Management: leadership and motivation Books
Carpenter's Son Publishing Hard Times Create Strong Men: Why the World
Book SynopsisWhat does it mean to be a man in the modern world? Throughout history, being a man has meant different things. Maybe being a man was about being a good hunter, or a good soldier, a good businessman or maybe good with women. Hard Times Creates Strong Men examines what it means to be a man in the modern world relative to money, sex, religion and politics. This book examines what worked and what doesn’t work based on proven history instead of feelings. This book is raw, real and politically incorrect, it will threaten and challenge your ideas of what does it mean to be a man and how to better serve your purpose. As the cycles of history prove over and over again: Hard Times Create Strong Men Strong Men Create Good Times Good Times Create Weak Men Weak Men Create Hard times
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Simon & Schuster The Most Powerful Woman in the Room Is You:
Book SynopsisThe Senior Vice President of Christie’s and seasoned auctioneer Lydia Fenet, with her “razor-sharp humor and her don’t-mess-with-me gavel strike” (Mariska Hargitay, star of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit), shares the secrets of success and the strategies behind her revolutionary sales approach to show you how to embrace and channel your own power in any room. Who is the most powerful woman in the room? She’s the one who can raise a million dollars in a minute. She’s the one who can command the attention of a group of any size from one person to five thousand. She’s the one who can sell anything to anyone. And she can be you. As a senior executive at Christie’s, leader in her field, and one of Gotham magazine’s Most Influential Women in New York, Lydia Fenet knows firsthand that the one skill that can set women apart in both their personal life and career is the ability to sell. The Most Powerful Woman in the Room Is You equips you with everything you need to know—from how to sell authentically and how to network (or die), to the importance of never apologizing (start negotiating instead), how to perfect your poker face, and always, always, tell the truth. Most of all, she offers plenty of encouragement to take ownership in your position and look for opportunities to innovate. Filled with additional case studies, thoughtful insights, and meaningful advice from some of the most powerful and successful women in business, fashion, journalism, sports, and the arts, The Most Powerful Woman in the Room Is You “is an insightful, inspiring guide for women who are trying to claim their own seat at the table” (New York Journal of Books).Trade Review“We all agree that we need more women leaders—the question is how to get there. One of the answers is Lydia Fenet." -- Arianna Huffington, Founder & CEO, Thrive Global“Lydia knows how to get the attention of a room immediately, gavel or not, so who better to write the book on how to be the most powerful, the most dynamic and captivating woman in the room than she." -- Martha Stewart“Lydia Fenet shares the secret sauce all women need to feel empowered… the most powerful woman in the room really is you!” -- Barbara Corcoran“With the help of her razor-sharp humor and her don’t-mess-with-me gavel strike, she can run a room like no one I’ve ever seen.” -- Mariska Hargitay"The Most Powerful Woman in the Room Is You is an insightful, inspiring guide for women who are trying to claim their own seat at the table. Fenet’s frank, no-nonsense writing style and approachable tactics can’t help but inspire readers to reach for their own goals in new, bigger ways. ” * New York Journal of Books *
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Pearson Education Brilliant Coaching
Book SynopsisJulie Starr is a highly respected coach and management consultant who works with both organisations and individuals. She has over 20 years' experience within business and change management focusing on the opportunity presented by people. She combines many years of coaching experience with a constant study related to human success and fulfilment, to develop coaching practices and principles that really work.Trade Review'Extremely effective tips on coaching principles backed up by true-to-life examples and exercises throughout. A “brilliant” tool for success.' Stephen R. Covey, author of The 7 Habits of Highly Effective PeopleTable of ContentsTable of Contents Part One: Awareness What is coaching and how does it work? Coaching as an effective aid to engagement. NEW What is the mindset of a coaching manager? How does our ego limit our ability to coach? UPDATED Part Two: Ability Building rapport or relationship Focussed listening Asking effective questions A flexible style of influence UPDATED Giving constructive feedback Part Three: Application Off-line – Coachee has topic or agenda Off-line – Manager has topic or agenda Off-line – Both coachee and Manager have topic or agenda On-line – Response Coaching Part Four: Action Taking your learning forward Online resources Coaching toolbox aids and templates. NEW
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Little, Brown & Company Identity Leadership: To Lead Others You Must
Book SynopsisIDENTITY LEADERSHIP helps readers become passionate, purposeful, and meaningful leaders through identifying who they are, their desires, and their abilities.IDENTITY LEADERSHIP by STEDMAN GRAHAM is a very personal and prescriptive guide that is based on the philosophy that you can't lead others until you can first lead yourself--the more you work on yourself, the more you can give to those around you. To know our purpose in life, we begin with our passions, skills, and talents, and with this book we learn how to channel the best of who we are to achieve success for ourselves and those we lead.In IDENTITY LEADERSHIP, Graham takes the reader through a nine-step process designed to show them how to create and reshape their futures as Identity Leaders. The nine steps include:1. Check Your ID2. Create Your Vision3. Develop Your Travel Plan4. Master the Rules of the Road5. Step into the Outer Limits6. Pilot the Seasons of Change7. Build Your Dream Team8. Win by a Decision9. Commit to Your VisionSelf-leaders can create a roadmap that leads to personal growth, development, and improvement of performance in every area of life. IDENTITY LEADERSHIP provides the tools needed to continually plan and execute learning and development of our talents and skills, enabling readers to commit to a personal vision and lead with purpose.
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John Wiley & Sons Inc Amp It Up
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsPart I – Amping Up 1 Chapter 1 Introduction: The Power of Amping Up 3 Chapter 2 My Journey from Teenage Toilet Cleaner to Serial CEO 13 Part II – Raise Your Standards 33 Chapter 3 Make Your Organization Mission Driven 35 Chapter 4 Declare War on Your Competitors and on Incrementalism 45 Chapter 5 Put Execution Ahead of Strategy 55 Part III – Align Your People and Culture 63 Chapter 6 Hire Drivers, Not Passengers, and Get the Wrong People off the Bus 65 Chapter 7 Build a Strong Culture 73 Chapter 8 Teach Everyone to Go Direct and Build Mutual Trust 83 Part IV – Sharpen Your Focus 91 Chapter 9 Put Analysis Before Solutions 93 Chapter 10 Align Incentives for Customer Success 99 Part V – Pick Up the Pace 103 Chapter 11 Ramp Up Sales 105 Chapter 12 Grow Fast or Die Slow 113 Chapter 13 Stay Scrappy as You Scale Up 123 Part VI – Transform Your Strategy 131 Chapter 14 Materialize Your Opportunities—the Data Domain Growth Story 133 Chapter 15 Open the Aperture—the ServiceNow Expansion Story 143 Chapter 16 Swing for the Fences—the Snowflake Growth Story 151 Part VII – The Amped-Up Leader 157 Chapter 17 Amp Up Your Career 159 Chapter 18 Just for CEOs—Dealing with Founders and Boards 171 Chapter 19 Conclusion—Great Leaders Have Great Outcomes 181 Acknowledgments 183 Index 185
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Simon & Schuster Australia Adapt
Book SynopsisTransform your life and your career with the four steps to adapt effectively to change: Engage, Accept, Activate, Release. ‘A powerful playbook to lead and master change.’ Dominic Price, Atlassian After the global pause in 2020, we returned to a world that feels faster, looser, and less structured – our professional boundaries have been erased, social and cultural norms are shifting rapidly, and at the same time, we're facing profound developments in artificial intelligence. We're facing more change more often, and we're applying a mindset that is simply outdated and no longer fit-for-purpose.Adapt offers a fresh perspective. Andrea Clarke, the award-winning author of Future Fit, argues that rather than retreat from change or resist it, we must engage with it continuously – learning not just how change unfolds, but how we can shape it. With four simple yet powerful principles, she shows how to explore new possibilities using the 80/20 rule, test out small-scale strategies for long-term benefits, and analyse possible futures by flipping the facts and running ‘what if’ scenarios. Whether you’re navigating a business or seeking more stability in your personal life, Adapt will equip you with a new way to master change in an unpredictable world. Our ability to reconcile the past few years – and make sense of what lies ahead – depends entirely on our capacity to adapt. This book reframes change as a powerful tool for growth, opportunity, and lasting transformation.
