Leadership

“Available recommendation signals cluster around Leadership, NonFiction, Business lists, suggesting this book may fit readers looking for business judgment, leadership, or practical strategy. Treat this as discovery context, not a quality guarantee.”

“Available recommendation signals cluster around Leadership, NonFiction, Business, Science lists, suggesting this book may fit readers looking for business judgment, leadership, or practical strategy. Treat this as discovery context, not a quality guarantee.”

Do you ever have trouble finishing what you start Do amazing ideas come to you all the time but after the initial excitement wanes you struggle to follow through If you're creative and ambitious, the answer is likely yes.The problem isn't you. It's not that you're not hardworking, intelligent or deserving, but that you haven't yet installed the o...

Named a "must read" by Susan Cain, "endlessly fascinating" by Daniel Pink, and "bursting with practical insights" by Adam Grant. A former rocket scientist reveals the habits, ideas, and strategies that will empower you to turn the seemingly impossible into the possible. Rocket science is often celebrated as the ultimate triumph of Technology,. But i...

Whether you're dealing with an under performing employee, disagreeing with your spouse about money or childrearing, negotiating with a difficult client, or simply saying "no," or "I'm sorry," or "I love you," we attempt or avoid difficult conversation every day. Based on fifteen years of research at the Harvard Negotiation Project, Difficult Conve...

In this groundbreaking book, Tim Harford, the Undercover Economist, shows us a new and inspiring approach to solving the most pressing problems in our lives. When faced with complex situations, we have all become accustomed to looking to our leaders to set out a plan of action and blaze a path to success. Harford argues that today's challenges simp...

Consciousness is the main source of organizational greatness. Conscious business, explains Fred Kofman, means finding your passion and expressing your essential values through your work. Conscious Business presents breakthrough techniques to help you and the people in your company create a workplace founded in unconditional responsibility and unfli...

The New York Times bestseller that gives readers a paradigmshattering new way to think about motivation Most people believe that the best way to motivate is with rewards like money?the carrotandstick approach. That's a mistake, says Daniel H. Pink (author of To Sell Is Human: The Surprising Truth About Motivating Others). In this provocative and...

If you cut off a spiders head, it dies; if you cut off a starfishs leg it grows a new one, and that leg can grow into an entirely new starfish. Traditional topdown organizations are like spiders, but now starfish organizations are changing the face of business and the world. Whats the hidden power behind the success of Wikipedia, craigslist, an...

Becoming a leader for the first time is one of the biggest and most stressful psychological and emotional shifts you will ever experience. You're suddenly given an important job that has almost nothing in common with what you've been trained to do. It's as though, at the age of sixteen, your parents said You ride a bike so well you might as well ta...

The retired fourstar general and and bestselling author of My Share of the Task shares a powerful new leadership model As commander of Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC), General Stanley McChrystal played a crucial role in the War on Terror. But when he took the helm in 2004, America was losing that war badly: despite vastly inferior resource...

Creativity is crucial to business success. But too often, even the most innovative organization quickly becomes a "giant hairball"a tangled, impenetrable mass of rules, traditions, and systems, all based on what worked in the pastthat exercises an inexorable pull into mediocrity. Gordon McKenzie worked at Hallmark Cards for thirty years, many o...

New York Times Bestseller ?Catnip for all the TED fans out there.? ?Publishers Weekly?The most insightful book ever written on public speaking . . . a mustread.? ?Adam Grant, Wharton professor and New York Times bestselling author of Give and Take and Originals Since taking over TED in 2001, Chris Anderson has shown how carefully crafted talks c...

After fifteen years of rising to the pinnacle of the hospitality industry, Chip Conley's company was suddenly undercapitalized and overexposed in the postdot.com, post9/11 economy. For relief and inspiration, Conley, the CEO and founder of Joie de Vivre Hospitality, turned to psychologist Abraham Maslow's iconic Hierarchy of Needs. This book expl...

Twentyfive years ago, Herb Kelleher reinvented air travel when he founded Southwest Airlines, where the planes are painted like killer whales, a typical company maxim is "Hire people with a sense of humor," and inflight meals are never servedjust sixty million bags of peanuts a year. By sidestepping "reengineering," "total quality management," ...

