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The Charismatic Leader: Behind the Mystique of Exceptional Leadership
Author Rabindra N. Kanungo , Jay A. Conger
Find out what really makes charismatic leaders tick. Here, author Jay Conger analysis the things leaders do that make their subordinates more self-assured, optimistic and productive. He reveals how the charismatic leader's qualities can revitalize organizations dam....
Release Date 1988/08 -
Author Ronald Brown
The sudden transformation from player to coach is a dramatic one, and managers are usually expected to make the transition under their own steam. This dilemma is faced by many high-powered salespeople. A compact primer on making the difficult move from a narrow i....
Release Date 1990/08 -
Author Thomas L. Quick
Working in teams brings benefits to both team members and organizations for which they work. If you are a team leader, you know that getting commitment isn't always easy. SUCCESSFUL TEAM BUILDING shows you how to motivate team members, and so reap the benefits. Yo....
Release Date 1992/04 -
Author David A. Hills , Stanley S. Gryskiewicz
Each year from 1978 through 1987 the Center for Creative Leadership hosted an event called Creativity Week, during which a select group of researchers and practitioners would get together for a high-energy exchange of ideas on organizational creativity. Discussions....
Release Date 1992/06 -
Author Grant Mayberry
How to achieve positive outcomes using planning and conversational techniques.
Release Date 1993/07 -
Making Common Sense: Leadership as Meaning-making in a Community of Practice
Author Charles J. Palus , Wilfred H. Drath
A prevalent way of viewing leadership is as a process of social influence. In this report, the authors offer an alternative perspective: seeing leadership as a process of social meaning-making. The practical and research implications of such a view are considered. ....
Release Date 1994/06 -
Using an Art Technique to Facilitate Leadership Development
Author Cheryl De De Ciantis
As a part of the effort to find new ways to promote the development of leadership, trainers have begun to make use of artistic activities. One such activity is the touchstone exercise, in which people create sculptures that represent their vision and purpose as lea....
Release Date 1995/10 -
Evolving Leaders: A Model for Promoting Leadership Development in Programs
Author Wilfred H. Drath , Charles J. Palus
Although leadership development is widely acknowledged as important, our understanding of it is largely implicit. This has made programs that seek to promote it difficult to design and implement, and challenging to evaluate effectively. The model presented in this ....
Release Date 1995/10 -
Forceful Leadership and Enabling Leadership: You Can Do Both
Author Robert Kaplan
Leaders need to be forceful--to assert themselves and their capabilities and to push others to perform. Leaders also need to be enabling--to tap into and bring out the capabilities of others. The problem is that many executives see forceful leadership and enabling ....
Release Date 1996/05 -
The Adventures of Team Fantastic: A Practical Guide for Team Leaders and Members
Author Glenn L. Hallam
Using imaginative examples, this entertaining and informative book looks at the ways anyone who is part of a team can help improve its performance. The reader travels through time and space with Team Fantastic--in the Brazilian jungle looking for a cache of diamond....
Release Date 1996/06 -
Newnes Digital Logic IC Pocket Book
Author R MARSTON
This handy reference guide to modern '74'- series and '4000'- series digital ICs presents 620 useful and carefully selected circuits, diagrams, graphs and tables, supported by informative text and captions. Detailed descriptions of and practical applicatio....
Release Date 1996/10 -
Generation to Generation: Life Cycles of the Family Business
Author Ivan Lansberg , Marion McCollom Hampton , John A. Davis , Kelin E. Gersick
Generation to Generation presents one of the first comprehensive overviews of family business as a specific organizational form. Focusing on the inevitable maturing of families and their firms over time, the authors reveal the dynamics and challenges family business....
Release Date 1996/10 -
Beyond Leadership: Balancing Economics, Ethics and Ecology, Revised Edition
Author Ronnie Lessem , Jagdish Parikh , Warren Bennis
Beyond Leadership has been written to enable practitioners and students of leadership to manage uncertainty, diversity, conflict, and complexity. Its lead authors are American, Asian and Afro-European, and this range of perspective is reflected in the individual cha....
Release Date 1997/01 -
Four Essential Ways that Coaching Can Help Executives
Author Randall P. White , Robert Witherspoon
Some executives use coaching to learn specific skills, others to improve performance on the job or to prepare for career moves in business or professional life. Still others see coaching as a way to support broader purposes such as an agenda for major organizationa....
Release Date 1997/01 -
From Training to Performance Consulting
Author Madelyn Callahan
Reinventing your training department into a performance consulting department requires a roadmap. This Infoline is your quick and dirty guide. Not only does the issue give you the basics of performance consulting, but it provides detailed descriptions of the respons....
Release Date 1997/02 -
Inside View: A Leader's Observations on Leadership
Author Walter F. Ulmer Jr.
With thirty-seven years in the U.S. Army, retiring as a three-star general, and nine years as the president and CEO of the Center for Creative Leadership, Walter F. Ulmer, Jr., has a wealth of leadership experience. He is also an exceptionally thoughtful person co....
Release Date 1997/02 -
Author Robert H. Jacobs
The most successful organizations of the future will be those that are capable of rapidly and effectively bringing about fundamental, lasting, system-wide changes.In response to this challenge, Real Time Strategic Change advocates a fundamental redesign of the ....
Release Date 1997/08 -
Author Harrison H. Owen
Open Space Technology (OST) is an effective, economical, fast, and easily repeatable strategy for organizing meetings of between 5 and 1,000 participants. First developed in 1984, it has now been used around the world with all types of organizations including c....
Release Date 1997/09 -
The Manager's Pocket Guide to Systems Thinking & Learning
Author Stephen G. Haines
This Managers Pocket Guide introduces thinking systems concepts and then takes the reader through a series of concepts and practical tools for applying system thinking to: Getting Results, Learning, Managment Processes, Change and Strategic Processes. Systems Thinki....
Release Date 1998/01