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Even if you’re smart, dedicated, and have a stellar work ethic, you have gaps in your supervisory skills. You make mistakes that could hurt employees, your company, and your own career. You may get some limited training, depending on your organization. You might find mentors to guide you. You might invest
Work Happy

Even if you’re smart, dedicated, and have a stellar work ethic, you have gaps in your supervisory skills. You make mistakes that could hurt employees, your company, and your own career. You may get some limited training, depending on your organization. You might find mentors to guide you. You might invest

Winning from Within combines insights from Western psychology and Eastern philosophy with practical applications from real business situations and everyday life. Fox shows that the ability to achieve mastery over how we interact with each other comes from within, from the  center  where desires, thoughts, feelings, and impulses to take action
Winning from Within

Winning from Within combines insights from Western psychology and Eastern philosophy with practical applications from real business situations and everyday life. Fox shows that the ability to achieve mastery over how we interact with each other comes from within, from the center where desires, thoughts, feelings, and impulses to take action

In recounting a story told by a business leader, it appeals to our emotional self and involves us in a personal drama with a setting, plot, and characters. It captures our imagination. Once we’re hooked, the logical brain is engaged to reflect on the lessons, the wisdom, that can be drawn
The Power of Storytelling

In recounting a story told by a business leader, it appeals to our emotional self and involves us in a personal drama with a setting, plot, and characters. It captures our imagination. Once we’re hooked, the logical brain is engaged to reflect on the lessons, the wisdom, that can be drawn

Leadership is easy to intellectualize, but elusive to actualize. Leadership is part strategy, but mostly judgment. Always it is about grace, confidence, and touch. There are no half measures when it comes to leading others. You must be fully engaged and fully committed, but you must never personalize what is happening
The Twelve Absolutes of Leadership

Leadership is easy to intellectualize, but elusive to actualize. Leadership is part strategy, but mostly judgment. Always it is about grace, confidence, and touch. There are no half measures when it comes to leading others. You must be fully engaged and fully committed, but you must never personalize what is happening

People are prone to think of leadership as an individual activity linked to a position—usually the top of the organizational chart. Furthermore, they often think the ability to lead is reserved for a heroic few, those individuals who save us from ourselves by making up for our deficiencies. We have heard
Leaders of Learning

People are prone to think of leadership as an individual activity linked to a position—usually the top of the organizational chart. Furthermore, they often think the ability to lead is reserved for a heroic few, those individuals who save us from ourselves by making up for our deficiencies. We have heard

It is difficult to pick good leaders. Time and again, we complain about the quality of the men and women who run our companies, organizations, and governments. We bemoan their incompetence, their detachment, their lack of urgency. Inevitably we get rid of these leaders and move on to the next ones,
Why Are We Bad at Picking Good Leaders?

It is difficult to pick good leaders. Time and again, we complain about the quality of the men and women who run our companies, organizations, and governments. We bemoan their incompetence, their detachment, their lack of urgency. Inevitably we get rid of these leaders and move on to the next ones,

Leadership, simply put, is the ability to influence others. Values-based leadership takes it to the next level. By word, action, and example, values-based leaders seek to inspire and motivate, using their influence to pursue what matters most. The objective of values-based leadership is to do the right thing by making choices
From Values to Action

Leadership, simply put, is the ability to influence others. Values-based leadership takes it to the next level. By word, action, and example, values-based leaders seek to inspire and motivate, using their influence to pursue what matters most. The objective of values-based leadership is to do the right thing by making choices

This summary of Becoming Your Best by Steven R. Shallenberger talks about how running a business or department in today’s high-pressure business landscape gets more difficult every year.   
Becoming Your Best

This summary of Becoming Your Best by Steven R. Shallenberger talks about how running a business or department in today’s high-pressure business landscape gets more difficult every year.   

Tilman Fertitta, also known as the Billion Dollar Buyer, started his hospitality empire thirty years ago with just one restaurant. Over the years, he’s stayed true to the principles that helped him build the largest single-shareholder company in America, with over $4 billion in revenue, including hundreds of restaurants (Landry’s Seafood,
Shut Up and Listen!

