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161. | Leadership strategies grounded in reality and focused on resultsRecent polls show that 71% of workers think about quitting their jobs every day. That number would be shocking-if people actually were quitting. Worse, they go to work, punching time clocks and collecting pay checks, while completely checked out emotionally. In Reality-Based Leadership, expert Fast Company blogger Cy Wakeman reveals how to be the kind of leader who changes the way people think about and perceive their circumstances-one who deals with the facts, clarifies roles, gives clear and direct feedback, and insists that...
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162. |  Love Leadership: The New Way to Lead in a Fear-Based World By: John Hope Bryant Publisher: Jossey-Bass Publication Date: 17-AUG-2009 Insert Date: 22-MAR-2011 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Love Leadership: The New Way to Lead in a Fear-Based World
A dynamic young leader shows how leading with love and respect creates success in business and life
Written by the founder of Operation HOPE and advisor to the past two U.S. presidents, this groundbreaking book makes the case that the best way to get ahead is to figure out what you have to give to a world seemingly obsessed with the question: What do I get? Aimed at a new generation of leaders and extremely relevant for today's economic climate, Love Leadership outlines Bryant's five laws of love-based leadership-Loss Creates Leaders (there can be no strength without legitimate...
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163. |  Overcoming the Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Field Guide for Leaders, Managers, and Facilitators By: Patrick Lencioni Publisher: Jossey-Bass Publication Date: 10-MAR-2005 Insert Date: 10-MAR-2011 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Overcoming the Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Field Guide for Leaders, Managers, and Facilitators
In the years following the publication of Patrick Lencioni's best-seller The Five Dysfunctions of a Team, fans have been clamoring for more information on how to implement the ideas outlined in the book. In Overcoming the Five Dysfunctions of a Team, Lencioni offers more specific, practical guidance for overcoming the Five Dysfunctions-using tools, exercises, assessments, and real-world examples. He examines questions that all teams must ask themselves: Are we really a team? How are we currently performing? Are we prepared to invest the time and energy required to be a great team? Written...
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164. |  Publisher: Jossey-Bass Publication Date: 04-MAY-2004 Insert Date: 10-MAR-2011 Slots: 1.0 | Consultants, managers, MBA students all utilize a representational tool referred to as the "2 × 2 matrix", the most flexible and portable weapon in the knowledge worker's intellectual arsenal. This book is a single, integrated resource for reviewing, selecting, and deploying the best 2 x 2 framework for a specific situation....
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165. |  Undercover Boss: Inside the TV Phenomenon that is Changing Bosses and Employees Everywhere By: Stephen Lambert; Eli Holzman; Mark Levine Publisher: Jossey-Bass Publication Date: 02-NOV-2010 Insert Date: 10-MAR-2011 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Undercover Boss: Inside the TV Phenomenon that is Changing Bosses and Employees Everywhere
"For a popular television series, Undercover Boss has an unusual knack for raising deep and weighty questions."
—Forbes
On February 7, 2010 the CBS television series Undercover Boss USA premiered to a staggering 38.6 million viewers, the largest post-Super Bowl audience for a new series and the most-watched premiere episode of any reality series in the history of television.
Now, for the first time, the bosses and employees featured on Undercover Boss share the lessons they learned as well as the formative experiences that resulted from being on the show. Show creators and executive...
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166. |  The Dragonfly Effect: Quick, Effective, and Powerful Ways To Use Social Media to Drive Social Change By: Jennifer Aaker; Andy Smith; Carlye Adler Publisher: Jossey-Bass Publication Date: 28-SEP-2010 Insert Date: 03-MAR-2011 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: The Dragonfly Effect: Quick, Effective, and Powerful Ways To Use Social Media to Drive Social Change
Proven strategies for harnessing the power of social media to drive social change
Many books teach the mechanics of using Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube to compete in business. But no book addresses how to harness the incredible power of social media to make a difference. The Dragonfly Effect shows you how to tap social media and consumer psychological insights to achieve a single, concrete goal. Named for the only insect that is able to move in any direction when its four wings are working in concert, this book
Reveals the four "wings" of the Dragonfly Effect-and how they work...
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167. |  The Great Workplace: How to Build It, How to Keep It, and Why it Matters By: Michael Burchell; Jennifer Robin Publisher: Jossey-Bass Publication Date: 04-JAN-2011 Insert Date: 03-MAR-2011 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: The Great Workplace: How to Build It, How to Keep It, and Why it Matters
Trust, Pride and Camaraderie-transform your company into a "Great place to Work"
The Great Place to Work Institute develops the annual ranking of the Fortune 100 Best Companies to Work For. In this book, the authors explore the model of a Great Place to Work For-one which fosters employee trust, pride in what they do, and enjoyment in the people they work with. They answer the fundamental question, "What is the business value of creating a great workplace?" and brings the definition of a Great Place to work alive with anecdotes, best practices, and quotes from employees working at the...
