MacroeconomyIn Economics for Business, author Ivan Cohen unpacks the implications of globalization for businesses big and small, offering valuable information about how to achieve-and maintain-that competitive edge. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Ivan K. Cohen
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Effective CoachingTechniques to become a coach, not just a boss--and maximize each employee's productivity.
By Marshall J. Cook
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Effective Coaching SkillsLet this skillbuilding guide demonstrate how coaching can help people focus on their development goals, and then help them to achieve them. .
By Team Publications
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Effective Management: 20 Keys to a Winning CultureTo create a winning culture, you must form a coherent team that is alive, awake, attuned, and committed. This guide will help managers support teams of people who rise to the occasion, solve problems proactively, and take advantage of positive opportunities.
By A. Keith Barnes
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Effective Modern Coaching: The Principles and Art of Successful Business CoachingEffective Modern Coaching offers a roadmap for balancing the demands of leadership and management with the need to improve your team's performance. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Miles Downey
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Effective Modern Coaching: The Principles and Art of Successful Business CoachingWritten by one of the world's leading business coaches, this book provides authoritative and proven guidance and techniques for managers, executives, or indeed coaches, who want to bring out the full potential of their employees and clients through coaching.
By Myles Downey
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Emotional Fitness Coaching: How to Develop a Positive and Productive Workplace for Leaders, Managers and CoachesProviding a toolkit, a range of techniques and numerous exercises, this book presents a practical approach to applying the principles of emotional intelligence to the workplace to create a healthy, positive and creative environment in every situation.
By Warren Redman
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Emotional Intelligence Coaching: Improving Performance for Leaders, Coaches and the IndividualPacked with activities and case studies, this book examines the vital role emotions and habits play in performance and provides concrete tools that professionals can use to help them become more emotionally intelligent when coaching or being coached.
By Lisa Spencer-Arnell, Liz Wilson, Stephen Neale
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Employee EngagementIn Employee Engagement, author Emma Bridger makes use of case studies to explain how to facilitate employee engagement in work environments. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Emma Bridger
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Employee EngagementA complete, practical resource for understanding, measuring and building engagement, this focused book offers case studies, practical tools, techniques and diagnostics to help assess and drive engagement in an organization.
By Emma Bridger
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Employee Engagement & Communication Research: Measurement, Strategy & ActionThere's a well-known saying: what doesn't get measured doesn't get done. This guide covers all the tools, strategy and action required to plan a research project or commission external research, whether a full scale employee survey or research focusing on a particular subject area.
By Susan Walker
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Employee Engagement: A Practical Introduction, Second EditionSupported by a variety of practical tools, features and templates, as well as numerous real-life examples and case studies, this book offers a complete, practical resource for understanding and creating an effective engagement strategy that is aligned to wider business objectives.
By Emma Bridger
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Employee Engagement: Tools for Analysis, Practice, and Competitive AdvantageProviding advice, tools, and case examples, this guide translates best practices, ideas, and concepts into concrete and practical steps that will change the level of engagement in any organization.
By Benjamin Schneider, Karen M. Barbera, Scott A. Young, William H. Macey
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Employee Relations: A Practical Introduction, Second EditionIncluding practical diagnostic tools and a variety of real-life examples, this book is an essential guide to the principles and practice of employee relations in the workplace.
By Elizabeth Aylott
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EMPOWERED: Ordinary People, Extraordinary ProductsBy tackling the reason why most companies fail, this book shows you how to become the leader your team and company needs to not only survive but thrive.
By Marty Cagan
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Empowerment Takes More Than a Minute, Second EditionEmpowerment-now more than ever!
By Ken Blanchard, et al.
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Enabling Collaborative Governance through Systems: Public Policy Design and ImplementationThis book constitutes a first approximation for the use of systems approaches and dynamic performance management as tools for collaborative governance.
By Carmine Bianchi, Eliot Rich, Luis Felipe Luna-Reyes
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Enchantment: The Art of Changing Hearts, Minds, and ActionsIn Enchantment, author Guy Kawasaki takes you on a guided tour of the art of captivating those around you. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Guy Kawasaki
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Encouraging the Heart: A Leader's Guide to Rewarding and Recognizing OthersFor the new manager, team leader, business owner, and supervisor, Encouraging the Heart teaches readers to learn the skills needed to implement a guidance system within their businesses that engages and rewards employees. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Barry Z. Posner, James M. Kouzes
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Engaged Leadership: Building a Culture to Overcome Employee Disengagement, Second EditionOffering both a fable and a step-by-step blueprint, this book is packed with ideas and strategies for building a dynamic culture that engages employees at all levels of the organization, releasing the true potential of your organization.
By Clint Swindall
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Engaged: Unleashing Your Organization's Potential Through Employee EngagementFor managers and business leaders who want to enhance performance, this easy-to-use guide to employee management offers real solutions for getting workers engaged and increasing productivity.
By Geoffrey Matthews, Linda Holbeche
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Engaging Virtual Meetings: Openers, Games, and Activities for Communication, Morale, and TrustThis book is a great addition to the bookshelves of anyone interested in how to create and build engagement in team settings of all kinds.
By John Chen
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Entrepreneurial Decision-making: Getting the Right Things RightThe My Practical MBA Series provides the latest thinking as well as perennial techniques for a range of business challenges. This succinct book discusses how priorities should constantly guide management decisions and influence the choices that are made throughout the organization.
By LID Editorial
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Ethics and Deviations in Decision-making: An Applied StudyThis book explores how the ethically inconsistent behaviour in workplaces can be rooted in moral fibers of the decision-makers
By Gagari Chakrabarti, Tapas Chatterjea
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Everyday Coaching: Using Conversation to Strengthen Your CultureThrough practical tips and examples, this book demonstrates the difference between conversations and true dialogue, and presents an easy-to-use coaching model you can use to practice giving feedback, making agreements, and guiding behavior.
By Lisa Nabors, Virginia Bianco-Mathis
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Evidence-Based Training Methods: A Guide for Training Professionals, 2nd EditionEvidence-Based Training Methods exposes traditional training myths and offers thorough evidence-based replacements for successful teaching methodologies. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Ruth Clark
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Excellence in Coaching: The Industry Guide, Third EditionIn Excellence in Coaching, Third Edition, editor Jonathan Passmore condenses the writings of 24 leading coaches into a comprehensive must-read guide. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Jonathan Passmore (ed)
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Excellence in Coaching: The Industry Guide, Third EditionIntroducing the business of coaching with topics covering how to set up a coaching practice, coach within organizations, and coaching requirements, this book also reviews coaching models and approaches, including NLP, behavioral, solution focused, and more, and considers issues surrounding coaching, such as eithics, evaluation, accreditation, and stress.
By Jonathan Passmore (ed)
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Excellence in Coaching: Theory, Tools and Techniques to Achieve Outstanding Coaching Performance, Fourth EditionHow can you achieve coaching excellence? Use the latest research and insights from some of the biggest industry names in this fully revised fourth edition, which provides a diverse range of theory, tools and models for students and practicing coaches alike.
By Jonathan Passmore
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Execution Plain and Simple: Twelve Steps to Achieving Any Goal On Time and On BudgetA practical job aid for any manager who needs to get an organization to execute better, this book provides a proven 12-step plan to get results, overcome delays, and achieve tough goals faster.
By Robert A. Neiman
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Experiential Learning: A Handbook for Education, Training and Coaching, Third EditionProviding a solid and easy-to-follow background into the concepts of experiential, or activity-based, learning, this book offers educators, trainers and coaches the skills that can be successfully applied to a variety of settings.
By Colin Beard, John P. Wilson
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Expressive Design SystemsExplaining how to communicate your brand and collaborate across teams, this book shows you how to build useful, dependable systems that not only maintain harmony across your products, but also flex to accommodate inspiration and experimentation.
By Yesenia Perez-Cruz
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F.I.T. for Success: Fearless, Inspired, Transformed for SuccessThis book provides Strategies to gain clarity around your vision, Tools to cope effectively with change, Steps to build strong relationships, Solutions to move beyond barriers to achieve your purpose, Guidance to transform obstacles into opportunities, Encouragement to dream new dreams.
By Adrean Turner
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Facilitation BasicsThis book allows you to focus on learners and help an audience "get" a facilitator's message by focusing on the basic principles that underlie effective learning facilitation.
By Deborah D. Tobey, Donald V. McCain
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Facilitation Made Easy: Practical Tips to Improve Meetings & Workshops, Second EditionA comprehensive reference for anyone involved in facilitation.
By Esther Cameron
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Facilitation Made Easy: Practical Tips to Improve Meetings and Workshops, 3rd EditionPacked with detailed examples, proven tips for success, checklists, case studies and a self-assessment guide, this practical book is the ideal self-development tool for anyone involved in facilitation.
By Esther Cameron
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Facilitation Skills TrainingFacilitation Skills Training explores all the tools you need to run a workshop that fits the needs of your learners. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Kimberly Devlin
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Facilitator's Guide to Participatory Decision-Making, Second EditionFor those wanting to understand group dynamics and improve their skill at making groups work effectively, this guide offers tools and insights to enable effective, participatory action and the potential to achieve results and positive social change.
By Sam Kaner
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Faster Together: Accelerating Your Team's ProductivityPresenting the author's FAST model that mobilizes teams to be the most effective they can be while keeping each other's best interests at heart, this book will help you to truly understand the abilities of your team and how each member makes things go.
By Laura Stack
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Fearless Performance Reviews: Coaching Conversations that Turn Every Employee into a Star PlayerIntroducing a groundbreaking new framework that transforms not just the review process - but the entire relationship between coach and employee, this book presents a bottom-up alternative in which the employee takes the lead both during the review process and throughout the entire performance cycle.
By Jeffrey Russell, Linda Russell
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Feedback (And Other Dirty Words): Why we Fear it, How to Fix itWhen it's done right, feedback has been proven to be the most effective means of improving communication and performance for you and your organization. It's too important to give up, and with the help of this book, you'll be able to use it deftly, equitably, and effectively.
By Laura Dowling Grealish, M. Tamra Chandler
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Feedback in Performance ReviewsExplaining three feedback principles and four different types of feedback, this guidebook will help you understand when to use the different types of feedback and how to frame a complete feedback message, making it more likely that your feedback will be well received.
By E. Wayne Hart
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Feedback that Works: How to Build and Deliver Your MessageThis guidebook on delivering effective feedback shows you how to formulate, organize and communicate your message to help people learn and develop.
By Sloan R. Weitzel
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Feedback Toolkit: 16 Tools for Better Communication in the Workplace, Second EditionMaking the feedback process easy to understand with a detailed six-step framework, this expert guide covers specific feedback tools and illustrates approaches for applying them in a variety of management scenarios.
By Rick Maurer
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Financial Ratios for Executives: How to Assess Company Strength, Fix Problems, and Make Better DecisionsFinancial Ratios for Executives will have you turning heads in the boardroom by making informed decisions using the data at your disposal and the appropriate financial ratio calculations contained within the book. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Albert J. Pizzica, Michael Rist
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Find the Fire: Ignite Your Inspiration--and Make Work Exciting AgainPacked with insights, exercises, inspiring stories, checklists, and more, this potent self-help guide identifies nine forces that drain inspiration and delivers tips and advice for turning things around.
By Scott Mautz
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Find Your Balance Point: Clarify Your Priorities, Simplify Your Life, and Achieve MoreFind Your Balance Point provides the methods and motivation required for anyone to be successful, fulfilled, and find peace of mind. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Brian Tracy, Christina Stein
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First Line Supervision, 5th EditionInspirational, instructive and encouraging, novice and experienced supervisors alike can use this course to develop skills to orient, train, coach, and manage employees using self-assessments, action plans and relevant work examples.
By Charles M. Cadwell
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First, Break All the Rules: What the World's Greatest Managers Do DifferentlyFirst, Break All the Rules offers you a peek into the minds of exceptional managers who reject conventional wisdom and reveal new truths to capitalize on the strengths and talents of individuals within the organization. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Curtis Coffman, Marcus Buckingham
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Fixing FeedbackPresenting a smart, refreshing and practical guide to feedback in the workplace, this no-nonsense book shows you what exactly constitutes useful feedback, how to deliver it effectively, how to receive it gracefully and how to use it to strengthen yourself, your team and your business.
By Georgia Murch
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Formula 2+2: The Simple Solution for Successful CoachingUse this innovative text to foster a culture of continuous feedback that increases the effectiveness of the manager, protects the spirit and dignity of employees, and provides a systematic approach to reinforce and improve employee performance.
By Douglas B. Allen, Dwight W. Allen
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Four Cornered Leadership: A Framework for Making DecisionsPresenting information in bite-sized chunks supported by charts and graphs, this book supplies you with a new way to view leadership that is based on learning and continual modification in response to prevailing conditions.
By John Roland Schultz
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Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of EverythingFreakonomics puts human nature under the microscope and uses empirical and statistical data to gain fascinating insights into what motivates us. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Stephen J. Dubner, Steven D. Levitt
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From Bud to Boss: Secrets to a Successful Transition to Remarkable LeadershipFocusing on the difficulties that new leaders experience, this much-needed book will help them get beyond the stress and fear to focus on becoming the most effective leader they can be-starting right now.
By Guy Harris, Kevin Eikenberry
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From Bud to Boss: Secrets to a Successful Transition to Remarkable LeadershipFrom Bud to Boss systematically addresses the challenges that any person in a newly acquired position of authority will face and gives excellent advice on how to deal with them. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Guy Harris, Kevin Eikenberry
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From Competition to Collaboration: How Leaders Cultivate Partnerships to Drive Value and Transform HealthFrom Competition to Collaboration: How Leaders Cultivate Partnerships to Drive Value and Transform Health explains how healthcare leaders can navigate the difficult issues that arise when multiple organizations from different sectors and with different operating models, objectives, and cultures work together toward a shared purpose.
By Robert H. Sachs, Tracy L. Duberman
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From Idea to Innovation: A Handbook for Inventors, Decision Makers and OrganizationsThroughout From Idea to Innovation author Bernd X. Weis offers a systematic scrutiny of the journey of innovation, from the first inkling of a creative idea to the delivery of an end product that consumers love and want. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Bernd X. Weis
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From Me to We: Why Commercial Collaboration Will Future-proof Business, Leaders and Personal SuccessSmashing the myth of the "Me Economy," this insightful guide shows business decision makers how the ability to effectively collaborate for mutual commercial benefit is the solution to future-proofing a business. Ideas are illustrated with examples, and backed by sector-specific research and interviews with business leaders who have seen real-world results of effective business collaboration.
By Janine Garner
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From One to Many: Best Practices for Team and Group CoachingExploring the related topics of team and group coaching in depth, this book explains how to integrate the practice into an organization and how to maximize it to full effect.
By Jennifer J. Britton
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From Techie to Boss: Transitioning to LeadershipTeaching you a whole new set of interpersonal, organizational, and metrical skills you never needed before, this easy-to-read guide shows you how to translate and adapt the analytic skills that made you an outstanding techie to your new responsibilities as a technical manager.
By Scott Cromar
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From Techie to Boss: Transitioning to LeadershipFrom Techie to Boss teaches you the necessary interpersonal skills and techniques for the successful transition from a technical role to a leadership position. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its content.
By Scott Cromar
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Full Engagement!: Inspire, Motivate and Bring Out the Best in Your PeopleFull Engagement! provides managers with the practical tools to unlock their team's potential and help and inspire members to perform at their highest capacity. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Brian Tracy
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Full Engagement!: Inspire, Motivate, and Bring Out the Best in Your PeopleA manager's role is to achieve the highest possible return on the physical, emotional, and mental effort that his or her people put forth. In this essential guide, business success expert Brian Tracy shows how all managers can hold the keys to unlocking superstar performance from their teams.
By Brian Tracy
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Further Techniques for Coaching and MentoringOffering a wide portfolio of approaches for helping and developing others, this book is an invaluable resource for all coaches and mentors and a must read for anyone wanting to learn more about one-to-one coaching and mentoring.
By David Clutterbuck, David Megginson
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Get Big Things Done: The Power of Connectional IntelligenceIn Get Big Things Done authors Dhawan and Joni team up to share their thoughts on how you can utilize the world's diversity, resources, and networks to create powerful connections and achieve remarkable results. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Erica Dhawan, Saj-nicole A. Joni
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Get it Together: Ditch the Chaos, Do the Work, and Design your SuccessIt's time to stop spinning your wheels and make the most of your time by aligning your actions with your priorities. This super-practical guide to personal success is packed with no-nonsense tips that will get anyone where they want to be in business and in life.
By Lauren Berger
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Getting to It! Accomplishing the Important, Handling the Urgent, and Removing the UnnecessaryGetting to It is an insightful, in-depth guide to accomplishing the things that matter most in your life. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Jones Loflin, Todd Musig
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Getting to Resolution: Turning Conflict Into Collaboration, Second EditionOutlining the principles of resolutionary thinking, this book offers a detailed process for resolving conflicts in a way that fosters dignity and integrity, optimizes resources, and allows all concerns to be voiced, honored, and woven into the resolution.
By Stewart Levine
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Getting to We: Negotiating Agreements for Highly Collaborative RelationshipsFlipping conventional negotiation on its head and shifting the perspective to where it belongs, this innovative book provides both sides of the negotiation table with the tools they need to create mutual, long-lasting, successful business relationships in today's new business world.
By David Frydlinger, Jeanette Nyden, Kate Vitasek
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Give and Take: A Revolutionary Approach to SuccessFor anyone in the service industry or in the fields of business or education, Give and Take dives deeply into the correlation between our willingness to help others and the attainment of success for ourselves, others, and our organization. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Adam Grant
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Giving and Receiving Performance FeedbackUsing forms, questionnaires, case studies, and action plans, this book presents step-by-step guidelines to make feedback about the negative side of performance easier to give-and easier to accept.
By Peter R. Garber
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Giving Feedback to SubordinatesPractical advice on how to effectively deliver feedback to employees who work for you.
By Dana McDonald-Mann, Raoul J. Buron
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Global Business Ethics: Responsible Decision Making in an International ContextTaking a fresh look at one of the key foundations of business--the need to conduct business responsibly, sustainably, and within a sound ethical framework, this in-depth book is a guide for ethical decision making within the international business landscape.
By Guy Murfey, Ronald D. Francis
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Global Business Ethics: Responsible Decision Making in an International ContextGlobal Business Ethics provides background and supporting information on the importance of ethics in business, as well as best practices on the implementation of ethical behavior. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Guy Murfey, Ronald Francis
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Global Project Management: Communication, Collaboration and Management Across BordersFilled with real-life examples and techniques, this book describes how to adapt your organisation and your projects to thrive in a global multi-cultural environment, where most communication is in writing and asynchronous.
By Jean Binder
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Good Boss, Bad Boss: How to Be the Best...And Learn from the WorstGood Boss, Bad Boss takes an insightful look at managers and leaders and offers them practical advice on how to assess and improve their own contribution to a positive working environment. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Robert Sutton
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Great Minds in Management: The Process of Theory DevelopmentAn ambitious and original panorama of the key ideas in management theory, this book is a unique collection of reflections on the process of theory development, an area which to date little has been written about by those who have actually had experience of building theory.
By Ken G. Smith, Michael A. Hitt (eds)
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Great Work: How to Make a Difference People LoveRevealing five practical skills that will help you ideate, innovate, and deliver work that gets noticed and appreciated, this book is filled with stories of real people in real jobs who did what was asked and then added something extra--a personal touch all their own--to deliver better-than-asked-for results.
By David Sturt
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Group and Team Coaching: The Secret Life of Groups, Second EditionIncluding a wealth of vignettes and case studies, this practical resource will be essential reading for coaches who work with groups and teams as well as leaders commissioning coaching.
By Christine Thornton
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Guide to Decision Making: Getting it More Right than Wrong"The Economist" covers a wide range of subjects with confidence, wit and authority--Economist Books mirror this approach. This book thoughtfully considers how companies can be more effective and improve their decision-making strategies.
By Helga Drummond
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Hard-Won Wisdom: True Stories from the Management TrenchesHard-Won Wisdom discusses the stories and lessons of managers who faced their workplace issues head on and learned how to address them effectively. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Jathan Janove
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Hard-Won Wisdom: True Stories from the Management TrenchesProviding sometimes funny, always cautionary tales that reinforce crucial lessons for managers, this book highlights the role management plays in exacerbating (or easing) trouble, and suggests simple strategies to turn the situation around.
By Jathan Janove
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Helping People Win at Work: A Business Philosophy Called 'Don't Mark My Paper, Help Me Get an A'In Helping People Win at Work, authors Ken Blanchard and Garry Ridge demonstrate what it takes to inspire people to achieve dynamite results. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Garry Ridge, Ken Blanchard
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How Did I Not See This Coming?: A New Manager's Guide to Avoiding Total DisasterExplaining that first-time managers are basically on a journey without a map, this book tells the fictional story of Julie, a onetime star producer, to illustrate how a new manager can successfully make the shift from a role without leadership responsibilities to one with them.
By Katy Tynan
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How to Be an Effective FacilitatorDesigned for general managers whose time is at a premium, this course presents a six-step process and tools that you can apply in any situation-whether you're facilitating a short-term problem-solving session or a multi-year strategic planning project.
By Charles M. Cadwell
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How to Coach Individuals, Teams, and Organizations to Master Transformational Change: Surfing TsunamisDiscussing individual and collective transformation in the workplace, this book describes how Radical improvement can be implemented, sustained, and repeated if it is pursued through a holistic, systematic, yet practical framework.
By Stephen K. Hacker
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How to Conduct Productive Meetings: Strategies, Tips, and Tools to Ensure Your Next Meeting is Well Planned and EffectiveIncluding more than 130 "do's" and "don'ts" of meetings, this book offers solid advice to ensure that a meeting is necessary, the presentation is professional and effective, the participants contribute in constructive ways and the outcome is measurable.
By Donald L. Kirkpatrick
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How to Create a Coaching CultureUsing a combination of practical tools, assessments, scenarios and case studies from best practice, this practical guide offers an overview of coaching practice and align it clearly with organizational and HR strategy and objectives.
By Gillian Jones, Ro Gorell
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How to Create a Coaching Culture: A Practical Introduction, Second EditionUsing a combination of tools, assessments, case studies and examples, this book is a practical guide to embedding effective coaching behaviors within an organization to empower and engage employees to perform at their best.
By Gillian Jones, Ro Gorell
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How to Hold Successful Meetings: 30 Action Tips for Managing Effective MeetingsLet this concise, powerful guide show you how to hold efficient, effective meetings by inviting the right people, developing a proper agenda, accepting suggestions and opinions of group members, and much, much more.
By Paul R. Timm
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How to Manage Meetings, Second EditionAuthored by communication expert Alan Barker, this book analyzes every aspect of holding a meeting and provides reliable advice on how to get it right, including preparing for a meeting, effective participation, group dynamics, follow-up action, and more.
By Alan Barker
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How to Manage People: Fast, Effective Management Skills that Really Get ResultsProviding valuable insight into the skills required to be an effective manager, this one-stop guide to people management will help you get the best from your staff through motivation, reward and leadership.
By Michael Armstrong
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How to Manage Your Priorities, Second EditionIn today's competitive environment, the ability to manage priorities is a key element in personal and professional success. This strategic guide teaches managers critical benefits of managing priorities and removing obstacles that interfere with success.
By Janis Fisher Chan
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How to Measure Anything: Finding the Value of Intangibles in Business, Third EditionShowing managers how to inform themselves in order to make less risky, more profitable business decisions, this insightful and eloquent book explains how any problem, no matter how difficult, ill-defined, or uncertain can lend itself to measurement using proven methods.
By Douglas W. Hubbard
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How to Motivate People, Second EditionShowing you how to inspire individuals or teams to develop, this practical book sets out clear guidelines on how to motivate staff to maximize performance, stimulate enthusiasm and achieve results.
By Patrick Forsyth
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How to Navigate Strategic Alliances and Joint Ventures: A Concise Guide For ManagersThis book takes readers across the different stages of an alliance lifecycle and, through practical incidents, discusses and debates on the decisions to be taken.
By Meeta Dasgupta
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How to Recognize & Reward Employees: 150 Ways to Inspire Peak Performance, Second EditionPacked with exercises, case studies, self-tests, lists, and worksheets to help you implement simple and effective rewards programs, this helpful guide provides you with exciting and practical ways to get the most from your people.
By Donna Deeprose
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How to Train Employees: A Guide for ManagersFilled with cases, exercises, worksheets and planning forms to make the learning immediate and dynamic, this self-study guide provides the tools and techniques to assess, design, deliver and evaluate training that is right for every employee.
By Bobette Hayes Williamson, Irene E. McManus, Robert P. McManus
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Humans at Work: The Art and Practice of Creating the Hybrid WorkplaceIn Humans at Work, employee and workplace experience experts Anna Tavis and Stela Lupushor advocate for the adoption of human-centric practices as a critical and necessary part of adapting work and workplaces to the future of work.
By Anna Tavis, Stela Lupushor
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Humble Consulting: How to Provide Real Help FasterExplaining that consultants have to work with authentic openness, curiosity, and humility, this book offers dozens of case studies that illuminate each stage of this humble consulting process enabling them to be more genuinely helpful and vastly more effective.
By Edgar H. Schein
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Hundred Percenters: Challenge Your Employees to Give It Their All, and They'll Give You Even More, Second EditionBased on a detailed study of more than 500,000 leaders and employees, this book provides the tools and techniques--and the rationale behind them--to help you create an army of employees who don't just do their best-but who also deliver results.
By Mark Murphy
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If Not You, Who? Cracking the Code of Employee Disengagement, Second EditionIn If Not You, Who? author Jill Christensen clearly and methodically lays out the steps to create an environment that nurtures employee engagement. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretations of its contents.
By Jill Christensen
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Implementing a Virtual Coaching Model for Teacher Professional DevelopmentImplementing a Virtual Coaching Model for Teacher Professional Development addresses how to effectively implement virtual coaching in the field of education and discusses how technology can provide more equitable access to job-embedded and personalized professional learning (through virtual coaching) across all educational institutions.
By Amber Rowland, Martha D. Elford, Suzanne Myers
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Implementing Mentoring Schemes: A Practical Guide to Successful ProgramsIllustrating the importance of mentoring schemes for organizations, this comprehensive guide enables readers to fully understand mentoring and to create state-of-the-art programs.
By David Clutterbuck, Nadine Klasen
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Improve Your Coaching & Training SkillsContaining proven approaches and practical guidelines, as well as tips on using exercises and role-plays, this book is an accessible guide for busy managers who are responsible for developing and mentoring their staff.
By Patrick Forsyth
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Improving Employee Performance Through Appraisal and Coaching, Second EditionPacked with ready-to-use forms, instructions and observations on their effective use, this book gives you all the guidance and tools you'll need to implement a genuinely proactive performance management program that gets maximum results.
By Donald L. Kirkpatrick
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Improving Employee Performance through Workplace Coaching: A Practical Guide to Performance ManagementDrawing upon the authors' experience of developing a risk management approach to people management, this clear, easy-to-use guide discusses all the tools required for implementing a performance management system.
By Earl M.A. Carter, Frank A. McMahon
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Improving Managerial Talent: Practical Psychology for Human Resourcing and Learning & Development ProfessionalsAimed at senior HRM and L&D specialists responsible for improving their organization's managerial talent, this book provides the reader with self-insights and an appreciation of validated, powerful, often in-house, methods for selecting and developing better managers.
By Hugh McCredie
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Improving Outcomes with Clinical Decision Support: An Implementer's Guide, Second EditionIncluding detailed case studies and improved worksheets, this authoritative guide to CDS implementation has been substantially enhanced with expanded and updated guidance on using CDS interventions to improve care delivery and outcomes.
By Jerome A. Osheroff, et al.
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Improving Sales and Marketing Collaboration: A Step-by-Step GuideFocused on being as managerially relevant as possible, this book discusses the often problematic relationship between marketing and sales in B2C and B2B firms in terms of the inherent (and the ones that crop up from time to time) problems, causes and solutions.
By Avinash Malshe, Wim Biemans
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Interact and Engage!: 50+ Activities for Virtual Training, Meetings, and WebinarsContaining more than 50 activities ranging from openers and icebreakers to closers, this book will show you how to break the mold of static lecture-style online training that drives participants to multitask - or worse - tune out.
By Kassy Laborie, Tom Stone
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Interpersonal Communication: Questioning, Listening, and Feedback SkillsIt's almost impossible to be productive today without being an effective communicator. With the essential skills covered in this report, you'll learn how to accurately and effectively receive messages sent to you and send accurate messages to others.
By Phillip L. Hunsaker, Tony Alessandra
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Intrinsic Motivation at Work: Building Energy & CommitmentA comprehensive look at changing workplace environments and how to implement motivation.
By Kenneth W. Thomas, Ph.D
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Intrinsic Motivation at Work: What Really Drives Employee EngagementBy identifying four intrinsic rewards and explaining exactly how and why they build engagement, this book provides a diagnostic framework to evaluate which need boosting and how to boost them.
By Kenneth W. Thomas
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It Takes More Than Casual Fridays and Free CoffeeIncluding stories and practical advice as well as related exercises and assessments to help you identify company and personal strengths and weaknesses, this book is your front-row seat to building and perpetuating a successful culture in any business.
By Diane K. Adams
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It's Okay to Be the Boss: The Step-By-Step Guide to Becoming the Manager Your Employees NeedBringing to light the biggest problem in corporate America-an undermanagement epidemic affecting managers at all levels of the organization and in all industries, this book invites bosses everywhere to accept the sacred responsibility of managing people.
By Bruce Tulgan
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It's Your Ship: Management Techniques from the Best Damn Ship in the NavyIt's Your Ship shows you how to extract the best from your team, ensure your business is operating at peak efficiency, and ultimately set a course for success. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By D. Michael Abrashoff
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Jerks at Work: How to Deal With People Problems and Problem People, Revised EditionDrawing on e-mails and letters across America, popular syndicated columnist Ken Lloyd presents examples of some of the most outrageous, classic, and current workplace (mis)behaviors, along with strategies to effectively deal with them.
By Ken Lloyd
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Judgment Calls: Twelve Stories of Big Decisions and the Teams That Got Them RightFor senior managers, educators, consultants, or simply people interested in learning how organizations made positive changes at critical times, Judgment Calls will show you how collective judgment works in different organizations. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Brook Manville, Thomas H. Davenport
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Judgment in Managerial Decision Making, Seventh EditionExamining judgment in a variety of managerial contexts, this book includes numerous hands-on decision exercises and examples from the author's extensive executive training experience that will help you improve the quality of your managerial judgment.
By Don A. Moore, Max H. Bazerman
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Judgment: How Winning Leaders Make Great CallsIn Judgment, two renowned pioneers in the field of leadership studies present the elements of sound decision-making. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Noel Tichy, Warren Bennis
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Just Promoted!: A 12-Month Road Map for Success in Your New Leadership Role, Second EditionFilled with essential knowledge, practical advice and proven strategies, handy checklists, tips from the pros, and revealing real-world stories, this book will help you navigate the challenges of the first critical year in your new leadership role.
By Edward Betof, Nila Betof
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Keep'em Motivated: A Practical Guide to Motivating EmployeesIntended to take some of the guesswork out of motivating others, this simple, yet comprehensive book offers fourteen practical solutions to assist in sparking or maintaining the self-motivation of staff members.
By Larry R. Williams
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Kill Bad Meetings: Cut 50% of Your Meetings to Transform Your Culture, Improve Collaboration, and Accelerate DecisionsAre you ready to save a day a week? Make meetings matter again. This book could be the best investment in your productivity and engagement that you ever make.
By Alan Hall, Kevan Hall
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Kindly Review: The Secret to Giving and Receiving Feedback to Make Your Ideas GreatIn Kindly Review: The Secret to Giving and Receiving Feedback to Make Your Ideas Great is a transformative new approach to taking the sting out of the review process and unlocking the innovative and creative power of your teams.
By Dawn Crawford
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Kirkpatrick's Four Levels of Training EvaluationKirkpatrick's Four Levels of Training Evaluation provides with a tried, tested, and modernized framework to help you train people and improve the way you work. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By James D. Kirkpatrick, Wendy Kayser Kirkpatrick
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Knowledge, Learning and Innovation: Research Insights on Cross-Sector CollaborationsProviding fresh insights into ways to stimulate cross-sector collaboration, this book presents diverse methods and approaches to unify the dimensions of knowledge, learning and innovation and discusses how collaboration can be created, sustained, and expanded.
By Carla Susana Marques (eds), Vanessa Ratten, Vitor Braga
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Lead Boldly: How to Coach Others to GreatnessIn Lead Boldly, peak performance coach Hugh Blane shares his three guiding principles for converting human potential into inspired performance. He does this by providing a detailed road map for transforming a leader's results at work and home in unprecedented ways.
By Hugh Blane
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Lead Like it Matters...Because it Does: Practical Leadership Tools to Inspire and Engage Your People and Create Great ResultsPacked with handy charts, helpful questionnaires, step-by-step checklists, and other must-haves, this definitive workbook explains how to make those connections with others count--to leverage your skills and play on your strengths--to lead like it matters…because it does.
By Roxi Bahar Hewertson
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Lead Then Learn: Powering Project Teams with CollaborationWhether you are a Project Manager just starting your career or a seasoned expert trying to introduce more collaboration into your organization, this book is for you!
