Leadership and the Sexes

This book brings together the science of male-female brain differences to their role as business leaders. It offers tools that can be used to help understand one another. These GenderTools explain specific differences between male and female tendencies and how these may affect workplace behaviors. They also offer strategies and techniques for understanding others better. Communication, teamwork, conflict resolution, negotiation and coaching scenarios are all specifically addressed.

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Leadership and the Sexes: Using Gender Science to Create Success in Business
Michael Gurian with Barbara Annis
HD 57.7 .G87 2008

Fierce Leadership

This book highlights the "best" practices that have been identified from major companies over the last decade and suggests an alternative to them. Scott asserts that many of the business practices that we have been taught to follow are simply wrong and are, in fact, costing the companies that use them billions of dollars each year, driving away customers, and hurting their own employees by limiting their performance, holding back their careers, or even pushing them out of the company. Scott puts forward alternatives to employee feedback, hiring practices, customer focus, holding people accountable, and other common organizational practices. She also discusses how to identify hurtful business practices by observing with our "squid eye."

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Fierce Leadership: A Bold Alternative to the Worst "Best" Practices of Businesses Today
Susan Scott
HD 57.7 .S426 2009

Maestro

Orchestra conductor Nierenberg shows how to lead by listening in order to draw out an organizations full potential. Using his own personal experiences he tells the tale of a struggling executive who is challenged by a deeply divided, disfunctional team. By sitting in on an orchestra rehearsal, the executive learns a new perspective. The conductor does not micromanage, but rather communicates a larger vision and asks the orchestra members to each contribute their individual talents to it. He asks the orchestra members to take responsibility for the entire song, not just their individual part. And, he asks everyone to keep their ears open and receptive to new ideas. This leadership tale puts emphasis on listening, an often forgotten leadership trait.

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Maestro: A Surprising Story about Leading by Listening
Roger Nierenberg
HM 1261 .N54 2009

Extraordinary Groups

Bellman and Ryan assert that teams instinctively know when participating in a group is something special. They believe that members of ordinary teams, whether as individuals or groups, experience a change in the way they see their world. This change happens because the experience of participating in the group satisfies a set of core needs that the members bring to whatever groups they join, though they may not be aware of these. Based on research involving many different teams, Bellman and Ryan have developed a model of these needs. They include:

• Accepting yourself while moving toward your potential
• Forming a bond with others by pursuing a common purpose
• Understanding the reality of the world while collaborating to make an impact

They assert that when the experience of participating in the group meets at least two of these needs, the experience will stand out as special. This book continues to explain how to lead groups that are considered special by their members.

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Extraordinary Groups: How Ordinary Teams Achieve Amazing Results
Geoffrey Bellman and Kathleen Ryan
HM 736 .B45 2009

MBA in a Book

This book of thoughts and quotations offers essential advice on business, sales, and leadership from some of history's most influential thinkers and doers. Organized into broad chapters such as Success, Motivation, Service, and Courage, these insights combine theory, practicality, and personal experiences.

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MBA in a Book: Fundamental Principles of Business, Sales, and Leadership
ed. by Leslie Pockell
HD 31 .M32 2009

How the Best Leaders Lead

Leadership consultant Tracy asserts that great leadership depends on seven fundamental responsibilities that the best leaders are able to master. First, they set goals and follow through doing what it takes to achieve them. They work to continuously improve their products, services and processes. They are effective at solving problems and act decisively. They are able to set priorities and make effective use of time, money, and human resources. They set high standards and lead by example, and they inspire and motivate others. They use measurable, repeatable methods to get results and are judged by what they are able to achieve. This practical book includes lessons from history, the military, and successful business leaders. Each chapter is packed with thought-provoking questions and exercises that stimulate the reader to think about their own leadership style and motivations.

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How the Best Leaders Lead
Brian Tracy
HD 57.7 .T724 2010

Clever

Research shows that a handful of star performers create a disproportionate amount value for their organizations. These individuals are often the ones coming up with new ideas. However, their value is not defined by their intelligence or academic credentials, but rather their ability to think. These people need their organizations in order to feel valuable. Goffee and Jones call these kinds of individuals "Clevers." They can be brilliant, but difficult or even dangerous to work with. Traditional leadership approaches will not be effective at working with them either. Goffee and Jones outline how to set up unconventional guidelines so that your organizations "clevers" can succeed

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Clever: Leading your Smartest, Most Creative People
Rob Goffee and Gareth Jones
HD 53 .G638 2009

Women Lead the Way

Tarr-Whelan asserts that the only way that we can arrive at different decisions is to change who is involved in the decision-making process. Using surprising facts and statistics, she builds a case that shows that women are often a very small part of this decision-making group, particularly at high levels such as corporate executive groups and government leadership. She discusses some of the things that are believed to hold women back, and stresses that women need to build their own confidence and develop skills such as collaboration, communication, and consensus-building. She presents research that shows that the tipping point is just 30 percent--when women's representation in top leadership positions reaches only 30 percent, change starts to happen. Tarr-Whelan combines research and advocacy for women in leadership roles with practical tools that can guide them there.

