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10 Steps to Be a Successful Manager, 2nd Ed
Author Lisa Haneberg
There’s always room for improvement.It’s tough to be a great manager, but also fascinating, enriching, meaningful, and fun. Organizations need managers who bring individuals and teams together to do their best work in the service of company goals—make no mistake, m....
Release Date 2019/06 -
Collaborate Smarter, Not Harder
Author Peter Gray , Thomas H. Davenport , Rob Cross
Feeling pressure to become more agile and “networked,” organizations tend to overwhelm employees with collaboration demands, putting a drag on performance and engagement. But through analytics, they can scale collaboration more effectively, improve collaborative de....
Release Date 2019/09 -
Author Elena Aguilar
Hands-on resources for new and seasoned school coachesThis practical resource offers the foundational skills and tools needed by new coaching educators, as well as presenting an overview of the knowledge and theory base behind the practice. Established coaches will....
Release Date 2013/03 -
The Leadership Challenge Workbook, 4th Edition
Author James M. Kouzes , Barry Z. Posner
A field manual for the gold standard in leadership development booksThe world’s best leaders consciously reflect on their own behaviors and choices in an effort to continuously better themselves. In the thoroughly revised and updated Fourth Edition of The Leadership Challenge Workbook, renowned lead....
Release Date 2023/04 -
Job Challenge Profile, Facilitator Guide
Author Ruderman , Patricia J. Ohlott , Cynthia D. McCauley
The Center for Creative Leadership has found that successful managers acquire many core skills from their work assignments. Although, job assignments are a rich source of learning, some assignments provide more of a learning opportunity than others. Leaders will us....
Release Date 2015/07 -
Author Whitney Johnson
Digital tools make remote teams possible, but it’s not easy to wrangle an increasingly distributed workforce. Leaders must grapple with problems in several key areas: communication, project management, talent development and management, and reliable access to techn....
Release Date 2019/10 -
Mastering the Market Intelligence Challenge
Author Teppo Felin , Stephan Kudyba , Thomas H. Davenport , Edward E. Lawler III , Thomas W
Multinational companies have invested heavily in emerging economies — over $3 trillion since 1998, by one estimate. Many of these companies, however, have not adapted their products and operations sufficiently to succeed in these markets, and returns have oft....
Release Date 2016/01 -
The Remote Facilitator's Pocket Guide
Author Kirsten Clacey , Jay-Allen Morris
This approach to remote facilitation makes virtual meetings powerful means of collaboration using proven techniques to accommodate a diversity of cultures, locations, and personalities.Many people struggle with remote meetings: a cocktail of factors, such as technic....
Release Date 2020/08 -
You Win in the Locker Room First: The 7 C's to Build a Winning Team in Business, Sports, and Life
Author Mike Smith , Jon Gordon
NFL head coach Mike Smith lead one of the most remarkable turnarounds in NFL history. In the season prior to his arrival in 2008, the Atlanta Falcons had a 4–12 record and the franchise had never before achieved back-to-back winning seasons. Under Smith's leadersh....
Release Date 2015/09 -
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 -
Executive Presence, Second Edition: The Art of Commanding Respect Like a CEO, 2nd Edition
Author Harrison Monarth
Be the kind of leader that other leaders envy by strategically harnessing the extraordinary power of perception.One of today’s most in-demand leadership consultants, Harrison Monarth, has coached executives and CEOs in various industries, from technology, medicine ....
Release Date 2019/06 -
Organizational Design for Teams, 1st Edition
Author O'Reilly Media , Inc.
Design teams can turn out great work today and still be ill equipped to handle tomorrow’s challenges. Much depends on how, and how well, the team functions together over the long haul. And that comes down to management. In this sampler from O’Reilly’s Design Librar....
Release Date 2017/05 -
Become an Effective Software Engineering Manager
Author Dr. James Stanier
Software startups make global headlines every day. As technology companies succeed and grow, so do their engineering departments. In your career, you'll may suddenly get the opportunity to lead teams: to become a manager. But this is often uncharted territory. How can yo....
