Management & Leadership

Honest And Kind People Make Better Business Careers
by eNotAlone.com
When it comes to making a good career in the business world, being honest and getting along with colleagues gives a person a solid competitive advantage, claims a new research.

Introduction
The Leadership Dojo
by Richard Strozzi Heckler, Ph.D.
History is filled with accounts of great leaders, but how did they become so? Written for emergent leaders in any endeavor, this new work from renowned consultant Richard Strozzi-Heckler offers a new approach to leadership.

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

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

The Gap Nobody Knows
Execution: The Discipline of Getting Things Done
by Larry Bossidy, Ram Charan, Charles Burck
The leader's most important job - selecting and appraising people - is one that should never be delegated. As a CEO, Larry Bossidy personally makes the calls to check references for key hires. Why?

Welcome to the Emotional Economy
Follow this Path: How the World's Greatest Organizations Drive Growth by Unleashing Human Potential
by Curt Coffman, Gabriel Gonzalez-Molina, Ph.D.
What do the world's greatest organizations have in common? They know that their most valuable resource is human-their employees and customers. And the best companies understand two important facts: people are emotional first and rational second

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.

The Feminization of Leadership
See Jane Lead: 99 Ways for Women to Take Charge at Work and in Life
by Lois P. Frankel, Ph.D.
In business everywhere today, the typical male management style is obsolete. Employees are rejecting hierarchical leadership and responding to characteristics traditionally associated with women. In other words, the time for women to take charge is now!

A Leadership Confession
Leading with a Limp: Turning Your Struggles into Strengths
by Dan B. Allender, Ph.D.
Pick up most leadership books and you'll find strategies for leveraging your power and minimizing your areas of weakness. But think about the leaders whose names have gone down in history. Most of them were so messed up that, if they were looking for work

On a Mission
The Mormon Way of Doing Business: Leadership and Success Through Faith and Family
by Jeff Benedict, J.D.
What do the CEOs of JetBlue Airways, Dell Computers, Deloitte & Touche, and Madison Square Garden have in common with the CFO of American Express and the former dean of the Harvard Business School?

The Critical 50 Percent: Doing Your Genetic Inventory
Instinct: Tapping Your Entrepreneurial DNA to Achieve Your Business Goals
by Thomas L. Harrison, Mary H. Frakes
Startling and groundbreaking, this is the first book to apply the insights of human genome research to the concept of success. Authored by Thomas L. Harrison, a corporate CEO and former cell biologist, Instinct argues that great entrepreneurs tend

Broken Windows in Business
Broken Windows, Broken Business: How the Smallest Remedies Reap the Biggest Rewards
by Michael Levine
This vital, seminal work by Michael Levine proves that businesses get in trouble when they neglect small problems. If a window in a building is broken and left unrepaired, soon all the windows will be shattered, creating a perception of chaos.

Separation
The Real Deal: My Life in Business and Philanthropy
by Sandy Weill, Judah S. Kraushaar
The Sandy Weill story is truly one for the ages. Starting with $30,000 in borrowed cash in 1960, and relying on uncanny entrepreneurial instincts, Sandy created one of the leading securities firms in the U.S. and became one of the best known businessmen

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.'

Profitability
The Art of Profitability
by Adrian Slywotzky
In the past, companies taught their employees about quality. In today's unstable economy, employers must stress the importance of profitability. Now with scores of examples from the global marketplace, the bestselling coauthor of The Profit Zone

Why Women Matter
Closing the Leadership Gap: Why Women Can and Must Help Run the World
by Marie C. Wilson
All of my adult life I have preached the virtues of power sharing between men and women. The arrangement seemed not only fair, but also obvious: Women populate half the democracy; we should occupy half the positions of leadership both for gender equity

The Transforming Power of Accountability
The Oz Principle
by Roger Connors, Tom Smith, Craig R. Hickman
Much we may try to ignore the fact or try to shake it off, we all know that we remain on the line for results. We know our responsibilities and that we must accept them and perform at expected levels.

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.

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.

Business Character In Crisis
The Oz Principle
by Roger Connors, Tom Smith, Craig R. Hickman
Most companies fail because of managerial error, but not many CEOs and senior executives involved will admit that fact. Instead of taking responsibility for shortfalls and failures, far too many of today's business leaders offer every conceivable excuse