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Leadership in Action - A Question of Leadership - How Do Leaders Acquire Power?
Author Cindy McLaughlin , Barbara Popejoy
Many people view power as the imposition of will to persuade others to do something they wouldn't ordinarily do. A greater quantity of information does not translate into a greater amount of power.
Release Date 2004/10 -
Leadership in Action: Dividends and Interest - For Lack of Leadership, Airlines are Flying Blind
Author Craig Chappelow
The leaders who make up the current group of airline CEOs have their work cut out. They inherited bloated businesses offering a commodity product in a service industry, yet they seem to have completely lost touch with customer service.
Release Date 2004/10 -
Leadership in Action: Reader Forum - Leaders Can Learn Much from Gandhi
Author Ashok Nalamalapu
Leading by example—an example from which today's leaders in both the public and private sectors can learn much—Gandhi inspired millions of Indians to win independence through a nonviolent movement.
Release Date 2004/10 -
Author Jack B. Rochester , John Gantz
Digital piracy. It's a global war -- and it's just begun. Pirates of the Digital Millennium chronicles that war. All of it: media conglomerates vs. teenagers, tech companies vs. content providers, artists battling artists, nations vs. nations, law enforcement vs. ....
Release Date 2004/09 -
Seeing What's Next: Using the Theories of Innovation to Predict Industry Change
Author Erik A. Roth , Scott Anthony , Clayton Christensen
Every day, individuals take action based on how they believe innovation will change industries. Yet these beliefs are largely based on guesswork and incomplete data and lead to costly errors in judgment. Now, internationally renowned innovation expert Clayton M. Chr....
Release Date 2004/09 -
Author Azriel Rosenfeld , Reinhard Klette
Digital geometry is about deriving geometric information from digital pictures. The field emerged from its mathematical roots some forty-years ago through work in computer-based imaging, and it is used today in many fields, such as digital image processing and....
Release Date 2004/09 -
Author William Damon
All too many people view business as a ruthless, dog-eat-dog world where only the pitiless survive. But here Bill Damon tells the compelling stories of real-life business leaders who have achieved great success by adhering to moral conviction. Based on intervie....
Release Date 2004/09 -
Assessing and Managing Security Risk in IT Systems
Author John McCumber
This book begins with an overview of information systems security, offering the basic underpinnings of information security and concluding with an analysis of risk management. Part II describes the McCumber Cube, providing the original paper from 1991 and detailing....
Release Date 2004/08 -
Author Carolyn Handler Miller
The first professional book to explore and analyze digital storytelling across interactive media and genres-this book examines how digital storytelling draws on classic narrative techniques and utilizes interactive digital technologies to create today's entertainme....
Release Date 2004/08 -
Leadership in Action: Collision Courses: When Social Identity Leads to Conflict
Author Maxine A. Dalton , Donna Chrobot-Mason , Patricia J. Ohlott
As people with far different social identities increasingly find themselves working together, clashes, differences of opinion, and even serious conflicts are bound to occur. These can have acute consequences for organizations.
Release Date 2004/08 -
Author Michael H. Hoppe , George Houston
When leaders are aware of and reconcile their multiple social identities and help those they lead do the same, organizations have a better chance of reaching maximum potential in their missions, visions, cultures, and strategic objectives.
Release Date 2004/08 -
Leadership in Action: Issues and Observations - Bridging the Identity Gap
Author Michael H. Hoppe
Today's leaders are being asked to create work environments in which bridging differences across a wide range of social identities—including gender, race, religion, age, culture, and ethnicity—becomes a core competency for everyone in the organization. ....
Release Date 2004/08 -
Leadership in Action: Dividends and Interest - Taking Stock of our Biases
Author Craig Chappelow
Despite all the feel-good rhetoric about how people should embrace all kinds of other people into their inner circles of valued human beings, real-life experiences often get in the way
Release Date 2004/08 -
Leadership in Action: Wired to Inspire - Leading Organizations Through Adversity
Author Susan S. Rice , Meena S. Wilson
Times of adversity often give rise to unpredictability, fear, anxiety, and loss of confidence. Such circumstances call for inspirational leadership, which gives employees the motivation, commitment, and productivity to take advantage of the opportunities lying on th....
