Editorial Reviews
One of today’s most popular change methods, Appreciative Inquiry (AI) has been used to undertake transformational initiatives in dozens of organizations, ranging from McDonald’s to the U.S. Navy to Save the Children. The assumption of AI is simple. Every organization has something that works right — things that give it life [...]
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From Publishers Weekly
In their previous highly regarded research, psychologists Gardner (Multiple Intelligences), Csikszentmihalyi (Flow) and Damon (The Moral Child) have found that “if the fundamentals of good work excellence and ethics are in harmony, we lead a personally fulfilling and socially rewarded life.” Their latest, [...]
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Whether solicitors or donors, those involved in philanthropy will benefit from this analytical advisory. The authors have studied the causes that motivate women to contribute and the reasons major fund-raising organizations have not considered women as major contributors in the past. The development of [...]
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Who do you trust at work and who trusts you? By inviting readers to answer these two questions, authors Galford and Drapeau get their arms around the slippery yet strategic dimension of trust in organizations. The Trusted Leader is grounded in their research and experience in executive development. The authors define [...]
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To be most effective, leaders must move beyond time management to time mastery. Time managers are reliant on clocks and calendars; time masters develop an intuitive sense of timing. Time managers see time as a fixed, rigid constant; time masters view it as relative and malleable. Time masters have what John [...]
Today virtually every type of organization is looking for ways to maximize and effectively manage their people resources. One of the keys to this streamlining is successful teamwork. Lee Ellis draws from his survival experience on a team of Vietnam POWs and his management consultant expertise in creating Leading Talents, Leading Teams. Perfect [...]
In psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi’s definition of leadership, the personal is political. The best-selling author of Flow interviewed several dozen exemplary CEOs whose wisdom provides the radical job description of the book’s premise: “Leaders must make it possible for employees to work with joy, to their heart’s content, while responding to the needs of [...]
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An Experience to Revolutionize Your Life from Marcus Buckingham - the World’s Leading Expert on Career Success!
Want to know what you are supposed to do with your life? The Truth About You is an experience to unlock life’s toughest questions. The process this revolutionary toolkit teaches will create higher satisfaction and performance in life and work. [...]
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Effectively managing personnel–as well as one’s own behavior–is an extraordinarily complex task that, not surprisingly, has been the subject of countless books touting what each claims is the true path to success. That said, Marcus Buckingham and Donald O. Clifton’s Now, Discover Your Strengths does indeed propose a [...]
Editorial Reviews
From Publishers Weekly
In their previous highly regarded research, psychologists Gardner (Multiple Intelligences), Csikszentmihalyi (Flow) and Damon (The Moral Child) have found that “if the fundamentals of good work excellence and ethics are in harmony, we lead a personally fulfilling and socially rewarded life.” Their latest, somewhat [...]
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