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St Martin's Press Radical Candor Fully Revised Updated Edition
Book Synopsis* New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller multiple years running* Translated into 20 languages, with more than half a million copies sold worldwide* A Hudson and Indigo Best Book of the Year* Recommended by Shona Brown, Rachel Hollis, Jeff Kinney, Daniel Pink, Sheryl Sandberg, and Gretchen RubinRadical Candor has been embraced around the world by leaders of every stripe at companies of all sizes. Now a cultural touchstone, the concept has come to be applied to a wide range of human relationships.The idea is simple: You don''t have to choose between being a pushover and a jerk. Using Radical Candoravoiding the perils of Obnoxious Aggression, Manipulative Insincerity, and Ruinous Empathyyou can be kind and clear at the same time.Kim Scott was a highly successful leader at Google before decamping to Apple, where she developed and taught a management class. Since the original pub
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Pearson Education Limited The Rules of Life A personal code for living a
Book Synopsis Richard Templar is the author of the international bestselling Rules books. Over 2 million people around the world have enjoyed and now play by Richard Templar's Rules. The complete list of titles is as follows: The Rules of Life, The Rules of Work, The Rules of Management, The Rules of Wealth, The Rules of Parenting, The Rules of Love, The Rules to Break, The Rules of People, The Rules of Thinking, and The Rules of Living Well. Table of ContentsRules for you 1. Keep it under your hat 2. You'll get older but not necessarily wiser 3. Accept what is done is done 4. Accept yourself 5. Know what counts and what doesn't 6. Dedicate your life to something 7. Be flexible in your thinking 8. Take an interest in the outside world 9. Be on the side of the angels, not the beasts 10. Only dead fish swim with the stream 11. Be the last to raise your voice 12. Be your own adviser 13. No fear, no surprise, no hesitation, no doubt 14. I wish I'd done that – and I will 15. It's OK to give up 16. Count to ten – or recite ‘Baa baa black sheep' 17. Change what you can change, let go of the rest 18. Aim to be the very best at everything you do – not second best 19. Don't expect to be perfect 20. Don't be afraid to dream 21. If you're going to jump off a bridge, make sure you know how deep the water is 22. Don't dwell on the past 23. Don't live in the future 24. Get on with life – it's whooshing past 25. Be consistent 26. Dress like today is important 27. Have a belief system 28. Leave a little space for yourself each day 29. Have a plan 30. Have a sense of humour 31. Choose how you make your bed 32. Life can be a bit like advertising 33. Get used to stepping outside your comfort zone 34. Learn to ask questions 35. Have dignity 36. It's OK to feel big emotions 37. Keep the faith 38. You'll never understand everything 39. Know where true happiness comes from 40. Life is a pizza 41. Always have someone – or something – that is pleased to see you 42. Know when to let go – when to walk away 43. Retaliation leads to escalation 44. Look after yourself 45. Maintain good manners in all things 46. Prune your stuff frequently 47. Remember to touch base 48. Draw the lines around yourself 49. Shop for quality, not price 50. It's OK to worry, or to know how not to 51. Stay young 52. Throwing money at a problem doesn't always work 53. Think for yourself 54. You are not in charge 55. Have something in your life that takes you out of yourself 56. Only the good feel guilty 57. If you can't say anything nice, don't say anything at all Partnership Rules 58. Accept the differences, embrace what you have in common 59. Allow your partner the space to be themselves 60. Be nice 61. You want to do what? 62. Be the first to say sorry 63. Go that extra step in trying to please them 64. Know when to listen and when to act 65. Have a passion for your life together 66. Make sure your love making is making love 67. Keep talking 68. Respect privacy 69. Check you both have the same shared goals 70. Treat your partner better than your best friend 71. Contentment is a high aim 72. You don't both have to have the same rules Family and friends Rules 73. If you are going to be a friend, be a good friend 74. Never be too busy for loved ones 75. Let your kids mess up for themselves – they don't need any help from you 76. Have a little respect and forgiveness for your parents 77. Give your kids a break 78. Never lend money unless you are prepared to write it off 79. Keep schtum 80. There are no bad children 81. Be up around people you love 82. Give your kids responsibilities 83. Your children need to fall out with you to leave home 84. Your kids will have friends you don't like 85. Your role as a child 86. Your role as a parent Social Rules 87. We're all closer than you think 88. It doesn't hurt to forgive 89. It doesn't hurt to be helpful 90. What's in it for them? 91. Hang out with positive people 92. Be generous with your time and information 93. Get involved 94. Keep the moral high ground 95. Just because you have, doesn't mean they have to 96. Do compare yourself with other people 97. Have a plan for your career 98. Look at the long-term ramifications of what you do for a living 99. Be good at your job 100. Be aware of the damage you are doing 101. Be for the glory, not the degradation 102. Be part of the solution, not the problem 103. Check what history would say about you 104. Not everything can be green 105. Put something back 106. Find a new Rule every day – or occasionally at least
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Pearson Education Limited The Rules of Parenting A Personal Code for
Book SynopsisRichard Templar is the author of the international bestselling Rules books. Over 2 million people around the world have enjoyed and now play by Richard Templar's Rules. The complete list of titles is as follows: The Rules of Life, The Rules of Work, The Rules of Management, The Rules of Wealth, The Rules of Parenting, The Rules of Love, The Rules to Break, The Rules of People, The Rules of Thinking, and The Rules of Living Well.Table of ContentsRules for staying sane 1 Relax 2 No one is perfect 3 Be content 4 Know what you're good at 5 Almost any rule can be broken occasionally 6 Don't try to do everything 7 You don't have to follow every piece of advice you get (including this one) 8 It's normal to want to escape 9 You're allowed to hide from your kids 10 Parents are people too 11 Don't ignore your relationship with your partner Attitude Rules 12 Love is not enough 13 Every recipe needs different ingredients 14 Anything extreme is almost certainly wrong 15 Look pleased to see them 16 Treat your child with respect 17 Enjoy their company 18 It's not about you – it's about them 19 Being tidy isn't as important as you think 20 Good parenting is calculated risk taking 21 Keep your worries to yourself 22 See things from their point of view 23 Parenting is not a competitive sport 24 Never emotionally blackmail them Everyday Rules 25 Let them get on with it 26 Let them go (wild) 27 Teach them to think for themselves 28 Use praise wisely 29 Make sure they know what's important 30 Show them how to lose 31 Know the value of boundaries 32 Bribery doesn't have to be bad 33 Moods are catching 34 You're setting their eating patterns for life 35 Communicate 36 Set clear targets 37 Don't be a nag Discipline Rules 38 Present a united front 39 Carrots beat sticks 40 Be consistent 41 Lighten up 42 Focus on the problem, not the person 43 Don't paint yourself into a corner 44 If you lose your temper, you're the loser 45 Apologise if you get it wrong 46 Let them back in 47 The right of expression Personality Rules 48 Find what incentives work for your child 49 Every child should have something they know they're good at 50 Learn to appreciate the qualities that remind you of someone else 51 Look for the similarities between you 52 Find qualities to admire in them 53 Let them be better than you 54 Their attitude is as important as their achievements 55 Keep your fears and insecurities to yourself 56 Mind your programming 57 Don't try to have a perfect child Sibling Rules 58 Give them each other 59 Recognize that squabbling is healthy (within reason) 60 Teach them to sort out their own arguments 61 Work as a team 62 Let them entertain each other 63 Never compare children with each other 64 Different children need different rules 65 Don't have a favourite 66 Mix and match 67 Find each child's strengths School Rules 68 Schooling isn't the same as education 69 School comes as a package 70 Fight your child's corner 71 Bullying is always serious 72 Teach them to stand up for themselves 73 Put up with friends of theirs you don't like 74 Remember you're their parent, not their teacher 75 Don't mollycoddle them 76 Let up the pressure 77 They have to live with their choices (and it's OK) Teenage Rules 78 Don't panic 79 Remember Newton's Third Law 80 Give them a voice 81 Don't look under the mattress 82 Running round after them doesn't help anybody 83 Don't stand in front of a speeding train 84 Yelling isn't the answer 85 Let them have the last word 86 Everything comes with strings 87 Show some respect for the things they care about 88 Adopt a healthy attitude to sex Crisis Rules 89 Don't use your kids as ammunition 90 Let them cope in their own way 91 Being younger doesn't necessarily speed everything up 92 The aftershock can last forever 93 Tell them what's going on 94 Teach them to fail successfully 95 It's better to agree than to be right 96 All of your actions speak louder than any of your words 97 Make sure they know they're priority no. 1 98 You can't fix everything Grown-up Rules 99 Back off 100 Wait until they ask for advice 101 Treat them as adults 102 Don't try to be their best friend 103 Encourage them regardless 104 You can't choose who your children love 105 Leave the strings off 106 Don't guilt-trip them 107 Remember they still need you 108 It's not your fault 109 Once a parent, always a parent Rules about your parents 1 Don't put them on a pedestal 2 Let them be grandparents 3 Don't ask too much of them 4 Don't guilt-trip them – even by mistake 5 Learn to share 6 They're new to this too 7 Understand that they don't come from the same place as you 8 Any grandparent is better than no grandparent 9 Don't bad-mouth them in front of the kids 10 They love you just like you love your kids
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Simon & Schuster The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: 30th
Book Synopsis*New York Times bestseller—over 40 million copies sold* *The #1 Most Influential Business Book of the Twentieth Century* One of the most inspiring and impactful books ever written, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People has captivated readers for nearly three decades. It has transformed the lives of presidents and CEOs, educators and parents—millions of people of all ages and occupations. Now, this 30th anniversary edition of the timeless classic commemorates the wisdom of the 7 Habits with modern additions from Sean Covey. The 7 Habits have become famous and are integrated into everyday thinking by millions and millions of people. Why? Because they work! With Sean Covey’s added takeaways on how the habits can be used in our modern age, the wisdom of the 7 Habits will be refreshed for a new generation of leaders. They include: Habit 1: Be Proactive Habit 2: Begin with the End in Mind Habit 3: Put First Things First Habit 4: Think Win/Win Habit 5: Seek First to Understand, Then to Be Understood Habit 6: Synergize Habit 7: Sharpen the Saw This beloved classic presents a principle-centered approach for solving both personal and professional problems. With penetrating insights and practical anecdotes, Stephen R. Covey reveals a step-by-step pathway for living with fairness, integrity, honesty, and human dignity—principles that give us the security to adapt to change and the wisdom and power to take advantage of the opportunities that change creates.
