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61. |  The Four Obsessions of an Extraordinary Executive: A Leadership Fable By: Patrick Lencioni Publisher: Jossey-Bass Publication Date: 01-SEP-2000 Insert Date: 21-JUN-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: The Four Obsessions of an Extraordinary Executive: A Leadership Fable
In this stunning follow-up to his best-selling book, The Five Temptations of a CEO, Patrick Lencioni offers up another leadership fable that's every bit as compelling and illuminating as its predecessor. This time, Lencioni's focus is on a leader's crucial role in building a healthy organization--an often overlooked but essential element of business life that is the linchpin of sustained success. Readers are treated to a story of corporate intrigue as the frustrated head of one consulting firm faces a leadership challenge so great that it threatens to topple his company, his career, and...
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62. |  The Six Secrets of Change: What the Best Leaders Do to Help Their Organizations Survive and Thrive By: Michael Fullan Publisher: Jossey-Bass Publication Date: 08-APR-2008 Insert Date: 16-JUN-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: The Six Secrets of Change: What the Best Leaders Do to Help Their Organizations Survive and Thrive
From bestselling author Michael Fullen wisdom for thriving in today's complex environment
Successful organizations adjust quickly and intelligently to shifts in consumer tastes, political climate, and economic opportunity. How do they do it? The Six Secrets of Change explores essential lessons for business and public sector leaders for thriving in today's complex environment. Fullen draws on his acclaimed work in bringing about large-scale and substantial change in education reform in both public school systems and universities, as well as engaging in major change initiatives...
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63. |  Reading the Room: Group Dynamics for Coaches and Leaders By: David Kantor Publisher: Jossey-Bass Publication Date: 01-MAY-2012 Insert Date: 04-JUN-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Reading the Room: Group Dynamics for Coaches and Leaders
Praise for Reading the Room
"If you believe, as I do, that tackling our toughest problems in organizations and societies will require significant advances in the human domain of how we think and interact, then you will find this book a wonderful resource for a healthier future."—Peter Senge, senior lecturer, leadership and sustainability, MIT Sloan School of Management; and founding chair, Society for Organizational Learning (SoL)
"A must-read for anyone truly interested in gaining access to and managing their own actions/behavior as well as all those we work with, live with, and...
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64. |  21st Century Skills: Learning for Life in Our times By: Bernie Trilling; Charles Fadel Publisher: Jossey-Bass Publication Date: 05-OCT-2009 Insert Date: 29-MAY-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: 21st Century Skills: Learning for Life in Our times
The new building blocks for learning in a complex world
This important resource introduces a framework for 21st Century learning that maps out the skills needed to survive and thrive in a complex and connected world. 21st Century content includes the basic core subjects of reading, writing, and arithmetic-but also emphasizes global awareness, financial/economic literacy, and health issues. The skills fall into three categories: learning and innovations skills; digital literacy skills; and life and career skills. This book is filled with vignettes, international examples, and classroom...
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65. |  Pushback: How Smart Women Ask—and Stand Up—for What They Want By: Selena Rezvani; Lois P. Frankel Publisher: Jossey-Bass Publication Date: 10-APR-2012 Insert Date: 04-MAY-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Pushback: How Smart Women Ask—and Stand Up—for What They Want
Popular leadership blogger gives the low-down on standing up for yourself
In Pushback, top leadership consultant Selena Rezvani argues that self-advocacy is critical to success. Yet women initiate negotiations four times less often than men, resulting in getting less of what they want—promotion opportunities, plum assignments, and higher pay. This book shines a light on the real rules of holding your own and pushing back for what is rightfully yours. Drawing on interviews with high-level leaders, Rezvani offers readers in the first half of their career the unedited truth about how women...
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66. |  The Advantage: Why Organizational Health Trumps Everything Else in Business By: PATRICK LENCIONI Publisher: Jossey-Bass Publication Date: 13-MAR-2012 Insert Date: 27-APR-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: The Advantage: Why Organizational Health Trumps Everything Else in Business
There is a competitive advantage out there, arguably more powerful than any other. Is it superior strategy? Faster innovation? Smarter employees? No, New York Times best-selling author, Patrick Lencioni, argues that the seminal difference between successful companies and mediocre ones has little to do with what they know and how smart they are and more to do with how healthy they are. In this book, Lencioni brings together his vast experience and many of the themes cultivated in his other best-selling books and delivers a first: a cohesive and comprehensive exploration of the unique...
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67. |  By: Ingrid Bens Publisher: Jossey-Bass Publication Date: 10-APR-2012 Insert Date: 16-APR-2012 Slots: 1.0 |
Facilitating with Ease!