By Annie MacLeod
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Lead with a Story: A Guide to Crafting Business Narratives That Captivate, Convince, and InspireIn Lead with a Story, author Paul Smith discusses the role of storytelling in the modern business world and the ways stories can be used to deal with common leadership challenges. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Paul Smith
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Leaders Don't Command: Inspire Growth, Ingenuity, and CollaborationLeader's Don't Command offers you the tools to uncover your best leadership strengths that will have others looking to you as a respected leader. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Jorge Cuervo
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Leaders Eat Last: Why Some Teams Pull Together and Others Don'tLeaders Eat Last provides a compass for aspiring leaders wishing to really make a difference and point their teams in one direction-toward success. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Simon Sinek
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Leadership and Motivation: The Fifty-Fifty Rule and the Eight Key Principles of Motivating OthersAuthored by leadership guru John Adair, this introspective book reassesses the theories of Herzberg and Maslow - still the major contributors to our understanding of motivation - in the context of Action-Centred Leadership.
By John Adair
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Leadership Coaching: Working with Leaders to Develop Elite Performance, 2nd EditionLeadership Coaching discusses the models, tools, and frameworks that can be used to develop effective coaching strategies. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Jonathan Passmore (ed)
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Leadership Coaching: Working with Leaders to Develop Elite Performance, 2nd EditionDrawing on top coaching practitioners' thinking and writing, this book presents an in-depth understanding of the tools, techniques, and frameworks that can be used to enhance the coach/coachee relationship.
By Jonathan Passmore (ed)
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Leadership Networking: Connect, Collaborate, CreateUse this concise Ideas Into Action Guidebook to learn how you can enhance your networks and become effective at leadership networking in order to develop and nurture related skills, and create benefits for yourself, your group, and your organization.
By Curt Grayson, David Baldwin
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Leadership Skills for Managers, Fourth EditionManaging in today's complex workplace demands a new type of leadership. This course delivers the knowledge, skills and guidance managers need to become twenty-first century leaders.
By Charles M. Cadwell
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Leadership Team Alignment: From Conflict to CollaborationWith this book, they offer solutions to manage conflict and create environments that effectively address misalignments in organizations.
By Frédéric Godart, Jacques Neatby
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Leadership Team Coaching in Practice: Case Studies on Creating Highly Effective Teams 3rd EditionIn this book you'll learn about the Leadership Team Coaching in Practice provides an overview of the tools and techniques for coaching leadership teams and shows how these approaches have been applied around the world in a variety of team types and industries.
By Peter Hawkins
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Leadership Team Coaching in Practice: Case Studies on Developing High-Performing Teams, 2nd EditionIncluding new case studies and hot topics in systemic leadership coaching theory, this enlightening book shows how to develop leadership teams that can implement strategic change effectively and sustain competitive advantage.
By Peter Hawkins
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Leadership Team Coaching in Practice: Developing High Performing TeamsOffering case studies to illustrate best practice with a detailed analysis of methods and process tailored to the needs of each organization, this book examines how leadership team coaching has been applied in the field internationally across a variety of team types and sectors.
By Peter Hawkins (ed)
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Leadership Team Coaching: Developing Collective Transformational Leadership, Fourth EditionDevelop collaborative and effective leadership teams to create high-performing organizations with this popular guide by leading coaching expert, Peter Hawkins.
By Peter Hawkins
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Leadership Team Coaching: Developing Collective Transformational Leadership, Second EditionOffering a practical road map with numerous examples, this detailed guide brings together the latest research to illustrate how to develop people from disparate groups into a high performing team to transform a business.
By Peter Hawkins
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Leadership Trust: Build It, Keep ItAimed at managers and executives who are concerned with their own and others' development, this book helps leaders create a common language and understanding around issues of trust that show up in the organizational environment.
By Christopher Evans
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Leading Meetings and Teams: Manga for SuccessLeading Meetings and Teams is a practical and hands-on book that will earn a place on the bookshelves of managers, executives, and early-career professionals everywhere.
By Masumi Tani
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Leading Outside the Lines: How to Mobilize the (in)Formal Organization, Energize Your Team and Get Better ResultsLeading Outside the Lines uses relatable real-life examples to give readers ideas on how to change their organization at both the informal and formal level. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Jon R. Katzenbach, Zia Khan
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Leading the Unleadable: How to Manage Mavericks, Cynics, Divas, and Other Difficult PeopleWritten by an insider in the tech industry, where personality issues routinely wreck projects, this book offers simple steps, examples, and scripts that explain how to right even the most hopeless situations.
By Alan Willett
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Leading with Emotional Intelligence: Hands-On Strategies for Building Confident and Collaborative Star PerformersPresenting more than 100 cutting-edge tools and strategies used by the most effective leaders in the world, this hands-on guide offers worksheets, exercises, self-quizzes, and much more to show how great leaders put Emotional Intelligence (EI) to work.
By Reldan S. Nadler
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Leading with Noble Purpose: How to Create a Tribe of True BelieversLeading with Noble Purpose shows how to realign your business along terms of customer impact and employee engagement. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Lisa Earle McLeod
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Learning and Innovation in Hybrid Organizations: Strategic and Organizational InsightsReflecting the emergence of new organizational forms and hybrid organizations, this edited collection explores the processes of exchange, collaboration and technological management that have changed organizational structures.
By Federica Brunetta, Maria Carmela Annosi, Mats Magnusson (eds), Paolo Boccardelli
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Learning from Leonardo: Decoding the Notebooks of a GeniusLearning from Leonardo explores the brilliant mind of Leonardo da Vinci through the manuscripts he left behind. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Fritjof Capra
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Learning Points: 89 Activities and Actions for Coaching Call Center CSRsPacked with tips, exercises, multiple choice quizzes and other tools, this guide will help you become more effective at giving the support and guidance your employees need from you to perform their jobs in the best way possible.
By Peter R. Garber
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Learning to Coach: For Personal and Professional DevelopmentSimple, straightforward and illustrated with case histories, this book highlights the essential coaching skills and qualities, how they are employed in given situations and what makes the coaching process successful, valuable and worthwhile.
By Nicola Stevens
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Let's Stop Meeting Like This: Tools to Save Time and Get More DoneLet's Stop Meeting Like This explains, via case studies and business lessons, how to make meetings more productive using a system known as the Meeting Canoe. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Dick Axelrod, Emily Axelrod
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Let's Stop Meeting Like This: Tools to Save Time and Get More DoneUsing the same principles that make video games so engaging and that transformed the numbing assembly line into the dynamic shop floor, this book outlines a flexible and adaptable system used to run truly productive meetings in all kinds of organizations-meetings where people create concrete plans, accomplish tasks, build connections, and move projects forward.
By Dick Axelrod, Emily Axelrod
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Make It Matter: How Managers Can Motivate by Creating MeaningMake it Matter is an inspirational yet practical guide to creating meaning in work, enabling you to motivate and engage employees by giving them a sense of purpose. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Scott Mautz
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Make It Matter: How Managers Can Motivate by Creating MeaningProviding the antidote to crisis levels of employee disengagement, this upbeat, orginal book shows how meaning-rich workplaces connect, inspire, and catapult employees into new realms of productivity and well-being.
By Scott Mautz
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Make Their Day! Employee Recognition That Works, Second EditionIn Make Their Day!, Cindy Ventrice reveals a fresh approach to employee recognition in today's virtual and multicultural work environments, using examples from successful ground-breaking businesses. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Cindy Ventrice
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Making Coaching Work: Creating a Coaching CultureThis title will be removed from the Skillsoft library on May 24, 2024.
By David Clutterbuck, David Megginson
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Management Basics in Easy Steps, Second EditionA compelling must-read for anyone with a management role, this lively, easy-to-read book is full of tips and simple, practical things that have been put into practice in the real world and shown to work where it matters - in the workplace.
By Tony Rossiter
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Management in 4 Weeks: The Complete Guide to SuccessThis book is a comprehensive guide to managing people, giving you everything you need to know in one place.
By Di Kamp, Martin Manser, Nigel Cumberland, Norma Barry
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Management Skills for New ManagersPut your best foot forward as you make your next career step with this introduction to making the jump to management smoothly and effectively. It will help you define roles, communicate with staff and management, manage staff performance and more.
By Carol W. Ellis
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Manager Skills TrainingWritten to provide basic manager skills to both current and new managers, this book shows how to build training programs that allow managers to become effective when dealing with the people and activities they manage each day.
By Christee Gabour Atwood
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Manager's Guide to Employee EngagementSuccessful managers understand that their job is to help employees do their best work, not simply give orders. This strategic guide shows leaders at all levels how to build relationships that support collaboration and drive meaningful performance improvement.
By Scott Carbonara
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Manager's Guide To Motivating Employees, Second EditionShowing managers how to create a motivational environment, this book offers strategies to get workers themselves to share the responsibility for building a dynamic workplace in which everyone consistently and enthusiastically contributes to the success of the organization.
By Anne Bruce
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Manager's Pocketbook, 5th EditionAimed at team leaders, supervisors and people managers of all levels, this enlightening book is extensively illustrated and concisely presented teaching the five essential management skills that will help managers excel and deal with the many challenges they face.
By John Townsend
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Manager's Toolkit: The 13 Skills Managers Need to SucceedThis thorough guidebook provides a fundamental introduction for managers and veteran executives who wish to expand the expertise and potential that will help them succeed in a demanding business world.
By Harvard Business School Publishing
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Managerial Decision Making: A Holistic ApproachThis book develops a general theory of managerial decision making on the basis of a few elementary postulates.
By Jeananne “Nan” Nicholls, Jeffrey Yi-Lin Forrest, Kurt Schimmel, Sifeng Liu
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Managerial ForensicsFollowing the notion that the past offers insights into the future, this ultimate reference guide on managerial forensics examines the maladies in contemporary business and offers strategies for corporate resurrection.
By Diana Heeb Bivona, J. Mark Munoz
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Managers as Mentors: Building Partnerships for Learning, Third Edition, Revised and ExpandedGuiding leaders in helping associates grow and adapt in today's tumultuous organizations. this hands-on resource takes the mystery out of effective mentoring, teaching leaders to be the kind of confident coaches integral to learning organizations.
By Chip R. Bell, Marshall Goldsmith
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Managers as Mentors: Building Partnerships for Learning, Third Edition, Revised and ExpandedIn Managers as Mentors, authors Chip Bell and Marshall Goldsmith provide readers with tips on becoming influential mentors within their workplace. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Chip R. Bell, Marshall Goldsmith
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Managers, Can You Hear Me Now?: Hard-Hitting Lessons on How to Get Real ResultsAuthored by the former Verizon Wireless president and CEO, Denny Strigl, this insider guide shares all the skills and techniques he used to build Verizon into one of the greatest growth companies in any industry.
By Denny F. Strigl, Frank Swiatek
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ManagingManaging makes a compelling case that true management skills cannot be taught in a classroom, and can only be learned through experience. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Henry Mintzberg
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Managing as a Ground Floor LeaderHow can managers ensure that employees are empowered to do their best work? This issue of TD at Work provides real-life examples which exhibit how certain values influence culture change that can lead to business results, and presents nine characteristics of a ground floor leader.
By Dan Schwartz
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Managing Coaching at Work: Developing, Evaluating and Sustaining Coaching in OrganizationsOffering a practical path to determining whether and how to implement workplace coaching, this powerful book makes a compelling business case for equipping all managers, especially line managers, with coaching skills, building in-house practices and developing executive coach pools.
By Clive Johnson, Jackie Keddy
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Managing for Happiness: Games, Tools, and Practices to Motivate Any TeamIn Managing for Happiness, author Jurgen Appelo shows you how to have happy and fulfilled employees who share your passion for success. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Jurgen Appelo
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Managing Humans: Biting and Humorous Tales of a Software Engineering ManagerWhether you're an aspiring manager, a current manager, or just wondering what the heck a manager does all day, there is a story in this book that will speak to you.
By Michael Lopp
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Managing Multiple Priorities: An Interview with Jeff DavidsonIt is almost a given that you're managing a lot of things at the same time; many managers in our society today are. This short interview with Jeff Davidson offers advice on how each of us can become more proficient at managing multiple priorities.
By Jeff Davidson
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Managing People for the First Time: Simple Ideas for Leading Your TeamManaging People for the First Time is full of tips, scenarios, and support to get you tuned in to taking on the responsibility of management in a new environment. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Ronald Bracey
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Managing People: Secrets to Leading for New ManagersIn today's competitive business climate, managers who help employees achieve their individual potential stand to get and stay ahead. This comprehensive resource will teach you how to delegate, motivate, empower, inspire, and more.
By Barry Silverstein
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Managing the Generation Mix: From Collision to CollaborationThis book will help you place your multi-generational team on the course to collaboration.
By Bruce Tulgan, Carolyn A. Martin
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Managing the Unmanageable: How to Motivate Even the Most Unruly EmployeeManaging the Unmanageable provides you with a framework, tips, and techniques to deal with employees who struggle to perform. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Anne Loehr, Jezra Kaye
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Mapping Motivation for CoachingIncluding practical exercises to help the reader understand and develop their ideas, this book is a practical guide to understanding how personal and career development is underpinned by motivation, and how coaching and mapping are perfectly complementary activities.
By Bevis Moynan, James Sale
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Markets for Managers: A Managerial Economics PrimerTaking a global perspective while covering the full range of micro- and macroeconomic principles that managers around the world need to know, this book puts business management practice within its economic context to produce a practical tool for managers.
By Anthony J. Evans
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Master Mentors Volume 2: 30 Transformative Insights from Our Greatest MindsFor busy professionals and lifelong learners seeking practical strategies for reaching new heights, Master Mentors distills 30 essential learnings from Marie Forleo, Jon Gordon, Michael Hyatt, Sean Covey, and other top business minds and thought leaders of our time.
By Scott Jeffrey Miller
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Master Mentors: 30 Transformative Insights from Our Greatest MindsFor busy professionals and lifelong learners seeking practical strategies for reaching new heights, Master Mentors distills 40 essential learnings from Seth Godin, Susan Cain, Doris Kearns Goodwin, General Stanley McChrystal, and other top business minds and thought leaders of our time.
By Scott Jeffrey Miller
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Masterful Coaching, Third EditionFilled with guiding ideas, tools, and methods, this standard resource presents the author's profound insights into the journey of becoming a truly masterful coach.
By Robert Hargrove
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Mastering Catastrophic Risk: How Companies Are Coping with DisruptionThis book provides real-world practical insights into how large companies are responding to this new reality and develops a framework for smarter thinking about events that can damage a business.
By Howard Kunreuther, Michael Useem
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Mastering Coaching: Practical Insights for Developing High PerformanceMastering Coaching is a clear and compelling examination of contemporary trends in coaching. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Max Landsberg
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Mastering Work Intake: From Chaos to Predictable DeliveryMastering Work Intake: From Chaos to Predictable Delivery focuses on the full pipeline that work follows as it enters and exits your organization, including the different types of work that enter at different levels and times.
By Jeremy Willets, Thomas M. Cagley, Jr.
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Mastery in Coaching: A Complete Psychological Toolkit for Advanced CoachingPresenting the latest thinking on the most effective techniques coaches can use with their clients, this book takes a rigorous, evidence-based approach to provide a practical understanding of each method, as well as the underpinning psychological coaching concepts.
By Jonathan Passmore (ed)
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Maximizing the Value of 360-degree Feedback: A Process for Successful Individual and Organizational DevelopmentThis standard-setting manual gives HR managers, consultants, and systems designers the big-picture guidance they need to determine if 360-degree feedback is right for their organizations, and if so, how to implement it.
By Manuel London (eds), Walter W. Tornow
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Measuring Happiness: The Economics of Well-BeingCan money buy happiness? Is income a reliable measure for life satisfaction? In this book, three economists explore the happiness-prosperity connection, investigating how economists measure life satisfaction and well-being.
By Andreas Knabe, Joachim Weimann, Ronnie Schöb
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Measuring the Success of CoachingProviding a conceptual framework, workable suggestions for developing, implementing and maintaining programs for measuring ROI in coaching, and practical, germane case studies, this book offers a clear, complete, and detailed explanation and treatment of the principles behind ROI in coaching.
By Jack J. Phillips, Lisa Ann Edwards, Patricia Pulliam Phillips
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Meeting Excellence: 33 Tools to Lead Meetings That Get ResultsBased on years of research, this important book offers the information and tools needed to prepare, facilitate, and follow up on all your meetings.
By Glenn Parker, Robert Hoffman
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Meetings That Get ResultsMeetings that get Results shows how to turn the average company meeting into an efficient, well-planned discussion that gets quick, powerful results. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Brian Tracy
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Meetings That Get ResultsBased on years of experience consulting for companies around the world, author Brian Tracy reveals simple, proven ideas you can use to make meetings shorter, more effective, and more satisfying to everyone in attendance.
By Brian Tracy
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Meetings That Get Results: A Facilitator's Guide to Building Better MeetingsThis book helps how to resolve or manage common problems, inspire creativity, and transfer ownership to their meeting participants while managing interpersonal conflicts and other disruptions that arise.
By Terrence Metz
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MentoringCombining outstanding content with humor, flair, and inspiration, Work Life Balance Expert Jeff Davidson offers 120 tips on being or working with a mentor.
By Jeff Davidson
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Mentoring 101: What Every Leader Needs to KnowIn this essential and easy-to-read reference book, international leadership expert John C. Maxwell gives readers the bottom line on mentoring--what it is, why they should do it, and how they can do it most effectively.
By John C. Maxwell
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Mentoring for Success: Supporting Growth and DevelopmentMentoring for Success: Supporting Growth and Development draws on a sample of 295 organizations to investigate key questions around formal mentoring programs, provide benchmarking data, and highlight best practices.
By ATD Research
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Mentoring in Action: A Practical Guide, 2nd EditionProviding a thorough overview of mentoring, this updated and restructured book examines a variety of mentoring schemes through a multitude of new, insightful case studies.
By David Megginson, et al.
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Mentoring Pocketbook, 3rd EditionAfter explaining how mentoring differs from coaching, training and appraisals, this book shows how to design and manage a mentoring scheme, how to prepare to be a mentor, and how to conduct mentoring sessions.
By Bob Garvey, Geof Alred
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Mentoring Programs That WorkMentoring Programs That Work presents a framework you can use to ensure an impactful mentoring program that is beneficial, adds value, and achieves long-term results. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Jennifer Labin
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Mentoring Programs That WorkProviding the practical tools and best practices you need to create a well-implemented mentoring program, this step-by-step book integrates diagrams, images, case studies, examples, and key insights and exercises into a practical and culturally malleable process.
By Jenn Labin
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Midnight Lunch: The 4 Phases of Team Collaboration Success from Thomas Edison's LabAuthored by the great grandniece of Thomas Edison, this practical book provides an intriguing look at how to use Edison's collaboration methods to strengthen live and virtual teams and achieve high impact results.
By Sarah Miller Caldicott
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Mind Tools for Managers: 100 Ways to Be a Better BossThe manager's must-read guide to excelling in all aspects of the job, this practical and essential guide helps new and experienced leaders develop the skills they need to be more effective in everything they do.
By James Manktelow, Julian Birkinshaw
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Mindful Coaching: How Mindfulness Can Transform Coaching PracticeWith case studies, resources and tools, this practical book explains the benefits of mindfulness and illustrates how it can be applied with clients and how it can be useful in various situations.
By Liz Hall
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Mindful Leadership Coaching: Journeys into the InteriorProviding insights to help coaches and executives to use frameworks for transforming attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors, this in-depth guide advises how the best leadership coaches help their executive clients create significant personal and professional change.
By Manfred F. R. Kets de Vries
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Modern MentoringExplaining what it takes to grow a modern mentoring culture and which tools to use as you facilitate organization-wide mentoring, this book offers a blueprint for success with a model that benefits more than the select few and steers clear of forcing connections between people.
By Randy Emelo
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Motivate to Win: How to Motivate Yourself and Others, 3rd EditionMotivation is essential for business survival as well as for a rewarding personal life. This book covers every aspect of this life-skill including: how to become highly motivated and achieve goals; motivating the team; and avoiding the de-motivators.
By Richard Denny
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Motivating Employees For DummiesA handy guide to happy, satisfied, productive employees.
By Max Messmer
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Motivating Employees in the Digital AgeExplaining how to use social media, gamification, and mLearning to motivate workers, this issue of TD at Work describes the capabilities of technology in today's workplace; explains how to apply technology to classic motivation theories; outlines how you can use technology to motivate; and provides tips on using digital tools to motivate employees and measure success.
By Sharlyn Lauby
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Motivation and Performance: A Guide to Motivating a Diverse WorkforceMotivation and Performance provides guidelines to understand what drives an individual's behavior and how to develop a diverse and engaged workforce. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Adrian Furnham, Ian MacRae
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Motivation Pocketbook, 2nd EditionExamining the many different theories of motivation, drawing out the key points and offering management tips for each one, this concise and plain-English book includes a useful problem-identifier that points the way to the best theories to use in particular situations.
By Max A. Eggert
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Motivational Management: Inspiring Your People for Maximum PerformanceFilled with real-life examples from the author's considerable experience as a trainer and manager, this book helps you whip your team into shape--no whip required.
By Alexander Hiam
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Myths of Management: What People Get Wrong about Being the BossOffering you authentic insights into the reality of work, this book is drawn from extensive research and real-world business examples giving you the essential knowledge you need to become a better manager.
By Cary Cooper, Stefan Stern
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Neuroscience for Coaches: How Coaches and Managers Can Use The Latest Insights To Benefit Clients and Teams, Third EditionMany coaching tools and techniques are now well established, but how do they actually work? The third edition of Neuroscience for Coaches answers this question to help coaches and managers deliver greater value to clients and employees.
By Amy Brann
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Neuroscience for Coaches: How to Use the Latest Insights for the Benefit of Your Clients, Second EditionA vital resource for keeping up to date with recent scientific developments, tools and techniques in coaching, this book covers the latest neuroscientific research and, crucially, the ways in which coaches can use this information effectively and practically in their everyday work.
By Amy Brann
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Never Bet the Farm: How Entrepreneurs Take Risks, Make Decisions - and How You Can, TooNever Bet the Farm will help you get your business up and running and give you sound advice to assist you in achieving success. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Anthony L. Iaquinto, Stephen Spinelli Jr.
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New Manager Development: Building a Foundation for the FutureNew Manager Development: Building a Foundation for the Future draws on a sample of 287 organizations to investigate key questions around new manager development, provide benchmarking data, and highlight best practices.
By ATD Research
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New Managers: Mastering the Big 3 Principles of Effective Management-Leadership, Communication, and Team BuildingAn accessible and practical playbook by leading HR expert Paul Falcone to cultivate your most vital resource: having the right people working hard for you.
By Paul Falcone
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New Supervisor TrainingUse this practical, hands-on guide to help new and experienced supervisors make the transition from individual contributor to leader with ready-made training tools and materials.
By Chris W. Chen, John E. Jones
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New Supervisor TrainingNew Supervisor Training is a complete training kit that will help you teach your employees the skills to supervise others. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Elaine Biech
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New Supervisor Training, Second EditionAuthored by training legend Elaine Biech, this book presents presents innovative two-day, one-day, and half-day training workshops that help supervisors embrace their new roles and develop supervisory skills in five key areas.
By Elaine Biech
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Nine Minutes on Monday: The Quick and Easy Way to Go from Manager to LeaderShowing you the nine keys to raising productivity, boosting morale, and increasing employee engagement, this essential guide combines proven engagement drivers and principles of human motivation into a simple system of execution that will show immediate results.
By James Robbins
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NLP Coaching: An Evidence-Based Approach for Coaches, Leaders and IndividualsProviding numerous case studies and real-life examples, this essential guide explains how and where NLP coaching is used, examines its links to established principles and practices, and questions aspects of NLP where the empirical evidence is missing.
By Susie Linder-Pelz
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No More Pointless Meetings: Breakthrough Sessions That Will Revolutionize the Way You WorkIn No More Pointless Meetings, Martin Murphy dispenses with traditional meetings, instead using new collaboration models to more quickly and effectively utilize the creativity and knowledge of an organization's people. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Martin Murphy
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No Sweat: How the Simple Science of Motivation Can Bring You a Lifetime of FitnessIn No Sweat, author Michelle Segar teaches you the motivational mindset that leads to sustained fitness. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Michelle Segar
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Not Just Another MeetingShining a new light on situations you've taken for granted for years, this book will help you to break out of your old meeting habits and bring interest, creativity, and effective outcomes to the meetings you lead.
By Eli Sharp, Rodney Napier
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Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and HappinessFor anyone required to make decisions for their organizations, their families, or themselves, Nudge offers an eye-opening look at the way people make choices, how they make them, and how small actions can influence the decisions they make. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Cass R. Sunstein, Richard H. Thaler
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On Becoming a Leadership Coach: A Holistic Approach to Coaching Excellence, Second EditionDrawing upon the curriculum of one of the premier coach training programs in the world, this practical guide focuses on coaching leaders in the context of the organizational systems within which they lead.
By Beth Bloomfield, Christine Wahl, Clarice Scriber
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On Fire at Work: How Great Companies Ignite Passion in Their People Without Burning Them OutOn Fire at Work outlines how any company, big or small, can build a workplace that is "on fire" with employees who are enthusiastic, happy, and focused. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Eric Chester
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Ongoing Feedback: How to Get It, How to Use ItHow to improve your managerial skills through feedback from colleagues, friends, and family.
By Karen Kirkland, Sam Manoogian
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Opening Doors to Teamwork and CollaborationDescribing four simple behavioral keys that fundamentally change how people work together, this book shows how organizations can generate the sense of excitement, energy, and shared mission that occurs when people truly join together.
By Frederick A. Miller, Judith H. Katz
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Organizational Behaviour: People, Process, Work and Human Resource ManagementOrganizational Behaviour introduces a methodology for viewing employees as individuals and handling their diverse identities, perception, and motivation using a social as well as a business approach. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Raisa Arvinen-Muondo, Stephen Perkins
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Organizational Decision MakingBringing together researchers who focus on cognitive aspects of decision processes, along with those who study organizational aspects such as conflict, incentives and others, this book will further our understanding of organizational decision making.
By Zur Shapira (ed)
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Organize Online, Meeting, and Travel ActivitiesCombining outstanding content with humor, flair, and inspiration, Work Life Balance Expert Jeff Davidson offers advice on how to better organize your meetings, travel activities, your online clutter, and more.
By Jeff Davidson
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Painless Performance Conversations: A Practical Approach to Critical Day-to-Day Workplace DiscussionsPresenting four key mindsets and an easy to use conversation model, this book offers actionable and practical communication and management strategies for any manager looking to effectively influence employee performance.
By Marnie E. Green
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Pay Attention!: How to Listen, Respond, and Profit from Customer FeedbackEnabling you to successfully navigate today's customer feedback landscape and turn that feedback into your competitive edge, this up-to-the-minute guide gives you a practical, step-by-step toolbox you can use to achieve top-notch customer interactions.
By Ann Thomas, Jill Applegate
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Peer Supervision in Coaching & Mentoring: A Versatile Guide for Reflective PracticeDrawing upon essential theory and methodology, this practical guide explores challenges and ethical dilemmas faced within peer supervision, and provides concrete guidance, useful techniques and helpful templates.
By Carol Whitaker, Michelle Lucas, Tammy Turner
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People with Purpose: How Great Leaders Use Purpose to Build Thriving OrganizationsFeaturing case studies based on exclusive interviews with leaders from a range of organizations, this book presents compelling research into how having a clearly defined purpose as part of business strategy is a vital element in business success, longevity, and inspired teams.
By Kevin Murray
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Perfect Phrases for Coaching Employee Performance: Hundreds of Ready-to-Use Phrases for Building Employee Engagement and Creating Star PerformersFilled with hundreds of words and phrases you can use in virtually every coaching situation, this go-to guide gives you the language to empower, engage, and develop your employees.
By Laura Poole
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Perfect Phrases for Managers and Supervisors: Hundreds of Ready-to-Use Phrases for Overcoming Any Management Situation, Second EditionPerfect Phrases for Managers and Supervisors, Second Edition proposes pertinent phrases to get managers thinking collaboratively and supportively. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Meryl Runion
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Perfect Phrases for Motivating and Rewarding Employees: Hundreds of Ready-to-Use Phrases to Encourage and Recognize ExcellenceWhether you're giving a pep talk or inspiring a direct report in a one-on-one meeting, this comprehensive, quick-reference guide for managers offers hundreds of ready-to-use phrases that will motivate you and your team to be the best you can be.
By Harriet Diamond, Linda Eve Diamond
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Perfect Phrases for Setting Performance Goals: Hundreds of Ready-to-Use Goals for Any Performance Plan or ReviewThis timesaving job aid provides managers with precisely-worded phrases and goals that describe expected future performance from their direct reports.
By Douglas Max, Robert Bacal
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Performance Coaching: A Complete Guide to Best Practice ApproachesUsing practical tools and international case studies throughout the text to demonstrate the various cultural challenges, this guide focuses on building a coaching culture in organizations and on the challenges that leaders face in understanding and developing a coaching approach.
By Carol Wilson
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Performance Coaching: A Complete Guide to Best Practice Coaching and Training, Third EditionFull of tips, tools and checklists, this practical guide is a complete resource for improving organizational and employee performance through coaching.
By Carol Wilson
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Performance Conversations: How to Use Questions to Coach Employees, Improve Productivity, and Boost Confidence (Without Appraisals!)Presenting a new approach to performance management, this book provides dozens of ready-to-use templates and accompanying tools help make good management practice more accessible, practical, and effective.
By Christopher D. Lee
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Permission to Speak Freely: How the Best Leaders Cultivate a Culture of CandorIllustrating the benefits of candor, this practical book explains the inhibitors that cause it to feel unsafe, and provides tools for leaders to encourage their people and embed trust and openness into the foundation of their organizational culture.
By Doug Crandall, Matt Kincaid
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Personality Style at Work: The Secret to Working with (Almost) AnyoneWhether you're a high-level manager, a salesperson, a customer service professional, or an entry-level employee, this book will explain why others behave as they do in specific situations and how to use that knowledge to turn every interpersonal encounter into a win-win scenario.
By Kate Ward
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Peter Drucker's Five Most Important Questions: Enduring Wisdom for Today's LeadersProviding insightful guidance and stirring inspiration for today's leaders and entrepreneurs, this book will show readers how to focus on why they are doing what they're doing, how to do it better, and how to develop a realistic, motivational plan for achieving their goals.
By Peter F. Drucker, et al.
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Plan and Conduct Effective Meetings: 24 Steps to Generate Meaningful ResultsGoing straight to the heart of meeting planning and facilitating, explaining why meetings go wrong and what to do about it, this step-by-step guide will show you how to conduct meetings that stay sharply focused; turn participants into valuable contributors; and make decisions that result in actionable tasks.
By Barbara J. Streibel
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Planning and Leading Productive MeetingsFocuses on the organizational and interpersonal skills you will need to lead highly productive meetings.
By Jeffrey H. Davis
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Polar Bear Pirates and Their Quest to Engage the Sleepwalkers: Motivate Everyday People to Deliver Extraordinary ResultsShowing you how to get the very best out of everyday people, this book will help you motivate them to want to get out of bed, come into work and deliver extraordinary results, no matter what their role.
By Adrian Webster
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Positive Provocation: 25 Questions to Elevate Your Coaching PracticeIn Positive Provocation, coaching thought leader Robert Biswas-Diener asks a series of twenty-five provocative and sometimes playful questions that take a fresh look at some of coaching's most cherished beliefs.
By Robert Biswas-Diener
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Power Mentoring: How Successful Mentors and Protégés Get the Most Out of Their RelationshipsCompelling and useful, this book provides strategies for establishing "Power Mentoring" relationships through interviews with 50 top leaders and their rising-star protégées in technology, politics, and the media.
By Ellen A. Ensher, Susan Elaine Murphy
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Power Through Partnership: How Women Lead Better TogetherFeaturing lessons learned from women partners in all kinds of industries, this book shows that when women work together they discover a level of support, balance, confidence, accountability, and a freedom to be themselves that is rarely found in other work relationships.
By Betsy Polk, Maggie Ellis Chotas
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Powerful Leadership Through Coaching: Principles, Practices, and Tools for Leaders and Managers at Every LevelIncluding coaching principles, practices, and tactics with real-world examples, this practical, hands-on guide offers strategies and tools to help employees become more motivated for effective change, action, and accountability.
By Michael K. Simpson
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Powerhouse Business Mentorship: A How-To Handbook for Mentors and Mentees NEW!Powerhouse Business Mentorship is the Definitive Business/Entrepreneurial Mentoring Handbook
By Jay J. Silverberg
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Practical Facilitation: A Toolkit of TechniquesFor new and experienced facilitators, managers, consultants, staff developers, innovators, social and community workers and students, this essential toolkit provides coverage of practical, innovative facilitation techniques from around the world.
By Christine Hogan
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Practical Guide To Mentoring: How to Help Others Achieve Their GoalsIncluding a number of case studies, or scenarios, relating to a variety of possible mentoring situations, this concise book will clarify the whole mentoring process from start to finish, and support you every step of the way.
By David Kay, Roger Hinds
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Practices of Dynamic Collaboration: A Dialogical Approach to Strengthening Collaborative Intelligence in TeamsThis book provides senior managers, project- and program managers, team coaches and team leaders with thought and management tools for potentiating self-organization and creating collaborative intelligence in teams.
By Jan De Visch, Otto Laske
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Practicing Positive Psychology Coaching: Assessment, Activities and Strategies for SuccessFilled with reflective exercises for use in your own personal and professional development, this unique guide presents a wide range of practical interventions and tools you can put to use right away in your coaching practice.
