Management & Leadership

The Lure of Knowing What Other People Think

Frank Newport, editor in chief of The Gallup Poll tells the skeptics why polls matter... and explains to the rest of us exactly how polling works. Proving that polls are not to be feared but to be used wisely

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.

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

Have the Courage to Admit You Don't Know
Lessons From the Heart of American Business: A Roadmap for Managers in the 21st Century
by Gerald Greenwald, Charles Madigan
The age of shortcuts is over. Hitting the jackpot is passé. In today's business world, everyone knows that there is simply no substitute for hard work and hard-won knowledge. But listening to and learning from the 'war stories' of American

Dramatic Techniques to Reach Out, Motivate, and Inspire
Leadership Presence
by Kathy Lubar, Belle Linda Halpern
Executive presence is so important to our success as consultants. I believed if our consultants could speak with clarity and confidence if they could find their voice then they would show up as credible advisors, capable of assisting our clients

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

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?

You are a product of your mountains
Beyond the Summit: Setting and Surpassing Extraordinary Business Goals
by Todd Skinner
Each mountain you climb will change you, and the more challenging the mountain, the more you have to gain from the ascent. Your mountains include not only those you have climbed, but the mountains that others have climbed whose lessons you internalize.

Leadership Lessons from the New York Fire Department
First In, Last Out: Leadership Lessons from the New York Fire Department
by John Salka
'What makes them do it?'is a question I have been asked hundreds of times in the course of my travels through the United States and other parts of the world. It is a natural question.

Presence: What Actors Have That Leaders Need
Leadership Presence
by Kathy Lubar, Belle Linda Halpern
Presence doesn't have to be a billion-watt nuclear reactor. While some people, like Oliver Platt, can "fill" an entire room or auditorium, the presence of others may not be so large.

The Entrepreneurial Mind

Once a month, in a college beer joint on the MIT campus, brilliant entrepreneurs face shrewd investors-and everyone takes his or her best shot at making money on the next great idea.

Multitasking and the Rise of the Life Manager
If You've Raised Kids, You Can Manage Anything
by Ann Crittenden
Madeleine Albright, whose career trajectory went from stay-at-home mother to Secretary of State of the United States, has described multitasking as the essential parenting skill, the 'ability that comes from having one eye on the child while you try

How Great Leaders Inspire Ownership from the Keel
Get Your Ship Together: How Great Leaders Inspire Ownership from the Keel
by Michael Abrashoff
My new life as the captain of USS Benfold began on a gleaming day in San Diego Bay. A high sun warmed the salt air to a perfect 73 degrees; the pale blue horizon, flecked with white sails, blended seamlessly into an indigo sea.

Working in the Bubble

What's the key to a successful company: the market for its product or the people who run it? Could you pass the elevator test--the ability to explain your company's business on a single ride between floors? Before you follow the herd, how can you make

Value People
Contagious Success: Spreading High Performance Throughout Your Organization
by Susan Annunzio
The study provides, for the first time, quantifiable proof that there is a direct correlation between how you treat people and financial results. The best way to value people is to create an environment in which smart people are treated

The Gentle Art of Feeding Back-or, a New Way to Grow & Hate Yourself
House of Lies : How Management Consultants Steal Your Watch and Then Tell You the Time
by Martin Kihn
Once upon a time Corporate America paid a group of men and women huge fees to tell organizations what they were doing wrong and how to improve themselves. These men and women really knew next to nothing, trashed businesses and destroyed careers

Why X-engineering? Why Now?

James Champy's New York Times bestseller Reengineering the Corporation ignited a revolution inside businesses in the 1990s. Now Champy shows managers how to cross ('x') new boundaries. Here is the new corporation-a web of interacting processes and people

The Growth Crisis
How to Grow When Markets Don't
by Adrian Slywotzky, Richard Wise, Karl Weber
In a world of product saturation and market turmoil... Can your company achieve double-digit growth? Absolutely! Even as you read this, old-line companies are creating new profits through 'demand innovation.'

Shaping Semco
The Seven-Day Weekend: Changing the Way Work Works
by Ricardo Semler
Nearly twenty years ago a prominent Brazilian politician invited me to the far north of Brazil for a conference. Senator Jose Macedo, a wonderful self-made man, had begun his working life as a soap salesman.

Be Courageous
We Shall Not Fail: The Inspiring Leadership of Winston Churchill
by Celia Sandys, Jonathan Littman
A number of men might have come forward to lead Britain in the spring of 1940. Most of the candidates had shunned Winston Churchill for years. Yet when defeat stared Britain in the face, it was to him that the nation turned. Why?