Uncovers the elements of creative collaboration by examining six of the century's most extraordinary groups and distill their successful practices into lessons that virtually any organization can learn and commit to in order to transform its own management into a collaborative and successful group of leaders. Paper. DLC: Organizational effectivenes...

To compete with today's increasing globalization and rapidly evolving technologies, individuals and organizations must take their ability to learnthe foundation for continuous improvement, operational excellence, and innovationto a much higher level. In Learn or Die, Edward D. Hess combines recent advances in neuroscience, psychology, behaviora...

Think about the last time you tried to change someone’s mind about something important: a voter’s political beliefs; a customer’s favorite brand; a spouse’s decorating taste. Chances are you weren’t successful in shifting that person’s beliefs in any way. In his book, Changing Minds, Harvard psychologist Howard Gardner explains what happens during ...

A decade ago, The Oz Principle took the business world by storm. At its root, the principle works like this: Like Dorothy and the gang in The Wizard of Oz, most businesspeople have the tools to succeed, but when things go wrong they blame circumstance or others instead of looking within for the true cause of unsatisfactory results. Once individuals...

Retailers Choice Award winner, 2012Strengthen the core of your life and faith on a yearlong journey with beloved Super Bowlwinning former head coach Tony Dungy! The One Year Uncommon Life Daily Challenge contains 365 reflections from the #1 New York Times bestselling author on living an "uncommon life" of integrity, honoring your family and frien...

“Available recommendation signals cluster around Leadership, NonFiction, Entrepreneur, Business, Entrepreneurship lists, suggesting this book may fit readers looking for business judgment, leadership, or practical strategy. Treat this as discovery context, not a quality guarantee.”

What would happen if a top expert with more than thirty years of leadership experience were willing to distill everything he had learned about leadership into a handful of lifechanging principles just for you It would change your life.John C. Maxwell has done exactly that in The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership. He has combined insights learned ...

A revised and updated edition of the acclaimed Wall Street Journal bestseller that explores why some leaders drain capability and intelligence from their teams while others amplify it to produce better results.We?ve all had experience with two dramatically different types of leaders. The first type drains intelligence, energy, and capability from t...

In recent years, while continuing to learn more about strengths, Gallup scientists have also been ex.......

The New York Times bestseller, which has become a musthave for women in business, is now revised and updated in celebration of its 10th anniversary.Internationally recognized executive coach Dr. Lois P. Frankel teacher women how to eliminate unconscious mistakes that could be holding them back, and gives invaluable coaching tips that can easily be...

The ultimate guide on leadership from the #1 New York Times bestselling coauthor of Extreme Ownership.In the military, a field manual provides instructions in simple, clear, stepbystep language to help soldiers complete their mission. In the civilian sector, books offer information on everything from fixing a leaky faucet to developing an effect...

The bestselling authors of the classic Difficult Conversations teach us how to turn evaluations, advice, criticisms, and coaching into productive listening and learningWe swim in an ocean of feedback. Bosses, colleagues, customers—but also family, friends, and inlaws—they all have “suggestions” for our performance, parenting, or appearance. We kno...

In this groundbreaking book, journalist and innovation expert Warren Berger shows that one of the most powerful forces for igniting change in business and in our daily lives is a simple, underappreciated tool?one that has been available to us since childhood. Questioning?deeply, imaginatively, "beautifully"?can help us identify and solve problems,...

The 20th anniversary edition of Now, Discover Your Strengths comes with an access code to the Clifton StrengthsFinder 2.0 assessment. This updated assessment includes reports and resources that go far beyond the standardized reports of the older assessment by providing you with personalized insight statements unique to your specific combination of ...

A candid guide for ambitious women who want to succeed without losing themselves in the process In The Myth of The Nice Girl, Fran Hauser deconstructs the negative perception of "niceness" that many women struggle with in the business world. If women are nice, they are seen as weak and ineffective, but if they are tough, they are labeled a bitch.Ha...

Occasionally, a great idea will sell itself. The other 99% of the time, you have to find a way to persuade others that it is, in fact, a great idea. Most executives spend the vast majority of their time creating their work, and almost no time on the presentation. Through an engaging and humorous narrative, Peter Coughter presents the tools he desig...

