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The Wizard and the Warrior
Leading with Passion and Power
by Lee G. Bolman
Part 12 of the Jossey-Bass Leadership series
The Wizard and the Warrior gives leaders the insight and courage they need to take risks on behalf of values they cherish and the people they guide. Great leaders must act both as wizard, calling on imagination, creativity, meaning, and magic, and as warrior, mobilizing strength, courage, and willingness to fight as necessary to fulfill their mission. Best-selling authors Lee Bolman and Terrence Deal present the defining moments and experiences of exemplary leaders such as Carly Fiorina, Thomas Keller (head chef of French Laundry), David Neeleman (CEO of Jet Blue), Mary Kay Ash, Warren Buffet, Anne Mulcahy, and Abraham Lincoln¾all of whom have wrested with their own inner warrior and wizard. These engaging, realistic case studies are followed by commentaries that will raise questions and suggest possibilities without rushing to resolution or simple answers.
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The Imperfect Board Member
Discovering the Seven Disciplines of Governance Excellence
by Jim Brown
Part 14 of the Jossey-Bass Leadership series
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Best Practices in Leadership Development and Organization Change
How the Best Companies Ensure Meaningful Change and Sustainable Leadership
by Various Authors
Part 18 of the Jossey-Bass Leadership series
In this important book, successful organizations-including well-known companies such as Agilent Technologies, Corning, GE Capital, Hewlett Packard, Honeywell Aerospace, Lockheed Martin, MIT, Motorola, and Praxair-share their most effective approaches, tools, and specific methods for leadership development and organizational change. These exemplary organizations serve as models for leadership development and organizational change because they
• Commit to organizational objectives and culture
• Transform behaviors, cultures, and perceptions
• Implement competency or organization effectiveness models
• Exhibit strong top management leadership support and passion
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The Secret Language of Leadership
How Leaders Inspire Action Through Narrative
by Stephen Denning
Part 40 of the Jossey-Bass Leadership series
The book introduces the concept of narrative intelligence-an ability to understand and act and react agilely in the quicksilver world of interacting narratives. It shows why this is key to the central task of leadership, what its dimensions are, and how you can measure it. The book's lucid explanations, vivid examples and practical tips are essential reading for CEOs, managers, change agents, marketers, salespersons, brand managers, politicians, teachers, parents-anyone who is setting out to the change the world.
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Leadership Passages
The Personal and Professional Transitions That Make or Break a Leader
by David L. Dotlich
Part 46 of the Jossey-Bass Leadership series
Leaders face numerous critical crossroads in their careers, moments that can provide extraordinary learning and growth opportunities or ensnare them and prevent further development. The good thing about these passages is that they're predictable, and with proper preparation, leaders not only can survive them to become stronger but can use these experiences to enhance their leadership, compassion, and effectiveness. This book lays out thirteen specific "leadership passages" based on research, interviews, and coaching of senior executives in such well-known companies as Johnson & Johnson, Novarits, Intel, GE, and Bank of America. For each passage, the authors describe what to expect, how the passage constitutes a choice point, and what effective leaders do to navigate and grow from the challenge. Some of the passages include: moving into a leadership role for the first time, dealing with significant failure for which you are responsible, derailing/losing your job, being acquired/merging, losing faith in the system, understanding the importance of children, family and friends, and personal upheavals such as divorce, illness, and death. The authors provide a wealth of practical tools and techniques to improve your leadership, along with real-life examples from recognizable leaders and breakthrough ways in which companies can use the concept of leadership passages to grow talent.
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Remarkable Leadership
Unleashing Your Leadership Potential One Skill at a Time
by Kevin Eikenberry
Part 49 of the Jossey-Bass Leadership series
Remarkable Leadership is a practical handbook written for anyone who wants to hone the skills they need to become an outstanding leader. In this groundbreaking book, Kevin Eikenberry outlines a framework and a mechanism for both learning new things and applying current knowledge in a thoughtful and practical way. Eikenberry provides a guide through the most important leadership competencies, offers a proven method for learning leadership skills, and shows approaches for applying these skills in today's multitasking and overloaded world of work. The book explores real-world concerns such as focus, limited time, incremental improvement, and how we learn.
