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Leadership in Action - Tough Going - Learning from Experience the Hard Way
Author Mary Lynn Pulley , Russ S. Moxley
No one would ever choose to experience a hardship, but leaders say that difficult times are often key events in their development. Hardships can make people more aware of their values, their aspirations, and themselves. Here's a look at six types of hardship events....
Release Date 2003/06 -
Leadership in Action: Reader Forum - Perceptions Make a Difference in Leadership
Author John Admire
Leaders develop various perceptions about people that may be both negative and positive. These perceptions, true or false, influence the effectiveness of leaders and the performance of their followers.
Release Date 2003/06 -
Ruthless Execution: What Business Leaders Do When Their Companies Hit the Wall
Author Amir Hartman
Today's business leaders need a radically different skill from their recent predecessors: they must know how to know how to manage through adversity while preparing their companies for a new rebirth of success. In Ruthless Execution, Amir Hartman, author of the bes....
Release Date 2003/07 -
Author Harvard Business School Press
Negotiation--whether brokering a deal, mediating a dispute, or writing up a contract--is both a necessary and challenging aspect of business life. This guide helps managers to sharpen their skills and become more effective deal makers in any situation. ....
Release Date 2003/08 -
Managing Creativity and Innovation
Author Harvard Business School Press
Packed with practical information designed for business readers and managers at all levels, this essential volume offers insights on managing creativity in groups, developing creative conflict, and using technology to help foster innovation.
Release Date 2003/08 -
Leadership in Action: What Women Want: Comparing Leadership Challenges in Europe and the US
Author Joan Tavares , Aparna Bhandary , Patricia Ohlott
As European companies strive to provide more in the way of support for talented women managers who deserve to rise up the career ladder, they have little to go by to identify the major obstacles faced by these managers and to respond to their developmental needs. No....
Release Date 2003/08 -
Leadership in Action: Issues and Observations - The Seven Deadly Sins of Leadership
Author Cresencio Torres
The challenge that leaders must accept and meet to break the spiraling cycle of disillusionment with leaders in every aspect of our lives—business, government, religion, and education— is to identify this malfeasance and determine what can be done about it. ....
Release Date 2003/08 -
Author Dr. Marlene Caroselli
In an age of ethical decay at organizations of every type, a call is being sounded for accountabiliy. Accordingly, companies must educate their employees and executives regarding acceptable practice. The Business Ethics Activity Book presents an array of provocativ....
Release Date 2003/09 -
Translating Strategy into Shareholder Value
Author Raymond J. Trotta
Too often there are serious missed signals between a company’s stated goals and the methods employed to try to reach them. Translating Strategy into Shareholder Value is a unique look at how the planning process relates to the achievement of shareholder value....
Release Date 2003/09 -
Stakeholder Theory and Organizational Ethics
Author Robert Phillips
Business ethics is a staple in the news today. One of the most difficult ethical questions facing managers is to whom are they responsible? Organizations can affect and are affected by many different constituencies—or “stakeholders”—but who are these stakeholde....
Release Date 2003/09 -
Getting Bigger by Growing Smaller: A New Growth Model for Corporate America
Author Thomas T. Stallkamp , Joel M. Shulman
Large, mature companies always become trapped at some point in the declining stages of what has become known as the corporate life cycle. Historically this barrier to continued growth has been, and is still, as unavoidable as death and taxes.In Getting Bigger by Gro....
Release Date 2003/10 -
Leadership in Action: Reader Forum - The Creation of a Leader in Shakespeare's "Henry V"
Author Sharon Discorfano
As the Royal Shakespeare Company production made clear, there are people and there are events, and then there is the way those people and events are construed. The ideal? Henry V: charismatic, eloquent, inspiring, and capable of leading others to victory as he stand....
Release Date 2003/10 -
Leadership in Action: Class Acts: When Leaders are Teachers, Good Things Happen
Author Edward Betof
More and more companies seeking a systematic approach to leadership development are creating corporate universities. At least one company has instituted as an integral element of its corporate university the practice of having most of the programs taught by the orga....
Release Date 2003/10 -
Leadership in Action: In Focus - Leader Development - Personal Lives, Powerful Lessons
Author Patricia J. Ohlott , Marian N. Ruderman
Most leaders say they get their most influential and effective developmental training on the job. Too often, however, these same leaders discount what can be learned from experiences outside of work.
Release Date 2003/10 -
Leadership in Action: A Question of Leadership - Under What Circumstances can Leaders Change?
Author Ann Pinney Renn , Claudia Busch Lee
If leaders can identify the desired behaviors, measure and reinforce those behaviors, and establish supportive consequences, they can create the circumstances under which change can occur.
Release Date 2003/12 -
101 Leadership Actions for Effective Presentations
Author Dr. Ollie Malone
Upgrade your leadership skills quickly and easily?and produce results in your organization with a lot less effort. Each book in this collection focuses on a specific area of leadership and managerial effectiveness and offers 101 actions you can accomplish today to i....
Release Date 2004/01 -
101 Leadership Actions for Performance Management
Author Dr. Ollie Malone
Upgrade your leadership skills quickly and easily and produce results in your organization with a lot less effort. Each book in this collection focuses on a specific area of leadership and managerial effectiveness and offers 101 actions you can accomplish today to i....
Release Date 2004/01 -
Beyond the Core: Expand Your Market Without Abandoning Your Roots
Author Chris Zook
All companies must grow to survive--but only one in five growth strategies succeeds. In Profit from the Core, strategy expert Chris Zook revealed how to grow profitably by focusing on and achieving full potential in the core business. But what happens when your core....
Release Date 2004/01 -
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 -
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