Management & Leadership
85 Articles & Excerpts
Efficiency
 If You've Raised Kids, You Can Manage Anything
by Ann Crittenden
Judith Rapoport of the National Institute of Mental Health believes that efficiency is the lesson learned by people who raise children and manage households. Rapoport has found this to be an enormous asset in directing collaborative research.
Daring More
 We Shall Not Fail: The Inspiring Leadership of Winston Churchill
by Celia Sandys, Jonathan Littman
Courage is no stranger among leaders. Franklin D. Roosevelt had to face the debilitating onslaught of polio. Andy Grove of Intel had to escape the Nazis as a child and then the Communists as a young man. Churchill considered courage a tangible asset.
Focus
 Less Is More: How Great Companies Improve Productivity Without Layoffs
by Jason Jennings
Think about how Kmart ended up in bankruptcy court because of its inability to focus on a simple BIG objective. One day, former CEO Charles Conaway directs his company to underprice Wal-Mart on thirty thousand staple items, even though Wal-Mart
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
True success means more than standing on the summit
 Beyond the Summit: Setting and Surpassing Extraordinary Business Goals
by Todd Skinner
We climb the mountain not to stand on top, but to gain from the ascent. Choose your mountains according to what you desire to gain, and how that gain will contribute to your further ascent.
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.
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
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
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
Risking Failure, Second Chances
We Shall Not Fail: The Inspiring Leadership of Winston Churchill
by Celia Sandys, Jonathan Littman
Courageous men and women get more done. Churchill's fearless approach to life took him where others failed to tread and his curiosity led to important innovations, as we shall see in Chapter 9, Experiment.
Denial and Defensiveness
 Inevitable Surprises
by Peter Schwartz
If the future is so predictable, why do so many businesses and organizations have difficulty putting the facts together? One would think that many people would be well practiced by now, for discontinuities have been a regular fact of life.
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.
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.
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.
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
You're the Chief
 First In, Last Out: Leadership Lessons from the New York Fire Department
by John Salka
I've been working on this book for more than twenty years, ever since I stepped down from the cab of 11 Truck's apparatus and came face to face with a big fire that was gutting a ConEd plant on Manhattan's Lower East Side.
One Good Mechanism Beats a Hundred Good Plans
 The Other 90%
by Robert K. Cooper, Ph.D.
A distinctive, learning-filled life results from a succession of small, specific choices made each day. There's a world of difference between imagining such a fulfilling life and actually living it.
Choose the path of greatest gain
Beyond the Summit: Setting and Surpassing Extraordinary Business Goals
by Todd Skinner
Goals with the most rewards are often the most difficult to achieve. We pick challenging mountains not because they are hard, but because we have the most to gain there. We are trying to become people with the ability to accomplish remarkable things.
Denial and Defensiveness, Part 3
Inevitable Surprises
by Peter Schwartz
I am hardly the first to make these points. Indeed, for the past thirty years, ever since the publication of Alvin Toffler's book Future Shock, they have become part of the conventional wisdom.
The Nature of Predetermined Elements
Inevitable Surprises
by Peter Schwartz
How do I know all this? Because I have one of the most interesting jobs in the world. I lead Global Business Network (GBN), the world's preeminent research and consulting firm focused on scenario planning.
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