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168. |  The Unwritten Rules: The Six Skills You Need to Get Promoted to the Executive Level By: John Beeson Publisher: Jossey-Bass Publication Date: 19-OCT-2010 Insert Date: 03-MAR-2011 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: The Unwritten Rules: The Six Skills You Need to Get Promoted to the Executive Level
Maximize your chances to get promoted to the executive level
As predictable career paths have become extinct in most organizations, managers aspiring to the C-level job are left to their own devices to determine how to advance their careers. Even in companies committed to talent development, guidance to aspiring executives is often vague and contradictory. This happens, executive coach John Beeson argues, because executive promotions are made based on the decision makers' intuitive sense of whether or not a manager can succeed at higher levels within the organization. Beeson decodes...
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169. |  By: Stephen Denning Publisher: Jossey-Bass Publication Date: 08-MAR-2011 Insert Date: 03-MAR-2011 Slots: 1.0 |
How leaders can use the right story at the right time to inspire change and action
This revised and updated edition of the best-selling book A Leader's Guide to Storytelling shows how storytelling is one of the few ways to handle the most important and difficult challenges of leadership: sparking action, getting people to work together, and leading people into the future. Using myriad illustrative examples and filled with how-to techniques, this book clearly explains how you can learn to tell the right story at the right time.
Stephen Denning has won awards from Financial Times,...
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170. |  Social Innovation, Inc.: 5 Strategies for Driving Business Growth through Social Change By: Jason Saul Publisher: Jossey-Bass Publication Date: 19-OCT-2010 Insert Date: 26-FEB-2011 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Social Innovation, Inc.: 5 Strategies for Driving Business Growth through Social Change
Could Wal-Mart offer a better solution to healthcare than Medicaid? Could GE help reduce global warming faster than the Kyoto protocol?
Social Innovation, Inc. declares a new era where companies profit from social change. Leading corporations like GE, Wellpoint, Travelers and Wal-Mart are transforming social responsibility into social innovation and revolutionizing the way we think about the role of business in society. Based on four years of measuring the social strategies of America's leading corporations, Jason Saul lays out the five strategies for social innovation and offers a...
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171. |  The Leader's Guide to Radical Management: Reinventing the Workplace for the 21st Century By: Stephen Denning Publisher: Jossey-Bass Publication Date: 12-OCT-2010 Insert Date: 26-FEB-2011 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: The Leader's Guide to Radical Management: Reinventing the Workplace for the 21st Century A radical new management model for twenty-first century leadersOrganizations today face a crisis. The crisis is of long standing and its signs are widespread. Most proposals for improving management address one element of the crisis at the expense of the others. The principles described by award-winning author Stephen Denning simultaneously inspire high productivity, continuous innovation, deep job satisfaction and client delight. Denning puts forward a fundamentally different approach to management, with seven inter-locking principles of continuous innovation: focusing the entire...
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172. |  Breaking the Leadership Mold: An Executive's Guide to Achieving Organizational Excellence Publisher: Jossey-Bass Publication Date: 12-OCT-2010 Insert Date: 12-NOV-2010 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Breaking the Leadership Mold: An Executive's Guide to Achieving Organizational Excellence
Much has been written about leaders and leadership. Journal articles, blogs and books try to home in on the essence of an effective leader. While there is common agreement that a executive's performance can make or break company, defining that essence of effective leadership remains the Holy Grail for those who find themselves at the top, for those who are responsible for carrying out the strategies and dictates of their managers, and for the shareholders who want to see commitment, action and positive financial return.
Breaking the Leadership Mold is designed to help senior executives...
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173. |  By: Bruce Tulgan Publisher: Jossey-Bass Publication Date: 14-SEP-2010 Insert Date: 20-OCT-2010 Slots: 1.0 |
Get what you need from your boss
In this follow-up to the bestselling It's Okay to Be the Boss, Bruce Tulgan argues that as managers demand more and more from their employees, they are also providing them with less guidance than ever before. Since the number one factor in employee success is the relationship between employees and their immediate managers, employees need to take greater responsibility for getting the most out of that relationship. Drawing on years of experience training managers and employees, Tulgan reveals the four essential things employees should get from their bosses...
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174. |  The Intangibles of Leadership: The 10 Qualities of Superior Executive Performance By: Richard A. Davis Publisher: Jossey-Bass Publication Date: 10-AUG-2010 Insert Date: 11-OCT-2010 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: The Intangibles of Leadership: The 10 Qualities of Superior Executive Performance
It's the Subtleties that Matter!
What is the real difference between competent leader and extraordinary executive? Is it pedigree, experience, intelligence? The answer is yes...and much more. Exceptional leadership hinges on a complex interaction between individual psychology and unique business needs. At the top rung of the ladder, where the dynamics are most complicated, subtle adjustments in style can produce outstanding results.