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Women Lead the Way: Your Guide to Stepping Up to Leadership and Changing the World
Linda Tarr-Whelan
HD 6054.3 .T37 2009

A Question of Command

Most writing on counterinsurgency has focused on identifying the strategies that will win the hearts and minds of the population that the insurgents are fighting within. Moyar makes a different argument, asserting instead that superior leadership skills are the key to winning in an insurgency. He advocates concentrating resources on security, civil administration and leadership development, rather than on economic, social, and political reforms. Based on historical materials beginning with the Civil war as well as interviews with veterans of counterinsurgency battles, Moyar identifies critical leadership attributes and why these traits make leaders more successful in counterinsurgency environments. This book is eye-opening, particularly for those who have been involved in the War in Iraq and Afghanistan.

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A Question of Command: Counterinsurgency from the Civil War to Iraq
Mark Moyar
U 241 .M69 2009

The Leader's Legacy

Instead of focusing on how a leader can be most effective in his or her role, McKenna asserts that a leader is most effective when looked at in hindsight. He states that a leader's most important role is to build on the past and develop momentum so that great things continue to happen once they are gone. He lays out principles that help both new and experienced leaders develop successors and know when it is time for them to step aside. This book is full of anecdotes of what successful succession planning can look like as well as cautionary tales of what not to do.

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The Leader's Legacy: Build on the Past, Give Momentum to the Present, Assure Greater Things for the Future
David L. McKenna
BV 4597.53 .L43 M35 2006

Leading in Times of Crisis

Dotlich, Cairo, and Rhinesmith propose that during challenging times, being a leader requires more from an individual than the one-dimensional models that many authors suggest. Instead, they propose a "whole leadership" model, which allows leaders to act in was that rethink the way that the business operates, particularly when it is challenged, connect with stakeholders, whether customers, employees, or other with interests in your buiness, and to live according to your own values. This book is a follow-up to the authors' earlier work, Head, Heart and Guts, which first defines the whole leadership model and suggests that leaders should trust their instincts--all of them--to lead them toward success.

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Leading in Times of Crisis: Navigating throigh Complexity, Diversity, and Uncertainty to Save your Business
David L. Dotlich, Peter C. Cairo, and Stephen H. Rhinesmith
HD 57.7 .D676 2009

Leading the Leaders for the Future

This book challenges the way teachers are preparing their students to be leaders in the future. The authors assert that the world is changing rapidly, and that the old approaches to education are no longer sufficient to prepare students for the uncertain world that they will face. Bosher and Hazlewood assert that students need to have confidence in their ability to learn, be able to think independently, and to be able to respond to challenges without being afraid. In order to reach this goal, they assert that schools will need to be educating their students differently and to do so, must also be organized and managed differently. They propose that schools must develop leadership--faculty must serve as leaders and also work toward developing leadership capabilities within their students. The authors offer a thought-provoking suggestion for preparing for our future.

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Leading the Leaders for the Future: A Transformational Opportunity
Mike Bosher and Patrick Hazlewood
LB 2900.5 .B67 2008

Making Innovation Work

Innovation does not just happen. It must be managed and measured. This book provides a start-to-finish process for creating business growth from innovation. Drawing on both research and experience, the authors demonstrate what works, what doesn't, and how to use management tools to maximize the value that your company gets from its investment into innovation. They describe strategies that foster innovative thinking and organizational structures that make innovation possible and sustainable. They also describe how to manage innovation, including how to measure throughout every phase of the innovation process. This book takes the mystery out of innovation by showing how to lead it, track it, and encourage it.

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Making Innovation Work: How to Manage It, Measure It, and Profit from It
Tony Davila, Marc J. Epstein, and Robert Shelton
HD 58.8 .D37 2006

Trade Off

In this time of economic crisis, many people are looking toward businesses to lead us out of it and to develop good leaders for the future. Sobel Lojeski asserts, however, that most people believe that we are in a leadership crisis as well as an economic crisis and that business executives are unprepared to be the leaders that we need to move into the future. She argues that the digital age has brought with it new expectations about performance, behavior, innovation, and other factors that impact the bottom line of corporations as well as the popularity and success of political administrations. Building on her earlier work defining the concept of Virtual Distance, she proposes that leadership models and characteristics must also be adjusted to better prepare companies for competition in the digital marketplace and for leaders of increasingly virtual workplaces. This is a thought provoking and timely study that challenges most current thought on leadership development.

