Leadership

Building Character is written for leaders who understand their responsibility to develop authentic leaders within their organizations. Without presenting an overarching moral code or a prescriptive code of behavior, this book offers leaders and managers...

Enhance Your Thinking Power and Your Leadership Abilities Power Thinking is an invaluable resource for leaders. It contains profiles of twenty-three outstanding leaders from a wide variety of organizations and describes the thinking strategies that they...

Thinking to stay ahead of change In a complex business climate, people need to make informed decisions and learn how to think flexibly. A leader's most important asset is the ability to sense changes in the environment and adapt to them quickly. The...

On Creativity, Innovation, and Renewal features the best thinking from top experts on strategic innovation, sparking creativity, and transforming organizations. Written in a concise style that is ideal for the busy executive with little spare time, the...

A Definitive Overview of Peter Drucker's Contributions to Management "Flaherty has accomplished the impossible: making a systematic thinker out of me. I am particularly impressed by his skill in balancing chronology and themes, and that over a...

Discover the key tools for making self-directed work teams function as true teams. Work team leaders and managers involved in creating and developing teams will benefit from this guide covering self-managed team models, the transition to self-managed...

Create high performance and diverse teams.About the AuthorSelma G. Myers is the author of Team Building for Diverse Work Groups, published by Wiley.Book InformationISBN 9780787951054Author Selma G. MyersFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint...

This concise guidebook offers a process for understanding training needs for any audience by outlining the needs assessment process for you, step--by--step.Book InformationISBN 9780787950972Author Sally SparhawkFormat PaperbackPage Count 104Imprint...

By the year 2000, white males will represent less than one third of the American workforce. In this universally praised work, Ann Morrison, co-author of Breaking The Glass Ceiling, becomes the first to offer companies practical strategies for moving...

This workbook by bestselling author Burt Nanus presents his field-tested program for creating and implementing a powerful new sense of organizational direction. You'll need one workbook for every Visionary Retreat program participant. Complete program...

World-renowned management guru and expert in corporate neurosis Manfred F. R. Kets de Vries puts organizations on the couch. By combining the dismal science of management and the impossible profession of psychoanalysis, Kets de Vries presents eclectic...

"A terrific book!" --David A. Nadler, chairman, DeltaConsulting Group Tackle the organizational issues related to implementing teams.Learn new designs to support the knowledge work components oforganizations. Drawing on over fifteen years of research...

Inspired by the groundbreaking work of Morton Deutsch, a pioneer in applied social psychology. The contributors-all authorities in their fields and former students or colleagues of Deutsch-include leading thinkers from schools and departments of...

Draws on the latest research to show how groups can function moreeffectively to achieve the full potential of group work. Forleaders and group supervisors as well as members of teams, boards,task forces, and other groups. Offers a clear vision of what...

Proven-to-work tools for building or fine-tuning teams The authors of Designing Team-Based Organizations present hands-on guidance for establishing or refining teams in organizations where they carry out the core work process. Though teams are fast...

These brief, interactive games and activities raise your participantsa awareness and prepare them to learn something new. Designed to be fun and energizing, the activities help people overcome the initial anxiety common among new acquaintances or in...

Strengthen team bonds with friAndly competition Take your team to a higher level of performance with a healthy dose of competition. These stimulating activities provide lessons in determination, teamwork, and planning--all critical elements in achieving...

This practical model helps teams understand the phases of team development and how to plan for the next step on the road to success.Book InformationISBN 9780787950910Author Richard Y. ChangFormat PaperbackPage Count 106Imprint Jossey-Bass Inc.,U.S...

Team power revealed through real-world examples of success This book gives you a real-world perspective on using teams to reengineer your organization. You'll discover what it takes to achieve aggressive and challenging goals for quality, productivity,...

Jeff Luke's book is simply outstanding and a must read for those public leaders interested in advancing the common good. ?John Bryson, professor of planing and public affairs in the Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs at the University of...

International communication affects the way we think about other countries and their people and sets the agenda of issues that face the global community. This book introduces the functions of international communications.Book InformationISBN...

Facing cutbacks in federal and state assistance and a new wave of taxpayer revolts, local governments have renewed interest in local government consolidation as a way of achieving efficiencies of scale in response to citizen demands for services. Yet the...

Optimize team performance during changing times.About the AuthorPAUL J. JEROME is VP of Richard Chang Associates, Inc., a diversified organizational improvement consulting and publishing firm based in Irvine, California. He is an experienced management...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780730316695Author James M. KouzesFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint WrightbooksPublisher John Wiley & Sons Australia LtdWeight(grams) 208g

Management Development is an essential text for master's level human resource management programs and for high level practitioners.About the AuthorDr. Diana Winstanley is Lecturer in Human Resource Management and Organisational Behaviour at Imperial...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780730358633Author Anthony StevensFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint John Wiley & Sons Australia LtdPublisher John Wiley & Sons Australia...

Written in a highly accessible style by a small distinguished team, this is a wide--ranging account of the whole subject of management development, underpinned by the most extensive data set ever made available.Book InformationISBN 9780631209997Author Dr...

Now available in paperback, this practical guide for students and HR managers provides perspectives into developing staff as an integral part of the business operation to optimize corporate performance.Book InformationISBN 9780631193463Author Gordon...

There are many aphorisms and assumptions surrounding leadership - which of them can be relied upon? Can we identify the qualities that make a good leader? Are the characteristics that make a leader unchanging throughout time? Are leadership styles...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486841236Author Hylke FaberFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.

Everyday Leadership offers strategies to improve leadership skills, improve results, and gain greater satisfaction in these hectic times. It speaks to the everyday leader, whether that person is a CEO, a principal, a pastor, or a mom or dad. Daniel...

Virtually every organisation today realises the need to change in order to succeed. Success can only come through good management which, itself, needs to be driven by leaders. This book illustrates how a leader can systematically create a business that...

Managers need auditors. There are more risks in running an organization than ever before whether it be in the public, private or non--profit sector. With the break--up of the state sector, the ambiguous intermediary role of not for profit organizations,...

Lasallian Pathfinders: Of Ordinary Men and Less Ordinary Leadership is a collection of lectures on leadership, the second in The Fullerton-SJI Leadership Lecture Series. These talks were delivered by influential frontrunners in various industries with...

With the theme "China Dreams: Opportunities and Challenges," this book contributes to emerging debates on Chinese new leadership's adaptability to important political, economic, social, and global issues. Can China's political system sustain...

This book explains four different aspects of leadership namely: self, team, global and social leadership. It also summarizes author's discussions with executives and middle-level employees of different companies in various fields, as well as with...

In 1852, six Brothers of the Christian Schools, following in the tradition of their founder St. John Baptist de La Salle, gave up all they had and travelled to the Far East to bring education to the poor. They landed in Singapore and established the...

Focusing on leadership and issues pertinent to our global landscape, The Art of Leadership: Perspectives from Distinguished Thought Leaders is an in-depth analysis and enriching collection of knowledge and perspectives from illustrious thought leaders...

In 1852, six Brothers of the Christian Schools, following in the tradition of their founder St. John Baptist de La Salle, gave up all they had and travelled to the Far East to bring education to the poor. They landed in Singapore and established the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788202254285Author Marcus SelartFormat HardbackPage Count 232Imprint Cappelen Damm AkademiskPublisher Cappelen Damm AkademiskWeight(grams) 476g