Leadership

Kets de Vries profiles a range of toxic executives the narcissist, psychopath, cold fish, obsessive-compulsive, and many more, offering coaches examples of interventions that have worked and those that haven't, to help coaches deal with difficult people...

During the past decade, leaders have increasingly relied onself-managing work groups, multifunctional teams, andcross-national executive groups to create the organization of thefuture. Yet groups are not a panacea for organizational problems;conflicts...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781637744703Author Mark MillerFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint Matt Holt BooksPublisher BenBella BooksWeight(grams) 357g

Discover your true self and align your life journey around your core beliefs, values and perspective. Designed as both a companion piece to the author's previous book, The Power of Understanding People, and a stand-alone work, The Power of Understanding...

Discover your unique edge. Each of us has our own set of strengths, abilities and skills that allow us to shine and deliver exceptional results. These are our underlying qualities that energise us and we are great at (or have potential to become great...

Work for social change through constructive engagement and systems disruption in this practical resource for social change advocates and conflict specialists In The Neutrality Trap, expert mediators and facilitators Bernard Mayer and Jacqueline N...

Complete your leadership toolkit with this inside look at high-level, executive positions Hidden Truths: What Leaders Need to Hear But Are Rarely Told delivers profound and rarely discussed insights about C-suite jobs that provide aspiring leaders with...

This book guides process-industry professionals from the implementation of the basic foundations of Continuous Improvement (CI) through to an organization where CI is a "way of life" and a defining feature of the culture of the organization. The readers...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781626569614Author Bob JohansenFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint Berrett-KoehlerPublisher Berrett-KoehlerWeight(grams) 431gDimensions(mm) 243mm * 164mm *...

A Wall Street Journal Bestseller "For nearly thirty years, my life's work has been to help people like you find ways to bring the often warring aspects of life into greater harmony." -- Stew Friedman, from Leading the Life You Want You're busy trying...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398801882Author Sun TzuImprint Sirius EntertainmentPublisher Sirius EntertainmentWeight(grams) 2100gDimensions(mm) 249mm * 163mm * 69mm

Dave Hitz likes to solve fun problems. He didn't set out to be a Silicon Valley icon, a business visionary, or even a billionaire. But he became all three. It turns out that business is a mosaic of interesting puzzles like managing risk, developing and...

Dave Hitz likes to solve fun problems. He didn't set out to be a Silicon Valley icon, a business visionary, or even a billionaire. But he became all three. It turns out that business is a mosaic of interesting puzzles like managing risk, developing and...

An instant USA Today bestseller. A founder's wild memoir of startup success, told from hot tub inception to $50 million exit with the humor of a comic and the perspective of an educator. In The Startup Story: An Entrepreneur's Journey from Idea to Exit,...

If you are a leader - or aspiring to be one - then tools like PowerPoint detract, not add, to how your performance will be received. In fact, leadership and the ability to speak and sell yourself and your ideas are inextricably intertwined. Successful...

Storytelling is a way for us to connect to others. But for businesses and managers, it can also be a powerful tool to help organizations grow and thrive. A leader's role is to create engagement and belief so that people will act. And there's no more...

"Indistractable provides a framework that will deliver the focus you need to get results." -James Clear, author of Atomic Habits "If you value your time, your focus, or your relationships, this book is essential reading. I'm putting these ideas into...

From Andrew Carnegie and Oprah Winfrey to Steve Jobs and Sunil Mittal, this book will teach you how to think like the best minds in the business. Drawing on the stories, experiences and words of iconic business figures from around the globe and across...

From Andrew Carnegie and Oprah Winfrey to Steve Jobs and Sunil Mittal, this book will teach you how to think like the best minds in the business. Drawing on the stories, experiences and words of iconic business figures from around the globe and across...

Motivate, engage, and achieve lasting success with more effective performance management Managing Business Performance offers a unique blueprint for achieving organisational excellence through improved productivity, efficiency, engagement, and morale...