In his new book, The Intangibles of Leadership, Management Psychologist Richard Davis, Ph.D., uncovers patterns in the attributes that truly distinguish...
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175. |  Well Connected: An Unconventional Approach to Building Genuine, Effective Business Relationships By: Gordon S. Curtis Publisher: Jossey-Bass Publication Date: 26-JUL-2010 Insert Date: 17-SEP-2010 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Well Connected: An Unconventional Approach to Building Genuine, Effective Business Relationships
Achieve your goals by selectively engaging the right people and connecting well with them
Smart executives who want to reach virtually any business goal-from raising capital to finding sales leads to finding the perfect job-know that networking is the key to their success. But traditional networking approaches-meet as many people as possible, amass huge numbers of "connections" and "friends" in your LinkedIn and Facebook networks-rarely produce more than a handful of relationships that pay off. In Well-Connected, networking maven and coach Gordon Curtis explains that the secret to...
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176. |  Joining Forces: Making One Plus One Equal Three in Mergers, Acquisitions, and Alliances By: Mitchell Lee Marks; Philip H. Mirvis Publisher: Jossey-Bass Publication Date: 23-AUG-2010 Insert Date: 12-SEP-2010 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Joining Forces: Making One Plus One Equal Three in Mergers, Acquisitions, and Alliances
If 75 percent of all mergers fail, what makes the other 25 percent succeed?
Mergers, acquisitions, and alliances are more vital today than ever before in driving business success. This indispensible guide offers proven strategies and sound solutions to the multitude of integration issues that inevitably arise, and shows how to create a combined business that meets its strategic and financial objectives, competes better, and offers personal and organizational enhancements. Dubbed "merger mavens" by Fortune magazine, the authors report lessons learned from their experience in over 100...
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177. |  By: Rob Cross; Jean Singer; Sally Colella; Robert J. Thomas; Yaarit Silverstone Publisher: Jossey-Bass Publication Date: 06-JUL-2007 Insert Date: 09-SEP-2010 Slots: 1.0 |
This is the ultimate resource for practitioners who want to implement insights from organizational network analysis and thinking. Dozens of concrete examples, interventions, and practical advice from network experts show you what you can do to strengthen networks and boost performance. This book is essential for anyone in business, government, or consulting who wants to get network thinking from analysis to action in organizations."—Wayne Baker, professor of management and organizations, Stephen M. Ross School of Business, University of Michigan
What a great idea this book is! The...
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178. |  True North: Discover Your Authentic Leadership Publisher: Jossey-Bass Publication Date: 09-MAR-2007 Insert Date: 25-AUG-2010 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: True North: Discover Your Authentic Leadership
True North shows how anyone who follows their internal compass can become an authentic leader. This leadership tour de force is based on research and first-person interviews with 125 of today's top leaders—with some surprising results. In this important book, acclaimed former Medtronic CEO Bill George and coauthor Peter Sims share the wisdom of these outstanding leaders and describe how you can develop as an authentic leader. True North presents a concrete and comprehensive program for leadership success and shows how to create your own Personal Leadership Development Plan centered on five...
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179. |  The Truth About Leadership: The No-Fads, Heart-of-the-Matter Facts you Need to Know By: James M. Kouzes; Barry Z. Posner Publisher: Jossey-Bass Publication Date: 16-AUG-2010 Insert Date: 21-AUG-2010 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: The Truth About Leadership: The No-Fads, Heart-of-the-Matter Facts you Need to Know
A fresh look at what it means to lead from two of the biggest names in leadership
In these turbulent times, when the very foundations of organizations and societies are shaken, leaders need to move beyond pessimistic predictions, trendy fads, and simplistic solutions. They need to turn to what's real and what's proven. In their engaging, personal, and bold new book, Kouzes and Posner reveal ten time-tested truths that show what every leader must know, the questions they must be prepared to answer, and the real-world issues they will likely face.
Based on thirty years of research,...
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180. |  The Custom-Fit Workplace: Choose When, Where, and How to Work and Boost Your Bottom Line By: Joan Blades; Nanette Fondas Publisher: Jossey-Bass Publication Date: 09-AUG-2010 Insert Date: 19-AUG-2010 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: The Custom-Fit Workplace: Choose When, Where, and How to Work and Boost Your Bottom Line
Ideas for transforming the workplace to fit today's workforce
In this book, Blades and Fondas offer business professionals an indispensable handbook for transforming the way we work and breaking free from the old, inflexible, 40-hour workweek. The authors show creative ways for individuals to fit work requirements with life obligations, and persuade managers to adopt these custom-fit work strategies to improve their bottom line. Readers will finish the book convinced of the place of custom-fit work arrangements in today's workplace—and of how honoring employees' lives outside of work is...
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