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Leadership in Action: Experience Counts: Learning Lessons from Key Events
Author André Martin , Christopher Ernst
How can leaders help their groups learn lessons—whether positive or negative—from key events? A process that CCL calls critical reflections begins with a key event and is followed by three stages: exploring, reflecting, and projecting. The goal is to create a specif....
Release Date 2007/02 -
Author John C. Maxwell , Dave Anderson
Praise for the first edition of Up Your Business!"Dave Anderson has hit another home run! Up Your Business! is an invaluable, highly readable guide that should be on the desk—and in the mind—of anyone demanding top-level performance from themselves and others." —Jam....
Release Date 2007/03 -
The Center for Creative Leadership Handbook of Leadership Development, Third Edition
Author Marian N. Ruderman , Ellen Van Velsor , Cynthia D. McCauley
Praise for The Center for Creative LeadershipHandbook of Leadership Development"The most authoritative, comprehensive, and practical source for developing leadership capability in any organization. The handbook integrates the very best of theory and practice, and se....
Release Date 2007/03 -
True North: Discover Your Authentic Leadership
Author David Gergen , Peter Sims , Bill George
True North shows how anyone who follows their internal compass can become an authentic leader. This leadership tour de force is based on research and first-person interviews with 125 of today's top leaders—with some surprising results. In this important book, accla....
Release Date 2007/03 -
The Digital SLR Guide to the Canon EOS Digital Rebel XTi/400D
Author Laurence Chen
Whether you’re thinking about buying or have already purchased a Canon Rebel XTi/400D, this 18-page Short Cut guide helps you think about optimizing your digital single-lens reflex camera (DSLR) for various kinds of photographic situations. From the basic camera set....
Release Date 2007/04 -
Leadership in Action: Being Responsible: Boards are Reexamining the Bottom Line
Author Andrew P. Kakabadse
More and more companies, especially in Europe, are shifting their myopic view of the financial bottom line to embrace an approach called corporate social responsibility, which proposes that companies' policies, practices, and decisions should take into account not ....
Release Date 2007/04 -
Author Scott Berkun
How do you know whether a hot technology will succeed or fail? Or where the next big idea will come from? The best answers come not from the popular myths we tell about innovation, but instead from time-tested truths that explain how we've made it this far. This b....
Release Date 2007/05 -
101 Ways to Captivate a Business Audience
Author Sue Gaulke
Captivating a business audience doesn't come naturally to most business speakers. But they can learn to do it and have fun -- with minimum stress and plenty of charisma. This handy little book shares the author's highly successful "sizzle-steak" method. It featu....
Release Date 2007/05 -
The Complete Idiot's Guide to Coping with Difficult People
Author Arlene Uhl
Easy ways of dealing with difficult people.Psychotherapist Arlene Matthews Uhl offers the most effective strategies for dealing with difficult peopl, from strangers and co-workers to friends and family, by characterizing the four major types and revealing specific ....
Release Date 2007/05 -
The Ernst & Young Business Plan Guide, Third Edition
Author Ernst & Young , Patrick T. Pruitt , Jay M. Bornstein , Brian R. Ford
In today's competitive business environment, a well thought out business plan is more important than ever before. Not only can it assist you in raising the money needed to start or expand a business-by attracting the interest of potential investors-but it can also ....
Release Date 2007/06 -
Strategic Management: From Theory to Implementation, 4th Edition
Author David E. Hussey
A major textbook on strategic management which not only deals fully with the theoretical aspects of corporate planning, but also provides practical guidance on implementation. Now completely revised and updated this book is particularly suitable for the studen....
Release Date 2007/06 -
Author Joseph W. Pfeifer , Thomas A. Kolditz
In this extraordinary book Col. Kolditz explains that his research on in extremis leadership, where followers perceive their lives to be threatened, reveals that the leadership lessons and principles in evidence in dangerous settings also apply to leading in....
Release Date 2007/06 -
Leadership in Action: Dividends and interest—The Last Leadership Guru
Author Martin Wilcox
Everyone is an expert on leadership. Each one of us, every day, is deeply involved in its practice. At work, at home, and in our various communities—anytime there is a situation to be evaluated and a decision to be made and followed up on—we are participating in lea....
Release Date 2007/06 -
Leadership in Action: Issues and Observations—Gaining a Critical Edge in Mastering Globalization
Author The GROVEWELL-CFGU Partnership
For most large organizations today, globalization is a fact of life. Global operations must be mastered and global market share captured. To accomplish that, good working partnerships must be maintained with people who are as different as they are distant. ....
Release Date 2007/06 -
Human Side of Project Leadership
Author Aaron J. Shenhar , Richard R. Reilly , Ann Mooney , Thomas Lechler , Patricia Holaha
Good leadership skills enable a project manager to harness the energy and capabilities of a project team in such a way that the performance of the team is greater than the sum of its parts. Often referred to as the "human side" of project management or "people skil....
Release Date 2007/06 -
Executive Coaching with Backbone and Heart, 2nd Edition
Author Mary Beth A. O'Neill
Praise for Executive Coaching with Backbone and Heart"In this book, O'Neill brings form and structure to the art of executive coaching. Novices are provided a path while seasoned practitioners will find affirmation."—Daryl R. Conner, CEO and president, ODR-USA, In....
Release Date 2007/07 -
Author Arthur B. VanGundy
As an acknowledged guru in the field of creativity and innovation, Arthur VanGundy has inspired businesses in a variety of industries to generate more original, cutting-edge ideas. Getting to Innovation is a detailed guide to achieving the critical first step in fo....
Release Date 2007/07 -
Getting to Innovation: How Asking the Right Questions Generates the Great Ideas Your Company Needs
Author Arthur B. VanGundy
Getting to InnovationHow to write positioning and rationale statements for each challengeHow to link together multiple objectives in priority frameworksThe top 10 techniques for generating creative ideasTips for designing and running brainstorming retreatsAdvice on ....
Release Date 2007/07 -
Author Al Switzler , Ron McMillan , David Maxfield , Joseph Grenny , Kerry Patterson
An INFLUENCER motivates others to change.An INFLUENCER replaces bad behaviors with powerful new skills.An INFLUENCER makes things happen.This is what it takes to be an INFLUENCER.Whether you're a CEO, a parent, or merely a person who wants to make a difference, you....
Release Date 2007/08 -
Women and Leadership: The State of Play and Strategies for Change
Author Deborah L. Rhode , Barbara Kellerman
Women and Leadership brings together in one comprehensive volume preeminent scholars from a range of disciplines to address the challenges involving women and leadership. These experts explore when and how women exercise power and what stands in their way. This grou....
Release Date 2007/08 -
Reinventing Project Management: The Diamond Approach To Successful Growth And Innovation
Author Dov Dvir , Aaron J. Shenhar
Projects are the engines that drive innovation from idea to commercialization. In fact, the number of projects in most organizations today is expanding while operations is shrinking. Yet, since many companies still focus on operational excellence and efficiency, mos....
Release Date 2007/08 -
Author Bob Johansen
It's the ultimate paradox for leaders: you can't predict the future, but you must make sense of it in order to thrive. To be successful, leaders need to sort out what's important, devise strategies based on their own point of view, and get there ahead of the....
Release Date 2007/08