Sentences with phrase «of leadership books»

While plenty of leadership books describe how to achieve an outcome, Mitchell focuses on navigating and appreciating all the twists and turns on the road to success.

Holding an I Love LA mug, he posed in an easy chair next to a stack of leadership books.

Not exact matches

«This masterfully written book highlights three leadership styles, culled from the lives of three kings mentioned in the Bible: Saul, David, and Absalom.

The complementary starting points of sports arenas versus board rooms amid shared passions for leadership and teamwork make the book unique and valuable.

«This consuming interest in leadership and how to make it better has spawned a plethora of books, blogs, TED talks, and commentary,» he writes.

Willink has been retired from the SEALs for seven years now, and passes on his philosophy of discipline through his leadership consulting firm Echelon Front, his podcast, and books.

With a new book, Our Turn, that touts the benefits of female leadership, Kirstine Stewart might best be described as Canada's Sheryl Sandberg.

«There are 70,000 books in the British Library with leadership in the title,» the blog reports Furnham remarking, «but most leaders don't succeed, they fail, with a base rate of bad leadership collated from various studies of 50 per cent.»

In the book, they examine the repercussions on leadership by combined forces of globalization, climate change, increased individualism, and accelerating digitization.

That misses the point, though, because this book is actually a philosophy of life that extends to every type of leadership.

Plan to pick up one of these books in 2017 to boost your creativity, or learn leadership lessons from the best.

National Speakers Hall of Fame professional speaker Dan Clark has rewritten the rules of leadership in his new book, «The Art of Significance: Achieving the Level Beyond Success.»

If you need some assistance with discovering your own leadership style, this book will help you shape your own vision, values, and motivations through interviews with 125 of the top leaders in the world.

It's hard to believe that an author who has made a career of the «leadership» racket — with book titles such as Bad Leadership: What It Is, How It Happens, Why It Matters; and Reinventing Leadership: Making the Connection Between Politics and Business — would now be calling for its end.

He then became a credentialed expert on the subject of leadership, authoring four books and joining the faculty at Harvard Business School.

Bruce Weinstein, The Ethics Guy, is a keynote speaker and corporate trainer in ethics, leadership, and character, and his latest book is The Good Ones: Ten Crucial Qualities of High - Character Employees.

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.»

The book's purpose is twofold: to explain how notions of leadership have changed in recent decades (with flat organizations, a more democratic world and individual - empowering technology, leaders — surprise — are not as powerful as they used to be), and to expose the faults — and propose some fixes — for her own industry.

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.

Hall was recently described in the book Remarkable You as «one of the most powerful people in media who you've never met,» and has emerged as a go - to keynote speaker on topics like marketing, sales, and leadership.

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.

Out of all the books I have read around entrepreneurship, business, and leadership success, this has hands down had the most impact on the growth of myself, our business, and the development my own leadership skills as our team has grown from a startup to a global company with offices in London, Singapore, and New York.»

The famously philosophical Jackson has filled his book with a mishmash of pop leadership philosophy, Zen koans and basketball anecdotes.

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.

Along the way, the class also read books on leadership and discussed examples of it, so that thecourse included theory and practice.

So instead of being a prescriptive book that says, «Follow these steps and this will happen,» it's more like, «Open your mind to the possibilities and the fact that there might be more opportunity today for a different kind of leadership than there was in the past.»

Bachelder's story, documented in her book, Dare to Serve: How to Drive Superior Results by Serving Others, is the most compelling case study to showcase the power of servant leadership to reinvent a company from the inside out.

-- based psychologist and author of the 2008 book Introvert Power, believes that introverts have a leadership advantage in their ability to delve into the big ideas and not be distracted by frivolous social preoccupations.

In honor of its anniversary, Scott Berkun, the author of five popular books on creativity and leadership, wrote an essay devoted to lessons you can learn from the history of the Eiffel Tower's construction.

Perhaps it's no wonder, then, that two of the most revered leadership books of all time — Steven R. Covey's «The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People» and Dale Carnegie's «How to Win Friends and Influence People» — are bibles of empathic practice.

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.

Drawing on more than 25 years of leadership experience, this poetic and inspirational book conveys the key guidelines for the emotionally intelligent leadership needed for enduring success.

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.»

Planet Fitness CEO Chris Rondeau shares what more than 25 years of working at the same company has taught him and the only leadership book he's ever read.

Best known for leadership books like The Heart of Change and Our Iceberg Is Melting, Harvard prof Kotter is a guru whose reputation is equalled by few contemporaries.

Also of note is the personal leadership development portfolio handbook that accompanies the book, which is a personal guide to help you develop your authentic leadership.

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

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

The book goes into detail of what it takes to be a great leader and some strategies one can do to achieve leadership.

There's tons of books on leadership.

In our new book of the same name, my coauthors and I explain how values, a foundation of trust, and effective leadership allow organizations of all industries to maximize their human potential, which leads to greater innovation and revenue growth.

This book laid the foundation of «servant leadership» that has had a major influence on the church but in many ways I found the book condescending and patronizing rather than empowering.

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

This book is a collection of essays and talks presented by Greenleaf as he attempts to apply servant - leadership to the fields of education, business, foundations, churches and government.

This book laid the foundation of «servant leadership» that has had a major influence on the church but in many ways I found the book condescen

Roberta, a leading authority on leadership and the skills and strategies required to earn employee commitment and client loyalty, is the author of the top - selling book, Suddenly In Charge: Managing Up, Managing Down, Succeeding All Around (Nicholas Brealey, 2011), a Washington Post Top 5 Business Book For Leadbook, Suddenly In Charge: Managing Up, Managing Down, Succeeding All Around (Nicholas Brealey, 2011), a Washington Post Top 5 Business Book For LeadBook For Leaders.

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.

With Careercation, David Niu delivers in one engaging volume the practical lessons and wisdom of 37 books on entrepreneurial leadership.

I found this concept of authentic leadership outlined well in a recent book, «Impromptu,» by Judith Humphrey.

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