Leadership - Books
Lead Every Day: Three Essential Disciplines to Unleash the Passion and Performance of Everyone Around You
Are you a leader who believes you can make a difference in the world? Are you committed to personal excellence? Are you energized by tangible results?
If this sounds like you, Lead Every Day will help you elevate your performance and improve the effectiveness of everyone around you. Like tens of thousands of leaders who’ve already embraced this content, you will discover and release vast amounts of untapped potential resident in you and your co-workers.
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The Heart of Leadership - Becoming a Leader People Want to Follow
Are you the type of leader people want to follow? You can be but first, you ve got to understand what sets great leaders apart from all the rest.
Certainly, leaders need people skills, execution skills, a deep knowledge of industry trends, the ability to articulate a vision, and more they must be competent but that s just the tip of the iceberg. What's below the waterline? What s deep inside the best leaders that makes them different.
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The Secret of Teams: What Great Teams Know and Do
Teams are critical to the success of every organization. Departmental, interdepartmental, cross-functional, ad hoc, task-specific--teams do everything from planning the office party to setting the annual budget to establishing performance goals.
But what separates the teams that really deliver from the ones that simply spin their wheels? What is the secret of high-performance teams?
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The Secret: What Great Leaders Know and Do
The authors of Great Leaders Grow use a fable to lay out what is the secret to great leadership in this internationally bestselling guide.
It's a question that everyone in a position of authority--whether in a multinational corporation or a local volunteer group--wonders sooner or later. Here Ken Blanchard, whose books on leadership have sold over twenty million copies, and Mark Miller, who worked his way up from line worker to vice president of Chick-Fil-A, one of the largest fast-food restaurant chains in the country, uncover the secret that great leaders already know and detail what you need to do to truly inspire and motivate others.
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Leading with Questions: How Leaders Discover Powerful Answers by Knowing How and What to Ask
In this newly revised third edition of Leading with Questions, renowned global leadership consultants Michael Marquardt and Bob Tiede describe how to ask powerful questions that generate short-term and long-term results and success.
They show you how effective leaders use questions to encourage participation and teamwork, foster creative thinking, empower others, create relationships with customers, and solve problems.
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CREATE Motivation: Unlock the Leader Within
The average employee will endure (rather than enjoy) 64,000 hours’ work in their lifetime: 40 hours a week, more than 40 weeks a year, for over 40 years.
So how do we change the world of work so it’s good for business and good for people?
Whether you have just started your first job or are the CEO of a company, the exercises in this book will help you harness your motivation so you can become the leader you want to be and the world needs. CREATE Motivation offers a powerful yet simple-to use model that will help you to:
• Identify what has led to your successes (and failures) to date
• Develop a compelling vision of your future as a leader
• Tap into your intrinsic motivation so you can sustain higher levels of performance
• Know how to inspire others to do the same
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Practical Facilitation: A Toolkit of Techniques
Facilitation is an emerging and exciting profession!
A facilitator helps groups of people to enable them to interact more effectively in a wide range of situations and occupations, including workplaces, organisational planning, leisure and health activities and community development.
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Dr Christine Hogan is a professional facilitator, educator and author. She is committed to helping people to learn how to facilitate and to enhance innovations in facilitation through reflective practice, networking and research.
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Profit from the Core
When Profit from the Core was published in 2001, it became an international bestseller, helping hundreds of companies find their way back to profitable growth after the bursting of the Internet bubble.
The 2007 global financial meltdown reaffirmed the perils of pursuing heady growth through untested strategies, as firms in industries from finance to retailing to automobiles strayed too far from their core businesses and suffered the consequences. In this updated edition of Profit from the Core, authors Chris Zook and James Allen show that a renewed focus on the core is more critical than ever as firms seek to rebuild their competitive advantage coming out of the downturn—and that a strong core will be the foundation for successful expansion as the economy recovers.
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The Art & Science of Facilitation...
...How to Lead Effective Collaboration with Agile Teams
Have you ever been with a team that was spinning in circles and felt unsure how to help? Have you ever been in the room with a high-conflict group and wanted to flee?
If you are responsible for leading teams of any size toward better outcomes, then chances are you have stepped into the role of facilitator at some point. But what does it mean to be a facilitator? While sticky notes, dot voting, and gathering people around a whiteboard are all helpful activities, they can only take us so far.
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