It explains the rules of this new game, and gives invaluable tips and pointers for teaming with employees while inspiring them to breakthrough performance and results. Let the two dozen rules and guidelines in this quick-hitting manual show the best ways to: * Delegate * Review performance * Think strategically * Lead great meetings * Give and get results-oriented feedback * Provide dir…
At a time when business bestsellers such as Six Sigma are touting scientific management, The Visionary's Handbook desires to be different. Authors Watts Wacker, Jim Taylor, and Howard Means forgo the nuts-and-bolts approach for a philosophical look at management, examining nine broad trends, or "paradoxes," they say are shaping business today. At the heart of these paradoxes lies change--change…
We all know the rules for success in our business or professions, yet we also know that these rules—paradigms—can change at any time. What Joel Barker does in Paradigms: The Business of Discovering the Future is explain how to spot paradigm shifts, how they unfold, and how to profit from them. Through the power of this method—paradigm spotting—you can: find the people in your…
Ethics is at the heart of leadership.All leaders assume ethical burdens and must make every effort to make informed ethical decisions and foster ethical behavior among followers.The Sixth Edition of Meeting the Ethical Challenges of Leadership: Casting Light or Shadow explores the ethical demands of leadership and the dark side of leadership. Author Craig E. Johnson takes a multidisciplinary ap…
Get greater control of your life and career with this easy to read, and yet profound handbook. Explore your Self-awareness, expand your Self-Confidence, build your Self-Efficacy, whilst you learn to set your intention for greater influence and impact. The author is a Global Expert on Self Leadership & Leading Cultures and has coached everyone from at-risk teenagers to Fortune 500 CEO's. R…
A pivotal shift in business strategy-making is taking place, assert Stephen Wall and Shannon Rye Wall. Strategy, once the exclusive province of senior management, is now the responsibility of people at every level in today's most forward-looking companies. Drawing on a ten-year study of more than 200 firms such as AT&T, 3M, The Geon Company, and Ritz Carlton Hotels, which included questionnaire…
Based on an acclaimed professor's legendary strategy course at Harvard Business School, The Strategist offers a radically new perspective on a leader's most vital role. "Are you a strategist?" That’s the first question Cynthia Montgomery asks the business owners and senior executives from all over the world who participate in her highly regarded executive education course. It’s not a que…
This is packed with practical, action-oriented principles, tools, and techniques for making your strategic plan a reality. At its core, the book pinpoints and explains the 18 keys to strategy implementation. Derived from both the author's extensive experience and in-depth interviews with CEOs, these are the essential steps for developing and enacting the strategic plan tasks - and for successfu…