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Coaching Skills for Nonprofit Managers and Leaders
Developing People to Achieve Your Mission
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2009
The only nonprofit orientation to coaching skills available, Coaching Skills for Nonprofit Leaders will provide nonprofit managers with an understanding of why and how to coach, how to initiate coaching in specific situations, how to make coaching really work, and how to refine coaching for long-term...
No Fear of Failure
Real Stories of How Leaders Deal with Risk and Change
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2011
Candid conversations with top leaders around the world on how they approached pitvotal moments in their careers
No Fear of Failure offers insightful, candid conversations with some of the world's top leaders in business, politics, education, and philanthropy—each giving a first-person account...
by James M. Kouzes, Barry Z. Posner
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2008
In this provocative book, leadership experts and authors of the best-selling The Leadership Challenge, Jim Kouzes and Barry Posner take on a unique challenge and explore the question of leadership and legacy. Kouzes and Posner examine in twenty-two chapters the critical questions all leaders must...
The Advantage
Why Organizational Health Trumps Everything Else In Business
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2012
There is a competitive advantage out there, arguably more powerful than any other. Is it superior strategy? Faster innovation? Smarter employees? No, New York Times best-selling author, Patrick Lencioni, argues that the seminal difference between successful companies and mediocre ones has little to...
Leading for Growth
How Umpqua Bank Got Cool and Created a Culture of Greatness
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2011
How any business leader can create an atmosphere of competitiveness for exceptional growth
When Ray Davis took over the local 40-person South Umpqua Bank in 1994, many people in the industry poked fun at his insistence that employees answer the phone with a cheery "World's Greatest Bank."...
Overcoming the Five Dysfunctions of a Team
A Field Guide for Leaders, Managers, and Facilitators
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2010
In the years following the publication of Patrick Lencioni’s best-seller The Five Dysfunctions of a Team, fans have been clamoring for more information on how to implement the ideas outlined in the book. In Overcoming the Five Dysfunctions of a Team, Lencioni offers more specific, practical guidance...
Getting Naked
A Business Fable About Shedding The Three Fears That Sabotage Client Loyalty
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2009
Another extraordinary business fable from the New York Times bestselling author Patrick Lencioni
Written in the same dynamic style as his previous bestsellers including The Five Dysfunctions of a Team, Lencioni illustrates the principles of inspiring client loyalty through a fascinating business...
Finding Allies, Building Alliances
8 Elements that Bring--and Keep--People Together
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2013
From Governor and White House cabinet member Mike Leavitt: how to find collaborative solutions to the greatest challenges
Your business challenges extend far beyond you and your firm, to the competitors within your industry and the regulators outside it. Finding solutions to larger issues requires...
The Truth about Leadership
The No-fads, Heart-of-the-Matter Facts You Need to Know
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2010
A fresh look at what it means to lead from two of the biggest names in leadership
In these turbulent times, when the very foundations of organizations and societies are shaken, leaders need to move beyond pessimistic predictions, trendy fads, and simplistic solutions. They need to turn to what's...
The Leadership Pipeline
How to Build the Leadership Powered Company
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2010
An updated and revised version of the bestselling The Leadership Pipeline – the critical resource for how companies can grow leaders from the inside.
In business, leadership at every level is a requisite for company survival. Yet the leadership pipeline –the internal strategy to grow leaders...
It's Okay to Manage Your Boss
The Step-by-Step Program for Making the Best of Your Most Important Relationship at Work
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2010
Get what you need from your boss
In this follow-up to the bestselling It's Okay to Be the Boss, Bruce Tulgan argues that as managers demand more and more from their employees, they are also providing them with less guidance than ever before. Since the number one factor in employee success is...
Leadership Agility
Five Levels of Mastery for Anticipating and Initiating Change
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2010
Leadership Agility is the master competency needed for sustained success in today’s complex, fast-paced business environment. Richly illustrated with stories based on original research and decades of work with clients, this groundbreaking book identifies five levels that leaders move through in...
Creative People Must Be Stopped
6 Ways We Kill Innovation (Without Even Trying)
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2011
A framework for overcoming the six types of innovation killers
Everybody wants innovation—or do they? Creative People Must Be Stopped shows how individuals and organizations sabotage their own best intentions to encourage "outside the box" thinking. It shows that the antidote to...
Project Portfolio Management
A Practical Guide to Selecting Projects, Managing Portfolios, and Maximizing Benefits
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2010
Project Portfolio Management (PPM) goes beyond the typical project management approach to offer a set of proven business practices that can help executives, program managers, and project managers bring projects into alignment with the strategies, resources, and executive oversight of the overall enterprise....