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It Takes a Lot More Than Attitude... To Lead a Stellar Organization
Stever Robbins Manufacturer: Acanthus Publishing ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0975481002 |
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Nuggets of wisdom for leaders and their coaches.......2005-03-17
Practical, Punchy and Plain Speaking.......2004-11-10
leadership for the rest of us!.......2004-09-25
Practical How-To Guide for Effective Company Leadership.......2004-08-19
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See Jane Lead: 99 Ways for Women to Take Charge at Work
Lois P. Frankel Manufacturer: Business Plus ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
ASIN: 0446579688 |
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The workplace is changing.From the boardrooms to non-profit organizations to the military, the typical male management style is now obsolete.There is a new generation of employees who reject hierarchical leadership and respond to the behaviors and characteristics that women traditionally exhibit.In other words, the time for woment to take charge is now! In SEE JANE LEAD, Dr. Frankel provides a blueprint for women who want to tap their natural leadership abilities and manage with greater ease and confidence in the business world, on the soccer field, at home, and beyond.With the same sharp insight that she demonstrated in Nice Girls Don't Get Rich and Nice Girls Don't Get the Corner Office, Dr. Frankel shows women how they can overcome sabotaging childhood behaviors that hold them back, while offering practical advice and real-life examples of strong female leaders who have succeeded--in male dominated fields--beyond their wildest dreams.Customer Reviews:
The View from a Positive Slant.......2007-07-11
What a great motivating book.......2007-06-14
Frankel Tells It Like It Is- And What to Do About It.......2007-05-30
Good for what it is.......2007-05-15
Great leadership primer for BOTH women and men.......2007-05-14
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Trading Places: How We Allowed Japan to Take the Lead
Clyde V., Jr. Prestowitz Manufacturer: Basic Books ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0465086802 |
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Leading in a Time of Change: What It Will Take to Lead Tomorrow, Viewer's Workbook
Peter F. Drucker , and Peter M. Senge Manufacturer: Jossey-Bass ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0787956686 |
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Sit at the table with the visionary leaders setting the agenda for organizational leadership and change!The Drucker Foundation presents you with a conversation between Peter F. Drucker and Peter M. Senge, hosted by Frances Hesselbein. In this dynamic package, these two great minds of modern management share their wisdom on how leaders can prepare themselves and their organizations for the inevitable changes that lie ahead.
Witness a remarkable discussion between Drucker and Senge as they talk about the importance of all organizations learning to lead change. Using the principles presented in this stimulating video, you can help transform yourself and your organization into a change leader.
In addition, the companion workbook will be an invaluable aid in making strategic decisions. It serves as a fundamental resource for planning and implementing changes within your organization. This extraordinary package is an ideal tool for executive retreats, management training, or personal leadership development.
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A great guide to dealing with change.......2001-03-11
A video for all leaders.......2001-02-16
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It Takes a CEO: It's Time to Lead with Integrity
Leo Hindery Manufacturer: Free Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
ASIN: 0743269853 |
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Rarely do clarion calls sound this loud. Longtime media-industry executive Leo Hindery, who once headed AT&T and several other large companies, now sees plenty of problems in the modern world, in business and out. He uses his new book, It Takes a CEO to issue both his diagnoses of the ills, and proposed cures. With the expansive tone of a politician, Hindery addresses a wide array of issues: inner-city unemployment, lack of health insurance, violence on television, corporate greed, outsourcing, undermotivated young people, and even, in brief stretches, the growing trend towards obesity in Americans.Readers who enjoy reflectiveness and broad perspective in their CEOs will relish Hindery's conversational but unmistakably serious approach. Far from being a conventional memoir of corporate jobs held, boardroom battles won and lost, and shareholder value created, It Takes a CEO clearly focuses on more ambitious goals. Hindery opens his book by declaring his desire to inspire future generations of CEOs, and he returns numerous times to compare his perspectives and experiences as a young businessperson graduating from Stanford's Graduate School of Business to those students coming into the economy today.
Hindery strays from the conventional business-book formula; from the very first pages of the book, in other words, Hindery focuses on the dramatic social trends that waste human potential and drain pools of potential consumers and employees. Hindery will raise some readers' eyebrows with his direct, sometimes bracing opinions. In discussing the accounting-manipulation and fraud scandals that rocked corporate America around the turn of the century, he naturally mentions the typical villains, such as leaders at Tyco, Worldcom, Adelphia, and Enron. He also displays his disgust with Wall Street analysts who praised companies publicly while privately disparaging them. Citigroup's Jack Grubman catches a few barbs from Hindery, for example. Interestingly, though, Hindery doesn't stop there. He also castigates Citigroup's current CEO, Sandy Weill, whom many in the business world admire as a consummate dealmaker. Hindery finds Weill's compensation as CEO wildly excessive, and opines that Weill "deserves a lifetime banishment from positions of corporate leadership." Hindery similarly attacks the leadership of well-respected companies such as Cisco and Disney.
