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Leading Teams: Tools and Techniques for Successful Team Leadership from the Sports World

Paolo Guenzi, Dino Ruta — Mon, 20 May 2013 04:00:00 GMT

Important new insights on team leadership and motivation, along with powerful tools and techniques taken from the world of sports

How do the sports world's most successful coaches instill their teams with esprit de corps, a collaborative mindset, and an unbeatable desire to win? More importantly, what can business leaders and managers learn from their example? This book answers these and a host of key questions about what it takes to be a successful

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Student Leadership Practices Inventory Scoring Software, 3rd Edition

James M. Kouzes, Barry Z. Posner — Mon, 20 May 2013 04:00:00 GMT

The Student Leadership Practices Inventory Scoring Software, Third Edition is an update to include the following features:

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Content to Commerce: Engaging Consumers Across Paid, Owned and Earned Channels

Avi Savar — Mon, 20 May 2013 04:00:00 GMT

Master the publishing and entertainment world's tools and techniques for content marketing success

Over the last decade the convergence of media and technology has turned the marketing world on its head. In order for brands to succeed in today's socially connected world, they must think like publishers and act like media networks. Content to Commerceshows how utilizing publishing- and entertainment-based principles can help brands and marketers use

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The Clarity Principle: How Great Leaders Make the Most Important Decision in Business (and What Happens When They Don't)

Chatham Sullivan — Mon, 13 May 2013 04:00:00 GMT

Turf wars, low morale, bad politics, and misguided strategies: these are issues that claim much of a leader’s time. But this parade of dysfunctions and messy “people” problems actually points to an organization confused about its core business, torn between competing ideas about what it is and wants to be—an organization facing an identity crisis.

Strategy and leadership expert Chatham Sullivan argues that when the purpose of a business becomes confused

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The Student Leadership Challenge: Facilitation and Activity Guide

James M. Kouzes, Barry Z. Posner, Beth High, Gary M. Morgan — Mon, 06 May 2013 04:00:00 GMT

This book gives educators the flexible, modularized building blocks for teaching students how to apply Kouzes and Posner's Five Practices of Exemplary Leadership. The guide includes language, guidance, and activities for teaching each Practice and its associated leadership behaviors, as well as tips for coaching students through their leadership development. It also includes direction on using the Student Leadership Practices Inventory, advice for

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The Student Leadership Challenge: Student Workbook and Personal Leadership Journal

James M. Kouzes, Barry Z. Posner, Beth High, Gary M. Morgan — Mon, 06 May 2013 04:00:00 GMT

Designed to be used with the The Student Leadership Challenge or the Student Leadership Practices Inventory, this workbook will help students go deeper into the actual practice of leadership, guiding them in better understanding and embodying The Five Practices of Exemplary Leadership in a meaningful and relevant way. It includes activities and worksheets; a unit on taking, digesting, and understanding the Student Leadership Practices Inventory; and

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The Reality-Based Rules of the Workplace: Know What Boosts Your Value, Kills Your Chances, and Will Make You Happier

Cy Wakeman — Tue, 30 Apr 2013 04:00:00 GMT

The key to understanding how your manager calculates your real value—and how to boost it

More than anything else, you need to understand exactly how your employer evaluates you, and your annual performance review doesn't tell the whole story. In The Reality-Based Rules of the Workplace, Cy Wakeman shows how to calculate how your true value to your organization by understanding your current and future potential against your

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Ten Virtues of Outstanding Leaders: Leadership and Character

Al Gini, Ronald M. Green — Mon, 29 Apr 2013 04:00:00 GMT

What makes a good leader? Ten leaders, ten key virtues

This readable distillation of the core common features of successful leaders shows how an individual's character, and especially their virtue, is the defining factor. Without these ten vital virtues, leadership becomes "misleadership." The authors, both renowned business ethicists, combine theory with fascinating biographical detail on exemplary leaders such as Abraham Lincoln, Winston Churchill

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Ten Virtues of Outstanding Leaders: Leadership and Character

Al Gini, Ronald M. Green — Mon, 29 Apr 2013 04:00:00 GMT

What makes a good leader? Ten leaders, ten key virtues

Assessment Update, Progress, Trends, and Practices in Higher Education, Volume 25, Number 2, March-April, 2013

AU (Assessment Update) — Mon, 29 Apr 2013 04:00:00 GMT

The Birkman Method: Your Personality at Work

Sharon Birkman Fink, Stephanie Capparell — Mon, 29 Apr 2013 04:00:00 GMT

The first in-depth book on the personality assessment used by millions of people worldwide, revealing the underlying needs that drive and inspire you

Whether you're wondering if you are in the right career, looking to change job roles, or trying to reduce conflict and improve relationships at work and at home, you must begin by fully understanding your own interests and needs, and how they drive your ultimate happiness as well as unleash your stress

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The Embodiment of Leadership: A Volume in the International Leadership Series, Building Leadership Bridges