By Robert Biswas-Diener
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Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our DecisionsPredictably Irrational turns the assumption that we‘re rational decision-makers on its head to explore the mysterious ways we are subconsciously influenced by hidden forces every time we make a decision. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Dan Ariely
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Problem Solved: A Powerful System for Making Complex Decisions with Confidence and ConvictionLife is filled with uncertainty, but that uncertainty needn't hobble us. This thoughtful book offers a proactive way to work with, and work through, ambiguity to make thoughtful, confident decisions despite our uncertain and volatile world.
By Cheryl Strauss Einhorn
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Problem Solved: A Powerful System for Making Complex Decisions with Confidence and ConvictionProblem Solved provides you with a consistent decision-making process based on research principles. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Cheryl Strauss Einhorn
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Problem Solving And Decision Making, Study Guide, Student EditionThis title will be removed from the Skillsoft library on May 24, 2024.
By GTS Learning
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Problem Solving in Organizations: A Methodological Handbook for Business StudentsProviding an in-depth discussion of the various steps in the process of business problem solving, this indispensable guide demonstrates how to adapt to specific situations and be flexible in scheduling the work at various steps in the process.
By Hans Berends, Hans van der Bij, Joan Ernst van Aken
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Process Design: Making it Work: A Practical Guide to What to Do When and How for Facilitators, Consultants, Managers and CoachesFilled with illustrative cases, examples, and templates, this step-by-step resource helps process consultants, managers, facilitators, coaches, organizational development consultants set up and deliver dynamic, creative process designs.
By Dorothy Strachan, Paul Tomlinson
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Promote High Performance With Team MentoringThis book refers Outlines steps for designing and developing a team mentorship program.
By Chris Danek
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Psychometrics in Coaching: Using Psychological and Psychometric Tools for Development, Second EditionOffering clear explanations of the key models and tools used in coaching today, this book provides provides a deep understanding of the models, the theory and research behind tests, their reliability and validity and how to implement them as part of a wider coaching and development program.
By Jonathan Passmore
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Quick Meeting Openers for Busy Managers: More Than 50 Icebreakers, Energizers, and Other Creative Activities That Get ResultsDesigned to take the anxiety out of meetings and encourage creative, practical discussion, this helpful book gives readers the tools, activities, and advice to create the kind of open, energetic, and relaxed atmosphere that leads to effective meetings.
By Brian Cole Miller
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Radical Candor: Be a Kick-Ass Boss Without Losing Your HumanityRadical Candor provides you with simple tips and tricks to boost openness in your work environment. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Kim Scott
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Radical Collaboration: Five Essential Skills to Overcome Defensiveness and Build Successful RelationshipsIncluding pages of thoughtful exercises and probing tools to increase your collaborative skills, this how-to manual will show you how to gently look inside yourself and learn how you can be more skillful at building relationships, both professional and personal.
By James W. Tamm, Ronald J. Luyet
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Radical Outcomes: How to Create Extraordinary Teams that Get Tangible ResultsProviding a blueprint for a new way of working, this timely and practical book offers a guide for developing the type of extraordinary teams that can skillfully navigate our complex, connected business environment, and produce radical results.
By Juliana Stancampiano
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Reading the Room: Group Dynamics for Coaches and LeadersWritten to help readers understand the reasons why leaders and teams get along-or don't-when they communicate in a group, this book will serve as the leader's go-to resource for insight and perspective in leading their team.
By David Kantor
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Recognizing & Engaging Employees for DummiesWith clear explanations and a fun, friendly style, this quick and easy guide walks you step-by-step through incentives that work, the behaviors to reward, and the mechanisms that must be in place for a recognition and engagement program to be effective in the long term.
By Bob Nelson
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Reimagining Industry Growth: Strategic Partnership Strategies in an Era of UncertaintyThe book provides an overview of strategic partnerships, how they work, and how they can be applied to industry relationships with trade associations.
By Daniel A. Varroney
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Reward ManagementHaving effective rewards structures in place is key to attracting and retaining top talent, as well as staying competitive. Informed by UK practice and law, this book is a practical guide to understanding and implementing the right reward strategies in an organization.
By Michael Rose
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Robert's Rules QuickStart Guide: The Simplified Beginner's Guide to Robert's Rules of OrderDelivering time-tested wisdom in a way that's simplified and accessible, this book presents organizers, hosts, presidents, chairmen (and women) and any other would-be parliamentarians with a modernized, easy-to-understand, and essential breakdown of Robert's Rules of Order.
By ClydeBank Media
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Rookie Smarts: Why Learning Beats Knowing in the New Game of WorkWritten by a leadership expert, this essential guide explains how to reclaim and cultivate the curious, flexible, youthful mindset called rookie smarts and reveals the different modes of the rookie mindset that lead to success.
By Liz Wiseman
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Safe Enough to Soar: Accelerating Trust, Inclusion, and Collaboration in the WorkplaceIllustrated by scenarios taken from real-life situations, this book offers concrete actions team members, leaders, and organizations can take to build and maintain a productive, collaborative, and innovative environment in which people do their best work individually and collectively.
By Frederick A. Miller, Judith H. Katz
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Sales Coaching: Making the Great Leap from Sales Manager to Sales CoachWritten exclusively for sales managers, this brief, concise primer will help turn managerial skills into those of a top-notch teacher, motivator, and mentor - someone who gets results through inspiration and example.
By Linda Richardson
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Sales Leadership: The Essential Leadership Framework to Coach Sales Champions, Inspire Excellence, and Exceed Your Business GoalsIn its powerful simplicity, this book delivers a chronological path to develop a thriving coaching culture and into a coaching leader who creates top performing teams and sales champions.
By Keith Rosen
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Sell More With Sales Coaching: Practical Solutions for Your Everyday Sales ChallengesProviding results-proven sales coaching material that includes assessment, exercises and sales coaching questions, this book will show you how to more effectively coach your salespeople to help your team overcome their habitual sales mistakes so they will sell more, better, sooner, and more often.
By Peri Shawn
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Serve Up, Coach Down: Mastering the Middle and Both Sides of LeadershipIn Serve Up, Coach Down, Jamail explores how to take the stigma out of middle management by devising innovative strategies to leverage the advantages middle managers have. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Nathan Jamail
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Setting Priorities: Personal Values, Organizational ResultsSuccessful leaders get results, and to get results you need to set priorities. This book will help you do a better job of setting priorities and recognize the personal values that motivate your decision making.
By Talula Cartwright
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Seven Keys to Successful MentoringAimed at managers and executives who are concerned with their own and others' development, this guidebook gives specific advice on mentoring and how to handle it effectively to have a profound impact.
By E. Wayne Hart
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Simply ManagingBased on his observations of twenty-nine different managers working in diverse settings, the author provides an authoritative and revealing book written about what managers do, how they do it, and how they can have the greatest impact.
By Henry Mintzberg
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Six Thinking HatsSix Thinking Hats gives you directions and details on how to use the "six hats" to achieve efficiency during work time, and in decision-making processes. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Edward de Bono
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Skills for New Managers, Second EditionFrom hiring productive employees to developing mentoring, leadership, and coaching skills, this fast-paced, easy-to-understand guide is your blueprint for managing your staff to success.
By Morey Stettner
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Smart Work: Centralise, Organise, RealiseAre you drowning in constant emails, phone calls, paperwork, interruptions and meeting actions? This book is the busy professional's guide to getting organized in the digital workplace, and shows you how to leverage the technology you have to centralize your work into one integrated tool.
By Dermot Crowley
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Speaking as a Leader: How to Lead Every Time You Speak - From Board Rooms to Meeting Rooms, From Town Halls to Phone CallsSpeaking as a Leader is an essential handbook of effective communication skills for leaders in all fields, and for anyone who aspires to be a great leader. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Judith Humphrey
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Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take ActionIf you find that your career doesn't provide fulfillment, it may be because your work culture has lost sight of WHY it exists. In Start with WHY, Simon Sinek opens readers' eyes to the intrinsic motivations of companies. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Simon Sinek
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Starting Strong: A Mentoring Fable: Strategies for Success in the First 90 DaysWeaving a compelling tale that exemplifies the concepts, highlights the dynamics, and outlines the issues involved in mentoring relationships, this book uses the form of a fable to tell the story of a budding mentoring relationship filled with possibilities, problems, and triumphs.
By Lois J. Zachary, Lory A. Fischler
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Stellar Management TeamsThere is no single trick or technique that makes a Stellar Team, rather there is a need for an ability to see specific characteristics and the logic of your thinking system. This book will guide you through the journey that leads to a high-performing team.
By Tapani Rinne, Vesa Ristikangas
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Stop Guessing: The 9 Behaviors of Great Problem SolversIllustrated with examples ranging from everyday issues to serious problems, this book will help you understand the behaviors that great problem-solvers use to tackle the hardest problems with skill and panache, regardless of the industry or nature of the problem.
By Nat Greene
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Strategic Alliances & Marketing Partnerships: Gaining Competitive Advantage through Collaboration and PartneringWith case studies from prominent, global organizations, this innovative book will help you to understand the problems that affect partnering and how to make effective management decisions to improve both the relationship and productivity.
By Andrew Humphries, Richard Gibbs
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Strategic Connections: The New Face of Networking in a Collaborative WorldUnveiling eight indispensable competencies for the new Network-Oriented Workforce, this essential book gives you the tools you need to meet goals, execute strategies, foster innovation, and make yourself invaluable to your organization.
By André Alphonso, Anne Baber, Jim Wylde, Lynne Waymon
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Streetlights and Shadows: Searching for the Keys to Adaptive Decision MakingStreetlights and Shadows explores the limitations of applying analytics and computation to solving complex problems, the power of human intuition, and methods to successfully harness our tacit knowledge alongside our explicit procedures. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Gary Klein
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Strength-Based Leadership Coaching in Organizations: An Evidence-based Guide to Positive Leadership DevelopmentOffering a review of strength-based approaches to positive leadership development, this book evaluates the evidence for their effectiveness, critically assesses their apparent distinctiveness, and considers how strengths can be reliably assessed and developed in their organizational context.
By Doug MacKie
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Strength-Based Leadership Coaching in Organizations: An Evidence-based Guide to Positive Leadership DevelopmentStrength-Based Leadership Coaching in Organizations offers you an improved, multifaceted, and positive approach to the traditional leadership training methods that have left you wanting. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Doug MacKie
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Success Intelligence: Essential Lessons and Practices from the World's Leading Coaching Program on Authentic SuccessSuccess Intelligence thoughtfully examines the quest to enjoy authentic, soulful success while living in a manic, busy, hyped-up world. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Robert Holden
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Successful Decision-Making: A Systematic Approach to Complex Problems, Third EditionOffering a decision making procedure for solving complex problems, this step-by-step book focuses on problem analysis, developing solution options and establishing the decision making matrix.
By Richard Kühn, Rudolf Grünig
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Successful People Skills in a Week: Motivate Yourself and Others in Seven Simple StepsThis book is a simple and straightforward guide to raising motivation and performance levels, giving you everything you need to know in just seven short chapters.
By Christine Harvey
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Suddenly Hybrid: Managing the Modern MeetingIn "Suddenly Hybrid: Managing the Modern Meeting", Emmy award-winning communications expert Karin Reed and veteran industrial and organizational psychologist Dr. Joseph A. Allen deliver a practical and actionable framework for attending, hosting, and managing hybrid meetings.
By Joseph A. Allen, Karin M. Reed
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Suddenly in Charge: Managing up, Managing Down, Succeeding All AroundReplete with hard-hitting, pragmatic, and energizing advice, this unique book offers the tips and tools you need to manage down and establish credibility with your team, as well as success strategies for managing your reputation and your career.
By Roberta Chinsky Matuson
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Suddenly Virtual: Making Remote Meetings WorkThis book will highlight new research insights springing from the rapid and exponential adoption of virtual meeting technology. Discuss the problems, challenges, and pitfalls of meeting in this new modality and provide practical, actionable best practices, backed by meeting research that lead to more productive and effective virtual meetings.
By Joseph A. Allen, Karin M. Reed
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Supervision in Coaching: Supervision, Ethics and Continuous Professional DevelopmentWritten by a team of well-known, international coaching practitioners, this practical guide examines how coaches can use a range of professional development tools to improve and develop their coaching.
By Jonathan Passmore (ed)
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Systemic Coaching and Constellations: The Principles, Practices and Application for Individuals, Teams and Groups, Third EditionFeaturing a variety of case studies from around the world to illustrate different facilitation styles and approaches, this book demonstrates how to understand and manage intricate relationship systems as part of a powerful coaching agenda.
By John Whittington
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Tackle Talent Needs With Internal CoachingThe COVID-19 pandemic, along with the heightened awareness of social justice issues, opened an opportunity for employers and coaches to serve employees' needs in a new way.
By Lisa Ann Edwards
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Taking Minutes of MeetingsIn Taking Minutes of Meetings, author Joanna Gutmann provides templates and instruction on how to produce lucid, professional-looking minutes that will be beneficial to everyone involved. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Joanna Gutmann
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Taking Minutes of MeetingsAuthored by a training consultant and secretarial education expert, this practical resource is a no-nonsense, self-teaching tool instructing the potential committee secretary in the theory and application of proper forms for taking minutes (records) of a meeting.
By Joanna Gutmann
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Taking Minutes of Meetings (Creating Success)Guiding you through the entire process behind minute taking, this book provides hands-on advice about the sections of a meeting as well as tips on how to create an agenda, personal preparation, best practice advice on taking notes and how to improve your accuracy.
By Joanna Gutmann
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Taking Minutes of Meetings: How to Take Efficient Notes that Make Sense and Support Meetings That MatterThe often misunderstood role of minute-taker is one of the most important and powerful in a meeting, and this book will help you excel at this crucial skill, allowing you to build your career and credibility.
By Joanna Gutmann
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Talk Lean: Shorter Meetings. Quicker Results. Better Relations.Offering numerous techniques for improving communication and making an impact professionally, this book uses fresh approach to teach businesspeople how to say difficult things and ask difficult questions in a way that is positive, effective, and comfortable for everyone involved.
By Alan H. Palmer
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Tao of Coaching: Boost Your Effectiveness At Work By Inspiring And Developing Those Around YouEasy to read and apply, this book provides the techniques and tools of coaching that are vital for anyone who wants to develop a team of people who will perform effectively and who will relish working with you.
By Max Landsberg
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Techniques for Coaching and Mentoring, Second EditionWith a strong academic underpinning, this comprehensive book explores a wide range of approaches, and provides techniques for use with clients and to support professional development of the coach or mentor.
By David Clutterbuck, David Megginson, Natalie Lancer
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Tell Me How I'm Doing: A Fable About the Importance of Giving FeedbackThis essential guide illustrates the importance of feedback using a simple fable in which a beleaguered manager recognizes the enormous impact feedback can have in his organization by experiencing firsthand what it feels like to go without it.
By Richard L. Williams
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Telling Ain't Training: Updated, Expanded, EnhancedTelling Ain't Training explores why your training methods may not bring about consistent success and suggests numerous avenues to engage in more successful procedures. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Erica J. Keeps, Harold D. Stolovitch
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Thanks for the Feedback: The Science and Art of Receiving Feedback WellThanks for the Feedback offers practical advice on how to apply many different forms of feedback to your work and continuously improve your performance in a spirit of partnership and mutual learning. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Douglas Stone, Sheila Heen
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The 17 Indisputable Laws of Teamwork: Embrace Them and Empower Your TeamContaining laws that you can count on when it comes to getting people to work together, this book is illustrated with great stories of team leaders-and team breakers-from history, business, the church, and sports.
By John C. Maxwell
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The 25 Minute Meeting: Half the Time, Double the ImpactWith illustrative case studies showing how real-world meetings have transformed from painful to purposeful with a few simple changes, this book gives you a fresh, more productive approach to working, cooperating, collaborating, and communicating the 21st century way.
By Donna McGeorge
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The 3 Keys to Empowerment: Release the Power Within People for Astonishing ResultsThis guidebook provides managers with a three-stage road map for the journey of empowering their people and their organizations.
By Alan Randolph, John P. Carlos, Ken Blanchard
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The 3 Keys to Empowerment: Release the Power Within People for Astonishing ResultsThe 3 Keys to Empowerment delves into specific ways of changing your typical hierarchical organization into a business where every employee feels motivated to help your business to succeed. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Alan Randolph, John C. Carlos, Ken Blanchard
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The 360 Degree Feedback PocketbookIn an easy, step-by-step format, this book shows how feedback can be used for personal development, self-awareness, identification of talent and how in flatter organizational structures, it will help management obtain a richer picture of team members.
By Phil Hailstone, Tony Peacock
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The 4-Dimensional Manager: DiSC Strategies for Managing Different People in the Best WaysThe 4-Dimensional Manager guides you through understanding the way different communication styles work best with different people. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Julie Straw
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The 80/20 Manager: The Secret to Working Less and Achieving MoreIf you're looking to become a more effective manager, The 80/20 Manager will show you how to achieve results without stress or long hours. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Richard Koch
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The 8th Habit: From Effectiveness to GreatnessThe 8th Habit reveals that to achieve greatness you must first discover your own true voice. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Stephen R. Covey
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The Accidental Manager: Get the Skills You Need to Excel in Your New CareerLearn how to develop staff members through training and delegation, listen actively to build trust and increase communication, give and receive useful feedback to keep projects on track, and create a motivational climate that makes you a popular boss.
By Gary S. Topchik
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The Amp It Up Fieldbook: A Guide for Leaders, Teams, and FacilitatorsHyper scale your organization with practical prompts and exercises
By Frank Slootman
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The Art and Power of Facilitation: Running Powerful MeetingsArming business analysts with principles, practices, and tools for effective facilitation and meeting management, this book provides powerful tools to negotiate meetings, informal work sessions, and formal workshops.
By Alice Zavala, Kathleen B. Hass
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The Art and Science of 360 Degree Feedback, Second EditionIncluding research and information that accurately reflects who is using 360-degree feedback and where and how it is being used, this guide provides case examples, tips, and pointers on preparing 360-degree feedback and information on how to implement it.
By Anntoinette D. Lucia, Richard Lepsinger
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The Art and Science of TrainingThe Art and Science of Training evaluates different theories, philosophies, and practical applications that contribute to successful instructional design. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Elaine Biech
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The Art of Coaching: A Handbook of Tips and ToolsWritten by two experienced, highly qualified international coaches and supervisors, this creative book offers ideas to use across the range of coaching contexts including leadership, decision making, change and supervision.
By Jenny Bird, Sarah Gornall
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The Art of Communicating at Work: Making Sure with FeedbackNever risk another misunderstanding! This easy-to-read, practical report will help you learn how to use verbal and non-verbal communication to take the ambiguity out of promises, agreements, schedules, policies and procedures.
By Tony Alessandra
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The Art of Engagement: Bridging the Gap between People and PossibilitiesTaking a refreshingly accessible approach, this important book presents executives, managers, and team leaders with a proven, effective way to communicate, empower, and motivate employees at every level of an organization.
By Jim Haudan
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The Art of Executive Coaching: Secrets to Unlock Leadership PerformanceThis book reveals the secrets, tips, and tricks to unlocking the transformative performance results leaders need.
By Nadine Greiner
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The Art of Performance FeedbackProviding strategies you'll use over and over again to give employees the feedback they need to grow professionally and personally, this easy-to-use guide offers nonverbal and verbal techniques, words and phrases, and even a practical framework for structuring the conversation.
By Stephen J. Sampson
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The Art of Productivity: Your Competitive EdgeThis book will help you have the opportunity to define your own success, create a life mission to achieve success, forge productivity on your own terms, and then begin to succeed by effectively utilizing motivation, communication, and implementations.
By Jim Stovall, Steve Forbes
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The ASTD Management Development HandbookA vital, cohesive compilation of the most current thinking on modern managerial practices available today, filled with concise, focused, pragmatic lessons and wisdom, this powerful and useful book provides the best and most insightful thinking on leadership from modern management professionals.
By Lisa Haneberg (ed)
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The Basics of Hoshin KanriUsing an easy-to-follow story format to simplify and explain Hoshin Kanri, this book provides a new understanding of Hoshin Kanri as a powerful deployment system for strategic planning, defining a direction and priorities, and aligning the organization around that direction.
By Randy K. Kesterson
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The Big Book of Icebreakers: Quick, Fun Activities for Energizing Meetings and WorkshopsLearn great ways to warm up large groups, encourage shy individuals to participate more fully, add color to boring staff meetings, and bring together people who are complete strangers with this enthusiastic book.
By Edie West
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The Big Book of Team Coaching Games: Quick, Effective Activities to Energize, Motivate, and Guide Your Team to SuccessPacked with dozens of physical and verbal activities, this playbook leads you step-by-step through the process of teaching team members how to identify their values, leverage their strengths, and reach their goals--and have fun while they're doing it!
By Joanne Schlosser, Mary Scannell, Mike Mulvihill
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The Biz: 50 Little Things That Make A Big Difference To Team Motivation and LeadershipPower-packed with the best tips and tools to be creative, measure what's important, and celebrate sucesses, this clever guide will show you how you can do something new each day to achieve success.
By David Freemantle
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The Blackwell Handbook of Mentoring: A Multiple Perspectives ApproachCutting across the fields of psychology, management, education, counseling, social work, and sociology, this guide reveals an innovative, multi-disciplinary approach to the practice and theory of mentoring.
By Lillian T. Eby (eds), Tammy D. Allen
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The Bullseye Principle: Mastering Intention-Based Communication to Collaborate, Execute, and SucceedFeaturing critical insight and actionable tips based on award-winning methods, this invaluable resource is the definitive how-to guide for communicating, collaborating, and executing as a leader in the corporate arena.
By David Lewis, G. Riley Mills
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The Business Student's Guide to Sustainable Management: Principles and Practice, Second EditionWith a full introduction to sustainable management, this textbook provides a true treasure chest of materials to support staff wanting to integrate sustainability into their teaching and provides support to effectively embed sustainability in the curriculum.
By Petra Molthan-Hill
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The CCL Handbook of Coaching: A Guide for the Leader CoachBased on CCL's philosophy of leadership development, this book uses a coaching framework to give a compass to leaders who are called to coach as a means of building sustainability and boosting performance in their organizations.
By Peter Scisco (eds), Sharon Ting
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The Center for Creative Leadership Handbook of Coaching in OrganizationsFrom coaching superiors to coaching business teams, this thoughtful reference book outlines the Center for Creative Leadership (CCL) approach to professional coaching to help readers better manage leadership development and talent management program outcomes.
By Douglas D. Riddle, Elizabeth C. D. Gullette (eds), Emily R. Hoole
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The Coach's Casebook: Skills, Tools and Techniques for Effective CoachingMaster the theory and skills needed to support employees and coach them to reach their full potential.
By Christine Guirguis, Joan Swart
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The Coaching Approach: A Key Tool for Successful ManagersBased on a blended research approach, this report aims to examine the use of coaching as a managerial tool, and provides insights on how learning leaders can more effectively develop and sustain successful coaching programs.
By ATD Research
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The Coaching Connection: A Manager's Guide to Developing Individual Potential in the Context of the OrganizationIncluding a 360-degree assessment covering the ten most essential skill sets of well-balanced and effective leaders, this book shows managers how they can use contextual coaching to simultaneously promote both individual and organizational growth.
By John Hoover, Paul Gorrell
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The Coaching for Leadership Case Study WorkbookFilled with illustrative case studies, examples, exercises, and activities, this practical workbook addresses matrix effects, personal dynamics and additional questions for coaching practice and questions for leaders.
By Laurence S. Lyons
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The Coaching Habit: Say Less, Ask More & Change the Way You Lead ForeverIn The Coaching Habit, author Michael Bungay Stanier shares his interactive training tools and approaches for cranking up your team's performance from acceptable to exceptional. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Michael Bungay Stanier
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The Coaching Handbook: An Action Kit for Trainers & ManagersPacked with practical information, case studies and exercises, this all-inclusive book offers a straightforward and practical process for coaching others.
By Jackie Clifford, Sara Thorpe
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The Coaching Manager: Developing Top Talent in Business, 3rd EditionThe Coaching Manager seeks to guide, advise, and demonstrate how to promote a coaching culture in the workplace, with the aim of nurturing your employees to reach their full potential. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By James M. Hunt
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The Complete Guide to Customer SupportLearn how to turn technical assistance into a profitable relationship.
By Brendan Read, Joe Fleischer
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The Complete Guide to Mentoring: How To Design, Implement And Evaluate Effective Mentoring ProgrammesProviding a road map for implementing mentoring programs in an organization, this valuable resource provides a step-by-step guide for anyone who wants to create and run mentoring schemes with confidence and success.
By Hilarie Owen
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The Complete Management Skills Assessment Kit: 12 Reproducible Instruments for TrainersProviding trainers with user-friendly materials that can be used in a variety of settings, this book has a special emphasis on the different styles of adult learning and will aid in understanding how various individuals prefer to learn.
By Dave Francis, Mike Woodcock
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The Complete New Manager: Essential Tips and Techniques for ManagersFilled with tips, techniques, and proven advice from renowned experts, this one-stop guide contains everything you need to bolster your on-the-job skills and reach the highest levels of success.
By John H. Zenger (ed)
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The Concise Coaching Handbook: How to Coach Yourself and Others to Get Business ResultsThrough exercises, examples and case studies, this book teaches you how to use coaching tools and a coaching mindset to overcome inertia, to help yourself and other people get clear about their strengths/values, and to achieve personal or organizational goals.
By Elizabeth Dickinson
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The Decision Book: 50 Models for Strategic ThinkingThe Decision Book offers an easy-to-understand look at various models that not only simplify the decision-making process, but also help readers to better understand themselves and others. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Mikael Krogerus, Roman Tschäppeler
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The Decision Maker: Unlock the Potential of Everyone in Your Organization, One Decision at a TimeIn The Decision Maker, author Dennis Bakke guides you through the nuances of turning employees into responsible, key decision makers. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Dennis W. Bakke
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The Decisive Manager: Get Results, Build Morale, and Be the Boss Your People DeserveThe Decisive Manager is an ideal resource for anyone, at any level, who manages people and the problems that arise. It's an essential read for working out complicated issues involving your team members, addressing problem areas, and getting everyone on track to succeed.
By Barbara Mitchell, Cornelia Gamlem
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The Definitive Drucker: Challenges for Tomorrow's Executives: Final Advice From the Father of Modern ManagementThe Definitive Drucker presents the legendary management theorist's poignant final thoughts on the challenges that leaders face as they navigate today's business world. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Elizabeth Haas Edersheim
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The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes EverythingThe Element outlines a revolutionary approach for merging your talents and skills with your passions and values in order to achieve stellar results. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Ken Robinson, Lou Aronica
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The Empathy Advantage: Leading the Empowered WorkforceIn The Empathy Advantage: Leading the Empowered Workforce, Heather E. McGowan and Chris Shipley team up again to deliver a guidebook for leaders navigating the uncertainty of a post pandemic world in a sequel to their successful book The Adaptation Advantage.
By Chris Shipley, Heather E. McGowan
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The Empowered Manager: Positive Political Skills at WorkThis book shows managers how to beat inherent pressures that erode initiative, dull creativity, and dissuade healthy risk taking.
By Peter Block
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The Empowerment PocketbookHelpful to managers, trainers, consultants and all those people who are concerned with getting the best from their workforce, this book explains what empowerment is, what can be gained when it is in place, and how to put it there and keep it there.
By Keith Posner, Mike Applegarth
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The Engagement Equation: Leadership Strategies for an Inspired WorkforceDesigned to provide a framework that will help you move the needle on engagement, this book describes a unique engagement model that focuses on individuals' contribution to a company's success and personal satisfaction in their roles.
By Christopher Rice, Fraser Marlow, Mary Ann Masarech
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The Enthusiastic Employee: How Companies Profit by Giving Workers What They WantThe Enthusiastic Employee offers proven strategies to make-and keep-your employees energized and engaged. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By David Sirota, Douglas Klein
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The Essential Guide To Employee Engagement: Better Business Performance Through Staff SatisfactionDrawing on a wide range of case studies and examples, this book explores how managers can engage their staff to become more productive, engender greater levels of customer satisfaction, drive organizational success and retain talented employees.
By Sarah Cook
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The Executive Coaching Playbook: How to Launch, Run, and Grow Your Business NEW!The Executive Coaching Playbook offers to newly minted executive coaches and entrepreneurs who are launching executive coaching practices a framework for building a business with proven results.
By Becky Davis, Nadine Greiner
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The Extraordinary Coach: How the Best Leaders Help Others GrowBuilding a firm foundation in the correlation between coaching effectiveness and employee engagement, this immersion course in multi-layered training guide will ensure you make a powerful contribution to the long-term success of your organization.
By John H. Zenger, Kathleen Stinnett
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The Fast Facilitator: 76 Facilitator Activities and Interventions Covering Essential Skills, Group Processes, and Creative TechniquesFull of principles and practices that will enable you to get the best out of people, this handy guide provides managers, trainers and consultants a format based on the core skills facilitators need to develop as well as the issues they will face at work.
By Anthony Landale, Mica Douglas
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The Feedback PocketbookExplaining how to construct and deliver feedback, this guide encourages managers (and trainers) to use informal, formal and generative feedback as part of their day-to-day approach to motivating, managing and developing people.
By Mike Pezet
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The First 90 Days in Government: Critical Success Strategies for New Public Managers at All LevelsDrawing on their combined experience in leadership, governmental, and consultant roles, the authors share insights on how managers in the public sector can effectively navigate their roles. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Cate Reavis, Michael Watkins, Peter H. Daly
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The First Time Manager, 3rd EditionAn indispensable introduction to fundamental management topics and know-how, this practical manual offers expert advice on the immediate difficulties faced by a new manager.
By Michael Morris
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The First-Time Manager, Seventh EditionWith little experience or training, a coveted promotion can become a trial by fire. No one needs that. Turn to the book that thousands have relied on to hit the ground running.
By Gary S. Topchik, Jim McCormick, Loren B. Belker
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The First-Time Manager, Sixth EditionBy dispensing the bottom-line wisdom first-time managers need to succeed, this true management classic discusses increasing employee engagement, encouraging innovation and initiative, helping team members optimize their talents, improving outcomes, and distinguishing oneself as a leader.
By Gary S. Topchik, Jim McCormick, Loren B. Belker
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The First-Time Manager, Sixth EditionThe First-Time Manager, Sixth Edition examines the many facets of a managerial position with an aim of bringing you up to speed on the need-to-knows, as well as giving you practical advice on how to lead any group of people. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Gary S. Topchik, Jim McCormick, Loren B. Belker
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The First-Time Manager: Leading Through CrisisEvery manager must be prepared to face tough situations that management training never warned them about. This is the go-to resource for handling everything from a disruption in workflow to managing a hostile workplace, and even handling an international pandemic.
By Paul Falcone
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The First-Time Manager: SalesThe First Time Manager Series has sold over 500,000 copies and is a go-to guide for new and aspiring sales managers on what to expect and how to succeed.
By Mike Weinberg
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The First-Time Manager's Guide to Performance AppraisalsFilled with ready-to-use tools including sample dialogues, phrases, documents, and plenty of useful tips, this book gives you the skills, confidence, and guidance you need to get the most from the performance appraisal process and from your people.
By Diane Arthur
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The First-Time Manager's Guide to Team BuildingPacked with activities and assessments for both the manager and team members, this engaging book helps readers discover how their own leadership and management style influences the success of their teams.
By Gary S. Topchik
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The First-Time Manager's Guide to Team BuildingThe First-Time Manager's Guide to Team Building is the roadmap for creating a powerful, results-driven team, while outlining the necessary characteristics of an effective manager. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Gary S. Topchik
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The Four Greatest Coaching Conversations: Change Mindsets, Shift Attitudes, and Achieve Extraordinary ResultsIn The Four Greatest Coaching Conversations, Jerry Connor and Karim Hirani outline four conversations coaches should have with their coachees to help them change their attitude and, ultimately, achieve extraordinary results. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its content.
By Jerry Connor
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The Future of Decision Making: How Revolutionary Software Can Improve the Ability to DecideThe Future of Decision Making demonstrates the advantages of using smart software to store and distribute the experiences of others who have faced difficult business situations. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Dimitris Lyras, Elliot Soloway, Roger C. Schank
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The Game Changer: How to Use the Science of Motivation With the Power of Game Design to Shift Behaviour, Shape Culture and Make Clever HappenCombining the best elements of three distinct fields-motivational science, game design, and agile management-this book shows you how to positively influence behaviour through better work and project design.
By Jason Fox
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The Genius of Opposites: How Introverts and Extroverts Achieve Extraordinary Results TogetherThe Genius of Opposites explains how to thrive in an introvert/extrovert business partnership. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Jennifer B. Kahnweiler
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The Genius of Opposites: How Introverts and Extroverts Achieve Extraordinary Results TogetherThere are countless examples of introvert-extrovert partnerships who make brilliant products, create great works of art, and even change history together. This book offers a first-of-its-kind practical five-step process to help introverts and extroverts understand and appreciate each other's wiring, use conflicts to spur creativity, enrich their own skills by learning from the other, and see and act on things neither would have separately.
By Jennifer B. Kahnweiler
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The Good Ones: Ten Crucial Qualities of High-Character EmployeesWhether you're looking to bring new people into your organization or seeking a job or promotion yourself, this thorough book will help you appreciate in practical terms why character is the missing link to excellence.
By Bruce Weinstein
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The Good Ones: Ten Crucial Qualities of High-Character EmployeesIn The Good Ones by Bruce Weinstein, readers discover the perils of taking character for granted and gain the tools needed to uncover an individual's true nature before it's too late. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Bruce Weinstein
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The Hamster Revolution for Meetings: How to Meet Less and Get More DoneFull of practical advice that really works, this book offers tips that keep your meetings productive, on track, and engaging, and includes a landmark case study that shows how 2,000 Capital One associates cut down their meeting time while improving meeting results.
