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This book explores the intersections between leadership and velocity (the speed of now) to identify key leadership competencies needed for the 21st Century.
We offer a set of ten competencies that may serve as a foundation of effective leadership that emerged from our experiences, interviews with 30 leaders, and research. These competencies may be especially timely in the midst of the global COVID-19 crisis and the need for effective leadership at...
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Are you worried you're not cut out for leadership? Do you battle with impostor syndrome? Do nerves get the better of you when it matters?
In this practical, engaging book, you'll discover the three keys to unlock your confidence, influence and impact so that you can unleash your leadership potential and accelerate your career. It's full of tools and techniques grounded in neuroscience to help you overcome fear and lead with confidence. Worry less...
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Leadership is struggle
The question of how to lead successfully and responsibly is crucially important in our uncertain, high-pressure, turbulent world. In this book, Harvard Business School Professor Joseph Badaracco answers this question in practical and, at times, provocative ways.
Leaders today are surrounded by what Badaracco calls "the new invisible hand"-powerful, pervasive markets that touch and shape almost everything. As a result, understanding...
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This is the first book to provide a complete and detailed methodology for developing sound theory in applied disciplines, which are academic and professional fields that apply scientific knowledge to professional practice, such as management, nursing, psychology human resource development, and many more.
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If you're like most business leaders, innovation now tops your corporate agenda. But despite all the talk and excitement about the importance of innovation, managers have so far found scant help for innovating in a systematic way that fuels consistent growth and sustained success.
In Innovation to the Core, Strategos CEO Peter Skarzynski and business strategist Rowan Gibson change all that. They share the accumulated wisdom from Strategos--the consulting...
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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 the people around them and always needs to be the smartest person in the room. These are the idea killers,...
87) The Champions Network: A Blueprint to Expand Your Influence and Spread Big Ideas in Any Organization
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ACTIVATE YOUR NETWORK! We all have BIG IDEAS: best practices, transformative programs, innovative initiatives, and ways to improve our company culture and productivity. If you could influence others to adopt these, would it make your job easier and help to accomplish your professional goals? Would it provide a benefit to your organization, community, or society?The Champions Network will help you leverage your existing network of colleagues and connections...
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The only system designed for everything that today's modern women handle Most time-management systems don't succeed for working women. Why? Quite simply, they don't understand our specific needs and the wide variety of tasks we find ourselves facing each day. Ruth Klein has been coaching working women for years on how to manage their time, and she has the answer for today's working women. Time Management Secrets for Working Women will show you how...
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This book will transform your life for the better.
The case for business ethics is both settled and urgent, we are within an era of human history in which the most influential organizations on the planet, businesses, must align their goals with principles of human flourishing, ethics, if humanity is going to experience a more ideal future than what we now know. To accomplish this attainable goal, we must realize that business is composed of individuals...
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Team Building inside: Trabajo en equipo y coordinación¡Crea y vive el espíritu del equipo! Colaborar y trabajar en equipo es divertido… ¿En serio? ¿Usted piensa que no puede crear y mover un equipo mientras se divierten?¡Es perfectamente posible y se puede hacer por su propio equipo!¡¡Nuestra colección de guías prácticas « Team Building inside » va a demostrarlo!!Descubrir las actividades energizantes y divertidas que le ayudarán a...
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How can you improve the way your organization handles turbulence?
How do you get your people on the same flight path?
What if you could reduce the number of errors, made at your workplace by half?
The aviation industry can provide the answers to these questions, and more. Flying commercial aircraft is complex with little room for error. Over the past 40 years, the aviation industry has developed ways to make commercial aviation safe, so much so that...
92) Primal Leadership, With a New Preface by the Authors: Unleashing the Power of Emotional Intelligence
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This is the book that established "emotional intelligence" in the business lexicon-and made it a necessary skill for leaders.
Managers and professionals across the globe have embraced Primal Leadership, affirming the importance of emotionally intelligent leadership. Its influence has also reached well beyond the business world: the book and its ideas are now used routinely in universities, business and medical schools, and professional training programs,...
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The speed of the business is the speed of the leader. It's time to up your game. One of the most important questions a leader can ask themselves is: "How do I get my teams, my organization to move faster?"That is the challenge that all leaders face. This challenge grows more intense every day. Lead with Speed is the answer. This problem of speed is often disguised by other symptoms, such as "my projects cannot make an accurate prediction of when they...
94) Most Likely to Succeed at Work: How to Get Ahead at Work Using Everything You Learned in High School
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As Kurt Vonnegut once said, "True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country."
When it comes down to it, work--with its know-it-alls, gossips, and brown-noser--is a lot like high school. This clever and useful book helps readers identify and better communicate with these and other common types we all remember from the days when report cards, not business reports, were our concern, and when the...
95) Built to Learn
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Aerospace giant Rockwell Collins typified the old-fashioned corporate approach to organizational learning: lackluster offerings in bland classroom settings, with little connection to the needs of employees or the goals of the company. Enter Cliff Purington and Chris Butler, who in three years transformed Rockwell into a full-fledged learning organization. With a strategy-based and technology-driven learning approach, a 400 percent increase in offerings,...
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You're too close to your business, and it's killing your creativity
Traditional business structures love stability and predictability. Yet many organizations believe the two essential ingredients for long-term success are creativity and innovation. Kiirsten May and Alex Varricchio, founders of the marketing agency UpHouse, call the relationship between these two opposing expectations the Proximity Paradox™ - the belief that those who are closest...
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Packed with research-based insights from leading workplaces, “Let's Talk Culture” is the how-to guide for people leaders who want to shape a world-class team culture by design. Successful leaders and organizations know that culture is the unseen advantage of world-class teams. But can it be influenced? And what role do managers play in building and shaping it?
Author and expert in leader communication, Shane Michael Hatton, says the research...
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Thomas Jefferson once said, "If two individuals get together and exchange a dollar, they each walk away with one dollar. If the same individuals get together and exchange an idea, they both walk away with two ideas." In many ways, this statement expresses the vastly, generative potential or "economics" of modeling.
Modeling is the process of taking a complex event or phenomenon and breaking it into small enough chunks so that it can be, recapitulated...
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The international bestseller-now with a new preface by author John Kotter.
Millions worldwide have read and embraced John Kotter's ideas on change management and leadership.
From the ill-fated dot-com bubble to unprecedented M&A activity to scandal, greed, and ultimately, recession-we've learned that widespread and difficult change is no longer the exception. It's the rule. Now with a new preface, this refreshed edition of the global bestseller Leading...
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