Sentences with phrase «books about leadership»

We maintain a list of recommended books about leadership and inspiration, including The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom, by Don Miguel Ruiz, and Steve Jobs, by Walter Isaacson.

It's an extremely motivational book about leadership, winning personalities, and historical successes.

Not exact matches

Dropbox's young CEO Drew Houston learned about leadership from reading books by Intel icon Andy Grove.

How about we agree that you just take my word for it (or read my book), rather than try to learn these prison leadership lessons in their natural setting?

The title of her latest book, she explains, is meant as a caution about the future of leadership: «For nearly everywhere, leaders are found wanting, followers are restive, and the context is changing... unless we get a grip, the prognosis is grim.»

I must confess, when reading this book I identified elements of both traits in my own leadership style and quickly set about changing for the better.

I don't know anything about soccer, but it's very much a leadership book about how to build teams of people, how to play off personalities and understanding what makes people tick.

But what really impresses me most are the leadership qualities he talks about in his book Principles: Life and Work.

In my domain of business, strategy, and leadership I've also noticed a gap in women authors and I thought it was worthwhile to compile a list that was not books targeted at women but books about strategy and leadership that happen to be written by women.

Jeffrey Pfeffer proclaims in this new book that «much of the oft - repeated conventional wisdom about leadership is based more on hope than reality, on wishes rather than data, on beliefs instead of science.»

Howard Gardner, an accomplished author of several books on leadership and human behavior has written at length about emotional intelligence and leadership communication.

Even just lending something small can work beautifully: «I read this book recently about leadership; I thought you might enjoy reading it, too.»

Steve Tobak's book gets it right about leadership and all of its challenges.

This book is a series of writings and lectures about the concept of servant leadership.

Former FBI Director James B. Comey criticizes President Trump as unethical and «untethered to truth» and calls his leadership of the country «ego driven and about personal loyalty» in a forthcoming book.

«This is more than a leadership book, it's more than a book, it's a guide to creating a meaningful life, it's about achieving your values and leading others to achieve theirs.

This week, #HipNJ is featuring Matt Sweetwood — author, entrepreneur, single - father and life coach — whose most recent project, a self - help book entitled Leader of the Pack, was recently celebrated at Till & Sprocket NYC with a stimulating discussion about marriage, divorce, parenthood, and leadership.

«My book is about ethical leadership & draws on stories from my life & lessons I learned from others,» he wrote.

«Regulators need to show leadership and get this done,» said Bair, who left the FDIC in 2011 and wrote a book about the crisis called «Bull by the Horns: Fighting to Save Main Street from Wall Street and Wall Street from Itself.»

My book is about ethical leadership & draws on stories from my life & lessons I learned from others.

We go to church, we participate in leadership meetings to shape the conversations of our communities, we pray for our friends, we make meals, I write posts and articles and books about God, we wash our minivans, we set up the sprinkler for the neighbourhood kids and hand out freezies to hopeful hands, we go to work, we talk about the people we know.

Since January of 2009, I have been writing a book for non-profits about dealing with leadership and organizational systems where abuse of power is involved.

I suspected I'd get a little pushback from fellow Christians who hold a complementarian perspective on gender, (a position that requires women to submit to male leadership in the home and church, and often appeals to «biblical womanhood» for support), but I had hoped — perhaps naively — that the book would generate a vigorous, healthy debate about things like the Greco Roman household codes found in the epistles of Peter and Paul, about the meaning of the Hebrew word ezer or the Greek word for deacon, about the Paul's line of argumentation in 1 Timothy 2 and 1 Corinthians 11, about our hermeneutical presuppositions and how they are influenced by our own culture, and about what we really mean when we talk about «biblical womanhood» — all issues I address quite seriously in the book, but which have yet to be engaged by complementarian critics.

Now the leadership of his Mars Hill Bible Church is rushing to his defense, and we're learning more about the fight to publish his controversial new book.

I write this blog because, as I have experienced leadership circles in Christianity, I have the strong sense that there are lots of guys out there trying to build an empire, be a minor Christian celebrity, or have people buuys there books, and follow them on Twitter as they tweet about what ind of ice ream they at... hahaa.

