Leadership Time Management

In 2011, Tim Cook took on an impossible task - following in the footsteps of one of history's greatest business visionaries, Steve Jobs. Facing worldwide scrutiny, Cook (who was often described as shy, unassuming and unimaginative) defied all expectations. Under Cook's leadership Apple has soared: its stock has nearly tripled to become the world's first trillion-dollar company. From the massive growth of the iPhone to new victories like the Apple Watch, Cook is leading Apple to a new era of success.

Women are notorious over-preparers and underestimators when it comes to their own readiness to try something new. But as Emma teaches, what most often holds us back are our own fears, excuses, and doubts. With her revolutionary manifesto, Winging It, Emma shares a rallying cry for all women to “do the things that scare you, build your wealth, make an impact, fail lots, and get up and try again”.

The question looms large in a world that's forever changed by the COVID-19 pandemic: How can you lead effectively amid uncertainty? "Lead the Right Way" is not just a leadership growth book; it's an urgent call to action for leaders at all levels to adapt and thrive in adversity. With organizational landscapes more volatile than ever, the necessity for leaders to embody empathy, agility, and resilience has intensified. Drawing from cutting-edge research and riveting narratives, Agarwal masterfully charts the path for navigating post-pandemic challenges, focusing on these three pivotal ...

A crisis can strike at any time. Is your organization ready to deal with it? Are you ready to lead your organization through those chaotic times.  In The Crisis Leader, the author, Gisli Olafsson brings decades of experiences in leading teams through some of the most difficult natural disasters of recent times and shares the lessons learnt with the reader. The Crisis Leader provides the reader with insight into how to better prepare yourself for dealing with crisis, how to prepare your team, how to make decisions under pressure, dealing with stress, how to focus on team morale, and focus...

This newly revised edition demonstrates how action learning can be used to address today's increasingly complex organizational challenges. Packed with extensive enhancements, including new international case studies, and more strategies to introduce and maintain action-learning programs within an organization, Optimizing the Power of Action Learning delivers an innovative and fresh perspective - making it a must-have for any organization looking to heighten competitive advantage and sustain success.

Dreaming of a streamlined law practice that wins more clients and gives you your time back? This is your answer! Attorneys work some of the longest hours of any profession—especially if you run your own law firm. Whether you’re with a small team or going solo, chances are you’re on-call 24/7. You’re buried in day-to-day operations, legal work, and the emotional toll that comes with it—often at the expense of family life. You love your work and the difference you make. But what if you could regain balance and be fully present at work and at home?

Every day brings us a crushing wave of demands: a barrage of texts, emails, interruptions, meetings, phone calls, tweets, blogs - not to mention the high pressure challenges of our jobs - that can be overwhelming and exhausting. The sheer number of distractions can threaten our ability to think clearly, make good decisions, and accomplish what matters most, leaving us worn out and unfulfilled.

Congratulations! You've been hired by a client to get something done. Presumably, you have some sort of expertise in the area, you have someone on your team who is knowledgeable, or you'll be hiring somebody who does. This book provides some of the lessons I've learned over my 35-year career about managing consulting projects.

In Moxie: The Secret to Bold and Gutsy Leadership, author John Baldoni uses concrete, tried-and-true steps to bring out the inner leader in everyone. For management and employees alike, Moxie provides a roadmap to inspire innovation and effective leadership. Whether you're already at the helm of your organization or still looking for a way up the ladder, Moxie is the leadership tool you can't do without.

Why is it that when a crisis occurs some people immediately, instinctively step up and lead, as though hearing a calling? Are they just wired that way, born to lead? Or do certain moments in their lives put them on a path to extraordinary leadership? The Call to Leadership: Unlocking the Leader Within in Times of Crisis reveals the true essence of leadership in times of extreme challenge. Beyond the technical aspects of leadership, this book goes deep into the hearts and minds of global decision makers at the highest level.

Time management is a constant challenge for all engineering managers and tech leaders. Do you struggle to find time to do everything you need to do? Do you find yourself saying, "I'd love to talk, but I've got to run…" Then this book is for you! It can feel that there's never enough time because the workload and expectations can both be high. How do other people do it? What are their secrets? How can you get the maximum benefits from minimum investments of time, and work smarter not harder? This can be especially overwhelming for new managers. In this book, I share tons of actionable tips...

What if you could clone your top performers? How do you get 1.5x to 2x performance from your best and brightest? Ironically, many of the habits that make your employees top performers, also lead to poor time management. The Guru Leadership Series presents the remarkable findings of a comprehensive study designed to discover what science, and the world's most best time managers have to say about maximizing your time. Through academic review, and intense study of the world's top 1% including: Jeff Bezos, Richard Branson, Tim Cook, Elon Musk, Oprah Winfrey, Ray Dalio, and Howard Schultz and ...

Innovation is the subject of countless books and courses, but there's very little out there about how you actually innovate. Innovation and entrepreneurship are not one and the same, although aspiring innovators often think of them that way. They are told to get an idea and a team and to build a show-and-tell for potential investors. In Innovating, Luis Perez-Breva describes another approach.

Discover how you can establish priorities, set goals and overcome procrastination, get practical ideas for achieving balance both personally and professionally, learn how to live the life you have always dreamed, find out what it takes to be the best, gain insight into the foundations of financial freedom and accumulating long-term wealth, and get the right perspective for success!

Paul Sparks, Tim Soerens, and Dwight J. Friesen have seen—in cities, suburbs, and small towns all over North America—how powerful the gospel can be when it takes root in the context of a place, at the intersection of geography, demography, economy, and culture. This is not a new idea—the concept of a parish is as old as Paul's letters to the various communities of the ancient church. But in an age of dislocation and disengagement, the notion of a church that knows its place and gives itself to where it finds itself is like a breath of fresh air, like a sign of new life.

¿Cómo será la nueva normalidad? Esta es una pregunta que mucha gente se está haciendo en este momento. Otros tantos lanzan respuestas al aire, a menudo en la más absoluta oscuridad. Sin embargo, ¿qué pasaría si la pregunta fuera diferente? ¿Qué sucedería si nos preguntáramos qué es lo que no va a cambiar en la nueva normalidad? Esto nos llevaría hacia aquello de lo que podemos estar seguros, incluso ante un futuro incierto.

Melding the long-term history of technology with the latest headlines and findings of computer science and social science, The Efficiency Paradox questions our ingrained assumptions about efficiency, persuasively showing how relying on the algorithms of digital platforms can in fact lead to wasted efforts, missed opportunities, and above all an inability to break out of established patterns. Edward Tenner offers a smarter way of thinking about efficiency, revealing what we and our institutions can learn from the random and unexpected.

Leadership skills are essential for everyone, and the great news is that they can be learned, meaning that there’s no excuse for poor leadership. This two-book bundle will provide you with concise, powerful advice based on experience and research ranging from neuroscience to social psychology and backed up by statistical data and analysis.

What's the difference between leaders and teams that get their best results and those that don't? Turns out that it's what they focus on daily and how they design their time around their energy and the outcomes they want. Small pivots make big differences. Determining which pivots you and your team need to make can be found in one of the seven simple steps you'll learn in this book.

Pitching is about persuasion: radiating positivity, controlling the situation, winning an audience's trust, creating "fierce agreement", and getting them to want to give you what you're asking for. Written not just for a business audience, You Get What You Pitch For will approach the pitch as what it really is: a methodology for building productive, positive, mutually beneficial person-to-person interactions.