Download or read book Leadership Games written by Stephen S. Kaagan and published by SAGE Publications. This book was released on 1998-10-16 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leadership Games presents twenty-five practical, inexpensive experimental activities designed to be used in various leadership training and development programmes.This book centers on those areas of primary concern to todays managers, team leadership, risking innovation, fostering collaboration, managing conflict, and using diversity. The author has extensive experience both in the academic and consulting word (including being a past President of the Outward Bound program in Rockland, Maine).
Download or read book Coach to Win the Leadership Game written by Pete Walsh and published by . This book was released on 2010-09 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Infinite Game written by Simon Sinek and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2019-10-15 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the New York Times bestselling author of Start With Why and Leaders Eat Last, a bold framework for leadership in today’s ever-changing world. How do we win a game that has no end? Finite games, like football or chess, have known players, fixed rules and a clear endpoint. The winners and losers are easily identified. Infinite games, games with no finish line, like business or politics, or life itself, have players who come and go. The rules of an infinite game are changeable while infinite games have no defined endpoint. There are no winners or losers—only ahead and behind. The question is, how do we play to succeed in the game we’re in? In this revelatory new book, Simon Sinek offers a framework for leading with an infinite mindset. On one hand, none of us can resist the fleeting thrills of a promotion earned or a tournament won, yet these rewards fade quickly. In pursuit of a Just Cause, we will commit to a vision of a future world so appealing that we will build it week after week, month after month, year after year. Although we do not know the exact form this world will take, working toward it gives our work and our life meaning. Leaders who embrace an infinite mindset build stronger, more innovative, more inspiring organizations. Ultimately, they are the ones who lead us into the future.
Download or read book Peak Leadership Fitness written by Timothy J. Tobin and published by Association for Talent Development. This book was released on 2019-02-05 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Get leadership-fit and see results in yourself and others. Leadership and fitness are both journeys of self-discovery. Both require self-awareness, passion, and commitment. Both have the potential to inspire others. And for both, results come only with effort. To achieve great heights, you must be willing to take the first step, put in the work, and overcome the inevitable obstacles. In Peak Leadership Fitness: Elevating Your Leadership Game, leadership coach and fitness expert Timothy J. Tobin invites you to share the lessons he’s learned at the intersection of physical and leadership fitness. With the encouraging style of a trainer-coach, Tobin shares his four fitness principles: You never know what you’re capable of until you take that first step. You must put in the effort. You learn more about yourself when times are tough. What you consume matters. Tobin describes the foundations for leadership fitness, including motivation and mindset, and details his steps to becoming leadership-fit. From taking your pulse to seeking recovery by building endurance, Tobin employs fitness metaphors while remaining aware of the critical difference between personal fitness and leadership—the stakes are much higher with leadership. This book was written for today’s and tomorrow’s leaders facing today’s challenges—time constraints, overcrowded leadership development landscape, and uncertainty about where to start. It is grounded in learning and development and leadership research and illustrated with true-to-life vignettes, sample leadership fitness plans, templates, and tip sheets. Tobin points out the opportunities for leadership development that are all around you—you just need to know where to look and how to integrate the activities into your regular routine. Train smart; train often. Build good habits. Develop yourself and others. You’ve got this!
Download or read book Chess Not Checkers written by Mark Miller and published by Berrett-Koehler Publishers. This book was released on 2015-04-06 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As organizations grow in volume and complexity, the demands on leadership change. The same old moves won't cut it any more. In Chess Not Checkers, Mark Miller tells the story of Blake Brown, newly appointed CEO of a company troubled by poor performance and low morale. Nothing Blake learned from his previous roles seems to help him deal with the issues he now faces. The problem, his new mentor points out, is Blake is playing the wrong game. The early days of an organization are like checkers: a quickly played game with mostly interchangeable pieces. Everybody, the leader included, does a little bit of everything; the pace is frenetic. But as the organization expands, you can't just keep jumping from activity to activity. You have to think strategically, plan ahead, and leverage every employee's specific talents—that's chess. Leaders who continue to play checkers when the name of the game is chess lose. On his journey, Blake learns four essential strategies from the game of chess that transform his leadership and his organization. The result: unprecedented performance!
