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Ideapress Publishing Good Authority: How to Become the Leader Your
Book Synopsis"Required reading for anyone who wants to do more than merely manage people. Good Authority is a modern classic, and it will redefine what it means to be the boss." — Seth Godin, Author, Linchpin Imagine a world where personal and professional growth are one thing, where improving your relationships and owning your strengths at work translate directly into the rest of your life. Creating a company culture like that is not a dream. Through personal stories and real-life conversations, Jonathan takes you into the room with managers and employees where real culture change happens, and shows you a new kind of employee mentoring where each person gets the real-time feedback, support, and clear boundaries we all need to get beyond the patterns that hold us back. In this provocative and timely new book, Jonathan brings together what he has learned over a twenty-year journey as an executive, entrepreneur, team leader and leadership trainer. Combining his experience as the CEO and CBO of EMyth where he led the transformation of a global coaching brand with the lessons learned along his own personal growth journey, Jonathan walks us through a step-by-step approach that integrates the leading edges of both. You'll discover a way to lead your team that is both profoundly human and results-oriented at the same time. Whether you re a CEO or business owner, executive, team leader, consultant, or coach, Good Authority will give you new ideas and inspiration you can put into practice. Most importantly, it will give you permission to be more of who you are at work than you ever thought possible.
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IT Revolution Press DevOps For The Modern Enterprise: Winning
Book SynopsisWinner of the 2018 DevOps Dozen Best DevOps Book!In this award-winning title, thought leader Mirco Hering lays out a roadmap to success for IT managers of legacy organizations, showing them how to create the right ecosystem, how to empower people to bring their best to work every day, and how to put the right technology in the driver's seat to propel their organization to success.Many organizations are facing the uphill battle of modernizing their legacy IT infrastructure. Most have evolved over the years by taking lessons from traditional or legacy manufacturing: creating a production process that puts the emphasis on the process instead of the people performing the tasks, allowing the organization to treat people like resources to try to achieve high-quality outcomes. But those practices and ideas are failing modern IT, where collaboration and creativeness are required to achieve high-performing, high-quality success. But just having the right methods and tools will not magically transform an organization; the cultural change that is the hardest is also the most impactful. Using principles from Agile, Lean, and DevOps as well as first-hand examples from the enterprise world, Hering addresses the different challenges that legacy organizations face as they transform into modern IT departments.Trade Review“This is a truly practical companion book to the other leading publications in the DevOps space. Mirco shares real-world lessons from many years of collective experience and provides tried and tested exercises for you to use to help drive insights and improvements in your organization.” -- Emily Arnautovic, Software Architect"A pragmatic view on IT and DevOps that doesn't just focus on the ‘what' but the ‘how' based on first-hand experience.” -- Ajay Nair, DevOps Architect“Mirco knows his stuff. He has a way of stating simple choices and framing options that encourage action. His unique perspective on how to transform your IT organization, especially when you have heavily invested in outsourcing, are both thoughtful and practical. After you read his book, make sure to subscribe to his blog. You want to make sure to have Mirco by your side as you go through this transformation.” -- Mustafa Kapadia, Digital Transformation Lead, IBM“This is a much needed book on building teamwork to drive technology infrastructure efforts. Mirco introduces a simple set of processes and well reasoned principles to align the organization, transform technology infrastructure, and deliver value for customers.” -- Eric Passmore, Partner Director of Commerce, Microsoft“DevOps is a hot topic. Pretty much every major organization wants it, and pretty much every major organization is struggling to come to grips with what ‘it' is and exactly how to get it. Mirco is a rare entity in the space. He's an architect who has grown up in large, complex organizations working with even larger, more complex systems integrators and delivery partners heavily reliant on ERP, CRM and other COTS applications that seem to challenge much of what DevOps is about. Both pragmatic and practical, he not only gives great tips on how to find your way down the DevOps path in these environments but will help you avoid many a mistake as he shares his own.” -- Mark Richards, SAFe Fellow at Coactivation"Whether you are just getting started with DevOps or you are a seasoned professional seeking counsel on how to apply its principles at scale, as you go through DevOps for the Modern Enterprise, you will find yourself infected by the enthusiasm Mirco has for DevOps and the benefits it can bring." -- Dr. Bhaskar Ghosh
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La'wana Harris Action Guide: Diversity Beyond Lip Service
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Beyond Publishing Ballgames to Boardrooms: Leadership, Business,
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Mynd Matters Publishing From Ball Girl to CMO
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Unnamed Press Convergence: Technology, Business, and the
Book SynopsisWhat does it mean to be human-centric? The Convergence is here. Each day the human race becomes more connected and interdependent. There is no longer a choice in the matter. There is no turning back. All aspects of human life are rapidly converging at an intersection of people, business, and environment. With potential for either a historic integration or catastrophic collision, leaders have two clear choices: remain committed to profits above all else; or shift to a human-centric approach that embraces this convergence. Author Deborah Westphal, a leader in future-focused strategy, leverages her experiences working with some of the world’s most innovative business leaders, to show how the interests of people (as human beings, not customers), overlap with those of companies in ways never before seen. Convergence charts the path forward for those leaders―particularly in business―who seek to shift to a human-centric mental model. This approach addresses realities from our converging world not necessarily related to a company’s business operations, often integrating a tangible response with a change in the company’s core values. Simply put, to be human-centric prioritizes the success of people and redefines success for a company. “Westphal’s Convergence is a call to action to create the future of humanity rather than stand by. Her words of wisdom and lessons shared cannot be more timely than in this very moment when humanity is in crisis. In the midst of COVID-19, environmental disaster, and ever accelerating technological change, Convergence makes the case for authentic leadership and challenges us to rethink our primary purposes of doing business: to serve humanity.” — Diana Rau, Chief Experience Officer & Cofounder, twine.nyc Forbes 30 Under 30Trade Review“Deborah Westphal shines a new light on how vital human connections are to the convergence of society’s tectonic shifts. This book brings a fresh perspective to understanding the impact trust serves as the bedrock to our globally infused human-centric endeavor. A must-read for serious leaders seeking to build sustainable business roadmaps to the future.”—Dr. Marsha Ershaghi Hames, Partner, Tapestry Network