By Mike Song, Tim Burress, Vicki Halsey
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The Handbook of Behavioral OperationsWritten for academicians within the operations management community as well as for behavioral researchers, this book offers a comprehensive resource for the study of how individuals make decisions in an operational context with contributions from experts in the field.
By Elena Katok, Karen Donohue, Stephen Leider (eds)
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The Handbook of CoachingHow to effectively coach in a corporate environment.
By Frederic M. Hudson, Ph.D.
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The Handbook of High Performance Virtual Teams: A Toolkit for Collaborating Across BoundariesContaining an array of illustrative cases as well as practical tools for designing, implementing, and maintaining effective virtual work, this resource provides a framework for working collaboratively across boundaries of time, space, and culture.
By Jill Nemiro, Lori Bradley, Michael Beyerlein, Susan Beyerlein (eds)
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The Hands-Off Manager: How to Mentor People and Allow Them to Be SuccessfulThe Hands-Off Manager presents a fresh approach to management and shares effective work habits that enable managers to mentor rather than micromanage their workforce and retain their best people. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Duane Black, Steve Chandler
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The Healthy Workplace: How to Improve the Well-Being of Your Employees-and Boost Your Company's Bottom LineFilled with tips for immediate improvement and guidelines for building a long-term plan, this book is packed with real-life examples and the latest research proving that it pays to invest in your people's well-being and will help to boost the bottom line.
By Leigh Stringer
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The High-Speed Company: Creating Urgency and Growth in a Nanosecond CultureThe High-Speed Company offers insightful, real-world strategies to help the smart business avoid the pitfall of complacency and instead dominate the marketplace. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Jason Jennings, Laurence Haughton
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The Hive Mind at Work: Harnessing the Power of Group Intelligence to Create Meaningful and Lasting Change NEW!Learn a new model for understanding how organizations really operate and implement changes that get real results.
By Siobhan McHale
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The Hunt: Target, Track, and Attain Your GoalsOffering a way of thinking about work, life, and our connection with the world based upon the ancient discipline of hunting, this book will give you a clearer, sharper lens for making better decisions, forming stronger alliances, building better strategies, targeting bigger wins, and uncovering more opportunities.
By David Farbman
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The IAF Handbook of Group Facilitation: Best Practices from the Leading Organization in FacilitationIncluding successful strategies and methods, foundations, and resources for anyone who works with groups, this indispensable resource offers the need-to-know basics in the field brought together by fifty leading practitioners and scholars.
By Sandy Schuman
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The Improvisation Edge: Secrets to Building Trust and Radical Collaboration at WorkDrawing upon the knowledge of experts in trust building: theatrical improvisers, this book describes four secrets that help leaders, trainers, managers, and frontline employees adopt the improviser's mind-set so you can build an organizational culture that makes breakthrough business results possible.
By Karen Hough
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The Inspiration Code: How the Best Leaders Energize People Every DayThe Inspiration Code discusses the insights and actions that allow leaders to become the catalysts that motivate those around them. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Kristi Hedges
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The Inspiration Code: How the Best Leaders Energize People Every DayInformed by quantitative research and thousands of responses from leaders at all levels, this accessible book reveals that inspiring communication isn't about grand gestures. Instead, those who motivate us most do a few things routinely, consistently, and intentionally.
By Kristi Hedges
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The Inspiring Leader: Unlocking the Secrets of How Extraordinary Leaders MotivateDrawing from statistically significant data and objective empirical evidence, this book reveals the 16 key competencies that separate the top 10 percent of leaders from the rest and shows you how to put those strategies to work in your own business.
By John H. Zenger, Joseph R. Folkman, Scott K. Edinger
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The Intrapreneurship Formula: How To Drive Corporate Entrepreneurship Through Employee EmpowermentThe Intrapreneurship Formula is a practical guide for corporate leaders and managers who aspire to drive corporate innovation. The world we are in today is experiencing an acceleration of technological advancement.
By Sandra Lam
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The Leader's Guide to Lateral Thinking Skills: Powerful Problem-Solving Techniques to Ignite Your Team's PotentialUnleash the creative energies of your people immediately. With a lively and energetic approach, this book describes how the lateral leader develops the vision, culture and processes that transform a regular business into an innovation hothouse.
By Paul Sloane
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The Leadership Coaching Sourcebook: A Guide to the Executive Coaching LiteratureBy focusing on key research and practices in the executive coaching literature, this sourcebook provides not only a mechanism for consolidating our thinking about leadership coaching issues but also a succinct reference for building future research efforts.
By Gia A. DiRosa, Gina Hernez-Broome, Johnathan K. Nelson, Katherine Ely, Lisa A. Boyce
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The Lean Product Playbook: How to Innovate with Minimum Products and Rapid Customer FeedbackIn The Lean Product Playbook, author Dan Olsen examines core Lean concepts and shows you how to apply them to relevant, real-life scenarios. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Dan Olsen
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The Lean Product Playbook: How to Innovate with Minimum Viable Products and Rapid Customer FeedbackAuthored by an entrepreneur and Lean product expert whose experience spans product management, UX design, coding, analytics, and marketing across a variety of products, this book is a practical guide to building products that customers love.
By Dan Olsen
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The Little Black Book of Decision Making: Making Complex Decisions with Confidence in a Fast-Moving WorldBlending modern science, first-hand experience, and personal insight, this book shows you how to transform your decision-making abilities by correcting errors in thinking before they become errors in judgment.
By Michael Nicholas
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The Little Black Book of Decision Making: Making Complex Decisions with Confidence in a Fast-Moving WorldThe Little Black Book of Decision Making teaches you how to hone your decision-making skills in a way that multiplies their effectiveness. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Michael Nicholas
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The Management Training Tool Kit: 35 Exercises to Prepare Managers for the Challenges They Face Every DayIncluding all the tools you need to prepare your managers for anything, this innovative training guide supplies real-life case studies and analysis exercises for troubleshooting problems and overcoming obstacles with skill and confidence.
By Alan Clardy
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The Manager's Answer Book: Powerful Tools to Build Trust and Teams, Maximize Your Impact and Influence, and Respond to ChallengesThe Manager's Answer Book will help you answer the many questions you'll ask yourself-and have to answer-as a manager. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Barbara Mitchell, Cornelia Gamlem
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The Manager's Answer Book: Practical Answers to More Than 200 Questions Every Manager AsksContaining a spectrum of ideas, tools, and inspirations for being a manager, this book covers more than 200 common questions and issues for managers, ranging from the basics of how to be a manger to the subtle nuances of handling sticky situations.
By Susan Benjamin
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The Manager's Coaching Handbook: A Practical Guide to Improving Employee PerformanceIn The Manager's Coaching Handbook, leadership gurus Cottrell and Layton draw on their combined experience to teach managers how to bring out the best in their employees through effective performance management. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By David Cottrell, Mark Layton
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The McKinsey Edge: Success Principles from the World's Most Powerful Consulting FirmThe McKinsey Edge looks at the habits and traits of some great leaders and provides detailed explanations on how to practice these habits and the benefits of doing so. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Shu Hattori
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The Mentor Leader: Secrets to Building People and Teams That Win ConsistentlyThe Mentor Leader provides deep insight into leadership methods that will benefit not only aspiring leaders, but also those around them. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Tony Dungy
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The Mentor's Guide: Facilitating Effective Learning RelationshipsTeaching others to teach themselves.
By Lois J. Zachary
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The Mentor's Guide: Facilitating Effective Learning Relationships, 3rd EditionThe book offers practical tools for facilitating the mentoring experience from beginning to end.
By Lisa Z. Fain, Lois J. Zachary
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The Mentor's Guide: Facilitating Effective Learning Relationships, Second EditionThoughtful and rich with advice, this unique resource explores the critical process of mentoring and presents practical tools for facilitating the experience from beginning to end.
By Lois J. Zachary
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The Mindful Coach: Seven Roles for Facilitating Leader Development, New and Revised EditionDesigned as a down-to-earth resource, this book presents the practical Septet Model - an ideal tool for conducting coaching conversations with executives, leaders, and other professionals that can produce significant and sustainable results.
By Doug Silsbee
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The Motive: Why so Many Leaders Abdicate Their Most Important ResponsibilitiesIn The Motive, bestselling author Patrick Lencioni demonstrates how to be a responsible leader who's motivated and driven to succeed-for the right reasons. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretations of its contents.
By Patrick Lencioni
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The Myth of Multitasking: How 'Doing It All' Gets Nothing Done, Second EditionThrough anecdotal and real-world examples, this easy-to-read guide provides a solution for the chaos of distraction that multitasking creates-and a way to combat the temptation to constantly switch between tasks.
By Dave Crenshaw
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The New Boss: How to Survive the First 100 DaysOffering tried and tested models and self-assessment techniques, this handy guide provides you with the structure and guidance you need to minimize disruption and maximize performance during the crucial first 100 days.
By Peter Fischer
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The New Boss: How to Survive the First 100 DaysIn The New Boss, author Peter Fischer examines the challenges facing a new manager and suggests strategies to confront problems and avoid pitfalls. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Peter Fischer
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The New Manager's Tool Kit: 21 Things You Need to Know to Hit the Ground RunningThe New Manager's Toolkit is packed with unconventional advice for current and aspiring managers. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Don Grimme, Sheryl Grimme
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The New Manager's Tool Kit: 21 Things You Need to Know to Hit the Ground RunningRanging from basic skills to those more advanced, this book gives fledgling managers the help, and fast, practical advice they need to succeed with flying colors, right from the start.
By Don Grimme, Sheryl Grimme
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The New Social Learning: Connect, Collaborate, Work, 2nd EditionBy sharing the success stories of socially engaged companies and people, this book persuasively makes the case for using social media to encourage knowledge transfer and real-time learning in a connected and engaging way.
By Marcia Conner, Tony Bingham
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The Passion FactorA powerful tool for anybody adopting the path of innovation leadership in an ever-changing world, this book provides an effective methodology for nurturing innovative behavior in the workplace by managing its three essential dimensions: people, the business organization, and motivation.
By Jorge Urrea, Silvia Leal
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The Power of Collaboration: Powerful Insights from Silicon Valley to Successfully Grow Groups, Strengthen Alliances, and Boost Team PotentialShowing how any company, anywhere, can adapt to achieve its goals, this cutting-edge book combines the author's longstanding expertise with innovative thinking, research, and focused interviews to provide a practical framework for the next epoch of collaboration.
By Thea Singer Spitzer
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The Power of Feedback: 35 Principles for Turning Feedback from Others into Personal and Professional ChangePresenting practical tools you can use to maximize the value of the feedback you receive, this book shows you how to determine which feedback instruments will work for you and how to make the best use of their results.
By Joseph R. Folkman
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The Power of Peer CoachingContaining a job aid, trainer activities, and other resources to help you establish, implement, and evaluate peer coaching programs and processes, this Infoline focuses on the many benefits the process of peer coaching can have in the corporate world.
By Lynda McDermott
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The Power of Positive Coaching: The Mindset and Habits to Inspire Winning Results and RelationshipsShowing you how to elevate your coaching game and drive winning results and relationships, this book will help you to develop a more positive mindset and build proven, positive coaching habits by using simple tools and techniques.
By Julie Davis-Colan, Lee J. Colan
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The Power of Positive CriticismHow to give and take criticism to get better results.
By Hendrie Weisinger, Ph.D.
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The Power of Thanks: How Social Recognition Empowers Employees and Creates a Best Place to WorkThe Power of Thanks presents a three-part framework for social recognition that empowers employees and creates a best place to work. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Derek Irvine, Eric Mosely
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The Power of Thanks: How Social Recognition Empowers Employees and Creates a Best Place to WorkRevealing how leading companies like Intuit, JetBlue Airways, IHG, Symantec, ConAgra Foods, and The Hershey Company empower employees through social recognition, this book provides practical advice and proven examples for devising a powerful, growth-generating strategy that modernizes employee recognition for today's social, global, multi-generational and 24x7 wired workforce.
By Derek Irvine, Eric Mosley
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The Power of the 2 x 2 Matrix: Using 2 x 2 Thinking to Solve Business Problems and Make Better DecisionsBy studying the work of some of the most original, effective business minds, the authors of this book present a common architecture that illuminates exceptional analysis and creative performance, and demonstrate how to apply the 2 x 2 approach to a wide range of important business challenges.
By Alex Lowy, Phil Hood
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The Practical Guide to Facilitation: A Self-Study ResourceAn independent-study program for managers who want to acquire facilitation skills.
By John D. Farrell, Richard G. Weaver
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The Presentation Coach: Bare Knuckle Brilliance for Every PresenterIn The Presentation Coach, author Graham Davies aims to help individuals sharpen their presentation skills and overcome their fears associated with public speaking. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Graham Davies
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The Project Management Coaching Workbook: Six Steps to Unleashing Your PotentialOffering tools, questions, reviews, guiding practices, and exercises that will help you build your roadmap to project management and leadership success, this workbook presents a proven six-step method designed to help you understand and articulate what you want to achieve.
By Susanne Madsen
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The Project Manager's MBA: How to Translate Project Decisions into Business SuccessThe Project Manager's MBA provides readers with an actionable account of how they can grow and develop as a financially-sound, business-driven project manager. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Dennis J. Cohen, Robert J. Graham
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The Relationship Code: Engage and Empower People with Purpose and PassionBased on cognitive behavioral approaches, this book teaches us to empower ourselves in all types of relationships with the new techniques and insights of the four-step Harmonic System.
By Margaret McCraw
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The Rise of Social Media: Enhancing Collaboration and Productivity Across GenerationsExploring the business case for supporting and using social media technologies from a learner's point of view, this report will help executives make strategic decisions that can positively affect organizational goals and growth.
By Andrew Paradise, David Wentworth, Holly B. Tompson, Laleh Patel, Mark Vickers
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The Secret Language of Leadership: How Leaders Inspire Action Through NarrativeWith lucid explanations, vivid examples and practical tips, this book introduces the concept of narrative intelligence and shows why it is key to the central task of leadership, what its dimensions are, and how you can measure it.
By Stephen Denning
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The Servant Leader: Unleashing the Power of Your PeopleProviding thoughtful insights from a man who truly understood the importance of humility and humanity, this astute text forcefully outlines how leaders must take personal responsibility for all their decisions and actions.
By Robert P. Neuschel
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The Seven Steps of Effective Executive CoachingBased on the author's extensive research and consultancy practices, the book builds on the GROW coaching model and introduces a new model which involves five core capabilities and a seven-step process--The Achieve Coaching Model.
By Fiona Eldridge, Ian Hunter, Sabine Dembkowski
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The Skilled Facilitator: A Comprehensive Resource for Consultants, Facilitators, Managers, Trainers, and Coaches, New and Revised EditionWritten for anyone whose role is to guide groups toward realizing their creative and problem-solving potential, this conversational book contains proven techniques for starting meetings on the right foot and ending them positively and decisively.
By Roger Schwarz
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The Stress Effect: Why Smart Leaders Make Dumb Decisions--And What to Do About ItRevealing the powerful, undermining effects of stress on good decision making, this insightful book offers a solid prescription for building a "stress resilient system" and arms leaders with best practices for making wise decisions.
By Henry L. Thompson
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The Successful Leader's First 100 Days: Taking Charge and Delivering ResultsThe My Practical MBA Series provides the latest thinking as well as perennial techniques for a range of business challenges. This concise book discusses several issues you can consider and techniques you can apply that will help you succeed as a new leader.
By LID Editorial
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The Surprising Science of Meetings: How You Can Lead Your Team to Peak PerformanceFor those who lead and participate in meetings, this book provides immediate direction, guidance, and relief, offering a how-to resource to change your working life starting today.
By Steven G. Rogelberg
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The Tao of Coaching: Boost Your Effectiveness at Work by Inspiring and Developing Those Around YouThe Tao of Coaching is an engaging and practical guide to negotiating leadership in the changing corporate world. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Max Landsberg
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The Three Rules: How Exceptional Companies ThinkThe Three Rules demonstrates the analytic discovery of a meta-principle you can apply to improve your odds of making the right call. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Michael E. Raynor, Mumtaz Ahmed
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The Toyota Way: Fourteen Management Principles From the World's Greatest ManufacturerThe Toyota Way provides an exciting blueprint for any organization to achieve the highest levels of quality, based on the management principles applied successfully by Toyota. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Jeffrey K. Liker
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The Trainer's Handbook, Fourth EditionA ready-to-use toolkit for delivering high-value training in any scenario, this book offers a systematic approach that separately targets analysis, design, development, delivery, and evaluation, giving you a comprehensive reference for quick look-up and easy navigation.
By Karen Lawson
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The Truth About Collaborating: Why People Fail and How to SucceedThis book offers a refreshing approach that provides unique insights, examples, tools, techniques, checklists, and templates for successful collaborations.
By Gail Levitt
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The Truth About Employee Engagement: A Fable About Addressing the Three Root Causes of Job MiseryThrough the story of a CEO turned pizzeria manager, this book is filled with actionable advice which reveals the three elements that make work miserable, and gives managers and their employees the keys to make any job more engaging.
By Patrick Lencioni
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The Truth Doesn't Have to Hurt: How to Use Criticism to Strengthen Relationships, Improve Performance, and Promote ChangeDelivering proven techniques and tools for motivating people and triggering improvement - swiftly and painlessly, this book rejuvenates the powerful but neglected art form of using criticism when crafted carefully and communicated skillfully.
By Deb Bright
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The Truth Doesn't Have to Hurt: How to Use Criticism to Strengthen Relationships, Improve Performance, and Promote ChangeThe Truth Doesn't Have to Hurt expertly guides you in giving and receiving criticism, including how to benefit from it and how to give useful criticism in return. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Deb Bright
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The TWI Workbook: Essential Skills for SupervisorsReaders of this innovative workbook will be able to perform detailed step-by-step methods for the three most essential tasks people in management positions must perform.
By Patrick Graupp, Robert J. Wrona
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The Ultimate Guide to Great Mentorship: 13 Roles to Making a True ImpactEasy, practical guidance on how to make the most out of your mentorship journey.
By Scott Jeffrey Miller
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The Unstoppable Organization: Empower Your People, Engage Your Customers, and Grow Your RevenueBuilding and sustaining a highly competitive and profitable organization can be complex and confusing, but it needn't be. This book shares insights and examples of dozens of companies who are growing leaps and bounds over their competition.
By Shawn Casemore
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The Wild Idea Club: A Collaborative System to Solve Workplace Problems, Improve Efficiency, and Boost Your Bottom LineWritten in a loose and light style with real-life examples, this handy guide provides managers with an easy, step-by-step approach that harnesses the collective genius of their people to drive innovation, improve efficiency, and increase morale.
By Andrew Chapman, Lee Silber, Linda Krall
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The Wiley International Handbook of Mentoring: Paradigms, Practices, Programs, and PossibilitiesBased on sound research methodologies, this unique text presents original essays by experts from over ten different countries, demonstrating the ways mentoring can make a difference in the workplace and in the classroom.
By Beverly J. Irby (ed), et al.
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The Wisdom of Crowds: Why the Many Are Smarter Than the Few and How Collective Wisdom Shapes Business, Economies, Societies and NationsIf you're a key decision-maker in your organization, or are looking for the most effective ways to solve problems and predict outcomes, The Wisdom of Crowds offers compelling reasons why many heads really could be better than one. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By James Surowiecki
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The Work of Managers: Towards a Practice Theory of ManagementInstead of evaluating management techniques according to their internal logic and systematic qualities, this book advances the "practice perspective," using behavior and activities of successful, experienced, and skilled managers as the primary data for theorizing good management.
By Stefan Tengblad (ed)
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The Young Professional's Guide to Managing: Building, Guiding and Motivating Your Team to Achieve Awesome ResultsFeaturing a mix of relevant tips and stories, and a connection to rich online resources, this insightful book will help individuals transition from employee to manager, and deal with the new responsibilities that are part of the job, from squashing office politics to hiring, firing, and everything in between.
By Aaron McDaniel
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Think Smarter: Critical Thinking to Improve Problem-Solving and Decision-Making SkillsPresenting a pragmatic set of tools to apply critical thinking techniques to everyday business issues, this book is filled with real world examples that demonstrate how the tools work in action and includes dozens of practice exercises applicable across industries and functions.
By Michael Kallet
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Time and Schedule Management: Managing Multiple PrioritiesDo you find yourself continually racing against time? Do you feel that you have so much to do that it's difficult to get anything done? This book will show you how to set priorities and focus on what's truly important, plan and schedule your day, and organize your calendar and tasks.
By Laura Stack
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Time Management: Set Priorities To Get The Right Things DoneA comprehensive and essential resource for any manager on the run, this book will show you how to get the most out of each day by setting and prioritizing goals, objectives and tasks; creating an effective schedule; avoiding distractions and interruptions; and much more!
By John Hoover
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Together Is Better: A Little Book of InspirationIn Together is Better, best-selling author Simon Sinek guides business leaders as they work to create opportunities for growth and community-building within their organizations. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Simon Sinek
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Top Business Psychology Models: 50 Transforming Ideas for Leaders, Consultants and CoachesExplaining all the main theories and models used by psychologists, this quick and accessible guide gives coaches, trainers and project leaders all the essential information to immediately implement business and positive psychology techniques in an organization.
By Jonathan Passmore, Stefan Cantore
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Top Tips to Motivate your Virtual TeamRuss Howard, Senior Director of Product Management at Skillsoft offers tips to ensure your team remains motivated and productive in their new virtual environment.
By Russ Howard
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Toyota Kata Culture: Building Organizational Capability and Mindset Through Kata CoachingProviding proven methods that will assist you in achieving your goals and differentiating your organization, this book helps you visualize exactly how these work?so you can start putting them into action right away.
By Gerd Aulinger, Mike Rother
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Toyota Kata Culture: Building Organizational Capability and Mindset Through Kata CoachingIn Toyota Kata Culture, authors Rother and Aulinger explore ways to implement Kata culture across your organization. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Gerd Aulinger, Mike Rother
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Understanding Facilitation: Theory & PrinciplesOffering everything you need to be able to understand and develop your facilitation skills, the book provides a critical synthesis of established and current theory.
By Christine Hogan
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Unleashed: The Unapologetic Leader's Guide to Empowering Everyone Around YouIn Unleashed, authors Frei and Morriss persuade business executives that leadership is less about their individual talents and more about how they use those talents to inspire and empower others. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Anne Morriss, Frances Frei
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Unlocking High Performance: How to Use Performance Management to Engage and Empower Employees to Reach Their Full PotentialBased on the components of planning, cultivation and accountability, this book provides everything needed to design a performance management process which will improve employee experience, help them reach their full potential, and ultimately deliver exceptional business results.
By Jason Lauritsen
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Unplugged: How Organizations Lose Their Energy and How to Get It BackIn Unplugged, Steve Buchholz and Tom Roth examine why employees disengage-and how, by building an organizational culture of engagement, they can be plugged back in. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Steve Buchholz, Tom Roth
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Urgent!: Strategies to Control Urgency, Reduce Stress and Increase ProductivityThis book guides listeners learn to understand urgency, become proactive rather than reactive, and lead teams to their fullest potential.
By Dermot Crowley
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Using Accounting & Financial Information: Analyzing, Forecasting & Decision-MakingIn Using Accounting & Financial Information, author Mark S. Bettner approaches the concepts of accounting and financial reporting from the user's perspective. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Mark S. Bettner
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Using Management Audits and SWOT Analysis: Focusing on PrioritiesThe My Practical MBA Series provides the latest thinking as well as perennial techniques for a range of business challenges. This toolkit explains how management audits identify problems and potential difficulties at an early stage, and highlight strengths that can be developed further.
By LID Editorial
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Valuing People to Create Value: An Innovative Approach to Leveraging Motivation at WorkPresenting Motivation Spectrum, a dynamic tool designed by the authors to motivate people positively, this book provides readers with a comprehensive and practical understanding of motivation by focusing on innovative practices that are known for positive management relations with employees.
By Hervé Mathe, Marwyn O’Keeffe, Xavier Pavie
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Virtual Coach, Virtual MentorProviding a wide variety of perspectives on a rapidly growing phenomenon, this timely, significant book aims to encourage more practitioners and their clients and more organizations to experiment with using electronic media to enrich coaching and mentoring.
By David Clutterbuck, Zulfi Hussain (eds)
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Virtual Collaboration: Enabling Project Teams and CommunitiesAs organizations do more of their work and collaboration virtually, they need a new set of skills, techniques, and guidelines. This report guides the successful preparation, design, and implementation of virtual collaboration within an organization.
By American Productivity & Quality Center
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Visual Meetings: How Graphics, Sticky Notes & Idea Mapping Can Transform Group ProductivityProviding a slew of exciting tricks and tools, this dynamic and richly illustrated resource explains how anyone can implement powerful visual tools, and how these tools are being used in Silicon Valley and elsewhere to facilitate both face-to-face and virtual group work.
By David Sibbet
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Wait: The Art and Science of DelayIn Wait, author Frank Partnoy shows you how to cut through the external stimuli of deadline pressure and looming targets, and conquer your gut instinct to turn crunch-time judgments from failures into successes. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Frank Partnoy
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WE: Men, Women, and the Decisive Formula for Winning at WorkFor men, managers and leaders who have been looking to successfully work with women in our new economy, this book provides actions you can control and the game-changing playbook you need to excel with women in the highly competitive and increasingly diverse, inclusive real world.
By Rania H. Anderson
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WEconomy: You Can Find Meaning, Make a Living, and Change the WorldYour guidebook to the greatest evolution in business since the assembly line, this practical resource will help you discover the secret to achieving purpose with profit in your career and company, all while driving positive impact.
By Craig Kielburger, Holly Branson, Marc Kielburger
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What Every New Manager Needs to Know: Making a Successful Transition to ManagementThis guide tackles the tough and complex job of being a manager, including making critical people decisions, managing individual and team relationships, managing projects, and more.
By Gerard H. Gaynor
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What People Want: A Manager's Guide to Building Relationships That WorkAddressing the changing demographics and differences in the workplace to highlight what matters most in employee-manager relationships, this innovative book explores in depth the seven most important needs.
By Terry R. Bacon
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What's Your Future Worth? Using Present Value to Make Better DecisionsIn What's Your Future Worth?, author Peter Neuwirth explains the need to consider both the present and future consequences of your decisions. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
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Why Can't We Get Anything Done Around Here? The Smart Manager's Guide to Executing the Work That Delivers ResultsPresenting a proven system for ensuring that everyone in your organization is working on the right task at the right time and being productive--not just busy, this guide introduces the Task Management System, a simple and practical tool that any manager can use to make effective work assignment decisions.
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Why Motivating People Doesn't Work . . . and What Does: The New Science of Leading, Energizing, and EngagingBuilding upon the latest scientific research on the nature of human motivation, this book lays out a tested model and course of action that will help leaders guide their people toward the kind of motivation that not only increases productivity and engagement but that gives them a profound sense of purpose and fulfillment.
By Susan Fowler
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Why Motivating People Doesn't Work…and What Does: More Breakthroughs for Leading, Energizing, and Engaging, Second EditionThe second edition of this bestseller reveals how motivation science is essential for solving the most vexing leadership issues-from hybrid work and retention to employee engagement.
By Susan Fowler
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Why Motivating People Doesn't Work...and What Does: The New Science of Leading, Energizing, and EngagingWhy Motivating People Doesn't Work…And What Does provides an indispensable guide to really understanding how motivation works for all employers and team leaders. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Susan Fowler
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Winning Well: A Manager's Guide to Getting Results - Without Losing Your SoulFilled with humor, straight talk, and hard-won truths, this one-stop success guide is every manager's lifeline to getting results while keeping employees (and yourself) motivated, productive, and happy.
By David Dye, Karin Hurt
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Winning with Accountability: The Secret Language Of High-Performing OrganizationsTaking you step-by-step through various methods and tools you can use to help achieve your objectives, this book offers experienced guidance to you, your colleagues and your team to reach new levels of excellence and success.
By Henry J. Evans
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Work Better Together: How to Cultivate Strong Relationships to Maximize Well-Being and Boost Bottom LinesWalking you through the process of implementing change and fueling a much-needed corporate movement towards humanity in the workplace, this book helps you meet today's employees' most urgent needs, while benefitting your organization in real and measurable ways.
By Anh Phillips, Jen Fisher
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Work Better Together: How to Cultivate Strong Relationships to Maximize Well-Being and Boost Bottom LinesIn Work Better Together, authors Fisher and Phillips explore ways to leverage wellness as a means of improving business. In this summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Anh Phillips, Jen Fisher
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Working Across Boundaries: Making Collaboration Work in Government and Nonprofit OrganizationsFilled with in-depth case studies, this no nonsense book offers practitioners a framework for developing collaborative relationships and shows how to adopt strategies that have proven to be successful with a wide range of organizations.
By Russell Linden
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Working at a Distance: A Global Business Model for Virtual Team CollaborationOrganizations are implementing virtual teams using web technologies as a cost-effective measure for training and project development. This timely book provides a detailed, comprehensible virtual team business model for managers, professionals, teachers or students involved globally with such initiatives.
By Cassandra J. Smith
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WorkInspired: How to Build an Organization Where Everyone Loves to WorkTeaching leaders how truly prioritizing employees isn't just good for employees-it's good for business, this book takes you inside Kronos's highly admired WorkInspired culture, revealing the surprisingly simple rules to follow to replicate that success.
By Aron Ain
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WorkInspired: How to Build an Organization Where Everyone Loves to WorkIn WorkInspired, author Aron Ain fervently advocates for family-oriented workplaces that value and trust employees toward building a mutually-beneficial organizational culture. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Aron Ain
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World of Workcraft: Rediscovering Motivation and Engagement in the Digital WorkplaceOrganizations have started to wrestle with the idea of how to engage the skills and motivation of the video game generation. This book provides the context and background to the need for and potential benefit of gamification as a means of turning a traditional corporate culture and structure into a dynamic community.
By Dale Roberts
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Yes, And: How Improvisation Reverses "No, But" Thinking and Improves Creativity and CollaborationWritten by two masters of comedy and improv, Yes, And uses hilarious but insightful real-life anecdotes to show how improv can be incorporated into the business world. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Kelly Leonard, Tom Yorton
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Your Executive Coaching Solution: Getting Maximum Benefit from the Coaching ExperienceYour Executive Coaching Solution guides you through the process of choosing an executive coach and making the most of your partnership. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Joan Kofodimos
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Your First Leadership Job: How Catalyst Leaders Bring Out the Best in OthersOffering practical advice straight from others who have walked in your shoes, this book includes dozens of tools to ensure your success, but it's also based on the authors' and DDI's extensive experience and research, which ultimately has led to the development of millions of leaders around the world.
By Richard S. Wellins, Tacy M. Byham
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Case Studies in Population and Community Health ManagementCase Studies in Population and Community Health Management presents a collection of real-world scenarios through which readers can develop and sharpen their ability to manage "beyond the walls" of a single institution.
By Connie J. Evashwick, Jason S. Turner
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Dunn and Haimann's Healthcare Management, Eleventh EditionDunn and Haimann's Healthcare Management provides a definitive overview of healthcare management, organized around five primary functions: planning, organizing, staffing, influencing, and controlling.
By Rose T. Dunn
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Enhanced Physician Engagement, Volume 1: What It Is, Why You Need It, and Where to BeginEnhanced Physician Engagement, Volume 1: What Is It, Why You Need It, and Where to Begin looks at physician engagement as a strategic and tactical priority.
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Enhanced Physician Engagement, Volume 2: Tools and Tactics for SuccessThe book examines concrete, practical methods for tackling hot-button issues such as burnout, the burden of electronic health records, and accountability-factors that can cause disengagement.
By Carson F. Dye
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Five Disciplines for Zero Patient Harm: How High Reliability HappensFive Disciplines for Zero Patient Harm: How High Reliability Happens offers real-world, how-to guidance for driving fundamental change that consistently achieves safe patient care.
By Charles A. Mowll
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Health Informatics: A Systems Perspective, Second EditionThe book offers a conceptual framework for aligning clinical decision processes with system infrastructures, including information technology, organizational design, financing, and evaluation.
By Gordon D. Brown, PhD, Kalyan S. Pasupathy, PhD, Timothy B. Patrick, PhD
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Health Insurance, Third EditionHealth Insurance helps readers learn the underlying assumptions, facts, and variables that drive decision-making and choices on the payer side.
By Michael A. Morrisey
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Healthcare in the United States: Clinical, Financial, and Operational DimensionsHealthcare in the United States: Clinical, Financial, and Operational Dimensions offers an introductory overview of the American healthcare system by exploring its many organizations, populations, professions, structures, financing, and delivery models, as well as their impact.
By Kenneth L. Johnson, Stephen L. Walston
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Improv to Improve Healthcare: A System for Creative Problem-SolvingThis book will guide your team to creatively problem-solve, build emotional and social intelligence, increase workplace safety and employee retention, and guarantee client satisfaction
By Candy Campbell
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Information Technology for Healthcare Managers, Ninth EditionHealthcare organizations are now focused on big data aggregated from myriad data-producing applications both in and beyond the enterprise.
By Detlev H. Smaltz, Donna J. Slovensky, Gerald L. Glandon
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Introduction to Health Policy, Second EditionIntroduction to Health Policy uniquely integrates an introductory overview of health policymaking with an examination of critical policy-related issues, research and evaluation methods, and international perspectives.