Tilman Fertitta, also known as the Billion Dollar Buyer, started his hospitality empire thirty years ago with just one restaurant. Over the years, he’s stayed true to the principles that helped him build the largest single-shareholder company in America, with over $4 billion in revenue, including hundreds of restaurants (Landry’s Seafood,

  While the world’s workplace has been going through extraordinary historical change, the practice of management has been stuck in time for more than 30 years.   Packed with 52 discoveries from Gallup’s largest study on the future of work, It’s the Manager shows leaders how to adapt their organizations to rapid change, ranging
It's the Manager

  While the world’s workplace has been going through extraordinary historical change, the practice of management has been stuck in time for more than 30 years.   Packed with 52 discoveries from Gallup’s largest study on the future of work, It’s the Manager shows leaders how to adapt their organizations to rapid change, ranging

Do you sometimes feel that you are not efficient enough to be a leader? Do you feel that everything has gone out of hands, and you can’t manage it anymore? Maintaining change seems out of reach? Learn how to turn things around by creating a culture of engagement that provides satisfaction,
A Tale of Two Beehives

Do you sometimes feel that you are not efficient enough to be a leader? Do you feel that everything has gone out of hands, and you can’t manage it anymore? Maintaining change seems out of reach? Learn how to turn things around by creating a culture of engagement that provides satisfaction,

Using real-world inspirational examples from Marriott, Accenture, McKinsey & Company, LinkedIn, and many more, The Mind of the Leader shows how this new kind of leadership turns conventional leadership thinking upside down. It represents a radical redefinition of what it takes to be an effective leader--and a practical, hard-nosed solution to
The Mind of the Leader

Using real-world inspirational examples from Marriott, Accenture, McKinsey & Company, LinkedIn, and many more, The Mind of the Leader shows how this new kind of leadership turns conventional leadership thinking upside down. It represents a radical redefinition of what it takes to be an effective leader--and a practical, hard-nosed solution to

Elevating is challenging yourself to keep thriving; to keep pushing yourself beyond your limits to achieve your goals. People don't elevate because they're gifted or because they've got some talent that others don't. They elevate because they've found a way to keep improving themselves and reach their full potential. And so,
Elevate

Elevating is challenging yourself to keep thriving; to keep pushing yourself beyond your limits to achieve your goals. People don't elevate because they're gifted or because they've got some talent that others don't. They elevate because they've found a way to keep improving themselves and reach their full potential. And so,

During the last few years, chaos has erupted in many places around the world. And that created so many challenges for the governments and public organizations. They tried to overcome these challenges by making budget cuts or asking their employees to give more and increase their productivity, but these short-term solutions
Building High Performance Government Through Lean Six Sigma

During the last few years, chaos has erupted in many places around the world. And that created so many challenges for the governments and public organizations. They tried to overcome these challenges by making budget cuts or asking their employees to give more and increase their productivity, but these short-term solutions

A leader is a person who notices the strengths in others and has enough courage to nurture it and ensure that it grows. Unfortunately, there are not many of these people around nowadays although many have the potential. They just need a push of courage and that is what this summary
Dare to Lead

A leader is a person who notices the strengths in others and has enough courage to nurture it and ensure that it grows. Unfortunately, there are not many of these people around nowadays although many have the potential. They just need a push of courage and that is what this summary

The Summary of Agile Leadership: A Leader’s Guide to Orchestrating Agile Strategy, Product Quality and IT Governance by Tony Adams presents the philosophy behind Agile Framework for software development. The author, Tony Adams, consciously and clearly illustrates how to use the framework. He discusses how to assure product quality while aiming
Agile Leadership

The Summary of Agile Leadership: A Leader’s Guide to Orchestrating Agile Strategy, Product Quality and IT Governance by Tony Adams presents the philosophy behind Agile Framework for software development. The author, Tony Adams, consciously and clearly illustrates how to use the framework. He discusses how to assure product quality while aiming