Perhaps the strongest part of It Takes a CEO, though, is that it doesn't stop merely with entertaining opinions and sharply worded broadsides. Hindery also shares his experience with prospective CEOs by offering solutions. On the topic of executive compensation, for example, Hindery offers several measures that he considers wise: a smaller pay spread between CEOs and rank-and-file employees, expensing of employee stock options in profit-and-loss accounting, and elimination of short-term vesting on options. It's this kind of practical advice, and constructive spirit, that makes Hindery's book a valuable one. --Peter Han
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Should CEOs act as moral compasses for their companies? Leo Hindery thinks they should. If every CEO did so, then Enron, WorldCom, Adelphia, and Tyco would not have become poster children for greed. They would not have become corporate embarrassments -- living illustrations of all that can go wrong in the corner office.How did these once prestigious companies fall off the ethical cliff? How is it that reputations were destroyed, shareholders lost value, employees (in many cases) lost everything, and, in a few cases, entire companies disappeared? Everyone is pointing fingers, and the new widespread mistrust of public companies may turn out to be more damaging to America's economic future than the billions actually lost in the scandals.
Now, one of America's most prominent corporate leaders illuminates the need for more integrity and less greed among executives. In a scathing examination of why leaders have lost their way, Leo Hindery speaks out on the role of the CEO.
Does the corporate culture have to be driven by greed? Or can you do good and still make good in the big business world? Leo Hindery, the former CEO and President of companies such as AT&T Broadband, TCI, and the YES Network -- and currently Managing Partner of InterMedia Partners -- forcefully advocates approaching a business career as life's meaningful work, and not merely as a way to accumulate personal wealth. Both fiery and optimistic, Hindery calls upon his fellow executives to conduct themselves with the kind of integrity that used to be commonplace, but now seems all too rare.
Holding his moral yardstick up to some of the worst transgressions in recent memory, Hindery tackles the toughest issues of the day head-on:
Why should the ratio of average CEO pay to average employee pay today be 304:1 -- and in some cases, as high as 2,300:1? What does it mean when 80 percent of all viewed media content is owned by just 5 companies?
If offshoring is good for the global economy, what needs to be done to make it fair?
What should the role of the board of directors be, and whose job is it to take care of employees?
With passion, insight, and humor, Hindery reinvigorates the code of business conduct. It Takes a CEO is a corporate handbook for our times -- not for how to get ahead, but for how to lead with integrity, grace, and heart.
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"Should CEOs act as moral compasses for their companies? Leo Hindery thinks they should. If every CEO did so, then Enron, WorldCom, Adelphia, and Tyco would not have become poster children for greed. They would not have become corporate embarrassments -- living illustrations of all that can go wrong in the corner office. How did these once prestigious companies fall off the ethical cliff? How is it that reputations were destroyed, shareholders lost value, employees (in many cases) lost everything, and, in a few cases, entire companies disappeared? Everyone is pointing fingers, and the new widespread mistrust of public companies may turn out to be more damaging to America's economic future than the billions actually lost in the scandals. Now, one of America's most prominent corporate leaders illuminates the need for more integrity and less greed among executives. In a scathing examination of why leaders have lost their way, Leo Hindery speaks out on the role of the CEO. Does the corporate culture have to be driven by greed? Or can you do good and still make good in the big business world? Leo Hindery, the former CEO and President of companies such as AT&T Broadband, TCI, and the YES Network -- and currently Managing Partner of InterMedia Partners -- forcefully advocates approaching a business career as life's meaningful work, and not merely as a way to accumulate personal wealth. Both fiery and optimistic, Hindery calls upon his fellow executives to conduct themselves with the kind of integrity that used to be commonplace, but now seems all too rare. Holding his moral yardstick up to some of the worst transgressions in recent memory, Hindery tackles the toughest issues of the day head-on: . Why should the ratio of average CEO pay to average employee pay today be 304:1 -- and in some cases, as high as 2,300:1? . What does it mean when 80 percent of all viewed media content is owned by just 5 companies? . If offshoring is good for the global economy, what needs to be done to make it fair? . What should the role of the board of directors be, and whose job is it to take care of employees? With passion, insight, and humor, Hindery reinvigorates the code of business conduct. It Takes a CEO is a corporate handbook for our times -- not for how to get ahead, but for how to lead with integrity, grace, and heart. "Customer Reviews:
At last, a broader perspective on the purpose of companies.......2006-09-29
It takes a lot of gall........2006-05-11
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Take Me to Your Leader: Taking the Lead in Our Lives
Debra E. Talbertr Manufacturer: iUniverse ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0595284469 |
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Leaders talk about the essence of leadership in new bookhow they took the lead in their own lives In her second book, Take Me To Your Leader: Taking The Lead In Our Lives (iUniverse, Inc.), Debra E. Talbert, has expanded the concept of leadership to a new level: an individual and deeply personal one.It's a story so common in the news today, that we have all but ceased to notice. Lilly was born in the worst of the inner-city slums. She was the oldest of five children. Both of her parents were heroin addicts. By the time she was fifteen, two of her siblings had been killed in drug related incidents. Her father was dead. Her Mother was in prison. And she was addicted to crack. Today, however, this woman a respected corporate manager who has acquired a reputation for developing leaders. It begs the questionwho's in charge here?
