Download or read book From Nit Picker to Leader written by Lloyd Bumanglag and published by Lloyd Bumanglag. This book was released on 2024-02-24 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "From a Nit-Picker to Leader" offers a transformative journey for managers stuck in the nit-picking trap. Delving into the pitfalls of hyper-attention to detail, this eBook unveils the toxic effects it can have on team dynamics, productivity, and innovation. By shifting focus from micromanagement to empowerment, managers learn to foster a positive work environment where creativity thrives and employees feel valued. Through practical strategies and insightful guidance, this book equips leaders to inspire, guide, and celebrate their team's successes, ultimately paving the way for effective leadership and organizational success. Unlock the secrets to becoming a true leader who nurtures talent, fosters growth, and achieves exceptional results.
Download or read book From Bud to Boss written by Kevin Eikenberry and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-01-07 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Practical advice for making the shift to your first leadership position The number of people who will become first-time supervisors will likely grow in the next 10 years, as Baby Boomers retire. Perhaps the most challenging leadership experience anyone will face isn't one at the top, but their first promotion to leadership. They must deal with the change and uncertainty that comes with a new job, requiring new skills, and they've been promoted from peer to leader. While the book addresses the needs of any manager, supervisor, or leader, it pulls from the best leadership and management thinking, and puts the focus on the difficulties that new leaders experience. Includes practical information for new managers who must supervise friends and former peers Authors are expert consultants who work with leaders at all levels Shows how to adopt the mindset of a leader, including: communicating change, giving feedback, coaching employees, leading productive teams, and achieving goals This much-needed book can help new leaders get beyond the stress and fear to focus on becoming the most effective leader they can be-starting right now.
Download or read book 110 BE ATTITUDES FOR LEADERS written by J.J. Turner, Ph.D. and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Key Concepts in Leadership written by Jonathan Gosling and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2012-08-16 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What are the main characteristics of effective leadership? How can we understand leadership today? This wide-ranging, inter-disciplinary book provides readers with a complete introduction to the essentials of leadership. Included here are accessible and insightful entries on what leadership is, how it is practised and the relevant strengths and pitfalls. The book provides a one stop introductory guide to one of the most central and contested concepts in the social sciences. An invaluable reference tool, this book offers insight into issues such as: • Are leaders born or made? • Authoritarian versus participative leadership • The psychology of leaders and followers • Leadership development • Leadership styles, skills and functions • Leadership in practice This book is an indispensable guide to the central concepts of leadership for professionals and students alike.
Download or read book An Asperger Leader s Guide to Living and Leading Change written by Rosalind Bergemann and published by Jessica Kingsley Publishers. This book was released on 2013-11-21 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: People with Asperger Syndrome (AS) often struggle with change and this is magnified when it is part of their professional role to manage and lead change. Written by a business leader with Asperger Syndrome, this practical guide provides advice and strategies for coping with and implementing change in the workplace. Combining theory and practice with case studies and hands-on tools, the book aims to help those who find change particularly difficult to overcome these challenges and use their unique talents and skills to become change champions in the workplace. The book explores the change management life cycle and how it affects leaders with AS and teaches key skills for successfully leading change, preparing staff for change, and dealing with the effects of change on the organisation as a whole. This is a vital leadership development handbook for executive-level business professionals with Asperger Syndrome as well as those who aspire to careers in these roles.
Download or read book Good News Parish Leadership written by Michael L. Papesh and published by Twenty-Third Publications. This book was released on 2008 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For many Catholics today, the leaders described above don't exist. For just as many, "parish leadership" does not equal "good news." But Father Michael Papesh believes it certainly CAN, and here he offers guidelines, tools, and ideas for making it happen. By sharing pastoral leadership and structuring power distribution, he says a parish can enjoy, be, mirror, proclaim, and bring to the world the transforming goodness of God. And thus he offers a "whole system" model for pastoral leadership that is theologically grounded in the hospitality of God as revealed through the ministry of Jesus.
