Download or read book Practical Lean Leadership written by Bob Emiliani and published by Clbm, LLC. This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Practical Lean Leadership: A Strategic Leadership Guide For Executives is the first book to present Lean leadership in ways that are specific and actionable for executives to apply at work every day. It links Lean principles and tools directly to leadership beliefs, behaviors, and competencies in new and innovative ways that connect to workplace and marketplace realities. It goes far beyond the common understanding of leadership and the training methods used for leadership development. The workbook can be used individually or by a leadership team in self-paced group training. Senior managers will be inspired by the proven approaches to improving their understanding and practice of strategic leadership. Practical Lean Leadership has won critical acclaim from executives with years of experience practicing Lean management in the real world: "This is a 'must read' book for all senior leaders. It is very well written for the C-level team and it fills a gap on how executives should lead a Lean transformation. It truly is the best description of Lean leadership today. I highly recommend it." - Edward Miller, President, Strategy Development Services, LLC "Bob Emiliani is addressing THE most important problem facing organizations trying to make Lean work; the role of the executive leadership. This workbook provides sound methods to assist managers understand their role and put it into practice. This is workbook and it requires some work, but the workbook format is very helpful to move these methods from ideas into the daily practice of Lean leadership." - Brian Maskell, President, BMA Inc. "Practical Lean Leadership explains key aspects of enterprise leadership and thentakes it several steps further by applying Lean principles and tools to leadership itself. An effective model is created by understanding behavioral waste and by applying value stream mapping and standardized work in totally new contexts. The workbook format engages the reader and immediately connects to their reality." - Kevin Meyer, President, Superfactory Ventures, LLC

Download or read book Positive Leadership written by Kim S. Cameron and published by Berrett-Koehler Publishers. This book was released on 2012-08-06 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a guide to positive climate, positive relationships, positive communication, and positive meaning and how to apply each of them in work.

Download or read book Leadership Strategy and Tactics written by Jocko Willink and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2023-10-03 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The instant #1 New York Times, #1 Wall Street Journal, #1 USA Today bestseller answers the world’s most complex question: How do you lead? Leadership is the most challenging of human endeavors. It is often misunderstood. It can bewilder, mystify, and frustrate even the most dedicated practitioners. Leaders at all levels are often forced to use theoretical guesswork to make decisions and lead their troops. IT DOESN’T HAVE TO BE THAT WAY. There are principles that can be applied and tenets that can be followed. There are skills that can be learned and maneuvers that can be practiced and executed. There are leadership strategies and tactics that have been tested and proven on the battlefield, in business, and in life. Retired U.S. Navy SEAL officer Jocko Willink delivers his powerful and pragmatic leadership methodology, which teaches how to lead any team in any situation to victory. This new expanded edition contains a protocol to develop and hone critical decision-making instincts and make them habitual.

Download or read book Everyone Deserves a Great Manager written by Scott Jeffrey Miller and published by Simon & Schuster. This book was released on 2019-10-08 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ***A WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER*** From the organizational experts at FranklinCovey, an essential guide to becoming the great manager every team deserves. A practical must-read, FranklinCovey’s Everyone Deserves a Great Manager is the essential guide for the millions of people all over the world making the challenging and rewarding leap to manager. Based on nearly a decade of research on what makes managers successful—and includes new ways of thinking, tips and techniques—this volume has been field-tested with hundreds of thousands of managers all over the world. Organized under four main roles every manager is expected to fill, Everyone Deserves a Great Manager focuses on how to lead yourself, people, teams, and change. Readers can start anywhere and go everywhere with this guide—depending on their current problem or time constraint. They can pick up a helpful tip in ten minutes or glean an entire skillset with deeper reading. The goal is for the busy manager to know what to do and how to do it without interrupting their regular workflow. Each role highlights the current, authentic problems managers face and briefly explores the limiting mindsets or common mistakes that led to those problems. With skill-based chapters that cover managerial skills like one-on-ones, giving feedback, delegating, hiring, building team culture, and leading remote teams, the book also includes more than thirty unique tools, such as a prep worksheets and a list of behavioral questions for your next interview. An approachable, engaging style using real-world stories, Everyone Deserves a Great Manager provides the blueprint for becoming the great manager every team deserves.