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Leadership and the Sexes
Using Gender Science to Create Success in Business
by Michael Gurian
Part 158 of the Jossey-Bass Leadership series
Michael Gurian's trademark use of brain science in gender studies together with real life examples of what is currently happening in business leadership make this an important resource for businesses and organizations. It provides new vision and useful practical applications, helping women and men in the workplace become more effective and fulfilled, and ultimately helping businesses and business leaders realize increased profits. Through examples and case studies from companies like Kodak, Nike, Nintendo, Home Depot, Proctor & Gamble, Avon, and Disney, the book shows readers how ignoring gender diversity actually impedes the true potential of any business.
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Leadership Agility
Five Levels of Mastery for Anticipating and Initiating Change
by Stephen A. Josephs
Part 164 of the Jossey-Bass Leadership series
Leadership Agility is the master competency needed for sustained success in today's complex, fast-paced business environment. Richly illustrated with stories based on original research and decades of work with clients, this groundbreaking book identifies five levels that leaders move through in developing their agility. Significantly, only 10% have mastered the level of agility needed for consistent effectiveness in our turbulent era of global competition. Written in an engaging, down-to-earth style, this book not only provides a map that guides readers in identifying their current level of agility. It also provides practical advice and concrete examples that show managers and leadership development professionals how they can bring greater agility to the initiatives they take every day.
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Building the Bridge as You Walk On It
A Guide for Leading Change
by Robert E. Quinn
Part 204 of the Jossey-Bass Leadership series
Building the Bridge As You Walk On It tells the personal stories of people who have embraced deep change and inspired author Robert Quinn to take his concept one step further and develop a new model of leadership-"the fundamental state of leadership." The exploration of this transformative state is at the very heart of the book. Quinn shows how anyone can enter the fundamental state of leadership by engaging in the eight practices that center on the theme of ever-increasing integrity-reflective action, authentic engagement, appreciative inquiry, grounded vision, adaptive confidence, detached interdependence, responsible freedom, and tough love. After each chapter, Quinn challenges you to assess yourself with respect to each practice and to formulate a strategy for personal growth.
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Driving Results Through Social Networks
How Top Organizations Leverage Networks for Performance and Growth
by Robert L. Cross
Part 265 of the Jossey-Bass Leadership series
Driving Results Through Social Networks shows executives and managers how to obtain substantial performance and innovation impact by better leveraging these traditionally invisible assets. For the past decade, Rob Cross and Robert J. Thomas have worked closely with executives from over a hundred top-level companies and government agencies. In this groundbreaking book, they describe in-depth how these leaders are using network thinking to increase revenues, lower costs, and accelerate innovation.
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Leading in Times of Crisis
Navigating Through Complexity, Diversity and Uncertainty to Save Your Business
by David L. Dotlich
Part 282 of the Jossey-Bass Leadership series
LEADERS TODAY ARE GRAPPLING with complex choices, diverse customers and employees, and unprecedented uncertainty in the economic environment. Business models are becoming obsolete, cost and performance pressures are growing, regulatory requirements are changing, and trust in institutions is declining. Tackling these and other growing demands requires every leader to radically rethink what constitutes effective leadership.
Leading in Times of Crisis presents a new approach and concrete steps to compete in this complex, diverse, and uncertain marketplace. Drawing on compelling research and more than twenty interviews with CEOs and top-level executives, former executives and professors David Dotlich, Peter Cairo, and Stephen Rhinesmith highlight the growing urgency to evolve from a traditional, one-dimensional leadership model to what they term "whole leadership." Whole leadership allows leaders to act in three ways that are important now but absolutely essential to their business in the future:
• RETHINK YOUR BUSINESS
• CONNECT WITH STAKEHOLDERS
• LIVE YOUR VALUES
In an accessible, no-nonsense style, the authors provide new and experienced leaders with specific action steps for facing difficult choices, engaging diverse customers and employees, and acting in the face of uncertainty to deliver results and move companies forward in a turbulent, demanding, and resource-constrained world.
Leading in Times of Crisis will help you become a "whole leader" by aligning your purpose, skills, and decisions with the outcomes your business requires. Read it and find out how every leader has the potential to make a difference in this new world.
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The Power of Framing
Creating the Language of Leadership
by Gail T. Fairhurst
Part 290 of the Jossey-Bass Leadership series
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Linkage Inc's Best Practices in Leadership Development Handbook
Case Studies, Instruments, Training
by Linkage Inc.
