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Judgment
Noel M. Tichy, Warren G. Bennis
Whether you’re discussing former United States presidents, Fortune 500 CEOs, military generals or college hockey coaches, leaders are remembered for their best and worst judgment calls. According to business gurus Tichy and Bennis, it is a leader’s judgment that can determine the fate of the entire organization.
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Crisis Leadership Now
Laurence Barton
In Crisis Leadership Now, author Laurence Barton applies his corporate insider\'s insight to numerous case studies, demonstrating how catastrophes happen to real companies and real people every day. These studies form a framework for building crisis management thinking into your company\'s strategic toolbox. Anticipating all forms of trouble, advising senior management and boards of directors about potential events, and devising a business recovery plan will allow your organization to rebound should tragedy strike
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True North
Bill George, Peter Sims
Just as a compass points toward a magnetic field, your True North pulls you toward the purpose of your leadership. When you follow your internal compass, your leadership will be authentic, and people will naturally want to associate with you.
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The Orange Code
Arkadi Kuhlmann, Bruce Philp
The Orange Code recounts ING Direct's –– the successful Internet-based direct bank with over 20 million customers –– intriguing story and explains the philosophy of its founder Arkadi Kuhlmann and his long-running partnership with Bruce Philp, the branding consultant who helped him make ING Direct a cause to its own people and a household name across North America. In an entertaining and inspiring style, Kuhlmann and Philp discuss their unconventional approach to business strategy and leadership that built ING Direct, and detail how personal financial empowerment has made everyone a winner in this story.
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Leadership and the Sexes
Michael Gurian, Barbara Annis
Gender experts Michael Gurian and Barbara Annis explore what the latest scientific studies reveal about male/female brain differences and explain how these impact the ways men and women negotiate, communicate, lead and run meetings. Then they teach how to use this scientific gender intelligence for business success.
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The New Boss
Peter Fischer
Translated from German and published for the first time in English, The New Boss provides a thorough guide for newly appointed senior managers and executives to make a successful transition into their new leadership roles. Fischer covered all the bases, illuminating the seven building blocks of an accomplished transition, as well as case studies spelling out nearly every possible leadership transition.
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The Necessary Revolution
Peter Senge, Bryan Smith, Nina Kruschwitz, Joe Laur, Sara Schley
The Necessary Revolution focuses on sustainability and the challenge for businesses to invest in new solutions to environmental problems and innovative strategies that will generate both short- and long-term profitability while helping to create a better world. The authors tell us that it is business that has the motivation, ability and resources to dramatically change the way we do things.
Peter Senge, Bryan Smith, Nina Kruschwitz, Joe Laur, Sara Schley
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Leaders at All Levels
Ram Charan
In Leaders at All Levels: Deepening Your Talent Pool to Solve the Succession Crisis, Ram Charan — prolific author and world-renowned advisor to business leaders — takes aim at the current crisis in leadership: the shortage of leaders prepared to face the complex business challenges of today. Charan offers a solution that outlines a new model for succession and leadership development.
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Corporate Reputation
Leslie Gaines-Ross
Dr. Leslie Gaines-Ross explains why reputation matters to a company\'s valuation and well-being and identifies the roles corporate leaders must play in reputation recovery and sustainability. What triggers reputation loss? What are the signals? Why are so many companies struggling with tarnished reputations? What can be done? The most important phases in recovering reputation are outlined in a 12-step process.
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Leadership Gold
John C. Maxwell
Good leadership always makes a difference. It can turn organizations around and positively impact the lives of thousands. Learning more about leadership will make a difference in you, and you will make a difference in the lives of others. John Maxwell shares a lifetime of leadership truths, which can guide anyone who currently leads or aspires to lead.
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Get There Early
Bob Johansen
Very few leaders consult a crystal ball or a psychic when it comes to looking into the future with regards to their business; nonetheless, they are still responsible for understanding how the decisions they made yesterday will affect their organization five years from now. Johansen and the Institute for the Future provide their insights into the next decade, and show readers how they too can begin to navigate the road to the future.