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Publish Your Purpose Academy Press Inclusive AF: A Field Guide for Accidental
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Cranberry Press The Secret to Knowing It's Already Done!: How to
Book SynopsisSuccess is a daily decision for pursuing your dreams. When coupled with persistence it's a formula for obtaining higher and higher levels of success, tapping into your limitless potential and maintaining the life you truly desire. The Secret to Knowing It's Already Done may not be the key to overnight riches, but it will definitely help you lay the groundwork for persistent growth and give you the blueprint and techniques for massive success.Here you'll ask yourself questions to lay the framework for the life you want. You'll gain perspective on what occupies your mind. You'll learn to discover your talents. You'll understand how to build strong and meaningful relationships through achieving and maintaining the real necessity of meaningful love, for yourself and for others. You'll get tools to exercise your mind, your will and your emotions with intentionality and discipline. And you'll find out how to go out into the world to build the life you want. No excuses. The secret to knowing that it's already done is this: mastering the Art of Doing. You will learn to clearly visualize your specific goals, discover your skills and potential, plan your blueprint for action, dedicate your time, and do the work to obtain and maintain your evolving goals. Conviction empowers results. Your belief in your success determines what you'll do about gaining and maintaining it. Alex Morton reveals The Secret to Knowing It's Already Done, as only he can.
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Darcy M Bien Strategy in Motion: A Proven Playbook for
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Joy of Pursuit Publishing The Onboarding Process: How to Connect Your New
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Balboa Press Backbonology: Tough Decisions at Work
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Daniel Heath Liderança: Aprimore suas habilidades de
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Us Ghost Writing Leadership
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG Leadership in Healthcare: Delivering
Book SynopsisThis innovative book analyses the evolving nature of leadership, exploring an ever-increasing range of theoretical concepts and applying these to practices within healthcare organisations. A wide range of theories are covered, from behavioural to attitudinal, socio-cognitive to contingency, and social exchange to team. By identifying the common underlying characteristics that are present in leadership styles and approaches, the author successfully crafts a useful model that is adaptable to different scenarios and contexts within the realms of healthcare management. Offering a series of detailed case studies from around the world, this book proposes three crucial concepts for leadership within the health sector: leadership credibility, professional credibility and organisational dynamics. Both scholars and practitioners will find the theoretical framework provided in this book insightful and applicable in real-life situations.Table of Contents1. Leadership in Dynamic and Diverse Health Sector Organisations.- 2. The Ecology of Healthcare.- 3. The Role of Leaders: The Importance of Leadership.- 4. Leading in the Health Sector: Research and Practice.- 5. A Model for Health Sector Leadership.- 6. Leadership Capability Through Personal Insight and Leadership Identity.- 7. The Importance of Professional Credibility.- 8. Understanding Organisational Dynamics.- 9. Linking Leadership and Succession Planning.- 10.Assessing Health Professionals for Succession and Leadership Roles.- 11. Leadership Development Practices.- 12. Twenty Important Conclusions About Leadership in the Health Sector.
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG Taking the Reins as CIO: A Blueprint for
Book SynopsisAn executive’s transition into any leadership role can be a challenge. Such transitions do not always go smoothly, and the negative consequences can be significant. This is particularly so for Chief Information Officers (CIOs), as the role has evolved significantly over the years yet remains deeply ambiguous. This is despite information and technology moving from the periphery of an organization to a fundamental driver of innovation and competitive advantage. This book is to help the newly appointed CIO “take charge”: the process of learning and taking action that the newly appointed CIO goes through until s/he has mastered the new assignment in sufficient depth to be effective in the role. This book provides keen insights into the challenges faced by today's CIOs while transitioning into a new role and enlightens readers on how to navigate the organizational environment in order to implement necessary changes. With plenty of practical tools and insights it will help you to: • Decide how best to approach the job • Prioritize the first areas of the business you should attend to • Draw up your goals for the first few weeks and months into the role • Find out if there are there any decisions that you can postpone making Based on over 200 interviews with CIOs, CxOs, and recruiters, this book offers readers guidance on how to take on the role of a business executive with special responsibility for information and technology, with ten key prescriptions to maximize success.Table of Contents1. The Ambiguity of the CIO Role2. No CIO Is an Island3. How New Leaders "Fit In"4. Setting the Stage for CIO Transitions5. Beyond the First 90 Days: Taking Charge6. The Phases of Taking Charge7. The Other Side of the Coin8. Peers, Relationships and Influence9. Taking Off: Guidance for CIOs10. Advice from CIOs to CIOs
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Springer International Publishing AG Management and Leadership for a Sustainable
