Management & Leadership
85 Articles & Excerpts
We're all coaches
 I've Got Your Back: Coaching Top Performers from Center Court to the Corner Office
by Brad Gilbert, James Kaplan
On the face of it, you'd be hard pressed to think of two guys more different than Brad Gilbert and me. I talk about stocks on CNBC; Brad flies around the world coaching Andy Roddick.
The Maternal Advantage
 If You've Raised Kids, You Can Manage Anything
by Ann Crittenden
Psychologists have known for some time that the female brain is different from the male. Women tend to gather in more details of the world around them, and integrate that data into a more holistic picture of the world.
The Great Game of Business
 Less Is More: How Great Companies Improve Productivity Without Layoffs
by Jason Jennings
Jack Stack is the CEO of SRC Holdings. Twenty years ago, as a young production whiz for International Harvester, he was sent to Missouri to run Springfield Remanufacturing Corporation, a business unit that rebuilt dirty broken-down engines into like brand
The Power of a Simple BIG Objective
Less Is More: How Great Companies Improve Productivity Without Layoffs
by Jason Jennings
One company that's a poster child for productivity, Lantech, based in Louisville, Kentucky, discovered the need for a simple BIG objective the hard way. The traditional means for a company to ready their product for shipment involve putting the individual
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In business everywhere today, the typical male management style is obsolete.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!
Fear and Longing
Fear of the new, longing for the old, all muddled by a desire not to fail-such are the emotions that confuse high-tech novices in any industry, and especially in those confronting X-engineering for the first time. This is nothing new.
Authenticity
 Leadership Presence
by Kathy Lubar, Belle Linda Halpern
When people hear us define presence as connecting authentically with others, they say something like: 'I can understand how leaders might learn some things from actors. But how can we learn to be more authentic from people who lie professionally?
Times Have Changed
 Contagious Success: Spreading High Performance Throughout Your Organization
by Susan Annunzio
The way workgroups are managed today is critically important - even more so than in the past. This is because times have changed. In the Industrial Age, the assembly line fueled economic success.
Standing Tall, Sharing Courage
 We Shall Not Fail: The Inspiring Leadership of Winston Churchill
by Celia Sandys, Jonathan Littman
Following your passion and telling it like it is seldom make for an easy road to travel. Praised for 'conspicuous gallantry' Churchill had his hopes for a decoration dashed by his equally daring journalism.
Missouri to the White House, the White House to Missouri
 When the Buck Stops With You: Harry S. Truman on Leadership
by Alan Axelrod
At 7:09 in the evening of April 12, 1945, two hours and twenty-four minutes after Franklin Delano Roosevelt succumbed to a cerebral hemorrhage while sitting for a portrait at the 'Little White House' in Warm Springs, Georgia, his vice president stood
Act I: Being Present
Leadership Presence
by Kathy Lubar, Belle Linda Halpern
But being present means more than just physical presence, important as that is. It means being present in the moment focused totally and completely on what is happening right here and right now.
It's the Workgroup
Contagious Success: Spreading High Performance Throughout Your Organization
by Susan Annunzio
Success is contagious. That's the premise of this book. Every company has high-performing workgroups that both make money for the business and develop new products, services, or markets.
'Thanks for Calling Yellow, Have a Nice Day'
Less Is More: How Great Companies Improve Productivity Without Layoffs
by Jason Jennings
When Bill Zollars was recruited from Ryder Trucks in the late nineties to become CEO of Yellow Freight, a Fortune 500 company, he found a troubled business that had stumbled badly since deregulation of the trucking industry.
Setting and Surpassing Extraordinary Business Goals
 Beyond the Summit: Setting and Surpassing Extraordinary Business Goals
by Todd Skinner
I might have dedicated this book to Wyoming's Wind River Mountains my earliest and most influential teachers for it was there I first began to understand the profound transformative power of great challenges.
A Simple BIG Objective
Less Is More: How Great Companies Improve Productivity Without Layoffs
by Jason Jennings
Before committing even one word to paper, as I led my research team to begin the initial work of identifying a group of the world's most productive companies and figuring out how they do what they do, I'd have never guessed-not in a million years
Be An Original
 The Other 90%
by Robert K. Cooper, Ph.D.
I got off to a bad start in school. When I arrived for my first day, inside was a desk that had an index card on top with my name on it. I walked over and sat down. Lots of kids were milling around.
Who Moved My Weekend?
 The Seven-Day Weekend: Changing the Way Work Works
by Ricardo Semler
Never mind the cheese - who moved my weekend? I'm serious. Where did it go? One minute Saturday and Sunday formed an oasis for rest, relaxation, and rejuvenation.
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
Relinquishing Control
The Seven-Day Weekend: Changing the Way Work Works
by Ricardo Semler
Semco's glass and steel high-rise headquarters is a far cry from the gritty industrial shop floor that my father, Antonio Curt Semler, founded in 1954. It started not long after he moved to Brazil from Argentina, having emigrated before that from
Thinking Ahead in a Time of Turbulence
 Inevitable Surprises
by Peter Schwartz
In a world of surprises, what can we count on? As I write this, in early 2003, the question has never seemed so relevant. Some have lost their life savings in the economic turmoil of the last few years.
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