"Mantle and Lichty have assembled a guide that will help you hire, motivate, and mentor a software development team that functions at the highest level. Their rules of thumb and coaching advice are great blueprints for new and experienced software engineering managers alike." Tom Conrad, CTO, Pandora "I wish I'd had this material available years ...

Software is becoming more and more important across a broad range of industries, yet most Technology, executives struggle to deliver software improvements their businesses require.Leadingedge companies like Amazon and Google are applying DevOps and Agile principles to deliver large software projects faster than anyone thought possible. But most exe...

?BRAD HELPED US DEVELOP THE TOOLS TO PICK APLAYER LEADERS AT GE.? ?JACK WELCH Great companies, large and small, rise or fall because of their talent; the more high performers on your team, the more successful your organization will be. Of course, that?s easier said than done. Research shows that only about 25% of all new hires turn out to be high...

“Available recommendation signals cluster around Leadership, NonFiction, Entrepreneurship, Business, Influence lists, suggesting this book may fit readers looking for business judgment, leadership, or practical strategy. Treat this as discovery context, not a quality guarantee.”

Bestselling author and father of organizational behavior, Edgar Schein and Peter Schein trailblaze with a creative perspective on leadership that encourages vulnerability and empathy as a form of strength.The more traditional form of leadership that is based on immobile hierarchies is growing increasingly outdated and ineffective. Without the abil...

Every day, talented, hardworking women are passed over for promotions. While it?s easy to blame a corporate culture that favors men, seasoned executive Grace Killelea identifies another culprit: a surprising disparity in confidence. Men are prone to overestimate their abilities, while women too often sell themselves short.The Confidence Effect help...

When a man follows the principles of biblical manhood, those around him benefit from his leadership and care. Kingdom Man challenges and equips men to fully understand their position under God as well as their position over what God has given them. The biblical definition of a man is one who has learned to operate under the authority of Jesus Chris...

Duke University's head basketball coach Mike Krzyzewski has proved himself a leader both on and off the court. He's led the Duke Blue Devils to five straight Final Four appearances, culminating in backtoback championships in 1991 and '92. He has received five National Coach of the Year Awards and many of the players he coached in college have ...

“Available recommendation signals cluster around Leadership, NonFiction, Business, Personal Development lists, suggesting this book may fit readers looking for business judgment, leadership, or practical strategy. Treat this as discovery context, not a quality guarantee.”

From two leaders in executive education at Harvard Business School, here are the mental habits and proven strategies you need to achieve outstanding results in any negotiation.Whether you?ve ?seen it all? or are just starting out, Negotiation Genius will dramatically improve your negotiating skills and confidence. Drawing on decades of behavioral r...

On the Edge is an engaging leadership manual that provides concrete insights garnered from various extreme environments ranging from Mt Everest to the South Pole. By reflecting on the lessons learned from her various expeditions, author Alison Levine makes the case that the leadership principles that apply in extreme adventure sport also apply in t...

This book will inspire you. It will change your life in ways you can't know now, but you'll understand completely once you're done reading it.It will also forever enhance the way you look at your role as a leader. That includes the way you lead at home, at work, in your community...and especially the way you lead you.At every given moment we are al...

Listening Length: 1 hour and 53 minutesIf you want to change the world, start off by making your bed.On May 17, 2014, Admiral William H. McRaven addressed the graduating class of the University of Texas at Austin on their Commencement day. Taking inspiration from the university's slogan, "What starts here changes the world," he shared the ten princ...

The most trusted source of leadership wisdom, updated to address today's realities The Leadership Challenge is the goldstandard manual for effective leadership, grounded in research and written by the premier authorities in the field. With deep insight into the complex interpersonal dynamics of the workplace, this book positions leadership both as...

Marcus Buckingham?s books have guided millions to become top performers in everything they do by focusing on their strengths. In Go Put Your Strengths to Work, a Wall Street Journal bestseller in hardcover, Buckingham will show you how to hone and apply your strengths for maximum success in your career.Research data show that most people do not com...

In the world of strength and conditioning, learning how to move othersnot just physically, but also psychologically and emotionallyis paramount to getting the most out of them. People are the ultimate performance variable, and understanding how to effectively blend knowledge of proper training with the nuances of human behavior is integral to hel...

Looks at the role of emotional intelligence in leadership, discussing the characteristics of a good leader and leadership styles, and outlines the steps to becoming an effective leader....