Business & economics / Leadership

Fear Your Strengths: What You Are Best at Could Be Your Biggest Problem

by Robert E. Kaplan & Robert B. Kaiser

Leaders have countless resources and books aimed at helping them discover their strengths-which is fantastic-but none of them address what happens when these strengths are inevitably overplayed and start to...

Leadership in Organizations

by John Storey

Of the many books written about leadership, few move beyond conventional accounts of theory, or truly scrutinise the leadership agenda. However, this exciting book sets a new agenda for the interpretation of...

Social Intelligence, Leadership, and Problem Solving

by M. Afzalur Rahim

In this volume, M. Afzalur Rahim gathers ten contributions covering a diverse range of topics. These include Type III error in medical decision making, a theoretical model of social intelligence, a structural...

Not In The Club: An Executive Woman's Journey Through the Biased World of Business

by Janet Pucino

Even when women reach the upper echelons in business, they seldom become a member of "The Club" to which their male counterparts belong. 'Not In The Club' provides an insightful look at the unique challenges...

Habits of Leadership: Discover and Use the Remarkable Connection Between Personality and Habits to Become an Outstanding Manager

by PhD, Art Markman

In his internationally acclaimed book, Smart Thinking, which examines the gap between innate intelligence and acquired mental skills, Art Markman presented a three-part formula to show readers how to develop...

What It Takes: Seven Secrets of Success from the World's Greatest Professional Firms

by Charles D. Ellis

Expert insights on what sets the great professional firms apart from all the rest

Having devoted a career that spans fifty years to consulting with and studying professional firms in the Americas, Asia, and Europe,...

Managing to Manage: The essential guide to people management

by Derek Torrington

Today's managers often find themselves thrust into HR-type situations presenting both challenge and opportunity, often struggling to make the right decisions for the business and for the people involved. Managing...

Follow the Leader: The One Thing Great Leaders Have that Great Followers Want

by Emmanuel Gobillot

Most leadership models start with trying to identify what great leaders do. In Follow the Leader, global speaker, consultant and leadership expert Emmanuel Gobillot answers a much more fundamental question to...

The Language of Leaders: How Top CEOs Communicate to Inspire, Influence and Achieve Results

by Kevin Murray

The traditional model for what constitutes a good leader is changing and CEOs and HR professionals now say the ability to understand, motivate and inspire others is the characteristic that is most important...

Intelligent Leadership: What You Need to Know to Unlock Your Full Potential

by John Mattone

Because organizations will be asking more of their leaders-not less.

Leadership and the Art of Struggle: How Great Leaders Grow through Challenge and Adversity

by Steven Snyder

Leadership is difficult--in our quest to teach leaders the secrets of success, we've somehow lost sight of this truth. Steven Snyder teaches leaders that leadership is a marathon, not a sprint; his book offers...

Reinvent: A Leader's Playbook for Serial Success

by Fred Hassan

Leadership principles from a master of the business turnaround

In Reinvent, renowned CEO and business leader Fred Hassan explains how to transform a struggling business into a raging success by reinventing the...

Project Ethics

by Haukur Ingi Jonasson & Helgi Thor Ingason

How relevant is ethics to project management? This book takes both a critical and a practical look at project management in terms of success criteria, and ethical opportunities and risks. It will help the reader...

Collaborative Wisdom: From Pervasive Logic to Effective Operational Leadership

by Greg Park

Greg Park argues that corporate superstars collapse not primarily due to poor products, inadequate market penetration, financial mismanagement or self-aggrandisement, but rather by a leadership lacking the fundamental...

Leading Out Loud: A Guide for Engaging Others in Creating the Future

by Terry Pearce & Randy Komisar

The newest edition of the bestselling guide to authentic leadership communication

Much has changed in the world since the original publication of Leading Out Loud, Terry Pearce's book on authentic leadership...

Leading with Conviction: Mastering the Nine Critical Pillars of Integrated Leadership

by Shalom Saada Saar & Michael J. Hargrove

Practical advice and tools to help leaders at all levels elevate their skills

What can truly set an organization apart? There is only one asset that offers guaranteed differentiation: leadership. Leadership is...

Ninja Innovation

by Gary Shapiro

Innovate or die

For thirty years, Gary Shapiro has observed the world's most innovative businesses from his front-row seat as leader of the Consumer Electronics Association. Now he reveals the ten secrets of...

Leadership Conversations: Challenging High Potential Managers to Become Great Leaders

by Alan S. Berson & Richard G. Stieglitz

Conversation techniques and tools that can help strong managers become great leaders

Often the very same skills and traits that enable rising stars to achieve success "tenacity, aggressiveness, self-confidence"...

Link Out: How to Turn Your Network into a Chain of Lasting Connections

by Leslie Grossman

Proven networking strategies to achieve lifetime professional success

In today's competitive market, the typical ways of communicating don't serve the purpose of building strong, long-term connections. We need...

Collaborative Leadership: Building relationships, sharing control and handling conflict

by David Archer & Alex Cameron

We all live in an interconnected world and for business leaders the last decade has seen a dramatic rise in the speed and scale of this interdependence. But while increased connectivity is inevitable, increased...