By Leiyu Shi
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Longest's Health Policymaking in the United States, Seventh EditionThis revamped edition of the classic textbook originally authored by Beaufort B. Longest, Jr., links policy concepts to practical applications and real healthcare outcomes.
By Michael R. Meacham
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Smash the Bottleneck: Fixing Patient Flow for Better Care (and a Better Bottom Line)The book highlights a continuous improvement methodology known as the Theory of Constraints (TOC), which emphasizes identifying, optimizing, and breaking down bottlenecks to improve overall system performance.
By Christopher Strear, Danilo Sirias
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The Core Elements of Value in HealthcareThe Core Elements of Value in Healthcare provides a comprehensive introduction to value in healthcare as it relates to policy, delivery, finance, economics, strategy, public health, population health, operations, compliance, managed care, accountable care, and preventive medicine.
By Paveljit S. Bindra
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The Healthcare Nonprofit: Keys to Effective ManagementThe Healthcare Nonprofit: Keys to Effective Management assists leaders and managers as they uphold the nonprofit tradition across a challenging and ever-evolving healthcare and public health landscape.
By Bruce Melgary, Stephen F. Gambescia, Sylvia V. Bastani
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The Safety Playbook: A Healthcare Leader's Guide to Building a High-Reliability OrganizationIn The Safety Playbook: A Healthcare Leader's Guide to Building a High-Reliability Organization, they lay out their process for building a safety program that can eradicate preventable medical errors.
By John Byrnes, Susan Teman
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1,001 Ways to Engage Employees: Help People do Better what they do BestGiving you all the powerful tools you need, this practical book will help move any organization from just measuring the need to engage employees to actually changing management behaviors that will lead to a stronger culture of engagement.
By Bob Nelson
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10 Steps to Successful TeamsUsing a holistic process-oriented approach, this practical book carefully guides readers through the process of building strong new teams or improving even the best existing teams.
By Renie McClay
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100 Great Leading Well IdeasAn invaluable companion for anyone who manages a team of staff, this book includes inspiring case studies drawn from successful leaders and how they have managed to build a team of confident and competent staff that functions as a cohesive and successful unit.
By Peter Shaw
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100 Great Team Effectiveness IdeasGood team leaders are regularly looking for ways of equipping their teams to work effectively, whilst also ensuring there is time to reflect on longer term issues. The ideas in this book will provide a range of suggestions to help you calibrate how best you can be both an effective team leader and member.
By Peter Shaw
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101 Leadership Actions for Creating and Managing Virtual TeamsWhatever your role, this what-to-do guide provides a wealth of new ideas for making your virtual team more effective. This up-to-the-minute book provides practical ideas for anyone getting started with virtual teams, or supporting or managing one.
By Ollie Malone
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101 Leadership Actions For Performance ManagementUse this handbook to build your business, strengthen the bottom line and generate better results. This book will add to your understanding of performance and help you improve and manage performance for your employees' benefit and your company's benefit.
By Ollie Malone
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101 Sample Write-Ups for Documenting Employee Performance Problems: A Guide to Progressive Discipline & Termination, 3rd EditionWhether you're addressing an initial infraction or handling termination-worthy transgressions, this trusted resource ensures every encounter remains clear, fair, and--most importantly--legal.
By Paul Falcone
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101 Sample Write-Ups for Documenting Employee Performance Problems: A Guide to Progressive Discipline and Termination, Second EditionExplaining the disciplinary process from beginning to end, this up-to-date guide offers write-ups to cover every kind of problem from substandard work quality, absenteeism and insubordination to e-mail misuse, sexual harassment, substance abuse and more.
By Paul Falcone
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101 Tips for Telecommuters: Successfully Manage Your Work, Team, Technology and FamilyPractical tips for someone making the transition from working in an office to performing professional work out of the house.
By Debra A. Dinnocenzo
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101 Tips for Telecommuters: Successfully Manage Your Work, Team, Technology and Family101 Tips for Telecommuters is an easy-to-use guide for successful telecommuting. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Debra A. Dinnocenzo
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101 Tough Conversations to Have with Employees: A Manager's Guide to Addressing Performance, Conduct, and Discipline ChallengesIn 101 Tough Conversations to Have with Employees, author Paul Falcone discusses the frameworks and methods needed to successfully address difficult workplace issues. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Paul Falcone
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12: The Elements of Great ManagingUsing data from a groundbreaking workplace survey by the Gallup Organization, 12: The Elements of Great Managing follows exceptional managers through difficult challenges in order to identify the characteristics of successful leaders. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By James K. Harter, Rodd Wagner
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151 Quick Ideas for Delegating and Decision Making151 Quick Ideas for Delegating and Decision Making empowers you to navigate the multilevel decision-making landscape and to use delegation to grow a cohesive team geared toward achievement. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Robert E. Dittmer, Stephanie McFarland
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151 Quick Ideas to Improve Your People Skills151 Quick Ideas to Improve Your People Skills provides a wide range of proven techniques for creating and effectively managing relationships in the workplace. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Bob Dittmer, Stephanie McFarland
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25 Instruments for Team BuildingRanging from very simple, self-scored tools, to more complex assessments that provide in-depth information on teams, this collection of instruments provides practitioners with tools to assist in the development of individuals, teams, and organizations.
By Glenn M. Parker
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2600 Phrases for Effective Performance Reviews: Ready-to-Use Words and Phrases That Really Get ResultsNo managerial or administrative task is as universally dreaded as the performance review. This book offers ready-to-use phrases and words, action items, and descriptions you can use to evaluate performance, prepare development plans, and much more.
By Paul Falcone
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2600 Phrases for Effective Performance Reviews: Ready-to-Use Words and Phrases That Really Get Results2600 Phrases for Effective Performance Reviews considers the role of the manager as leader and career coach, and discusses how the performance review should be key to acknowledging and motivating staff. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Paul Falcone
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2600 Phrases for Setting Effective Performance Goals: Ready-to-Use Phrases That Really Get Results2600 Phrases for Setting Effective Performance Goals is a guide to help your employees achieve realistic performance goals, and set them on the path to become successful and accomplished contributors to the organization. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Paul Falcone
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50 Activities for Conflict ResolutionA practical source to help professionals acquire skills to resolve workplace conflicts--or train others to do so.
By Jonamay Lambert, Selma Myers
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50 Activities For Self-Directed TeamsImplement successful self-managed teams in your organization. This collection of proven training exercises covers all aspects of team development, including mutual goal setting, managing team stagnation, and developing team norms.
By Glenn M. Parker, Richard P. Kropp, Jr.
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50 Activities For Team Building, Volume IIDesigned for team leaders looking for creative activities to energize their teams but don't have the time to develop them, the activities in this second volume provide practice on cooperation, balancing roles, and defining team objectives and goals.
By Mike Woodcock
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50 Top Tools for Coaching: A Complete Toolkit for Developing and Empowering People, Third Edition50 Top Tools for Coaching provides you with everything you need to know to motivate and guide others towards success. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Gillian Jones, Ro Gorell
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675 Ways to Develop Yourself and Your People: Strategies, Ideas, and Activities for Self-Development and Learning in the WorkplaceReflecting real needs of real people in today's workplace, this engaging, hands-on resource contains exercises, activities, and strategies to help you take control of moving your career in the right direction - and help your people do the same.
By Laurel Alexander
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7 Paths to Managerial Leadership: Doing Well by Doing it Right7 Paths to Managerial Leadership provides strategies for improving your relationships with your employees. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Fred Mackenzie
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9 Powerful Practices of Really Great TeamsIdentifying the attributes of team membership and team leadership that set the stage for accomplishment of group objectives, this book defines the essence of superior performance by project teams at work.
By Stephen E. Kohn, Vincent D. O’Connell
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9 Powerful Practices of Really Great Teams9 Powerful Practices of Really Great Teams discusses the nature of effective teams, and explore the habits all successful teams cultivate for best results. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Stephen E. Kohn, Vincent D. O'Connell
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A Bias For Action: How Effective Managers Harness Their Willpower, Achieve Results, and Stop Wasting TimeA Bias for Action explains how harnessing willpower through a key combination of energy and focus can move leaders towards concrete goals and purposeful action. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Heike Bruch, Sumantra Ghoshal
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A Guide to Supporting Hybrid Team LeadersIn this issue of TD at Work, Chris Coladonato explains ways talent development professionals can support and equip people managers with the tools and guidance to support their teams.
By Chris Coladonato
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A Kick in the Attitude: An Energizing Approach to Recharge your Team, Work, and LifeFeaturing 18 principles for living and working with enthusiasm and positivity, this book - like jumper cables for a car battery - offers the positive charge you need to escape the negative thinking trap and get back to achieving the success you deserve.
By Sam 'The Attitude Guy' Glenn
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A Manager's Guide to Virtual TeamsBridging the logistical, cultural, and communication gaps that can prevent any virtual team from reaching its full potential, this book can help any organization realize the promise of professionals working closely together even if they've never met.
By Yael Zofi
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A Necessary Evil: Managing Employee Activity on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn . . . and the Hundreds of Other Social Media SitesBased primarily on interviews and evaluations of existing practices and policies, this book emphasizes why companies must have social media policies and why they are important in governing employee behavior.
By Aliah D. Wright
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A Practical Guide to Needs Assessment, Third EditionIncluding customizable, ready-to-use templates and job aids as well as illustrative case studies, this guide will help managers and community leaders get to the root of their learning and performance problems, make effective decisions, and obtain support for their most pressing issues.
By Catherine M. Sleezer, Darlene F. Russ-Eft, Kavita Gupta
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A Team of Leaders: Empowering Every Member to Take Ownership, Demonstrate Initiative and Deliver ResultsA Team of Leaders provides the methods and tools to transform conventional manager-led teams into empowered, high-performing teams of leaders. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Paul Gustavson, Stewart Liff
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Accountability: The Key to Driving a High-Performance CultureAccountability provides an engaging exploration of seven essential pillars for effective leadership, illustrated with concrete examples and personal stories. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Greg Bustin
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Achieving Success as a 21st Century ManagerThis book is about taking personal control of your management career by planning for your development outside of training sessions or university degree programs.
By Dean E Frost
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Action Coaching: How To Leverage Individual Performance For Company SuccessAction Coaching will help leaders up their games when it comes to coaching individuals to change for success-and leverage this asset for business growth. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By David L. Dotlich, Peter C. Cairo
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Adaptive Coaching: The Art and Practice of a Client-Centered Approach to Performance ImprovementRich in detail from the authors' work with clients in Fortune 500 companies, this insightful book identifies the eight distinct coaching styles and offers a unique client-centered focus on how people prefer to be coached.
By Laurie Voss, Terry R. Bacon
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Aging Workers and the Employee-Employer RelationshipIntroducing new perspectives on aging workers and the employment relationship, this innovative book specifically focuses on how organizations can ensure their aging workers remain motivated, productive, and healthy.
By Denise M. Rousseau (eds), Dorien T.A.M. Kooij, P. Matthijs Bal
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All Hands On Deck: Navigating Your Team Through Crises, Getting Your Organization Unstuck, and Emerging VictoriousAll Hands on Deck uses extensive interviews and case studies to explain how to take control of organizational chaos, problems, and setbacks using a 12-step process. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Peter Boni
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Applying Critical EvaluationFeaturing tools, worksheets, case studies, and assessments that can be used immediately and applied every day, this book draws from real-life examples to provide ready-to-use recommendations HR professionals can incorporate in nearly every aspect of the job.
By Jennifer Currence
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Armstrong on Reinventing Performance Management: Building a Culture of Continuous ImprovementArmstrong on Reinventing Performance Management offers strategies for improving individual and team performance as part of a thorough performance management overhaul. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Michael Armstrong
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Armstrong's Handbook of Performance Management: An Evidence-Based Guide to Delivering High Performance, 5th EditionConsidering the latest developments in this area, and how these can be applied to managing staff for increased performance, this book provides a detailed analysis of current evidence-based research in this field and considers how this informs the practice of performance management.
By Michael Armstrong
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Armstrong's Handbook of Performance Management: An Evidence-Based Guide to Delivering High Performance, 5th EditionArmstrong's Handbook of Performance Management, 5th Edition explains how you can use performance management systems to make improvements in several areas such as employee engagement, development, and reward management. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Michael Armstrong
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Armstrong's Handbook of Reward Management Practice: Improving Performance Through Reward, 5th EditionUsing lessons learned from academic research projects, as well as surveys and case studies, this practical book provides guidance on how to use reward processes to improve organizational, team and individual performance while catering for the needs of employees.
By Michael Armstrong
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Armstrong's Handbook of Reward Management Practice: Improving Performance Through Reward, Sixth EditionWith tips, checklists, and case studies throughout, this book is the definitive guide to understanding, developing and implementing effective reward strategies and covers all the essential aspects of improving organizational, team and individual performance through reward processes.
By Duncan Brown, Michael Armstrong
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ASTD Handbook: The Definitive Reference for Training & Development, 2nd EditionASTD Handbook is a complete guide to everything you need to know about training and development for modern-day businesses. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Elaine Biech (ed)
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Becoming a Can-Do Leader: A Guide for the Busy ManagerSharing essential guidelines for can-do leadership, this book offers workplace examples that ring true, as well as unique strategies and tools that both help you identify your values and provide insight into your natural leadership style.
By Frank Satterthwaite, Jamie Millard
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Becoming a Can-Do Leader: A Guide for the Busy ManagerBecoming a Can-Do Leader addresses how to be a productive, hands-on manager and why it's key to many management roles today. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Frank Satterthwaite, Jamie Millard
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Becoming the Boss: New Rules for the Next Generation of LeadersLeadership demographics are changing and, in Becoming the Boss, Lindsey Pollak presents an engaging roadmap for new leaders trying to navigate the challenges that this brings. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Lindsey Pollak
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Best Practice in Performance Coaching: A Handbook for Leaders, Coaches, HR Professionals and OrganizationsWith worksheets, exercises, evaluations and case studies, this book offers extensive guidance on coaching techniques, models and tools as well as advice on how to train as a coach, how to run a coaching practice and how to structure coaching sessions.
By Carol Wilson
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Beyond Performance: How Great Organizations Build Ultimate Competitive AdvantageBeyond Performance focuses on creating organizations that are highly innovative, genuinely engaging, and acutely flexible. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Colin Price, Scott Keller
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Beyond Team Building: How to Build High Performing Teams and the Culture to Support ThemIncluding a wealth of examples of effective (and ineffective) teams, this book provides the next generation of team leaders, team members, and team consultants with the knowledge and skills they need to create effective and high functioning teams.
By Gibb Dyer, Jeff Dyer
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Beyond the Bubble Test: How Performance Assessments Support 21st Century LearningPainting a useful picture of how schools can begin to supplement traditional tests with something that works better, this comprehensive resource provides new perspectives on current performance assessment research, plus an incisive look at what's possible at the local and state levels.
By Frank Adamson, Linda Darling-Hammond
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Bridging the Generation Gap: How to Get Radio Babies, Boomers, Gen Xers, and Gen Yers to Work Together and Achieve MoreFilled with strategies and solutions you can implement immediately, this book offers real-life cases and ground-breaking research on how members of any generation can better relate to minimize conflict, miscommunication, and wasted energy.
By Linda S. Gravett, Robin Throckmorton
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Bridging the Soft Skills Gap: How To Teach The Missing Basics To Today's Young TalentBased on more than twenty years of research, renowned expert on the Millennial workforce Bruce Tulgan offers concrete solutions to help managers teach the missing basics of professionalism, critical thinking, and followership-complete with 92 step-by-step lesson plans designed to be highly flexible and easy to use.
By Bruce Tulgan
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Building a High-Performance Team: Proven Techniques for Effective Team WorkingWhether you are leading a team, or working as a team member or part of a cross-functional team, this book explains the characteristics of a high-performance team, helps you assess where your team stacks up and develop a plan of action.
By Sarah Cook
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Building a High-Performing Team: Achieving the Benefits of TeamworkingThe My Practical MBA Series provides the latest thinking as well as perennial techniques for a range of business challenges. This concise guide offers strategies for developing a high-performing team and leading an effective team.
By LID Editorial
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Building a Winning Team: Technical Leadership CapabilitiesWith real life examples, tips, and mini exercises, this practical resource describes and explains five management techniques to help you develop your leadership capabilities and build a winning team.
By Brian Sutton, Robina Chatham
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Building Better Teams: 70 Tools and Techniques for Strengthening Performance Within and Across TeamsOffering a fresh approach to team building, this book provides proven tools for the most common needs of teams, including establishing trust, building consensus, managing change, working virtually and across boundaries, and dealing with setbacks.
By Charlotte P. Barner, Robert W. Barner
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Building Better Teams: Study Guide, Student EditionThis title will be removed from the Skillsoft library on May 24, 2024.
By GTS Learning
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Building Conflict Competent TeamsFilled with stories, interviews and examples which provide thought-provoking insights, this book offers teams and team members a deeper understanding of how conflict emerges and how they can respond in ways that will leverage conflicts to their advantage.
By Craig E. Runde, Tim A. Flanagan
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Building Team Spirit: Activities for Inspiring and Energizing TeamsAn invaluable resource for inspiring peak performance in work groups in any type of organization, this comprehensive, team-building book will help you to enhance the cohesiveness, enthusiasm, and trust of any team.
By Barry Heermann
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Building the Best: 8 Proven Leadership Principles to Elevate Others to SuccessOffering real-life examples of leaders who elevate others, and how their practices have paid huge dividends, this book takes you on a journey of transformation that will equip you with the tools you need to become the kind of cutting-edge leader today's workplace so urgently needs.
By John Eades
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Building the Best: 8 Proven Leadership Principles to Elevate Others to SuccessIn Building the Best, author John Eades offers eight proven principles that any businessperson can use to take their leadership to the next level. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By John Eades
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Building Top-Performing Teams: A Practical Guide to Team Coaching to Improve Collaboration and Drive Organizational SuccessAchieve greater business growth using this practical guide to develop your team into a high performing collection rather than a group of disparate individuals.
By Lucy Widdowson, Paul J Barbour
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Building Virtual Teams: Trust, Culture, and Remote Working NEW!This book will appeal to researchers and graduate students in MBA programs studying project management, human resource management, and strategic leadership. This book is also of direct interest to many practitioners, particularly management consultants and project managers of virtual, cross-cultural, and interdisciplinary project teams.
By Catalina Dumitru
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Business and Management in the Age of Intangible Capitalism NEW!Business and Management in the Age of Intangible Capitalism focuses on intangible assets and their repercussions for business and society. It provides insights into the evolving landscape of intangible capitalism, where wealth generation is increasingly based on invisible elements.
By Hamid Yeganeh
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Capitalizing on Conflict: Strategies and Practices for Turning Conflict to Synergy in OrganizationsCapitalizing on Conflict offers useful insights to the role management must play in effectively resolving conflict in the workplace. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By James W. Gibson, Kirk Blackard
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Career Conversations: How to Get the Best from Your Talent PoolPacked full of case studies, practical exercises and key insights, this must-read book explains how leaders can guide their employees to achieve career satisfaction by taking an active, dynamic and ongoing interest in their development.
By Greg Smith
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Change-Friendly Leadership: How to Transform Good Intentions into Great PerformanceChange-Friendly Leadership offers a broad spectrum of proven techniques and tools to introduce positive and effective change into any organization. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Rodger Dean Duncan
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Changing on the Job: Developing Leaders for a Complex WorldIn Changing on the Job, author Jennifer Garvey Berger presents ways to measure growth and offers advice on how to sustain change. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Jennifer Garvey Berger
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Chaotics: The Business of Managing and Marketing in the Age of TurbulenceChaotics provides the frameworks and tactics managers need to both survive and thrive in today's more turbulent world. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By John A. Caslione, Philip Kotler
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Charismatic Leadership: The Skills You Can Learn to Motivate High Performance in OthersExplaining why charisma is a vital asset in any organization, this practical book will help you understand its essential components, find out how to grow your charismatic presence and discover why you need the companion skills of coaching, problem-solving and empathy.
By Kevin Murray
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Clone Yourself: Build a Team that Understands Your Vision, Shares Your Passion, and Runs Your Business For YouClone Yourself distinguishes itself from other books by approaching leadership from a new angle-you can't, and shouldn't, do it on your own. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Jeff Hilderman
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Coaching and Mentoring: How to Develop Top Talent and Achieve Stronger PerformanceCoaching and Mentoring provides the indispensable foundational knowledge required to establish a compatible coaching or mentoring environment within your organization. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Richard Luecke
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Coaching and Mentoring: Practical Techniques for Developing Learning and PerformanceCoaching and Mentoring offers readers a practical guide for implementing coaching and mentoring programs in the workplace. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Eric Parsloe, Melville Leedham
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Coaching Counseling & Mentoring: How to Choose & Use the Right Technique to Boost Employee Performance, Second EditionIn Coaching, Counseling & Mentoring, Florence M. Stone provides helpful tools and practical techniques to give managers the skills and confidence to encourage their employees and improve their performance. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Florence Stone
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Coaching For Peak Employee Performance: A Practical Guide to Supporting Employee Development, Second EditionThis title will be removed from the Skillsoft library on May 24, 2024.
By Bill Foster, Karen R. Seeker
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Coaching Up and Down the GenerationsProviding insight into generational differences that can make communication difficult and coaching impossible, this fun, breezy book presents the fundamentals of coaching, such as acting like a catalyst, learning how to listen, and much more.
By Lisa Haneberg
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Collins Business Secrets: People ManagementProviding the people management secrets that experts and top professionals use, this quick and easy guide discusses: how to build a business-like relationship with your direct reports; set clear targets and monitor them; understand different personality types and how to manage them; deliver criticism and compliments in the right way; mentor your employees to produce fantastic results; and more.
By Rus Slater
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Collins Business Secrets: Team ManagementPresenting the team management secrets that experts and top professionals use, this quick, easy guide explains how to: understand how different personalities interact in a team; set up clear structures and goals for your team; implement change effectively and painlessly; overcome personality clashes; and more.
By Rus Slater
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Committed Teams: Three Steps to Inspiring Passion and PerformanceA practical book for building great teams, this concise guide identifies the common challenges that arise when people work together as a group and provides key guidance on breaking through the barriers to peak performance.
By Derek Newberry, Madeline Boyer, Mario Moussa
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Committed Teams: Three Steps to Inspiring Passion and PerformanceCommitted Teams delivers practical guidance on how to manage teams in a way that both inspires team members and encourages them to stick to their commitments. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Derek Newberry, Madeline Boyer, Mario Moussa
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Competency-Based Performance Reviews: How to Perform Employee Evaluations the Fortune 500 WayIncluding sample phrases and accomplishment statements, this guide offers a new and more effective way to handle performance reviews and coach employees to emphasize the knowledge, skills, and abilities that they have and the organization needs.
By Robin Kessler
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Competitive Advantage: Creating and Sustaining Superior PerformanceCompetitive Advantage offers a roadmap to developing a corporate vision that provides competitive advantage and sustains superior organizational performance. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Michael E. Porter
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Complete Training Evaluation: Comprehensive Guide to Measuring Return on InvestmentProviding practitioner-friendly information and guidance on how to evaluate all forms of learning and development, this book draws on the author's own multidisciplinary research along with his practical experience of working with private and public sector organizations carrying out evaluation to offer practitioners accessible "how-to" knowledge and tools to undertake evaluations of both formal and informal learning.
By Richard Griffin
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Conducting Effective Performance Reviews: Study Guide, Student EditionThis title will be removed from the Skillsoft library on May 24, 2024.
By GTS Learning
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Conflict in Organizational Groups: New Directions in Theory and PracticeBased on conference presentations held at the Kellogg School of Management, this book reveals the latest international thinking on organizational conflict in the business sector.
By Kristin J. Behfar, Leigh L. Thompson (eds)
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Conflict ManagementExploring the best ways to manage conflict situations in the workplace, this book shows that while conflict can be a very destructive force, it can also prove to be a creative and positive one if managed correctly.
By Baden Eunson
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Conflict Management for Managers: Resolving Workplace, Client, and Policy DisputesTaking a theory-to-practice approach, this hands-on book provides managers with a knowledge base and a set of skill-building opportunities so they can reclaim their time and make their workplaces enjoyable, productive, mutually supportive environments where people want to work.
By Susan S. Raines
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Conflict ResolutionUse this concise guide to learn how to highlight problems that need to be rectified, lead new ideas and behavior, enhance communication, and foster better long-term relationships between individuals and groups.
By Team Publications
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Conflict Resolution: Getting Along in the Workplace, Study Guide, Student EditionThis title will be removed from the Skillsoft library on May 24, 2024.
By GTS Learning
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Connectable: How Leaders Can Move Teams From Isolated to All InIn Connectable, you'll learn how tackling the issue of worker loneliness head on can transform an isolated workforce into one that's happier, more engaged, and more productive.
By Ryan Jenkins, Steve Van Cohen
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Counter Mentor Leadership: How to Unlock the Potential of the 4-Generation WorkplaceThis book is the result of over three decades of combined experience from Kelly and Robby Riggs - dynamic, occasionally irreverent, always insightful father (Boomer) and son (Millennial), who work with organizations grappling daily with multi-generational conflict.
By Kelly Riggs, Robby Riggs
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Courageous Cultures: How to Build Teams of Microinnovators, Problem Solvers, and Customer AdvocatesProviding practical tools to uncover, leverage, and scale the best ideas from every level of your organization, this book offers a road map to build a high-performance, high-engagement culture around sharing ideas, solving problems, and rewarding contributions.
By David Dye, Karin Hurt
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Creating a Drama-Free Workplace: The Insider's Guide to Managing Conflict, Incivility & MistrustStop common missteps before they walk out the door with your most valuable assets-trust, morale, and productivity. You can create the environments you desire and deserve with these proven skills grounded in neuroscience.
By Anna Maravelas
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Creating a Mentoring Program: Mentoring Partnerships Across the GenerationsIntroducing a Mentoring Partnership Model, which is a way for new and seasoned employees to partner and learn from each other, this engaging book offers step-by-step instructions of each stage of the program, and includes the worksheets, evaluation forms, and checklists to use in your program.
By Annabelle Reitman, Sylvia Ramirez Benatti
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Creating Rainmakers: The Manager's Guide to Training Professionals to Attract New ClientsBased on more than 100 interviews with the principals of professional firms, including many of today's preeminent rainmakers, this valuable guide outlines all the steps you should take to turn your professional staff into a powerful team of sales winners.
By Ford Harding
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Creating the Accountable Organization: A Practical Guide to Improve Performance ExecutionCreating the Accountable Organization is an essential guide for accelerating your organization's evolution into a leaner, stronger, and incredibly agile competitor. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Mark Samuel
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Dare to Lead: Brave Work. Tough Conversations. Whole Hearts.In Dare to Lead, author Brené Brown effortlessly outlines the skills that underpin courageous leadership and shows how being vulnerable can actually help you on your way to leadership excellence. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Brené Brown
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De Gruyter Handbook of Organizational Conflict ManagementThe De Gruyter Handbook of Organizational Conflict Management offers insightful contributions covering a myriad of conflict management topics ranging from fundamental issues, such as emotional intelligence and cultural differences, to cutting-edge themes such as political conflicts and mindfulness training.
By LaVena Wilkin, Yashwant Pathak
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Decide and Deliver: 5 Steps to Breakthrough Performance in Your OrganizationIn Decide and Deliver, authors Paul Rogers, Marcia W. Blenko, and Michael C. Mankins offer a roadmap that leads readers to a destination of sound business decisions. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Marcia W. Blenko, Michael C. Mankins, Paul Rogers
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Delegating Effectively, Fourth EditionExploring what delegation means, why it is important and what it involves, this book looks at the advantages of delegating work, why some managers are reluctant to delegate and at how to achieve a balance and success when you delegate.
By Eileen Cadman, Howard Senter
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Delegating Effectively: A Leader's Guide to Getting Things DoneIn today's organizations, leaders are neither able nor expected to do everything themselves. This guidebook outlines the benefits of effective delegation and the fears and concerns that can prevent or hinder it, then offers four key ideas that leaders can use to enable better delegation.
By Clemson Turregano
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Delegating for Business SuccessWith this lively, new self-study course, you'll learn how to delegate effectively and assume delegated roles and tasks productively, which will enable you to make the best use of limited time, to respond rapidly to changing circumstances, and more.
By Janis Fisher Chan
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Delegation & SupervisionDone right, delegation and supervision allows your employees to learn, grow, and become more capable. This handy and concise guide reveals time-tested ways to boost the performance and productivity of your employees.
By Brian Tracy
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Delegation & SupervisionIn Delegation & Supervision, author Brian Tracy discusses the critical groundwork, minutia, and strategies managers need to successfully assign and complete tasks. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Brian Tracy
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Developing Employees Who Love to Learn: Tools, Strategies, and Programs for Promoting Learning at WorkDeveloping Employees Who Love to Learn provides an engaging and thorough look at why continuing education for employees matters, and how to implement it in your business. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Linda Honold
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Developing Human Capital: Using Analytics to Plan and Optimize Your Learning and Development InvestmentsProviding case studies in which major companies applied human capital analytics to guide people decisions, this is a guidebook for collecting, organizing, and analyzing the data surrounding human capital so you can make the most of your employees' potential.
By Barbara Beresford, Gene Pease, Lew Walker
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Developing Hybrid Teams: Combining Office and Remote WorkTo help organizations better understand the landscape of hybrid teams and best practices, Developing Hybrid Teams takes a close look at organizations that currently have hybrid teams in place.
By ATD Research
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Developing Mental Toughness: Coaching Strategies to Improve Performance, Resilience and Wellbeing, 2nd EditionBased on scientific investigation, this book discusses how mental toughness relates to other behaviors and how it can be applied to leadership, emotional intelligence, and motivation.
By Doug Strycharczyk, Peter Clough
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Developing People: Enabling Your Colleagues to SucceedThe My Practical MBA Series provides the latest thinking as well as perennial techniques for a range of business challenges. This concise guide shows leaders how to develop the skills of their team members to face ongoing challenges and to deliver success.
By LID Editorial
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Developing Resilient Organizations: How to Create an Adaptive, High-Performance and Engaged OrganizationAddressing a wide variety of organizational issues including motivation, performance, staff retention, behavior, trust, attention span, and teamwork, this book explains how to develop organizational performance, well-being, and a positive approach to adversity and change in organizations.
By Charles Elvin, Doug Strycharczyk
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Developing Strengths-Based Project TeamsThrough exercises, templates, action plans, and reflective questions, this book will help you create an environment in which team members can use their talent development tools long-term to develop and apply what they naturally do best-resulting in higher project team performance.
By Connie Plowman, Martha Buelt
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Divide or Conquer: How Great Teams Turn Conflict Into StrengthIn Divide or Conquer, author Diana McLain Smith offers a pragmatic outlook and the tools needed to help you get your relationships back on track when they go off course. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Diana McLain Smith
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Do Big Things: The Simple Steps Teams Can Take to Mobilize Hearts and Minds, and Make an Epic ImpactBased upon research of what successful teams do to overcome severe odds, this straightforward book presents an intuitive, seven-step process that equips teams with how to quickly and consistently operate in a manner necessary for success.
By Angela V. Paccione, Craig W. Ross, Victoria L. Roberts
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Dos and Don'ts in Human Resources Management: A Practical GuideDos and Don'ts in Human Resources Management examines a range of HR functions and practices and explores how they contribute to the development and accomplishment of the organization's goals and overall strategy. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Matthias Zeuch (ed)
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Effective Delegation, 2nd EditionThis Skill Builder offers some advice on how to make delegation a normal part of your work schedule. It will help you identify when you need the assistance of others and how you can learn to trust them with delegated tasks.
By Tony Alessandra
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Effective People Management: Your Guide to Boosting Performance, Managing Conflict and Becoming a Great Leader in Your Start Up, 2nd EditionFrom inspirational leadership techniques, energizing management styles and a proactive approach to problem solving, this insightful guide is your ultimate practical resource to getting the best out of yourself and your team.
By Pat Wellington
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Employee Development on A ShoestringA handy tool kit for any employee developer, this book provides templates and detailed guidelines to help busy managers develop their workforce in a way that is tailored to each employee's strengths, development needs, and constraints without breaking the bank.
By Halelly Azulay
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EMPOWERED: Ordinary People, Extraordinary ProductsWhat is it that sets innovative companies apart from their competitors? In EMPOWERED, authors Marty Cagan and Chris Jones suggest that their extraordinary output is the result of how these organizations strengthen ordinary employees. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Chris Jones, Marty Cagan
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Encouraging the Heart: A Leader's Guide to Rewarding and Recognizing OthersThis resource provides leaders with the techniques and strategies to foster employees' self-esteem and confidence, thus improving performance.
By Barry Z. Posner, James M. Kouzes
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Evaluating Performance: How To Appraise, Promote, And FireSuccessful management relies on identifying and promoting high-performing employees-and targeting underperformers for serious improvement. This comprehensive reference for managers on the run shows how to monitor day-to-day performance, conduct productive reviews, and more.
By Barry Silverstein
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Everyone Deserves a Great Manager: The 6 Critical Practices for Leading a TeamIn Everyone Deserves a Great Manager, the authors dig into the best ways to approach any management position with open-mindedness, careful preparation, and intelligence. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Scott Jeffrey Miller, Todd Davis, Victoria Roos Olsson
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Extreme Teams: Why Pixar, Netflix, Airbnb, and Other Cutting-Edge Companies Succeed Where Most FailTimes change, and so must teams. Designing and managing high-performance teams requires upgrading outdated beliefs and behaviors, and spurring a level of intensity and collaboration that lets them face down any challenge. This book will show you how.
