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"Brown has spent the past two decades studying the emotions and experiences that give meaning to our lives, and the past seven years working with transformative leaders and teams spanning the globe. She found that leaders in organizations ranging from small entrepreneurial startups and family-owned businesses to nonprofits, civic organizations, and Fortune 50 companies all ask the same question: how do you cultivate braver, more daring leaders, and...
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Uncover your blind spots and reset your leadership approach for long-lasting success in any business Far too many business leaders today are using outdated practices to engage and motivate their people-and they're failing miserably. Truly resilient, thriving organizations are those that are purpose driven and focus on more than pure profits. Purpose, or an underlying company philosophy, not only drives strategic change, but also encourages customer...
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" The highly anticipated follow-up to the acclaimed bestseller Start With Why Simon Sinek's mission is to help people wake up every day inspired to go to work and return home every night fulfilled by their work. His first book, Start With Why, offered the essential starting point, explaining the power of focusing on WHY we do what we do, before getting into the details of WHAT and HOW. Start With Why became an instant classic, with a loyal following...
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Too many leaders, men and women alike, have bought into a notion of leadership that exclusively emphasizes traditionally 'masculine' qualities: hierarchical, militaristic, win-at-all-costs. The result has been corruption, environmental degradation, social breakdown, stress, depression, and a host of other serious problems. But there is another way, one that restores balance to this lopsided way of leading. Reaching into ancient spiritual and mythical...
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It's people who make organizations great, so how can leaders best help their people achieve that greatness? As Ken Jennings and John Stahl-Wert show in this new edition of their bestseller, you can't just demand greatnessyou have to inspire it. The most effective leaders don't just stand in front of their people, they stand behind them too. As one of the characters in the book notes, “You qualify to be first by putting other people first.”...
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"Untapped Leadership examines strategies, capabilities, and contributions from leaders of color and marginalized backgrounds from all walks of life and career stages, showing how everyone can benefit. Highlighting diverse stories and strategies, this groundbreaking book reveals a different kind of leadership, one that requires an advanced understanding of situational awareness, organizational dynamics, and sound decision-making"--
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Dozens of top CEOs reveal their candid insights on the keys to effective leadership and the qualities that set high performers apart
What does it take to reach the top in business and to inspire others? Adam Bryant of The New York Times decided to answer this and other questions by sitting down with more than seventy CEOs and asking them how they do their jobs and the most important lessons they learned as they rose through the ranks. Over the course...
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"Intentional Power begins by showing how the leadership skills of the past are no longer adequate for success in today's dynamic environment. The realities of cultural shifts, from external activist investors, employees, and communities, to the values chasm between generations as Gen Z joins the workforce, are explored as opportunities to apply new leadership skills. It will focus on the six competencies of modern leadership, which the authors dub...
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"Your Company's Own Worst Enemy knits a range of inter-related techniques together into a novel leadership mindset for our times, a whole that is greater than the sum of its parts. The book does this by walking readers through the ten fundamental errors leaders commonly make in attempting to address disruption. As we've learned, managers feel motivated most to fix what they're doing wrong rather than incorporate new approaches for their own sake....
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Your mission: Create a vision and turn it into reality.
Your challenge: Compel any group of people to help you achieve success.
Your solution: The Everything Leadership Book, 2nd Edition has the tips and techniques you need to change your management style into true leadership.
This valuable resource includes practical advice on leadership techniques, as well as guidance on what separates the leaders from the followers. Learn how to exude self-confidence,...
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A Leadership Kick in the Ass
How to Learn from Rough Landings, Blunders, and Missteps
Very few great leaders haven't had at least one good ass-whuppin'. Of course, that's cold comfort at the time. When it happens, it feels like the end. But leadership development expert Bill Treasurer says it can be a new beginning.
Treasurer knows what he's talking about. Not only has he worked with thousands of leaders over a twenty-year career, but a boot to...
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This balanced guide to agility gets past the hype and frustration to help frustrated leaders transform their agile transformations. Agile transformations are supposed to make organizations modern, competitive, and relevant. But in the well-intentioned effort to move into the future, change leaders find themselves frustrated by pushback, limited impact, poor practices, and unfair criticism. What's going on? Jesse Fewell's book cuts through the "quick-fix"...
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"Step-by-step, Andersen lays out six key attributes (farsightedness, passion, courage, wisdom, generosity, and trustworthiness) that offer people, at all levels within an organization, the tools to think and behave as fully accepted leaders. The book is fill with examples from outstanding organizations and offers a framework for self-assessment to help focus on each of the six leadership attributes. Andersen identifies the key behaviors that exemplify...
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In the now classic business fable, The Secret, Debbie, a struggling leader finds herself about to lose her job due to poor performance. In a desperate attempt to save her career, she enrolls in a new mentoring program offered by her company. Much to her surprise, Debbie finds her mentor is the president of the company (Jeff Brown). Debbie decides that all she needs is the answer to one question, 'What is the secret of great leaders?' Over the next...
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"Flying in the Face of Fear shares Campbell's leadership journey as a combat-proven fighter pilot and senior military leader. Fighter pilot culture is unique. They spend their lives working in an environment where the stakes are high, where they must make split-second decisions to survive, and where training missions can be just as dangerous as actual combat. They must work together as a team, or they will fail. Because of their high-risk environment,...
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Permission to Speak FreelyHow the Best Leaders Cultivate a Culture of CandorWhat if people could feel confident communicating what they are really thinking without fearing a negative response from their colleagues or boss? What if common phrases in organizations were "I'm not sure," "I need clarification," and "I have an idea"? Consulting with a diversity of organizations for the past decade, the authors have seen time and again that leaders are failing...
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"The evidence is in: traits--compassion, empathy, the ability to listen, mentor, nurture and collaborate--are giving women executives a built-in advantage in volatile and uncertain times. To navigate today's complex challenges around DE&I, social justice, climate change and the Great Resignation, leaders need to cultivate a kind of compassionate command. Almost a decade since Lean In by Sheryl Sandberg was first published, Path to Parity flips the...
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Women hold over half of all professional jobs today, yet they represent just 4 percent of CEOs in the S&P 500. Even worse, that percentage has barely budged in a decade. In every industry, from private equity investing to network television, women are underrepresented in leadership and paid less than men for the same work. That's where The Influence Effect comes in. Based on recent research by the authors of the New York Times bestseller Break Your...
19) Change with confidence: answers to the 50 biggest questions that keep change leaders up at night
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Praise for CHANGE WITH CONFIDENCE "Phil Buckley is a world-class change leader and world-champion enthusiast for effective change management. Straightforward and engaging, Phil addresses the 50 questions all change managers need to answer with confidence in order to succeed. Rare too for an author in this field, he shares the 'how-not-to' as well as the 'how-to.' This is a book any manager wanting to succeed in change should keep close by."--Professor...
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Bestselling author (Communicate with Confidence!, over 160,000 copies sold) Dianna Booher takes the mystery out of creating the "Personal Presence" that is central to everyone's success in leading, persuading, and selling to others. She gives specific and practical guidance for learning to look, talk, think, and act with presence.
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