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Harvard Business Review Press HBRs 10 Must Reads on Leadership with featured
Book SynopsisGo from being a good manager to an extraordinary leader.If you read nothing else on leadership, read these 10 articles (featuring What Makes an Effective Executive, by Peter F. Drucker). We''ve combed through hundreds of Harvard Business Review articles on leadership and selected the most important ones to help you maximize your own and your organization''s performance.HBR''s 10 Must Reads On Leadership will inspire you to: Motivate others to excel Build your team''s self-confidence in others Provoke positive change Set direction Encourage smart risk-taking Manage with tough empathy Credit others for your success Increase self-awareness Draw strength from adversity This collection of best-selling articles includes: featured article What Makes an Effective Executive by Peter F. Drucker, What Makes a Leader? What Leaders Really Do, The Work of Leadership, Why Should Anyone Be Led by You? CruciblTable of Contents1. What Makes a Leader? Daniel Goleman 2. What Makes an Effective Executive Peter F. Drucker 3. What Leaders Really Do John P. Kotter 4. The Work of Leadership Heifetz, Ronald A. and Laurie, Donald L. 5. Why Should Anyone Be Led by You? Goffee, Robert and Jones, Gareth 6. Crucibles of Leadership Bennis, Warren G. and Thomas, Robert J. 7. Level 5 Leadership: The Triumph of Humility and Fierce Resolve Collins, Jim 8. Seven Transformations of Leadership Rooke, David and Torbert, William R. 9. Discovering Your Authentic Leadership Bill George, Peter Sims, Andrew N. McLean, and Diana Mayer 10. In Praise of the Incomplete Leader Deborah Ancona, Thomas W. Malone, Wanda J. Orlikowski, and Peter M. Senge
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Leadership and the One Minute Manager
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Figure 1 Publishing Work-Life Bloom: How to Nurture a Team that
Book Synopsis"Work-life balance" isn't making anyone happy.In fact, our relentless attempts to achieve this goal have created workplaces full of stress, discontent, and burnout.While this workplace disillusionment has been brewing for years, the pandemic helped catalyze a cultural shift of workers redefining themselves beyond what they do for a living. Now, it's time for you to rethink your role as a leader in the nexus of work and life.In Work-Life Bloom: How to Nurture a Team That Flourishes, award-winning author Dan Pontefract contends that a thriving workplace isn't about employee engagement levels, nor is it predicated on your team members bringing their "best selves" to work. Instead, it requires you to support the people you manage so they can be their best in work and life.Just as a flower needs the right mix of sunlight, water, and nutrients to grow, your people need the right mix of work-life factors to create a fulfilling and harmonious existence. Pontefract introduces a new leadership paradigm focused on twelve key work-life factors that determine whether your team members' gardens are able to grow.Drawing upon primary global research, interviews, and personal experiences, Pontefract delivers a timely blueprint for leaders to cultivate work-life ecosystems where individuals don't just survive—they bloom. Trade Review"In this timely and compelling book, Dan Pontefract uproots outdated ideas about work and tosses them in the compost heap. Then, with a graceful mix of advice and analysis, he shows leaders at every level how to plant new seeds of possibility for themselves and their teams."–Daniel H. Pink, #1 New York Times best-selling author of The Power of Regret, When, and Drive"In Work-Life Bloom, Dan Pontefract showcases an insightful and nuanced perspective on work and life. This book is a compass for leaders who aspire to nurture a fulfilling and flourishing professional setting with their teams."–Ranjay Gulati, Harvard Business School Professor and author of Deep Purpose"With Work-Life Bloom, Dan Pontefract offers us the seeds to grow not just better workplaces but better lives. A must-read for leaders navigating the modern world."–Erica Dhawan, Wall Street Journal best-selling author of Digital Body Language"Work-Life Bloom challenges the status quo. It's an essential read for anyone committed to building an amazing workplace and a great employee experience."–Alex Osterwalder, CEO of Strategyzer & IMD Visiting Professor"A must-read! Dan Pontefract challenges the concept of work-life balance by introducing Work-Life Bloom. Highly recommended."–Martin Lindstrom, New York Times best-selling author of Buyology and Small Data"Dan Pontefract's Work-Life Bloom turns the conventional wisdom about work and life on its head. If you truly want your teams to thrive, read this refreshing, indispensable guide now."–Dorie Clark, best-selling author of The Long Game and Entrepreneurial You"Dan Pontefract's Work-Life Bloom recognizes how my 'Working Together' leadership, management system, and its connected culture of love by design contributes to one's integrated life and life's work of service, which is one's love made visible. Great job, Dan!"–Alan Mulally, former CEO of Boeing Commercial Airplanes and the Ford Motor Company"We all need help in our lives to realize our true potential. This amazing book is the help you have been looking for! It will guide you to a life that blooms and blossoms in all the right ways. Don't miss the chance to understand what it really means to flourish!"–Chester Elton, best-selling author of The Carrot Principle and Leading with Gratitude"Work-life balance? We’ve been labouring to achieve it for the last two decades. Clearly, we need a new approach and a new metaphor. So, we should all be grateful to Dan Pontefract for providing it with Work-Life Bloom. Dan offers not just sound principles but actions we can take to bloom together—testing our soil, remembering to water. Helpful, inspiring, and fresh.”–Sally Helgesen, author of Rising Together, How Women Rise, and The Female Advantage"When people bloom at work and in life, they flourish, and your organization does too. This book offers both soil and seeds—frameworks and tactics—that you can use to help unlock the greatness of your people and teams."–Michael Bungay Stanier, author of The Coaching Habit and How to Work with (Almost) Anyone"The best leaders not only enable people to do great work; they help people live a great life. This book will give you the tools to both grow your talent and help everyone on your team."–Liz Wiseman, New York Times best-selling author of Multipliers and Impact Players"[Work-Life Bloom] is more multifaceted than most team-building business titles, offering solutions and observations that stem from acknowledging the interconnected opportunities and pitfalls that lie between individual members, leaders, and group efforts."–Midwest Book ReviewTable of ContentsChapter I: Garden Box Work-Life Garden Box Work-Life Balance and Best Self? Balderdash. Work-Life Framework Hello, Bloom Liftoff to Work-Life Bloom Chapter II: Bloom or Bust Are We Blooming at Work? Kinda. Are We Blooming in Life? Kinda. Reflections About Those Bosses Basics of the Work-Life Bloom Model Survey Says… Working Together in Work and Life Chapter III: Work Factors Work-Factor No. 1: Trust Work-Factor No. 2: Belonging Work-Factor No. 3: Valued Work-Factor No. 4: Purpose Work-Factor No. 5: Strategy Work-Factor No. 6: Norms In the Greenhouse: Work-Factors Chapter IV: Life Factors Life-Factor No. 1: Relationships Life-Factor No. 2: Skills Life-Factor No. 3: Well-Being Life-Factor No. 4: Meaning Life-Factor No. 5: Agency Life-Factor No. 6: Respect In The Greenhouse: Life-Factors Chapter V: In Bloom Soil Test Water Test CodaAcknowledgmentsOther Blooming BooksIndexNotesOther Books by Dan PontefractAbout the Author
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Necessary Endings
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Through specific strategies for ending things well, Cloud advocates for powerful personal changes...and will give many readers the fresh start they crave." -- Publishers Weekly "If you're hesitant to pull the trigger when things obviously aren't working out, Henry Cloud's Necessary Endings may be the most important book you read all year." -- Dave Ramsey, New York Times bestselling author of The Total Money Makeover "Much of what we do each day is an unnecessary waste of time and energy. This book will challenge you put a stop to things that have been getting in your way for a long time." -- Tom Rath, bestselling author of Strengths-Based Leadership "Having written five books about the seasons of life, I can tell you that necessary endings are the hard part. Henry Cloud is a wise, experienced, and compassionate guide through these turbulent passages." -- Bob Buford, bestelling author of Halftime and Finishing Well; founder, Leadership Network
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc The 22 Immutable Laws of Branding
Book SynopsisTwo marketing experts present a comprehensive guide to building a product into a recognized and respected brand and share their radical strategies for marketing effectively on the Internet, urging readers to mix the old with the new when making a marketing plan, in a volume that contains The 22 ImmuTrade Review"Indispensable to anyone seeking to build a business into a recognized brand." -- --Philip J. Romano, CEO, Romano Enterprises "Al Ries demonstrates that marketers need two skills: building a brand and keeping it alive. Through stellar company profiles and keen insights, this book will show them how." -- --Philip Kotler, Professor of International Marketing, J.L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University "Anyone looking to market their comapay successfully has to read The 22 Immutable Laws of Branding." -- --Patrick M. Sullivan, CEO, SalesLogix "Provides a worthwhile addition to the branding library. This book's worth buying." -- --Atlanta Business Chronicle "If you want to...lasso consumers and burn brand identity into their minds, read this book." -- --Advertising Annual 1999
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Harvard Business Review Press Why Should Anyone Be Led by You? With a New
