Clear Leadership By
BUSHE, Gervase Too often, we communicate in a way which results in what this author terms ‘organisational mush’. Translated, this is the debilitating situation that occurs when people are unable to say what they mean and mean what they say, either from fear of criticism or lack of support. At worst, this mush hampers honest communication and bogs down the most effective managers. Clear Leadership details the four fundamental skills needed to combat the mush and make partnership and leadership in groups possible. The four steps of self-awareness, descriptiveness, curiosity, and appreciation sound easy, but as the author shows, require a degree of personal toughness to master and live by, day to day. Using true-to-life stories, practical exercises and sample dialogues, the author identifies the barriers to truth-telling and offers guidance on how to turn the power of interpersonal clarity into action. Subject:Leadership
Leaders Guide to Storytelling By
DENNING, Stephen This is a hands on guide which follows on from the authors first book; Squirel Inc. In that book, he used a tale to show why storytelling is a critical skill for leaders. This time he explains how you can learn to tell the right story at the right time. His view is that no matter where you are placed in an organization you can lead by using stories to effect change. The book is filled with many examples showing how storytelling can spark action in teams and individuals; get people working together as well as leading people into the future. Subject:Leadership
Heroic Leadership By
LOWNEY, Chris Author Chris Lowney offers leadership lessons from a 450-year-old company that grappled successfully with the same challenges that test great companies today: forging seamless multinational teams, motivating inspired performance, remaining “change ready” and strategically adaptable. That company? The Jesuits, the religious order founded by Ignatius of Loyola.
“The very last thing the Jesuits would have considered themselves to be was leadership pundits,” Lowney says. “Instead of talking about leadership, they lived it.” Lowney, a former Jesuit seminarian who “morphed into the corporate man” after leaving seminary for a job at J.P. Morgan, saw that the Jesuit approach to molding innovative, risk-taking, ambitious, flexible global thinkers worked,better than many modern corporate efforts do today. Subject:Leadership
Gurus on Leadership- A Guide to leaders across the times By
THOMAS, Mark The latest in the successful "Gurus on..." series: a one-stop guide to the world's key writers on leadership, their thought and contribution. This is an update of the recent themes and issues that dominate the leadership agenda. It is a listing of the main leadership gurus from Adair to Sun Tzu, their main concepts and approaches. It is a quick guide to some of the world's current and recent business leaders, who they are, what they've done, and their beliefs. It is a compendium of leadership checklists and associated materials to assist in developing skills and competencies. The Gurus include: John Adair, Warren Bennis, Robert Blake and Jane Mouton, Ken Blanchard, Peter Drucker, Daniel Goleman, Chris Keeble, Nicolo Machiavelli, Douglas McGregor, John Kotter, Manfred Kets de Vries, James M Kouzes and Barry Posner, David McClelland, W J Reddin, Tannenbaum and Schmidt Leadership Continuum, and Abraham Zaleznik. Subject:Leadership
Energy Leadership By
SCHNEIDER Bruce Schneider states that the one personal quality most likely to inspire confidence in clients, respect among colleagues and loyalty from your team is energy. He goes on to describe the seven distinct levels of energy that are key to understanding why everyone thinks and acts as they do. The program he outlines in the book and supports with additional material on his website give you the techniques you can use to shift the energy levels of the people around you. He also describes clearly the four major energy blocks and shows how you can identify them within yourself and others. A key learning tool is the style of writing. You are taken on the journey of a CEO as he is ‘coached’ through the tools and techniques offered by Schneider. Subject:Leadership
Ecological Intelligence By
GOLEMAN, Daniel Each day, as consumers, we are faced with a huge number of choices in everything we purchase. Our decision processes are bombarded by media calls for ‘green buying’ almost to the point where we are left confused. Daniel Goleman argues that to date our thinking about issues such as the environment, health hazards or child labour have been one-dimensional, focusing on single problems in isolation from the rest. He goes on to say that our ‘green awareness’ is so superficial we often do more harm than good by ignoring the adverse impacts of the far vaster proportion of what we buy and do. He shows how the availability of complete information about all aspects of a product’s history is about to transform the power of consumers and the fate of business. He believes that for the first time what a company say’s will matter far less than what they actually do. Daniel Goleman is a psychologist and journalist as well as the co-founder of the Collaborative for Academic, Social and Emotional Learning at Yale University Child Studies Centre.