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Leading With Character
John J. Sosik
Leading With Character offers a unique collection of fascinating stories about 25 famous leaders from business, history and pop culture such as John F. Kennedy, Brian Wilson, Rosa Parks, Joe Namath, Pat Tillman and Nelson Mandela to name a handful.
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Leading at a Higher Level
Ken Blanchard
Blanchard, a leading management consultant and author of The New York Times best seller The One Minute Manager, and his colleagues at the Ken Blanchard Companies have spent over 25 years helping leaders and organizations become great and remain great. Finally they have brought all of that knowledge together and distilled it into Leading at a Higher Level.
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Know-How
Ram Charan
This book explores what every executive must know to manage today’s environmental challenges. Based on the authors’ years of experience and hundreds of interviews with corporate leaders around the world, the book shows how companies generate lasting value by building environmental thinking into their business strategies.
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The Leader of the Future 2
Frances Hesselbein, Marshall Goldsmith
Ten years after the bestselling The Leader of the Future hit the stands, comes this collection of essays from thought leaders of yesterday and today. Read Peter Drucker’s thoughts on executive leadership, R. Roosevelt Thomas Jr.’s theory of diversity management, General Eric K. Shinseki’s metaphor of one-eyed kings, Marshall Goldsmith’s words on leading new age professionals, and much more.
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The Starfish and the Spider
Ori Brafman, Rod A. Beckstrom
A spider has legs, a central body and a tiny head. Chop off the spider’s head and it dies. That’s what happens in a centralized organization with a clear leader in charge. A decentralized organization is more like a starfish — no head, only a decentralized network of cells. This book addresses the differences between the two organizational styles and why a smart business model contains parts of both.
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A Leader's Legacy
James M. Kouzes, Barry Z. Posner
A Leader’s Legacy is a compilation of powerful essays that explore the question of leadership and legacy. These essays are grouped into categories covering significance, relationships, aspirations and courage. The authors examine critical questions all leaders must ask themselves in order to leave a positive and lasting impact
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The Wizard and the Warrior
Lee G. Bolman, Terrence E. Deal
Bestselling authors Lee Bolman and Terrence Deal give leaders the insight and courage they need to take risks on behalf of values they cherish and the people they guide. Great leaders must act both as wizard, calling on imagination, creativity, meaning and magic, and as warrior, mobilizing strength, courage and willingness to fight as necessary to fulfill their mission.
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Confidence
Rosabeth Moss Kanter
Presidents, managers, coaches and even individuals have the power to choose how they deal with a loss, and whether they are going to allow it to be the beginning of a trend, or have the confidence to learn how to win next time. By studying winning and losing teams, companies and organizations, Harvard Business School Professor Rosabeth Moss Kanter has found the keys to confidence and the way to find it when it is lost. Confidence presents the new theory and practice of success, and explains why success and failure are not mere episodes but self-perpetuating trajectories.
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Why Great Leaders Don't Take Yes For an Answer
Michael A. Roberto
In Why Great Leaders Don’t Take Yes for an Answer, Harvard Business School’s Michael Roberto shows company leaders how to stimulate honest, constructive dissent; use it to improve decisions; then align their entire organization behind those decisions. Drawing on extensive research, Roberto shows how to promote candor, leverage an organization’s wisdom, and build consensus that leads to effective action. He also presents examples from history while exploring how real organizations make real decisions, as well as how the decision process unfolds throughout the organization — not just in the executive suite.
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Winners Never Cheat
Jon M. Huntsman
Jon M. Huntsman started with practically nothing, and built a world-class business that carried him to Forbes’ list of America’s wealthiest people. In Winners Never Cheat, Huntsman, chairman and founder of Huntsman Corp., the world’s largest privately held chemical company, presents the principled lessons he has learned and followed throughout his lifetime. He also explains how business can return to the days when your word was your bond, a handshake was sacred, and swarms of lawyers weren’t needed to back it up.