Part 319 of the Jossey-Bass Leadership series
Leadership development is a planned effort that enhances the learner's capacity to lead people. Building on the success of the first edition, Linkage conducted a study of over 300 top organizations and their needs in organizational change and leadership development that identifies approaches to leadership development that have proven to be successful. The work offers practical "how-to" instructions developing leaders and engaging in leadership development. It provides current in-depth models, assessments, tools, and other instruments that can be used for immediate application within a variety of organizations.
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High Altitude Leadership
What the World's Most Forbidding Peaks Teach Us About Success
by Chris Warner
Part 367 of the Jossey-Bass Leadership series
Leadership is often a risky, lonely role possessing nearly unbearable lows and fleeting highs. Despite this emotionally and intellectually draining roller coaster, a handful of leaders deliver stunning results, with great consistency. They push past current leadership trends in order to achieve the most extremely challenging goals. They don't fall prey to the platitudes or cliches we see so often see in leadership theory. Instead, they succeed by recognizing and surviving the dangers that challenge them as they take themselves and their teams to higher levels. These rare individuals are those that Chris Warner and Don Schmincke call High Altitude Leaders. In “High Altitude Leadership” they show how to become that kind of leader.
The authors present a new approach to leadership development, based on groundbreaking 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.
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The Leader's Guide to Storytelling
Mastering the Art and Discipline of Business Narrative
by Stephen Denning
Part 379 of the Jossey-Bass Leadership series
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 book clearly explains how you can learn to tell the right story at the right time.
• The book on leadership storytelling shows how successful leaders use stories to get their ideas across and spark enduring enthusiasm for change
• Stephen Denning offers a hands-on guide to unleash the power of the business narrative.
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Eisenhower on Leadership
Ike's Enduring Lessons in Total Victory Management
by Alan Axelrod
Part 386 of the Jossey-Bass Leadership series
Based on the findings in recently released archive papers and letters, as well as extensive library and historical resources, Alan Axelrod offers a compelling profile of the remarkable leadership discipline of a general often called a "military CEO." In fascinating detail, Axelrod reveals that Ike was more than a great military leader, he was also a great executive who could-and did-write a reassuring letter to the mother of a solider one moment and make decisions impacting millions of lives the next.
Follow Ike's path as Supreme Commander from the invasion of North Africa to victory in Europe and learn the lessons of great leadership along the way, including:
• The nature of leadership
• Managing detail without sacrificing the "big picture"
• Ensuring follow-through to execution
• Building a team
• Converting conflict into common cause
• Getting the facts and making plans
• Mentoring, motivating, and inspiring
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Sharing Hidden Know-How
How Managers Solve Thorny Problems With the Knowledge Jam
by Katrina Pugh
Part 387 of the Jossey-Bass Leadership series
Using knowledge that an organization already has is one of the great management ideas of the last fifteen years. Putting Knowledge to Work provides external consultants, internal facilitators, and leaders with a five-step process that will help them achieve their knowledge management goals. The five steps, Knowledge Jams, show how to set the direction, foster the correct tone, conduct knowledge capture event, and integrate this knowledge into the organization. In addition, the author introduces conversation practices for participants to effectively co-create knowledge and discover context.
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Do More Than Give
The Six Practices of Donors Who Change the World
by John V. Kania
Part 390 of the Jossey-Bass Leadership series
How donors change the world through the six catalytic practices of high-impact philanthropy
“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 by rising to meet the challenges of our increasingly interdependent world. Key principles include: going beyond check writing/traditional volunteering, advocating for change, leveraging business, forging peer networks, empowering individuals, leading adaptively, and developing learning organizations.
• Contains robust case studies depicting every type of philanthropy (corporate, community, operating, specialized, and large private and family foundations)
• Includes easy to use "Key Takeaways" tailored for donors at the "beginner" and "experienced" levels of catalytic philanthropy
• Authors are internationally-acclaimed philanthropic, nonprofit, and corporate social responsibility strategy experts who frequently speak and train on high-impact philanthropy
In good economic times or bad, this book provides guidance for givers to increase the impact of their charitable resources and go beyond check-writing to help solve problems and change the world.
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The Deep Change Field Guide
A Personal Course to Discovering the Leader Within
by Robert E. Quinn
Part 392 of the Jossey-Bass Leadership series
How to realize your own leadership potential
Based on the bestselling book, Deep Change, The Deep Change Field Guide takes readers through the introspective journey of personal transformation. The field guide streamlines, updates, and augments the content of the original book into an interactive self-teaching course that helps readers learn how to become powerful agents of change. Learning tools include reflection questions, film assignments, and action plans that help readers think about the concepts in terms of their own situations, and identify actions to embody the concepts in their lives.