Book SynopsisAre you an authentic leader? Too many companies are managed not by leaders but by mere role players and faceless bureaucrats. What would it take to replace these empty suits with real leaders--men and women who are confident in who they are and what they stand for and who truly inspire people to achieve extraordinary results? Rob Goffee and Gareth Jones argue that leaders don't become great by aspiring to a list of universal character traits. Rather, effective leaders are authentic: they deploy individual strengths to engage followers' hearts, minds, and souls. Authentic leaders are skillful at consistently being themselves, even as they alter their behavior to respond effectively to changing contexts. In short, the authors present a powerful case: that it takes "being yourself, in context, with skill" to be a successful, authentic leader--and they show you how to do exactly that. In this lively and practical book, Goffee and Jones draw from extensive research to reveal how to hone and deploy your unique leadership assets while managing the inherent tensions at the heart of successful leadership: when to show emotion and when to withhold it, how to get close to followers while maintaining an appropriate role distance, and maintaining your individuality while "conforming enough" to gain traction and lead change. Underscoring the inherently social nature of leadership, the book also explores how leaders can stay attuned to the needs and expectations of followers. Why Should Anyone Be Led by You? will forever change how we view, develop, and practice the art of leadership, wherever we live and work.Trade Review"Why Should Anyone Be Led by You? by Rob Goffee & Gareth Jones is by far the best book written on leadership." -- Vinay Kalantri, Mobile Wallet, as seen in the Economic Times"The authors of one of the all-time best books for creative leaders, Why Should Anyone Be Led by You?, are also simultaneously re-releasing that volume with a new preface." -- David Slocum, FORBES"A rewarding read if you want to lead." -- Financial Times
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IT Revolution Press Sooner Safer Happier: Antipatterns and Patterns
Book Synopsis"This is one of the most important Agile books since The Phoenix Project." ―Charles Betz, author, instructor, and Principal Analyst at Forrester Research Drive real change through actual business outcomes, not rigid practices and a handful of buzzwords.Being Agile isn't the goal; the true goal is successful outcomes. And successful outcomes come from embracing business principles that engender high-performing organizations, not from following a formula. The award-winning Sooner Safer Happier lays the foundation for achieving what truly matters: delivering better value sooner, safer, and happier. Every chapter of this practical guide to business success clearly articulates the typical ways of working that organizations get wrong (antipatterns) and quickly follows them with what to do right (patterns). Each pattern helps empower teams and leaders and allows the organization as a whole to break free of prescribed Agile practices to achieve true agility and success.Anyone looking to drive successful business outcomes needs this book on their desk to dip into over and over again.“This is a realistic approach to adopting (or not adopting) agile in your organization. The theory is sound; the practice is extensive. I strongly recommend this book.”—Dave Snowden, Chief Scientific Officer, Cognitive Edge, Creator of Cynefin“Sooner Safer Happier is a must-read for any business leader looking to succeed in the digital age.”—David Silverman, co-author of Team of Teams
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Do the Fcking Work
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Simon & Schuster Ltd Everyone Deserves a Great Manager
Book SynopsisThis book is the essential guide for the millions of people all over the world making the challenging and rewarding leap to manager, who want to become that manager their team deserves. FranklinCovey knows that managers are desperate for help - especially employees who go from managing tasks to managing people. They yearn for training and tools to help them become more confident, effective, and valued. This practical and inspirational guide offers the solution with guidance, tips and insights that are relevant, easily applicable, based on credible expertise, and will fit into the manager’s hectic daily schedule. The focus of the book is to give managers the information they need in a way that they can absorb quickly. They can pick up a helpful tip in 10-minutes or glean an entire skill-set with a deeper reading. The goal is for the busy manager to know what to do and how to do it without interrupting their regular workflow. Each r
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Gallup Press Strengths Based Leadership: Great Leaders, Teams,
Book SynopsisFrom the author of the long-running #1 bestseller StrengthsFinder 2.0 comes a landmark study of great leaders, teams and the reasons why people follow. A unique access code allows you to take a new leadership version of Gallup’s StrengthsFinder program. The new version of this program provides you with specific strategies for leading with your top five strengths and enables you to plot the strengths of your team based on the four domains of leadership strength revealed in the book. Nearly a decade ago, Gallup unveiled the results of a landmark 30-year research project that ignited a global conversation on the topic of strengths. More than 19 million people have since taken Gallup’s StrengthsFinder assessment, which forms the core of several books on this topic, including the #1 international bestseller StrengthsFinder 2.0. In recent years, while continuing to learn more about strengths, Gallup scientists have also been examining decades of data on the topic of leadership. They studied more than 1 million work teams, conducted more than 20,000 in-depth interviews with leaders and even interviewed more than 10,000 followers around the world to ask exactly why they followed the most important leader in their life. In Strengths Based Leadership, #1 New York Times bestselling author Tom Rath and renowned leadership consultant Barry Conchie reveal the results of this research. Based on their discoveries, the book identifies three keys to being a more effective leader: knowing your strengths and investing in others’ strengths, getting people with the right strengths on your team, and understanding and meeting the four basic needs of those who look to you for leadership. As you read Strengths Based Leadership, you’ll hear first-hand accounts from some of the most successful organizational leaders in recent history, from the founder of Teach For America to the president of The Ritz-Carlton, as they discuss how their unique strengths have driven their success. Filled with novel research and actionable ideas, Strengths Based Leadership will give you a new road map for leading people toward a better future.
£28.80
Harvard Business Review Press Accelerate: Building Strategic Agility for a
Book SynopsisBased on the award-winning article in Harvard Business Review, from global leadership expert John Kotter. It's a familiar scene in organizations today: a new competitive threat or a big opportunity emerges. You quickly create a strategic initiative in response and appoint your best people to make change happen. And it does--but not fast enough. Or effectively enough. Real value gets lost and, ultimately, things drift back to the default status. Why is this scenario so frequently repeated in industries and organizations across the world? In the groundbreaking new book Accelerate (XLR8), leadership and change management expert, and best-selling author, John Kotter provides a fascinating answer--and a powerful new framework for competing and winning in a world of constant turbulence and disruption. Kotter explains how traditional organizational hierarchies evolved to meet the daily demands of running an enterprise. For most companies, the hierarchy is the singular operating system at the heart of the firm. But the reality is, this system simply is not built for an environment where change has become the norm. Kotter advocates a new system--a second, more agile, network-like structure that operates in concert with the hierarchy to create what he calls a "dual operating system"--one that allows companies to capitalize on rapid-fire strategic challenges and still make their numbers. Accelerate (XLR8) vividly illustrates the five core principles underlying the new network system, the eight Accelerators that drive it, and how leaders must create urgency in others through role modeling. And perhaps most crucial, the book reveals how the best companies focus and align their people's energy and urgency around what Kotter calls the big opportunity. If you're a pioneer, a leader who knows that bold change is necessary to survive and thrive in an ever-changing world, this book will help you accelerate into a better, more profitable future.Trade Review"A Top Shelf Best Business Book pick of the Year: Strategy" -- strategy+business magazine "One of the Best Leadership Books of the Year" -- Inc.
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Tribal Leadership
Book SynopsisShows corporate leaders how they can use tribes - the groups that naturally form within any company - to maximize productivity and profit within their own firms. Based on a rigorous eight-year study that covered more than two dozen companies and 24,000 people, this title includes interviews with leading business figures.Trade Review"Tribal Leadership gives amazingly insightful perspective on how people interact and succeed. I learned about myself and learned lessons I will carry with me and reflect on for the rest of my life." -- John W. Fanning, Founding Chairman and CEO napster Inc. "[A]n unusually nuanced view of high-performance cultures... [S]hare the book with your Type A's and prima donnas, as it expertly describes the tension between loners who perform exceptionally and those who perform exceptionally but who measure success as part of a team." -- Inc. "[T]he most thorough and unique book to come along pertaining to organizational dynamics in quite some time...Whether you're trying to move an organization forward or trying to move forward yourself, Tribal Leadership is a great place to begin your efforts. -- Business Lexington "Leaders of both for profit and non-profit organizations, including politicians, and can benefit from perusing Tribal Leadership." -- McClatchy-Tribune News Service
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HarperCollins Focus Everyone Communicates Few Connect
Book SynopsisJohn C. Maxwell takes readers through the Five Connecting Principles and Five Connecting Practices of top-notch leaders to teach them how to build relationships that dramatically increase their ability to enact change.