What's the secret to having an engaged and productive team? It's having a plan for developing all employees--no matter where they are on their personal learning curves. Better morale and higher performance happen through learning, argues Whitney Johnson. In over twenty years of coaching, investing, and consulting, Johnson has seen that
Build an A-Team

What's the secret to having an engaged and productive team? It's having a plan for developing all employees--no matter where they are on their personal learning curves. Better morale and higher performance happen through learning, argues Whitney Johnson. In over twenty years of coaching, investing, and consulting, Johnson has seen that

Radical Candor is a simple idea: to be a good boss, you have to Care Personally at the same time that you Challenge Directly. When you challenge without caring it’s obnoxious aggression; when you care without challenging it’s ruinous empathy. When you do neither it’s manipulative insincerity.   This simple framework can help
Radical Candor

Radical Candor is a simple idea: to be a good boss, you have to Care Personally at the same time that you Challenge Directly. When you challenge without caring it’s obnoxious aggression; when you care without challenging it’s ruinous empathy. When you do neither it’s manipulative insincerity.   This simple framework can help

Everyone has blind spots. The purpose of Hacking Leadership is to equip leaders at every level with an actionable framework to identify blind spots and close leadership gaps. The bulk of the book is based on actionable, topical leadership and management hacks to bridge eleven gaps every business needs to cross
Hacking Leadership

Everyone has blind spots. The purpose of Hacking Leadership is to equip leaders at every level with an actionable framework to identify blind spots and close leadership gaps. The bulk of the book is based on actionable, topical leadership and management hacks to bridge eleven gaps every business needs to cross

Why do perfectly good companies have to die? They don’t. Companies can avoid or overcome almost any business challenge with the right talent. It’s when organizations don’t regenerate their talent—and with it their supply of new ideas, approaches, and solutions—that they flounder. The wisdom of talent spawner—whom we call superbosses—isn’t merely
Superbosses

Why do perfectly good companies have to die? They don’t. Companies can avoid or overcome almost any business challenge with the right talent. It’s when organizations don’t regenerate their talent—and with it their supply of new ideas, approaches, and solutions—that they flounder. The wisdom of talent spawner—whom we call superbosses—isn’t merely

You may not consider yourself a leader, but if you take some time thinking about your daily activities, you might discover that you are. Don’t believe? Here are some examples that may convince you: If you are good at your job to the extent that your co-workers ask for your advice,
Becoming a Technical Leader

You may not consider yourself a leader, but if you take some time thinking about your daily activities, you might discover that you are. Don’t believe? Here are some examples that may convince you: If you are good at your job to the extent that your co-workers ask for your advice,

The Effective Manager is a hands-on practical guide to great management at every level. Written by the man behind Manager Tools, the world's number-one business podcast, this book distills the author's 25 years of management training expertise into clear, actionable steps to start taking today. First, you'll identify what  effective management
The Effective Manager

The Effective Manager is a hands-on practical guide to great management at every level. Written by the man behind Manager Tools, the world's number-one business podcast, this book distills the author's 25 years of management training expertise into clear, actionable steps to start taking today. First, you'll identify what effective management

Everybody hates bureaucracies, even those who work in them. No one set out to make bureaucracies the enemy of ordinary people, resistant to change, impervious to new realities, and incompetent. Few if any individuals choose public service as a career because they want to make life miserable for people or to
A Passion for Leadership

Everybody hates bureaucracies, even those who work in them. No one set out to make bureaucracies the enemy of ordinary people, resistant to change, impervious to new realities, and incompetent. Few if any individuals choose public service as a career because they want to make life miserable for people or to

This is a classic book that delves into the nifty gritty that is involved in leadership. Being a book that is an update of its previous editions, it is a modern approach that includes the modern leadership methods and the attributes that a leader requires to be successful in the 21st
On Becoming a Leader

This is a classic book that delves into the nifty gritty that is involved in leadership. Being a book that is an update of its previous editions, it is a modern approach that includes the modern leadership methods and the attributes that a leader requires to be successful in the 21st

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