Download or read book What Works in School Leadership written by Linet Arthur and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-10-31 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The key purpose of school leadership is to improve learning. What Works in School Leadership? examines research evidence and leadership models that focus on learning and provides resources that will help readers to understand their school’s culture and develop strategies to change and improve their schools. It introduces and explains contemporary research, leadership theories and real-world examples to identify what works (and doesn’t work) in school leadership. Recognising that leadership occurs at all levels in schools, this book addresses factors that underpin successful distributed, middle and team leadership. Chapters identify how leaders can effectively recruit, retain and motivate their staff, as well as the ways in which professional development can be supported. Key aspects of inclusive leadership that address diversity and equity are also considered in depth. Each school is unique and there is no magic formula that will guarantee instant results in every school; with this in mind, What Works in School Leadership? provides readers with a range of research evidence and resources to enable them to select strategies that will create a positive learning environment for staff and pupils at their own school. This is essential reading for school leaders, those aspiring to leadership and anyone studying or researching school leadership.
Download or read book The Arts of Leadership written by Keith Grint and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2000-04-13 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leadership is still much discussed, studied, and sought after, even though we now live in supposedly more democratic times with flatter organizations and empowered employees. But how can we best understand leadership? Are leaders born or made? Do they have particular traits or are we all potential leaders? Do the requirements for leadership change over time or are there timeless patterns? Do traditional approaches help us to pick and develop leaders or are there alternative ways that advance our understanding? In this book, Keith GrintDSwho has been studying and teaching leadership for over a decadeDSinvestigates the notion of leadership in a series of historical case studies and rich essay portraits of some of the most famous, and infamous, leaders (e.g. Florence Nightingale, Richard Branson, Horatio Nelson, Martin Luther King, Henry Ford, etc.). The scenarios are drawn from right across the spectrum to include business, politics, society, and the military. The first part of the book considers four sets of parallel cases where leadership appears to be a major explanation of success and failure. The second part takes the four critical issues arising from these parallel cases (identity, strategic vision, organizational tactics, and persuasive communication) and explores them in detail. One main reason we have such difficulty in explaining and enhancing leadership, Grint argues, is because we often adopt perspectives and models that obscure rather than illuminate the issues involved. The reliance upon traditional scientific analysis has not provided the anticipated advances in our understanding because leadership is more fruitfully considered as an art, or more exactly an array of arts, rather than as a science. Grint's rich and meticulously-researched profiles combine to reveal these Arts of Leadership.
Download or read book School Leadership From A to Z written by Robert D. Ramsey and published by Corwin Press. This book was released on 2003-05-30 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Ramsey blends practical business ideas, good practice, and commonsense ideas into lessons that all principals should find useful in their work." Paul Young, 2002-2003 President National Association of Elementary School Principals "Once again Ramsey, like a wise mentor, cuts to the heart of leadership. Every reader who likes new ideas, appreciates fresh perspective, and seeks core truths about leadership will include this book in his or her library and recommend it to colleagues." Don Draayer 1990 AASA National Superintendent of the Year What does it take to be an effective school leader? What can we learn from successful schools and other businesses? Much of what makes a great business organization tick can help make an effective school click as well. This valuable new resource combines the best thinking from today′s finest schools with proven ideas taken directly from successful businesses and other public and private organizations. School Leadership From A to Z blends proven traditional success secrets for school leaders with newfound strategies and unique methods from businesses and organizations outside the education community. This fresh approach provides 26 compact sections, offering provocative insider insight into critical elements of school leadership, including: Attitude and Ambiguity Tolerance; Coaching, Culture, and Common Sense; Exceeding Expectations; Inform, Instruct, and Inspire; Networking and Nitpicking; Removing Obstacles, and much more! This handbook for educational leaders is the first ever to draw heavily on tough lessons from business and life, as well as successful school experiences, providing: Leadership lessons from both businesses and schools Ideas to borrow from the best practices of organizations What business leaders say about leadership New vocabulary for school leaders A reference list of business leadership titles helpful to school leaders If your school is not what it could or should be, something needs to change. This marvelous new resource provides you with the necessary ingredients for success!