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Taylor Trade Publishing The Millionaire Next Door: The Surprising Secrets
Book Synopsis"Why aren't I as wealthy as I should be?" Many people ask this question of themselves all the time. Often they are hard-working, well educated middle- to high-income people. Why, then, are so few affluent. For nearly two decades the answer has been found in the bestselling The Millionaire Next Door: The Surprising Secrets of America's Wealthy, reissued with a new foreword for the twenty-first century. According to the authors, most people have it all wrong about how you become wealthy in America. Wealth in America is more often the result of hard work, diligent savings, and living below your means than it is about inheritance, advance degrees, and even intelligence. The Millionaire Next Door identifies seven common traits that show up again and again among those who have accumulated wealth. You will learn, for example, that millionaires bargain shop for used cars, pay a tiny fraction of their wealth in income tax, raise children who are often unaware of their family's wealth until they are adults, and, above all, reject the big-spending lifestyles most of us associate with rich people. In fact, you will learn that the flashy millionaires glamorized in the media represent only a tiny minority of America's rich. Most of the truly wealthy in this country don't live in Beverly Hills or on Park Avenue-they live next door.
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O'Reilly Leading Effective Engineering Teams
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John Murray Press CEO Excellence: The Six Mindsets That Distinguish
Book SynopsisCEO EXCELLENCE, by McKinsey senior partners Carolyn Dewar, Scott Keller and Vikram Malhotra is a unique and timely business book which will draw on 25 years of research and interviews with top leaders of some of the world's most respected companies. The resulting book will demonstrate that while the role of CEO is unique within every organisation, it is surprisingly similar across companies even in disparate industries. Furthermore, the best CEOs approach their role with distinct mindsets and practices. This book is about truly world class leadership, showing how the best CEOs think, adapt and approach challenges (never more relevant than in this extraordinary time). It will show why a brilliant CEO can have such an immense impact, and demonstrate how to model yourself and your performance on the very best - so that your turn to lead comes sooner, and is more successful.Trade ReviewA book for those who want to sharpen their skills in leading organizations to higher levels. -- Michael Bloomberg, founder of Bloomberg LPA satisfying handbook for future moguls -- Kirkus ReviewsValuable...provides leaders at all career stages insight on how to complement and enhance their respective styles. -- Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, Founder and President of the Chief Executive Leadership InstituteRemarkable...Any smart CEO looking to not just survive but thrive would do well to read and heed this book's insights. -- David Rubenstein, co-founder and co-executive chairman of The Carlyle GroupPlunges into the minds of the world's finest CEOs, reaches deep into their psyches, [and] retrieves the rarest pearls of wisdom. -- Mukesh Ambani, Chairman of Reliance IndustriesIlluminating and even inspiring...strategies I'm excited to teach in my leadership courses at Harvard. -- Frances Frei, coauthor of UnleashedA how-to guide for aspiring leaders, CEO Excellence provides real-world, practical examples of how real leaders lead through times of crisis and calm. A must-read for anyone that aspires to lead corporations large and small. -- Blair Mannix, Director of MBA Admissions, The Wharton School, University of PennsylvaniCEO Excellence pulls back the curtain on how some of the world's greatest business leaders have achieved success. Readers from the classroom to the boardroom will find valuable lessons they can apply to their own careers. -- Stephen A. Schwarzman, Chairman, CEO, and cofounder of BlackstoneA must-read for everyone who is (or wants to be) a CEO...Very informative and highly enjoyable. -- Jason Flom, former Chairman and CEO of Atlantic Records, Virgin Records, and Capitol Music GroupThis work will help leaders everywhere-not just CEOs-be more effective. -- Fast CompanyShow(s) how the best CEOs think and adapt in surprisingly similar ways across industries -- CNBCGoes behind the corporate curtain... a master class in leadership -- Business Insider(A) rare leadership book that takes an analytical look -- ForbesEffective and inspirational -- Inc.Full of highlights...one of those great books that will be read for a long time -- Barron's
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HarperCollins Focus Be the Unicorn
Book Synopsis“This book is one of the most worthwhile and immediately usable reads I have come across in a long time.” –KiplingerWant to stand out from the crowd? We have studied 30,000 top leaders and have discovered the 12 habits they share that make them as rare as a unicorn. Learn these habits, and you’ll be one of the best at whatever you do!How do I stand out? How do I become irreplaceable? With a crowded workforce, an unstable job landscape, and the rise of AI, these questions are the ones that everyone either is or should be asking.William Vanderbloemen has asked these questions over the past 15 years while running one of the world’s top executive search firms. Through extensive research of over 30,000 top leaders and proprietary data, Vanderbloemen has identified the 12 habits that the best of the best have in common. Traits such as authenticity, responsiveness, agility, and the ability to problem solveTrade Review'In this book, my friend William Vanderbloemen has not only studied successful people, he has unlocked the teachable habits they practice that make them successful. That means for you, this isn't just a book of case studies. You're holding a manual for becoming unusually successful--as unusual as a mythical unicorn. It's a manual based on hard data that unlocks the way you can become mythically valuable. Successful. Irreplaceable. He will teach you, as he puts it, how to become a unicorn.' * JOHN C. MAXWELL, Bestselling author *'What makes a great leader? No one is more uniquely qualified to answer this question than William Vanderbloeman. He is to leaders what a scout is to a baseball franchise--ever in the hunt for the right player. William and his team have honed the skill of the search and have kindly shared their skill with us. I am thrilled to recommend this book.' * MAX LUCADO, Bestselling author *'Whether you're a job seeker or an employer seeking exceptional staff, Be The Unicorn is indispensable. So grateful to William for synthesizing years of data down to the most essential characteristics of successful hires.' * JIMMY MELLADO, President and CEO of Compassion International *'My friend William has done it again. In this data-driven guide from decades of experience, he clearly outlines real-world keys to leading. I love reading people who actually do things versus theory. This book is a gem, don't miss it.' * DAVE RAMSEY, Bestselling author *'No one is better at spotting and placing the 'best of the best' than William Vanderbloemen. In his new book, Be the Unicorn, William unpacks the 12 data-driven habits that separate the best leaders from the rest of the pack. His in-depth research mingled with years of experience creates the perfect guide to recognize the people you're looking for as well as to take your leadership to the next level. Grab a copy for everyone on your team and get ready to grow with the best.' * CRAIG GROESCHEL, Pastor of Life.Church and author of Lead Like it Matters *'Nobody wants to hire the wrong person, especially the wrong senior pastor or senior leader. But it happens all the time. With Be the Unicorn, William Vanderbloemen takes the mystery out of great hiring. By the way, it will also help you become a better leader.' * CAREY NIEUWHOF, Bestselling author of At Your Best, podcaster, and founder of The Art of Leadership Academy *'William Vanderbloemen was an early adopter of Hubspot in part because he believes data can drive results. In his research for Be The Unicorn, he has uncovered the data that will help you stand out of the crowd and become irreplaceable.' * BRIAN HALLIGAN, Co-Founder and Executive Chairperson of HubSpot *
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Harvard Business Review Press HBR's 10 Must Reads for New Managers (with bonus
Book SynopsisDevelop the mindset and presence to successfully manage others for the first time. If you read nothing else on becoming a new manager, read these 10 articles. We've combed through hundreds of Harvard Business Review articles and selected the most important ones to help you transition from being an outstanding individual contributor to a great manager of others. This book will inspire you to: * develop your emotional intelligence * influence your colleagues with the science of persuasion * assess your team and enhance its performance * network effectively to achieve business goals and for personal advancement * navigate relationships with employees, bosses, and peers * get support from above * view the big picture in your decision-making * balance your team's work and personal life in a high-intensity workplace
£15.29
Permuted Press The 5 Second Journal: The Best Daily Journal and
Book SynopsisThe most powerful journal on the planet. In the international bestseller The 5 Second Rule, Mel Robbins inspired millions to 5 - 4 - 3 - 2 - 1...take action, get results, and live a more courageous life! Now, in The 5 Second Journal, Mel guides you step-by-step through a simple research-backed daily journaling method that will help you become the most productive, confident, and happiest you. It is the most powerful journal on the planet because it uses science to unlock the greatest force in the universe...YOU. Using this journal, you will: GET SH*T DONE You won’t just get more done–you’ll do it in half the time. Your life is way too important to spend it procrastinating. Invest a little time in here every day and in return you’ll get the best tools psychology, organizational behavioral, and neuroscience have to offer. KISS OVERWHELM GOODBYE Stop being ruled by your to-do list and start getting the important work done. Filling your days with menial tasks will not lead to a meaningful life. This journal will keep your focus on what’s most important, even in between conference calls and running errands. CULTIVATE ROCKSTAR CONFIDENCE Confidence is a skill YOU can build. Yes, you. And it’s not as difficult as you may think. Every day this journal will give you a chance to step outside your comfort zone so you can feel proud of yourself and watch your self-confidence grow. AMP YOUR PASSION Want to live a more passionate life? Stop focusing on sh*t that drains you. Seriously. This journal will show you a cool way to power up your energy levels and tap into that inner zen that knows exactly what fuels your fire. GET CONTROL OF YOUR LIFE If you get to the end of the day and wonder where it all went, it’s time to take stock. Using research from Harvard Business School, you’ll learn one simple mindset trick that keeps you present to what matters most, which is the secret to being in control. BE THE HAPPIEST YOU Science proves that your mood in the morning impacts your entire day. That’s why this journal is designed to boost your mood first thing, so you can become a happier, smarter, and more positive person all day. The fact is, happier people get sh*t done.
