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Publisher description: People interested in developing their own leadership potential, or the leadership potential of those around them, will find a wealth of knowledge in Full Leadership Development. The author approaches the concept of leadership as a system, not only as a process or a person. His framework is based on what he defines as the full range of leadership: people, timing, resources, the context of interaction, and the expected results...

Profiles some 50 leaders who have leveraged the legacy of their life experiences into five powerful habits of mind that shape the way they think about and respond to leadership challenges. Those profiled include Sara Lee CEO John Bryan, Cherokee Chief Wilma Mankiller, and Chicago Cubs President Andy MacPhail. Mackoff is a consulting psychologist and management educator. Wenet is a practicing psychologist and psychotherapist. Annotation copyrighted...

"SuperLeadership" describes a style of leadership that focuses on "leading others to lead themselves". While the prevailing leadership approaches focus on hierarchical leadership (the traditional autocratic model of leadership), transactional leadership (motivating people through rewards, such as incentive pay), and visionary leadership (motivating people through the leader's vision and inspirational rhetoric), SuperLeadership focuses on the development...

"As a member of the board of directors of several major international financial services corporations, Patricia Pitcher was in a privileged position to observe the inner workings of the corporate world. What she witnessed was a crisis of leadership rooted in a misunderstanding of what leading is all about. Not content to simply offer an opinion - opinions come cheap - she embarked on an eight-year research project to document the reasons for the rapid...

Most of us think of leaders as courageous risk takers, orchestrators of major events. However, these are not what makes the world work. The author argues what does is the sum of millions of small yet consequential decisions that men and women working far from the limelight make every day. The author calls them "quiet leaders"--People who choose responsible, behind-the-scenes action over public heroism to resolve tough leadership challenges. The book...

Using lessons drawn from entrepreneurs and entrepreneurial companies, the authors present a set of practices for capitalizing on uncertainty and rapid change. This book provides simple but powerful ways to stop acting by the old rules and start thinking with the discipline of habitual entrepreneurs, in order to succeed in an unpredictable world.--adapted from jacket.

"According to the authors, people who are in self-deception live and work as if trapped in a box. Blind to the reality around them, they undermine performance - both their own and others'. The problem is, being in the box, they can't see that they undermine performance. Consequently, they don't change, and neither do their results. As Leadership and Self-Deception shows, this phenomenon occurs frequently in organizations. Most people spend much of...

A guide to the wisdom of business and commerce includes tip lists from such business leaders as Charles Schwab on mutual funds, Peter F. Drucker on leadership, and Andrew Carnegie on business success.

"How do business leaders think as a result of their national culture? This book provides a discussion and comparative analysis of five major cultures - American, Arab, Chinese, Japanese and Scandinavian - and how they reveal themselves in business practice." "Business Leadership and Culture will enlighten students, scholars and business people about the consequences of culture for international business and management."--Jacket.