Leadership
Leadership
In the world of work, setbacks happen. In Comebacks, Andrea Redmond and Patricia Crisafulli explore the experiences of ten high profile leaders who endured some type of professional upset. The authors...
The proportion of women in the workplace is at a historic high, yet leadership roles in major institutions continue to escape them. This is no longer due to “first-generation” gender issues where women were blatantly...
As the U.S. Army faces new types of missions and adopts complex technologies, the issue of leadership is more important than ever. In Leadership: The Warrior’s Art, editor and author Christopher...
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...
Three hundred sixty degree feedback helps managers to get a clear picture of how they are perceived by their bosses, direct reports, colleagues, and others. Comprehensive data are collected from those who work for or...
CEOs face a life that not many people have the opportunity to experience. Not only are they in a position to effect great change, but as leaders of companies, they also have an incredible amount of responsibility and...
Joseph A. Raelin’s The Leaderful Fieldbook is a practical guide for those committed to transforming conventional leadership and organizations into “leaderful practices” and “leaderful organizations.”...
At some point in their lives, many individuals get overwhelmed and disconnected. They feel that their lives lack meaning, and they realize they need to do something to alter their present situation but lack the...
Peter F. Drucker, the “father of modern management,” promoted heroic leadership throughout his career, noting “The Army trains and develops more leaders than do all other institutions together—and with a lower casualty...
For more than two decades, James Kouzes and Barry Posner have studied leaders and behaviors that lead to achieving extraordinary results. They discovered that one of the most important leadership practices is...