The field guide has been carefully designed so that individual learners can gain the same benefits that students have long enjoyed in the author's courses, and the learning tools also lend themselves to both the academic and professional classroom.
• Complements to Robert Quinn's bestselling book Deep Change
• Includes exercise, reflective questions, and worksheets throughout
• Provides reader with a "self-help" guide to overcoming the personal and professional obstacles that prevent transformational leadership
For anyone who yearns to be an internally driven leader, to motivate the people around them, and develop a satisfying work life, The Deep Change Field Guide holds the key.
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Coaching for Leadership
Writings on Leadership from the World's Greatest Coaches
by Dr. Marshall Goldsmith
Part 399 of the Jossey-Bass Leadership series
“Coaching for Leadership” is written for today's coaches who are challenged with the task of combining concepts from various disciplines in order to help their clients, especially high-potential leaders, learn and succeed. In this sense, coaches have to become discriminating eclectics, developing a keen sense of judgment to select which ideas are best woven into their coaching method and which concepts are best to ignore. Coaching for Leadership is intended to be a cherished companion in that learning journey presented by the world's greatest coaches, including: Marshall Goldsmith, Paul Hersey, Beverly Kaye, Dave Ulrich, and many more.
This comprehensive resource offers a wealth of material for established and novice coaches including proven coaching techniques, key principles, and important learning points. The book offers a concise overview of the foundations of coaching and reveals
• What it takes to coach for engagement and retention
• Why mentoring is circular
• How to build a team without wasting time
• What it means to be a purposeful leader
• How to write like a leader
• The right stuff of leadership
• What is needed to lead across national boundaries
• How to coach high potential women
• Why coaching is empowerment
• How to influence decision makers
• Why you should double your value
• The ten suggestions for successful peer coaching
• The coaching tools for the leadership journey
• How to coach executives for succession
Coaching for Leadership is a proven resource that offers best practices, sample scenarios, case studies, and practical tools.
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Forces for Good
The Six Practices of High-Impact Nonprofits
by Leslie R. Crutchfield
Part 403 of the Jossey-Bass Leadership series
What makes great nonprofits great? In the original book, authors Crutchfield and McLeod Grant employed a rigorous research methodology derived from for-profit books like Built to Last. They studied 12 nonprofits that have achieved extraordinary levels of impact, from Habitat for Humanity to the Heritage Foundation, and distilled six counterintuitive practices that these organizations use to change the world.
• Features a new introduction that explores the new context in which nonprofits operate and the consequences for these organizations
• Includes a new chapter on applying the Six Practices to small, local nonprofits, including some examples of these organizations
• Contains an update on the 12 organizations featured in the original book, how they have fared, what they've learned, and where they are now in their growth trajectory
This book has lessons for all readers interested in creating significant social change, including nonprofit managers, donors, and volunteers.
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Career Anchors Reimagined
Finding Direction and Opportunity in the Changing World of Work
by John Van Maanen
Part of the Jossey-Bass Leadership series
Take back control of your career journey
In the newly revised edition of Career Anchors: Finding Stability and Opportunity in the Changing Nature of Work, a team of world-renowned management and culture experts delivers a uniquely insightful exploration of your own career values and work relationships as they relate to your past and future choices. This easy-to-use workbook in combination with an online self-assessment offers critical and accessible self-diagnostic exercises along with information about the changing career scene and new descriptions of the eight career anchor categories.
This book will help you:
• Explore how your work choices now relate to your family and self-development
• Explore how the rapidly changing world of work and business emphasizes globalization, competition, technology, organizational instability, uncertainty, and shifting values
• Engage in a powerful relationship mapping process that helps you to consider how your work and career choices now interact with your relationships with family, friends, and community
• Review the career anchor values and examine how these values have changed, so you can make better choices of what, when, where, and how to work as you look ahead
This newest edition of Career Anchors is a can't-miss resource written to help you analyze, assess, and understand the past, present, and future of your own career. It belongs in the libraries of early-career-as well as established-professionals looking to take back control over their work trajectories.