By Robert Bruce Shaw
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Extreme Teams: Why Pixar, Netflix, Airbnb, and Other Cutting-Edge Companies Succeed Where Most FailIn Extreme Teams, author Robert Bruce Shaw examines the principles that cutting-edge firms across a variety of industries thrive by. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Robert Bruce Shaw
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Feedback in Performance ReviewsExplaining three feedback principles and four different types of feedback, this guidebook will help you understand when to use the different types of feedback and how to frame a complete feedback message, making it more likely that your feedback will be well received.
By E. Wayne Hart
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Find Your Why: A Practical Guide for Discovering Purpose for You and Your TeamUsing the tools of self-reflection, storytelling, and conversation, FIND YOUR WHY shows how connecting with your ultimate purpose turns the pursuit of feeling fulfilled into an achievable feat. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By David Meade, Peter Docker, Simon Sinek
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First, Break All the Rules: What the World's Greatest Managers Do DifferentlyFirst, Break All the Rules offers you a peek into the minds of exceptional managers who reject conventional wisdom and reveal new truths to capitalize on the strengths and talents of individuals within the organization. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Curtis Coffman, Marcus Buckingham
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Fix Your Team: The Tools You Need to Rebuild Relationships, Address Conflict and Stop Destructive BehavioursPacked with expert insight acquired over decades of experience in workplace relations and conflict resolution, this essential guide systematically addresses problems with team dynamics and provides a blueprint for moving forward.
By Grevis Beard, Rose Bryant-Smith
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Flex: The New Playbook For Managing Across DifferencesFlex offers a number of invaluable strategies to help leaders manage diversity through effective communication, common goals, and innovative thinking. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Audrey S. Lee, Jane Hyun
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For the Practicing Manager: Building Your Team's Morale, Pride and SpiritThis book will help you determine your current level of readiness with respect to the characteristics and skills necessary for building morale, pride and spirit.
By Gene Klann
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Forging Dynasty Businesses: The Competitive Edge of Enduring TeamsThis book provides the keys to unlock the fundamental elements of an organization that serve as the foundation for small businesses to perpetually attract and retain top talent-those who fit with the organization's culture and core values and who contribute to achieving the organization's goals.
By Chuck Violand
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From Difficult to Disturbed: Understanding and Managing Dysfunctional EmployeesProviding insight into both big and small people-problems that can seriously disrupt the workplace if not handled correctly, this book contains down-to-earth advice for getting the best from those who present the toughest problems.
By Laurence Miller
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Fundamentals of Human Resources in Healthcare, Second EditionPresenting proven best practices and evidence-based strategies, this book sets forth fundamental concepts that will help healthcare managers succeed at the most important and challenging part of their job: managing people.
By Bruce J. Fried, Myron D. Fottler (eds)
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Gemba Kaizen: A Commonsense Approach to a Continuous Improvement Strategy, Second EditionGemba Kaizen, Second Edition presents an elegant and simple approach to improving quality within your organization. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Masaaki Imai
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Gen Y Now: Millennials and the Evolution of Leadership, Second EditionContaining the leadership strategies you need to manage and motivate the Millennials, this informative book explores all the myths about this up and coming generation and shows you how Millennials can be your most creative, motivated, and loyal employees.
By Buddy Hobart, Herb Sendek
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Generation Gap: Closing the Generation Gap in the Workplace, Study Guide, Student EditionThis title will be removed from the Skillsoft library on May 24, 2024.
By GTS Learning
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Generation Y for RookiesGeneration Y for Rookies is a definitive guide for Boomer and Generation X employers on understanding and navigating the differences they will encounter with Generation Y employees and clients. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Sally Bibb
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Generation Y for RookiesBased on solid insight and research, this valuable resource will help you understand Generation Y and how they differ from the other generations, as well as how to make the most of their unique strengths and ways of doing things.
By Sally Bibb
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Generations at Work: Managing the Clash of Boomers, Gen Xers, and Gen Yers in the Workplace, Second EditionTaking a fresh look at a growing challenge of navigating the multigenerational workplace, this book provides in-depth interviews with members of each generation, best practices from companies bridging the generation gap, and specific tips for each generation on how to handle the others.
By Bob Filipczak, Claire Raines, Ron Zemke
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Generations, Inc: From Boomers to Linksters: Managing the Friction Between Generations at WorkOffering perspectives of people of different eras, eliciting practical insights on wrestling with generational issues in the workplace, this book provides realistic strategies for those seeking to coexist, flourish, and thrive together…at the same time.
By Larry Johnson, Meagan Johnson
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Get the Whole Picture With a Performance Assessment: Learning and Development, Volume 35, Issue 1802, February 2018To improve performance, you need to understand where you are and where you want to go. This book guides readers through a process for defining your desired performance and developing solutions to help your organization fill the gap between its current status and its performance goal.
By Hadiya Nuriddin
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Global Virtual Teams & Trust: How Leadership Can Build Trust and Enhance Team PerformanceThis book explores how leadership can establish and maintain trust in global virtual teams to improve cooperation and performance.
By Lili Jassemi
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Glue: How Project Leaders Create Cohesive, Engaged, High-Performing TeamsYou'll learn the critical blend of management and leadership skills that will make you indispensable to any project. You'll learn what it takes to become the binding agent-the glue-that creates cohesive, engaged, high-performing project teams.
By Anh Dao Pham
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Good Boss, Bad Boss: How to Be the Best...And Learn from the WorstGood Boss, Bad Boss takes an insightful look at managers and leaders and offers them practical advice on how to assess and improve their own contribution to a positive working environment. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Robert Sutton
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Great Business Teams: Cracking the Code for Standout PerformanceGreat Business Teams outlines the steps necessary to create an innovative and effective team that will help your business thrive even during times of uncertainty. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Howard M. Guttman
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Great Leaders Grow: Becoming a Leader for LifeWhether you're a CEO or an entry-level employee, the wisdom in this insightful book will encourage you to design your own unique long-term growth plan, leading to not only continuing professional success but personal fulfillment as well.
By Ken Blanchard, Mark Miller
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Group and Team Coaching: The Secret Life of Groups, Second EditionIncluding a wealth of vignettes and case studies, this practical resource will be essential reading for coaches who work with groups and teams as well as leaders commissioning coaching.
By Christine Thornton
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Handbook of Workplace Assessment: Evidence-Based Practices for Selecting and Developing Organizational TalentHighlighting advances, trends, and issues in the assessment field, this cutting edge book presents sound, evidence-based, and practical guidance for implementing assessment processes that will lead to exceptional decisions about people.
By Douglas H. Reynolds, John C. Scott
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Hard-Won Wisdom: True Stories from the Management TrenchesHard-Won Wisdom discusses the stories and lessons of managers who faced their workplace issues head on and learned how to address them effectively. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Jathan Janove
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Healthcare Analytics for Quality and Performance ImprovementRevealing the true potential of analytics to harness vast amounts of data, this book walks your organization from relying on generic reports and dashboards to developing powerful analytic applications that drive effective decision-making throughout your organization.
By Trevor L. Strome
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Help Them Grow or Watch Them Go: Career Conversations Employees WantFilled with practical tips, guidelines, templates, and conversation questions, this book helps increase employees' awareness of their strengths, weaknesses, and interests; points out where their organization and industry are headed; and helps them design personalized career plans.
By Beverly Kaye, Julie Winkle Giulioni
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Help Them Grow or Watch Them Go: Career Conversations Employees WantHelp Them Grow or Watch Them Go provides the knowledge and skills required to inculcate a culture of intentional growth in any company-with the buy-in of employees. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Beverly Kaye, Julie Winkle Giulioni
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Hit Refresh: The Quest to Rediscover Microsoft's Soul and Imagine a Better Future for EveryoneIn Hit Refresh, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella advises how organizations can make the leap into the future and achieve a more humane world that's governed by heart, more so than technology. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Satya Nadella
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How Cool Brands Stay Hot: Branding to Generation Y and Z, Third EditionHow Cool Brands Stay Hot tours the minds of your potential customers and clients, the most media-savvy generations yet, to explore how they think, feel, and communicate. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Joeri Van den Bergh, Mattias Behrer
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How NASA Builds Teams: Mission Critical Soft Skills for Scientists, Engineers, and Project TeamsTo improve communication, performance, and morale among NASA's technical teams, former NASA Astrophysicist Dr. Charlie Pellerin developed the teambuilding process described in this book, which can be applied in any organization.
By Charles J. Pellerin
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How Performance Management is Killing Performance: and What to Do About It: Rethink, Redesign, RebootLaying out a method that employees will embrace, this book provides a comprehensive, step-by-step guide to creating a performance management solution that's tailored to your organization's needs and goals and that places the emphasis squarely on your greatest asset: your people.
By M. Tamra Chandler
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How the Future Works: Leading Flexible Teams To Do The Best Work of Their LivesUnlock the power of flexible work with this practical "how-to" guide from the leadership of Slack and Future Forum
By Brian Elliott, Helen Kupp, Sheela Subramanian
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How to Be an Even Better Manager: A Complete A-Z of Proven Techniques and Essential Skills, 11th EditionFor current and aspiring managers alike, this trusted and popular guide provides a whistle-stop tour of the skills and techniques you need to succeed.
By Michael Armstrong
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How to Build High-Performance TeamsFrom recruiting the right team members to truly empowering them with authority and responsibility for their decisions and performance, this course guide will show you how to build trust, confidence, and group work skills, balancing and fine-tuning the team process as you go.
By Donald H. Weiss
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How to Manage Conflict in the Organization, Second EditionFilled with the strategies, tactics and insights you need to gain control of tough conflict situations, this course guide will help you transform conflict into a positive, productive force by applying the proven techniques of principled negotiation.
By Gregg Lee Carter, Joseph F. Byrnes
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How to Manage People: Fast, Effective Management Skills that Really Get Results, 5th EditionGain essential skills for career development with practical advice on how to manage performance, deal with difficult people and inspire a successful team.
By Michael Armstrong
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How to Manage Performance: 24 Lessons for Improving PerformancePacked with inside tips on achieving performance levels once thought unattainable, this practical guide provides you with the goal-focused, commonsense tools you need to stimulate productivity in any environment.
By Robert Bacal
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How to Win Friends and Manage RemotelyHow to Win Friends and Manage Remotely shares real-life examples, scientifically proven ideas, and distillations of tried-and-true business tenets, including why expressing empathy is the most important factor in managing and working with others-all mapped to a new virtual-first office.
By McKenna Sweazey
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Human Capital: The Driving Force for Economic DevelopmentThis book presents a new interpretation of the role of human capital and the state in driving economic development.
By Claudia Sunna, Cosimo Perrotta, Salvatore Rizzello
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Hundred Percenters: Challenge Your Employees to Give It Their All, and They'll Give You Even More, Second EditionBased on a detailed study of more than 500,000 leaders and employees, this book provides the tools and techniques--and the rationale behind them--to help you create an army of employees who don't just do their best-but who also deliver results.
By Mark Murphy
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Hybrid Virtual Teams in Shared Services Organizati: Practices to Overcome the Cooperation ProblemThis book focuses on virtual teams, which are fraught with cooperation problems. It offers novel insights into how team members experience and overcome these problems by empirically studying hybrid virtual teams in Shared Services Organizations.
By Thomas Afflerbach
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Improving Business Performance With LeanPresenting a toolkit to enable readers to successfully improve business processes in their workplace, this concise, non-technical book illustrates the application of Lean in different contexts including manufacturing, healthcare, food service, administrative processes, distribution, and retail.
By James R. Bradley
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Improving Employee Performance Through Appraisal and Coaching, Second EditionPacked with ready-to-use forms, instructions and observations on their effective use, this book gives you all the guidance and tools you'll need to implement a genuinely proactive performance management program that gets maximum results.
By Donald L. Kirkpatrick
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Improving Managerial Talent: Practical Psychology for Human Resourcing and Learning & Development ProfessionalsAimed at senior HRM and L&D specialists responsible for improving their organization's managerial talent, this book provides the reader with self-insights and an appreciation of validated, powerful, often in-house, methods for selecting and developing better managers.
By Hugh McCredie
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In Control at 50+: How to Succeed in the New World of Work, 1st EditionIn Control at 50+ shows how to make the new normal work for you. Kerry Hannon, a workplace futurist and renowned expert on business, careers, and personal finance, combines all her insights and skills to help you actively shape your work future into what you want it to be.
By Kerry Hannon
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International Perspectives and Strategies for Managing an Aging WorkforceInternational Perspectives and Strategies for Managing an Aging Workforce examines the differences in stereotypes of older employees compared to younger employees in companies; analyzes the impact of the aging workforce on retention, productivity, and well-being; and investigates organizational systems, processes, and practices for managing older workers.
By Fatma Ince
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Invisible Influence: The Power to Persuade Anyone, Anytime, AnywhereBased on new scientific discoveries that reveal fascinating and unique approaches to influence, this book shows how people process their feelings about products, services, and people, and what mental shortcuts they use to make their choices.
By Kevin Hogan
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It's the Manager: Gallup Finds the Quality of Managers and Team Leaders is the Single Biggest Factor in Your Organization's Long-Term SuccessIn It's the Manager, authors Jim Clifton and Jim Harter draw on Gallup's renowned study on organizational productivity to (re)define the manager's role as being vital in any company's successful adaptation to the future of work. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its content.
By Jim Clifton, Jim Harter
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It's Your Ship: Management Techniques from the Best Damn Ship in the NavyIt's Your Ship shows you how to extract the best from your team, ensure your business is operating at peak efficiency, and ultimately set a course for success. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By D. Michael Abrashoff
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Jerks at Work: How to Deal With People Problems and Problem People, Revised EditionDrawing on e-mails and letters across America, popular syndicated columnist Ken Lloyd presents examples of some of the most outrageous, classic, and current workplace (mis)behaviors, along with strategies to effectively deal with them.
By Ken Lloyd
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Keeping The Millennials: Why Companies Are Losing Billions in Turnover to This Generation-and What to Do About ItIf your company is struggling to hang on to young workers, this timely book offers sage advice and smart strategies for building a workplace that welcomes employees of every generation.
By Jan Ferri-Reed, Joanne Sujansky
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Key Performance Indicators (KPI): Developing, Implementing, and Using Winning KPIsBreathtaking in its simplicity and profound in its impact, this book distills the balanced scorecard process into 12 logical steps, equipping users with an implementation resource kit that includes questionnaires, worksheets, workshop outlines, and more.
By David Parmenter
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Key Performance Indicators For DummiesIncluding more than 100 different ways leaders can monitor and drive performance in their organizations, this book moves beyond a basic discussion of what KPIs are, and why they are needed to provide a complete guide for learning to design and use specific KPIs to drive organizational performance.
By Bernard Marr
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Key Performance Indicators: Developing, Implementing, and Using Winning KPIs, Third EditionKey Performance Indicators shows you how to achieve success by aligning your organization's daily activities with its strategic objectives using key performance indicators (KPIs). In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By David Parmenter
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Know-How: The 8 Skills That Separate People Who Perform From Those Who Don'tFor the budding entrepreneur to the seasoned CEO, Know-How offers real-world examples of successful and failed business approaches that serve as a manual to help anyone in a management role run a successful company. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Ram Charan
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Lead Inside the Box: How Smart Leaders Guide Their Teams to Exceptional ResultsIn Lead Inside the Box, authors Victor Prince and Mike Figliuolo provide a proven method to achieve performance excellence in the teams that you lead. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Mike Figliuolo, Victor Prince
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Lead Inside the Box: How Smart Leaders Guide Their Teams to Exceptional ResultsThrough simple frameworks brought to life with stories from the trenches, this book gives leaders a way to get the best out of their teams by focusing their energy where it will make the biggest difference.
By Mike Figliuolo, Victor Prince
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Lead!: How to Build a High Performing TeamRather than a textbook full of theory, this guide offers practical advice, strategies and real-life examples from top leaders around the globe that will guide you to being a more effective leader who inspires success from your team.
By Dale Carnegie & Associates
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Leaders Eat Last: Why Some Teams Pull Together and Others Don'tLeaders Eat Last provides a compass for aspiring leaders wishing to really make a difference and point their teams in one direction-toward success. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Simon Sinek
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Leaders Start to Finish: A Road Map for Developing Top Performers, 2nd EditionFeaturing numerous case examples from the real world, as well as checklists, discussion questions, practical exercises, training tips, and more, this book offers detailed, specific insight on developing highly effective leadership training programs that will produce engaged and authentic leaders.
By Anne Bruce, Stephanie Montanez
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Leadership at Scale: Better Leadership, Better ResultsUsing extensive research, distilled insights from McKinsey's leadership development work in practice, and lessons from a highly successful leadership development program, this book focuses on the leadership behaviors that matter most.
By Claudio Feser, Michael Rennie, Nicolai Chen Nielsen
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Leadership Coaching: Working with Leaders to Develop Elite Performance, 2nd EditionLeadership Coaching discusses the models, tools, and frameworks that can be used to develop effective coaching strategies. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Jonathan Passmore (ed)
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Leadership Coaching: Working with Leaders to Develop Elite Performance, 2nd EditionDrawing on top coaching practitioners' thinking and writing, this book presents an in-depth understanding of the tools, techniques, and frameworks that can be used to enhance the coach/coachee relationship.
By Jonathan Passmore (ed)
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Leadership Through a Screen: A Definitive Guide to Leading a Remote, Virtual TeamLeadership Through a Screen extends the knowledge and strategies you can implement to help you become a successful and productive virtual team leader. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Garry Prentice, Joseph Brady
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Leading Agile TeamsPresenting a practical and engaging guide to help your organization embrace a more agile mindset, this book will give you the knowledge and tools you need to create and sustain strong agile teams, and is written for the developers, project managers, product owners, and ScrumMasters, who do most of the legwork in getting agile up and running.
By Doug Rose
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Leading at a Distance: Practical Lessons for Virtual SuccessThis book provides executives with the necessary skills to successfully lead in the new virtual workplace, backed by the research and expertise of global leadership firm
By Darleen DeRosa, James M. Citrin
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Leading Creative Teams: Management Career Paths for Designers, Developers, and CopywritersDrawing on interviews with top creative directors, art directors, and advertising managers, this detailed resource explores how the roles of creative team managers are evolving in response to changing technologies and business models.
By Eleazar Hernández
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Leading Effective Virtual Teams: Overcoming Time and Distance to Achieve Exceptional ResultsPresenting practical tips to help leaders engage and motivate their geographically dispersed project team members, this timely book will show you how to address some of the toughest challenges virtual team leaders face, including keeping team members engaged from afar.
By Nancy M. Settle-Murphy
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Leading Geeks: How to Manage the People Who Deliver TechnologyThis book clarifies the responsibilities and tasks of the geek leader and contrasts them to conventional approaches to leadership.
By Paul Glen
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Leading Leaders: How to Manage Smart, Talented, Rich, and Powerful PeopleRather than relying on top-down processes that may apply in a typical leadership hierarchy, this book shows how to develop one-on-one, up-close-and-personal relationships with influential people and how to leverage their expertise toward strong results.
By Jeswald W. Salacuse
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Leading Outside the Lines: How to Mobilize the (in)Formal Organization, Energize Your Team and Get Better ResultsLeading Outside the Lines uses relatable real-life examples to give readers ideas on how to change their organization at both the informal and formal level. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Jon R. Katzenbach, Zia Khan
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Leading Self-Directed Work Teams: A Guide to Developing New Team Leadership SkillsIncluding practical examples and techniques, new research, dozens of tips and checklists, case studies, and valuable training exercises, this book is the perfect guide for any team leader has been revised and expanded to reflect the new realities of team-based organizations.
By Kimball Fisher
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Leading Teams in a Week: Team Leadership in Seven Simple StepsThis book is aimed at helping all of us no matter what kinds of teams we might need to lead.
By Nigel Cumberland
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Leading Teams: Tools and Techniques for Successful Team Leadership from the Sports WorldDrawing upon the authors' unique experiences working with top sports coaches, as well as some of the world's leading corporate executives, this book offers important insights into team leadership and motivation, as well as tools for optimizing teamwork and inspiring teams to reach new heights.
By Dino Ruta, Paolo Guenzi
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Leading the Unleadable: How to Manage Mavericks, Cynics, Divas, and Other Difficult PeopleWritten by an insider in the tech industry, where personality issues routinely wreck projects, this book offers simple steps, examples, and scripts that explain how to right even the most hopeless situations.
By Alan Willett
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Leading the Virtual Workforce : How Great Leaders Transform Organizations in the 21st CenturySharing detailed case studies from IBM, Merck, Western Union, Alcatel-Lucent, HP, AT&T, and more, this book paves the way for future leaders to create unmatched competitive advantage and performance improvements in the growing world of virtual work.
By Karen Sobel Lojeski, Richard R. Reilly
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Leading Virtual Project Teams: Adapting Leadership Theories and Communications Techniques to 21st Century OrganizationsComplete with case studies that illustrate real-world applications to the virtual challenges presented in each chapter, this book provides the virtual project manager with the tools and techniques to improve e-leadership and communications.
By Margaret R. Lee
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Leading Work Teams: Management DevelopmentUse this Infoline to guide you in the application of basic leadership principles in a team setting and show you how to effectively engage in leadership, build core leadership behaviors and skills, influence team members, and much more.
By Kathryn Gaines
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Leading Your Team: How to Involve and Inspire Teams, Second EditionAn essential survival kit for team leaders tackling the challenge of creating, inspiring and sustaining teams.
By Andrew Leigh, Michael Maynard
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Learning Analytics: Measurement Innovations to Support Employee DevelopmentLearning Analytics discusses the importance of developing an important asset-employees-to build a skilled workforce and add value to your business. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Jean Martin, John Mattox, Mark Van Buren
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Learning Analytics: Measurement Innovations to Support Employee DevelopmentProviding a framework for understanding how to work with learning analytics, this book shows learning & development and HR practitioners the power that effective analytics has on building an organization and the impact this power has on performance, talent management, and competitive advantage.
By Jean Martin, John R Mattox II, Mark Van Buren
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Making a Success of Managing and Working RemotelyAimed at managers and team members who are about to or have already started working remotely, this book provides practical advice on how to manage remotely and offers tips and techniques on how to work remotely.
By Sarah Cook
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Making Teams WorkOffering suggestions that will help you take advantage of all of the great things that result from working on a team, this concise book shows you how to relate more productively, more efficiently, with less stress, and with greater results, with those you work with.
By Laura Stack
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Making Telework Work: Leading People and Leveraging Technology for High-Impact ResultsWhile IT infrastructure, software, and hardware may set the stage for telework, this book lays out what leaders need to know to integrate technology, manage knowledge workers and teleworkers, and drive competitive advantage for their organizations.
By Evan H. Offstein, Jason M. Morwick
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Making Work Visible: Exposing Time Theft to Optimize Work & FlowChock-full of exercises, takeaways, real-world examples, colorful diagrams, and written in an easy-going style, this book offers time-saving solutions and effective practices that will help you create high-performing workflows within an organization.
By Dominica DeGrandis
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Management and Leadership in the 4th Industrial Revolution: Capabilities to Achieve Superior PerformanceLearn how to thrive in the increasingly uncertain context of the fourth industrial revolution by building key capabilities as part of a long-term strategy to achieve superior performance.
By Stephen Wyatt
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Management as a Calling: Leading Business, Serving SocietyThis book is meant to challenge future business leaders to think differently about their career, its purpose, and its value as a calling or vocation, one that is in service to society.
By Andrew J. Hoffman
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Management Teams: Why They Succeed or Fail, Third EditionWith real-life case studies showing how to apply the theory in practice, this unique book presents the Team Role behaviors which shape everyday interactions in teams and provides succinct and practical information to enable managers to make a real difference in the workplace.
By R. Meredith Belbin
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Manager's Pocket Guide to Dealing with ConflictHelp for new managers and supervisiors in dealing with garden-variety workplace conflict.
By Lois B. Hart, Ed.D.
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ManagingManaging makes a compelling case that true management skills cannot be taught in a classroom, and can only be learned through experience. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Henry Mintzberg
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Managing and Leading People through Organizational Change: The Theory and Practice of Sustaining Change through PeopleManaging and Leading People through Organizational Change explores the various theories and approaches to managing change, whether it's a slight alteration or radical transformation. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Julie Hodges
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Managing Conflict at Work: Understanding and Resolving Conflict for Productive Working RelationshipsManaging Conflict at Work examines the workings of conflict management, with a view to creating a happier and more productive workforce. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Clive Johnson, Jackie Keddy
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Managing Conflict: A Practical Guide to Resolution in the WorkplaceIn Managing Conflict, author David Liddle explores a practical, people-oriented approach to resolving discord in your organization. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By David Liddle
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Managing Employee Performance: Motivation, Ability, and ObstaclesIncluding tips for analyzing performance issues as well as tips for taking corrective action, this concise guide addresses some of the issues that impact your employees' ability to give you stellar performance every day, including their motivation, ability, and obstacles.
By Laura Stack
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Managing for Happiness: Games, Tools, and Practices to Motivate Any TeamIn Managing for Happiness, author Jurgen Appelo shows you how to have happy and fulfilled employees who share your passion for success. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Jurgen Appelo
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Managing Incompetence: An Innovative Approach for Dealing With PeopleEvery day, managers and supervisors face a myriad of personalities in the workplace. This humorous, yet practical guide will help managers diagnose inefficiencies in their staff and learn how to discern and improve peoples' behaviors in the workplace.
By Gabriel Ginebra
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Managing Millennials: Shaping a New Work ParadigmThis book provides a solution. It's designed to educate readers on the current and future millennial workforce: who they are, what they want, what they need and how to get the best out of them.
By Jacqueline Cripps
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Managing Multiple ProjectsManaging Multiple Projects discusses workplace reliability and project priorities. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Irene Tobis, Michael Tobis
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Managing People for the First Time: Simple Ideas for Leading Your TeamManaging People for the First Time is full of tips, scenarios, and support to get you tuned in to taking on the responsibility of management in a new environment. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Ronald Bracey
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Managing Performance, Appraising and Engaging Employees: Helping Your People Achieve SuccessThe My Practical MBA Series provides the latest thinking as well as perennial techniques for a range of business challenges. This concise guide shows how appraisals can help leaders learn more about their team, and shows how appraisals are a very powerful tool for improving individual performance and productivity.
By LID Editorial
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Managing Successful TeamsOffering valuable advice and practical strategies, this helpful book prepares managers to meet the challenges of building and leading teams, showing how to improve performance and achieve the best results.
By Pat Wellington
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Managing TeamsFor teams to succeed, management must lay the groundwork. This resource provides methods and checklists to determine if teams are right for your business, and improvements you should expect--and not expect--from teams.
By Lawrence Holpp
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Managing the Generation Mix: From Collision to CollaborationThis book will help you place your multi-generational team on the course to collaboration.
By Bruce Tulgan, Carolyn A. Martin
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Managing the Millennials: Discover the Core Competencies for Managing Today's Workforce, Second EditionWith fresh research and new real-world examples, this book examines the differences between how generations work today in businesses around the world, with insightful exploration into what makes the Millennial generation so different from the ones that came before.
By Chip Espinoza, Mick Ukleja
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Managing the Mobile Workforce: Leading, Building, and Sustaining Virtual TeamsFeaturing stories from top execs at Samsung, Deloitte LLP, HP, LEGO, and the Federal Office of Personnel Management, along with thought leaders like Joel Barker and Stephen M. R. Covey, this book offers guidance on building, leading, and sustaining a highly productive virtual workforce.
By David Clemons, Michael Kroth
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Managing the Virtual WorkforceHelping you identify which positions in your organization are best suited for a virtual environment, this Infoline discusses how to engage remote employees, use conferencing technologies to facilitate a collaborative environment, and much more.
By Erika Tedesco
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Managing Virtual Teams, Second EditionVirtual teams play an important role in today's global business environment. This book offers numerous strategies you can employ to help assure effective functioning of a virtual team as well as personal characteristics you can cultivate in yourself and others to promote the development of valuable virtual team members and leaders.
By Carol M. Lehman (eds), Debbie D. DuFrene
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Marketing to Gen Z: The Rules for Reaching This Vast and Very Different Generation of InfluencersDrawn from original quantitative research and interviews, this timely and practical book paints a fascinating portrait of the newest buyers now entering the scene and offers dozens of examples and insights for connecting and conversing with them.
By Angie Read, Jeff Fromm
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Mastering Business Negotiation: A Working Guide To Making Deals And Resolving ConflictMastering Business Negotiations provides a detailed how-to on negotiating that will empower and educate the reader to reach his or her professional goals. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Alexander Hiam, Roy J. Lewicki
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Mastering Coaching: Practical Insights for Developing High PerformanceMastering Coaching is a clear and compelling examination of contemporary trends in coaching. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Max Landsberg
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Mastering Leadership: An Integrated Framework for Breakthrough Performance and Extraordinary Business ResultsOffering a blueprint for a brand-new leadership skillset, which unlocks record-breaking results through prioritizing personal development, Mastering Leadership is a rousing invitation to embark on a journey of self-development. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Robert J. Anderson, William A. Adams
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Mastering Virtual Teams: Strategies, Tools, and Techniques That Succeed, Third EditionA toolkit for leaders and members of virtual teams, this book provides useful tools, exercises, and real-life examples to show how anyone can master the unique dynamics of virtual team participation in an environment where the old rules no longer apply.
By Deborah L. Duarte, Nancy Tennant Snyder
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Material Adverse Change: Lessons from Failed M&AsA large acquisition is already a delicate balancing act. Why complicate it with the exponential risk by not doing your homework? This book shows you how to apply best practices to increase your chances of successful deals and avoid potentially career ending mistakes.
By Robert V. Stefanowski
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Measurement Madness: Recognizing and Avoiding the Pitfalls of Performance MeasurementHelping you recognize, correct and even avoid common performance measurement problems, this engaging book will enable you to design a simple, effective performance measurement system, which will have the intended result of creating value in your organization.
By Andrey Pavlov, Dina Gray, Pietro Micheli
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Measuring and Maximizing the Impact of Talent DevelopmentExplaining how a systems approach can increase the impact of talent development efforts, this book shows that when leaders measure talent across the organization, they can eliminate the gaps between where the organization is and where it ought to be.
By Alec Levenson
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Measuring the Success of Leadership Development: A Step-by-Step Guide for Measuring Impact and Calculating ROIBy explaining how to begin the leadership development process with the end in mind, this essential guide outlines each step of the proven ROI Methodology and explains how to apply it to driving leadership development program performance and evaluating results.
By Jack J. Phillips, Patricia Pulliam Phillips, Rebecca Ray
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Mental Illness at Work: A Manager's Guide to Identifying, Managing and Preventing Psychological Problems in the WorkplaceAuthored by leading psychologists, this timely and informative book explores the psychiatric classification of mental illness and offers practical and solid advice on the identification, mitigation and prevention of mental illness in the workplace.
By Adrian Furnham, Mary-Clare Race
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Millennials & Management: The Essential Guide to Making it Work at WorkUsing real world examples, this invaluable book gives leaders data-driven steps to take to motivate, collaborate with, and manage the millennial generation, who now make up almost 50% of the American workforce.
By Lee Caraher
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MIT Sloan Management Review Article on Five Ways to Improve Communication in Virtual TeamsIn this article from MIT Sloan Management Review, you'll learn that implementing simple strategies with your team will engender more effective virtual communication.
By MIT Sloan Management Review
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MIT Sloan Management Review Article on Four Principles to Ensure Hybrid Work Is Productive WorkThis article from MIT Sloan Management Review talks about how organizations have become more flexible about where and when employees work, but now must be more intentional about their choices and trade-offs.
By Lynda Gratton
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MIT Sloan Management Review Article on How to Prevent the Return to Offices From Being an Emotional Roller CoasterThis article from MIT Sloan Management Review discusses how leaders can take steps now to make employees feel supported and safe before they resume in-person work.
By Liz Fosslien, Mollie West-Duffy
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MIT Sloan Management Review Article on Leadership Development Is Failing Us. Here's How to Fix ItExecutive development programs are big business, but too many fail to yield meaningful results. Here's how to be a savvy consumer.
By Hannes Leroy, Jim Detert, Moran Anisman-Razin
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MIT Sloan Management Review Article on Redesigning the Post-Pandemic WorkplaceThis article from MIT Sloan Management Review talks about how work as we know it is forever changed by COVID-19 and that now is the time for managers to envision the office that employees will return to.
By Anh Phillips, Gerald C. Kane, Jonathan Copulsky, Rich Nanda
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MIT Sloan Management Review Article on What We're Still Getting Wrong About Performance ManagementMeasuring and improving performance are two separate objectives best achieved through two distinct processes.
By Amy Leschke-Kahle
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MIT Sloan Management Review Article on Work-From-Home Regulations Are Coming. Companies Aren't Ready.The growing compliance costs of remote work could push more employers to bring workers back to the office.
By Jimena Murillo Chávarro
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Motivation and Performance: A Guide to Motivating a Diverse WorkforceMotivation and Performance provides guidelines to understand what drives an individual's behavior and how to develop a diverse and engaged workforce. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Adrian Furnham, Ian MacRae
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Navigating the Impossible: Build Extraordinary Teams and Shatter ExpectationsWorld-record endurance athlete and professional leadership coach Jason Caldwell draws on his amazing experiences to show how anyone can build and lead teams that accomplish incredible things.
By Jason Caldwell
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Negotiation at Work: Maximize Your Team's Skills with 60 High-Impact ActivitiesFeaturing transcripts from real negotiations, case studies, assessments, and even practice negotiation sessions, this handy book is packed with with 60 interactive lessons designed to instill confidence and transform participants into strong negotiators.
