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1. |  De la performance à l'excellence: Devenir une entreprise leader By: Jim Collins Publisher: Pearson France Publication Date: 05-APR-2013 Insert Date: 13-JUN-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: De la performance à l'excellence: Devenir une entreprise leader
Pourquoi certaines entreprises, affichant des performances plutôt moyennes, décollent-elles soudain pour rejoindre le peloton de tête ? Qu'est-ce qui les différencie de leurs concurrentes ? Et peut-on étendre à d'autres les principes dont elles se sont inspirées ?
Pendant cinq ans, Jim Collins et son équipe de chercheurs se sont attelés à cette vaste question pour débusquer le secret de la conversion à l'excellence. Onze entreprises, retenues pour leurs performances boursières très supérieures à celles de leur secteur, ont été comparées à leurs concurrentes. Les conclusions qui en...
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2. |  By: Mick Cope Publisher: Momentum Publication Date: 10-AUG-2006 Insert Date: 12-JUN-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Lead Yourself, 2nd Edition
Your personal success will come from the ability to manage two connected forms of leadership. How to: 1. Lead Yourself - by having a clear understanding of the personal journey you wish to make and how it will be managed. Once you are able to lead yourself along this journey, you will be more able to; 2. Lead Others - by delivering results that are grounded in the principle of shared rather than selfish success - ultimately 'shared success sustains success'. Both forms of leadership rely on your ability to operate from a position where your personal security comes from within. Once...
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3. |  By: Sarah Cook Publisher: IT Governance Ltd Publication Date: 24-FEB-2009 Insert Date: 11-JUN-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Leading for Success
Every business, especially in today's troubled economic climate, has to adapt to change. And the IT department of a business will always find itself at the cutting edge of such changes.
Change requires leadership. Impressive technical and administrative skills are not enough, and people in IT departments are now increasingly expected to use their soft skills as well.
IT is no longer merely a back-office function. People in IT are now being called on to drive through improvements in the wider operations of their business. Both as agents and enablers of change, IT professionals need...
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4. |  By: Emmanuel Gobillot Publisher: Kogan Page Publication Date: 03-APR-2013 Insert Date: 04-JUN-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Follow the Leader Most leadership models start with trying to identify what great leaders do. In Follow the Leader, global speaker, consultant and leadership expert Emmanuel Gobillot answers a much more fundamental question to anyone wanting to become a great leader: 'what do great followers want?'. In this fast-paced and well-researched book, he identifies the key elements of leadership success and the proven pathways to developing the charisma we all seek in the leaders who truly inspire and motivate us. He breaks down the all-important 'charisma' into eight critical elements, explaining how each component...
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5. |  By: Kevin Cashman Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers Publication Date: 24-SEP-2012 Insert Date: 04-JUN-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: The Pause Principle Accustomed to doing, striving, and achieving, leaders are too often addicted to speed and action. But we live and lead in an increasingly volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous world. Change is constant and we are on information overload. The way forward is often unclear.
How can leaders deal with critical decisions, develop creative solutions, and thrive in the relentless pace of their 24/7 reality?
Paradoxically, Kevin Cashman contends that the answer is not to act more quickly but to pause more deeply—to slow down to go fast, to stop and prioritize, to make time to discern and...
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6. |  Fostering Spirituality in the Workplace By: Priscilla Berry Publisher: Business Expert Press Publication Date: 28-MAY-2013 Insert Date: 31-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Fostering Spirituality in the Workplace Today, there are deep and rapid changes on companies, employees, and the global economy that should not be underestimated, and future world leaders must be prepared to lead in a manner that is socially responsible, ethical, and pro_ table. A corporation with a business model that polarizes or operates solely in the interest of its shareholders is unsustainable and current benchmarks can be unrealistic tools for businesses to rely upon as measures of future success. This book explores historical data, analyzes current events from the world stage, and delivers a worldview that challenges some...
