Management & Leadership

The Foundations of Personality
by Abraham Myerson, M.D.
The social group, in its descent from the herd, has become an intensely competitive, highly cooperative organization. There are two sets of qualities essential to those phases of society that concern us as students of character.

First Listen: Lead by Being Led
Martin Luther King, Jr., on Leadership: Inspiration and Wisdom for Challenging Times
by Donald T. Phillips
Do you have a dream? Find out how Martin Luther King, Jr., became the right leader for his time-and you can too! What does it take to be a leader? Why do people listen to one voice and ignore another? During the twentieth century, no American exhibited

A Furniture Dealer's Testament
Less Is More: How Great Companies Improve Productivity Without Layoffs
by Jason Jennings
Imagine being worth a reported $30 billion and counting every penny like it was your last. Welcome to the world of Ingvar Kamprad, the founder of Swedish furniture retailer IKEA.

Powerful Phrases to Help You Conquer the Working World
Magic Words at Work
by Howard Kaminsky, Alexandra Penney
So what is the point of these Magic Words? They're a reminder that if we're like most people we've chosen to acknowledge a fairly harmless flaw and may be letting something far more serious get in the way of our success.

The Inspiring Leadership of Winston Churchill
We Shall Not Fail: The Inspiring Leadership of Winston Churchill
by Celia Sandys, Jonathan Littman
I only knew one of my grandfathers and quite naturally assumed that he was like any other grandfather. I never gave it much thought, but if I had to describe a grandfather he would have been a loving and much-loved man, dressed in a siren suit.

Searching For Greater Accountability In Business
The Oz Principle
by Roger Connors, Tom Smith, Craig R. Hickman
We think that most people would agree that the need for more accountable organizations, teams, and individuals has done nothing but grow since The Oz Principle was first published ten years ago.

Leading the Future
Good Business: Leadership, Flow, and the Making of Meaning
by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Ph.D.
The acclaimed author of Flow provides a much-needed blueprint for bringing meaning and values into the workplace. Since Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi published the groundbreaking Flow more than a decade ago, world leaders such as Tony Blair

Harry S. Truman on Leadership
When the Buck Stops With You: Harry S. Truman on Leadership
by Alan Axelrod
'Three things can ruin a man,' Harry Truman once said, 'power, money, and women. I never wanted power, I never had any money, and the only woman in my life is up at the house right now.' For once, the Man from Missouri wasn't being 100 percent honest.

Leadership Begins at Home
If You've Raised Kids, You Can Manage Anything
by Ann Crittenden
Most mothers and fathers know in their bones that raising a child is the hardest job they've ever had. And, even if child-rearing is not that difficult for some, it is certainly comparable to dealing with adults, whether they are superiors, clients

Basic Equipment
How to Think Like a CEO: The 22 Vital Traits You Need to Be the Person at the Top
by Debra A. Benton
The 'good old days' are dead. And that's good news for you. Once the coveted position of CEO - chief executive officer - was the unreachable pinnacle reserved for the lucky few born with a silver spoon in their mouths, the privileged group who went

Characteristics of the Leader as Servant
The Servant Leader: How to Build a Creative Team, Develop Great Morale, and Improve Bottom-Line Performance
by James A. Autry
Leadership is a calling. And servant leadership - the idea that managing with respect, honesty, love, and spirituality empowers employees - helps individuals answer that calling. Bestselling author and former Fortune 500 executive James A. Autry reveals

The Myths of High Performance
Overachievement: The New Model For Exceptional Performance
by John Eliot, Ph.D.
Whose life do you admire the most? Whose phenomenal success do you wish you could call your own? Have you ever wondered what they know that you don't about the path to success? Bill Gates started 'fooling around' with computer software when he was a kid

The benefits of Leadership Presence
Leadership Presence
by Kathy Lubar, Belle Linda Halpern
The applications and benefits of Leadership Presence are widespread. Throughout large and small organizations leaders need to move, influence, inspire, and motivate people to achieve goals. Leadership Presence is a powerful tool for mobilizing.

The Enneagram: A Business Model for Nine ways to Work Together
by Sandra Ford Walston
Breakdowns and disruptions that hinder an organization's advancement rarely have to do with unskilled employees. In Good to Great, Jim Collins discovered that 'good is the enemy of great is not just a business problem. It is a human problem.'

Recognizing Personality Types
The Productive Narcissist: The Promise and Peril of Visionary Leadership
by Michael Maccoby, Ph.D.
A provocative examination of the essential - and widely misunderstood - personality type of today's most innovative leaders. In The Productive Narcissist, Maccoby proposes a new paradigm of modern leadership and zeros in on one common character trait

What Happens When the Lights Go Out?

While Carol Gebert was deciding to start Central Dogma, Owen Johnson and John Immel were launching Internet consulting companies in different parts of Cambridge. Johnson and Immel started their companies as undergraduates at MIT and Harvard, respectively.

Why Do You Need a Code of Honor?
Rich Dad's Advisors: The ABC's of Building a Business Team That Wins : The Invisible Code of Honor That Takes Ordinary People and Turns Them Into a Ch
by Blair Singer
Great champions have one thing in common: They know how to work as a team. The ABCs of Building a Business Team That Wins offers a set of simple, powerful rules to govern the internal behaviors of businesses, organizations, families, and individuals

Can The Wizards Help?
The Oz Principle
by Roger Connors, Tom Smith, Craig R. Hickman
Global business leaders have long been searching for management wizards who will magically bestow greater productivity, lower costs, expanded market shares, world-class competitiveness, swifter speed to market, continuous improvement.

Introduction
Business @ the Speed of Thought: Succeeding in the Digital Economy
by Bill Gates, Collins Hemingway
As the cofounder, chairman, and chief executive officer of Microsoft, the world's leading provider of software for personal computers, Bill Gates played a prominent role in launching the Information Age. Now this modern visionary reveals how expanding

The Destructive Force of Victimization
The Oz Principle
by Roger Connors, Tom Smith, Craig R. Hickman
The world's societies suffer from the current cult of victimization because its subtle dogma holds that circumstances and other people prevent you from achieving your goals.