Management Leadership category: 25896 books
7 Paths to Managerial Leadership
Doing Well by Doing It Right
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2016
Put timeless management practices to work.
The most important relationship is between a manager and a direct report. Studies confirm that the majority of people leave their jobs because they dislike their manager and the way they are supervised. After all, managers directly influence staff...
Exploring Great Leadership
A Practical Look from the Inside
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2012
Just like you dont have to be a CEO to be a great leader, you dont have to be a great leader to achieve personal success. ... I have said that income, wealth, position, and status are not measures of great leadership. They are not measures of personal success either. Personal success is achieved through...
by Paul Joyce
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
In good times and bad, in the different situations of renewal, crisis, and chronic resource constraints, the strategic leadership of public services is crucial. Good leaders are essential in helping the public sector to adapt and solve ‘wicked’ problems, and they are also integral to the reform...
Myths of Leadership
Banish the Misconceptions and Become a Great Leader
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
The best leaders are born, not made. The best leaders are always in control. The best leaders are those with the highest IQs. But are they really?
The thinking surrounding what makes the greatest leaders is increasingly muddled by stereotypes, snake oil promises and pseudo-science. The best...
by Moura Quayle
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2017
Great leaders aspire to manage “by design”—with a sense of purpose and foresight. But too few leaders incorporate the proven practices and principles of the design disciplines. Lessons learned from the world of design, when applied to management, can turn leaders into collaborative, creative,...
by Carina Reinfeld
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2015
Seminar paper from the year 2015 in the subject Business economics - Business Management, Corporate Governance, grade: 1,0, University of Applied Sciences Emden/Leer, course: International Strategic Leadership, language: English, abstract: In order to survive in the global competition companies have...
by Joseph A. Maciariello, Karen Linkletter
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2011
For Drucker, management was a moral force, not merely a tool at the service of the amoral market . . .
"Maciariello and Linkletter provide a very thoughtful and challenging journey in understanding Drucker's profound insights into the meaning of management as a liberal art."
—C....
The New Ecology of Leadership
Business Mastery in a Chaotic World
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2012
David Hurst has a unique knowledge of organizations—their function and their failure—both in theory and in practice. He has spent twenty-five years as an operating manager, often in crises and turnaround conditions, and is also a widely experienced consultant, teacher, and writer on business....
Other People's Shoes
40 Questions for Leaders and Managers
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2018
Other People’s Shoes is an illuminating exploration of leadership and management and their importance to organisations. Ken Jarrold draws on his almost 50 years of experience as a senior NHS manager, chair and member of boards, and consultant, to share a wealth of knowledge about how to manage effectively...
Sustainable Leadership
How to Lead in a VUCA World
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2017
How to lead efficiently in a volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous world?
Leadership has never been as difficult as it is today. And it has never been as crucial. In this VUCA world people ask leaders to provide certainty. They cannot. In the volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous...
Leading Change in Multiple Contexts
Concepts and Practices in Organizational, Community, Political, Social, and Global Change Settings
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2009
The first book to bring together both leadership and change theories, concepts, and processes, Leading Change in Multiple Contextsuses a consistent framework and the latest research to help readers understand and apply the concepts and practices of leading change.
Key Features
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by Karin Klenke, Suzanne Martin, J. Randall Wallace
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2016
The book is divided into four parts: (1) foundations of qualitative research methods consisting of a chapter summarizing the various qualitative paradigms and a research methods chapter illuminating various design features such as data collection and analysis, qualitative standards and ethics; (2)...
Metaphors We Lead By
Understanding Leadership in the Real World
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2010
We live in a leadership-obsessed society. The result is that we assume nearly any social or economic ill can be mended through better leadership. Sometimes, this commitment to leadership is followed by hero worshipping, wishful thinking and misplaced hope.
Seeking to understand the faith we...
by David Hancock
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
The general perception amongst most project and risk managers that we can somehow control the future is, says David Hancock, one of the most ill-conceived in risk management. The biggest problem is how to measure risks in terms of their potential likelihood, their possible consequences, their correlation...