Book SynopsisTo effectively deliver sustainable management in practice for Africa, we need responsible leadership. We need to deepen our understanding of sustainability in the unique socio-political and economic context of the continent. The roles of various actors across public, private and non-profit sectors as enablers of sustainable development need to be explored to understand the social, economic and environmental (SEE) trends in Africa and its emerging and developing economies, as well as to chart the way forward for the continent.This second volume explores the roles and responsibilities of the players—leaders and followers—in the core, public purpose and business spheres in delivering sustainable development outcomes for Africa. Drawing on interviews, cases and extensive literature, this volume contributes to reflection on the leadership values and practices required for a sustainable Africa and the crafting of new policy approaches to address the development challenges such as environmental degradation, economic inequities and social exclusion in Africa. The African scope of the book is hinged on collaboration from authors across Africa and the inclusion of case stories from emerging economies in the five African subregions (East, West, North, Central and Southern Africa) within the chapters. The core message is that, to achieve effective and sustainable management and development for Africa, the practice of responsible leadership is critical.Table of ContentsChapter 1: Leadership for Sustainable Development in Africa - Roles and Responsibilities.- Chapter 2: Leading the Way Forward: What Can African Governments Do.- Chapter 3: Responsible Corporate Leadership: Driving Sustainability in Nigeria’s Financial Services Industry.- Chapter 4: Non-financial reporting regulation and the state of sustainability disclosure among banks in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA): A literature review on banks in Ghana and Nigeria.- Chapter 5: NGO and CSO Influence and Media Power for Africa’s Future.- Chapter 6: Sustainable (Green) Supply Chain Management in Sub Saharan Africa.- Chapter 7: SME Sustainability Goals and Development in a Volatile Environment.- Chapter 8: SMEs and Sustainable Development in Africa: Understanding the Impact of Governments’ Supports.- Chapter 9: Sustainability leadership by more minor actors: individuals and families.- Chapter 10: Partnership for High Social Impact in Africa: A Conceptual and Practical Framework.- Chapter 11: RTechnology and Green Tech in Africa.- Chapter 12: Participatory Campaign Approaches in Greening Africa: A Case of 93.1 IUIU FM Go Green Tree Planting Campaign.- Chapter 13: The NGOs and the SDGs: Lessons for Leadership and Sustainability.- Chapter 14: On the Path to a Sustainable Africa: The Role of Communalism and Collaborative Enterprises.- Chapter 15: Taking the Lead: Case Studies Reflecting New Sustainability Trends in Africa.- Chapter 16: Leadership Roles for Sustainable Development in Africa - Charting the Way Forward.
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De Gruyter Speaking Out on Governance: What Stakeholders Say
Book Synopsis Winner of the GOLD Nonfiction Book Award presented by the Nonfiction Authors Association! Speaking Out on Governance presents a range of viewpoints concerning the role of today’s corporation and its board of directors. The author engages in candid discussion with subject matter experts including boardmembers, corporate attorneys, academics, institutional investors, regulators, and activists. These interviews of leading authorities in the corporate governance arena provide the reader with unique insight into the vitally important but often misunderstood role played by the board. Deborah Hicks Midanek discusses perspectives regarding what directors of businesses actually do and should do; the true motivations and concerns of the various parties seeking to influence corporate behavior; legal issues surrounding the board; and the key similarities and differences of opinion that may help improve effectiveness of all parties and increase board and director effectiveness. This book is essential reading for corporate directors and would-be directors, senior managers, attorneys, consultants and anyone interested in what drives organizational behavior. Table of Contents Foreword Introduction: What is the Governance Revolution? Part I: The Investors Part II: The Legislators Part III: The Regulators Part IV: The Legal System Part V: Academia Part VI: The Media Part VII: The Company Conclusion: Distilling the Themes and Variations
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De Gruyter Brand Fusion: Purpose-driven brand strategy
Book SynopsisFinalist in the Business: Marketing & Advertising category of the Best Book Awards 2023 awarded by American Book Fest and also in the Marketing - Branding category of the Goody Business Book Awards 2023 Brand Fusion: Purpose-driven brand strategy presents a compelling case for what consumers, customers, employees, and wider society are now demanding from companies – the development of brands that deliver profit with purpose, are sustainable, and create mutually beneficial meaning. It fuses theory-practice-application to purpose-driven brand strategies in order to develop a unique approach that has comprehensive theoretical underpinning as well as practical and thought-provoking lessons from industry. Data-driven case studies from a broad range of brands and contexts show the application of this learning–from micro-brands to corporates; charities to technology companies; retirement villages to aspiring high-growth start-ups. Brand Fusion: Purpose-driven brand strategy is an in-depth analysis of the philosophy and practice behind creating a purposeful brand. Table of Contents Chapter 1 Overview Section 2 The Foundations of Theory and Practice Chapter 2 Developing brand strategy: roots, resources and relationships Chapter 3 Managing meaning: social dominant logic Section 3 The Development of Strategy Chapter 4 Managing the alignment of strategy: purpose, proposition and positioning Chapter 5 Managing customer-company fusion: customer experience management Chapter 6 Managing strategic segementation: customer insights from data Chapter 7 Managing the customer journey: strategic service approaches to the consumption experience Chapter 8 Managing the conversation: integrated marketing communications Chapter 9 Managing brand equity: tangbile results from intangible assets Section 4 The Application of Purpose and Practice Chapter 10 Legal & Genereal: inclusive capitalism - change, sustainability and purpose Chapter 11 Inspired Villlages: purpose, values and alignment Chapter 12 Small is beautiful: big ambitions for SMEs Chapter 13 Festival of Thrift: sustainability through brand community Chapter 14 Headspace: immersive digital meditation and mindfulness Chapter 15: Freedome: building franchise equity Chapter 16 University of Cumbria: brand anchor, pledge and persona Chapter 17 Dell Technologies: person to person in B2B