By Ira G. Asherman
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New Supervisor TrainingNew Supervisor Training is a complete training kit that will help you teach your employees the skills to supervise others. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Elaine Biech
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Next Generation Leadership: How to Ensure Young Talent will Thrive with Your OrganizationEmployers who refuse to adapt to the expectations of younger generations are losing out on top talent, as they leave for positions at companies with more modern practices. Learn what companies need to do to fit into the new normal in the workplace.
By Adam Kingl
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Nice Teams Finish Last: The Secret to Unleashing Your Team's Maximum PotentialNice Teams Finish Last debunks commonly-held myths about effective teamwork, and shows that playing NICE in the workplace is a recipe for mediocrity. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Brian Cole Miller
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Nine Minutes on Monday: The Quick and Easy Way to Go from Manager to LeaderNine Minutes on Monday provides managers with nine fundamental needs for a realistic approach to sustaining long-term working relationships between employers and employees. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By James Robbins
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No-Nonsense TeamworkAnswers to some frequently asked questions about building, managing and evaluating teams in the workplace.
By Glenn M. Parker
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Not Everyone Gets a Trophy: How to Bring Out the Best in Young Talent, Third EditionIn the newly revised third edition of Not Everyone Gets a Trophy: How to Bring Out the Best in Young Talent, renowned management trainer and business advisor Bruce Tulgan reimagines how to engage with, develop, and retain millennial employees in a time of deep economic disruption.
By Bruce Tulgan
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Not Everyone Gets A Trophy: How to Manage the Millennials, Revised and UpdatedProviding employers with a workable game plan for turning Millennials into the stellar workforce they have the potential to be, this book offers a practical framework for engaging, developing, and retaining the new generation of employees.
By Bruce Tulgan
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On the Line: Business Education in the Digital AgeIn On the Line, authors Khare and Hurst discuss the growing field of online learning and its impact on the business environment. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Anshuman Khare, Deborah Hurst
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Onboard New Hires VirtuallyIn this issue of TD at Work, Sharlyn Lauby discusses the value of onboarding as well as the benefits and drawbacks of virtual learning.
By Sharlyn Lauby
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One Second Ahead: Enhance Your Performance at Work with MindfulnessOne Second Ahead offers a practical, actionable, how-to guide to attaining and maintaining mental acuity in your professional and personal life. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Gillian Coutts, Jacqueline Carter, Rasmus Hougaard
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Optimal Outcomes: Free Yourself from Conflict at Work, at Home, and in LifeIn Optimal Outcomes, author Jennifer Goldman-Wetzler explores unhealthy patterns of conflict and presents practical steps and tools to rid yourself of its presence in your life. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Jennifer Goldman-Wetzler
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Optimization of Leadership Style: New Approaches to Effective Multicultural Leadership in International TeamsExplaining ten selected and powerful leadership enablers to motivate, develop, and manage international teams, this book focuses on managers and employees involved in multicultural teams of organizations.
By Reinhold Kohler
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Optimizing the Power of Action Learning: Real-Time Strategies for Developing Leaders, Building Teams, and Transforming OrganizationsOptimizing the Power of Action Learning is a powerful rallying call for a radical new approach to how we solve problems and manage change. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Michael J. Marquardt
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Organizational Behaviour: People, Process, Work and Human Resource ManagementOrganizational Behaviour introduces a methodology for viewing employees as individuals and handling their diverse identities, perception, and motivation using a social as well as a business approach. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Raisa Arvinen-Muondo, Stephen Perkins
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Overcoming the Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Field Guide For Leaders, Managers, and FacilitatorsUsing tools, exercises, assessments, and real-world examples, this direct, concise book gives leaders, line managers, and consultants alike the tools they need to get their teams up and running quickly and effectively.
By Patrick Lencioni
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Painless Performance Conversations: A Practical Approach to Critical Day-to-Day Workplace DiscussionsPresenting four key mindsets and an easy to use conversation model, this book offers actionable and practical communication and management strategies for any manager looking to effectively influence employee performance.
By Marnie E. Green
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Partner for Performance: Strategically Aligning Learning and DevelopmentThe key to aligning your learning and development role with your organization's greatest needs, this book offers a framework for fast-tracking your growth as an ally to managers and a consultant to business leaders.
By Ingrid Guerra-López, Karen Hicks
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People First Leadership: How the Best Leaders Use Culture and Emotion to Drive Unprecedented ResultsPeople First Leadership presents a business model based on establishing a strong organizational culture and managing the emotions involved in running an organization. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Eduardo P. Braun
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People-Centric Management: How Leaders Use Four Agile Levers to Succeed in the New Dynamic Business Contexthis book argues that people-centric leadership is essential to succeed in the new dynamic business context.
By Lukas Michel
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Perfect Phrases for Building Strong Teams: Hundreds of Ready-to-Use Phrases for Fostering Collaboration, Encouraging Communication and Growing a Winning TeamWhether you're a project manager, department head, or CEO, this quick-reference guide addresses all the issues you could possibly encounter working with a team - from building a winning team mindset, to managing virtual teams, and more.
By Linda Eve Diamond
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Perfect Phrases for Documenting Employee Performance ProblemsProviding hands-on solutions for hundreds of workplace scenarios, this user-friendly guide offers a wide range of ready-to-use scripts and a handy problem-solving toolkit you can use to address the most difficult issues diplomatically and constructively.
By Anne Bruce
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Perfect Phrases for Managers and Supervisors: Hundreds of Ready-to-Use Phrases for Overcoming Any Management Situation, Second EditionProviding the right phrase for every situation every time, this concise and practical guide will help you communicate in today's workplace, where collaboration, cooperation, and personalization are critical to building an efficient, productive work environment.
By Meryl Runion
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Perfect Phrases for Managers and Supervisors: Hundreds of Ready-to-Use Phrases for Overcoming Any Management Situation, Second EditionPerfect Phrases for Managers and Supervisors, Second Edition proposes pertinent phrases to get managers thinking collaboratively and supportively. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Meryl Runion
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Perfect Phrases for Performance Reviews: Hundreds of Ready-to-Use Phrases That Describe Your Employees' PerformanceThis book provides a comprehensive collection of phrases that managers can use to describe employee performance, provide directions for improvement, and more.
By Douglas Max, Robert Bacal
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Performance Appraisals: How to Achieve Top ResultsLearn how to measure employee performance, linking appraisals to organizational goals and individual development.
By Karen S. Whelan, Priscilla A. Glidden
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Performance Appraisals: Strategies for SuccessFilled with assessments, diagrams and checklists to help you gain a thorough understanding of the performance appraisal process, this Self-Study course will equip you to meet this managerial challenge with confidence and enthusiasm.
By Diane Arthur
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Performance Basics, 2nd EditionGuiding you through human performance improvement (HPI) while delving into major changes in performance analysis, this book will help you get the results you need to generate organizational improvement and ensure you're ready for your foray into performance consulting.
By Joe Willmore
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Performance Consulting: Applying Performance Improvement in Human Resource DevelopmentFilled with illustrative examples from giants in the field of human performance technology, this step-by-step resource describes the skills needed in order to become an effective performance consultant.
By William J. Rothwell
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Performance Gap Analysis: Human Performance ImprovementProviding a checklist of questions for a training needs analysis, this Infoline describes how to carry out the two distinct analysis processes that go into a front-end analysis: a gap (or performance) analysis and root cause analysis.
By Maren Franklin
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Performance ManagementUsing a combination of practical tools, assessments, scenarios, and case studies from best practice, this guide aligns learning and development with strategic objectives, and provides the skills needed to plan, implement, and assess relations in any type of organization.
By Linda Ashdown
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Performance Management Pocketbook, Second EditionContaining illustrative case studies and a helpful review and actions section in each chapter, this concise guide will help you lead others to achieve results, engage and motivate others, set clear objectives, coach and delegate effectively, and more.
By Pam Jones
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Performance Management: Concepts, Skills, and Exercises, Second EditionOrganized around a straightforward model of performance management that includes defining performance, diagnosis, evaluation, feedback, and improving performance, this engaging book offers both an understanding of performance management and the ability to manage performance.
By Brian Leonard, Robert L. Cardy
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Performance Management: Key Strategies and Practical Guidelines, 3rd EditionIncluding numerous case studies and invaluable advice from experienced practitioners, this book provides the ideal action plan for any manager wanting to get the best from his or her employees.
By Michael Armstrong
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Performance Management: Managing Employee Performance, Study Guide, Student EditionThis title will be removed from the Skillsoft library on May 24, 2024.
By GTS Learning
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Performance Management: Measure and Improve the Effectiveness of Your EmployeesPerformance Management provides definitions, examples, and basic step-by-step frameworks to help managers foster an engaged workforce. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Richard Luecke
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Performance Management: Putting Research into ActionOffering a compendium of the most current thinking, strategies, and best practices in performance management, this important resource will help HR managers, consultants, and line managers define and implement an effective system.
By James W. Smither, Manuel London (eds)
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Performance Measurement: Linking Balanced Scorecard to Business IntelligenceProviding useful, practical understanding of the underlying principles and specific processes and practices presented, this book describes the most recent developments in performance measurement and the relative Performance Measurement Systems (PMS).
By Luca Quagini, Stefano Tonchia
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Power Your Tribe: Create Resilient Teams in Turbulent TimesPower Your Tribe provides the core principles you need to guide your team through adapting to relentless internal and external changes. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Christine Comaford
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Power Your Tribe: Create Resilient Teams in Turbulent TimesFilled with case studies and all-too-familiar examples, this groundbreaking book will enable you to release resistance to change, build more emotionally agile teams, and mobilize the entire organization quickly and efficiently toward a clear and common goal.
By Christine Comaford
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Powerhouse: Insider Accounts into the World's Top High-Performance OrganizationsPowerhouse presents analyses of 12 top performing organizations and the reasons behind their success. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Brian MacNeice, James Bowen
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Primal Teams: Harnessing the Power of Emotions to Fuel Extraordinary PerformancePrimal Teams opens up a world of possibility for businesses by successfully demonstrating how channeling high-energy emotions can transform your team. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Jackie Barretta
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Primal Teams: Harnessing the Power of Emotions to Fuel Extraordinary PerformanceIllustrated with compelling examples, this groundbreaking guide shows how anyone can control potentially damaging emotions, while triggering the kind of passion and energy that supercharge performance.
By Jackie Barretta
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Producing Virtual Training, Meetings, and Webinars: Master the Technology to Engage ParticipantsThis book guides you through the production knowledge and skills a trainer needs to master the production of virtual events while delivering engaging training, productive meetings, and captivating webinars.
By Kassy Laborie
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Productive Performance Appraisals, Second EditionIncluding sample dialogs, checklists, and forms, this practical and straightforward guide gives you all the tools and advice you need for turning the dreaded performance appraisal into a constructive, collaborative effort.
By Paul Falcone, Randi Sachs
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Quick Brainstorming Activities for Busy Managers: 50 Exercises to Spark Your Team's Creativity and Get Results FastFilled with clear, concise guidance and quick, easily implemented techniques, this book provides supervisors, managers, and team leaders the fun, proven activities they need to get idea-packed brainstorming sessions started, and keep them going.
By Brian Cole Miller
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Quick Team-Building Activities for Busy Managers: 50 Exercises That Get Results in Just 15 MinutesThis text presents 50 fun, practical exercises for supervisors, managers, and team leaders; the exercises cover dealing with change and its effects, keeping competition healthy and productive, recognizing efforts and accomplishments, and more.
By Brian Cole Miller
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Quick Team-Building Activities for Busy Managers: 50 Exercises That Get Results in Just 15 Minutes, Second EditionQuick Team-Building Activities for Busy Managers provides several easy games that you can use to help build a team in 15-minute segments. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Brian Cole Miller
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Quick Team-Building Activities for Managers, Second EditionContaining 50 exercises that can be conducted in 15 minutes or less, this book presents each activity with all the relevant information including a list of materials needed, the purpose of the exercise, and handy tips for success.
By Brian Cole Miller
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Radical Candor: Be a Kick-Ass Boss Without Losing Your HumanityRadical Candor provides you with simple tips and tricks to boost openness in your work environment. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Kim Scott
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Radical Outcomes: How to Create Extraordinary Teams that Get Tangible ResultsProviding a blueprint for a new way of working, this timely and practical book offers a guide for developing the type of extraordinary teams that can skillfully navigate our complex, connected business environment, and produce radical results.
By Juliana Stancampiano
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Radical Therapy for Software Development Teams: Improving Software Development Practices and Team Dynamics NEW!Build and maintain effective, collaborative, and motivated software development teams. This book addresses the challenges in doing so, like communication gaps, trust issues, and motivation problems, and provides strategies to overcome them.
By Gregory Lind, Maryna Mishchenko
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Ready-to-Use Performance Appraisals: Downloadable, Customizable Tools for Better, Faster Reviews!Offering practical advice on delivering performance reviews to employees, this guide provides tips on defining competencies, creating a rating scale, and modifying existing forms and sample performance evaluation forms from different companies.
By Leslie E. Wilson, William S. Swan
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Reinforcements: How to Get People to Help YouIn Reinforcements, author Heidi Grant presents simple, practical ways to get people to assist you without feeling awkward or beholden. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Heidi Grant
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Remote Working: Linking People and OrganizationsAs more people are working from home, the challenges for both the worker and traditional management increase. This timely book focuses on developing skills to cope with this new environment and stresses the importance of knowing what home workers need.
By David Nickson, Suzy Siddons
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Remote Works: Managing for Freedom, Flexibility, and FocusThis book addresses challenges such as communicating effectively (with fewer meetings!), eliminating frustration over what tools to use, establishing team norms, and focusing on getting things done. You will learn how to work best remotely and create a workplace designed for freedom, flexibility, and focus.
By Ali Greebe, Tamara Sanderson
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Research Anthology on Supporting Healthy Aging in a Digital SocietyThe Research Anthology on Supporting Healthy Aging in a Digital Society discusses the current challenges of aging in the modern world as well as recent developments in medicine and technology that can be used to improve the quality of life of elderly citizens.
By Information Resources Management Association
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Resolving Conflict: Ten Steps for Turning Negatives to PositivesBy using the lessons in this book, leaders will be able to apply a thorough, proven method for analyzing a conflict and moving toward its resolution with more assurance of a positive outcome for everyone involved.
By Harold Scharlatt
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Responsible Managers Get Results: How the Best Find Solutions, Not ExcusesResponsible Managers Get Results articulates the crucial skills to be a responsible manager in the business world, and provides the tools to make this a reality. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Gerald W. Faust, Richard I. Lyles, Will Phillips
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Rewarding Teams: Lessons from the TrenchesUsing actual case studies from a variety of leading companies, this book provides a blueprint for building team reward programs that spur development and success.
By David Zielinski, Glenn M. Parker, Jerry McAdams
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Risk-Based Performance Management: Integrating Strategy and Risk ManagementPresenting a pioneering and practical framework, this results-focused guide to embedding risk management into strategic and operational decision-making gives executive teams the tools to align their risk-taking to strategy, enabling them to drive sustainable success while operating within appetite.
By Andrew Smart, James Creelman
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Small Group Facilitation: Improving Process and Performance in Groups and TeamsIncluding lessons learned from the author's experiences facilitating groups, this extremely readable book presents a new, research-based framework for facilitation along with plenty of how-to tools for putting them into action.
By Judith A. Kolb
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Smart Leaders, Smarter Teams: How You and Your Team Get Unstuck to Get ResultsAuthored by organizational psychologist and leadership consultant Roger Schwarz, this practical book reveals how leaders can drastically improve results by changing their individual and team mindset.
By Roger Schwarz
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Smart Teams: How to Work Better TogetherPacked with tips, guidelines and expert insights for leaders and managers at any level, this book shows you how to build a superproductive team culture with clear principles, simple steps and everyday actions.
By Dermot Crowley
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Social Engineering: The Science of Human Hacking, Second EditionFeaturing how-to guidance, stories, examples, and case studies ripped from the headlines, this book details the human hacker's skill set and gives you the inside information you need to mount an unshakeable defense.
By Christopher Hadnagy
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Solve Employee Problems Before They Start: Resolving Conflict in the Real WorldWith compassion, clarity, and conviction (and a dash of comedy for good measure) popular speaker and employment law attorney Scott Warrick distills conflict resolution to just three simple moves: Empathic Listening, Parroting, and Rewards (EPR).
By Scott Warrick
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Stick Together: A Simple Lesson to Build a Stronger TeamThis book delivers a crucial message about the power of belief, ownership, connection, love, inclusion, consistency, and hope. The authors guide individuals and teams on an inspiring journey to show them how to persevere through challenges, overcome obstacles, and create success together.
By Jon Gordon, Kate Leavell
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Stop Workplace Drama: Train Your Team to Have No Complaints, No Excuses and No RegretsWhether you have a business or professional practice, manage a small team, or command a large workforce, Stop Workplace Drama will help you identify the areas that are causing you and your team strife. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Marlene Chism
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Stop Workplace Drama: Train Your Team to Have No Excuses, No Complaints, and No RegretsEnsuring that your employees will be able to give their best to create a healthy, profitable workplace, this book offers down-to-earth, practical methods to help professionals maximize success, increase productivity, and improve teamwork and personal performance.
By Marlene Chism
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Strategic Management Control: Successful Strategies Based on Dialogue and CollaborationThis book presents Strategic management control differs from traditional management control in several important respects.
By Alf Westelius, Carl-Johan Petri, Fredrik Nilsson
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Strategic People Management and Development: Theory and Practice, Sixth EditionStrategic People Management and Development maps to the CIPD Level 7 module 'People Management and Development strategies for performance'.
By Gary Rees, Ray French
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Strategic Reward and Recognition: Improving Employee Performance through Non-Monetary IncentivesProviding practice examples from all over the world, different sectors, and large and small organizations, this book brings together theory and practice to guide HR professionals, consultants, and senior leaders in developing a clear strategy in developing and implementing the most effective reward programs for their organizations.
By John G. Fisher
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Strengths-Based Leadership: Great Leaders, Teams, and Why People FollowStrengths-Based Leadership proposes a new way of looking at the relationship between leadership and individual strengths. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Barry Conchie, Tom Rath
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Stress-free Performance Appraisals: Turn Your Most Painful Management Duty Into a Powerful Motivational ToolThis offers an overview of the performance appraisal process, emphasizing the importance of providing employees with positive feedback, and breaks the process down into several steps.
By Madelyn Appelbaum, Sharon Armstrong
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Success Metrics: A Multidimensional Framework for Measuring Organizational SuccessExplaining how to measure success at the individual and organizational levels, this book steps you through the process of identifying and combining the right measures to gauge, narrate, and guide your organization's progress toward true success.
By Martin Klubeck
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Successful Team BuildingIf you are a team leader, you know that getting commitment isn't always easy. This do-it-yourself guide discusses team building, avoiding common pitfalls, gaining team commitment, communicating with members and encouraging team creativity.
By Thomas L. Quick
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Symbolic Management: Governance, Strategy, and InstitutionsThe theory of symbolic management reveals a pervasive pattern of 'symbolic decoupling' - a separation between appearances and reality - at every level of the governance system.
By James Westphal, Sun Hyun Park
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Tackling Timewasters: Pleasing, Perfectionism, and ProcrastinationOffering strategies to help you better manage your time, this book shows how to prioritize important tasks and figure out how you can delegate, how you can streamline, how you can eliminate, how you can stop being a perfectionist, and how you can quit procrastinating.
By Laura Stack
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Talent Engagement Across the GenerationsEmployees belonging to different generations have diverse communication and work styles, as well as different expectations of their employers. This Infoline discusses those differences and presents strategies and tactics for engaging and retaining multigenerational talent in the workplace.
By Annabelle Reitman
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Talent Intelligence: What You Need to Know to Identify and Measure TalentFilled with illustrative examples, this book shows how to overcome stumbling blocks that stand in the way of successful talent intelligence and reveals how organizations can successfully implement measurement and use the results.
By Nik Kinley, Shlomo Ben-Hur
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Talent: Making People Your Competitive AdvantageIntroducing two approaches to HC-centric management, this book outlines the unique human capital strategy for each approach, shows what it looks like in action, and provides the foundation and tools for creating competitive and innovative organizations.
By Edward E. Lawler III
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Team Building: Proven Strategies for Improving Team Performance, Fifth EditionIncluding illustrative examples, a discussion of managing cross-functional teams, and information on leading teams in a competitive environment, this guide offers team leaders, members, and consultants the knowledge and skills to create effective, high-functioning teams.
By Jeffrey H. Dyer, W. Gibb Dyer Jr., William G. Dyer
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Team Genius: The New Science of High-Performing OrganizationsTeam Genius explores the dynamics of successful teams, offering engaging case studies and intriguing research to prove that creating great teams requires careful, strategic thinking. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Michael S. Malone, Rich Karlgaard
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Team Leader WorkbookContaining an extensive appendix with 25 surveys, evaluations, exercises and worksheets, this workbook is chock-full of skill-building exercises to help you determine team training needs, write agendas, get input through brainstorming, and much more.
By Eileen Blyth, Sara Pope
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Team Metrics: Resources for Measuring and Improving Team PerformanceIncluding a variety of 27 questionnaires, surveys and assessments which can be used in training or everyday situations, this book provides a valid framework for assessing the key areas of teamwork effectiveness.
By Dave Francis, Mike Woodcock
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Team Roles at Work, Second EditionDesigned for any manager who wants to understand the practical application of Team Role theory, this book explores the impact of Team Roles from interpersonal chemistry and managing difficult relationships, to cultivating effective leaders and shaping organizations.
By R. Meredith Belbin
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Team Topologies: Organizing Business and Technology Teams for Fast FlowTeam Topologies is a practical, step-by-step, adaptive model for organizational design and team interaction based on four fundamental team types and three team interaction patterns. It is a model that treats teams as the fundamental means of delivery, where team structures and communication pathways are able to evolve with technological and organizational maturity.
By Manuel Pais, Matthew Skelton
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Team Turnarounds: A Playbook for Transforming Underperforming TeamsPresenting a six-step model for turnarounds in any organization, this book offers behind-the-scenes accounts of effective turnarounds through interviews with team managers and turnaround masters in the NFL, MLB, and the NCAA, as well as managers at top global firms.
By Daniel Leidl, Joe Frontiera
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Team Turnarounds: A Playbook for Transforming Underperforming TeamsTeam Turnarounds provides a description of how those who lead can bring about positive changes and help teams become the success stories to which they aspire. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Daniel Leidl, Joe Frontiera
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Teambuilding That Gets Results: Essential Plans and Activities for Creating Effective TeamsFull of essential advice and activities that businesses can put into use immediately, this easy-to-use guidebook will help increase the strength of any business, as well as efficiency and morale.
By Harriet Diamond, Linda Eve Diamond
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Teaming: How Organizations Learn, Innovate, and Compete in the Knowledge EconomyPresenting a clear explanation of practical management concepts for increasing learning capability for business results, this book introduces a framework that shows how leaders can make organizational learning happen by building teams that learn.
By Amy C. Edmondson
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Teams Unleashed: How to Release the Power and Human Potential of Work TeamsGiving teams the tools to incorporate new practices that build team effectiveness, this book provides a practical approach that uses the everyday language of teams to highlight what's working, and uncover what's not.
By Alexis Phillips, Phillip Sandahl
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Teamwork 101: What Every Leader Needs to KnowFor every leader who has ever wondered what level of excellence their team could achieve, this concise, power-packed game plan can help leaders create an environment that brings about victory and fulfillment to the whole team.
By John C. Maxwell
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Teamwork TrainingHelping you to cultivate teamwork within a team or an organization, this book explains how to define and assess key competencies, get senior management to buy into your training plan, and implement a winning team training strategy for your organization.
By Sharon Boller
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The 17 Indisputable Laws of Teamwork: Embrace Them and Empower Your TeamContaining laws that you can count on when it comes to getting people to work together, this book is illustrated with great stories of team leaders-and team breakers-from history, business, the church, and sports.
By John C. Maxwell
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The 360 Degree Feedback PocketbookIn an easy, step-by-step format, this book shows how feedback can be used for personal development, self-awareness, identification of talent and how in flatter organizational structures, it will help management obtain a richer picture of team members.
By Phil Hailstone, Tony Peacock
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The 4-Dimensional Manager: DiSC Strategies for Managing Different People in the Best WaysThe 4-Dimensional Manager guides you through understanding the way different communication styles work best with different people. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Julie Straw
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The 4-Dimensional Manager: DiSC Strategies for Managing Different People in the Best WaysProvides fascinating insights into individual work styles, practical suggestions, checklists and planners, and a research-based DiSC discovery tool.
By Julie Straw
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The 80/20 Manager: The Secret to Working Less and Achieving MoreIf you're looking to become a more effective manager, The 80/20 Manager will show you how to achieve results without stress or long hours. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Richard Koch
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The Agility Shift: Creating Agile and Effective Leaders, Teams, and OrganizationsThe Agility Shift provides leaders at all levels in an organization with the mindset, strategy, and practical tools to make them agile. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Pamela Meyer
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The Art of Encouragement: How to Lead Teams, Spread Love, and Serve from the Heart NEW!Supercharge the wellbeing and productivity of everyone around you using the power of encouragement
By Jordan Montgomery
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The Art of Performance FeedbackProviding strategies you'll use over and over again to give employees the feedback they need to grow professionally and personally, this easy-to-use guide offers nonverbal and verbal techniques, words and phrases, and even a practical framework for structuring the conversation.
By Stephen J. Sampson
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The Art of Waking People Up: Cultivating Awareness and Authenticity at WorkIn this book, two leading management experts offer the necessary tools for creating a healthy workplace.
By Joan Goldsmith, Kenneth Cloke
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The Big Book of Team Coaching Games: Quick, Effective Activities to Energize, Motivate, and Guide Your Team to SuccessPacked with dozens of physical and verbal activities, this playbook leads you step-by-step through the process of teaching team members how to identify their values, leverage their strengths, and reach their goals--and have fun while they're doing it!
By Joanne Schlosser, Mary Scannell, Mike Mulvihill
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The Business of We: The Proven Three-Step Process for Closing the Gap Between Us and Them in Your WorkplaceDiverse teams add tremendous value to any organization… if they work as a cohesive unit. Empower your leaders to bring together teams made up of members from different cultures, age groups, and socio-economic backgrounds.
By Laura Kriska
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The Busy Manager's Guide To DelegationFilled with quick tips, exercises, self-assessments, and practical worksheets, this comprehensive book presents an easy-to-master five-step process for effective delegation.
By Perry McIntosh, Richard A. Luecke
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The CMO of People: Manage Employees Like CustomersThis second edition of Peter Navin and David Creelman's pathbreaking book, with new sections including industry leaders' insights from Nike, UKG, and DocuSign, corroborates the approach that sees the CMO of People as a business focused people function that utilizes the proven tools of the marketing function and creates a predictable and immersive employee experience that drives productivity and performance.
By David Creelman, Peter Navin
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The Coaching Manager: Developing Top Talent in Business, 3rd EditionThe Coaching Manager seeks to guide, advise, and demonstrate how to promote a coaching culture in the workplace, with the aim of nurturing your employees to reach their full potential. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By James M. Hunt
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The Conflict Resolution Toolbox: Models & Maps for Analyzing, Diagnosing, and Resolving ConflictBridging the gap between theory and practice, this step-by-step guide shows mediators, negotiators, managers, and anyone needing to resolve conflict how to simply and effectively understand and assess the situations of conflict they face.
By Gary Furlong
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The Coward's Guide to Conflict: Empowering Solutions for Those Who Would Rather Run Than FightWith interactive exercises and examples from both the workplace and home, this step-by-step guide will coach and motivate you to effectively deal with all types of conflict situations, with results that empower and really work.
By Timothy E. Ursiny
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The Daily Edge: Simple Strategies to Increase Efficiency and Make an Impact Every DayIn The Daily Edge, author David Horsager provides you with 35 simple strategies to help you maximize your performance in the office. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By David Horsager
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The Definitive Drucker: Challenges for Tomorrow's Executives: Final Advice From the Father of Modern ManagementThe Definitive Drucker presents the legendary management theorist's poignant final thoughts on the challenges that leaders face as they navigate today's business world. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Elizabeth Haas Edersheim
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The Digital Seeker: A Guide for Digital Teams to Build Winning ExperiencesRaj K. De Datta offers an actionable playbook for companies looking to deliver better digital experiences to their customers. He pinpoints the power of seeker-centric philosophy-asking not simply what does someone want, but why they want it-in order to achieve transformative results.
By Raj K. De Datta
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The Discipline & Grievance PocketbookEmphasizing the importance of understanding the root causes of conflict, this guide identifies the management practices that need to be in place in order to help prevent problems from arising.
By Ruth Sangale
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The Discussion Book: 50 Great Ways to Get People TalkingHelping you build teams, make better decisions, energize groups, and think out of the box, this timely manual presents fifty easily applied techniques to spur creativity, stimulate energy, keep groups focused, and increase participation.
By Stephen D. Brookfield, Stephen Preskill
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The Distance Manager: A Hands-On Guide to Managing Off-Site Employees and Virtual TeamsThis up-to-the-minute handbook provides practical information and tools to help managers bridge the communication gaps created by geographical separation, and get peak performance from employees they rarely see.
By Kimball Fisher, Mareen Duncan Fisher
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The Effective Manager, Completely Revised and Updated, Second EditionA management book written by managers for front-line managers, The Effective Manager, 2nd edition, is a concise, practical, and incisive take on what to do and say to get the best results possible from your co-located or remotely distributed team.
By Kate Braun, Mark Horstman, Sarah Sentes
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The Elephant in the Boardroom: How Leaders Use and Manage Conflict to Reach Greater Levels of SuccessExploring the unique and challenging relationship that leaders have with conflict, this book offers the know-how needed to use conflict as the engine of innovation and creativity so you will learn how to act courageously and be better equipped to lead and win in today's complex and turbulent world.
By Edgar Papke
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The Elephant in the Boardroom: How Leaders Use and Manage Conflict to Reach Greater Levels of SuccessIn The Elephant in the Boardroom, author Edgar Papke discusses how to become a better leader by engaging with and addressing conflict. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Edgar Papke
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The End of the Performance Review: A New Approach to Appraising Employee PerformanceDrawing on well established principles of organizational behavior, based around Tim Baker's unique "5 Conversations," this book offers a new model for performance management that better reflects the changing needs of both sides of the employment relationship.
By Tim Baker
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The Energy Bus: 10 Rules to Fuel Your Life, Work, and Team with Positive EnergyThe Energy Bus illustrates ten simple rules to help you cultivate positive energy in your personal and professional life and share it with those around you. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Jon Gordon
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The Essential Guide to Workplace Mediation and Conflict Resolution: Rebuilding Working RelationshipsBy exploring what mediation is, why it is necessary and how it works, this book analyzes the reasons for conflict and suggests useful everyday communication skills to help defuse anger or aggression.
By Marcelas Guyler, Nora Doherty
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The Essential Performance Review HandbookThe Essential Performance Review Handbook explores how to create and deliver performance reviews that motivate your employees. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Sharon Armstrong
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The Essential Performance Review Handbook: A Quick and Handy Resource For Any Manager or HR ProfessionalWhether you're a manager or an HR professional, this indispensable guide will help you use performance reviews to create confident, motivated, and productive employees - and achieve your business goals.
By Sharon Armstrong
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The Essential Workplace Conflict Handbook: A Quick and Handy Resource for Any Manager, Team Leader, HR Professional, or Anyone Who Wants to Resolve Disputes and Increase ProductivityUsing examples drawn from a wide range of corporate and entrepreneurial experiences, along with checklists and other practical tools, this handbook gives you the confidence to communicate effectively, as well as a clear understanding of your individual responsibility, no matter your title or role - and also gives the organization a plan for what it can do to foster a tension-free workplace.
By Barbara Mitchell, Cornelia Gamlem
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The Evolution of Management Thought, Seventh EditionProviding a comprehensive understanding of the origin and development of ideas in management, this text traces the evolution of management thought from its earliest days to the present, by examining the backgrounds, ideas and influences of its major contributors.
By Arthur G. Bedeian, Daniel A. Wren
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The Extraordinary Leader: Turning Good Managers into Great Leaders, Revised and Expanded EditionIn the Extraordinary Leader, authors Jack Zenger and Joseph Folkman discuss the competencies and actions that good leaders need to take to become great leaders. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Jack Zenger, Joseph Folkman
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The First-Time Manager's Guide to Team BuildingPacked with activities and assessments for both the manager and team members, this engaging book helps readers discover how their own leadership and management style influences the success of their teams.
By Gary S. Topchik
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The First-Time Manager's Guide to Team BuildingThe First-Time Manager's Guide to Team Building is the roadmap for creating a powerful, results-driven team, while outlining the necessary characteristics of an effective manager. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Gary S. Topchik
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The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership FableThe Five Dysfunctions of a Team provides a fresh take on teamwork, and pinpoints the main dysfunctions in teams while offering advice on how to resolve them. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Patrick Lencioni
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The Frontline CEO: Turn Employees into Decision Makers Who Innovate Solutions, Win Customers, and Boost ProfitsThis book delivers the knowledge, strategies, and tactics you need to drive sustainable growth while creating a positive impact in the lives of your employees and community.
By Eric Strafel
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The Game Changer: How to Use the Science of Motivation With the Power of Game Design to Shift Behaviour, Shape Culture and Make Clever HappenCombining the best elements of three distinct fields-motivational science, game design, and agile management-this book shows you how to positively influence behaviour through better work and project design.