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Leading Culture Change in Global Organizations
Aligning Culture and Strategy
by Daniel Denison
Part of the Jossey-Bass Leadership series
Filled with case studies from firms such as GT Automotive, GE Healthcare China, Vale, Dominos, Swiss Re Americas Division, and Polar Bank, among others, this book (written by Dan Denison and his co-authors) combines twenty years of research and survey results to illustrate a critical set of cultural dynamics that firms need to manage in order to remain competitive. Each chapter uses a case as a means to illustrate an important aspect of culture change focusing on seven common culture-change dilemmas including creating a strategic alignment, keeping strategy simple, and more.
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Forces for Good
The Six Practices of High-Impact Nonprofits
by Leslie R. Crutchfield
Part of the Jossey-Bass Leadership series
An innovative guide to how great nonprofits achieves extraordinary social impact. What makes great nonprofits great? Authors Crutchfield and McLeod Grant searched for the answer over several years, employing a rigorous research methodology which derived from books on for-profits like Built to Last. They studied 12 nonprofits that have achieved extraordinary levels of impact, from Habitat for Humanity to the Heritage Foundation, and distilled six counterintuitive practices that these organizations use to change the world. This book has lessons for all readers interested in creating significant social change, including nonprofit managers, donors and volunteers.
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Coaching for Leadership
The Practice of Leadership Coaching from the World's Greatest Coaches
by Various Authors
Part of the Jossey-Bass Leadership series
When it was published in 2000, “Coaching for Leadership” became an instant classic in the field of executive coaching. This second edition updates and expands on the original book and brings together the best executive coaches who offer a basic understanding of how coaching works, why it works, and how leaders can make the best use of the coaching process. This thoroughly revised edition reflects recent changes in coaching practices, includes well-researched best practices, and provides additional guidance and tools from the greatest leadership coaches from around the world. Each chapter in this important volume addresses a proven application, offers key principles of practice, and highlights critical learning points.
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Leading for Growth
How Umpqua Bank Got Cool and Created a Culture of Greatness
by Raymond P. Davis
Part of the Jossey-Bass Leadership series
How any business leader can create an atmosphere of competitiveness for exceptional growth
When Ray Davis took over the local 40-person South Umpqua Bank in 1994, many people in the industry poked fun at his insistence that employees answer the phone with a cheery "World's Greatest Bank." Eleven years, $7 billion in assets, and 128 branches (or " bank stores" in Umpqua lingo) later, the moniker seems quite apt. Other banks scratched their heads when Davis sent his tellers to Ritz-Carlton to learn customer service and were intrigued when he hired a cutting-edge design firm to completely re-think retail layout. Now, with a top design award under their belt, a name change (there never was a North Umpqua bank), and a completely new definition of the banking business, Umpqua has become the darling of the entrepreneurial press and a growth powerhouse. The New York Times calls Umpqua "Starbucks with tellers."
Ray Davis (Portland, OR), named by U.S. Banker as one of the 25 most influential people in the financial industry in 2005, is President and CEO of Umpqua Holdings Corporation. Alan Shrader (Moraga, CA) is an experienced writer and editor of business books.
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The Boundaryless Organization
Breaking the Chains of Organizational Structure
by Ron Ashkenas
Part of the Jossey-Bass Leadership series
In 1995 The Boundaryless Organization showed companies how to sweep away the artificial obstacles-such as hierarchy, turf, and geography-that get in the way of outstanding business performance. Now, in this completely revised edition of their groundbreaking work, management experts Ron Ashkenas, Dave Ulrich, Todd Jick, and Steve Kerr offer an up-to-date version of their comprehensive guide to help any organization go "boundaryless" – and become a company with the ability to quickly, proactively, and creatively adjust to changes in the environment. With new examples, a new commentary on the developments of the last five years, and illuminating first-hand accounts from pioneering senior executives, the authors once again show why "boundaryless" is a prerequisite for any organization trying to succeed in the economy of the twenty-first century.
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Business Leadership
A Jossey-Bass Reader
by Various Authors
Part of the Jossey-Bass Leadership series
The second edition of best-selling Business Leadership contains the best thinking on leadership from the biggest names in the business. It offers leaders everything they need to know to prepare for today's – and tomorrow's – leadership challenges: how to understand the leadership process, identify opportunities, get things started right, avoid predictable pitfalls, and maximize success. Effective leaders use mind, heart, and spirit in their work, and this volume is designed to guide and support leaders in their efforts. With an introduction by Joan V. Gallos – editor of the highly praised Organization Development: A Jossey-Bass Reader – the author list for this invaluable resource reads like the who's who of business leadership.
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