Download or read book The Currency of Leadership written by William Bishop and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-03 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents ethical and cultural organizational challenges in a narrative format from the perspective of a new CEO. The Currenc y of Leadership demonstrates the nuances and personalization involved in effective consulting and corporate training development. Twenty-first centur y organizations are globally exposed. Ethical failures stream around the world in real time. Corporations rise and fall based on their values, culture, and associated actions. Organizations need timely, relevant training that is designed specifically for them, their environment, and their culture. In this creative application of academic information, the ar t of consulting is combined with the sk ill and technical acumen required to design and deliver training to transform organizational culture. Additionally, the academic content stands alone as a guide for establishing core values, defining ethical boundaries, and identifying the qualities of authentic leadership that are crucial for organizational success in the global economy. This is both a quick reference that leaders can utilize to make midcourse corrections and a blueprint for developing customized training to meet changing needs.
Download or read book The New Currency of Leadership written by Maryam Malek and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2015-06-12 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "What's the bottom line?" CEO's have been asking and answering this questions since the dawn of capitalism. Balance sheets, P&L and cash flow are easy measurements of success. But is it enough? No, according to Maryam Malek. With a passion for people and the high level of engagement and thought behind over 35 years consulting with private and public companies, "The New Currency of Leadership" puts an emphasis on the intangible. Malek's 16 point plan of measuring, improving and expanding the intangible, of course, DOES improve the bottom line. And, it is with this focused purpose and execution, that makes "The New Currency of Leadership" a groundbreaking book in this genre.
Download or read book The New Currency of Leadership written by Maryam Malek and published by . This book was released on 2015-06-12 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "What's the bottom line?"CEO's have been asking and answering this questions since the dawn of capitalism. Balance sheets, P&L and cash flow are easy measurements of success.But is it enough?No, according to Maryam Malek. With a passion for people and the high level of engagement and thought behind over 35 years consulting with private and public companies, "The New Currency of Leadership" puts an emphasis on the intangible.Malek's 16 point plan of measuring, improving and expanding the intangible, of course, DOES improve the bottom line. And, it is with this focused purpose and execution, that makes "The New Currency of Leadership" a groundbreaking book in this genre.
Download or read book The Currency of Leadership written by William H. Bishop and published by Tate Publishing & Enterprises. This book was released on 2016-03-08 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cheryl Stevens is the first female CEO in the Company's history. Shortly after she is installed, a myriad of leadership issues emerge, and she is faced with the real possibility of having to resign or being terminated. This book presents ethical and cultural organizational challenges in a narrative format from the perspective of a new CEO. The Currency of Leadership demonstrates the nuances and personalization involved in effective consulting and corporate training development. Twenty-first century organizations are globally exposed. Ethical failures stream around the world in real time. Corporations rise and fall based on their values, culture, and associated actions. Organizations need timely, relevant training that is designed specifically for them, their environment, and their culture. In this creative application of academic information, the art of consulting is combined with the skill and technical acumen required to design and deliver training to transform organizational culture. Additionally, the academic content stands alone as a guide for establishing core values, defining ethical boundaries, and identifying the qualities of authentic leadership that are crucial for organizational success in the global economy. This is both a quick reference that leaders can utilize to make midcourse corrections and a blueprint for developing customized training to meet changing needs.
Download or read book Leaders Make the Future written by Bob Johansen and published by . This book was released on 2015-12-17 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We are in a time of accelerating disruptive change. In a VUCA world - one characterized by volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity - traditional leadership skills won't be enough, noted futurist Bob Johansen argues. Drawing on the latest forecasts from the Institute for the Future - the first futures think tank ever to outlive its forecasts - this powerful book explores the external forces that are shaking the foundations of leadership and unveils ten critical new leadership skills. How adroit are you at dilemma flipping - turning problems that can't be solved into opportunities? Can you develop bio - empathy - the ability to learn from and apply the principles of nature in your leadership? Are you able to practice immersive learning - dive into very different - from - you physical and online worlds and learn from them? Johansen provides role models, tools, and advice to help you develop these and seven other future leadership skills. In addition, Johansen deals with two new forces that are shaping the future. The first is the ''digital natives'' - people fifteen years and younger who have grown up in a digital world. The second is cloud - based supercomputing, which will enable extraordinarily rich new forms of connection, collaboration, and commerce. In this thoroughly updated and expanded second edition, Johansen is joined by the prestigious Center for Creative Leadership. CCL's contributions help readers understand the new leadership skills by linking them to existing skills, and they provide analytics and exercises so readers can more fully develop these new skills.