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7. |  By: Dave Ulrich; Norm Smallwood Publisher: McGraw-Hill Publication Date: 12-MAR-2013 Insert Date: 28-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 |
MAKE YOUR LEADERSHIP EFFORTS STICKEvery day, thousands of people put great effort--and money--into becoming more effective leaders, through seminars, personal coaching, and employee development plans. These undertakings can do wonders to help leaders of all stripes improve their effectiveness.
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8. |  Leading Your Business Forward: Aligning Goals, People, and Systems for Sustainable Success By: John Pyecha; Shane Yount; Seth Davies; Anna Versteeg Publisher: McGraw-Hill Publication Date: 05-MAR-2013 Insert Date: 25-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Leading Your Business Forward: Aligning Goals, People, and Systems for Sustainable Success
Succeeding where TQM, Lean, and Six Sigma fail, this proven process-based management system includes leadership as a key element to deliver sustainable successLeading Your Business Forward shows executives and high-level managers how to determine the organization’s long-term goals, engage staff to work towards them, gauge and improve performance on an ongoing basis, and manage success so it sticks.Anna VerSteeg is Founder and Principal of Competitive Solutions, an international consulting firm specializing in process based leadership.
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9. |  12 Disciplines of Leadership Excellence: How Leaders Achieve Sustainable High Performance By: Brian Tracy; Peter Chee Publisher: McGraw-Hill Publication Date: 04-APR-2013 Insert Date: 25-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: 12 Disciplines of Leadership Excellence: How Leaders Achieve Sustainable High Performance
Master the 12 disciplines of powerful leadership and lead your organization to greatnessWe’ve all heard the phrase “born leader.” Leadership experts Brian Tracy and Dr. Peter Chee are here to debunk the myth that you either have it or you don’t. That leadership is a talent bestowed on some and not on others.
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10. |  The Gamification Revolution: How Leaders Leverage Game Mechanics to Crush the Competition By: Gabe Zichermann; Joselin Linder Publisher: McGraw-Hill Publication Date: 26-MAR-2013 Insert Date: 25-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: The Gamification Revolution: How Leaders Leverage Game Mechanics to Crush the Competition
THE REVOLUTION WILL BE GAMIFIEDMASTER THE GAMIFIED STRATEGIES THAT WILL TRANSFORM YOURBUSINESS--OR BE LEFT BEHINDGamification: It’s the hottest new strategy in business, and for good reason--it’s helping leading companies create unprecedented engagement with customers and employees.
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11. |  What Keeps Leaders Up at Night By: Nicole Lipkin Publisher: AMACOM Publication Date: 05-JUN-2013 Insert Date: 24-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: What Keeps Leaders Up at Night The book examines engagement, motivation, expectation, emotions, interpersonal and group dynamics—all the psychological principles that play pivotal roles in the workplace. Featuring illuminating examples and exercises, What Keeps Leaders Up at Night shines a bright light into the dark corners where all leaders struggle with their own shortcomings....
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12. |  FT Essential Guide to Leading Your Team By: Graham Yemm Publisher: FT Publishing International Publication Date: 06-FEB-2013 Insert Date: 20-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: FT Essential Guide to Leading Your Team
The tools and ideas to help you lead with confidence and achieve better results through your team. This book provides all the tools and skills to help you be more effective in leading your team and achieving higher levels of performance. It focuses on three key elements: you as the leader, the principles of team working and team building, and getting individuals to contribute and perform. As well as identifying obstacles and pitfalls, it assists you in improving your skills and coaches you to work out what you could be doing better.
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13. |  Living Leadership, 3rd Edition By: George Binney; Colin Williams; Gerhard Wilke Publisher: FT Publishing International Publication Date: 06-FEB-2013 Insert Date: 20-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Living Leadership, 3rd Edition
Reassess your leadership style, discover how to connect with people, and become a leader who can make things happen in the real world. Built on a unique four-year experiment working alongside real leaders in real businesses, Living Leadership explodes the myth of the charismatic, transformational leader, to show that real progress comes from the dramatically ordinary aspects of leadership. From building relationships, to working with the grain of the organisation rather than against it, and to knowing our limitations as much as pushing every boundary, the new edition of this...
