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141. |  Brand Relevance: Making Competitors Irrelevant By: David A. Aaker Publisher: Jossey-Bass Publication Date: 25-JAN-2011 Insert Date: 11-APR-2011 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Brand Relevance: Making Competitors Irrelevant
Branding guru Aaker shows how to eliminate the competition and become the lead brand in your market
This ground-breaking book defines the concept of brand relevance using dozens of case studies-Prius, Whole Foods, Westin, iPad and more-and explains how brand relevance drives market dynamics, which generates opportunities for your brand and threats for the competition. Aaker reveals how these companies have made other brands in their categories irrelevant. Key points: When managing a new category of product, treat it as if it were a brand; By failing to produce what customers want or...
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142. |  Leading Organization Design: How to Make Organization Design Decisions to Drive the Results You Want Publisher: Jossey-Bass Publication Date: 21-DEC-2010 Insert Date: 11-APR-2011 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Leading Organization Design: How to Make Organization Design Decisions to Drive the Results You Want
Praise for Leading Organization Design
Designing organizations for performance can be a daunting task. Kesler and Kates have done an admirable job distilling the inherent complexity of the design process into manageable parts that can yield tangible results. Leading Organization Design provides an essential hands-on roadmap for any business leader who wants to master this topic." —Robert Simons, Charles M. Williams Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School
Kesler and Kates have encapsulated their wealth of knowledge and practical experience into an updated model on...
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143. |  The Leadership Pipeline: How to Build the Leadership-Powered Company By: Ram Charan; Stephen Drotter; James Noel Publisher: Jossey-Bass Publication Date: 01-NOV-2000 Insert Date: 07-APR-2011 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: The Leadership Pipeline: How to Build the Leadership-Powered Company
Together, these authors have more first-hand experience in leadership development and succession planning than you're likely to find anywhere else. And here, they show companies how to create a pipeline of talent that will continuously fill their leadership needs-needs they may not even yet realize. The Leadership Pipeline delivers a proven framework for priming future leaders by planning for their development, coaching them, and measuring the results of those efforts. Moreover, the book presents a combination leadership-development/succession-planning program that ensures a steady line-up...
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144. |  Leadership Rules: How to Become the Leader You Want to Be By: Chris Widener Publisher: Jossey-Bass Publication Date: 21-DEC-2010 Insert Date: 07-APR-2011 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Leadership Rules: How to Become the Leader You Want to Be
An inspiring business fable that champions leadership for the Everyman
From bestselling author Chris Widener comes a compelling new story showing what you give and get when you lead. The story follows down-cast protagonist Mike Keller who, recently separated from his wife and demoted at work, must relocate to a rural factory-town in Texas. There, Mike encounters the deep-rooted traditions of Texas high school football, and in the process learns everything business school didn't teach him about leadership from the most influential man in town-the local high school football...
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145. |  Leading Geeks: How to Manage and Lead People Who Deliver Technology By: Paul Glen Publisher: Jossey-Bass Publication Date: 01-NOV-2002 Insert Date: 06-APR-2011 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Leading Geeks: How to Manage and Lead People Who Deliver Technology
Leading Geeks challenges the conventional wisdom that leadership methods are universal and gives executives and managers the understanding they need to manage and lead the technologists on whom they have become so dependent. This much-needed book—written in nontechnical language by Paul Glen, a highly acclaimed management consultant—gives clear directions on how to effectively lead these brilliant yet notoriously resistant-to-being-managed knowledge workers. Glen not only provides proven management strategies but also background on why traditional approaches often don't work with geeks....
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146. |  When the Headline Is You: An Insider's Guide to Handling the Media By: Jeff Ansell; Jeffrey Leeson Publisher: Jossey-Bass Publication Date: 19-OCT-2010 Insert Date: 05-APR-2011 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: When the Headline Is You: An Insider's Guide to Handling the Media
Proven strategies for managing all types of media encounters!
Award-winning journalist and Fortune 500 consultant Jeff Ansell provides a how-to guide for leaders, executives, and other professionals whose high-visibility requires frequent contact with the media. Drawing on nearly four decades of media experience, Ansell presents tested techniques for responding to challenging questions and delivering effective messages. In addition, he reveals lessons learned and pitfalls to avoid by referencing recent news events from around the world. Valuable features include:
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147. |  Leading for Innovation: And Organizing for Results By: Frances Hesselbein; Marshall Goldsmith; Iain Somerville Publisher: Jossey-Bass Publication Date: 01-OCT-2001 Insert Date: 01-APR-2011 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Leading for Innovation: And Organizing for Results
In this second volume of The Drucker Foundation's Wisdom to Action Series, twenty-seven remarkable thought leaders help today's leaders meet the challenge of releasing the power of innovation. Leading for Innovation brings together Clayton M. Christensen, Jim Collins, Howard Gardner, Charles Handy, Rosabeth Moss Kanter, C. William Pollard, Margaret Wheatley, and other thought leaders to offer you practical guidance on leading your organization to a new dimension of performance. This unprecedented collection explores the unique qualities required to lead innovators, and shows you the way to...