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Leading the Virtual Workforce: How Great Leaders Transfor Organizations in the 21st Century
Karen Sobel Lojeski
HD 57.7 .S6925 2010

The Leadership Challenge

This book asserts that it is a "personal coach in a book." Based on extensive interviews with leaders at all levels in organizations from around the world, the authors emphasize that the fundamentals of leadership are not a fad. However, the context in which leaders must operate has changed tremendously. This book focuses around the concept that leadership at its most basic is a relationship. Once that relationship is established, they begin to demonstrate leadership practices:

• Serve as a model to others
• Inspire a vision for others to share
• Take risks, seize opportunities, challenge established ways of doing things
• Enable others to act
• Recognize contributions and celebrate shared victories

Kouzes and Posner do not focus on CEOs, but rather study leaders at all levels. For this reason, their message is all the more relevant to leaders, regardless of where they sit in their organization.

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The Leadership Challenge
James M. Kouzes and Barry Z Posner
4th Ed.
HD 57.7 .K68 2007

A Manager's Guide to Coaching

In today's competitive world, it is necessary to constantly improve your skills in order to stay relevant in the workplace and to improve your performance. As a manager, you may be under pressure to grow not only your own skills, but also those of your staff. This book is a concise guide which provides managers the tools to coach your employees and yourself. It helps you to clarify what you want, define action, assist with problem solving, and develop accountability. It offers sample questions, example conversations, and possible responses to every-day work issues such as time management, interpersonal conflict, lack of resources, and delegating responsibility. This book is a must for every supervisor.

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A Manager's Guide to Coaching: Simple and Effective Ways to Get the Best Out of Your Employees
Brian Emerson and Anne Loehr
HF 5549.5 .C53 E44 2008

1000 CEOs

This fascinating book is a collection of short biographies of 1000 Chief Executive Officers from companies around the world. Each biography shares major career decisions made by the CEO and why they have been considered a success. Each leader also offers lessons that they learned through their experience in business. The biographies are organized into chapters based on leadership strength. For example, some are notable because they are innovators or leaders of start-up companies, while others are known for being strategists, visionaries, or globalists. An extensive index allows leaders to be found by name or by the companies that they represent.

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1000 CEOs: Proven Strategies for Success from the World's Smartest Executives
Andrew Davidson, editor-in-chief
HD 38.2 .A124 2009

Creating Magic

Cockerell, a decade-long manager of Walt Disney World resort operations, shares simple leadership principles that guided his success and have become the framework of the Disney culture. Lessons like, "everyone is important," are built on bringing quality, character, courage, integrity, and enthusiasm to our work. He also shares strategies for ensuring the right person is in the right job, remaining open to change when the status quo no longer seems to be working effectively, and how to identify and grow future leaders within the organization. This book will delight you with simple and common sense strategies that yield tremendous results.

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Creating Magic: 10 Common Sense Leadership Strategies from Life at Disney
Lee Cockerell
HD 57.7 .C62 2008

Squawk!

This humorous story illustrates how one seagull manager learned to effectively take care of his flock. With the help of some new friends from around the animal park, Charlie the seagull learns three virtues of great leadership. First, have full-fledged expectations of your employees, making sure that their efforts are spent doing the right things the right way. Second, make sure your communication clicks and that everyone has the same understanding at the end of a conversation. Third, paws on performance, praising successes while steering employees toward success with constructive feedback. This clever book will have you asking yourself about what seagull management tendencies you have.

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Squawk! How to Stop Making Noise and Start Getting Results: A Little Fable About How One Seagull Manager Learned Three Virtues of Great Leadership
Travis Bradberry
HD 30.3 .B686 2008

Transnational Leadership Development

Fisher-Yoshida and Geller observe that business is increasingly becoming more global. However, they assert that global business does not mean that the world is becoming a melting pot. Quite the opposite, they content, that instead, increasing global business makes awareness of different customs, cultures, and communication practices all the more important for success. Fisher-Yoshida and Geller define "transnational leadership" as a set of qualities that allows for successful business relationships in multiple nations and cultures while respecting, embracing, and leveraging local cultures to maximize business performance, teamwork, and employee satisfaction. They differentiate this type of leader from "international leadership," which looks for universal traits and relationships across national boundaries, and from "multinational leadership," which applies different leadership practices in each geographic location. In order for this concept to be effective, they assert that the most important shift is from right-wrong thinking to a mindset and culture where opinions are valued and individuals learn to communicate their perspectives to others.

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Transnational Leadership Development: Preparing the Next Generation for the Borderless Business World
Beth Fisher-Yoshida and Kathy D. Geller
HD 57.7 .F5837 2009