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John Murray Press Work Rules
Book SynopsisA New York Times and Wall Street Journal BestsellerDaily Telegraph, Huffington Post & Business Insider Top Business Book to Read ''Every year, 2 million people apply for a job at Google - so what''s the secret?'' GuardianA compelling manifesto with the potential to change how we work and live, Work Rules! offers both a philosophy of the new world of work and a blueprint for attracting the most spectacular talent and ensuring the brightest and best prosper. The way we work is changing - are you?Trade ReviewTransform your team and your workplace - what you can do, starting tomorrow * Fortune *Spectacular * Susan Cain, author of Quiet *Find a job you love and you'll never have to work another day in your life. Laszlo Bock, Google's senior Vice President of People Operations goes one better - improve the workplace you're in so that going to work is an enjoyable experience. Any business, big or small, local or international, can make these changes * Wired *Captivating and inspiring * Huffington Post *Lean In for every manager * Library Journal *A remarkable book that reveals the secrets of becoming a talent powerhouse * Daniel Pink, author of Drive and To Sell is Human *Clearly written, evidence-based, with practical guidance and a cogent underlying philosophy, Work Rules! needs to rule the world of work * Jeffrey Pfeffer, author of Power *A window into Google's approach to management * The Times *The real genius of this book is in busting myths about why Google works . . . the most important HR book of the year * CIPD *
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Rowman & Littlefield Uproar: Calm Leadership in Anxious Times
Book SynopsisIf “these are the times that test men’s souls,” never more than for the leader’s ability to think clearly, to be present calmly, and to challenge effectively. It’s a time when leaders cannot be as anxious as those they serve; otherwise, the system is leaderless. Anxiety flows down like water from a leaky pipe. To lead effectively we must understand the impact of powerful emotional forces on people’s behavior, especially in anxious times. Uproar: Calm Leadership in Anxious Times helps leaders understand the powerful impact that emotional processes have on the people they lead. Peter Steinke, bestselling author of Congregational Leadership in Anxious Times draws on decades of work on system conflict and personal experiences to share real stories of challenges leaders have faced and how understanding the power of emotions has dramatically influenced their success. In this book, readers will observe important leadership characteristics such as separating oneself from the surrounding anxiety, making decisions based on principle and not instinct, taking responsibility for one’s own emotional being, staying connected to others including those who disagree with you, being a non-anxious presence, focusing on emotional processes rather than the symptoms they produce, knowing people naturally influence one another, and recognizing leader and follower as complements. At the end of each chapter, there is a Leader’s Notebook, a short section to illustrate, enrich or engage your thinking about leadership. As Steinke suggests, being anxious causes you to lose perspective, and leaders do their best thinking when they are not overly stressed and can think about options, doing their best work when they work on themselves. So where are you in your leadership journey? No matter where you are—beginning, middle or end— this book will be one the most significant leadership books you’ll read.Trade ReviewDr. Murray Bowen was a pioneer in his ground-breaking thinking regarding the human family. Dr. Ed Friedman extended that thinking in his area of expertise. Dr. Peter Steinke continues the process. In a clearly written and intriguingly referenced book, Dr. Steinke keeps our interest and curiosity engaged from the beginning to the end. His book combines both the theoretical and practical and does so in a straight-forward and compelling style. A job well done. -- Kathy Wiseman, Bowen Center for the Study of the FamilyThe book is an absolute pleasure to read. I’m going to pass it around to the leadership team at my advertising agency. -- Gloria Beth Amodeo, TBWA/Health CareIn industries where every day is different and performance is critical, much can be learned from the ideas presented in Uproar. Fascinating! I think the airlines would be very interested in a training module that teaches the ideas presented in the book. -- Dana Stokes, United AirlinesDuring a season of widespread societal and organizational disruption, Peter Steinke is just the mentor that leaders need right now. He makes sense of our experience, challenges our worst inclinations, and tutors our best intentions. In words both bracing and helpful, UPROAR will be my new go-to resource for education, non-profit, and religious leaders who are striving to be calm and courageous amidst the swirl of anxious colleagues and congregations. -- Tod Bolsinger, Fuller Seminary
£16.19
Ebury Publishing Out of the Maze: A Simple Way to Change Your
Book Synopsis'An optimistic, accessible way to start thinking about change' - Financial Times Who Moved My Cheese? offered millions of readers relief for an evergreen problem: unanticipated and unwelcome change. Now its long-awaited sequel digs deeper, to show how readers can adapt their beliefs and achieve better results in any field.Johnson's theme is that all of our accomplishments are due to our beliefs: whether we're confident or insecure, cynical or positive, open-minded or inflexible. But it's difficult to change your beliefs - and with them, your outcomes. Find out how Hem, Haw, and the other characters from Who Moved My Cheese? deal with this challenge.Trade ReviewOut of the Maze is a short, sweet, cheesy (yes) book – but it’s a calming, quick read and is likely to be in huge demand as an optimistic, accessible way to start thinking about change * Financial Times *
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Canongate Books Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates
Book SynopsisA book that will change how you think and transform how you live Forget everything you thought you knew about how to motivate people - at work, at school, at home. It is wrong. As Daniel H. Pink explains in his paradigm-shattering book Drive, the secret to high performance and satisfaction in today's world is the deeply human need to direct our own lives, to learn and create new things, and to do better by ourselves and the world.Along the way, he takes us to companies that are enlisting new approaches to motivation, and introduces us to the scientists and entrepreneurs who are pointing a bold way forward.Trade ReviewProvocative and fascinating -- MALCOLM GLADWELLPink is rapidly acquiring international guru status . . . He is an engaging writer, who challenges and provokes * * Financial Times * *A bold and persuasive call to bring our understanding of human motivation out of the realm of folklore and into the realm of science . . . Drive will make you rethink everything you do to motivate yourself and those around you -- RICHARD WISEMAN, author of 59 Seconds and QuirkologyInspiring * * Guardian * *Punchy and energetic * * Financial Times * *What really drives high performance? In this eye-opening book, Daniel Pink draws on 40 years of science to offer some surprising answers. He shows the limits of carrots and sticks and explores the hard-headed power of autonomy, mastery, and purpose to help us work smarter and live better -- CHRIS ANDERSON, author of The Long Tail and FreeAs Dan Pink's new book Drive argues, financial incentives are no longer enough to give a business an edge: in an economy driven by ideas and creativity, it's more effective to give workers a sense of purpose, of mastery, of autonomy over their time and their tasks. Because the only certainty in the decade to come is that disruptive change is going to continue to catch out businesses that are unprepared * * Daily Telegraph * *Drive drives a stake through the bedrock of classic "if-then" motivational theory. It demonstrates in an entertaining way how self-motivated rewards provide their own behavioural alchemy, exposing the mismatch between what science knows and business does -- JAMES BORG, author of Persuasion: The Art of Influencing PeopleDrive is the rare book that will get you to think and inspire you to act. Pink makes a strong, science-based case for rethinking motivation - and then provides the tools you need to transform your life -- DR MEHMET OZ, co-author of You: The Owner's ManualPink's ideas deserve a wide hearing. Corporate boards, in fact, could do well by kicking out their pay consultants for an hour and reading Pink's conclusions instead * * Forbes * *
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HarperCollins Publishers Self Leadership and the One Minute Manager
Book SynopsisTwenty years after creating the phenomenal bestselling classic The One Minute Manager, Ken Blanchard returns to its roots with the most powerful and essential title in the series as he explores the skills needed to empower yourself to success.In this captivating business parable, bestselling author Ken Blanchard tells the story of Steve, a young advertising executive who is about to lose his job. During a series of talks with a gifted magician named Cayla, Steve comes to realize the power of taking responsibility for his situation and not playing the victim. Passing along the knowledge she has learned from The One Minute Manager, Cayla teaches Steve the three tricks of self leadership. These three techniques not only empower him to keep his job, but give him the skills he needs to keep growing, learning, and achieving.The primary message of SELF-LEADERSHIP AND THE ONE MINUTE MANAGER is that power, freedom, and autonomy come from having the right mindset and the skills needed to take pe
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Harvard Business Review Press The Emotionally Intelligent Leader
Book SynopsisBecome a Better Leader by Improving Your Emotional IntelligenceBestselling author DANIEL GOLEMAN first brought the concept of emotional intelligence (EI) to the forefront of business through his articles in Harvard Business Review, establishing EI as an indispensable trait for leaders. The Emotionally Intelligent Leader brings together three of Goleman's bestselling HBR articles.In "What Makes a Leader?" Goleman explores research that found that truly effective leaders are distinguished by high levels of self-awareness and sharp social skills. In "The Focused Leader," Goleman explains neuroscience research that proves that "being focused" is more than filtering out distractions while concentrating on one thing. In "Leadership That Gets Results," Goleman draws on research to outline six distinct leadership styles, each one springing from different components of emotional intelligence. Together, these three articles guide leaders to recognize the direct ties between EI and measurable business results.