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148. |  Leadership Lessons from West Point Publisher: Jossey-Bass Publication Date: 01-NOV-2006 Insert Date: 01-APR-2011 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Leadership Lessons from West Point
With Leadership Lessons from West Point as a guide, leaders in the business, nonprofit, and government sectors can learn leadership techniques and practices from contributors who are teaching or have taught at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point and have served in positions of leadership that span the globe. These military experts cover a broad range of topics that are relevant to any leadership development program in any sector. The articles in this important resource offer insight into what leadership means to these experts—in both war and peacetime—and describe their views on quiet...
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149. |  Reversing the Slide: A Strategic Guide to Turnarounds and Corporate Renewal By: James B. Shein Publisher: Jossey-Bass Publication Date: 29-MAR-2011 Insert Date: 31-MAR-2011 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Reversing the Slide: A Strategic Guide to Turnarounds and Corporate Renewal
A just-in-time guide for revamping distressed companies
Drawn from the author's decades of experience advising, purchasing, and reviving distressed companies across industries, geographies, and sizes, Reversing the Slide is designed to help executives, managers, and employees revitalize downtrodden companies. It shows how to: select the tactics appropriate for each stage of distress; understand the use of entrepreneurial concepts; avoid pitfalls common to turnarounds; determine the legal, financial, strategic, and operational steps in the process; discover why the principal of "ready,...
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150. |  Disciplined Dreaming: A Proven System to Drive Breakthrough Creativity By: Josh Linkner Publisher: Jossey-Bass Publication Date: 22-FEB-2011 Insert Date: 31-MAR-2011 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Disciplined Dreaming: A Proven System to Drive Breakthrough Creativity
A 5-part process that will transform your organization — or your career — into a non-stop creativity juggernaut
We live in an era when business cycles are measured in months, not years. The only way to sustain long term innovation and growth is through creativity-at all levels of an organization. Disciplined Dreaming shows you how to create profitable new ideas, empower all your employees to be creative, and sustain your competitive advantage over the long term. Linkner distills his years of experience in business and jazz — as well as hundreds of interviews with CEOs, entrepreneurs, and...
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151. |  Management Reset: Organizing for Sustainable Effectiveness By: Edward E. Lawler III; Christopher G. Worley; David Creelman Publisher: Jossey-Bass Publication Date: 29-MAR-2011 Insert Date: 30-MAR-2011 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Management Reset: Organizing for Sustainable Effectiveness
Provocative new management principles and practices that create effective organizations for shareholders and society
Management experts Lawler and Worley have developed a set of management principles that enable organizations to be both successful and responsible. Existing command & control and high-involvement management styles depend too much on stable conditions and focus too narrowly on economic outcomes. They convincingly argue that we need to "reset" our approach to management to one that fits today's demanding business environment. Starting with a change in how success is measured...
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152. |  Million Dollar Hire: Build Your Bottom Line, One Employee at a Time By: David P. Jones Publisher: Jossey-Bass Publication Date: 05-APR-2011 Insert Date: 29-MAR-2011 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Million Dollar Hire: Build Your Bottom Line, One Employee at a Time
Tools for translating recruiting and hiring decisions into financial returns
Even in a down economy, U.S. business and government make millions of hiring decisions every year. Every decision carries risk. Every hire is an investment. Ideally, every one pays a return. In today's demanding environment, companies no longer have room to get it wrong. Million-Dollar Hire shows how leading companies have re-invented themselves, beat their competition, and added millions to their bottom lines with re-engineered recruiting and hiring practices. Using practical, real world illustrations, it shows...
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153. |  From Bud to Boss: Secrets to a Successful Transition to Remarkable Leadership By: Kevin Eikenberry; Guy Harris Publisher: Jossey-Bass Publication Date: 15-FEB-2011 Insert Date: 29-MAR-2011 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: From Bud to Boss: Secrets to a Successful Transition to Remarkable Leadership
Practical advice for making the shift to your first leadership position
The number of people who will become first-time supervisors will likely grow in the next 10 years, as Baby Boomers retire. Perhaps the most challenging leadership experience anyone will face isn't one at the top, but their first promotion to leadership. They must deal with the change and uncertainty that comes with a new job, requiring new skills, and they've been promoted from peer to leader. While the book addresses the needs of any manager, supervisor, or leader, it pulls from the best leadership and management...