Download or read book Coach Wooden s Leadership Game Plan for Success 12 Lessons for Extraordinary Performance and Personal Excellence written by John Wooden and published by McGraw Hill Professional. This book was released on 2009-04-04 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Each member of your team has the potential for personal greatness; the leader’s job is to help them achieve it.” —JOHN WOODEN Coach Wooden’s Leadership Game Plan for Success presents a unique opportunity to study under the man ESPN hails as “the greatest coach of the 20th century.” Practicing character-based leadership before the term was invented, John Wooden consistently led his legendary teams to victory and has since taught countless business leaders his fundamentals for achieving and sustaining success. Now, using this hands-on book based on the acclaimed John Wooden Leadership Course©, you can “interact” with Coach to learn and apply his philosophy of world-class leadership. This unique tutorial introduces you to his core fundamentals of success as a leader and reinforces them with examples, exercises, quizzes, and quotations. You’ll learn how to Create a relationship of respect and camaraderie with those you lead Remain alert to opportunity, threats, trends, and changes Act with confi dence—but never arrogance Practice moderation and balance in all that you do Be a model of poise, grace, and reason—especially under pressure Coach Wooden’s Leadership Game Plan for Success drives home Mr. Wooden’s trademark 12 Lessons in Leadership and his famous Pyramid of Success. When you base your leadership style and substance on Coach’s straightforward attitudes, values, and principles, you’ll lead your team and business to success the Wooden way.
Download or read book Team Leadership in the Game Industry written by Seth Spaulding and published by Cengage Learning. This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book provides game industry professionals management and leadership skills and tools to help them become better leaders. Focusing specifically on the unique challenges of the game industry, the book features examples, case studies, and successful strategies directly from the industry experts."--Publisher.
Download or read book 50 Math and Science Games for Leadership written by Seah Wee Khee and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2007 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Did you like Math or Science in school? Have you played games that stimulated your thought processes for Math and Science? Trying to be creative in your Math, Science or leadership class? Can leadership be taught? Is leadership an Art or a Science or Math? Seeking to impact your training program with creative games?A primer for leadership development, this book introduces Math and Science games with a review process component that can be used for leadership instruction. The book highlights key leadership principles which show that leaders must: Ask questions; Be disciplined; Create and see things differently; Develop resources; Engage in active listening; Make priorities; Multiply leaders; Problem solve; Set an example; Sacrifice; Search and explore; Strategize; Support diversity; Work in teams and collaborate.
Download or read book Leadership in Game of Thrones written by Brigitte Biehl and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-10-13 with total page 123 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winning power in Westeros is hard, but holding power is much harder. The book analyzes strategies of leadership in the popular television series as an inspiration for today's uncertain times and our corporate world, bringing together research on TV series with management studies. The medieval fantasy world presents emotional and larger-than-life leadership archetypes: charismatic, authentic, privileged, masculine, female, motherly, lonely, romantic and disabled leaders. They are constructed and deconstructed. Hands, penises, and heads are chopped off. In this way, the series also celebrates the power of those who follow or resist, and always influence their leaders. Dr. Brigitte Biehl (Biehl-Missal) is Professor for Media and Communication Management at the SRH Berlin University of Applied Sciences, School of Popular Arts in Berlin, acting as Head of Studies B.A. Creative Industries Management, M.A. International Management Focus on Creative Leadership, and director of the Institute for Professional Development (IWK). Her background is in theater, film and media studies and business studies; she has published widely on art, aesthetics and management. This book is a translation of the original German 1st edition Leadership in Game of Throne by Brigitte Biehl, published by Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden GmbH, part of Springer Nature in 2020. The translation was done with the help of artificial intelligence (machine translation by the service DeepL.com). A subsequent human revision was done primarily in terms of content, so that the book will read stylistically differently from a conventional translation. Springer Nature works continuously to further the development of tools for the production of books and on the related technologies to support the authors.
Download or read book The Leadership Game written by Tom Dale Mullins and published by Thomas Nelson. This book was released on 2008-11-04 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whether you are coaching football, running a business, leading a charitable organization, or organizing a ministry team, the first step to success is in building a winning team. Author Tom Mullins, a winning college football coach himself, sought input from eight national champion football coaches for their approaches in building balanced and cohesive teams. Their responses are the Key Principles shared in The Leadership Game. Coaches Osborne, McCartney, Stallings, Fulmer, Stoops, Bowden, Coker, and Spurrier share insights, anecdotes, and real-life experiences here. Having won 11 of the last 13 national championships collectively, these coaches have what it takes to equip any leader to strategically build a successful team.
Download or read book Golf And The Game Of Leadership written by Donald E McHugh and published by Orient Paperbacks. This book was released on 2008-12-30 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: McHugh, a former executive with General Motors and Owens-Illinois, believes that golf is a perfect analogy for the corporate boardroom game. By transferring the strategies that work on the course to the office, chances are one will be able to stand out as a leader. The best golfers are passionate about the game and are willing to put in hours of practice. Similarly, according to the author, effective leaders are zealous in their convictions that their behavior will motivate and help others to succeed as well. The chapters - for each of 18-holes of a round of golf - feature leadership principles such as "Focus," "Courage," "Responsibility" and "Recognize Positive Results." Each chapter, offers numerous anecdotes about both golf and the business world. The book does not attempt to teach or train people to be leaders. The focus instead is to help you in your efforts to learn how to lead more effectively.