Download or read book Practical Leadership Strategies written by Robert Palestini and published by R&L Education. This book was released on 2010-02-16 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book details characteristics and behaviors manifested by effective leaders and discussion of how their behavior was informed by leadership theory. Robert Palestini describes the leadership practice of professional baseball coaches as a way to illustrate situational leadership theory, offering the reader examples of leadership behavior in the four leadership frames suggested by Bolman and Deal's situational leadership theory. This book demonstrates how someone can become a very effective leader in both his personal and professional life.

Download or read book Virtual Leadership written by Penny Pullan and published by Kogan Page Publishers. This book was released on 2016-08-03 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The future of work is virtual, with dispersed teams, telecommuting, remote working and virtual meetings becoming the norm across sectors and industries around the world. However leading virtual teams requires a new set of skills and a facilitative leadership approach, Virtual Leadership is here to help. At its best, virtual working can be productive and creative, tapping into the best people wherever they are and bringing skills and experience together efficiently and at low cost. But it can also lead to isolated and disengaged workers, ineffective communication, and uncoordinated and even counter-productive activity. Virtual Leadership provides practical strategies, tools and solutions for the key issues involved in managing at a distance. How can I provide leadership, motivation and vision through virtual channels? How do I make virtual meetings effective, engaging and productive, and ensure actions are followed through? How do I create engaged and cohesive teams across distance, cultures and languages? How do I stop virtual team members silently checking out, distracted by local challenges and offline issues? With diverse case studies and examples, this is the essential guide to making a difference as a leader of virtual work.

Download or read book Finding the Space to Lead written by Janice Marturano and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2014-01-07 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The complexity and relentless pace of our world places exceptional demands on leaders today. They work incredibly hard and yet feel that they are not meeting their own expectations of excellence. They feel disconnected from their own values and overburdened. By the thousands, they seek out books on leadership skills, time management, and “getting things done,” but the techniques these volumes offer, useful as they are, don't often don't speak to the leader's fundamental sense that something is missing. Janice Marturano, a senior executive with decades of experience in Fortune 500 corporations, explains how Mindful Leadership training integrates the practice of mindfulness-meditation and self-awareness-with the practical tools of management, enabling leaders to bring a wider range of their capacities to the challenges at hand. We already know from scientific research that mindfulness practices enhance mental health and improve clarity and focus. FINDING THE SPACE shows how this training has specific value for leaders. This is not a new “leadership system” to add to the burden of already overworked people. It brings the concepts of mindfulness into the everyday life of anyone in a leadership role, through specific exercises that address practical issues-the calendar, schedule, phone usage, meetings, to-do list, and strategic planning, as well as interpersonal challenges such as listening and working with difficult colleagues. Leaders who have experienced mindfulness training report that it provides a “transformative experience” with significant improvements in innovation, self-awareness, listening, and making better decisions. In FINDING THE SPACE TO LEAD, Marturano masterfully lays out her proven techniques for promoting mindfulness in the busy executive's working life.

Download or read book The Little Book of Leadership Development written by Scott J. ALLEN and published by AMACOM Div American Mgmt Assn. This book was released on 2011-05-30 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Great things come in little packages: 50 commonsense (but rarely common) ideas for building the leadership potential of others.How many managers have time to plow through big books of leadership development? None! And they'll never need to with this slender book of 50 simple yet powerful ideas. The Little Book of Leadership Development goes straight to the heart of great leadership. Free of complicated theories, it focuses on what really works to get people motivated, working effectively, and acting as leaders themselves. The book delivers streamlined instructions on modeling behaviors, sharing information, building accountability, stretching teams, providing feedback, and 45 other practical strategies. Readers will be able to design a system of development tailored to their team and organization. Managers with the ability to self-reflect and a willingness to implement these positive, powerful ideas will see quick improvementsùin communication, efficiency, morale, and every other measure that points to a committed team of emerging leaders.

