Leadership Development

Emotional Intelligence: A Practical Guide with Recent Methodologies for Personal Development and Professional Success Unlock the transformative power of emotional intelligence (EI) with this comprehensive guide designed for personal development and professional success. Key Features: Actionable Strategies: Discover practical techniques to enhance self-awareness, self-regulation, empathy, and social skills. Real-World Examples: Learn from real-life case studies and examples that illustrate the application of EI in various contexts. Innovative Methodologies: Explore recent methodologies such ...

Discover the leadership secrets of the warrior who centuries ago shaped an aimless band of mercenary tribal nomads into the undisputed rulers of the ancient world-and who today offers timeless lessons in win-directed, take-charge management. Based on historical research-and filled with illuminating maxims-this essential guide offers the wisdom of a man who unified thousands, led the charge, kept the peace, picked his enemies wisely, and negotiated brilliantly.

This isn’t just a story about nails, wood, or construction—it’s about resilience, about swinging a hammer with grit and determination until you’ve built something unbreakable. I’m Ana, and my journey started under a leaking roof, my dad’s calloused hands guiding mine to patch our home. “We fix what’s ours,” he’d rumble, his voice a bedrock of motivation beneath the storm, and those words ignited a fire in me—a spark of perseverance that turned a broke twenty-two-year-old with a junkyard shed into a legacy of craftsmanship and empowerment. I didn’t plan to write a ...

Average schools don't inspire greatness - and greatness is what our world needs if we are going to produce world-changing learners. In Culturize, author and education leader Jimmy Casas shares insights into what it takes to cultivate a community of learners who embody the innately human traits our world desperately needs, such as kindness, honesty, and compassion. His stories reveal how these "soft skills" can be honed while meeting and exceeding academic standards of 21st-century learning.

Soft Power: Essential Skills for Women Thriving in STEM is an empowering guide designed to help women in science, technology, engineering, and maths unlock their full potential. Drawing on real-world insights, expert advice, and actionable strategies, this book equips women with the essential soft skills—like communication, networking, resilience, and leadership—that often make the difference between simply surviving and truly thriving in male-dominated fields. With a focus on authenticity and confidence, Soft Power helps women build the influence and presence they need to navigate ...

Superpower! is a guidebook for taking personal accountability of your success. That's where all the power and responsibility is - within you. Think of it as a handbook with stories and steps to help you rethink, reframe, refocus, and reignite your leadership, your business, and your life. The strategies and tactics offered here are like tools. Not every tool is right for every job. Choose the ones that are right for you and your situation. I've included a variety of scenarios. The idea is to help you develop a diverse set of skills so you can arm yourself with an arsenal of superpowers, ...

The most effective leaders know how to connect with people. It's not about power or popularity, but about making the people around you feel heard, comfortable, and understood. While it may seem like some folks are born with a commanding presence that draws people in, the fact is anyone can learn to communicate in ways that consistently build powerful connections. Bestselling author and leadership expert John C. Maxwell offers advice for effective communication to those who continually run into obstacles when it comes to personal success.

Feeling overwhelmed by the constant barrage of information and struggling to make clear decisions? Discover the life-changing solutions in 'Organize Your Mind' by Kevin Wagonfoot, the best-selling author of 'Mental Models.' This book equips you with the skills to filter noise, enhance focus, and tackle complex challenges with clarity. Perfect for the busy professional, it transforms scattered thoughts into strategic actions, enabling you to thrive in today's demanding world. Are You Feeling: Information Overload? Learn to filter out unnecessary noise and focus on what truly matters. ...

As one of the globe's most trusted leadership mentors, John C. Maxwell debunks the myths that hold people back from leaning into and developing their influence. In this inspiring call-to-action, he shows middle managers how to leverage their unique positions and become 360 degree leaders by exercising influence in all directions - up (to the boss), across (among their peers), and down (to those they lead).

Making Futures brings together 18 young entrepreneurs from 14 countries doing incredible work across the continent. Their stories are both inspirational and aspirational, providing a template for listeners who might be interested in embarking on their own entrepreneurial journey, and allowing others to see the incredible energy and work that is happening across the continent.

In Measure What Matters, Doerr shares a broad range of first-person, behind-the-scenes case studies, with narrators including Bono and Bill Gates, to demonstrate the focus, agility, and explosive growth that the Objectives and Key Results system has spurred at so many great organizations. This book will help a new generation of leaders capture the same magic.

There are three basic leadership styles that parents, teachers, coaches, managers, project leaders, presidents, and team leaders use every day. Directing Discussing DelegatingWhen you use the appropriate leadership style, you help people achieve the desired goals. In addition, you help upgrade people’s skills and develop character traits that are needed for success.

The coauthors of the New York Times best-selling Difficult Conversations take on the toughest topic of all: How we see ourselves. Douglas Stone and Sheila Heen have spent the past 15 years working with corporations, nonprofits, governments, and families to determine what helps us learn and what gets in our way. In Thanks for the Feedback, they explain why receiving feedback is so crucial yet so challenging. They blend the latest insights from neuroscience and psychology with practical, hard-headed advice.

When you spend so much of your life working, it’s no surprise that job satisfaction is key to your happiness and that job stress can take a serious toll on your mental and physical health. Cassandra Dunn, clinical psychologist and host of the hugely popular Crappy to Happy podcast, knows what it is to need more from work - not just from her clients but from her own professional journey. If you need to change how you work to find more balance, how you think about work to make it more meaningful, or what you do for work altogether, Cass is there for you every step of the way.

In the years following her role as the lead author of the international best seller, Limits to Growth - the first book to show the consequences of unchecked growth on a finite planet - Donella Meadows remained a pioneer of environmental and social analysis until her untimely death in 2001. Thinking in Systems is a concise and crucial book offering insight for problem-solving on scales ranging from the personal to the global. Edited by the Sustainability Institute's Diana Wright, this essential primer brings systems thinking out of the realm of computers and equations and into the tangible world....

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.

What if charisma could be taught? For the first time, science and technology have taken charisma apart, figured it out and turned it into an applied science: In controlled laboratory experiments, researchers could raise or lower people's level of charisma as if they were turning a dial. What you'll find here is practical magic: unique knowledge, drawn from a variety of sciences, revealing what charisma really is and how it works. You'll get both the insights and the techniques you need to apply this knowledge. The world will become your lab, and every person you meet, a chance to experiment.

Passive learning just doesn’t cut it in today’s evolving, competitive workplace. Research demonstrates that action-first learning works because it engages the mind immediately and makes sure that knowledge and skills will stick. With a more diverse array of action-based training designs, organizations can motivate learners, provide hands-on, collaborative practice, and drive behavioral change.

Founding the Colony is the second of two volumes revised and expanded from the original Colonization Chronical. This volume follows Ricky and his family after they reach Murna after overcoming seemingly impossible system and component failures to their ship, while escaping two separate piratical attacks. One of the first colonists to step foot on his new planets, he immediately begins establishing his farmstead with his girlfriend Edin. Using technology he has developed Ricky is able to communicate directly with his Grammy back on Earth. He is concerned the ansible network may be ...

This brilliant adaptation of the ancient masterpiece The Art of War shows women how to use Sun Tzu's philosophy to win in every aspect of life. In the West, when we think of war, we imagine battle, casualties, brutality. But Sun Tsu, who wrote The Art of War 2,500 years ago, was Chinese, and their view of war is not about fighting. It is about determining the most efficient way of gaining victory with the least amount of conflict.