Management & Leadership Books

100 Ways to Motivate Others: How Great Leaders can Produce Inane Results Without Driving People Crazy

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100 Ways to Motivate Others is the culmination of many years of successful leadership coaching and training by best-selling author Steve Chandler and attorney Scott Richardson, and the natural follow-up to Steve's two previous best-sellers-100 Ways to Motivate Yourself and Reinventing Yourself. Chandler and Richardson have crafted a vital, user-friendly, inspirational guide for executives, managers, and professionals...and those aspiring to reach their level. Breakthrough concepts, such as "Don't manage people, manage agreements," abound in this book of short takes for the time-challenged leader. 100 Ways to Motivate Others draws on the success of live workshops, seminars, and personal coaching programs on communications and leadership. These seminars, done for such organizations as Banner Health, General Dynamics, Scripps Hospital, Wells Fargo Banks, Bristol-Myers Squibb, and M&I Banks, appeal to managers, teachers, parents, CEOs, and coaches everywhere.

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Building Leaders: Blueprints for Developing Leadership at Every Level of Your Church

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Training the next generation of leaders is crucial to spreading the gospel, yet most churches have no formal way of doing this. Why? Tight budgets, small staffs, and a lack of know-how are just a few reasons suggested by church consultants Aubrey Malphurs and William Mancini in this groundbreaking book. Building Leaders provides real-life examples of ways churches can unleash their true ministry potential by training staff members and laypeople to lead. With step-by-step instructions that can be applied to any church or parachurch ministry, Building Leaders shows readers how to: - empower, not just train, leaders - overcome obstacles to developing leaders - identify emerging leaders - use biblical models for training leaders - form a leadership training program to fit any size or budget Packed with surveys, discussion questions, and a leadership development guide, Building Leaders will encourage leaders to "duplicate themselves" in order to see their ministry grow. It is a perfect resource for ministry students, church leaders, and pastors.

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Corporate Turnaround: How Managers Turn Losers into Winners

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The ultimate guide on crisis management of corporations that are foundering or failing.

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The Cure: Enterprise Medicine for Business

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Praise For The Cure

"The Cure is valuable. . . a great read and an insightful depiction of the journey involved in executing the management principles of successful companies in this decade."
?Bob Bond, President, Automation Group, Parker-Hannifin

"Using Enterprise Medicine, Coleman went from dead stop to warp speed in eight months. Reading The Cure provides great insight into the journey required to accomplish this kind of turnaround. It?s a must-read for any president who needs to rapidly change the business he?s leading."
?Bill Phillips, CEO & President, The Coleman Company, Inc.

"The Cure works. I?ve used the process to dramatically change the culture of two companies. By breaking down silos and building company-wide strategy ownership, you will be surprised by the amount of creativity and commitment that can be rapidly produced."
?Randy Larrimore, President & CEO, United Stationers

"Having lived through the ?common cold? of organizational dysfunction, The Cure artfully describes the prescription that helped heal and create a team that focused on results, leadership, and winning."
?James Raskin, Vice President Business Development
Black & Decker Inc.

"The Cure unwinds the complexities of the dysfunctional patterns within our organizations and proves that change is possible. The sensitive issues needn?t remain unspoken. Success, both corporate and personal, is truly possible."
?Debbra Johnson, Market Development Manager
DuPont Safety & Protection

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Managing For The Long Run: Lessons In Competitive Advantage From Great Family Businesses

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Emulating the Success Strategies of Enduring Family Businesses

Fidelity, Hallmark, Michelin, and Wal-Mart are renowned industry powerhouses with long leadership track records. Yet these celebrated companies are united by another factor not generally equated with competitive success: They are all family-controlled businesses.

While many view the hallmarks of family businesses-stable strategies, clan cultures, and unencumbered family ownership-as weaknesses, Danny Miller and Isabelle Le Breton-Miller argue that it is these very characteristics that create formidable competitive advantages for many such firms.

Managing for the Long Run draws from a worldwide study of enduring, family-run organizations-including Cargill, Timken, L.L. Bean, The New York Times, and IKEA-to reveal their unconventional success strategies and how these strategies can be adopted and applied in any organization. Miller and Le Breton-Miller show how four driving passions of family-run firms-command, continuity, community, and connection-give rise to a set of practices that defy modern management thinking yet ensure a company's long term competitive advantage.

Outlining how these practices can enhance strategic efforts from operations to brand leadership to innovation, this book shows what every company must do to manage for the long run.

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5-D Leadership: Key Dimensions for Leading in the Real World

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5-D Leadership celebrates the knowledge that there is more than one way to be an effective leader, delivering a dynamic process to help current and aspiring leaders alike discover and strengthen their innate abilities and master the realities of today's complex business challenges. They set out the concrete actions required for each approach adn describe in detail how leaders can leverage the strengths they already possess to lead effectively, whatever the situation.

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The 7 Levels of Change: Different Thinking for Different Results

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The Definitive Business Plan: The Fast-track to Intelligent Business Planning for Executives and Entrepreneurs ("Financial Times")

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Truly a practical guide to better business planning. The book is friendly and easy to read. It is especially helpful in developing the correct thought process, which is so essential to effective strategic planning. An indispensable corporate tool. Peter N. Tan, Senior Vice President, Hambrecht & Quist Preparing and presenting an intelligent business plan is a challenge that both entrepreneur and senior executive alike face. Whether the goal is raising start-up finance for a new business or requesting venture funding from a corporate parent, a good business plan must deliver all the information decision-makers are really looking for. The Definitive Business Plan ensures you do this. Accessible to the newcomer and detailed enough for the experienced planner, this guide explains how to tailor a plan for specific readerships and to meet specific objectives. If you want people to part with their cash, you need a business plan that has substance. In this highly regarded book, Richard Stutely will help you make sure your plan is robust enough to start, run or revitalise any business enterprise.The Definitive Business Series will ensure you get up to speed fast with all the business essentials you need to be a success. With their guided step-by-step approach the latest practical business techniques and concepts and their easy-to-read style, The Definitive Business Series cover every aspect of the topic from the business basics to the essential skills needed to progress in your career. The Definitive Business Series. Your fast-track to business success.

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The Process-Focused Organization: A Transition Strategy for Success

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Pages: 223, Edition: Pap/Com, Paperback, ASQ Quality Press

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The Responsibility Virus: How Control Freaks, Shrinking Violets and the Rest of Us Can H Arness the Power of True Partnership

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Are you a heroic leader? Or are you a passive follower? Chances are you act like one or the other, and it's doing serious damage to your company, your customers, and your colleagues. The reason behind your harmful behavior? The fear that you'll be held responsible for any failures -which often makes failure the inevitable outcome. Management guru Roger Martin calls this fear of failure and the behavior it causes "The Responsibility Virus." With lively case studies based on real business practice, he shows how the Virus "infects" corporations and nonprofit organizations large and small. No message could be more urgent in today's business climate.

Martin lays out a wholly original way of understanding group dynamics. His impassioned belief in the "power of one" will be required reading for any of us who think about how we function in organizations, from the boardroom to the mail room.

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