Management & Leadership

A Federation
The Seven-Day Weekend: Changing the Way Work Works
by Ricardo Semler
I'll bet you still want to know what Semco does. Okay, we have ten companies, give or take. I'm not sure, because they come and go; we've had a minimum of five for twenty years.

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

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.

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.

Missouri to the White House, the White House to Missouri, Part 2
When the Buck Stops With You: Harry S. Truman on Leadership
by Alan Axelrod
Prodded by its chairman, the Truman Committee, as it was informally and universally called, was ruthless in holding military officers, civil administrators, and - especially - defense contractors to the highest standards of efficiency, performance

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

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.

Tennis Lessons, Life Lessons
I've Got Your Back: Coaching Top Performers from Center Court to the Corner Office
by Brad Gilbert, James Kaplan
Some people call me a great coach. After all, they say, I've taken two tennis players - one of them, Andre Agassi, slightly stuck in neutral and not playing the way he should; the other, Andy Roddick, a hot-tempered kid with genius but less than great

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 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

Seize Opportunities
Contagious Success: Spreading High Performance Throughout Your Organization
by Susan Annunzio
The third gene identified in high-performing workgroups is the ability to seize opportunities. This requires a learning environment in which people can take risks, generate new ideas, and make mistakes.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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?

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.

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