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“Profitability development” could just as well be the title of this book. It takes a completely new perspective on economics, focusing on how the four foundations of profitability can be utilized to increase the profitability in a company. The primary advantage of the model introduced is its simplicity, making it easy to involve everyone in the company when using it. This is important since the author has a profound conviction, based on decades in management, that the most important factor for creating success is to involve your entire staff.

From vision setting and decision-making to creative thinking and risk-taking, you need to juggle numerous demands at a time to become an effective and thriving leader. This life-changing leadership book will help you better understand the concept of leadership and discover the leader hidden in you.

Whether you're preparing for a college entrance exam or a major business presentation, Ron Fry's How to Study Program equips you for a lifetime of learning. Conversational, approachable, and newly revised, this comprehensive program includes the all-time best seller, How to Study, plus six other helpful study guides.

Whether you've just accepted a leadership role in your child's booster organization or you're considering the possibility, The Booster Leader is for you. Here you will find thirty-five proven leadership essentials that are quick and easy to implement. The Booster Leader will help you lead with purpose, inspire the volunteers around you, and achieve all of your fundraising goals. You will also learn how to comply with the IRS and insulate your organization from embezzlement, theft, and fraud. The Booster Leader includes eighteen inspirational stories that bring the leadership essentials to ...

Informed by interviews with corporate strategists at leading companies around the world, eminent consultants at firms such as Bain, the Boston Consulting Group, and McKinsey & Co., and the internal archives of strategic innovators such as General Electric and Shell, this book provides vivid insights into the trials and tribulations of practice innovation in strategy, and stresses the hard work of the little recognized and sometimes eccentric innovators within the profession.

We are stronger, wiser and more creative than we realize and yet people are often wanting to tell us how to fix what's happening in our lives. If your goal is to be the coach or leader who gets better results by spending more time listening and less time fixing, then this book is for you! Becoming a high impact coach begins with you and your own transformation.

Through their twenty-plus years of experience building teams, Marshall Calman and Jack Levitt of LeaderStrong, have developed a novel team-building framework. Their new book explores the journey of one business leadership group and how they develop into a Powerful Team using the C4 model. Marshall and Jack are Executive Leadership Coaches who work with Fortune 500 clients and sophisticated up-and-coming firms that want to get serious about leveraging their team's full power.

Based on ATLAS’ popular workshop, Conflict Management for Academic Leaders, this guide explains the difference between constructive and destructive conflict and offers sound advice for how to minimize the harmful effects of destructive conflict. Conflict is inevitable in academic units, but it doesn’t have to be counterproductive. This valuable resource provides six field-tested approaches for dealing with negative forms of conflict and restoring a positive work environment. In addition, like all ATLAS guides, this book is specifically written for the higher education environment and ...

Silicon Valley is imperializing the planet. With nearly bottomless supplies of cash and ambition, a small group of companies have been gradually seizing symbolic and practical civic leadership in America and worldwide. But Silicon Valley does not answer to the electorate; nor have they been voted into office. And the perils of their influence are only now making themselves known.

During my research I was fortunate to discover managers in a variety of businesses who actually understand and practice the awesome power of dignifying and respecting the people who depend on the businesses for their livelihoods and on whom the businesses depend for their existence - the perfect win-win. The managers profiled in this audiobook are convinced that dignity is the root cause of their firms' profitability and sustainability. I think you'll enjoy getting to know them and profit from their insights.

Whether you are planning to start your first business, or are growing an existing business, having a mentor who has been there and done it before is an invaluable tool.

What do effective leaders do differently, that creates high performance? Your people are your greatest source of competitive advantage. How you lead and develop them cannot be left to chance. If you fail to do this, you could be out of a job or risk closing the doors of your business forever. Liberating Leadership is an award-winning programme, capable of delivering significant improvements in bottom line performance, in all types of business. If you are responsible for leading people this audiobook is a must!

The Financial Times Guide to High Impact Negotiation provides a comprehensive and strategic roadmap to the whole negotiation process from preparation to execution. Follow the practical steps to complete negotiation successfully, build relationships, and finalize your deal.

Why uncover your hidden talents? Because knowing how to uncover the talents you didn’t know you have and turning them into new skills will help you move away from competencies of the past that can hinder your career and will help you achieve higher levels of performance. Drawing from decades of experience in executive leadership development as C-Suite officers and consultants, we describe 16 essential leadership tools in simple, concrete, and behavior-based language that will enable you to distinguish what areas of skill and expertise you can naturally call upon....

In a time when divisiveness and disinformation dominate our conversations, Eric J. Miller offers a refreshing path forward—one rooted in time-honored, spiritually-centered practices. In Allied We Can Find Common Ground, Miller draws on principles of self-awareness, compassion, and mindfulness, showing how higher-level leaders can use these ancient values to forge connections in today's fractured world.

Certain ideas about business leadership are held to be timeless, and certain characteristics of leaders - often including a square jaw, a deep voice, and extroversion - are said to be universal. In Leading in the Digital World, Amit Mukherjee argues that since digital technologies are changing everything else, how could they not change leadership ideologies and styles? Drawing on a global survey of 700 mid-tier to senior executives and interviews with C-level executives from around the world, Mukherjee explains how digital technologies are already reshaping organizations.

You may have heard the terms "open-book management", "empowerment", "continuous improvement", "participatory management", and "self-directed work teams". Managers use all of these activities to help energize employees by making them an integral part of the team. Bob Nelson has taken the most useful elements of these concepts, and presented them in a highly accessible and usable way.

This book covers my leadership experience spanning the past 30 years and what I have learned to build and grow high-performing teams. As a busy executive myself, I understand and appreciate getting to the point quickly. This book was written to be a simple and concise guide intended for quick listening, with actionable content. Leadership is a journey and a series of experiments to learn what works and what doesn't for you as a leader and the people and teams that you lead.

Finally, a paradigm on leadership, transforming colleges, teaching, teams, business, sports and organizations based on research from the very best leaders and their qualities of momentum and focus as demonstrated from the research rather than whims, opinions, or influencers. Talent alone does not win championships but the research in this work shows thoughts, words, actions, habits and unified momentum does. Key leaders in the research include Jesus of Nazareth and John Wooden of UCLA.

THIS BOOK IS about an ancient truth that, for the most part, man has been blinded to. The secret is found in both the Old and New Testaments of the Bible and has to do with the greatest blessings in life being either attracted to or repelled from us. The blessings of God are available to the people who know how to attract the power of grace. Unfortunately, because God is no respecter of persons, he will resist or be repelled from those who don’t. We know about natural laws such as gravity, or the law of lift, but we don’t know much about the laws of the Spirit. These also work whether ...