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De Gruyter What Makes a Balanced Leader?: An Islamic
Book SynopsisDespite continuous public interest in leadership studies as well as the abundance of extant literature, the world continues to face leadership predicaments. Given the global crises mankind has been recently exposed to, which include the financial crisis of 2008 as well as the COVID-19 pandemic, further exploration of leadership concepts seems warranted. This edited book aims at introducing the concept of Balanced Leadership from an Islamic perspective. Drawing on both leadership and Islamic studies, the book synchronizes between secular and religious knowledge domains whilst introducing the notion of balance to mainstream leadership literature. The conceptualizations presented in the book serve to dissect the leadership literature, present historical and philosophical accounts of the balanced leadership concept and infuse that with Islamic theology. The book is useful for practitioners interested in leadership studies as well as scholars and researchers aiming at extending the leadership literature. Table of ContentsProspective papers can take any of the following forms: Theoretical and empirical studies that distinguish between different types of leadership from an Islamic perspective (e.g. authentic leadership, transformational leadership, etc) in relation to balanced leadership. Theoretical studies that outline a theory for balanced leadership from an Islamic perspective. This theory may focus on the processes by which balance and influence takes place. Studies on the construction and validation of measurements of balanced leadership. Conceptual notes on the risks surrounding the lack of balanced leadership from an Islamic perspective. Conceptual papers that present analogies between the notion of balanced leadership in the Islamic tradition and other traditions (e.g. Chinese). Multilevel, empirical studies that test hypotheses on the relationships between the antecedents and consequences of balanced leadership. Empirical researches that address balanced leadership in Muslim-majority or minority communities. Empirical or conceptual papers that address balanced leadership in different settings; organizational or educational. Historical and biographical notes on Islamic balanced leadership figures (e.g. of Prophet Muhammad). We, therefore, envision an introductory chapter outlining the Islamic perspective on Balanced Leadership followed by more specific articles that address the aspects noted above.
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De Gruyter Antidote to the Crisis of Leadership
Book SynopsisLeadership is in crisis. Scandals are commonplace, only 20% of employees claim they trust their leaders, two in three think politicians are only motivated by self-interest, three-quarters of firms say they don't have the leadership bench that they need today, and major societal problems are not being resolved. In the context of this scenario, this book answers two important questions: What skills do you need to be successful as a leader today that are different from those required previously? How can you develop these differentiating skills and mindsets? The antidote to the crisis of leadership lies in four attributes: Aspire: Make clear personal choices of what purpose to pursue, what values to resolutely promote and which stakeholder interests to represent. Ally: Form mutually respectful, supportive relationships with others within and beyond the organisation. Adapt: Navigate through turbulence, flexing the enterprise and flowing resources to the priority issues. Accele
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Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Facilitation Skills: Focused Communication
Book SynopsisThis book provides a compact and well-founded set of facilitation skills for all who want to successfully lead meetings, workshops or project rounds. In this way, it is possible to guide the respective communication process to results in a focused, effective and efficient manner - whether online or face-to-face.Stefan Gross shows how guiding questions, methodical impulses, differentiated perception, a clear attitude and specific formats of participation help to achieve sustainable and smart results in groups."This practical book provides a contemporary handout for the many challenges facing dynamic facilitation." Kai Beiderwellen, Mannheim University of Applied Sciences"The book is an invitation to deepen and reflexively develop one's own role." Wolfgang Widulle, Socialnet.deTable of ContentsCharacteristics of good facilitation.- Using methods correctly.- Managing group processes.- Distinguishing tasks and causes.- Including organization and context.- Establishing relationship and contact.- Developing role clarity and self-image.- Using visualization effectively.- Virtual facilitation.- Learning to facilitate
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Education Punk Ltd. Feuer Deinen Boss & Werde Unternehmer
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Innerpulse Our Secret Potential: A new approach to purpose,
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Springer Verlag, Singapore CEO School: Insights from 20 Global Business
Book SynopsisThis book focuses on what makes a successful CEO and the paths to becoming one in today’s global economy. Chapters in the book include insights by 20 top CEOs – one from each G20 country – gathered from an extensive global qualitative research project. Through seven easy-to-digest “master classes” that demystify the role of the 21st century CEO, the authors present their findings in an accessible, conversational style that serves as a step-by-step guide for those who aspire to become CEOs, and develop essential character traits, experience, and skills required of the role.Table of Contents1 Class 1: Introduction—Getting Ready for School2 Class 2: Personality—The Three Essential Traits of the CEO3 Class 3: Education—Three Academic Proverbs for Future CEOs4 Class 4: Experience—Three Dilemmas for Would-Be CEOs5 Class 5: Meta-Skills—a C, E and O Taxonomy6 Class 6: Roles—The Four Essential Functions of the CEO7 Class 7: Style—Five Ways to Project Yourself as a CEO8 Class 8: Staying at the Top (But Not Too Long)—The Five Challenges All CEOs Must Master9 Conclusion: Lessons for Future CEOs, Their Parents and Educators
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World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd Friday Email, The: 88 Tips For Aspiring Leaders
Book SynopsisLeveraging Renée McGowan's weekly emails to colleagues in Asia and the Middle East over three years that included the global pandemic, this playbook showcases insights on how to stay at the top of your game. With a nod to the Asian lucky number, 88 tips provide bite-sized advice about purpose, people, path and progress. Each section is packed with useful examples and relatable how-tos and demonstrates that you can be a successful business leader with empathy, humanity and some fun.
