Leadership category: 28435 books
Dispositions of Leadership
The Effects on Student Learning and School Culture
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2017
Dispositions of Leadership: The Effects on Student Learning and School Culture stands alone as an approach for developing leaders who are adaptive and can thrive in unpredictable settings. Educational leadership is a domain of its own, apart from business and industry, combining an effective learning...
The Power of Team Leadership
Achieving Success Through Shared Responsibility
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2013
Most leadership in today’s churches comes from “solo practitioners”--individuals who bear the burden of providing all the direction the ministry they direct requires. Inevitably, this results not only in burned-out leaders, but underutilized lay people who merely attend and observe rather than...
Mindfulness
Applications for Leaders and Clinicians
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2014
“Mindfulness” is becoming a fashionable buzzword. However, there’s nothing new about it. It is part of human nature itself. Mindfulness means paying attention, with intention, to the world as it is with an attitude of equanimity. It's easy to say, easy to do a little bit but takes a real discipline...
The Leadership Dynamic
A Biblical Model for Raising Effective Leaders
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2008
Offers a time-tested, biblical model of leadership development that prepares churches to produce leaders not just for the church but for all spheres of society.
"The true test of a leader," according to Harry Reeder, "is not how many followers he has but the strategic effectiveness...
by Daniel L. Duke
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2010
Despite the rising interest in school districts, there are relatively few comprehensive resources available for graduate students in educational leadership programs. The Challenges of School District Leadership takes the position that the best way to prepare the next generation of school district...
Leading School Improvement
A Framework for Action
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2015
What does it mean to lead in a learning environment, as opposed to a system of knowledge transmission? A community, as opposed to a bureaucracy? A customer-oriented organization, as opposed to a public monopoly? To create truly powerful learning environments, school leaders must focus the lens on...
The Clock Tower
A Story about the Three Critical Elements of Effective Leadership
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
The board's decision was painful, brutal, and humiliating. As his fortunes spiral downward, can Richard salvage his company — and his career? From a strange and surprising encounter with three mysterious figures comes hope . . . but is it enough to change his and the company's fortunes? Discover not...
Leadership Language
Using Authentic Communication to Drive Results
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2018
The only language you need to know to change your results.
Inside each of us is a vision of how things could be. Yet most people remain frustrated by a lack of impact, unable to connect and inspire the people they care about the most. Why?
There’s a language we understand, but rarely...
by Bingxin Wu
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
‘New Theory on Leadership Management Science’ uses multidisciplinary systems to comprehensively study leadership management. From philosophical, sociological, cultural, historical, management and marketing perspectives, it studies leadership management during the process of combining theory and...
by Mike Thompson
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2009
A new style of leader is emerging from the world’s most successful organizations. These dynamic men and women are driven by possibilities and absolutely committed to mutual values. Excited, creative, and alert, they are the new change makers.
Imagine: an army of these outstanding leaders...
by Chappelow, Leslie
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2000
Managers who achieve significant professional goals do not often worry about career derailment. But complacency is not the same as continued success, which can usually be found among four leadership competencies: interpersonal relationships, team leadership, getting results, and adaptability. Leadership...
by William Youngdahl, Robert T. Moran
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2008
This book is a must-read for anyone responsible for projects and initiatives that span functional and geographical divides. Authors Moran and Youngdahl bring extensive experience and learning from industry practice to present a clear and straightforward treatment of the leadership skills and knowledge...
Navigating an Organizational Crisis: When Leadership Matters Most
When Leadership Matters Most
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2016
How are leaders facing a crisis supposed to handle and overcome an unknowable set of issues? This book demonstrates how effective leaders under pressure work from an understanding of the situation at hand and of their impact on others, and explains how leaders can best apply their internal strengths.
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Looking for Leadership
The Dilemma of Political Leadership in Japan
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2015
Democratic leaders around the world are finding it increasingly difficult to exercise strong leadership and maintain public support. However, there is nowhere that this has proven to be as challenging of a task as Japan, which has seen its top leaders change more often over the past 25 years than...