Leadership
Leadership
People Follow You by Jeb Blount provides a framework for leading people in today’s high pressure workplace. The book describes seven guiding principles and five specific levers to help leaders improve...
In What You Need to Know about Leadership, Jeff Grout and Liz Fisher aim to help those in leadership positions become more effective. The best leaders are encouraging, supportive, offer constructive...
According to a 2009 study by the Standish Group, only 32 percent of all projects launched by American businesses succeed, while 44 percent are “challenged,” meaning they run over budget or deliver products or services...
Many leaders were taught to believe that an organization’s mission, vision, and values are the keys to its success. But too often, there is a substantial gap between abstract goals and on-the-ground accomplishments. In...
In Choice Not Chance, basketball coach Joanne McCallie reflects on her career as a player and coach and the principles that she adopted to achieve her notable success. With over 450 wins, McCallie has...
In Leading with Emotional Intelligence, Reldan S. Nadler presents a handbook filled with real-life examples and step-by-step strategies to raise Emotional Intelligence and help leaders coach their...
The Women of Berkshire Hathaway by Karen Linder brings to life the stories of nine women who have risen to the top ranks of management within subsidiary companies of Warren Buffet’s Berkshire Hathaway...
In Unusually Excellent, John Hamm makes the case that to lead well, leaders must have self-knowledge and a commitment to serving whatever they value most deeply. He advises that professional managers...
In Brave Dragons, New York Times foreign correspondent Jim Yardley profiles the 2008-2009 season of an underdog Chinese basketball team, the Shanxi Brave Dragons, whose owner made the radical decision...
In Flash Foresight, author Daniel Burrus describes seven radical principles that enable people to better foresee the future, and walks readers through a step-by-step guide to understanding and applying...