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Springer Verlag, Singapore Effective Implementation of Transformation
Book SynopsisThis book sheds light on the processes and cognitions used by managers to successfully implement strategies while navigating the strategy and change interface.It applies the latest thinking from the resource-based literature, in particular the idea that high performing organisations have become adept at honing and utilising value creating dynamic capabilities. Key processes and cognitions help organisational leaders sense opportunities and threats as well as shrewdly seize strategic opportunities to advantageously enhance performance. The book also adopts an institutional view; that is, it assumes that organisations must satisfy their stakeholders while navigating a range of influences, including other organisations, markets, laws, quality standards, conventions, and cultural norms. This book conceptualises corporate strategy as an amalgam of four fundamental strategies: the organisation’s financial, customer value creation, resource, and non-market strategies. These strategies address the capital, product and services, and resource markets as well as various non-market institutions. Successfully integrating and implementing these four strategies allow organisations to enable their employees’ multidisciplinary talents. By approaching strategy in this way, the book demonstrates why it is important to monitor changes to the organisation’s strategic context and helps it identify the practices, collaborations, and projects necessary to achieve spectacular strategic change. Table of ContentsChapter 1: Introduction: Navigating the Strategy and Change Interface Successfully.- Section 1: The Strategy Process.- Chapter 2: Introduction: The Strategy Process.- Chapter 3: A social context view of strategic cognition: Strategists are highly emotional and interactive Homo sapiens!.- Chapter 4: Implementing strategy and avenues of access: A practice perspective.- Chapter 5: Strategy implementation and organizational change: A complex systems perspective.- Section 2: The Finance Strategy.- Chapter 6: Introduction: The Finance Strategy.- Chapter 7: Implementing a financial strategy: Managing financial capital, investing in people, balancing risk, and developing critical resources.- Chapter 8: An evolution: Turning management accounting into a strategic function.- Section 3: The Customer Value Creation Strategy.- Chapter 9: Introduction: The Customer Value Strategy.- Chapter 10: Business models for sustainability.- Chapter 11: The customer value concept: How best to define and create customer value.- Chapter 12: Strategic processes and mechanisms of value creation and value capture: Some insights from business organizations in Poland.- Section 4: The Resource Strategy.- Chapter 13: Introduction: The Resource Strategy.- Chapter 14: Communicating and shaping strategic change: A CLASS framework.- Chapter 15: A structured approach to project management as a strategic enabling priority.- Chapter 16: Family firms and mergers and acquisitions: The importance of the transfer of trust.- Section 5: Non-Market Strategies.- Chapter 17: Introduction: Non-Market Strategies.- Chapter 18: Towards a strategic change framework for the nonprofit sector: The roll-out of Australia’s National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS).- Chapter 19: When everything matters: Non-market strategies, institutions and stakeholders’ interests.
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World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd Leadership For Change: The Singapore Schools'
Book SynopsisThe book shares stories of the role of school leadership in Singapore, with case studies from selected schools, that provides some insights on how Singapore delivers a high-quality education that had led to it achieving high rankings in TIMMS and PISA. This book will provide both the historical and present contexts of changes in the education system, school leadership and teacher leadership in Singapore that made it what it is today. It will distil some universal principles of educational change that school leaders and policy makers can apply in bringing about educational changes that will enhance the learning experiences of students and prepare them for future challenges.
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Ediciones Granica, S.A. Mujeres Y Negocios: La Inclusión Que Las
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Independently Published Beyond the Horizon: Uncharted Territories in
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Independently Published The Power Of Intentional Leadership: How You Can
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Independently Published Empathy in Action: Transforming Communication
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Information Age Publishing Introduction to Research in Leadership
Book SynopsisIntroduction to Research in Leadership examines the process and skills required for effectively conducting research on the concept of leadership. Its authors employ a microscope for close analysis and build balconies to see trends and gain perspective. Designed to be imminently practical, it employs concrete examples of fictional graduate students, faculty, and professionals struggling with their own issues to help readers make sense of the world of research and all of its complexities. Filled with personal anecdotes, stories, and even a touch of humor and sarcasm, each chapter weaves in relevant concepts so that those beginning the process of producing scholarship can get started on a productive path and with a positive attitude.This introductory textbook reviews the core philosophies employed in creating new knowledge within a field of research. It describes quantitative, qualitative, and mixed methods, as well as several concepts that are common across these. The text concludes with chapters focused on critical scholarship in leadership and creating habits that lead to a lifetime of learning.