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Crown Currency Essentialism
Book SynopsisTHE LIFE-CHANGING NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ? MORE THAN TWO MILLION COPIES SOLD ? Now in a 10th anniversary edition featuring a new introduction and bonus 21-day challenge. ?Essentialism holds the keys to solving one of the great puzzles of life: How can we do less but accomplish more???Adam Grant, bestselling author of Think Again Essentialism isn?t about getting more done in less time. It?s about getting only the right things done. Have you ever found yourself stretched too thin?Are you often busy but not productive?Do you feel like your time is constantly being hijacked? If you answered yes to any of these, the way out is the Way of the Essentialist. Essentialism is more than a time-management technique. It is a systematic discipline for discerning what is absolutely essential, then eliminating everything that is not, so we can make the highest possible contribution toward the things that really matter.By forcing us to apply more selective criteria for where to spend our precious time and energy, the disciplined pursuit of less empowers us to reclaim control of our own choices, instead of giving others the implicit permission to choose for us.Essentialism is not one more thing to do. It?s a whole new way of doing less, but better, in every area of our lives. Join the millions of people who have used Essentialism to change their outlook on the world.
£14.40
O'Reilly The Engineering Executives Primer
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Simon & Schuster CEO Excellence (Export)
Book SynopsisNew York Times Bestseller Wall Street Journal Bestseller From the world’s most influential management consulting firm, McKinsey & Company, this is an insight-packed, revelatory look at how the best CEOs do their jobs based on extensive interviews with today’s most successful corporate leaders—including chiefs at Netflix, JPMorgan Chase, General Motors, and Sony.Being a CEO at any of the world’s largest companies is among the most challenging roles in business. Billions, and even trillions, are at stake—and the fates of tens of thousands of employees often hang in the balance. Yet, even when “can’t miss” high-achievers win the top job, very few excel. Thirty percent of Fortune 500 CEOs last fewer than three years, and two out of five new CEOs are perceived to be failing within eighteen months. For those who shoulder the burden of being the one on whom everyone counts, a manual for excellence is sorely needed. To identify the 21st century’s best CEOs, the authors of CEO Excellence started with a pool of over 2400 public company CEOs. Extensive screening distilled that group into an elite corps, sixty-seven of whom agreed to in-depth, multi-hour interviews. Among those sharing their views: Jamie Dimon (JPMorgan Chase), Satya Nadella (Microsoft), Reed Hastings (Netflix), Kazuo Hirai (Sony), Ken Chenault (American Express), Mary Barra (GM), and Peter Brabeck-Letmathe (Nestlé). What came out of those frank, no-holds-barred conversations is a rich array of mindsets and actions that deliver outsized performance. Compelling, practical, and unprecedented in scope, CEO Excellence is a treasure trove of wisdom from today’s most elite business leaders.
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Pearson Education Limited The Rules of Everything A complete code for
Book SynopsisRichard Templar is the author of the international bestselling Rules books. Over 2 million people around the world have enjoyed and now play by Richard Templar's Rules. The complete list of titles is as follows: The Rules of Life, The Rules of Work, The Rules of Management, The Rules of Wealth, The Rules of Parenting, The Rules of Love, The Rules to Break, The Rules of People, The Rules of Thinking, and The Rules of Living Well.Table of ContentsThe Rules of Work 1. Get your work noticed 2. Never let anyone know how hard you work 3. Set personal standards 4. Carve out a niche for yourself 5. Under promise and over deliver 6. Know what you want long term 7. Don’t gossip 8. Put things in perspective 9. Never disapprove of others 10. Get people to assume you have already made the step The Rules of Management 1. Get them emotionally involved 2. Accept their limitations 3. Encourage people 4. Be very, very good at finding the right people 5. Respect individual differences 6. Train them to bring you solutions, not problems 7. Work hard 8. Be proactive, not reactive 9. Have principles and stick to them 10. Go home The Rules of Life 1. Keep it under your hat 2. You’ll get older but not necessarily wiser 3. Accept yourself 4. Dedicate your life to something 5. No fear, no surprise, no hesitation, no doubt 6. It’s OK to give up 7. Don’t dwell on the past 8. You’ll never understand everything 9. Know when to let go – when to walk away 10. Find a new rule every day – or occasionally at least The Rules of Wealth 1. Anybody can be wealthy – you just need to apply yourself 2. Decide on your definition of wealth 3. Most people are too lazy to be wealthy 4. Decide what you want money for 5. Understand that money begets money 6. It’s harder to manage yourself than it is to manage yourmoney 7. Only by looking wealthy can you become wealthy 8. Know yourself – solo, duo or team player 9. Don’t try to get rich too quickly 10. Know when to stop The Rules of Parenting 1. Relax 2. Look pleased to see them 3. Treat your child with respect 4. Use praise wisely 5. Make sure they know what’s important 6. Schooling isn’t the same as education 7. Remember Newton’s Third Law 8. Don’t look under the mattress 9. You can’t fix everything 10. Don’t guilt-trip them The Rules of Love 1. Choose someone who makes you laugh 2. You can’t change people 3. You can’t make someone love you 4. Be nice 5. Allow your partner the space to be themselves 6. Be the first to say sorry 7. Your partner is more important than your kids 8. Contentment is a high aim 9. Never be too busy for loved ones 10. The more you put out, the more you get back The Rules to Break ‘Success is a good job earning lots of money’ 1. Success is what you say it is ‘The world is against you’ 2. You’re responsible for your own life ‘We all have an absolute right to be respected’ 3. There’s a balance between the right to respect, andtolerance ‘A place for everything, and everything in its place’ 4. It’s not morally superior to be tidy ‘The best people will be there for you for life’ 5. People come and go, and it’s OK ‘You can’t help how you feel’ 6. You feel what you think ‘Some people are just asking for it’ 7. Keep the moral high ground ‘No one is perfect’ 8. Be on the side of the angels, not the beasts ‘Let people know when you’re right’ 9. Never say ‘I told you so’ ‘Guilt tells you where you’re going wrong’ 10. Don’t do guilt The Rules of People 1. People believe what they want to believe 2. Banter isn’t teasing 3. If they feel small, they’ll big themselves up 4. Everyone else is insecure too 5. Teenagers hate you because they love you 6. Some weirdos are great people 7. Listen to what they don’t say 8. Loneliness is a state of mind 9. Credit people with your own ideas 10. Say thank you properly The Rules of Thinking 1. Take control 2. Focus on other people 3. Be in the present 4. Think outside your head 5. Loosen up 6. Don’t settle for your first answer 7. Facts are neutral 8. Spot the box 9. Feed your mind 10. Untangle the knots first The Rules of Living Well 1. It’s not all about you 2. Your feelings are your own 3. Train your mind to relax 4. Zen it 5. Beware food rules 6. Enjoy your mistakes 7. Create boundaries 8. Stay in synch 9. Redraw your relationship 10. Forgive and don’t forget Know When to Break the Rules Create your own Rules
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John Murray Press Hell Week
Book SynopsisImagine your life as a straight line. Now imagine that you could break that line and leave behind all your regular habits and nagging doubts for just seven days. Hell Week shows how you can change your life''s path in a single week, replacing your old self with your best self, by going through a specially tailored (and totally safe) version of the elite military exercise where participants are pushed to the limit to find out just how much they can take. Hell Week is about defeating limiting beliefs and demonstrating that you are capable of far more than you ever thought - and maintaining that level of performance for the rest of your life.Norway native Erik Bertrand Larssen is many things: a veteran paratrooper who served in Bosnia, Kosovo, and Afghanistan, a successful entrepreneur, and a mental coach. He has helped catapult the success of countless high-achievers, including Microsoft and Stat Oil executives and Olympic medalists Martin Sundby an
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Pan Macmillan Predatory Thinking
Book Synopsis'A brilliant advertising copywriter and a great team leader. His ideas are equally applicable to writing a novel, making a film, launching a product, managing a football team, instituting life changes and any activity you can imagine. Genius' - Sunday TimesLife is a zero-sum game.Drawing on Eastern and Western philosophy, and colourful characters from Picasso and Socrates to Warren Beatty, this book represents a lifetime of wisdom learned at the creative cutting edge.Predatory Thinking is a masterclass in how to outwit the competition, in ordinary life as well as in business. It is the philosophy that has underpinned Dave Trott's distinguished career as a copywriter, creative director, and founder of some of London's most high-profile advertising agencies.Trade ReviewOffers much to think about . . . engaging * Creative Review *Challenges the way we think creatively by flipping the logical, 2D way of thinking on its head * Psychologies *Cool, clear, very readable * Overseas Property Professional *
£11.69
Entrepreneur Press Million Dollar Habits: Proven Power Practices to
