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The Leader's Guide to Storytelling
Mastering the Art and Discipline of Business Narrative
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2010
In his best-selling book, Squirrel Inc., former World Bank executive and master storyteller Stephen Denning used a tale to show why storytelling is a critical skill for leaders. Now, in this hands-on guide, Denning explains how you can learn to tell the right story at the right time. Whoever you are...
The Leader's Guide to Storytelling
Mastering the Art and Discipline of Business Narrative
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2011
How leaders can use the right story at the right time to inspire change and action
This revised and updated edition of the best-selling book A Leader's Guide to Storytelling shows how storytelling is one of the few ways to handle the most important and difficult challenges of leadership: sparking...
Games At Work
How to Recognize and Reduce Office Politics
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2009
AS LONG AS PEOPLE HAVE WORKED together, they have engaged in political games. Motivated by short-term gains—promotions, funding for a project, budget increases, status with the boss—people misuse their time and energy. Today, when many organizations are fighting for their lives and scarce resources...
by James M. Kouzes, Barry Z. Posner
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2013
How can you inspire your employees to the high levels of engagement that drive strong results across the board?
Drawing on over 30 years of research and data from more than two million constituents around the world, Jim Kouzes and Barry Posner, the bestselling authors of The Leadership Challenge,...
by John B. McGuire, Gary Rhodes
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2009
CCL fellows McGuire and Rhodes replace the common and popular myth that change in organizational culture is beyond the reach of mere mortals. They offer a practical guide for achieving feasible culture transformation by helping leaders see how leading the culture and managing the operations are two...
The Clarity Principle
How Great Leaders Make the Most Important Decision in Business (and What Happens When They Don't)
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2013
Turf wars, low morale, bad politics, and misguided strategies: these are issues that claim much of a leader’s time. But this parade of dysfunctions and messy “people” problems actually points to an organization confused about its core business, torn between competing ideas about what it is and...
The IABC Handbook of Organizational Communication
A Guide to Internal Communication, Public Relations, Marketing, and Leadership
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2011
Praise for The IABC Handbook of Organizational Communication
"Looking to expand your professional abilities? Learn new skills? Or hone your area of expertise? This book delivers an amazing and practical study of our profession—and a guidebook for strategic communication best practices....
The Performance Pipeline
Getting the Right Performance At Every Level of Leadership
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2011
The guide that defines the results required at each organizational level to sustain business success
It's not enough to build a company full of people with leadership skills. The Performance Pipeline digs deep into the real work of executing business results at each leadership layer.
Filled...
The Necessity of Strangers
The Intriguing Truth About Insight, Innovation, and Success
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2013
A counterintuitive approach to fostering greater innovation, collaboration, and engagement
Most of us assume our success relies on a network of friends and close contacts. But innovative thinking requires a steady stream of fresh ideas and new possibilities, which strangers are more likely...
The Chief HR Officer
Defining the New Role of Human Resource Leaders
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2011
Praise for the chief HR Officer
"The strategic portfolio of issues addressed and the sage wisdom and perspectives shared make this book a powerful transformation tool." —Jodee Kozlak, executive vice president, Human Resources, Target Corporation
"An up-to-the-minute...
Change with Confidence
Answers to the 50 Biggest Questions that Keep Change Leaders Up at Night
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2013
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...
The Responsibility Revolution
How the Next Generation of Businesses Will Win
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2010
How to create a company that not only sustains, but surpasses-that moves beyond the imperative to be "less bad" and embrace an ethos to be "all good"
From the Inspired Protagonist and Chairman of Seventh Generation, the country's leading brand of household products and a...
Turnaround Tools for the Teenage Brain
Helping Underperforming Students Become Lifelong Learners
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2013
Powerful research-based strategies to turn around struggling adolescent students
The achievement gap is widening and more teens than ever are struggling in school. The latest research shows not only that brains can change, but that teachers and other providers have the power to boost students'...
The Innovative University
Changing the DNA of Higher Education from the Inside Out
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2011
The Innovative University illustrates how higher education can respond to the forces of disruptive innovation , and offers a nuanced and hopeful analysis of where the traditional university and its traditions have come from and how it needs to change for the future. Through an examination of Harvard...