Leadership

Leadership

 
Common Purpose Kurtzman, Joel Jossey-Bass , 2010 Leadership

In Common Purpose, Joel Kurtzman utilizes his 30 years of experience to explore the central question of leadership: what is common purpose, and how can it be achieved? If a common purpose is defined, understood, and...

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Toxic Workplace! Kusy, Mitchell | Holloway, Elizabeth John Wiley & Sons, Inc. , 2009 Human Resources, Leadership, Relationships

Ask employees at any company and you will find a vast majority of them have worked with a “toxic” employee. They go by many names: control freaks, narcissists, manipulators, bullies, or humiliators, but the result of...

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When Teams Work Best LaFasto, Frank | Larson, Carl Sage Publications , 2001 Human Resources, Leadership, Marketing, Teams

During the past several decades, the trend toward collaborative teamwork has grown tremendously. Teams can be found everywhere in the public and private sectors, and they come in many forms--executive teams, management...

 
 
Becoming the Evidence-Based Manager Latham, Gary P. Davies-Black Publishing , 2009 Leadership, Management

Like many skills, management is both an art and a science. The art of management is unique to an individual. The science of management, on the other hand, is based on empirical data and can be taught and replicated in...

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Driven to Lead Lawrence, Paul R. Jossey-Bass , 2010 Leadership, Personal Growth

In Driven to Lead, Paul R. Lawrence describes how human beings are designed to balance the needs of four conflicting drives when making decisions. These drives—acquisition of the necessities for...

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A Journey Into the Heroic Environment Lebow, Rob Select Books , 2004 Diversity, Human Resources, Leadership, Management, Personal Growth

In A Journey into the Heroic Environment, Lebow contends that, the secret to job satisfaction is the way an individual treats others and how that conduct causes others to treat the individual. Over the...

 
 
Accountability Lebow, Rob | Spitzer, Randy Rob Lebow and Randy Spitzer, Berret-Koehler Publishers , 2002 Leadership, Management, Social Responsibility

Accountability is one of the best written management books that advocate freedom and responsibility without control in managing business...

 
 
How We Decide Lehrer, Jonah Houghton Mifflin Harcourt , 2009 Leadership, Technology

Life, whether personal or professional, is an endless round of decision-making. In How We Decide, Jonah Lehrer explores the process, drawing on decades of research and experiments, and on the stunning...

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Leading Your Team Leigh, Andrew | Maynard, Michael Nicholas Brealey Publishing , 1996 Leadership, Management, Teams

When people are expected to lead a team, often they wonder if they have what it takes, they are confused about where to start, they worry about how to handle people who were previously their peers, or they fret about...

 
 
The Way of the Shepherd Leman, Kevin | Pentak, William Zondervan Publications , 2007 Leadership, Management

The Way of the Shepherd presents the story of a young, inexperienced reporter who meets and interviews the most respected CEO in America, and walks away with the...

 
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