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A new edition of the bestselling book on finding one's personal path to leadership Leading with Soul has inspired thousands of readers since its publication more than a decade ago. Far ahead of its time, the book illuminated the deeply personal journey to leadership.

This updated edition explores the basic components of the framing process including communication goals, mental models, context, priming for spontaneity, language use, and believability frames (for ethical communication). This new edition is organized to emphasize the skills, science, art ethics and the history of research on framing.

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.

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

Creating civic will by engaging citizens on the toughest public problems helps break legislative and bureaucratic gridlock and restores trust in public institutions. This book shows you how to do it. ----The Honorable Federico Pena, U.S.

Praise for Building Better Boards "Building Better Boards bridges the gap between talk and action. A must-read for board members, CEOs, governance experts - really for anyone who cares about the future of the corporation. " -Anne M.

Driving Results Through Social Networks shows executives and managers how to obtain substantial performance and innovation impact by better leveraging these traditionally invisible assets. For the past decade, Rob Cross and Robert J. Thomas have worked closely with executives from over a hundred top-level companies and government agencies.

Uplift Your Heart and Increase Your Effectiveness Delve into the personal writings of the grandfather of the modern empowerment movement in business leadership.

This book is based on the neuroscience behind understanding how men and women think differently. Michael Gurian and the Gurian Institute is now making this science relevant to the business and leadership sector to show how gender science can bring businesses greater success.

Explores the practical lessons learned from internationally renowned companies to bring about lasting and fundamental organizational transformation, providing a useful set of field--tested concepts and techniques for anyone seeking to promote change.

In Leading Change, James O'Toole argues that outdated Machiavellian dictates of situational leadership are ultimately ineffective--and demonstrates instead that successful leadership is rooted in high moral purpose and consistent respect for followers.

Designed to equip volunteer administrators with the knowledge and skills they need to carry out their tasks, this book is based on the Association for Volunteer Administration guidelines for professional competencies. Each chapter offers insight into a particular functional area.

Based on over ten years consulting with such organizations as AT&T, Citicorp, Corning, American Express and PepsiCo, the authors reveal techniques for dealing with the range of strategic issues facing organizations.

Presents a collection of essays on management and leadership that propose radical new ways of thinking about what managers do and what organizations are.

This work is volume two 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.

One of the greatest challenges community leaders face is engaging a diverse constituency without getting sidetracked by the difficulties diversity can present. Leaders and stakeholders alike can be paralysed by fear, conflict and prejudice, losing the opportunity to realize their goals and achieve results.

John W Gardner (1912-2002) was a college teacher, a military intelligence officer, a philanthropic foundation executive, an author, a cabinet official, an adviser to presidents and, to many Americans, a personification of political reform and volunteerism in democratic society.

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.

Intended for nonprofit executive directors and CEOs, senior staff, board members and nonprofit consultants, this book focuses on the key leadership team, the board and its chair, and the executive director, and shows how the constituents can work in partnership to lead an effective, healthy organization.

Introduces a new way of building partnerships aimed at solving the civic problems too big for anyone to solve alone, and a new kind of leadership based on bringing together diverse stakeholders to solve the community's problems.

Offers insight into three critical "process" issues facing the new world of business: developing effective leadership, continuous learning for leaders and their companies, and bringing spirit into work.

The Pfeiffer Book of Successful Leadership Development Tools is organized into three sections: Presentations and Discussions (articles); Experiential Learning Activities; and Inventories, Questionnaires, and Surveys. These selections represent the all-time best the Pfeiffer Annuals and Handbooks have to offer on the topic.

Facing an explosion of workplace complexity, many executives choose a team--supported approach to organizational leadership over more traditional leadership models.

The Resource of Choice for Those Who Need to Lead! New times demand new competencies. Keep yours ahead of the curve with this engaging guide for the self-directed development of cutting-edge management skills.

This work shows how companies can develop fluid networks and relationships so that they can respond quickly to market opportunities by forming collaborations, with other companies. It shows why companies should start building alliances in order to survive.

Leadership is learnable A Warren Bennis Executive Briefing Series BookCrosby is taking his message to a different audience - a growing army of intelligent young men and women who are setting out to become executives by choice and for the right reasons. - Central Florida Business In this, his eleventh book, world-renowned consultant Philip Crosby offers readers a simple, yet ingenious method for assessing the skills of those they've been assigned to follow, as well as their own leadership abilities. Leaders, he says, come in five versions?Destructor, Procrastinator, Caretaker, Preparer, and Accomplisher. And by examining each of those character types in relation to his four Absolutes of Leadership, the author establishes a framework would-be leaders can use to build quality leadership skills of their own.Crosby also discusses the leader's role in organizational finance and quality, and in dealing with customers, suppliers, employees, and bosses. You know a leader when you meet one, he asserts and he maintains that those people who already have leadership potential will blossom once they understand and epitomize the precepts set forth in this groundbreaking work.

In this work, the authors outline their process of entrepreneurship, offering practical, proven strategies for fostering economic development and renewal, aiming to provide a blue-print for resilience in turbulent times.

Detailing a "change programme", this work aims to help companies restore financial viability, pursue quantum revenue growth, and integrate merged operations in the manufacturing, technology and service sectors.

This text presents essays by Robert Greenleaf that reflect his interest and concern for society, its religious institutions, and ways to guide people to gradual change through "servant-leadership". This term reflects the author's belief that true leaders are those who lead by serving others.

This text offers advice on bringing women and people of colour into the leadership ranks of organizations, that will appeal to both ends of the political spectrum. It includes research on 16 organizations to reveal "best practices" for achieving diversity in executive positions.