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]
The 5 Levels of Leadership
Being chosen for a position is only the first of the five levels every effective leader achieves. Becoming more than “the boss” people follow only because they are required to requires mastering the ability to invest in people and inspire them. Building a team that produces requires helping people develop their skills to become leaders in their own right. And those who have the … [More]
The Heart of Leadership
Are you the type of leader people want to follow? You can be — but first, you’ve got to understand what sets great leaders apart from all the rest. Certainly, leaders need people skills, execution skills, a deep knowledge of industry trends, the ability to articulate a vision, and more, but that’s just the tip of the iceberg. In his latest business fable, Mark Miller describes … [More]
Creative Confidence
It is a common assumption that creativity and innovation are the domain of the “creative types.” But two of the leading experts in innovation, design and creativity show us that each of us is creative. Drawing on countless stories from their work at the Stanford d.school IDEO and with many of the world’s top companies, Tom and David Kelley identify the principles and strategies … [More]
How Can Manufacturing Increase Profits and Reduce Waste?
In an organization’s functional terminology, we refer to “money” as the finance function and “manpower” as the human resource department; “machineries” represents the plant and “materials” stands for the inputs required for the final product. In our present organizational set-up, the operations/manufacturing, engineering, quality control and R&D are combined under … [More]
The Chaos Imperative
In The Chaos Imperative, organizational expert and bestselling author Ori Brafman shows how even the best and most efficient organizations, from Fortune 500 companies to today’s U.S. Army, benefit from allowing a little unstructured space and disruption into their planning and decision-making. The authors reveal how organizations can drive growth and profits by allowing … [More]
Compelling People:
Drawing on cutting-edge social science research as well as their own work with Fortune 500 executives, members of Congress and Nobel Prize winners, the authors demystify the process we use to size each other up. It turns out that we judge each other primarily on two critical criteria: strength and warmth. The authors explain the inner workings of each, the tension that makes it … [More]
Out Think
From CEOs to marketing departments, company leaders are searching for ways to leap-frog their businesses to the leading edge, imprint their brand on the public consciousness, and become more relevant to the ever-changing global marketplace — to transform their businesses into 21st-century competitive game-changers. Out Think explains how to stand out, to express creativity and … [More]
How Successful People Lead
In this book, No. 1 New York Times bestselling author John C. Maxwell explains how true leadership works. It is not generated by a person’s title. In fact, being named to a position is the lowest of the five levels every effective leader achieves. To be more than a boss people are required to follow, a person must master the ability to inspire and invest in people. He or she … [More]
Navigate around the Quicksand in the Global Marketplace
Globalization has been the buzzword of the decade, yet many U.S. business managers are still unaware of the skill sets they urgently need to compete in a global market. There are 32 developed countries with 1 billion potential customers and 162 developing nations with 6 billion people, many heading into the middle class for the first time, with all the attendant needs and … [More]
Myths of Performance Management
Investments in performance measurement and management systems have been steadily increasing over the past two decades, and there is no sign this trend will change in the future. Leaders and managers in both private and public organizations regard such systems as a key means to implement and communicate strategy, support decision making, align behaviors, and, ultimately, improve … [More]
Strategic Business Structuring Can Save Assets
So you’re ready to open a business. You have 15 solid years of experience. Your first customer is waiting. A contract manufacturer is ready to start production. You’ve decided on an L.L.C. for your business structure and you’re ready to conquer the world … The best advice for someone in the above scenario is to slow down. Choosing the right entity for a business is … [More]