An expert on the psychology of decision making at Berkeley's Haas School of Business helps readers calibrate their confidence, arguing that some confidence is good, but overconfidence can hinder growth.A surge of confidence can feel fantastic-offering a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781784521189Author Susanne JacobsFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Panoma PressPublisher Rethink PressWeight(grams) 166gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm *...

'Powerful and inspiring. A must read' Denise Lewis OBE'A book that could simply change your life' Colin Salmon, ActorFace your fears, build resilience and find your own unique leadership style. Real Wins is an urgent call to action from one of the most...

Praise for CHANGE WITH CONFIDENCE Phil Buckley is a world-class change leader and world-champion enthusiast for effective change management. Straightforward and engaging, Phil addresses the 50 questions all change managers need to answer with confidence...

Business and environmental sustainability are not natural bedfellows. Business is about making money; sustainability is about protecting the planet. Business is measured in months and quarters; sustainability often requires significant short term...

Getting to the top in Business is never straightforward, especially as a woman.This powerful collection of stories reveals how the world's leading women in business have overcome some of life's biggest challenges to reach the top of their professions...

Getting to the top in Business is never straightforward, especially as a woman.This powerful collection of stories reveals how the world's leading women in business have overcome some of life's biggest challenges to reach the top of their professions...

Today's leaders are more stressed than ever. Whether you are leading a Fortune 500 company trying to retain top talent, or are an entrepreneur trying to cultivate the next great idea, the current corporate landscape is unpredictable, multi-factored, and...

Do you grapple with the relentless demands of your leadership role? Are you struggling to balance your team's wellbeing with delivering results? Contemporary workplace cultures often shackle employees to a culture of ceaseless high performance and...

Successful leaders know that leadership is less often about having all the answers--and more often about asking the right questions. The challenge lies in being able to step back, reflect, and ask the key questions that are critical to your performance...

On March 11, 2011, fifty minutes after a magnitude 9.0 earthquake hit eastern Japan, a tsunami 45-feet high engulfed the nuclear power plant known as Fukushima Daiichi, knocking out electrical power and all the reactors' safety systems. Three reactor...

Improve your business performance through digital transformationDigital transformation has become commonplace across public and private sector organizations, and yet most struggle to achieve tangible results from it. Many make avoidable mistakes or fall...

'A must-read to take your team to the next level' Marshall Goldsmith Habits are crucial for personal productivity. But we rarely work alone: achieving our goals depends on how well we work with others. And teams have their own habits that can accelerate...

A fresh, effective, and enduring way to lead-starting with your next interaction Most leaders feel the inevitable interruptions in their jam-packed days are troublesome. But in TouchPoints, Conant and Norgaard argue that these-and every point of contact...

The GuruBook is an inspiring collection of 45 articles and interviews with well-known thought leaders and entrepreneurs, whose leadership and strategic skills have resulted in very successful businesses. These renowned leaders, entrepreneurs, and...

Adversity can often catch you by surprise and leave you struggling with what to do next. What if you could confront any adversity, from the biggest challenges-the loss of your job, divorce, health issues, bankruptcy-to normal daily challenges-a late...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780645778625Author Thomas AllanFormat PaperbackPage Count 166Imprint Kft PublishingPublisher Kft PublishingWeight(grams) 231g

Traditional approaches to leadership development focus on a small number of individuals at the top. However, in today's world of constant change and decentralized decision-making, organizations need effective leaders at all levels of their organizations...

This book develops a new paradigm in the field of leadership studies, referred to as the "leadership-as-practice" (L-A-P) movement. Its essence is its conception of leadership as occurring as a practice rather than residing in the traits or behaviours of...

An essential roadmap to help women at every stage of their career feel stronger, more confident, and more intentional in their goalsEven after being rejected 100 times right out of college, Shanna Hocking never strayed from her dream career and now, in...