Download or read book The New Psychology of Leadership written by S. Alexander Haslam and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2010-09-13 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the University of San Diego Outstanding Leadership Book Award 2012! Shortlisted for the British Psychological Society Book Award 2011! Shortlisted for the CMI (Chartered Management Institute) Management Book of the Year Award 2011–2012! According to John Adair, the most important word in the leader's vocabulary is "we" and the least important word is "I". But if this is true, it raises one important question: why do psychological analyses of leadership always focus on the leader as an individual – as the great "I"? One answer is that theorists and practitioners have never properly understood the psychology of "we-ness". This book fills this gap by presenting a new psychology of leadership that is the result of two decades of research inspired by social identity and self-categorization theories. The book argues that to succeed, leaders need to create, champion, and embed a group identity in order to cultivate an understanding of 'us' of which they themselves are representative. It also shows how, by doing this, they can make a material difference to the groups, organizations, and societies that they lead. Written in an accessible and engaging style, the book examines a range of central theoretical and practical issues, including the nature of group identity, the basis of authority and legitimacy, the dynamics of justice and fairness, the determinants of followership and charisma, and the practice and politics of leadership. The book will appeal to academics, practitioners and students in social and organizational psychology, sociology, political science and anyone interested in leadership, influence and power.
Download or read book Currency of Leadership written by George Ansah and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2021-12-28 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leadership is one of the dominant areas in our lives that people always want to measure with its attributed currencies. The currencies of leadership in this book highlight the power of love, empowerment, service, respect, inspiration, integrity, humility, faith, boldness, wisdom, confidence, security, problem-solving, mood, and posture. These are the currencies of leadership. You will discover how to establish trust with the people around you, empower them, and have confidence in yourself among others, to become a more effective and efficient leader. Get a copy and delve deeper.
Download or read book The New Corporate Climate Leadership written by Edward Cameron and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-12-05 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a comprehensive treatment of the role of the private sector in accelerating the transition to a low-carbon, climate-resilient, and inclusive world. In the lead up to and since the historic Paris Agreement on climate change, more than 6,000 companies from 120 countries representing more than $36.5 trillion in revenue have made climate commitments. Examining this trend, The New Corporate Climate Leadership provides a clear synthesis of the relationship between the real economy and climate change and offers a state-of-the-art assessment of corporate initiatives that focus on greenhouse gas emissions reductions and the management of climate risk through enhanced resilience. It debates the relative merits of incremental and sequenced ambition versus radical systems change – including a critique of the prevailing capitalist approach to climate change – and provides an actionable guide to skills development for change-makers in the shift toward a low-carbon world. Drawing on perspectives from leading thinkers inside the private sector, across government, and within civil society to truly interrogate the scale, scope, and speed of progress, this book provides a clear vision for what the next generation of corporate climate leadership should look like. Optimistic in tone, this book will be of great interest to students, scholars, and practitioners of climate change and sustainable business.