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Information Age Publishing Compassionate Leadership for School Improvement
Book SynopsisCompassionate Leadership for School Improvement and Renewal aims to equip educational leaders with the knowledge, skills, and learning experiences necessary to approach their work from an intentional stance of compassion. Schools serve as both sites and sources of suffering; yet compassionate leadership can facilitate healing for students, educators, and community members. The moment is right to move the field toward a compassion-centered approach to leadership. In recent years, people around the world have experienced unfathomable loss and suffering due to the COVID-19 pandemic, persistent inequities and subsequent social justice protests, war and violence, and catastrophic natural disasters. These events created perpetual anxiety, stress, fear, uncertainty, loss, and grief for millions of people--including educators. Now perhaps more than ever, people need to give and receive compassion. The purpose of the volume is to build educational leaders' capacity to demonstrate compassion, foster collective compassion within their schools and districts, establish organizational environments in which compassion is routinely given and received, and, subsequently, transform schools into sites of healing. Ultimately, through the unique contributions of each chapter, this volume offers a path toward school improvement that is both renewing and sustaining.Trade Review“As a former school counselor and school administrator, my view about compassionate leadership is one grounded in relational practice. This may be obvious to some, but unfortunately lost on many. This thoughtful volume edited by Kara Lasater and Kristina LaVenia explores a desperately needed reformulation of school leadership for our times. Compassionate leadership takes enormous courage because it works against much of the institutional ethos that forms and frames the role, thinking, and behaviors of those ostensibly charged to both manage and lead schools.” - William C. Frick, University of Oklahoma“The education system is in its most challenging period in decades, perhaps in the past century. The need now is to address student, staff and organizational suffering. Lasater and LaVenia et. al., offer antidotes in this volume by providing up to date research, theory and insight to cultivate, conceptualize and practice compassionate educational leadership. For those who teach and lead with their heart, this book is essential reading.” - Joseph A. Polizzi, Sacred Heart University“In an increasingly challenging educational landscape, leaders find themselves facing teacher shortages, student trauma, and learning loss. Schools could easily become institutions rife with secondary trauma and burned out professionals operating in stark contrast to the unifying motivations that drew each of us into this profession. This volume reminds us that among the many skill sets leaders must employ, organizational and leader compassion fulfills a fundamental human need and unlocks a means by which schools can transform from professional survival to the joyful work of changing lives for the better.” - Joshua Ray, Greenwood Public Schools
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Velociteach Press Alpha Project Managers
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De Gruyter Filling Execution Gaps
Book SynopsisI expected good, but this is great. -Janet Pirus Phelps, Principle, Strategic CFO, Former CFO Papa Murphy's Pizza Gaps are holes in your organization where tasks fall and failure breeds. They inhibit your ability to implement strategic plans, lead people, and run successful projects. Daily, executives, middle managers, and project managers wrestle with the big six: Absence of common understanding Disengaged executive sponsors Misalignment with goals Poor change management Ineffective governance Lackluster leadership Ignoring any of these gaps endangers any strategy or project. They regularly destroy hundreds of companies' ability to turn their corporate vision into business valuetaking careers with them. Filling Execution Gaps addresses the sources of these gaps, and how to fill them. Without any one of these important functions, projects fail. Without change management, adoption suffers. Without common understanding, there is confusion. Without goaTable of ContentsChapter -Gap 0 Understanding the Problem Chapter 2-Aligning Initiatives to Corporate Goals Chapter 3-Challenges in Executive Sponsorship Chapter 4-Solutions in Executive Sponsorship Chapter 5-Success with Change Adoption Chapter 6-Organization Change Management Chapter 7-Lean Governance of Initiatives and Projects Chapter 8-The Project Management Office Chapter 9-Leadership Strategies Chapter 10-The Project’s Leadership Structure Chapter 11-Leadership Traits and Actions Chapter 12-Putting Everything Together
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Right Book Press The Fourth Bottom Line: Flourishing in the era of
Book SynopsisAre you looking for a more compassionate, caring and loving way to lead? Do you want to be a leader that makes a meaningful difference, who opposes injustice and strives to make the world a better place? In this unique, empowering and inspiring guide, Business Leader and BCorp Ambassador Paul Hargreaves challenges you to banish outdated, paternalistic, ‘command and control’ leadership and instead embrace the positive, proactive and purpose-led styles that have the power to energise, empower, elevate and change the world. Using an enlightening and thought-provoking mix of stories, quotes and case-studies, Paul will guide you on a journey through 50 essential leadership qualities. Day by day he’ll equip you with ingenious ideas, inspiration and the mindset you need to become a leader who: Nurtures, supports and cherishes the planet as well as your people. Releases love, compassion and care throughout your organisation. Challenges the status quo and is a catalyst for positive change. Uses empathy, trust and mutual respect to drive success and encourage the best in others. By becoming a genuinely dynamic and human leader who’s driven by principle, purpose and passion, you’ll make a more profound impact on your business and the world as you create a legacy to be proud of.Trade Review‘A brilliant, shining light on what makes a great leader’ - Mark Cuddigan, CEO Ella’s Kitchen, Board of Trustees – B-Lab‘If you genuinely want to live a better and larger life, read this book.’ – Professor Paul McGee, Sunday Times best-selling author and motivational speaker and coach.‘We badly need inspirational leaders. Paul Hargreaves has written a book that addresses this gap.’ - Dr Eve Poole, Author of Leadersmithing
£13.49
Right Book Press Rest. Practise. Perform.: What elite sport can
Book SynopsisDo you grapple with the relentless demands of your leadership role? Are you struggling to balance your teamâ s wellbeing with delivering results? Contemporary workplace cultures often shackle employees to a culture of ceaseless high performance and productivity. This results in lacklustre productivity, diminished creativity and a shattered workforce. In contrast elite sports have honed time-tested strategies for sustaining peak performance, consistency, and getting results without exhaustion. This practical and illuminating guide offers a fresh perspective on leadership, unleashing an empowering, harmonious approach thatâ s inspired by elite sportsâ proven disciplines. Karen Meager and John McLachlan draw from extensive research and their deep understanding of leadership behaviours to provide you with a playbook for adapting elite sportsâ winning techniques to your own team or organisation. Discover how to apply the incredible rhythm of the rest, practice, perform cycle and explore how it can revolutionise your teamâ s productivity, performance and wellbeing.