Book Synopsis95% of what people think, feel and do, is determined by habits. Habits are ingrained but not unchangeable—new, positive habits can be learned to replace worn-out, ineffective practices with optimal behaviors that can cause dramatic, immediate benefits to the bottom line. In Million Dollar Habits, Tracy teaches readers how to develop the habits of successful men and women so they too can think more effectively, make better decisions, and ultimately double or triple their income. Readers will learn how to organize their finances, increase health and vitality, sustain loving relationships, build financial independence, and take a leadership role to turn visions into reality.Table of ContentsTabel of Contents 1. Where Your Habits Begin 2. The Master Program of Success 3. Become a Person of Value 4. The Habits You Need to Succeed 5. The Habits of People Who Become Millionaires 6. The Habits That Get You Paid More and Promoted Easier 7. The Habits of Top Businesspeople 8. The Habits for Marketing and Sales Success 9. The Habits of Personal Effectiveness 10. The Habits for Getting Along Well with Others 11. The Habits for Health and Well-Being 12. The Habits of Character and Leadership
£16.14
Simon & Schuster Ltd The Way Were Working Isnt Working
Book SynopsisThrough his years of intensive work consulting to companies including Procter & Gamble, Sony, Toyota, Microsoft, Ford and Ernst & Young, with his firm The Energy Project, Schwartz has developed a powerful program for changing the way we are working that greatly boosts our engagement and our satisfication with our work and increases our performance. In this book he marshalls a wide range of powerful evidence from business research and psychology that shows that the current model of work -- in which people are treated essentially as machines that should be able to perform at top speed for extraordinarily long hours, be able to multi-task, be always accessible and online, withstand often harsh and emotionally punishing treatment, and be primarily driven by the need to make profits -- is not only not optimal, it is specfically counter-productive because it saps us of our physical, emotional, mental and spiritual energy. In order for us to perform at our best, we must make a set of
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Right Book Press The Transformational Coach: Free Your Thinking
Book SynopsisDo you ever doubt your coaching style is achieving the best results for your clients? Have you ever felt there's room for growth, but you're not sure how to achieve it? To create a more sustainable transformation in the people you coach, you need to start with your own mindset. As a coach, you know you can't change what you do, unless you alter what you believe first. By shedding the ineffective scripts, trappings and beliefs that a lifetime of personal interactions, professional training and even your parents have taught you, you can reset your thinking to a beginner's mentality and so begin a fulfilling and exciting journey to coaching mastery. In this fresh and highly effective field guide, Master Mentor Coach, Clare Norman gets into your head to help you pinpoint the attitudes that you need to unlearn and reframe. Through Clare's rich experience, illuminating real-life stories, and practical guidance you can shift towards more useful thinking and powerful skillsets by: Spotting and changing your own restrictive coaching mindsets Understanding how marginal gains can lead to maximal outcomes Embracing replacement paradigms and new thought patterns Rediscovering what you love about coaching and its power to resource people It's time to ditch the old beliefs that are holding you back, free your thinking and make the move from getting transactional results to being a transformational coach.Trade ReviewKeep this book at your side at all times! Its everything a great coach should be. - Kim Morgan, MCC and Director of Barefoot CoachingEssential reading for all coaches. Skilfully lays out the important mindset shifts required to become masterful in your work. - Marie Quigley, MCC, EMCC ESIA Director & Co Founder Empower WorldThought-provoking! This is a must-read for anyone who wants to get out of their own way and move further toward becoming a great coach. - Roger Fielding Coach, Mentor Coach, Course Tutor of University of CambridgeAn invaluable companion to take your coaching to the next level, strengthen your skills and support your ongoing development. - Jane Adshead-Grant, MCC, Author of The Listening Coach
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Stripe Matter Inc An Elegant Puzzle: Systems of Engineering
Book SynopsisA human-centric guide to solving complex problems in engineering management, from sizing teams to handling technical debt. There’s a saying that people don’t leave companies, they leave managers. Management is a key part of any organization, yet the discipline is often self-taught and unstructured. Getting to the good solutions for complex management challenges can make the difference between fulfillment and frustration for teams—and, ultimately, between the success and failure of companies. Will Larson’s An Elegant Puzzle focuses on the particular challenges of engineering management—from sizing teams to handling technical debt to performing succession planning—and provides a path to the good solutions. Drawing from his experience at Digg, Uber, and Stripe, Larson has developed a thoughtful approach to engineering management for leaders of all levels at companies of all sizes. An Elegant Puzzle balances structured principles and human-centric thinking to help any leader create more effective and rewarding organizations for engineers to thrive in.Table of Contents1 Introduction2 Organizations2.1 Sizing teams2.2 Staying on the path to high-performing teams2.3 A case against top-down global optimization2.4 Productivity in the age of hypergrowth2.5 Where to stash your organizational risk?2.6 Succession planning3 Tools3.1 Introduction to systems thinking3.2 Product management: exploration, selection, validation3.3 Visions and strategies3.4 Metrics and baselines3.5 Guiding broad organizational change with metrics3.6 Migrations: the sole scalable fix to tech debt3.7 Running an engineering reorg3.8 Identify your controls3.9 Career narratives3.10 The briefest of media trainings3.11 Model, document, and share3.12 Scaling consistency: designing centralized decision-making groups3.13 Presenting to senior leadership3.14 Time management3.15 Communities of learning4 Approaches4.1 Work the policy, not the exceptions4.2 Saying no4.3 Your philosophy of management4.4 Managing in the growth plates4.5 Ways engineering managers get stuck4.6 Partnering with your manager4.7 Finding managerial scope4.8 Setting organizational direction4.9 Close out, solve, or delegate5 Culture5.1 Opportunity and membership5.2 Select project leads5.3 Make your peers your first team5.4 Consider the team you have for senior positions5.5 Company culture and managing freedoms5.6 Kill your heroes, stop doing it harder6 Careers6.1 Roles over rocket ships, and why hypergrowth is a weak6.2 Running a humane interview process6.3 Cold sourcing: hire someone you don’t know6.4 Hiring funnel6.5 Performance management systems6.6 Career levels, designation momentum, level splits, etc.6.7 Creating specialized roles, like SRE or TPM6.8 Designing an interview loop7 Appendix7.1 Tools for operating a growing organization7.2 Books I’ve found very useful7.3 Papers I’ve found very useful
£21.86
St Martin's Press Discipline Equals Freedom
Book SynopsisIn this expanded edition of the 2017 mega-bestseller, updated with brand new sections like DO WHAT MAKES YOU HAPPY, SUGAR COATED LIES and DON''T NEGOTIATE WITH WEAKNESS, readers will discover new ways to become stronger, smarter, and healthier.Jocko Willink''s methods for success were born in the SEAL Teams, where he spent most of his adult life, enlisting after high school and rising through the ranks to become the commander of the most highly decorated special operations unit of the war in Iraq. In Discipline Equals Freedom, the #1 New York Times bestselling coauthor of Extreme Ownership describes how he lives that mantra: the mental and physical disciplines he imposes on himself in order to achieve freedom in all aspects of life. Many books offer advice on how to overcome obstacles and reach your goals--but that advice often misses the most critical ingredient: discipline. Without discipline, there will be no real progress. Disciplin
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Harvard Business Review Press HBR Emotional Intelligence Ultimate Boxed Set 14
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£119.99
Profile Books Ltd Tiny Experiments
Book Synopsis''A paradigm-shifting exploration of how to apply the techniques of science to modern life'' - TIAGO FORTE''Life isn''t linear, and yet we constantly try to mould it to linear goals. The result is fear in the face of uncertainty and a sense of failure when we don''t hit those marks. But what if instead we approached life as a playground for experimentation?Neuroscientist and entrepreneur Anne-Laure Le Cunff reveals that all you need is an experimental mindset to turn challenges into self-discovery and doubt into opportunity. Drawing on the latest science and ancient philosophy, she replaces the old linear model of success with a circular model of growth in which goals are discovered, pursued - and adapted.In this book, you will ask hard questions and design simple yet meaningful experiments to find the answers. You will learn how to break free from invisible cognitive scripts, how to harness the power of imperfection, and how to make smarter decisions when the path forward is unclear. Above all, Tiny Experiments offers not just practical tools, but a guide to reawakening curiosity and drive in a disaffected world, so that we can discover and pursue our most authentic ambitions.
£15.29
