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Based upon interviews with scores of leaders who lead with questions, this book presents the power of asking the questions that lead to real solutions and answers in today's complicated world of business. Leading with Questions provides a comprehensive foundation for effectively employing questions when leading others. It offers a variety of principles and strategies for asking questions and stories illustrating how leaders from every type of organization...
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"How leaders can use the right story at the right time to inspire change and action This revised and updated edition of the best-selling book A Leader's Guide to Storytelling shows how storytelling is one of the few ways to handle the most important and difficult challenges of leadership: sparking action, getting people to work together, and leading people into the future. Using myriad illustrative examples and filled with how-to techniques, this...
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Leaders (and those that aspire to lead) at all levels in organizations are interested in succeeding, and yet, as these coaches to the cream of the crop explain, they sabotage their own success even the best and brightest fail at their efforts because they succumb to certain derailing behaviors : the eleven deadly sins. While the authors point out that these same behaviours might have gotten them to where they are to a certain extent -- at a certain...
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Today’s HiPo coaches are challenged with the recurring task of weaving threads from several disciplines into a tapestry that is fit for purpose in helping their clients learn and succeed. In this sense, the coach has to become a discriminating eclectic, developing a keen sense of judgement to select which threads are best woven into the fabric and those that it would be better to simply throw away. This book is intended to be a cherished companion...
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The book is a new approach to leadership development, based on ground-breaking scientific research, field-tested under the most brutal conditions on the most difficult summits, and successfully applied in the training of executives, management teams and entrepreneurs throughout the world. Each chapter takes one core lesson and approaches it from three points of view. First, the authors introduce a key leadership principle learned from expeditions...
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Much has changed in the business world since the original publication of Leading Out Loud, Terry Pearces classic on authentic leadership communication. Now more than ever, the development of a leader’s message is as crucial to success as the delivery of that message. In this new and revised edition, Pearce explains that the events of recent years, including the September 11 tragedy and numerous corporate scandals, have caused a loss of confidence...
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J-b us non-franchise leadership volume 390
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Jossey-Bass
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c2011
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"Do More Than Give provides a blueprint for individuals, philanthropists, and foundation leaders to increase their impact. Based on Forces for Good, this groundbreaking book demonstrates how the six practices of high-impact nonprofits apply to donors aiming to advance social causes. Rather than focus on the mechanics of effective grantmaking, reporting, or evaluation, this book instead proposes that donors can become proactive catalysts for change...
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Wiley
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2017.
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"Companies need High Potential leaders (Hi-Po's) more than ever before to help them adapt to todays tumultuous, digitally-driven business environment. If you meet the Hi-Po criteria, you're in high demand--and this book explains how to fast-track yourself. Criteria for Hi-Pos are changing markedly. In the past, fast-track leaders were tapped mainly because of their cognitive abilities, analytical skills, imagination, thoroughness in finding solutions...
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J-b us non-franchise leadership volume 387
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Jossey-Bass
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2011
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"One of the great management ideas of the last fifteen years has been to make use of the knowledge that an organization has already learned. This book's five-step process, which the author calls Knowledge Jam, shows how to set the direction, foster the correct tone, conduct a knowledge capture event, and integrate this knowledge into the organization. It also introduces conversation practices for participants to effectively co-create knowledge and...
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