Release Date 2020/05 -
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 -
97 Things Every Engineering Manager Should Know
Author Camille Fournier
Tap into the wisdom of experts to learn what every engineering manager should know. With 97 short and extremely useful tips for engineering managers, you'll discover new approaches to old problems, pick up road-tested best practices, and hone your management skill....
Release Date 2019/11 -
Author Professor David Wasieleski , Jennifer Hancock
This book provides a short introduction to the philosophy of humanism and discusses how and why it is being applied to business and why it is so effective when you do so.>You can’t understand humanistic business management unless you understand what humanism is.....
Release Date 2019/05 -
Speed: How Leaders Accelerate Successful Execution
Author Joseph Folkman , Jack Zenger
Seize the competitive advantage by building speed into your leadership DNAThe rapid pace at which change occurs in business today is unprecedented. Speed has become a major source of competitive advantage. Leaders who act quickly and inspire others to do the same a....
Release Date 2016/12 -
Author Leo van der Aalst , James L. Rommens , Rex Black
This book covers the ISTQB Expert Level Test Manager syllabus and is a complete, one-stop preparation guide for the reader who is otherwise qualified (based on experience as a test manager) to take the Expert Level Test Manager exam. Included are extensive hands-on....
Release Date 2017/04 -
How to Take Action for Successful Performance Management
Author Hanne Nørreklit , Professor Falconer Mitchell
This book is intended for practitioners, students, and researchers who are interested in designing, using, assessing, and researching performance management systems.Managerial personnel involved in such activity will hold many beliefs about how their organization f....
Release Date 2019/08 -
Author Mickey W. Mantle , Ron Lichty
The Essential Guide to Effectively Managing Developers So You Can Deliver Better Software—Now Extensively Updated“Lichty and Mantle have assembled a guide that will help you hire, motivate, and mentor a software development team that functions at the highest level.....
Release Date 2019/12 -
Author Mariano Battan , Jim Kalbach
Create better connected teams and hold more productive meetingsIn 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 te....
Release Date 2023/04 -
The Accidental SysAdmin Handbook: A Primer for Entry Level IT Professionals, Second Edition
Author Eric Kralicek
Understand the concepts, processes and technologies that will aid in your professional development as a new system administrator. While every information technology culture is specific to its parent organization, there are commonalities that apply to all organizati....
Release Date 2016/02 -
Compass: Your Guide for Leadership Development and Coaching
Author George Hallenbeck , Elaine Biech , Peter Scisco
This book is for leaders and managers looking to develop themselves and others. It is for training & development professionals, inside or working as independent consultants, who can use the book as a coaching tool, a blueprint for leader development plans, and in o....
Release Date 2017/07 -
When Consensus Hurts the Company
Author Alfredo Enrione , Felipe Csaszar
Boards and top management teams often try to gain consensus about important decisions. New research offers insights into when that's the right course, when it isn't - and how leaders can determine the best form of decision making for a given situation. Sho....
Release Date 2015/04 -
10 Steps to Successful Mentoring
Author Wendy Axelrod
Reach New Heights as a MentorBroaden people’s perspectives. Sustain momentum for development. Drive significant career growth. It doesn’t take a workplace superhero to accomplish all of this. You can do it—when you become a masterful mentor. While mentoring resourc....
Release Date 2019/06 -
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 Dieter Reuther , Donna Denio
How can the power of play inspire your teams and help you achieve creative and powerful business solutions in a rapidly changing world? In this report, you’ll explore Lego Serious Play, a proven tool for boosting both individual and team productivity. It may sound ....
Release Date 2016/03 -
Management Research Methodology: Integration of Principles, Methods and Techniques
Author K. N. Krishnaswamy , Appa Iyer Sivakumar , M. Mathirajan
The subject of Management Research Methodology is enthralling and complex. A student or a practitioner of management research is beguiled by uncertainties in the search and identification of the research problem, intrigued by the ramifications of research design, a....
Release Date 2016/05 -
Managing the Bots That Are Managing the Business
Author Thomas H. Davenport , Tim O'Reilly
We are just at the beginning of the transformation from an economy dominated by human workers to one dominated by electronic workers. The great management challenge of the next few decades will be understanding how to get the best out of both humans and machines, a....
Release Date 2016/10