£15.29
De Gruyter Alpha Males and Alpha Females: Male executives
Book Synopsis What do international male business leaders have to say about gender diversity, the rise of talented women into management and the opportunities for the sexes to work together harmoniously in boardrooms – as well as the obstacles that stand in the way? When most people think manager, they think male. Boardrooms around the world are still dominated by ‘alpha’ men and their assertive, decisive leadership styles. Meanwhile, their female counterparts, alpha women, remain underrepresented in almost every country. Many women feel they’ve been excluded and are calling for equality. This book offers a fresh perspective on gender roles that moves away from the old paradigm of male domination and female victimhood. It argues that companies that want to succeed need to productively combine and leverage off the strengths offered by men and women. It covers how mixed leadership teams can be made the norm in international companies. To find some answers, Bettina Al-Sadik-Lowinski interviewed senior male executives from eleven countries. These ‘alpha men’ agree that women and their abilities should be better represented on company boards. They believe the current imbalance is due to a mix of talented women’s reluctance to pursue their career ambitions along with the barriers created by existing power structures. Male managers fear losing face and being shown up by strong women. They want recognition, rather than aggression, from their female colleagues. The interviewees also discuss what they see as women’s strengths, such as their positive, calming influence in male-dominated meetings, and comment on sensitive topics such as #MeToo and the influence of ‘erotic capital’ and ‘old boys’ networks’. The book presents the men’s views in their own words, complemented by alternative perspectives from top female executives. Al-Sadik-Lowinski’s analysis shows how both sexes can work together in international companies to build a brighter, sustainable future. Alpha Males and Alpha Females seeks to promote greater equality at senior levels in global companies, with mixed leadership teams made up of both qualified men and qualified women. It gives women who are interested in pursuing a management career an insight into men’s views, as well as advice on their personal career development. And it suggests strategies that executives can adopt to strengthen diversity, build mixed leadership teams and secure their companies’ long-term success.
£17.25
De Gruyter Relational Skills Development for Next Generation
Book SynopsisThe post-pandemic world has witnessed seismic shifts in the business environment. Businesses, large and small, are tackling digital transformation; we face irregular economic recovery, a rising cost of living, the energy transition impasse and uneven wealth distribution. Add to this an increased call for action on diversity and inclusion amidst a backdrop that is, in some countries, resentful of privilege, geopolitical power alignment, and democratic vs. autocratic leadership. The leaders of today and tomorrow must evolve. Notwithstanding the hard skills they need in a workforce transformed by technology, what soft skills must they acquire in a world of continuous uncertainty and change? Relational Skills Development for Next-Generation Leaders is a practical compilation of crucial relational skills for post-graduate students, future executives, and mentors in the corporate world. Packed with modern research, frameworks and scenarios, the author draws upon over twenty years of experience leading teams and projects with global transformational impact in the blue-chip luxury fashion industry to show executives how to observe, reflect, develop, practice and improve their leadership skills to succeed in the future.
£19.55
HarperCollins India The Scrapper`s Way: Making It Big in an Unequal
Book SynopsisFor more than three decades, Damodar Padhi has used this time-tested and all weather resistant (read resilient) approach with great success.
£13.12
Pearson Education Mobile MBA The
Book SynopsisJo Owen has an MBA and knows what it takes to succeed in today's business world. As a top authority on leadership, he practices what he preaches. He has worked with over 100 of the best (and one or two of the worst) organisations in Asia, Europe and North America. He was a partner at Accenture, started a bank, built a business in Japan and is a founder of five national charities. He is a top corporate coach and speaker on leadership and the bestselling author of How to Manage, How to Sell, How to Influence and How to Lead, the UK's number one book on leadership.He can be reached at jo.owen@leadershippartnership.com. Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. The world of strategy 1.1 The nature of strategy 1.2 Dealing with strategy 1.3 Applying strategy to your area 1.4 Four pillars of strategy 1.5 Strategy and the art of unfair competition 1.6 Portfolio strategy 1.7 Creating a vision for your firm and your team 1.8 Mergers and acquisitions 1.9 How to be innovative 1.10 The language of strategy 1.11 Business start-ups 2. Marketing and sales Introduction 2.1 The nature of marketing 2.2 The advertising brief 2.3 How to be an advertising expert 2.4 The marketing brief 2.5 Market segmentation 2.6 How to price 2.7 Market research 2.8 Competitive and market intelligence 2.9 What people buy and why 2.10 How to sell – to be imported: persuasive conversations? 2.11 How not to sell 3. Finance and accounting Introduction 3.1 Maths for managers 3.2 Surviving spreadsheets 3.3 The financial structure of the firm 3.4 Models of business 3.5 Financial accounting 3.6 How to use the Capital Asset Pricing Model 3.7 Assessing investments in practice 3.8 Negotiating your budget 3.9 Managing your budget 3.10 Overseeing budgets 3.11 The balanced scorecard 3.12 The nature of costs: cash versus accruals 3.13 The nature of costs: fixed versus variable 3.14 Cutting costs: methods change 3.15 Cutting costs: slash and burn 3.16 Cutting costs: smoke and mirrors 4. Human capital Introduction 4.1 Dealing with HR professionals 4.2 HR strategy and minimising the cost of production 4.3 HR strategy and the quality of production 4.4 HR strategy: enabling growth (or decline) 4.5 HR strategy: compensation 4.6 Organisation culture and what you can do about it 4.7 Organisation culture and how to change it 4.8 When to fire someone 4.9 Ethics 5. Operations, technology and change Introduction 5.1 How to start a change effort 5.2 Setting up a project for success 5.3 Managing projects 5.4 The nature of quality 5.5 Applying quality 5.6 Restructuring the organisation 5.7 Reengineering 5.8 Using consultants 5.9 Dealing with the law 6. Lead your team Introduction 6.1 How to take control 6.2 What you
£11.04
Berrett-Koehler Publishers Positively Energizing Leadership: Virtuous
Book SynopsisThis practical guide, the first to show how leaders can achieve extraordinary results through the positive energy generated by virtuous interactions with employees, is written by one of the giants in the study of positive leadership.This book reveals one of the most important but frequently ignored factors that lead to spectacular performance in organizations. Kim Cameron, a true pioneer in the study of positive leadership, offers validated scientific evidence that all individuals are inherently attracted to and flourish in the presence of positive energy, a principle known in biology as heliotropism. Further, he shows that the positive relational energy generated by leaders’ virtuous behaviors—such as generosity, compassion, gratitude, trustworthiness, forgiveness, and kindness—is tightly linked to extraordinary organizational outcomes like greater innovation, higher profits, and increased engagement and retention. Cameron has not written a feel-good tome about the power of positive thinking, “happiology,” or unbridled optimism. This research-based explanation shows how to achieve performance that exceeds expectations. He provides practical suggestions, assessments, and exercises showing how leaders can improve their own positive energy and increase positive relational energy in their organizations. Positively Energizing Leadership is a major contribution to the theory and practice of leadership.