Since the publication of the first edition of Facilitating with Ease! in 2000, this bestselling book has become the "go-to" reference for anyone who wants to become skilled in the art of facilitation. This thoroughly revised and updated third edition includes easy-to-follow instructions, techniques, and hands-on tools that are available both in the book and on the accompanying website: www.josseybass.com/go/ingridbens.
Facilitating with Ease! offers the basics on running productive meetings with confidence and includes the information needed to train others to...
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68. |  The Three Signs of a Miserable Job: A fable for managers (and their employees) By: Patrick Lencioni Publisher: Jossey-Bass Publication Date: 17-AUG-2007 Insert Date: 16-APR-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: The Three Signs of a Miserable Job: A fable for managers (and their employees)
A bestselling author and business guru tells how to improve your job satisfaction and performance.
In his sixth fable, bestselling author Patrick Lencioni takes on a topic that almost everyone can relate to: the causes of a miserable job. Millions of workers, even those who have carefully chosen careers based on true passions and interests, dread going to work, suffering each day as they trudge to jobs that make them cynical, weary, and frustrated. It is a simple fact of business life that any job, from investment banker to dishwasher, can become miserable. Through the story of a CEO...
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69. |  The Deep Change Field Guide: A Personal Course to Discovering the Leader Within By: Robert E. Quinn Publisher: Jossey-Bass Publication Date: 17-APR-2012 Insert Date: 12-APR-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: The Deep Change Field Guide: A Personal Course to Discovering the Leader Within
How to realize your own leadership potential
Based on the bestselling book, Deep Change, The Deep Change Field Guide takes readers through the introspective journey of personal transformation. The field guide streamlines, updates, and augments the content of the original book into an interactive self-teaching course that helps readers learn how to become powerful agents of change. Learning tools include reflection questions, film assignments, and action plans that help readers think about the concepts in terms of their own situations, and identify actions to embody the concepts in their...
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70. |  The Strategic Application of Information Technology in Health Care Organizations, Third Edition By: John P. Glaser; Claudia Salzberg Publisher: Jossey-Bass Publication Date: 01-JAN-2011 Insert Date: 12-APR-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: The Strategic Application of Information Technology in Health Care Organizations, Third Edition
This new edition of The Strategic Application of Information Technology in Health Care Organizations offers a peerless guide for health care leaders to understand information technology (IT) strategic planning and implementation. Filled with illustrative case studies, the book explores the link between overall strategy and information technology strategy. It discusses organizational capabilities, such as change management, that have an impact on an organization's overall IT effectiveness, and a wide range of IT strategy issues. The book covers emerging trends such as personalized medicine;...
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71. |  Flawless Consulting: A Guide to Getting Your Expertise Used, Third Edition By: Peter Block Publisher: Jossey-Bass Publication Date: 01-FEB-2011 Insert Date: 12-APR-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Flawless Consulting: A Guide to Getting Your Expertise Used, Third Edition
When the landmark best-seller Flawless Consulting was first published more than three decades ago, it was quickly adopted as the “consultant's bible.” With his legendary warmth and passion, Peter Block explained how to deal effectively with clients, peers, and others. The book continues to speak to people in a support function inside organizations as well as to external consultants.
This thoroughly revised and updated third edition of Peter Block's groundbreaking book explores the latest thinking on consultation. It includes new insights about how we can organize our consulting around...
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72. |  Sharing Hidden Know-How: How Managers Solve Thorny Problems with the Knowledge Jam By: Katrina B. Pugh Publisher: Jossey-Bass Publication Date: 01-MAR-2011 Insert Date: 11-APR-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Sharing Hidden Know-How: How Managers Solve Thorny Problems with the Knowledge Jam
To manage business operations – let alone innovate – amid frequent restructurings, outsourcings and retirements, leaders must quickly capitalize on hidden know-how (knowledge). That is, know-how that lives inside their organizations or networks – in the teams, processes and experts that comprise them.
Yet, many organizations are coming up short in this race. Knowledge sharing and transfer have been reduced to reports, e-mails and tweets replacing vital personal interaction. The lack of meaningful conversation coupled with intense fragmentation across organizations and networks has left...
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73. |  Rippling: How Social Entrepreneurs Spread Innovation Throughout the World By: Beverly Schwartz Publisher: Jossey-Bass Publication Date: 27-MAR-2012 Insert Date: 27-MAR-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Rippling: How Social Entrepreneurs Spread Innovation Throughout the World
Principles for driving significant change throughout an entire system
Drawing on the knowledge and experience of working with hundreds the world's top social change leaders in all fields, Beverly Schwartz presents a model for change based on five proven principles that any individual leader or organization can apply to bring about deep, lasting and systematic change. Rippling shows how to activate the type of change that is needed to address the critical challenges that threaten to destroy the foundations of our society and planet in these increasingly turbulent times.