In her book, Take Me To Your Leader: Taking The Lead In Our Lives, Author, Debra E. Talbert (Take the Lead Consulting), brings the stories of real people who have had significant turning points in their lives. "One moment they were staring at an insurmountable obstacle, and the next moment they were blazing a trail. I wanted to know what was actually happening in that moment what allowed them to see a different possibility." Through hundreds of interviews, from people all over the world, Debra has uncovered the things we are all doingevery dayto take the lead in creating our lives.
"So often we think about the concept of leadership as leading outleading others. How do I get the organization to do what it needs to do? How do I inspire my clients, employees, kids? But, truly we are the most effective at leading others when we have first taken the lead in our own lives."
Take Me To Your Leader: Taking the Lead In Our Lives, brings together seven patterns of belief and practice that help us in asking questions about what is possible in our lives. The seven patterns include three core beliefsWho do I think I am? (Identity). What do I think about power? (Influence). What will I do about the pain? (Pain) And, four life practices: Choice, Vision, Meaning, and Reverence.
"In my work I have an opportunity to meet some remarkable leadersin corporate America, public sector, and militarymany of them quite famous. Many of them have had extraordinary achievements as leaders in our society. But it was their personal stories that really touched me. I will never forget a base commander I met once who was about to retire. He described the transition from leading outto leading in as, `the most profound endeavor of my career.'"
Debra E. Talbert is an international consultant, speaker and workshop leader in the field of organizational and leadership development. Debra's first book: The Gypsy Sings: A Trilogy to Celebrate the Gypsy In The Soul, published with artist Gretchen McGarigle-Butler, is a fictionalized group of stories which also looks at the vitality of our inner lives.
"Take Me To Your Leader: Taking The Lead In Our Lives, is about that moment when something in us shifts and allows us to make different choices, and to create a different story for ourselves. It is the collected wisdom of people who have faced that moment locked in board rooms, stopped at traffic lights, standing at pulpits, sitting in churches, staring in the mirror. People who, whatever else they were doing, made the choice to take the lead."
Take Me To Your Leader: Taking The Lead In Our Lives
Self-Help / General/Trade Paperback/Publication Date: Jul-2003
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A wonderful Read.......2004-02-23
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Take the Lead: Trombone
Manufacturer: Houston Publishing, Inc. ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0793551676 |
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A basic guide for each of the lead players in a jazz ensemble. Each book covers all the facets of lead playing for that particular section, including section phrasing, balance style, rehearsal techniques, mouthpieces, vibrato, special exercises, equipment, and many other helpful suggestions.Customer Reviews:
The best there is.......2002-11-27
A must for every trombone player!.......1999-04-01
"FOR TROMBONE HEAVEN!".......1998-06-12
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Take the Lead Christmas Songs
Manufacturer: International Music Publications ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 1859099572 |
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Take the Lead
Mandy Book , and Cheryl S. Smith Manufacturer: Legacy Canine Behavior and Training, Inc. ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0974246417 Release Date: 2002-01-01 |
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Leadership education for anyone with a dog.
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Take the Lead, George Washington
Judith St. George Manufacturer: Philomel ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
ASIN: 0399238875 |
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George Washington wanted to be a Virginia gentleman, like his brother Lawrence . . . until he got the chance to go on a wilderness trip as a surveyor's assistant. It was a rough-and even dangerous-journey. At times George got discouraged, but his grit and determination kept him going. His early trek into the American frontier was a turning point for George, and he proved he was ready for any challenge . . . from being a general in the Revolutionary War to becoming the first president of the United States!Books:
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