Leadership Blindspots is packed with detailed case studies examining how blind spots operate, using examples from firms like Apple, Amazon, Hewlett-Packard, JC Penney and JPMorgan Chase. These cases show how a leader’s blind spots can lead to devastating mistakes if they aren’t recognized and acted upon. Author Robert Bruce Shaw examines the most common types of blind spots and … [More]
Power Cues
In this provocative yet practical book, communication expert Nick Morgan highlights recent research that shows how humans are programmed to respond to the nonverbal cues of others — subtle gestures, sounds and signals — that elicit emotion, and provides a clear, useful framework of seven “power cues” that will be essential for any leader. Readers will learn crucial skills, from … [More]
Accountability: Make It Stick
As a leader at your organization, you like to think that you run a pretty tight ship. But if you’re being honest with yourself, you know that you let a few things slide. A missed deadline here and there. A few tiny white lies to clients. The fact that Mike in marketing often over-commits and under-delivers. Your own tendency to talk over others in meetings. In other words, … [More]
Mindfulness and Values-Clarification in the Workplace
Over the past decade, there has been an explosion of interest in mindfulness-based training programs. The impact of the mindful movement can be seen across the fields of psychotherapy, stress management, coaching and sports performance. In the workplace, mindfulness is being hailed for its potential to help employees and leaders stay in contact with present moment … [More]
Manage Distracted Employees
As all managers know, workday distractions are everywhere, stealing employees’ precious time and productivity. Between new technologies that beg for people’s attention to the prevalence of shortened attention spans, everyone on your team has the opportunity to be more distracted today than in the past. Of course, being distracted at work creates numerous problems, from missed … [More]
Companies Must Be Open to Stakeholders Who Criticize
Now is a new age of stakeholder activism. From single billionaires seeking to disrupt boards to activist “Davids” in the field launching stones at the temple of these global Goliaths, more and more passionate — and very vocal — critics are scrutinizing how corporations handle issues like energy, water use, conservation and social justice. “‘Corporate mansions’ have taken on … [More]
How to be an Even Better Manager
This ninth edition of How to be an Even Better Manager covers more than 60 essential topics across the three key areas in which any manager needs to be competent: managing people, managing activities and processes, and managing and developing oneself. Thoroughly revised and updated, with 10 new chapters providing timely advice on topics such as coaching, developing emotional … [More]
Flex
Renowned executive coaches and global leadership strategists Jane Hyun and Audrey S. Lee offer lessons on the vital skill of “Flexing” — the art of switching leadership styles to more effectively lead people who are different from oneself, allowing managers to successfully manage the multicultural workers of today and tomorrow. The book shows managers how to understand the … [More]
Ready to Be a Thought Leader
With the author’s proven seven-step process — and starting from wherever they are in their careers — readers can set a course for maximum impact in their field. These guidelines, along with stories, tips, and success secrets from those who have successfully made the transition to high-profile thought leader, allow readers to create a long-term plan and start putting it into … [More]
Be a Bankable Leader
Why won’t my employees just do what I tell them? Why am I struggling to motivate my team? Why aren’t they giving me the performance I need? These are common questions that plague many leaders. Often, companies promote to leadership employees who are competent technical professionals — who know how to build a bridge, negotiate a deal or justify a capital expenditure. But whether … [More]
Rethinking Leadership Development
Why do most training programs fail to change behavior? One of the main reasons is most focus on the characteristics of leadership; they do not go below the surface, but, instead, focus on visible factors and address them by teaching concepts, tips, introspection and what great leaders do. But leadership, organizations and people are dynamic. Every factor needs to be understood … [More]
On the Edge
This is an engaging leadership manual that provides concrete insights garnered from various extreme environments that range from Mt. Everest to the South Pole. By reflecting on the lessons learned from her various expeditions, author Alison Levine makes the case that the leadership principles that apply in extreme adventure sport also apply in today’s extreme business … [More]
Finding the Space to Lead
The complexity and relentless pace of our world places exceptional demands on leaders today. They work incredibly hard and yet feel that they are not meeting their own expectations of excellence. They feel disconnected from their own values and overburdened. Janice Marturano, a senior executive with decades of experience in Fortune 500 corporations, explains how Mindful … [More]
Leadership 2030
The tumultuous changes of the past decade, including China’s economic rise and the financial meltdown, were just the beginning. The next cataclysmic wave is surging relentlessly ahead, demanding leaders who can steer their companies through complexity and change. Drawn from original research conducted jointly with foresight company Z-Punkt and further analyzed by Hay Group, … [More]
It Starts with One
J. Stewart Black identifies the three critical “brain barriers” managers must break through in order to start, deepen and sustain needed change. With new cases, examples and tools for executing successful change initiatives, this edition dives even more deeply into the personal aspects of leading strategic change — as well as the unique challenges posed by driving change in … [More]
Leadership Control vs. Business Growth
Most entrepreneurs want to grow their companies. However, the road to success is often a bumpy one. While many businesses start quickly growing revenues and profits, they frequently plateau well short of their potential. This often leaves the owner confounded regarding why his or her once-thriving enterprise has fallen on hard times. It can be a frustrating … [More]
Go to Bat for Innovation-Nurturing Approach to Business
In baseball, you can fail 70 percent of the time and still be considered a strong player. Why is it that businesses give an employee with a new idea just one chance? Pitchers lose games, batters strike out, fielders make errors. Instead of firing them or sending them back to the minor leagues, managers study what went wrong. CEOs need to do the same thing. Kill the project, not … [More]
The 80/20 Manager
In his bestselling book The 80/20 Principle, Richard Koch showed readers how to practice in their personal lives the idea that 80 percent of results come from just 20 percent of effort. In this new book, he demonstrates how to apply the principle to management, to focus only on the issues that really matter, achieving exceptional results and feeling successful every day while … [More]