Download or read book Leading Every Day written by Joyce Kaser and published by Corwin Press. This book was released on 2006-02 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As our society faces more complex challenges, the demand for effective leadership grows. Leaders, especially education leaders, often need to solve complicated problems quickly with limited resources. Understanding their own leadership styles, roles, and practices enhances the impact that leaders have every day. Leading Every Day offers direction on providing high-quality leadership amid turbulent times. Modeling the philosophy that leadership exists in all of us, the authors inspire educators to lead in big and small ways. This second edition offers: inspirational stories illustrating effective leadership, cogent quotations for educators to carry with them each day, actionable advice that can be implemented today, invitations for larger discourse that can change the lives of leaders and the lives of those they lead, and the latest research on best practices in leadership, change, professional development, and group leadership.

Download or read book The I of Leadership written by Nigel Nicholson and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2013-03-26 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the leadership book you have to read: a barn-storming new take on what makes a versatile, integrated, and effective leader Using stories and examples from the lives of leaders, from the sports stadium to the White House to the office of the CEO, Nicholson shows vividly how the capacity of leaders to see what others do not see frames their actions and allows them to transform, build, destroy, or stabilize. Leaders fail through lack of insight—into themselves and into the worlds they inhabit. The strategic challenge of leadership is to find the right balance between impact and versatility and the successful crafting of an identity that merges the leader and the surrounding culture or 'zeitgeist.' Leaders covered in the book include: George Bush, Tony Blair, George S Patton, Warren Buffet, Steve Jobs, Josef Stalin, Hannibal, Elizabeth I, Nelson Mandela, Edith Cowan, Abraham Lincoln, Mohandas Gandhi, Henry Ford, Ernest Shackleton, Barack Obama, Robert Maxwell, JFK, Pope John XXIII, Margaret Thatcher, and Samuel Pepys. This book resonates with insights and searching questions on the nature of human leadership. It will be an invaluable guide to managers, consultants, and people everywhere.

Download or read book Finding the Leader in You written by Anton G. Camarota and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are great leaders born or made? the true answer to the question most likely lies somewhere in between. We are all born with unique leadership skills u some more than others- but how we each develop these skills determines how effective a leader each of us can be. Finding the Leader in You: a Practical Guide to Expanding Your Leadership Skills is about what it takes to be an effective leader in todayes rapidly changing world of business. Whether you are a team leader, supervisor, manager, director or executive, this book gives you a comprehensive program that shows you how to further develop your leadership skills and knowledge. the first part of the book consists of a story, featuring a manager who is struggling with the responsibilities of leading a company initiative. the second part explains the concepts and ideas structuring the manageres leadership experience. Finally, the third part enables you to apply these concepts through a series of exercises that expand your leadership skills. Setting this book apart from other leadership books is the specific guidance provided in the self-application exercises.

Download or read book Future Ready Leadership written by Chris R. Groscurth and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2018-08-09 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides executive leadership teams with information, tools, and advice they need to lead their organizations into the "future of work," characterized by transformative, smart, and connected technologies already under way, including artificial intelligence, the Internet of things, and automation. The technological and economic forces of the fourth industrial revolution (4IR) are shifting organizations in radical new directions. Automation is taking place not only in factories but in retail environments, and it is not just powerful or precise: it is intelligent, and it learns. Leaders must learn to rely on new sources of data, analytics, and intelligence in their efforts to anticipate emerging trends, forecast unforeseen consequences, make sense of systems and complexity, communicate constantly, build strong networks based on trust, and ultimately, win a following. Future-Ready Leadership is an invaluable resource for leaders and leadership educators seeking to transform 4IR trends into a source of collaborative (as opposed to competitive) advantage. A blueprint for reshaping the future of work, the book meets readers' "awareness need" by exploring cutting-edge research on technology's impact on the workplace. Each chapter uses data to set up a specific future of work leadership challenge, offering readers practical solutions and advice, actionable recommendations, and tools for reflection and action that can be put into practice right away.