Download or read book Return On Influence written by Susan Luke Evans and published by Hasmark Publishing International. This book was released on 2020-11-04 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Life is about human connection and leadership is the influential tool used in the attainment of unparalleled success. In this unique approach, you will learn how to get your business to the top echelon from the inside out and get your team striving to give the best of themselves. How? Maximize your Return on Influence while learning how to lead in a manner that will capture attention. Communicating in an inspiring and creative way can increase both morale and productivity. In the modern global marketplace, career options are virtually endless and finding and keeping valuable employees can be akin to finding a needle in a haystack. Susan Luke Evans shares her vast experience of over 30 years with the reader and describes five levels of influence: Compliance, Participation, Buy-in, Leadership, Visionary. Return on Influence is a powerful must-read for entrepreneurs, business leaders, team managers and students determined to transform their business into one over which everyone will be fighting!
Download or read book Rethinking Money written by Bernard Lietaer and published by Berrett-Koehler Publishers. This book was released on 2013-02-04 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study reveals how our monetary system reinforces scarcity, and how communities are already using new paradigms to foster sustainable prosperity. In the United States and across Europe, our economies are stuck in an agonizing cycle of repeated financial meltdowns. Yet solutions already exist, not only our recurring fiscal crises but our ongoing social and ecological debacles as well. These changes came about not through increased conventional taxation, enlightened self-interest, or government programs, but by people simply rethinking the concept of money. In Rethinking Money, Bernard Lietaer and Jacqui Dunne explore the origins of our current monetary system—built on bank debt and scarcity—revealing how its limitations give rise to so many serious problems. The authors then present stories of ordinary people and communities using new money, working in cooperation with national currencies, to strengthen local economies, create work, beautify cities, provide education, and more. These real-world examples are just the tip of the iceberg—over four thousand cooperative currencies are already in existence. The book provides remedies for challenges faced by governments, businesses, nonprofits, local communities, and even banks. It demystifies a complex and critically important topic and offers meaningful solutions that will do far more than restore prosperity—it will provide the framework for an era of sustainable abundance.
Download or read book How to Lead When You re Not in Charge written by Clay Scroggins and published by Zondervan. This book was released on 2017-08-22 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are you hungry to help others through leadership but don't feel like you have the authority? One of the greatest myths of leadership is that you must be in charge in order to lead. Great leaders don't buy it. Great leaders--whether they have the official authority or not--learn how to be an influential presence wherever they are. In How to Lead When You're Not in Charge, author and pastor Clay Scroggins explains the nature of leadership and what's needed to be a great leader--even when you answer to someone else. Drawing from biblical principles and his experience as the lead pastor of Buckhead Church in Atlanta, Georgia, Clay will help you nurture your vision and cultivate influence with integrity and confidence, even when you lack authority in your organization or ministry. In this book, Clay will walk you through the challenge of leadership and the four basic behaviors all great leaders have and how to cultivate them: Leading yourself Choosing positivity Thinking critically Rejecting passivity With practical wisdom and humor, Clay Scroggins will help you free yourself to become the great leader you want to be so you can make a difference. Even when you're not in charge. ---------- "This book will be one of the most, if not the most, pivotal leadership books you'll ever read." - Andy Stanley "If you're ready to lead right where you are, this book can show you how to start." - Dave Ramsey "Read this book! The marketplace is full of leadership messages, but this one is a stand out." - Louie Giglio
Download or read book The Meaning Revolution written by Fred Kofman and published by Currency. This book was released on 2018-05-01 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Advisor of Leadership at Google and former vice president of leadership at LinkedIn claims that the biggest driver of motivation is the chance to serve a larger purpose beyond our careers and ourselves, rather than salary, benefits, bonuses, or other material incentives; companies that are able to successfully focus their people, their teams, and their culture around meaning outperform their competition. Fred Kofman's approach to leadership has little to do with the standard practices taught in business school and traditional books. Bringing together economics and business theory, communications and conflict resolution, family counseling and mindfulness mediation, Kofman argues in The Meaning Revolution that our most deep-seated, unspoken, and universal anxiety stems from our fear that our life is being wasted--that the end of life will overtake us when our song is still unsung. Material incentives--salary and benefits--account for perhaps 15 percent of employees' motivation at work. The other 85 percent is driven by a need to belong, a feeling that what we do day in and day out makes a difference, that how we spend our time on earth serves a larger purpose beyond just ourselves. Kofman claims that transcendental leaders, wherever they are in the hierarchy, are able to put aside their self-interests and help others to feel connected with others on a team or in an organization on a great mission and part of an ennobling purpose. He argues that every organization involved in work that is nonviolent and non addictive has what he calls an "immortality project" at its core. And the challenge for leaders is to identify and expand on that core, to inspire all stakeholders to take part.