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14. |  Mindful Leadership: The 9 Ways to Self-Awareness, Transforming Yourself, and Inspiring Others By: Maria Gonzalez Publisher: Jossey-Bass Publication Date: 02-APR-2012 Insert Date: 14-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Mindful Leadership: The 9 Ways to Self-Awareness, Transforming Yourself, and Inspiring Others
Become a true leader through Mindfulness
If you thought leading a team or organization meant simply creating and implementing a financial plan, delegating responsibility, and watching the bottom line, well, you're only partly right. True leadership comes from within, a place of deep calm and focus, that allows you to respond to any situation as it arises. In Mindful Leadership, you'll learn how to draw on those inner reserves through Mindfulness Meditation, a tool you can use to achieve focus and clarity, reduce stress, and develop the presence of mind to meet any number of...
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15. |  Leading Out Loud: A Guide for Engaging Others in Creating the Future, 3rd Edition By: Terry Pearce; Randy Komisar Publisher: Jossey-Bass Publication Date: 11-FEB-2013 Insert Date: 13-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Leading Out Loud: A Guide for Engaging Others in Creating the Future, 3rd Edition
The newest edition of the bestselling guide to authentic leadership communication
Much has changed in the world since the original publication of Leading Out Loud, Terry Pearce's book on authentic leadership communication. Now, more than ever, the development of a leader's message is as crucial to success as the delivery of that message. In the third edition of his classic book, Terry Pearce shows leaders in all sectors how to communicate their values and vision to inspire commitment.
In this important resource, Pearce continues to broaden the application of core principles, putting...
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16. |  Creative Execution: What Great Leaders Do to Unleash Bold Thinking and Innovation By: Eric Beaudan Publisher: Jossey-Bass Publication Date: 14-MAY-2012 Insert Date: 13-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Creative Execution: What Great Leaders Do to Unleash Bold Thinking and Innovation
The ultimate game-changer for reinventing strategy and igniting people
Whether it was Alexander the Great or Lord Horatio Nelson, the management team at Toyota or Google, the indisputable alchemy of strategy, execution, and leadership led to each's phenomenal success. With years of experience assessing and developing executive talent, author Eric Beaudan examines the essence of such a dynamic mix, summed up as "Creative Execution," showing how organizations and individuals can attain, or reach for, unheralded levels of success.
Profiling extraordinary leaders and the uncommon...
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17. |  From Management to Leadership: Strategies for Transforming Health, 3rd Edition By: Jo Manion Publisher: Jossey-Bass Publication Date: 03-MAY-2011 Insert Date: 10-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: From Management to Leadership: Strategies for Transforming Health, 3rd Edition
From Management to Leadership identifies the fundamental interpersonal skills that every health care leader (and aspiring leader) needs to develop in order to be a successful executive or manager. The third edition of the classic text offers suggestions for developing and improving essential health care leadership skills. Written to be a practical guide, the book presents concepts and skills that can be immediately applied to everyday situations. Completely revised and updated, this edition includes new concepts and resources based on the latest research and practices.
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18. |  Leadership in Action: Inklings - A Mid-Career Leadership Curriculum for High-Potential Leaders Publisher: Center for Creative Leadership Publication Date: 01-JAN-1997 Insert Date: 08-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Leadership in Action: Inklings - A Mid-Career Leadership Curriculum for High-Potential Leaders
A high-potential program should fly the flag, teach the company, train the individual, build networks, and invoke the arts and sciences.
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19. |  Leadership in Action: Single-Gender and Single-Race Leadership Development Programs By: Patricia J. Ohlott; Martha W. Hughes-James Publisher: Center for Creative Leadership Publication Date: 01-JAN-1997 Insert Date: 08-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Leadership in Action: Single-Gender and Single-Race Leadership Development Programs
The truth is that white women and men and women of color deal with difficult realities at work on a daily basis.
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20. |  Leadership in Action: Leading Resilient Organizations By: Mary Lynn Pulley Publisher: Center for Creative Leadership Publication Date: 01-JAN-1997 Insert Date: 08-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Leadership in Action: Leading Resilient Organizations
Organizations must think in terms of creating a network of strategic alliances.
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