£17.60
Hay House The Let Them Theory
£23.39
St Martin's Press Extreme Ownership
Book SynopsisFrom Jocko Willink, the New York Times best selling author of Discipline Equals Freedom and Leadership Strategy and Tactics, an updated edition of the blockbuster bestselling leadership book that took America and the world by storm, two U.S. Navy SEAL officers who led the most highly decorated special forces unit of the Iraq War demonstrate how to apply powerful leadership principles from the battlefield to business and life. Now with an excerpt from the authors'' new book, THE DICHOTOMY OF LEADERSHIP. Combat, the most intense and dynamic environment imaginable, teaches the toughest leadership lessons, with absolutely everything at stake. Jocko Willink and Leif Babin learned this reality first-hand on the most violent and dangerous battlefield in Iraq. As leaders of SEAL Team Three's Task Unit Bruiser, their mission was one many thought impossible: help U.S. forces secure Ramadi, a violent, insurgent-held city deTrade Review"This is the SEAL Leadership book we have been waiting for. Poignant, powerful, practical. A must read for every leader." --Roger Ailes, Chairman and CEO, Fox News Channel and Fox Business Network, and chairman, Fox Television Stations"Leif and Jocko are the real deal. I'm honored to have served with them. They led SEALs in the fight through the hell that was the Battle of Ramadi. This book shows how they did it." --Marcus Luttrell, U.S. Navy SEAL and #1 national bestselling author of Lone Survivor"The smartest, most revolutionary management approach since Jack Welch's Six Sigma." --Don Imus, radio host, Imus in the Morning"Finally, a leadership book that actually demonstrates how to truly lead. Riveting, engaging, and free from the usual cliche platitudes, this book is strikingly impactful and will dramatically improve leaders of all types." --Amy Brandt Schumacher, entrepreneur, executive, and philanthropist"Extreme Ownership provides huge value for leaders at all levels. An inspiring and page-turning read, the leadership lessons are easy to digest and implement. It provides a powerful SEAL framework for action to lead teams in high-stakes environments. This book made me a better leader and enabled my entire team step up our game!" --Jared Hamilton, founder and CEO, DrivingSales"One of the best books on leadership I've ever read and a tremendous war story book as well." --Marc Andreessen
£21.24
HarperCollins Focus The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership
Book SynopsisIf you've never readThe 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership, you've been missing out on one of the best-selling leadership books of all time. If you have read the original version, then you'll love this new expanded and updated one.
£13.49
HarperCollins Publishers Inc Power
Book SynopsisReveals the strategies and tactics that separate the winners from the losers. This guide argues that power is a force that can be used and harnessed for individual gain, but also for the benefit of organisations and society.Trade Review"Jeff Pfeffer is of immense service to the world with his work, blending academic rigor and practical genius into wonderfully readable text. The leading thinker on the topic of power, Pfeffer here distills his wisdom into an indispensable guide." -- Jim Collins, author of Good to Great and How the Mighty Fall "Talk about speaking truth to power! In refreshingly candid prose, Jeff Pfeffer offers brilliant insights into how power is successfully built, maintained, and employed in organizations. It's well known that when Pfeffer speaks about power, smart people listen. This book shows why." -- Robert Cialdini, author of Influence "Jeff Pfeffer nails it! Political skill, not just talent, is central to success in every field. In Power, this leading scholar comes down to earth with practical, even contrarian, tactics for mastering the power game." -- Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Chaired Professor, Harvard Business School, and bestselling author of Confidence: How Winning Streaks and Losing Streaks Begin and End and SuperCorp "[Power] will help you get comfortable with challenging assumptions and lingering on the pause...[Pfeffer] draws on a wealth of social-science and psychology research." -- Inc. "Its candor, crisp prose, and forthrightness are fresh and appealing... Brimming with frank, realistic insights on paths to the top, this book offers unexpected-and aggressive-directions on how to advance and flourish in an ever-more competitive workplace." -- Publishers Weekly "[Academics and consultants] have an interest in presenting business as a rational enterprise... This leaves the analysis of power to retired businesspeople...(who strive to present themselves as business geniuses rather than Machiavellis) and practicing snake-oil salesmen...Jeffrey Pfeffer of Stanford Business School is an exception to this rule." -- The Economist "[Power] ought to be required reading for would-be leaders...[E]xcellent." -- Financial Times
£18.00
HarperCollins Publishers Inc The New One Minute Manager
Book Synopsis
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