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Why Great Leaders Don’t Take Yes for an Answer: Managing for Conflict and Consensus

mrblue — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 11:33:06 +0000

In this highly readable volume, Harvard Business School professor Roberto demonstrates that the key to making successful strategic business decisions lies in the decision-making process itself. Through nine refreshingly jargon-free chapters, along with helpful graphs and charts, Roberto argues that “good process entails the astute management of the social,

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Leadership: Plain and Simple

mrblue — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 08:40:50 +0000

You already have what it takes to be an effective leader. But to be the best leader you can be, you need to recognise what really works and then build your skills in these areas. Leadership: Plain and Simple gives you a powerful framework to

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The Leadership Challenge: Activities Book

mrblue — Sat, 22 Oct 2011 23:46:45 +0000

The best leaders are the best learners. This evidence-based truth has been a foundational principle of The Leadership Challenge since it was first published nearly twenty-five years ago. In this new work, bestselling Leadership Challenge authors Jim Kouzes and Barry Posner team up with experiential learning expert Elaine

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Cases in Leadership, 2nd Edition

mrblue — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 15:19:02 +0000

Cases in Leadership, Second Edition is a unique collection of 29 real-world leadership cases from Ivey Publishing plus 15 practitioner readings from the Ivey Business Journal. The updated casebook helps business students gain a better understanding of leadership and enables them to

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The Only Leadership Book You’ll Ever Need: How to Build Organizations Where Employees Love to Come to Work

mrblue — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 03:49:20 +0000

Every organization faces challenges and hardships. The Only Leadership Book You’ll Ever Need teaches leaders how to overcome their most difficult obstacle: employee engagement. By pinpointing specific areas leaders can focus on and change, this book shows how one leader can effectively change the entire workplace environment– for

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Leveraging Chaos: The Mysteries of Leadership and Policy Revealed

mrblue — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 05:43:14 +0000

John R. Shoup and Susan Clark Studer explore the rules and patterns that govern complex systems that, when properly understood and applied, result in more effective leadership than what is offered from traditional leadership models. Their book is designed to equip leaders with the knowledge and skills to

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Why Great Leaders Don’t Take Yes for an Answer: Managing for Conflict and Consensus

mrblue — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 18:06:26 +0000

Harvard Business School’s Michael Roberto draws on powerful decision-making case studies from every walk of life, showing how to promote honest, constructive dissent and skepticism; use it to improve decisions; and align organizations behind those decisions. Learn from disasters like the Space Shuttle Columbia and JFK’s Bay

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Engaged Leadership: Building a Culture to Overcome Employee Disengagement, 2nd Edition

mrblue — Fri, 12 Aug 2011 04:24:06 +0000

Praise for Engaged Leadership, second edition

“Engaged Leadership is the best of both worlds: an engaging business story coupled with a primer on the practical skills all leaders need. In the book, Swindall provides many useful tools for successfully meeting twelve major leadership challenges. I recommend it.”—Mark

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Transparency: How Leaders Create a Culture of Candor

mrblue — Thu, 28 Jul 2011 01:29:48 +0000

In Transparency, the authors?a powerhouse trio in the field of leadership?look at what conspires against “a culture of candor” in organizations to create disastrous results, and suggest ways that leaders can achieve healthy and honest openness. They explore the lightning-rod concept of “transparency”?which has fast become the buzzword

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Leading for Growth: How Umpqua Bank Got Cool and Created a Culture of Greatness

mrblue — Tue, 26 Jul 2011 06:01:10 +0000

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.” Eleven

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