Core Beliefs By
BUROW, Peter Core Beliefs are deep-seated perceptions that everyone has about the world in which we live. Core Beliefs influence every decision we make in whatever role we may fulfil. Falling foul of these perceptual filters will result in your communication strategy being ineffective. In this book Peter Burow explains their formation and how to use them to best communicate your message. Subject:Leadership
Drive: Truth about What Motivates Us (AUDIO) By
PINK, Daniel H. Forget everything you thought you knew about how to motivate people, at work, at home or at school. Daniel H. Pink explains in this audio book the secret to high performance and satisfaction in today’s world is the deeply human need to direct our lives, to learn and create new things and to do better by ourselves and the world we are living in. He draws on four decades of scientific research on the human condition and exposes the mismatch between what science knows and what business does and how that affects every aspect of life. Drive is bursting with big ideas and is sure to change the way you think! Subject:Leadership
A Sense of Urgency By
KOTTER, John Most organizational change initiatives fail spectacularly (at worst) or deliver lukewarm results (at best). In Leading Change, John Kotter revealed why change is so hard, and provided an actionable, eight-step process for implementing successful transformations.
The book became the change bible for managers worldwide. In this book Kotter shines the spotlight on the crucial first step in his framework: creating a sense of urgency by getting people to actually see and feel the need for change. Why focus on urgency? Without it, any change effort is doomed. Kotter reveals the insidious nature of complacency in all its forms and guises. He explains: how to go beyond the business case for change to overcome the fear and anger that can suppress urgency, ways to ensure that your actions and behaviours, not just your words, communicate the need for change and how to keep fanning the flames of urgency even after your transformation effort has scored some early successes. Subject:Leadership
Drive: Truth About What Motivates Us By
PINK, Daniel H. Forget everything you thought you knew about how to motivate people, at work, at home or at school. Daniel H. Pink explains in this audio book the secret to high performance and satisfaction in today’s world is the deeply human need to direct our lives, to learn and create new things and to do better by ourselves and the world we are living in. He draws on four decades of scientific research on the human condition and exposes the mismatch between what science knows and what business does and how that affects every aspect of life. Drive is bursting with big ideas and is sure to change the way you think! Subject:Leadership
Be Do Live By
DEWAN, Rajeev If you knew you had only a few weeks or months to live, would you do anything differently? Rajeev has posed this question to people all over the world and their answer is a resounding “YES!” He then probed a bit deeper to ask the ‘what’s’ and ‘hows’ and found people not so quick with their answers. And it’s from that position he has authored this book. Using his extensive life and business experience he has synthesized the material available on growth and achievement and provides you with a catalyst for taking action as well as a simple plan for getting results. You will learn how to: create a compelling vision for your life; identify precisely what’s stopping you from sustainable success; establish your shortest path to enduring success and fulfillment and act on a few vital strategies to make the biggest difference right now!
Rajeev currently lives in Sydney with his family.
Intelligent Leadership By
MANT, Alistair In this remarkable book, Alistair Mant brings alive the two qualities which count most toward successful lives, enterprises and communities, leadership and intelligence. The book takes you on an irresistibly perceptive journey. It is also a great read, full of inspirational stories of unexpected leaders, the shock of spectacular blunders, arresting metaphors and connections to make sense of them all. It will help you understand why some leaders succeed, and others are stifled by their own institutions. You will discover how to develop intelligent leadership in practice, while meeting the twin demands of operational competitiveness and human dignity. Subject:Leadership
Authentic Conversations By
SHOWKEIR, Jamie et al This is a book with a difference. The authors take an ordinary conversation and show how it can lead a workforce that is engaged and inspired or to one that is alienated and uninspired. The authors note that all too often workplace conversations create a parent-child relationship. People hide facts, sugarcoat reality and claim helplessness to try to control the interaction to get what they want. By demonstrating how to move to honest and authentic interactions or as they say “adult conversations that create increased commitment, true accountability and improved business performance.” They offer examples of parent-child and adult-adult workplace conversations in a variety of settings and provide a hands-on-guide, including sample scripts, for dealing with a host of potentially difficult conversations. Subject:Leadership