Download or read book Leading Through Leaders written by Jeremy Tozer and published by Kogan Page Publishers. This book was released on 2012-08-03 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leading Through Leaders: Driving Strategy, Execution and Change will help you improve your business results by overcoming the challenges of uncertainty, complexity, imperfect decision-making and communication, and staff disengagement. Whilst focused on building collective leadership as a strategic capability, the author provides the means for effective individual leadership: a coherent framework of principles, process and behaviour to create the conditions for success, and the systemic and dynamic integration and alignment of leaders and engaged teams at all levels. Based on the author's 27 years of leadership and consulting experience, and illustrated with case studies and learning from clients such as Cisco, Best Western, ABN AMRO, Pfizer and the NHS, this book provides unique insights into 'effective leadership' in some of the world's best known enterprises. Leading Through Leaders presents an integrated suite of proven and durable principles and tools, and the leadership psychology, that may be adapted and used by any leader. It provides businesses with the intellectual firepower to rise above the fog and clutter of operational issues and focus on strategic priorities, with the confidence that junior leaders and their teams are fully engaged and aligned at the tactical level. Online supporting resources for this book include downloadable supplements for IP instructions of use
Download or read book Leadership Genius written by Rus Slater and published by John Murray Business. This book was released on 2015-09-10 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fast-track MBA in leadership Imagine having instant access to the world's smartest thinking on leadership - and being shown exactly what to do to guarantee that you become a better leader yourself. Leadership Genius makes it easy to apply what researchers know about brilliant leadership to the real world. 40 individual chapters focus on one or more scientific studies into a topic that you, as a leader, need to be aware of. Each of the chapters is a mini-masterclass in leading, explaining the research and showing you how to apply it in your leadership role. In business, conventional wisdom often says one thing while research says another. Leadership Genius cuts through the noise to bring you proven research and techniques for applying it that will simply make you a better leader. Quick to read and intensely practical, this book will bring a little leadership genius into your day. 'An easy, back-pocket read for any serious business leader or manager' Lietenant General John Lorimer 'An engaging, often humorous, and most certainly accessible observation of the art of leadership' Mark Heywood, Lloyds Banking Group
Download or read book The Human Side of Quality and the TAO The Greening of Leadership written by Michael Basso and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Humans Side of Qualiy and the Tao The Greening of Leadership written by Michael Basso and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2010-07-31 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This hardcover edition is a powerful tool for executives, managers, and employees in any organization with the goal to decrease waste while maximizing financial profit and human wellness simultaneously. It is also well suited as a text for undergraduate, graduate and professional education and/or training. The history and systems of quality are presented primarily from a financial and technological perspective. These foundations are integrated with information from Organizational Development, Psychology, Business Leadership and Holistic Health and Wellness. This abbreviated approach provides a practical, roadmap for the truly innovative leader and aspiring employee alike, given the time constraints common in productive organization. Several useful case studies are included.
Download or read book Performing and Reforming Leaders written by Jill Blackmore and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2007 Critics' Choice Award presented by the American Educational Studies Association Performing and Reforming Leaders critically analyzes how women negotiate the dilemmas they face in leadership and managerial roles in Australian schools, universities, and continuing education. To meet the economic needs of the post-welfare nation state of the past decade, Australian education systems were restructured, and this restructuring coincided with many female teachers and academics moving into middle management as change agents. The authors examine how new managerialism and markets in education transformed how academics and teachers did their work, and in turn changed the nature of educational leadership in ways that were dissonant with the leadership practices and values women brought to the job. While largely focused on Australia, Performing and Reforming Leaders strongly resonates with the experiences of leaders in the United States and other nations that have undergone similar educational reforms in recent decades.
Download or read book The 9 Types of Leadership written by Beatrice Chestnut PhD and published by Post Hill Press. This book was released on 2017-01-31 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Leadership and Management in Organisations written by Elearn and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2009-11-04 with total page 119 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Kotter of the Harvard Business School is one of a number of experts who believe that organisations are over managed and under led, at least partially because people do not appreciate the differences between management and leadership. We start this book by challenging mental models of leadership and management. Agility has become a prerequisite for organisations in a business environment that is characterised by change. Two trends in particular have been evident. First hierarchical systems of management are yielding to a “new leadership” movement which has at its core shared vision and individual empowerment in place of consistency and control. Second, leadership is no longer the preserve of those in positions in the management hierarchy. Increasingly it is dispersed through the organisation. By developing awareness of these and other influential trends, those who have a responsibility for leading and managing in some form will be better equipped to flex their style and to play the diverse roles required of the managerial leader in contemporary organisations.
Download or read book Turnaround Leadership written by Shaun O'Callaghan and published by Kogan Page Publishers. This book was released on 2010-06-03 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you are a leader, at some point in your management career, you will have to face times when business conditions turn against you. This may be as a result of technology changes, a recession or company specific issues such as a powerful competitor entering the market. When this happens, you will need to know how to guide your company through the tough times and profit from the changes that are happening. This book will give you the tools you need to use to make decisions and lead and motivate your staff, and communicate with your customers, investors, lenders and teams. As a business leader, this book will show you how to make the right decisions in this new environment, communicate those decisions effectively and deliver results.
