Leadership
Leadership
In The Starfish and the Spider, entrepreneurs Ori Brafman and Rod Beckstrom offer that organizations fall into two categories: traditional “spiders,” which have a rigid hierarchy and a top-down...
In The Steve Jobs Way: iLeadership for a New Generation, former Apple Senior Vice President Jay Elliot and William Simon analyze the business practices of the man who once asked a potential hire, “Do...
Few marketing managers think strategically about pricing, or manage their businesses so as to create the conditions that promote more profitable pricing. Their pricing decisions are generally made in reaction to a...
As competition and economic pressures increase, business leaders are guaranteed to experience higher levels of stress. This can cause even leaders with proven track records to make bad decisions. In The Stress...
What does it take to be a successful leader today? Besides the more obvious answers - commitment, intelligence, compassion, curiosity, and courage - there is one less obvious - the wisdom of others. Working with a...
In the work environment and at home, when things are not working, people struggle with which part of the problem to address first. However, the reason that fixing a problem often does not deliver the expected results,...
In The Titleless Leader, job-loss recovery expert Nan S. Russell asserts that how people work, communicate, collaborate, and manage responsibilities has changed. Knowing how to build influence and lead...
In his foreword, Stephen Lundin (coauthor of Fish, Fish Tales, and Fish Sticks) notes that change agents worldwide have rewritten the rules of change and motivation, and initiated massive cultural revolutions, in...
In The Triple Bottom Line, authors Andrew Savitz and Karl Weber look at how businesses can prosper financially while protecting and renewing the social, environmental, and economic resources they need—...
According to Galford and Drapeau, companies cannot hope to build long term success unless they build trust with their clients and customers, and they cannot build trust with clients and customers unless they have...
