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This book is a guide to the central concepts of leadership. What are the main characteristics of effective leadership? How can we understand leadership today? This wide-ranging, interdisciplinary book provides readers with a complete introduction to the essentials of leadership. Included here are entries on what leadership is, how it is practiced and the relevant strengths and pitfalls. The book provides a guide to one of the most central and contested...
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Do you think of yourself as a leader? In this updated and expanded second edition of The Student Leadership Challenge, James Kouzes and Barry Posner apply their extensive research and expertise to demonstrate that anyone can be a leader, regardless of age or experience. They challenge high school and undergraduate college students to examine their own leadership actions and aspirations. In this book, you'll learn from first-hand leadership stories...
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The "Corner Office" columnist and head of a Pulitzer Prize-winning national reporting team draws on the insights of such leading CEOs as Microsoft's Steve Ballmer, Yahoo's Carol Bartz, and DreamWorks's Jeffrey Katzenberg to identify proven leadership principles as well as the qualities that CEOs most value in their employees.
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What makes for success at the highest levels of executive leadership? Until recently, most research has been conducted with middle-level managers, whose success is based on distinctively different attributes than success for those at the highest levels of an organization. To work with senior executives, it is critical to understand these distinctions. In this volume, the most recent research on the skills, knowledge, abilities, and other characteristics...
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"Personality, Character, and Leadership in the White House is the first book-length work to present scientific personality evaluations of the American presidents. This benchmark work improves our understanding of the personal qualities that made great presidents in the past and will produce successful leaders in the future."
"Dr. Steven Rubenzer and Dr. Thomas Faschingbauer asked 120 experts, including biographers, historians, presidential advisers,...
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"The business world abounds with alphas - powerhouses who take charge, produce astonishing results, and bring enormous value to their organizations. But many alphas also unwittingly leave a path of destruction in their wake. Often highly competitive, belligerent, and impatient, these hard-charging leaders can sometimes run roughshod over colleagues and employees, to the detriment of their careers and their company's bottom line." "In Alpha Male Syndrome,...
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What qualities make a leader succeed in business or politics? In an era when the information revolution has dramatically changed the playing field, when old organizational hierarchies have given way to fluid networks of contacts, and when mistrust of leaders is on the rise, our ideas about leadership are clearly due for redefinition. With The Powers to Lead, Joseph S. Nye, Jr. offers a sweeping look at the nature of leadership in today's world, in...
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"In industry after industry, organizations that were once dismissed as upstarts, wildcards--mavericks--are making serious waves and growing fast. From high-profile innovators such as HBO and Google to funky sandwich shop chains, the truly imaginative and unconventional businesses are changing the way things are done--providing new approaches, strategies, and outlooks, as well as better ways to compete, lead, and succeed in the twenty-first century....
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"The New York Times bestselling author of Give and Take examines how people can champion new ideas--and how leaders can encourage originality in their organizations. With Give and Take, Adam Grant not only introduced a landmark new paradigm for success but also established himself as one of his generation's most compelling and provocative thought leaders. In Originals he again addresses the challenge of improving the world, but now from the perspective...
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