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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.

Is your organization obsessive-compulsive or passive-aggressive? Corporate neurosis expert Manfred Kets de Vries analyzes dysfunctional organizational behavior in terms of accepted psychoanalytic types and arrives at some genuine insights into why some companies are healthier than others.

Leadership development is a planned effort that enhances the learner's capacity to lead people.

A Leader s Guide to Storytelling shows how storytelling is one of the few available ways to handle the principal and most difficult challenges of leadership: sparking action, getting people to work together, and leading people into the future.

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.

Providing a concept of sustainable corporate value, this book offers seven management principles that were tested in periods of economic expansion and contraction: valuing human relationships, fostering teamwork, experimenting frugally, fulfilling your commitments, fighting complacency, winning through multiple means, and giving to your community.

The book introduces the concept of narrative intelligence- an ability to understand and act and react agilely in the quicksilver world of interacting narratives. It shows why this is key to the central task of leadership, what its dimensions are, and how you can measure it.

This text explains how to use coaching to leverage organizational change. The book starts with goals the company must accomplish - the strategic need to have the right people in the right positions. It then shows how coaching can be used to develop individuals to accomplish goals.

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.'

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.

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.

"Clicks and Mortar" shows business leaders how to focus on the factors that should make a difference in a world of information glut-and how they can inspire commitment and implement the strategies necessary for success.

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.

Authors Spreitzer and Quinn provide an essential guide to enhancing empowerment in an organization through five basic disciplines. The authors help managers navigate the uphill journey to organizational empowerment at all levels and offer a guide to creating an environment where employees choose to work because they are energized by what they do.

In short essays this collection captures the essence of the irrationalities that pervade organizations and compromise leaders. This book develops surprising ideas about how organizations tick, and why they, and the people within them, ultimately succeed or fail.

This guide encourages non-profit leaders to reflect upon the realities of their operating environments. The authors gear leaders toward recognizing and working with political realities, and help shape a value-rich but more politically astute mode of leadership.

Managers often become leaders overnight, with little training or experience and with little time to prove themselves. This book explains how to make the transition, fast.

A step-by-step guide for developing an operational plan that identifies specific results to be achieved within a set period of time, and for implementing and assessing every phase of the plan. Offers a simple, logical approach that can be adapted to any size or type of business.

Features tools and techniques to take boards and their companies to a higher level of performance.

This book takes the reader "outside the box" of ordinary change theory and challenges us to effect change in our workplace by engaging in personal, transformative change. The message of the book is that by changing yourself you can change the world.

Global Executive Leadership Inventory (GELI) is your development tool that offers guidance for understanding your leadership abilities and shows you how to take steps to improvement.

Offers ten guidelines to help key employees and knowledge workers influence upper management. This book demonstrates the best way to move ideas through an organization; outlines the principles that facilitate knowledge management; explains how people learn on the job; and discusses how larger organizations can leverage their "bigness".

Spend some time with three of today's most noted business pioneers and share their secrets for achieving international success.

This text presents a philosophy to guide management learning and development. It explores how learning as a way of being has an impact on current approaches and issues in management. It outlines learning skills and habits that could help managers succeed in the information era.

Presents thirteen specific 'leadership passages' based on research, interviews, and coaching of senior executives in such companies as Johnson & Johnson, Novarits, Intel, GE, and Bank of America. This book provides practical tools and techniques to improve your leadership, along with real-life examples.

This text is volume one of a three-volume set in which George Morrisey shares his experience and expertise about the process of strategic thinking, tactical planning, and strategic planning processes that has guided organizational planners over the years.

Offers a version of the comprehensive guide to help any organization go "boundaryless" - and become a company with the ability to quickly, proactively, and creatively adjust to changes in the environment.

Practicing Servant Leadership, the newest entry in the bestselling servant-leadership field, brings today's top thinkers together to bring servant leadership into the daily lives of leaders.

Today's companies want leaders who can "lead from the front"-take a clear position, create meaningful relationships, and "know themselves" while simultaneously building businesses. Employees want leaders who are authentic and inspire trust-those who set high standards and respect their unique talents.

In this text the author explains how to identify, articulate and assess a company's "growth formula" - that is what's unique about the enterprise - and how to align all activities to support this formula, and how to focus the company's growth as a means of adding value.