By Jason Fox
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The Gen Z Effect: The Six Forces Shaping the Future of BusinessIn The Gen Z Effect, authors Koulopoulos and Keldsen examine how the latest generation, Gen Z, will reshape the world in an overwhelmingly positive way. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Dan Keldsen, Thomas Koulopoulos
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The Gen Z Effect: The Six Forces Shaping the Future of BusinessProviding a mind-bending view of why we will need to embrace Gen Z as the last, best hope for taking on the world's biggest challenges and opportunities, this book shows you how you can prepare yourself and your business for the greatest era of disruption, prosperity, and progress the world has ever experienced.
By Dan Keldsen, Thomas Koulopoulos
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The Genius of Opposites: How Introverts and Extroverts Achieve Extraordinary Results TogetherThe Genius of Opposites explains how to thrive in an introvert/extrovert business partnership. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Jennifer B. Kahnweiler
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The Genius of Opposites: How Introverts and Extroverts Achieve Extraordinary Results TogetherThere are countless examples of introvert-extrovert partnerships who make brilliant products, create great works of art, and even change history together. This book offers a first-of-its-kind practical five-step process to help introverts and extroverts understand and appreciate each other's wiring, use conflicts to spur creativity, enrich their own skills by learning from the other, and see and act on things neither would have separately.
By Jennifer B. Kahnweiler
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The Gift of Time: How Delegation Can Give you Space to SucceedWe're all drowning in work - never-ending to-do lists, constant deadlines one after the other, too many emails to possibly answer! If only some of that load could be lifted... This important book shows you how to stop wasting your time on tasks you're overqualified for and teaches you how to actually focus on the important stuff.
By Gail Thomas
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The Good Ones: Ten Crucial Qualities of High-Character EmployeesIn The Good Ones by Bruce Weinstein, readers discover the perils of taking character for granted and gain the tools needed to uncover an individual's true nature before it's too late. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Bruce Weinstein
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The Gumbo Coalition: Ten Leadership Lessons That Help You Inspire, Unite, and AchieveSharing insights through stories and life lessons, this thoughtful book shows readers what it means to be a leader who can unite voices and create meaningful change.
By Marc Morial
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The Handbook of Conflict Resolution: Theory and Practice, Third EditionWritten for professionals and students in the wide variety of conflict resolution fields, this essential resource offers clear directions for creating constructive solutions to challenging interpersonal, intergroup, and international conflict.
By Eric C. Marcus, Morton Deutsch, Peter T. Coleman
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The Handbook of High Performance Virtual Teams: A Toolkit for Collaborating Across BoundariesContaining an array of illustrative cases as well as practical tools for designing, implementing, and maintaining effective virtual work, this resource provides a framework for working collaboratively across boundaries of time, space, and culture.
By Jill Nemiro, Lori Bradley, Michael Beyerlein, Susan Beyerlein (eds)
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The Hands-Off Manager: How to Mentor People and Allow Them to Be SuccessfulThe Hands-Off Manager presents a fresh approach to management and shares effective work habits that enable managers to mentor rather than micromanage their workforce and retain their best people. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Duane Black, Steve Chandler
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The Happiness Advantage: The Seven Principles of Positive Psychology That Fuel Success and Performance at WorkBased on Shawn Achor's own fascinating research at Harvard University, The Happiness Advantage clearly and amusingly demonstrates how a happy and positive outlook is the starting point for any successful outcome. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Shawn Achor
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The Healthy Workplace: How to Improve the Well-Being of Your Employees-and Boost Your Company's Bottom LineThe Healthy Workplace explores how to create a healthier working culture and improve financial earnings. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Leigh Stringer
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The Hidden Leader: Discover and Develop Greatness Within Your CompanyThe Hidden Leader shows you how to recognize and nurture talented but underused members of your organization and gives you the practical skills to unleash their potential and maximize their influence. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Laurie Sain, Scott K. Edinger
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The Human Side of Virtual Work: Managing Trust, Isolation, and PresenceBased on the premise that the virtual work environment needs to be a productive alternative to the traditional work environment, this timely and informative book focuses on variables that can create the most successful outcome.
By Laurence M. Rose
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The Ideal Team Player: How to Recognize and Cultivate the Three Essential Virtues a Leadership FableOrganized around the fictional story of a leader desperate to save his company by cracking the code on the virtues that define a true team player, this book presents a powerful framework and easy-to-use tools for identifying, hiring, and developing ideal team players in any kind of organization.
By Patrick Lencioni
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The Influential Project Manager: Winning Over Team Members and StakeholdersThe Influential Project Manager discusses various techniques and approaches that will help you develop and improve your skills to become a more effective project manager. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Alfonso Bucero
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The Knowledge Manager's Handbook: A Step-by-Step Guide to Embedding Effective Knowledge Management in Your OrganizationThe Knowledge Manager's Handbook provides a simple step-by-step guide to how an organization can use the knowledge it has to maximize efficiency and increase performance. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Nick Milton, Patrick Lambe
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The Leader's Guide to Lateral Thinking Skills: Powerful Problem-Solving Techniques to Ignite Your Team's PotentialIn The Leader's Guide to Lateral Thinking Skills, author Paul Sloane shows business leaders how to go about creating organizations that are innovative and lateral thinking. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Paul Sloane
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The Learning Explosion: 9 Rules to Ignite Your Virtual ClassroomsThe Learning Explosion is an authoritative guided tour of how to transpose traditional face-to-face classroom teaching into the emerging new virtual classroom environment. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Matthew Murdoch, Treion Muller
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The Long-Distance Leader: Rules for Remarkable Remote LeadershipFilled with exercises that ensure projects stay on track, keep productivity and morale high, and build lasting relationships, this book is the go-to guide for leading effectively, no matter where people work.
By Kevin Eikenberry, Wayne Turmel
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The Long-Distance Leader: Rules for Remarkable Remote LeadershipIn The Long-Distance Leader, author duo Eikenberry and Turmel masterfully put their combined experience to good use to convincingly illustrate how long-distance leadership has evolved over the years. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Kevin Eikenberry, Wayne Turmel
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The Long-Distance Team: Designing Your Team for Everyone's SuccessDesign and cultivate remote work teams that actually work.
By Kevin Eikenberry, Wayne Turmel
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The Making of a Manager: What to Do When Everyone Looks to YouThe Making of a Manager is a practical handbook that demonstrates how to step into your manager shoes adequately prepared to tackle any challenge that comes your way. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Julie Zhuo
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The Manager's Guide to Employee DevelopmentA primer intended for managers, human resources professionals, and others, this practical, go-to guide explains why career development is important to the organization, employee, and manager, how to lead successful development discussions, and more.
By David Hosmer
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The Manager's Guide to HR: Hiring, Firing, Performance Evaluations, Documentation, Benefits, and Everything Else You Need to Know, Second EditionThe Manager's Guide to HR directs you to the right course of action for a variety of legal problems, and gives you the correct documentation to protect yourself against future litigation. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Max Muller
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The Manager's Handbook: Five Simple Steps to Build a Team, Stay Focused, Make Better Decisions, And Crush Your CompetitionAn actionable strategy guide for busy professionals who want to level up their management game
By David Dodson
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The McKinsey Edge: Success Principles from the World's Most Powerful Consulting FirmThe McKinsey Edge looks at the habits and traits of some great leaders and provides detailed explanations on how to practice these habits and the benefits of doing so. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Shu Hattori
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The Mediation Process: Practical Strategies for Resolving Conflict, Fourth EditionExpanded and revised to keep pace with developments in the field, this expert's guide includes new resources that will promote excellence in mediation and help disputants reach durable agreements and enhance their working relationships.
By Christopher W. Moore
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The Mentor Leader: Secrets to Building People and Teams That Win ConsistentlyThe Mentor Leader provides deep insight into leadership methods that will benefit not only aspiring leaders, but also those around them. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Tony Dungy
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The Metronome Effect: The Journey To Predictable ProfitIn The Metronome Effect, author Shannon Byrne Susko explores ways to extract optimum performance from your teams and utilize resources for best results. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Shannon Byrne Susko
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The Multigenerational Sales Team: Harness the Power of New Perspectives to Sell More, Retain Top Talent, and Design a High-Performing WorkplaceAddressing the challenges that many organizations are facing right now, this book focuses on the increasing need for sales organizations to more effectively leverage talent from generational groups who think, sell, and buy in vastly different ways.
By David Szen, Warren Shiver
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The New Leader's 100-Day Action Plan: How to Take Charge, Build Your Team, and Get Immediate Results, Third EditionFor anyone looking to achieve a successful transition into a new leadership role, The New Leader's 100-Day Action Plan is a practical handbook designed to accelerate the success of new leaders and their teams in the first 100 days. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By George B. Bradt, Jayme A. Check, Jorge E. Pedraza
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The Next Gen Leader: Cutting Edge Strategies to Make You the Leader You Were Born to BeThe Next Gen Leader shows readers how to maximize their potential by zeroing in on previously untapped leadership abilities and integrating them across a broad spectrum of outlets. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Robert C. McMillan
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The Perfect SalesForce: The 6 Best Practices of the World's Best Sales TeamsThe Perfect SalesForce upsets conventional methods of salesforce management, thoroughly outlining steps to increase productivity and profits. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Derek Gatehouse
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The Performance Appraisal Question & Answer Book: A Survival Guide for ManagersThis Q & A book is an easy-to-understand set of tools that can help managers answer common questions in the performance appraisal process.
By Dick Grote
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The Performance Appraisal Tool Kit: Redesigning Your Performance Review Template to Drive Individual and Organizational ChangeConsidering factors such as workforce composition, company growth stage, and organizational goals and challenges, this book will help you create a dynamic appraisal system that's flexible and adaptable enough to accommodate market changes, revised priorities, and increasing productivity targets.
By Paul Falcone, Winston Tan
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The Performance Complex: Competition and Competitions in Social LifeExploring discrete contests, this book shows how the continuous updating of rankings is both a device for navigating the social world and an engine of anxiety; and examines the production of such anxiety in settings.
By David Stark
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The Pfeiffer Book of Successful Conflict Management Tools: The Most Enduring, Effective, And Valuable Training Activities For Managing Workplace ConflictWritten to help develop the conflict management skills of people throughout the organization whether the relationship is manager-to-subordinate or peer-to-peer, this book offers timeless advice for dealing with and classifying organizational conflict.
By Jack Gordon (ed)
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The Power of a Positive Team: Proven Principles and Practices that Make Great Teams GreatSharing the proven principles and practices that build great teams, this unique resource provides practical tools to help teams overcome negativity and enhance their culture, communication, connection, commitment and performance.
By Jon Gordon
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The Power of Full Engagement: Managing Energy, Not Time, Is the Key to High Performance and Personal RenewalThe Power of Full Engagement provides thought provoking insights on how and why energy is the key to high performance. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Jim Loehr, Tony Schwartz
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The Power of Positive Leadership: How and Why Positive Leaders Transform Teams and Organizations and Change the WorldProviding a comprehensive framework on positive leadership, this book is filled with proven principles, compelling stories, practical ideas and practices that will help anyone become a positive leader.
By Jon Gordon
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The Power of Professionalism: The Seven Mind-Sets That Drive Performance and Build TrustThe Power of Professionalism makes a compelling case for why, in an age of globalization and high-tech innovation, professionalism remains the single most important attribute that sets individuals and businesses apart from their competition. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Bill Wiersma
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The PRIMES: How Any Group Can Solve Any ProblemIn The PRIMES, author Chris McGoff shows leaders how to recognize and master the combinations and permutations of proven group dynamics. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Chris McGoff
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The Program: Lessons from Elite Military Units for Creating and Sustaining High Performance Leaders and TeamsDiscover the military's keys to excellent leadership and team building training. This important book offers a road map that contains illustrative examples, ideas, and approaches for improving teammates and leaders at all levels within an organization of any size or type.
By Eric Kapitulik, Jake MacDonald
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The Quick and Easy Performance Appraisal Phrase Book: 3,000+ Powerful Phrases for Successful Reviews, Appraisals and EvaluationsThe Quick and Easy Performance Appraisal Phrase Book offers over 3000 ready-made dynamic phrases for managers to use during performance reviews. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Patrick Alain
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The Quick and Easy Performance Appraisal Phrase Book: 3,000+ Powerful Phrases for Successful Reviews, Appraisals and EvaluationsWhether you need to jump-start the review-writing process or are searching for phrases you can use verbatim, this book will help any manager quickly and easily select the best phrasing for any review - good or bad.
By Patrick Alain
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The Real-Life MBA: Your No-BS Guide to Winning the Game, Building a Team, and Growing Your CareerOffering detailed guidance on all aspects of the business world, The Real-Life MBA will teach you about the business game itself and how you can find your place in it. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Jack Welch, Suzy Welch
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The Respectful Leader: Seven Ways To Influence Without IntimidationPresenting an engaging, thought-provoking lesson for companies seeking off-the-charts performance, this enlightening story will help you recognize and analyze your own behaviors and interactions, and show you how to create a winning culture based on leading with respect.
By Gregg Ward
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The Rise of Social Media: Enhancing Collaboration and Productivity Across GenerationsExploring the business case for supporting and using social media technologies from a learner's point of view, this report will help executives make strategic decisions that can positively affect organizational goals and growth.
By Andrew Paradise, David Wentworth, Holly B. Tompson, Laleh Patel, Mark Vickers
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The Savvy Manager: 5 Skills That Drive Optimal PerformanceFilled with worksheets, exercises, real time case studies, and reflection sidebars, this book challenges readers to develop five core strengths all great managers possess.
By Jane R. Flagello, Sandra Bernard Dugas
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The Science of Dream Teams: How Talent Optimization can Drive Engagement, Productivity, and HappinessWhatever the business or industry, this game-changing approach has the power to unlock an unbeatable competitive advantage.
By Mike Zani
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The Secret of Teams: What Great Teams Know and DoThe Secret of Teams examines how to transform ineffective team management into positive, impactful leadership. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Mark Miller
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The Shift: How Seeing People as People Changes EverythingWith warm encouragement, insightful guidance, and powerfully moving, true accounts of extraordinary human goodness, this book provides a vivid depiction and real-world example of the personal and institutional impact of the transformative ideas within a healthcare organization.
By Kimberly White
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The Song of Significance: A New Manifesto for TeamsIn The Song of Significance, author Seth Godin presents a profound and insightful discussion on transforming organizations into more impactful and human-centered entities. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Seth Godin
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The Stay Interview: A Manager's Guide to Keeping the Best and BrightestThe Stay Interview discusses why stay interviews should be done, how to prepare for them, what they entail, and proper interview follow-up. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Richard P. Finnegan
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The Talent Development Body of Knowledge: The Definitive Resource for the Talent Development ProfessionThe Talent Development Capability Model is the foundation for ATD CI's certification programs, the Associate Professional in Talent Development (APTD) and the Certified Professional in Talent Development (CPTD). The TDBoK can serve as an important resource for exam preparation.
By Association for Talent Development
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The Talent Powered Organization: Strategies for Globalization, Talent Management and High PerformanceThrough case-studies and real-life metrics, The Talent Powered Organization demonstrates how aligning talent with your business strategy outcomes will make you a powerhouse in your market. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Elizabeth Craig, Peter Cheese, Robert J. Thomas
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The Tao of Coaching: Boost Your Effectiveness at Work by Inspiring and Developing Those Around YouThe Tao of Coaching is an engaging and practical guide to negotiating leadership in the changing corporate world. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Max Landsberg
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The Team Building Tool Kit: Tips, Tactics, and Rules for Effective Workplace TeamsTips, tactics, and rules for effective workplace teams.
By Deborah Harrington-Mackin
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The Team-Building Tool Kit: Tips and Tactics for Effective Workplace Teams, Second EditionFilled with bullet points to make tips and strategies quick and easy to grasp, this practical guide covers both the structure and nitty-gritty process details that so often derail even the best teams.
By Deborah Mackin
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The Teambuilding Activities PocketbookHelping managers to build teams that are united, motivated and productive, this practical guide provides a lively and persuasive collection of activities for use by managers at team meetings and briefings, and for trainers running teambuilding workshops.
By Paul Tizzard
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The Technology Doesn't Matter: Prioritizing the People in IT Business AlignmentIn The Technology Doesn't Matter: Prioritizing the People in IT Business Alignment, veteran IT executive Rachel Lockett delivers an engaging and insightful discussion of how to turn around IT departments struggling to effectively collaborate with their business counterparts.
By Rachel Lockett
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The Toyota Way: Fourteen Management Principles From the World's Greatest ManufacturerThe Toyota Way provides an exciting blueprint for any organization to achieve the highest levels of quality, based on the management principles applied successfully by Toyota. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Jeffrey K. Liker
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The Ultimate Guide to Developing Leaders: Invest in People Like Your Future Depends on ItIn The Ultimate Guide to Developing Leaders, Maxwell teaches everything leaders need to know about how to develop leaders in their team or organization.
By John C. Maxwell
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The Upside of Aging: How Long Life Is Changing the World of Health, Work, Innovation, Policy and PurposeMoving beyond the stereotypes of dependency and decline that have defined older age, this book explores a titanic shift that will alter every aspect of human existence, from the jobs we hold to the products we buy to the medical care we receive - an aging revolution underway across America and the world.
By Paul H. Irving, Rita Beamish (eds)
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The Virtual Manager: Cutting-Edge Solutions for Hiring, Managing, Motivating, and Engaging Mobile EmployeesArming managers with the knowledge they need to become effective virtual leaders, this timely tell-all user manual includes actionable advice how to leverage engagement drivers for virtual employees, develop or alter policies and procedures to fit virtual employees' needs, and much more.
By Kevin Sheridan
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The Vogue of Managing People in WorkplaceThis book provides a detailed vogue picture of workforce management.
By Nilanjan Dey, Soumi Majumder
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The Wisdom of Teams: Creating the High-Performance OrganizationThe Wisdom of Teams focuses on how to encourage teams to perform at their best, regardless of where they fit in in the organizational hierarchy. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Douglas K. Smith, Jon R. Katzenbach
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The Work of Managers: Towards a Practice Theory of ManagementInstead of evaluating management techniques according to their internal logic and systematic qualities, this book advances the "practice perspective," using behavior and activities of successful, experienced, and skilled managers as the primary data for theorizing good management.
By Stefan Tengblad (ed)
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The Year Without Pants: WordPress.com and the Future of WorkTaking a look at WordPress.com - the 15th most popular website on the planet, this book shares shares the secrets of their phenomenal success from the inside, revealing insights on creativity, productivity, and leadership from the kind of workplace that might be in everyone's future.
By Scott Berkun
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Think One Team: The Revolutionary 90 Day Plan that Engages Employees, Connects Silos and Transforms Organisations, 2nd EditionSpecifically designed to guide you in creating and sustaining the agile, teamwork-focused environment that is essential to thriving in a rapidly changing world, this enlightening resource weaves a fascinating and entertaining tale that reveals how a simple change in approach can free your organisation of silo-based thinking, and empower your team to act as a single unit.
By Graham Winter
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Top Tips to Motivate your Virtual TeamRuss Howard, Senior Director of Product Management at Skillsoft offers tips to ensure your team remains motivated and productive in their new virtual environment.
By Russ Howard
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Total Performance Scorecard: Redefining Management to Achieve Performance with IntegrityIn the post-Enron climate, this book introduces a concept of organizational improvement and change management that combines the Balanced Scorecard model with the learning organization theory.
By Hubert K. Rampersad
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Toyota Kata: Managing People for Improvement, Adaptiveness and Superior ResultsDrawing on six years of research into Toyota's employee-management routines, this game-changing book puts you behind the curtain at Toyota, offering practical guidance for leading and developing people in a way that makes the best use of their brainpower.
By Mike Rother
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Training Camp: What the Best Do Better Than Everyone ElseWhether you play sports or the piano, work with a computer or a scalpel, this inspirational guide is filled with invaluable lessons and insights for bringing out the best in yourself and your team.
By Jon Gordon
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Training Evaluation Pocketbook, Second EditionIncluding an abundance of informative examples, this succinct, visual guide demystifies the process of evaluating training events and identifies nine possible outcomes to measure.
By John Townsend, Paul Donovan
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Trust Factor: The Science of Creating High-Performance CompaniesTrust Factor takes an in-depth look at how to create a high-trust working environment in your organization. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Paul J. Zak
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Trust in Virtual TeamsProviding a clear view of how virtual projects can succeed, this thoughtful and pragmatic guide explores how quality assurance compliments and promotes effective organizational design and project management to build solid trust relationships within virtual teams.
By Thomas P. Wise
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Truth from the Trenches: A Practical Guide to the Art of IT ManagementDescribing the key constituencies that an IT leader needs to influence, seduce, leverage, and manage to be successful, this book offers practical recommendations that will allow readers to improve their organizational impact and accelerate their career advancement.
By Mark Settle
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Truth. Growth. Repeat. A Business Manual for Generation WhyBy mapping the way business works today at a very honest and human level, this street-smart book is a must-read for any business owner who wants to achieve growth and success without compromising their personal values.
By Mike Edmonds
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Turning People into Teams: Rituals and Routines that Redesign How We WorkCollaborative strategies work when they're designed by teams--where each person is heard, valued, and held accountable. This book is a practical guide for project team leaders and individual contributors who want their teams to play by a better set of rules.
By David Sherwin, Mary Sherwin
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UNBOSSIn UNBOSS, the authors propose a new way of doing business-daring leaders to reassess the conventional definition of what a "boss" should be. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Jacob Bøtter, Lars Kolind
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Understanding Digital Marketing: Marketing Strategies for Engaging the Digital Generation, 4th EditionUnderstanding Digital Marketing provides a comprehensive look at digital marketing and the strategies to help you get the most out of your investments. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Damian Ryan
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Understanding YIncluding an impressive list of contributors and collaborators, each bringing unique insight, this book offers anyone who interacts with the Millennial generation a humorous, educational, statistical, theoretical and conversational journey for connecting with Gen Y.
By Charlie Caruso (ed)
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Unfairly Labeled: How Your Workplace Can Benefit From Ditching Generational StereotypesOffering a roadmap to intergenerational understanding, this book shows how behaviors know no generational boundaries and explains how to work with people based on their talents, strengths, and weaknesses rather than simply slapping on a generational label and fitting them into an arbitrary slot.
By Jessica Kriegel
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Using Ratio Analysis: Understanding and Managing Performance IndicatorsThe My Practical MBA Series provides the latest thinking as well as perennial techniques for a range of business challenges. This concise book discusses how ratio analysis is no longer simply the preserve of accountants and financial experts; managers at all levels use ratios for business planning and decision-making.
By LID Editorial
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Value Optimization for Project and Performance ManagementUsing a variety of examples and case studies, this book authoritatively walks you through the value optimization process so you can consider value from the perspective of functions and how they are performed relative to cost, time, and risk.
By Robert B. Stewart
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Value-Based Management in GovernmentProviding step-by-step guidance on implementing and using a value-based management system within the government, this book is an important source of information for leaders, executives, managers, and employee teams working within or with government organizations.
By Douglas W. Webster, Gary Cokins
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Values-Based Leadership for DummiesWhether you're in an entrepreneur, entry-level position or a CEO, employees at any level can benefit from leaning into values-based leadership-and this book shows you how
By Maria Gamb
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Virtual Coach, Virtual MentorProviding a wide variety of perspectives on a rapidly growing phenomenon, this timely, significant book aims to encourage more practitioners and their clients and more organizations to experiment with using electronic media to enrich coaching and mentoring.
By David Clutterbuck, Zulfi Hussain (eds)
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Virtual Collaboration: Enabling Project Teams and CommunitiesAs organizations do more of their work and collaboration virtually, they need a new set of skills, techniques, and guidelines. This report guides the successful preparation, design, and implementation of virtual collaboration within an organization.
By American Productivity & Quality Center
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Virtual Leadership: Going the Distance to Manage Your TeamsProviding insight into the realm of how organizations are preparing their leaders to manage virtual staff or staff in other countries, this report is based on in-depth analysis of results from a survey conducted in April 2013 of 505 learning leaders from myriad of organizational sizes, industries, country headquarters, and regions of operations.
By ASTD Research
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Virtual Leadership: Practical Strategies for Getting the Best Out of Virtual Work and Virtual TeamsWith diverse case studies and examples, this essential guide discusses how leading a virtual team requires a new set of skills and a facilitative leadership approach, and provides practical strategies, tools and solutions for the key issues involved in managing at a distance.
By Penny Pullan
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Virtual Leadership: Practical Strategies for Getting the Best Out of Virtual Work and Virtual TeamsVirtual Leadership explores the challenges associated with working remotely, and guides you on how to lead virtual teams. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Penny Pullan
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Virtual Leadership: Practical Strategies for Getting the Best Out of Virtual Work and Virtual Teams, 2nd EditionLearn the best practices and skills needed to effectively manage your team with this guide to virtual leadership.
By Dr Penny Pullan
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Virtual PresentationsThat WorkFilled with essential checklists, step-by-step instructions, troubleshooting tips, and revealing case studies, this all-in-one guide is your virtual tool kit of cutting-edge ideas and proven techniques to get the results you want.
By Joel Gendelman
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Virtual Team Success: A Practical Guide for Working and Leading from a DistanceHighly practical and easy to navigate, this groundbreaking book is a hands-on toolkit filled with down-to-earth examples and insights that can enhance the virtual team experience for everyone involved.
By Darleen M. DeRosa, Richard Lepsinger
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Virtual Teams That Work: Creating Conditions for Virtual Team EffectivenessPeppered with best practices and case studies from companies like Lucent Technologies and Whirlpool, this guide shows how to help team members who speak different languages and are from different cultures communicate effectively through virtual teams.
By Cristina B. Gibson, Susan G. Cohen
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Virtual Teams: A Pocketful of Tips & Tools on Leading A Successful, Motivated Team of People Who Mostly Work ApartOffering advice on selecting the most appropriate method to manage a virtual team, this pocketbook examines the team selection process, the cultural issues that may arise, the process of developing trust, and building a productive and cohesive unit.
By Ian Fleming
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Virtual Teams: How We Are Connecting InternallyRyan Tidwell, Content Marketing Specialist at Skillsoft discusses how we all need to pause throughout the day and have human interaction, even if it's virtual.
By Ryan Tidwell
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Virtual Training Basics, 2nd EditionIncluding tested and proven techniques for enhancing your virtual training design and delivery, this complete guide will get you started with the fundamentals of virtual training, and then build you up through design and facilitation.
By Cindy Huggett
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Visual Teams: Graphic Tools for Commitment, Innovation, & High PerformanceAs teams become more and more global and distributed, visualization provides an important channel of communication. This book presents a comprehensive framework, best practices, and unique visual tools for becoming an innovative, high-performance team.
By David Sibbet
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Walk Off Winning: A Game Plan for Leading Your Team and Organization to SuccessThis book explains about the key principles of team building, culture, and organization building. If you are looking for a way to enhance your leadership, whether you lead a team of one or an entire organization.
By Steve Trimper
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Wellbeing at Work: How to Build Resilient and Thriving TeamsIn Wellbeing at Work, Clifton and Harter provide readers with substantial evidence that wellbeing in the workplace is not only possible but essential for a thriving life. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Jim Clifton, Jim Harter
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What Millennials Want from Work: How to Maximize Engagement in Today's WorkforceIn What Millennials Want from Work, Jennifer Deal and Alec Levenson discuss how to better understand Millennials, as well as strategies to assure this generation remains satisfied in your workplace. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Alec Levenson, Jennifer J. Deal
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What Millennials Want from Work: How to Maximize Engagement in Today's WorkforceBased on fieldwork and survey data from global research on more than 25,000 Millennials and 29,000 older workers in 22 countries, this essential book explains who Millennials really are, and offers practical advice to help those who manage, lead, and work with Millennials to improve teamwork, increase productivity, strengthen organizational culture, and build a robust talent pipeline.
By Alec Levenson, Jennifer J. Deal
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When Millennials Take Over: Preparing for the Ridiculously Optimistic Future of BusinessWhen Millennials Take Over is an honest and level-headed guide for companies ready to catapult their management practices out of the industrial age and into the era of the social internet and the knowledge economy. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Jamie Notter, Maddie Grant
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When Teams Collide: Managing the International Team SuccessfullyGenerously illustrated with explanatory diagrams, this book applies cultural concepts to team leadership, and offers a wide-ranging and compelling account of how to handle what is a difficult and sensitive task.
By Richard D. Lewis
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Where in the World is My Team?: Making A Success Of Your Virtual Global WorkplaceIdeal for managers and those interested in succeeding in a global economy, this easy-to-follow guide introduces new technologies and focuses on the Key Performance Zones for global team collaboration with briefing report summaries to emphasize key points.
By Terence Brake
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Who Is the New How: Strategies to Find, Recruit, and Create the Best TeamsIn Who Is the New How: Strategies to Find, Recruit, and Create the Best Teams, a team of accomplished talent experts delivers a hands-on roadmap to filling your most mission-critical roles with the best people.
By Jessica Schertz, Justin Palmer
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Who's in the Room? How Great Leaders Structure and Manage the Teams Around ThemWho's in the Room provides a corrective view of the proper role of the SMT and a map of modern corporations' organizational changes and outcomes needed to compete in the 21st century marketplace. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Bob Frisch
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Who's in the Room?: How Great Leaders Structure and Manage the Teams Around ThemBased on interviews with CEOs at organizations ranging from MasterCard to Ticketmaster to The Red Cross, this unique book shows how leaders can unleash the full power of their senior management teams when it comes to decision-making.
By Bob Frisch
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Why Great Leaders Don't Take Yes for an Answer: Managing for Conflict and ConsensusWhy Great Leaders Don't Take Yes for an Answer delivers insightful lessons about genuine team leadership and rising above adversities in the modern world. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Michael A. Roberto
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Widgets: The 12 New Rules for Managing Your Employees as if They're Real PeopleArmed with empirical evidence from the provocative studies the author leads around the globe, this book guides you through the new realities of what it takes to get the highest levels of intensity from people in a more mercenary, skeptical, and wired work world.
By Rodd Wagner
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Winning Well: A Manager's Guide to Getting Results-Without Losing Your SoulIn Winning Well, authors Karin Hurt and David Dye provide an assortment of techniques to help managers achieve both efficiency and ethics. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By David Dye, Karin Hurt
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Work it Out: Using Personality Type to Improve Team Performance, Revised EditionWith step-by-step guidance for creating coaching plans and tailoring strategies to meet specific client preferences, this toolkit will help business leaders, managers, and consultants simplify the complex interactions between people at work.
By Jane A. G. Kise, Sandra Krebs Hirsh
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Work Tribes: The Surprising Secret to Breakthrough Performance, Astonishing Results, and Keeping Teams TogetherAstonishing outcomes result from making your employees feel welcomed, wanted, and valued. This book will show you how to transform your team into a unified tribe.
By Shawn Murphy
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Working at a Distance: A Global Business Model for Virtual Team CollaborationOrganizations are implementing virtual teams using web technologies as a cost-effective measure for training and project development. This timely book provides a detailed, comprehensible virtual team business model for managers, professionals, teachers or students involved globally with such initiatives.
By Cassandra J. Smith
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Working Longer: New Strategies for Managing, Training, and Retaining Older EmployeesWritten by experts in the field of workforce education and the management of older workers, this unique book gives recruiters, managers, and trainers the tools they need to nurture and empower these vital employees.
By William J. Rothwell, et al.
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Workplace Wars and How to End Them: Turning Personal Conflict into Productive TeamworkShows how to build the kind of teamwork that recognizes conflict quickly, deals with it constructively, and parlays it expertly into creativity and growth.
By Kenneth Kaye
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Writing Performance Documentation: A Self-Paced Training ProgramEnsure that your performance-related writing achieves your organization's highest standards with the help of this easy-to-use guide. You'll learn how to write performance documentation that is accurate, complete, and crystal clear.
By Diane Lutovich, Janis Fisher Chan
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Writing Performance Reviews: A Write It Well Guide, Third Edition, Revised 2012A user-friendly book that's filled with guidelines, tips, and tools, this practical guide will help you write performance objectives, reviews, appraisals, and other performance documentation that is clear, descriptive, objective, and acceptable in today's workplace.
By Natasha Terk
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Yes to the City: Millennials and the Fight for Affordable HousingYes to the City offers an in-depth look at the "Yes in My Backyard" (YIMBY) movement.
By Max Holleran
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You Already Know How to Be Great: A Simple Way to Remove Interference and Unlock Your Greatest PotentialYou Already Know How to Be Great examines concepts around which to build a simple and reliable method for consistent performance in a wide range of roles-from those who want to learn how to teach, to those who want to learn how to learn. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
By Alan Fine, Rebecca R. Merrill
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You First: Inspire Your Team to Grow Up, Get Along, and Get Stuff DoneAddressing the five most common ways your team can become toxic, this book shows how you, from any seat at the table, even without support from your colleagues or your team leader, can transform even the most dysfunctional team.
By Liane Davey
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You Win in the Locker Room First: 7 C's to Build a Winning Team in Sports, Business, and LifeDrawing on the extraordinary experiences of Coach Mike Smith and Jon Gordon-consultant to numerous college and professional teams, this step-by-step book explores the seven powerful principles that any business, school, organization, or sports team can adopt to revitalize their organization.
By Jon Gordon, Mike Smith
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Young World Rising: How Youth, Technology and Entrepreneurship are Changing the World from the Bottom UpExamining the new ethos of entrepreneurship fueled by the spread of network connectivity and the titanic ambitions of a generation, this book discusses ways to create new market opportunities and drive sustainable growth in the wake of a global recession.
By Rob Salkowitz