Leadership

Leading in the Age of Innovations centres on the need for a more complex process-relational oriented approach to leadership. The complexity of leadership has grown significantly during the 21st century where the need to adapt to the escalating changes in...

In Leading in Place, the authors open up new avenues in the debate on leadership by drawing the reader's attention to the ways in which women can be-and are-leading in organizations and communities in sometimes unconventional, often unrecognized, ways. ...

Filled with original essays by Howard Gardner, William Damon, Mihaly Csikszenthmihalyi, and Jeanne Nakamura and based on a large-scale research project, the GoodWork(r) Project, Responsibility at Work reflects the information gleaned from in-depth...

Women and Leadership brings together in one comprehensive volume preeminent scholars from a range of disciplines to address the challenges involving women and leadership. These experts explore when and how women exercise power and what stands in their...

THE STUDENT LEADERSHIP PRACTICES INVENTORY (Student LPI) is the only leadership tool designed specifically for students and young people. Developed by Jim Kouzes and Barry Posner, the second edition of this celebrated instrument package approaches...

One of the most renowned thinkers and insightful writers on leadership of our time, Harlan Cleveland has seen numerous trends come and go and weathered many drastic changes in leadership and management-from the rise of the "company man" to the...

Traditional forms of collaboration are not sufficient for competing effectively in the more complex and dynamic environment of today's business world. Face-to-face meetings between people of similar backgrounds have given way to increasingly complex...

Many blacks in the workplace face a set of dynamics unique to being African American in a traditionally white, male-dominated world. In this landmark book, authors Ancella Livers and Keith Caver-- co-facilitators of the Center for Creative Leadership's...

Sit at the table with the visionary leader, Peter F. Drucker!About the AuthorPETER F. DRUCKER has been a teacher, writer, and adviser to senior executives for more than fifty years. Author of thirty-one books including his recently released Management...

Find out how to make meetings short, productive, and focused! Includes a wealth of practical examples and proven methods to apply immediately in your organization.About the AuthorRICHARD CHANG is president and CEO of Richard Chang Associates,Inc., a...

Create powerful self-directed teams with TeamGuides! TeamGuides is a set of simple, yet powerful, reproducible guides that enable teams to organize their thinking, planning and follow-through. Instructions for each TeamGuides form define the form's...

Show your team how to chart its own course, evaluate its progress, and self--correct. Many books talk about teamwork, but few address the actual process of creating and managing effective teams. Youa ll learn to approach teamwork as a journey with a...

The Resource of Choice for Those Who Need to Lead! New times demand new competencies. Keep yours ahead of the curve with this engaging guide for the self-directed development of cutting-edge management skills. The Leadership Odyssey outlines...

Learn how you can harness your inner spirit to help yourself and those around you approach work with a renewed sense of purpose and satisfaction. In this book, Moxley shows how spirit can spawn a more vital and vibrant kind of leadership-one that, in...

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...

How do you get your participants involved and then hold on to theirattention? Lorraine Ukens--a highly regarded author of activityresources -- offers sixty innovative, enjoyable, and effectiveactivities designed to make learning unforgettable. Use...

"Although nonprofits have adopted a team approach in program delivery and even management, many nonprofits have not used this same successful approach in fundraising. This friendly guide argues for creating a fundraising team that involves board...

A Guide For Managers Of Team-Based Organizations One of few books to address the management issues of team-basedcompanies, this work shows how to build an organizationalinfrastructure conducive to superior team performance. The workdispenses with the...

An essential resource for building and maintaining an effective leadership team, this book gives HR professionals and I/O practitioners a greater understanding of executive dynamics, development tools, and proven techniques for managing executives...

How senior leaders can re-connect to the emerging leaders hidden in their organizations A sea change has taken place throughout the culture of leadership; today's emerging leaders are "opting out" of the same positions their predecessors...

The problems they face are more complex than ever. The pressure to deliver the right solutions more intense. So how do teams in today's rapid-fire business environment keep up? According to John Redding, today's teams need a new approach to achieving...

While organizations claim to value creativity, they are often at a loss when attempting to conjure up novel ideas, particularly in a world where technology has made information readily available to everyone. As a result, leaders ask, "Where will the...

The Global Executive Leadership Inventory, Observer is a questionnaire that consists of 100 action and behavior-based questions that an observer of the leader fills out about the leader. The questions are designed to measure competency within twelve...

The Wizard and the Warrior gives leaders the insight and courage they need to take risks on behalf of values they cherish and the people they guide. Great leaders must act both as wizard, calling on imagination, creativity, meaning, and magic, and as...

The Center for Creative Leadership (CCL) is the world's premier institution devoted exclusively to leadership research and education. For more than three decades, CCL has worked with hundreds of thousands of executives to create practical models, tools,...

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...

"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...