These...
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74. |  Management and Organization Theory: A Jossey-Bass Reader By: Jeffrey A. Miles Publisher: Jossey-Bass Publication Date: 21-FEB-2012 Insert Date: 27-MAR-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Management and Organization Theory: A Jossey-Bass Reader
Management and Organization Theory offers a summary and analysis of the 40 most popular, researched, and applied management and organization theories. This important resource includes key instruments used to measure variables in each theory and examines pertinent questions about the theory: strengths and weaknesses, practical applications, and the seminal articles published on each theory.
"This is a remarkable book. Jeffrey Miles clearly explains and synthesizes 40 major theories of management and organization in an easily accessible and engaging style. Well researched, comprehensive in...
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75. |  The Dynamics of Conflict: A Guide to Engagement and Intervention, Second Edition By: Bernard Mayer Publisher: Jossey-Bass Publication Date: 27-MAR-2012 Insert Date: 27-MAR-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: The Dynamics of Conflict: A Guide to Engagement and Intervention, Second Edition
Praise for the Second Edition of The Dynamics of Conflict
"Mayer once again demonstrates his unique ability to weave theory and practice together with real-world examples—whether about warring nations or a family dispute—to help readers better understand both the fundamentals and nuances involved in working in the conflict arena. The Dynamics of Conflict is a very important read for anyone who works with people in conflict."—Peter Salem, executive director, Association of Family and Conciliation Courts
"In his latest book, Mayer explores the theoretical underpinnings of conflict as it...
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76. |  By: Anil K. Gupta; Vijay Govindarajan; Haiyan Wang Publisher: Jossey-Bass Publication Date: 21-MAR-2008 Insert Date: 10-MAR-2012 Slots: 1.0 |
Anil K. Gupta, Vijay Govindarajan, and Haiyan Wang are among the most distinguished experts in the field of globalization. In The Quest for Global Dominance they present the lessons from their twenty-year study of over two hundred corporations. They argue that, in order for a company to create and maintain its position as a globally dominant player, executives must ensure that their company leads its industry in the following four essential tasks:
Identifying market opportunities worldwide and pursuing them by establishing the necessary presence in all key markets
Converting...
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77. | Overview: Collaborate: The Art of We The hands-on guide for the new way to compete: CollaborationThe 21st Century's counterpart to Sun Tzu's The Art of War, Dan Sanker's Collaborate: The Art of We gives a new generation of pioneering business enthusiasts a practical guide to capture tomorrow's opportunities. Globalization, technological advances, and cultural changes have opened the door for a new winning formula that combines traditional competition with contemporary collaborative business practices. Readers will change their mindsets and learn practical tools to tap into talent, overcome organizational obstacles, and create...
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78. |  Have a Nice Conflict: How to Find Success and Satisfaction in the Most Unlikely Places By: Tim Scudder; Michael Patterson; Kent Mitchell Publisher: Jossey-Bass Publication Date: 24-JAN-2012 Insert Date: 18-FEB-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Have a Nice Conflict: How to Find Success and Satisfaction in the Most Unlikely Places
How to successfully navigate and prevent conflict
From the publishers of the popular Strength Deployment Inventory, Have a Nice Conflict follows one man's fight to rescue his sinking career. Sales manager John Doyle would consider his career a success—he's his company's top revenue driver, and his take-charge attitude gets the job done. However, when he is passed over for promotion—again—after losing two direct reports, who cite his abrasive style as their reason for leaving, John is forced to reassess how he approaches his relationships. With the help of Mac, an expert in the art of...
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This is not a book about one thing. It's not a 250-page dissertation on leadership, teams or motivation. Instead, it's an agenda for building organizations that can flourish in a world of diminished hopes, relentless change and ferocious competition.
This is not a book about doing better. It's not a manual for people who want to tinker at the margins. Instead, it's an impassioned plea to reinvent management as we know it—to rethink the fundamental assumptions we have about capitalism, organizational life, and the meaning of work.
Leaders today confront a world where the unprecedented...
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80. |  The Elephant in the Room: How Relationships Make or Break the Success of Leaders and Organizations Publisher: Jossey-Bass Publication Date: 09-AUG-2011 Insert Date: 18-FEB-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: The Elephant in the Room: How Relationships Make or Break the Success of Leaders and Organizations
A systematic look at how relationships determine the success of leaders and their enterprises, along with tools to help strengthen and change them
Since time immemorial, relationships have determined the fate of leaders. But today they are more critical to success than ever. No longer can leaders count on long time horizons or sloppy competition to make up for the inefficiencies that poor relationships create. Leaders must make decisions and take actions quickly and well with others, even those with whom they share very little?perhaps not even a time zone. This new world puts...
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