Release Date 2004/06 -
Leadership in Action: A Question of Leadership - What Can Help Leaders Do the Right Thing?
Author Barbara Popejoy , Tim Delaney
Most leaders know the right things to do and have what it takes to do them. Sometimes it's just a matter of slowing down and getting a fix on what is needed at this time in our history.
Release Date 2004/06 -
Leadership in Action: Making it Click—Strategies for Helping Computer-Challenged Leaders
Author John Fleenor
Some senior executives who were schooled in less technologically oriented times break into a cold sweat at the mere sight of a computer. But organizations can take steps to help such leaders overcome the social stigma without sneaking around.
Release Date 2004/06 -
Leadership in Action: Face to Face - Leading in China - A Conversation with Elizabeth Weldon
Author Editor Stephen Rush
Weldon, was selected as CCL's H. Smith Richardson Jr. Visiting Fellow for 2004. That year she was at CCL to conduct a colloquium on developing Chinese business leaders. Leadership in Action managing editor Stephen Rush spoke with her about this topic. Here are exce....
Release Date 2004/06 -
Leadership in Action - Dividends and Interest - Learning for a Lifetime
Author Don W. Prince
The common wisdom is that children are the best learners because they haven't become too set in their ways, and that the older people get the less adept at learning they become. Don Prince shares stories that seem to prove otherwise.
Release Date 2004/06 -
Leadership Skills for Managers, Fourth Edition
Author Charles M. Cadwell
Managing in today?s complex workplace demands a new type of leadership. Twenty-first century managers must lead as visionaries and entrepreneurs, mentors and change agents, team builders and servant-followers. To succeed, today?s managers must increase competitive ....
Release Date 2004/04 -
Leadership in Action: In Focus - Diversity - Latino Leaders can Gain Insights from Black Colleagues
Author Ancella B. Livers , Keith A. Caver
The larger issue for Latino leaders to consider is whether they can learn from the experiences of their black colleagues as they move into the higher ranks of organizations.
Release Date 2004/04 -
Leadership in Action: Dividends and Interest - The Rest of the Leadership Story
Author Craig Chappelow
Many people start their careers with little or no leadership experience and no clear ambition toward leadership but somehow along the way leverage their experiences into a wealth of leadership talent and impressive track records.
Release Date 2004/04 -
Author Ian Marshall , Danah Zohar
Our capitalist culture and the business practices that operate within it are in crisis. Capitalism as we know it today—an amoral culture of short-term self-interest, profit maximization, emphasis on shareholder value, isolationist thinking, and profligate disre....
Release Date 2004/04 -
Minding the Corporate Checkbook: A Manager's Guide to Executing Successful Business Investments
Author Steven R. Kursh
Minding the Corporate Checkbook: A Manager's Guide for ExecutingSuccessful Business InvestmentsSteven R. Kursh, Ph.D."I agree strongly with the author that Return on Investment (ROI) is notby itself a sufficient justification for most of today's businessinvestment....
Release Date 2004/03 -
Local Communities and Post-Communist Transformation
Author Simon Smith
Post-communist transformation in the former Soviet bloc has had a profound effect, not just in the political and economic sphere, but on all aspects of life. Although a great deal has been written about transformation, much of it has been about transformation ....
Release Date 2004/03 -
Controller's Guide to Planning and Controlling Operations
Author Steven M. Bragg
The Controller's Guide to Planning and Controlling Operations is a comprehensive guide for controllers, CFOs, and budget managers who need to determine:The soundness of sales forecastsThe best approach for setting product pricesThe profitability of customers and ma....
Release Date 2004/02 -
Leadership in Action: Laying the Groundwork: First Steps in Evaluating Leadership Development
Author Jennifer Martineau
Evaluating the impact of an organization's efforts to develop leaders is challenging. However, if the evaluation is set up properly, it will not only improve development efforts, and thereby the quality of leadership, but also contribute to the effectiveness of the....
Release Date 2004/02