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154. |  Manager Redefined: The Competitive Advantage in the Middle of Your Organization By: Thomas O. Davenport; Stephen D. Harding Publisher: Jossey-Bass Publication Date: 02-NOV-2010 Insert Date: 29-MAR-2011 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Manager Redefined: The Competitive Advantage in the Middle of Your Organization In this book the author explains that managers must build human capital and engender employee engagement by managing them almost not at all, by attending instead to the factors and circumstances that make them successful. In other words, managers must play their role from offstage and out of the limelight. Based on a survey of over 16,000 employees, the author presents Towers-Watson' management performance model: Executing tasks, Building relationships and performance capability, and Energizing change. Additionally, managers must create an atmosphere of authenticity and trust....
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155. |  Open Leadership: How Social Technology Can Transform The Way You Lead By: Charlene Li Publisher: Jossey-Bass Publication Date: 24-MAY-2010 Insert Date: 26-MAR-2011 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Open Leadership: How Social Technology Can Transform The Way You Lead
An essential guide for leaders who want to use social media to be "open" while maintaining control
"Be Open, Be Transparent, Be Authentic" are the current leadership mantras-but companies often push back. Business is premised on the concept of control and yet the new world order demands openness-leaders do not know how to be open and be in control. This must-have resource will help the modern leader understand how to lead in the new open world-where blogging, twittering, facebooking, and digging are becoming the norm. the author lays out the steps that leaders must take to transform...
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156. |  Unusually Excellent: The Necessary Nine Skills Required for the Practice of Great Leadership By: John Hamm Publisher: Jossey-Bass Publication Date: 22-FEB-2011 Insert Date: 25-MAR-2011 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Unusually Excellent: The Necessary Nine Skills Required for the Practice of Great Leadership
Master the fundamentals of leadership-at every stage in your career
Often, when leaders experience trouble, they look to blame an outside source or expect a small tweak to right their ship. But many times they've actually lost their grip on the very basic foundation of leadership. The business environment may change, but no management trend can displace the core laws, proven over centuries, of excellent leadership. Unusually Excellent is an essential resource for leaders that brings these fundamentals together in a new and comprehensive way. This book will help leaders at any level keep...
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157. |  Built on Values: Creating an Enviable Culture that Outperforms the Competition By: Ann Rhoades Publisher: Jossey-Bass Publication Date: 18-JAN-2011 Insert Date: 25-MAR-2011 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Built on Values: Creating an Enviable Culture that Outperforms the Competition
Most leaders know that a winning, engaged culture is the key to attracting top talent—and customers. Yet, it remains elusive how exactly to create this ideal workplace —one where everyone from the front lines to the board room knows the company's values and feels comfortable and empowered to act on them.
Based on Ann Rhoades' years of experience with JetBlue, Southwest, and other companies known for their trailblazing corporate cultures, Built on Values reveals exactly how leaders can create winning environments that allow their employees and their companies to thrive. Companies that...
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158. |  What's Holding You Back?: Ten Bold Steps That Define Gutsy Leaders Publisher: Jossey-Bass Publication Date: 15-FEB-2011 Insert Date: 25-MAR-2011 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: What's Holding You Back?: Ten Bold Steps That Define Gutsy Leaders
Quit hiding from tough decisions and learn to confront them head-on
Why do managers at all levels sacrifice corporate success by shying away from making the tough decisions? What's Holding You Back? reveals exactly why managers often hesitate to confront difficult issues-whether it's the absence of a perfect solution, the knowledge that no decision will please everyone, etc.-and, most importantly, how they can overcome these common managerial obstacles to maximize their company's success. What's Holding You Back? elucidates the ten core principles of confident leadership, outlining...
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159. |  Discovering the Leader in You: How to Realize Your Leadership Potential, New and Revised By: Sara N. King; David G. Altman; Robert J. Lee Publisher: Jossey-Bass Publication Date: 01-MAR-2011 Insert Date: 25-MAR-2011 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Discovering the Leader in You: How to Realize Your Leadership Potential, New and Revised
Praise for Discovering the Leader in You
"An excellent guide for both new and seasoned leaders on the unique and complex challenges of leadership in the twenty-first century. This well-written, concise book will take you through the steps needed to make conscious, deliberate leadership choices in our 24/7 world of constant access and rapid change—choices that will help you better shape and control the influence you want to have."—Molly Corbett Broad, president, American Council on Education
"All great leaders strive for excellence by committing and periodically recommitting to...
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160. |  By: Eugene C. Nelson; Paul B. Batalden; Marjorie M. Godfrey; Joel S. Lazar Publisher: Jossey-Bass Publication Date: 08-MAR-2011 Insert Date: 25-MAR-2011 Slots: 1.0 | Value by Design is a practical guide for real-world improvement in clinical microsystems. Clinical microsystem theory, as implemented by the Institute for Healthcare Improvement and health care organizations nationally and internationally, is the foundation of high-performing front line health care teams who achieve exceptional quality and value. These authors combine theory and principles to create a strategic framework and field-tested tools to assess and improve systems of care. Their approach links patients, families, health care professionals and strategic organizational goals at all...
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