Mon, 22 Apr 2013 04:00:00 GMT

Covering leadership in the arts and humanities, this volume explores the notion that leadership is both a discursive practice and a performative identity that is situated in a body that not only thinks, but moves, acts, has emotions and desires, ages, experiences, hurts, and senses. This idea moves leadership beyond the intellectual functions such as visioning, strategizing, and persuading, and the actions that emanate from the intellectual realm,

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The Collaboration Economy: How to Meet Business, Social, and Environmental Needs and Gain Competitive Advantage

Eric Lowitt — Mon, 22 Apr 2013 04:00:00 GMT

How six industries are collaborating with competitors, society, and the public sector for competitive advantage

No longer can we consume the equivalent of 1.3 Earths resources and expect to remain prosperous in perpetuity. We need a new economic paradigm, one that yields growth in a way that strengthens the global systems we rely on daily for survival, such as the global water, food, and energy systems. The Collaboration Economy—a model where the private

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The Athena Doctrine: How Women (and the Men Who Think Like Them) Will Rule the Future

John Gerzema, Michael DAntonio — Tue, 16 Apr 2013 04:00:00 GMT

How feminine values can solve our toughest problems and build a more prosperous future

Among 64,000 people surveyed in thirteen nations, two thirds feel the world would be a better place if men thought more like women. This marks a global trend away from the winner-takes-all, masculine approach to getting things done. Drawing from interviews at innovative organizations in eighteen nations and at Fortune 500 boardrooms, the authors reveal how men and

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Making Extraordinary Things Happen in Asia: Applying The Five Practices of Exemplary Leadership

James M. Kouzes, Barry Z. Posner, Steven J. DeKrey (With) — Tue, 16 Apr 2013 04:00:00 GMT

An in-depth look at how leaders in Asia apply the Five Practices of Exemplary Leadership in their organizations

Kouzes and Posner's Five Practices of Exemplary Leadership is the most trusted and proven leadership paradigm in the business world. Making Extraordinary Things Happen in Asia focuses on the unique ways leaders in Asia have applied the Five Practices and documents their success with it. Using actual case studies and first-person experiences

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The Work of Leaders: How Vision, Alignment, and Execution Will Change the Way You Lead

Julie Straw, Barry Davis, Mark Scullard, Susie Kukkonen — Mon, 15 Apr 2013 04:00:00 GMT

Comprehensively researched, thought-provoking, and eminently practical VAE: The Work of Leaders stimulates fresh conversations and new perspectives regardless of the leader’s knowledge or experience. It’s an opportunity for leaders at all levels of learning to reflect on how they approach each step of their work along a “leadership continua” and helps leaders take action with personalized tips and strategies that give clear direction and are easy

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Reinventing Giants: How Chinese Global Competitor Haier Has Changed the Way Big Companies Transform

Bill Fischer, Umberto Lago, Fang Liu — Mon, 15 Apr 2013 04:00:00 GMT

A compelling profile of an emerging Chinese competitor

Chinese firms are reinventing their business models, their corporate cultures, and themselves, becoming global competitors who increasingly offer knowledge rather than cheap labour in their quest to join the ranks of the "world's best" companies. This book offers a compelling profile of the most ambitious of these emerging Chinese competitors, the Haier Corporation

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The Manager and the Monk: A Discourse on Prayer, Profit, and Principles

Jochen Zeitz, Anselm Grun — Mon, 08 Apr 2013 04:00:00 GMT

An exploration of spirituality, values, and sustainability in business

When Jochen Zeitz and Anselm Grün first met onstage as "the manager and the monk," Zeitz was CEO and Chairman of Puma, and Father Grün was a monk serving as cellarer, the business manager of his Benedictine abbey. They came together to discuss their shared goal: what it means to lead and manage responsibly and sustainably in today's shifting world.

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Change with Confidence: Answers to the 50 Biggest Questions that Keep Change Leaders Up at Night

Phil Buckley — Mon, 01 Apr 2013 04:00:00 GMT

Praise for CHANGE WITH CONFIDENCE

“Phil Buckley is a world-class change leader and world-champion enthusiast for effective change management. Straightforward and engaging, Phil addresses the 50 questions all change managers need to answer with confidence in order to succeed. Rare too for an author in this field, he shares the ‘how-not-to’ as well as the ‘how-to.’ This is a book any manager wanting to succeed in change should keep close by.”

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Do Good Well: Your Guide to Leadership, Action, and Social Innovation

Nina Vasan, Jennifer Przybylo — Mon, 25 Mar 2013 04:00:00 GMT

Written with a fresh voice and a dash of humor, Do Good Wellis an exciting and readily adaptable guide to social innovation that not only captures the entrepreneurial and creative spirit of our time, but also harnesses the insights, wisdom, and down-to-earth experience of today’s most accomplished young leaders. Do Good Well offers a winning combination of theory, anecdote, and application, giving you the framework you need to make an impact next

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