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If any of the following behaviors sound like you or someone you work with, beware! In Why CEOs Fail, David L. Dotlich and Peter C. Cairo describe the most common characteristics of derailed top executives and how you can avoid them: *Arrogance-you think that you're right, and everyone else is wrong.

Leadership Agility is the master competency needed for sustained success in today's complex, fast-paced business environment. Richly illustrated with stories based on original research and decades of work with clients, this groundbreaking book identifies five levels that leaders move through in developing their agility.

How to realize your own leadership potential Based on the bestselling book, Deep Change, The Deep Change Field Guide takes readers through the introspective journey of personal transformation.

Tells the personal stories of people who have embraced deep change and inspired author to take his concept one step further and develop a model of leadership - 'the fundamental state of leadership.'

Take back control of your career journeyIn the newly revised edition of Career Anchors: Finding Stability and Opportunity in the Changing Nature of Work, a team of world-renowned management and culture experts delivers a uniquely insightful exploration of your own career values and work relationships as they relate to your past and future choices. This easy-to-use workbook in combination with an online self-assessment offers critical and accessible self-diagnostic exercises along with information about the changing career scene and new descriptions of the eight career anchor categories.This book will help you:* Explore how your work choices now relate to your family and self-development* Explore how the rapidly changing world of work and business emphasizes globalization, competition, technology, organizational instability, uncertainty, and shifting values* Engage in a powerful relationship mapping process that helps you to consider how your work and career choices now interact with your relationships with family, friends, and community* Review the career anchor values and examine how these values have changed, so you can make better choices of what, when, where, and how to work as you look aheadThis newest edition of Career Anchors is a can't-miss resource written to help you analyze, assess, and understand the past, present, and future of your own career. It belongs in the libraries of early-career--as well as established--professionals looking to take back control over their work trajectories.

Find out what really makes charismatic leaders tick. Here, author Jay Conger analysis the things leaders do that make their subordinates more self-assured, optimistic and productive.

Warren Bennis writes,the bookfills me with equal amounts of admiration and envy. For the first time ever, Nanus defines for us what 'the vision thing' is all about. Successful leaders know that nothing drives an organization like an attractive, worthwhile, achievable vision for the future.

For the past 45 years, a small, highly respected company called MAP has been successfully transforming companies and the lives of the people who work for them. The key: helping companies and people pinpoint their Vital Factors, the critical elements that will either hold them back or propel them to success.

Using illustrative examples of organizational leaders who have successfully responded to rapidly changing conditions in the business environment, this text reveals the strategies and leadership behaviours required to manage and integrate fundamental change.

This book is designed to help leaders apply whole leadership lessons to the fundamental leadership dilemmas that keep leaders awake at night. The book explores how leaders developed their capacities for leadership and what they believe will be the key ways to prepare other leaders to meet these challenges in the future.

Improving Leadership in Nonprofit Organizations addresses the unique challenges of leading nonprofit organizations, including a unique focus on the personal development of the nonprofit leader. This important resource covers board governance, motivating and evaluating employees and volunteers, and meeting funding challenges.

Leadership is often a risky, lonely role possessing nearly unbearable lows and fleeting highs. Despite this emotionally and intellectually draining roller coaster, a handful of leaders deliver stunning results, with great consistency. They push past current leadership trends in order to achieve the most extremely challenging goals.

The G Quotient identifies a management phenomenon that will change the way people view their professional roles in the workplace. Based on a landmark five-year study, The G Quotient redefines successful leadership for all managers.

Coached to Lead is the first consumer s guide to executive coaching. Drawing on her twenty years of experience and direct research with an elite international clientele, renowned CEO coach Susan Battley offers step-by-step advice for achieving the same extraordinary results that top leaders get from executive coaching.

More than just a collection of short "greatest hits," this revision is based on a conceptual philosophy - that leadership is not exclusively tied to position in the hierarchy or limited to title and formal authority. Everyone has a responsibility to lead, and leaders need to be dispersed throughout and down through all levels of an organization.

Most leaders feel that if they have the right job, the right idea, and treat the people right, it should all work well. But in so doing, they ignore the greatest challenge of leadership: the tension between passion (the wizard) and politics (the warrior).

Reveals that the most successful organizations of the information age operate not as controlled collections of human resources, but as dynamic communities of free people.

This volume looks at the leadership development programmes of some of the top companies around the world to discover what is working and what isn't. Case studies include Ernst & Young, Levi Strauss, Motorola, Pepsi, Federal Express and the Australian National Bank.

Defines the strategic business objectives and then shapes on-the-job learning experiences that teach new skills and new behaviours to support those objectives. The text deals with the "people issues" necessary to ensure successful change.

The newest edition of the bestselling guide to authentic leadership communication Much has changed in the world since the original publication of Leading Out Loud, Terry Pearce's book on authentic leadership communication.

Based on the findings in recently released archive papers and letters, as well as extensive library and historical resources, Alan Axelrod offers a compelling profile of the remarkable leadership discipline of a general often called a "military CEO.

A University of Michigan Business School Management Series book. This book springs from presentations by a variety of top business leaders at the University of Michigan Business School. No other forum has brought together such combined practitioner-academic dialogue in response to the business revelations of 2002. Contributors include James A.

Unleash one of your company's greatest competitive weapons. Ram Charan is a wise counselor and keen observer on the front lines of the American board revolution. Boards At Work is a rare blAnd of candid stories of casualties, of victories, and of sound ideas for change illustrated with real-world examples of how to adopt them.

Every day the media reports on the latest corporation guilty of financial misconduct and public deception. Insider trading, fraudulent accounting, outlandish executive pay and perks-- a steady stream of scandals scars the business landscape. But the corporate crisis is as much spiritual as it is financial.

Based on the best-selling Coaching for Leadership (which contains an invaluable and timeless collection of thoughts and theory from some of the world's best thinkers) this workbook is filled with illustrative case studies, examples, exercises, and activities.

Today s coaches are challenged with the recurring task of weaving threads from several disciplines into a tapestry that is fit for purpose in helping their clients learn and succeed.

Featuring case studies from firms such as GT Automotive, GE Healthcare China, Vale, Dominos, Swiss Re Americas Division, and Polar Bank, among others, this book combines research and survey results to illustrate a critical set of cultural dynamics that firms need to manage in order to remain competitive.

'New Tools for Challenging the Status Quo' bolts together the image or theory and the reality of what is required to change the performance of an enterprise. Whether the challenge is renewal or fundamental change, this book delivers real-life depictions that aim to help all who invest the time.

It has been more than a decade since the first edition of Peter Koestenbaum's landmark book Leadership: The Inner Side of Greatness was published. Since that time world events have caused a dramatic shift in how we think about our lives and our work. Now we grapple with the fundamental questions.

To manage business operations let alone innovate amid frequent restructurings, outsourcings and retirements, leaders must quickly capitalize on hidden know-how (knowledge). That is, know-how that lives inside their organizations or networks in the teams, processes and experts that comprise them.