Download or read book Leadership Material written by Diana Jones and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2017-05-18 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Viewing them as 'touchy feely', intangible and invisible, most leaders separate their personal lives from their professional lives. Diana Jones, an executive coach for 30-years, argues that this is unwise. In fact, the 'soft side' of leadership - empathy, compassion, and authentic communication derived from personal experience - is both powerful and essential to enhancing executive presence, influencing others and achieving results. Through compelling stories and examples taken directly from Jones's coaching sessions with experienced leaders, readers will learn how to make enduring behavioural changes that will produce better business results and create alignment among disparate groups using empathy and leadership language.
Download or read book The Leadership Game written by Ian Robson and published by . This book was released on 2019-07 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Leadership Game is one of the most powerful tools available to managers. It provides a fast and effective way to transform groups of individuals into high-performance teams. Those teams can work within or across organizational boundaries. The Leadership Game is simple enough for small groups to quickly solve local problems. It is also powerful enough to transform the culture and performance of whole organizations. This book is full of case studies showing how the Leadership Game achieves rapid culture change and performance improvement, across a wide range of organizations. Thousands of managers and senior executives have attended the author's master classes. Yet this book covers even more than those master classes. It is the one book that managers and executives can use throughout their whole careers.
Download or read book Lead at the Top of Your Game written by Karan Ferrell-Rhodes and published by Mountain Arbor Press. This book was released on 2020-11-04 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Very few individuals or companies are perceived as being global leaders in their game. As a veteran leadership and organizational development executive of numerous Fortune 100 corporations, Karan Ferrell-Rhodes researched over 10,000 global high-potential leaders, to pinpoint how they rose to the top of their game in their profession or industry. After evaluating how these stars overcame inhibitors to reach the pinnacle of success that only 5% of the population achieves, her discovery was this simple yet powerful idea: Leaders become elite by providing differentiating value to an urgent, unmet need. In Lead at the Top of Your Game, Karan provides a blueprint how, you too, can be successful in carving out a niche to lead in your own game of choice, no matter if you are: ?An entrepreneur looking to catapult your business in a way that draws more raving fans?A high potential individual chartering your professional trajectory?A manager looking to invigorate your directs into an even higher performing team?A leader accountable for long-term sustainability in a hyper-competitive industry. In order to influence others in a way which compels them to follow your lead, she shows why it is critical to master: 1. Disrupting the game, by transforming your key strengths into key differentiators. 2. Owning the game, by honing your craft and showcasing the 7 Leadership Tactics That Drive Differentiating Value: Intellectual Horsepower, Courageous Agility, Strategic Decision, Intrapreneurship, Drive for Results, Executive Presence, Stakeholder Savvy. 3. Branding the game, by successfully associating your name, product, or service with your profession or industry. We are living in an era where even the most ambitious and rewarding work must fight for the attention of those it can serve the most. If you desire to learn how to lead at the top of your game in order to become successful in unexpected ways, realize the impact you want to make in the world and attract a legend of raving fans in the process . . . then this book is for you!
Download or read book You Play to Win the Game written by Herman Edwards and published by BusinessWeek Books. This book was released on 2005-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sharing the wisdom of Edwards' teachers--from top NFL coaches to philosophical locker-room janitors--this book provides an unprecedented look into the inner workings of football's top motivational coach and shows readers how they can chart their own path to success, in business and in life.
Download or read book 50 Math And Science Games For Leadership written by Wee Khee Seah and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2007-03-15 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Did you like Math or Science in school? Have you played games that stimulated your thought processes for Math and Science? Trying to be creative in your Math, Science or leadership class? Can leadership be taught? Is leadership an Art or a Science or Math? Seeking to impact your training program with creative games?A primer for leadership development, this book introduces Math and Science games with a review process component that can be used for leadership instruction. The book highlights key leadership principles which show that leaders must: Ask questions; Be disciplined; Create and see things differently; Develop resources; Engage in active listening; Make priorities; Multiply leaders; Problem solve; Set an example; Sacrifice; Search and explore; Strategize; Support diversity; Work in teams and collaborate.
Download or read book The Big Book of Team Building Games Trust Building Activities Team Spirit Exercises and Other Fun Things to Do written by Edward E. Scannell and published by McGraw-Hill Education. This book was released on 1997-12-22 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Did you know that games can be a terrifically effective way to build team spirit, communication, and trust among people who work together day in and day out? Now you can spark morale in any work group by choosing from 70 stimulating games and activities specifically designed for the manager who's looking to raise sagging morale in a department, liven up boring staff meetings, enable team members to collaborate smoothly and effectively, and much more!