Download or read book Leadership Reinvented written by Hamza Khan and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2021-03-09 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reinvent yourself and your organization with practical strategies and tools for modern leaders Traditional leadership has been long overdue for reinvention. Become a respected and successful leader in the modern workplace with Leadership, Reinvented. You'll find actionable insights, practical advice, and essential strategies for people in various organizations and levels of leadership. Whether you've recently been promoted, are on track for a promotion, or simply want to overhaul your management style, you'll discover exercises and techniques for developing effective leadership skills based on the four pillars: empathy, serving others, diversity, and innovation. Real examples and anecdotal stories will help you apply your learnings in practical ways, and step-by-step instructions will guide you in building your own road map for success. Leadership, Reinvented includes: An intro to new leadership—Learn more about what it means to be a modern leader and the positive impact new leaders can have on the workplace. Diverse experiences—Reflect on the triumphs and challenges of women, people of color, and members of the LGBTQIA+ community and how their leadership experiences add value to the modern workplace. A leadership road map—Map your path to success with templates and helpful guidance to design your own customized leadership plan. Update your leadership style for the modern workplace with practical strategies for new leaders.

Download or read book Positive Leadership in Practice written by Cornelia Lucey and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-06-14 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book aims to help leaders become the best versions of themselves, achieve extraordinary results, and help their team accomplish the same. Packed with research and practical advice from real-life positive leaders, it offers an extensive look into both what high-performance leadership is and how it can be achieved. Positive Leadership in Practice is a resource that all leaders can tap into to be more effective. The book introduces an ALIGHT model that guides leaders through six fundamental resources that can alight their own and their team’s motivation and transform their performance to an extraordinary level. Further breaking down the six resources into 18 core components, the book expands on what constitutes the six resources to make them tangible and accessible. The book also offers leaders the opportunity to self-assess their own levels of resources and levels of positive leadership through a questionnaire, as well as opportunities to reflect on how to further develop these levels of resources and positive leadership. Finally, the book signposts practical strategies to tap into on the back of their reflections to take action to become their best possible positive leader. This book is for existing and aspiring managers, leaders, and those with people-related roles such as in human resources, coaching, leadership development, and organisational consultants, as well as anyone in more informal leadership positions. After all, we are all leaders.

Download or read book The Leadership Star written by Brian Hartzer and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2021-04-05 with total page 91 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover how to unlock the potential contained within your teams with this insightful resource The Leadership Star: A Practitioner’s Guide to Building Staff Engagement provides readers with a step-by-step guide to developing engagement within their professional teams in for-profit, non-profit, academic, and governmental organizations. Experienced executive, management consultant, and author Brian Hartzer walks readers through the foundational and advanced techniques required to develop high performing professional teams. He shows readers how to: Care about individuals as human beings, rather than as means to an end Provide context to people to help them understand the company and why what they do matters Give clarity by telling people what outcomes and behaviors are expected of them Help clear the barriers that stand in the way of people doing a great job Recognize individual contributions and success Perfect for current and aspiring senior managers and executives who need to know exactly what they should personally do to draw out the best from their teams and build the highest levels of engagement, the book also belongs on the shelves of anyone with direct reports and anyone who hopes to enhance their own performance in the professional sphere.

Download or read book Lead Like it Matters Because it Does Practical Leadership Tools to Inspire and Engage Your People and Create Great Results written by Roxi Bahar Hewertson and published by McGraw Hill Professional. This book was released on 2014-10-17 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Create a “ripple effect” of positive change in your organization Lead Like it Matters . . . Because it Does reveals the author’s proven Ripple Effect method for increasing engagement, reducing turnover, and driving overall business success. Readers learn simple but critically important practices like cutting wasted meetings, addressing conflict, and aligning decisions with business needs—all of which create a ripple effect that leads to widespread change, greater employee engagement, and better business results. Roxi Bahar Hewertson is CEO of Highland Consulting Group, Inc., and an adjunct at Cornell University’s School of Industrial and Labor Relations.

Download or read book Practical Leadership Skills written by Russell Tobin and published by Kogan Page Limited. This book was released on 1999 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although most managers like to think that they are effective leaders, many are not. Proving once and for all that quality leadership can be taught, this new edition of this self-study guide will help all managers wanting to improve their leadership potential. With step by step guides to self improvement, this book provides practical techniques for: . Building self-esteem7 Learning how to deal with confrontation7 Understanding responsibilities7 Maintaining control of any situation