Download or read book Creating Magic written by Lee Cockerell and published by Crown Currency. This book was released on 2008-10-14 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “It’s not the magic that makes it work; it’s the way we work that makes it magic.” The secret for creating “magic” in our careers, our organizations, and our lives is simple: outstanding leadership—the kind that inspires employees, delights customers, and achieves extraordinary business results. No one knows more about this kind of leadership than Lee Cockerell, the man who ran Walt Disney World® Resort operations for over a decade. And in Creating Magic, he shares the leadership principles that not only guided his own journey from a poor farm boy in Oklahoma to the head of operations for a multibillion dollar enterprise, but that also soon came to form the cultural bedrock of the world’s number one vacation destination. But as Lee demonstrates, great leadership isn’t about mastering impossibly complex management theories. We can all become outstanding leaders by following the ten practical, common sense strategies outlined in this remarkable book. As straightforward as they are profound, these leadership lessons include: Everyone is important. Make your people your brand. Burn the free fuel: appreciation, recognition, and encouragement. Give people a purpose, not just a job. Combining surprising business wisdom with insightful and entertaining stories from Lee’s four decades on the front lines of some of the world’s best-run companies, Creating Magic shows all of us – from small business owners to managers at every level – how to become better leaders by infusing quality, character, courage, enthusiasm, and integrity into our workplace and into our lives.
Download or read book Strategize to Win written by Carla A. Harris and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2022-07-12 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author of Expect to Win offers essential career strategies for today’s economic climate Appointed by President Barack Obama to chair the National Women’s Business Council in 2013, Carla Harris knows that the working world isn’t what it used to be. Addressing these changes, Harris’s new book gives today’s readers the tools they need to get started, get “unstuck” from bad situations, redirect momentum, and position themselves to manage their career no matter what the economic environment or job market might be. Readers know Harris, and they trust her straightforward advice. With battle-tested, step-by-step strategies for every career stage, Strategize to Win will takes its place beside Expect to Win as a category classic.
Download or read book Mission Driven Leadership written by Mark Bertolini and published by Crown Currency. This book was released on 2019-03-19 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Mission-Driven Leadership, Mark Bertolini, the long-time chairman and CEO of Aetna, the Fortune 500 health insurance company, reveals that genuine leadership is not about dollars and market share but about improving lives and communities. Mark Bertolini didn't get to the corner office through traditional means. He grew up in a blue-collar neighborhood in Detroit. Early in his career, he was known for his bare-knuckled leadership and hard driving competitiveness that helped him to turnaround several companies. But his ambition came at a cost as he ran roughshod over his colleagues and employees, and spent time away from his family. Two events served as wakeup calls for the hard-charging Bertolini. First his son Eric was diagnosed with incurable cancer, and Bertolini found himself confronting the healthcare industry firsthand, not as an executive, but as the parent of a deathly ill child, determined to save his son's life. And miraculously, after a year in the hospital, often at death's door--Eric was twice given last rites--his son recovered. The second wakeup call was a skiing accident several years later in which Bertolini broke his neck. As his life unraveled in the face of years of chronic pain, therapy, and medication, he realized he had to reinvent himself, emotionally, spiritually, and as a leader--or go under. Mission-Driven Leadership speaks to the lessons Bertolini learned about empathy, about helping employees and Aetna's customers take better care of themselves and each other, about the need to "find the divine in me," and the importance of getting out to meet with employees and customers face-to-face in town halls to truly discover their needs and better serve them.
