Personal Growth

Personal Growth

 
How Great Leaders Get Great Results Baldoni, John McGraw-Hill , 2006 Leadership, Management, Personal Growth

In order to create a strong, results-driven organization with increased sales, improved customer service, quality, and productivity, great leaders must be attentive to seven specific management principles: vision,...

 
 
Leading Leaders Salacuse, Jeswald W. AMACOM , 2006 Leadership, Management, Personal Growth

Leaders are in for a new set of challenges when they are called upon to manage people who are themselves leaders. This challenge is particularly prevalent in “high talent” organizations made up of people with high...

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The 360-Degree Leader Maxwell, John C. Thomas Nelson , 2005 Leadership, Management, Personal Growth, Relationships

Leaders today face the challenge of influencing people from all sides of an organization. Yet, many managers with leadership responsibilities feel that because they are not the main leader, they cannot influence their...

 
 
Hershey D'Antonio, Michael Simon & Schuster , 2006 Business Biographies, Entrepreneurship, Innovation, Personal Growth

Not only does the name Hershey mean chocolate to America and the world, it also signifies an inspiring and uniquely successful experiment in humanistic capitalism—one that has produced a business empire devoted to a...

 
 
Measure of a Leader Daniels, Aubrey C. | Daniels, James E. McGraw-Hill , 2005 Human Resources, Leadership, Personal Growth

Most leadership guides today select the traits and techniques of individual successful leaders and then present them as universal truths that can be passed on to others aspiring to leadership. In Measure...

 
 
The Likeability Factor Sanders, Tim Crown Publishers , 2005 Personal Growth
The Likeability Factor defines “likeability” as “an ability to create positive attitudes in other people through the delivery of emotional and physical benefits.” Regardless of a...
 
 
The Ten Faces of Innovation Kelley, Thomas | Littman, Jonathan Currency Doubleday , 2005 Human Resources, Innovation, Personal Growth

According to Tom Kelley (The Art of Innovation), individuals, who assume the role of Devil’s Advocate, can be some of the most potent destroyers of innovation in a corporation. These ubiquitous idea wreckers cloak...

 
 
The Six Disciplines of Breakthrough Learning Wick, Calhoun | Pollock, Roy | Jefferson, Andrew | Flanagan, Richard Pfeiffer , 2006 Human Resources, Personal Growth

Training and development is often viewed as expendable, a department that is nice to have when times are good, but one that organizations can do without when times are bad. This line of reasoning exists because many...

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Power Mentoring Ensher, Ellen E. | Murphy, Susan E. John Wiley & Sons, Inc. , 2006 Human Resources, Leadership Development, Personal Growth

Today, few employees spend their entire career at one company. Some people move from company to company in search of raises and promotions; while some move from project to project. Employment patterns have also changed...

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The Woman's Advantage Cantando, Mary Kaplan Publishing , 2006 Personal Growth

Women are fast becoming formidable contenders in the world of business. This has been evidenced by the rise of multi-million and billion dollar...

 
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