One of corporate America's greatest enemies profiles twelve CEOs, including The Body Shop's Anita Roddick, Patagonia's Yvon Chouinard and Vanguard's John Bogle, whom he believes performed extraordinarily well as business leaders and civic reformers.

"These 60 daily readings from author Donald Miller focus on the tangible skills it takes to offer extreme value to your organization while building your company, your career, and your legacy"--

The more traditional forms of leadership that are based on static hierarchies and professional distance between leaders and followers are growing increasingly outdated and ineffective. As organizations face more complex interdependent tasks, leadership must become more personal in order to insure open trusting communication that will make more collaborative problem solving and innovation possible. Without open and trusting communications throughout...

In this book, preeminent organizational scholar Edward Lawler identifies a comprehensive and integrated set of talent management practices that fit today's rapidly evolving workplace. The world of work has changed dramatically, says Lawler. Organizations now operate in a global environment. New technologies continue to disrupt how, when, and where work is done and should be managed. The workforce is becoming more diverse. Sustainability has joined...

The new edition of an international bestseller helps individuals and organizations shift to a new mindset that will improve performance, spark collaboration, accelerate innovation, and make your life and the lives of everyone around you better. Without even being aware of it, many of us operate from an inward mindset, a single-minded focus on our own goals and objectives. This book points out the many ways, some quite subtle and deceptive, that this...

An unmatched exercise in leadership and self-discovery, written by a best-selling author and the preeminent thought leader on authentic leadership today

In the newly revised Emerging Leader Edition of the True North Fieldbook, seasoned executive and Harvard Business School Executive Fellow Bill George delivers an eye-opening discussion of how to find your leadership purpose: your True North. Through a series of reflective

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If you're like most leaders, your hard work isn't translating into the results you desire. Maybe trying harder is not the solution.What if you could achieve more than you ever thought possible -by changing your approach to leadership?Former CEO and serial entrepreneur Bobby Albert has lived, learned and taught leadership – for decades. In Principled Profits, Bobby reveals the Paradox of Effective Leadership that transformed his leadership and catapulted...

The Bold Maneuver: The Working Woman’s Playbook helps women understand the factors that produce success outside of education, experience, and hard work, and gives them the high achiever’s playbook.You know you're ready to be the leader you've always dreamed of being, and you're ready to make the impact you set out to make when you started your career, but how do you get past the feeling you're in another episode of The Office? In The Bold Maneuver,...

Installing agile tools and practices won't be enough to respond to rapid market change unless you lay the groundwork with six key enabling factors, identified by the United Kingdom's leading agile consulting firm, Agile Centre. An ever-growing pile of frameworks and tools falsely offer an “easy route” to organizational agility. However, responding to rapid market change requires you alter so much more than just your way of working. Your work...

Make Conflict Your Partner for Positive Change! Clinical psychologist and transformative communication expert Dr. Nate Regier believes that the biggest energy crisis facing our world is the misuse of conflict. Most organizations are terrified of conflict, seeing it as a sign of trouble. But conflict isn't the problem, says Regier. It's all about how we use the energy. When people misuse conflict energy, it becomes drama: they struggle against themselves...