More scathing was the verdict of New Statesman correspondent Stephen Bush: «Something v charming about Williamson's leadership bid, which he approaches in the manner of a 14 - year - old who's read a self - help dating book... Now I will initiate Stage 2: the airing of the sex scandal!»

A couple of thousand freakishly zealous activists would schlep off to the seaside, engage in five days» earnest debates ignored by the media — barring speculation about that year's leadership crisis — and agree a load of policy that made us feel good, but which stood absolutely no chance of troubling the statute books.

The only place where the leadership is still respected, paradoxically, is within the party membership itself, where a level of denial exists which in years to come group psychologists will surely write books about.

It is a book about integrity, leadership, decision making, and moral reasoning,» Bharara said in a statement.

San Diego, CA, USA About Blog Follower of Jesus, J.R. Miller has 15 years of pastoral experience and has authored multiple books on church history, biblical theology, leadership and a devotional for building teams.Educating & Equipping the Next Generation of Leaders.

The same publisher, Routledge Press, wanted me to write a book about Hillary Clinton's leadership.

As she recounts in a new book about how principals learn to lead, Fiarman realized that effective leadership is a long game, one that begins with a belief that the adults in the building have to be learning alongside the children.

The new book, Distributed Leadership in Practice, edited by Assistant Professor John Diamond and Northwestern University Professor James P. Spillane, explores how a distributed perspective is different from other frameworks for thinking about leadership in schools.

As Education Next editor Frederick Hess and I explain in a forthcoming book about learning science, technology, and education leadership, to make the best use of data we need to take a «learning engineering» approach.

If you want to learn about creating successful simulations for leadership, get a copy of the Instructional Design For eLearning: Essential Guide To Creating Successful eLearning Courses book where you will find instructional design and eLearning tips, tricks, suggestions, and best practices.

Her widely praised book The Hardest Questions Aren't on the Test, about teaching and leadership in urban schools, was published in 2009 in both English and Spanish.

Sheninger is an author of four books and numerous articles about digital leadership and learning, and he travels the world spreading his message of how he used digital technology to transform New Milford High School in New Jersey into a top - rated school.

«This book offers well - grounded insights about the leadership practices of > educateeducators involved in the implementation of Comprehensive School > Reform models.

She is a co-author of three books about school leadership in which she helps individuals and teams get clearer about their strengths, more confident about how they «show up» in their work, and more effective in their collaborative working relationships.

Prepare to be inspired by their extensive research and their conclusions, which are the subject of Uplifting Leadership: How Organizations, Teams and Communities Raise Performance, a new book that Sir Ken Robinson predicts will «overturn many conventional assumptions about leadership.»

Their materials describe good character and talk about the attitudes a person needs in order to improve relationships and make ethical choices, and they have formed a leadership development program that can be accessed through training seminars, workshops, books, magazines, curriculum, and e-mail.

Here are some books reviewed over the past year that can get you thinking about how to improve your school leadership.

He created Project S.A.M.E. a US - Soviet Youth Exchange that brought students from the US and USSR together to advocate for peace; founded Students Concerned about Bias in Society (SCABS) who fought for implementation of Title IX in Maine schools; directed the University of Maine Aspirations Project and launched 35 statewide student leadership teams to bring students» voices to educational reform; conducted program evaluation research on the effects of the Maine Civil Rights Teams Project whose 50 student teams fought against bigotry and intolerance in Maine communities; founded the Center for School Climate and Learning and worked in hundreds of schools supporting students, teachers and administrators to bring youth voice to school reform in the US; co-authored two books, The Respectful School, and Transforming School Climate and Learning to share what I have learned.

Ask any great leader — I asked a number of them for my forthcoming book, Leading Together: Teachers and Administrators Improving Student Outcomes — and they will tell you that it is more about the leadership work than the leader.

The basis for our approach is the instructional and leadership coaching model that Elena has written about in her books, as well as the curriculum she has created for team development.

In this interview about their ASCD book, Yvette Jackson and Veronica McDermott, educators with the National Urban Alliance for Effective Education, explain what fearless leadership looks like and share their hopeful vision for urban schools.

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