Download or read book The Profit of Kindness written by Jill Lublin and published by Red Wheel/Weiser. This book was released on 2017-01-23 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When kindness becomes your primary goal, everything changes: how you look at life, what you get from it, and how others interact with and relate to you. The Profit of Kindness will help you master the art of building trusting, long-lasting relationships through open, nonadversarial interchanges that result in mutually beneficial outcomes. A basic adjustment in attitude and approach can substantially improve virtually every facet of your life. Each chapter provides specific examples for improving skills such as communication, building integrity, team work, influencing others, and more. In order to connect with new clients or future business partners and transform your potential into success, you need to establish trust and build strong relationships. The key is to focus more on giving and working with others rather than simply on “winning.” Because doing so is guaranteed to help you actually win. The Profit of Kindness is a practical guide that teaches you how to connect with others using the global asset known as kindness. You will learn: Kindness does not mean weakness. Kindness can help you stay competitive, anticipate pitfalls, and stay one step ahead of your rivals. Success, achieved through kindness, can indeed be yours.
Download or read book The New Economic Currency written by Phil Johnson and published by . This book was released on 2012-01-30 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ... Have you noticed most of the individuals and organizations thriving today have a high degree of authentic leadership and emotional intelligence? This is the new economic currency. Everyone is scared of change. Are you ready? Applying this book's wisdom is your first step. Foreword (Abridged)by Jeff HaywardWhat I Love About the MBL System:Awareness of what's holding you back This system peels back the layers of how we look at ourselves and others and it reveals the "many stories we tell ourselves". These self-fulfilling stories are fuelled by the fear, habits and perceptions that we individually harbour but which we are mostly unaware of. Once we become aware of those fears, habits, and perceptions, as well as the walls we build around ourselves as a result, there ceases to be an excuse for anything less than full engagement in all aspects of our lives. It's amazing how many stories I was telling myself, and now I find I call myself on it. It's this level of awareness of what's truly holding us back that helps pave the way for incredible results that all of us are capable of. The toxic leader At some point in our careers we all have or will likely come into contact with the 'Toxic Leader'. This is the person who is so old school and wrestling internally with so much fear that they simply poison the organization with their habits and actions. Yet they survive. It would be easy simply to avoid these people, but often we have no choice but to face them. By lowering our own walls and focusing on what's really important, we become authentic and it's the best way to engage the toxic leader. It frustrates them of course, they want desperately to steal everyone's energy and encourage others to also become the victims that they already are. These types usually leave the organization once the culture turns against them, but until that happens they act as an obstacle to achieving high performance results. The MBL system better prepares you to deal with the 'toxic leader' by helping you first avoid becoming a victim of your own self, and also preparing you from becoming a victim of those who masquerade as real leaders. Most people want to have a meaningful impact within our organizations and communities. The truth is that results come from people, and people that are fully engaged deliver better results. Engaged people are those that are highly motivated and truly inspired by authentic leadership. The MBL system is a unique and brilliantly straightforward approach to leadership that will raise your awareness of what may be holding you back and help you strive to be the only emotionally intelligent authentic leader you should ever be waiting for - You! Jeff Hayward, GM MarketingGrand & Toy/OfficeMax"The New Economic Currency is a very powerful roadmap to achieve the results you want. I have been using the MBL system for many years. The insights and results have been priceless. MBL's Servant Warrior Leadership has created profound individual and organizational transformation."Kim Kaminski, Master of Business Leadership Vice President of Marketing Vision Solutions, Inc."To be a truly authentic leader one needs to capture that spark that lies within us all. Academic theory does not go far enough to facilitate this. The Emotional Intelligent approach does. In my years of teaching and mentoring MBA students I've come to appreciate that there is a large gap between the academic approach to management and leadership and the practice. This new book that emphasizes the emotionally intelligent approach may well be the start of the bridge for that gap."David Noakes, MBA FRGS Mentor and Facilitator, Schouten University
