The demands of today's workplace call for stronger and more inspiring leadership in order to motivate employees and to achieve the quality results for which successful organizations constantly strive.
In Reinventing Leadership, Warren G. Bennis and Robert Townsend show leaders how to empower their organizations and bring the best out of each employee.
Inside you will find useful leadership strategies that include:
Moving away from conventional standards of business practice
Building trust
How to...
Leadership for the 21st Century
The demands of today's workplace call for stronger and more inspiring leadership in order to motivate employe...
"Phil Harkins has it exactly right. To be a leader is to communicate powerfully--as he does in this thoughtful book." - Robert B. Reich, Professor of Social and Economic Policy Brandeis University.
Powerful Conversations breed a powerful organization. POWERFUL CONVERSATIONS is packed with goal-oriented strategies, tools, and real-life examples from great leaders. Use its deliberate, directed techniques to achieve exceptional levels of performance, create and maintain valuable relationships, and forward the goals of both yourself and your organization with every word you speak. Mastering...
"Phil Harkins has it exactly right. To be a leader is to communicate powerfully--as he does in this thoughtful book." - Robert B. Reich, Professor of ...
The words of Douglas McGregor, one of the fore-fathers of management theory and one of the top business thinkers of all time, cannot and should not be ignored. McGregor's vision of a more humanistic workplace may not have been widely accepted over three decades ago, but technological advancements that McGregor himself anticipated have paradoxically helped companies become more human. Viewing employees not as cogs in the machine but as living beings with individual goals-what McGregor called "the human side of the enterprise"-has proven to provide a remarkable competitive advantage. Now,...
The words of Douglas McGregor, one of the fore-fathers of management theory and one of the top business thinkers of all time, cannot and should not be...
This is the first comprehensive book to be published on the subject of intuition in management, a key element in business thinking and practice. The conventional management approach based on analytical problem solving is no longer adequate by itself to cope with accelerating change, complexity, uncertainty and conflict. The book presents a conceptual framework of intuition as well as extensive material on its application, especially to corporate vision building.
This is the first comprehensive book to be published on the subject of intuition in management, a key element in business thinking and practice. The c...
Warren Bennis has become synonymous with leadership, exploring all its dimensions as both practitioner and scholar for over four decades. Managing the Dream is an intimate portrait of leadership, comprising over a dozen essays that represent the author's most incisive and creative thinking. It features many of Bennis's most recent works, including "The End of Leadership," and a new preface reflecting on the challenge of leadership in the new millennium.
Warren Bennis has become synonymous with leadership, exploring all its dimensions as both practitioner and scholar for over four decades. Managing ...
Bernard A. Nagle Perry Pascarella Warren G. Bennis
The altrupreneur is a manager who conducts the affairs of an enterprise with conspicuous regard for the welfare of others and bulds communities that produce value for all the organization's stakeholders. Drawing examples from top and middle management, authors of this text describe the characteristics of altrupreneurs and the core principles by which they operate: their values and vision; optimism; integrity; confidence and enthusiasm.
The altrupreneur is a manager who conducts the affairs of an enterprise with conspicuous regard for the welfare of others and bulds communities that p...
This text attempts to aid individuals, managers and organizations create positive work environments where communication between all levels is respected, creativity is encouraged and people are acknowledged and supported. It provides real world examples and exercises. Fourteen core values are identified that will make work stimulating and satisfying, including: inclusion of everyone; celebration of diversity; open and honest communication; risk-taking; and opportunities for personal growth.
This text attempts to aid individuals, managers and organizations create positive work environments where communication between all levels is respecte...
Warren Bennis writes, the bookfills me with equal amounts of admiration and envy. For the first time ever, Nanus defines for us what 'the vision thing' is all about.
Successful leaders know that nothing drives an organization like an attractive, worthwhile, achievable vision for the future. Leadership expert and best-selling author Burt Nanus finally shows why vision is the key to leadership and demonstrates how any leader can use a logical, step-by-step process to create and implement a powerful new sense of direction in his or her organization.
Designed for...
Warren Bennis writes, the bookfills me with equal amounts of admiration and envy. For the first time ever, Nanus defines for us what 'the vision thing...
A Selection of the Executive Program and Fortune Book Clubs
Leaders beware. There's an unconscious conspiracy afoot, aiming to sabotage your plans and undermine your vision. Entrenched bureaucracy, ominous social trends, and mind-numbing routine are among its members?and their proliferation is an unfortunate sign of our times. But take heart. In this highly acclaimed work, legendary management consultant Warren Bennis unmasks the culprits, analyzes their tactics, and offers new insights for change agents struggling to take charge in an era that conspires against effective...
A Selection of the Executive Program and Fortune Book Clubs
Leaders beware. There's an unconscious conspiracy afoot, aiming to sabotage ...
There is a search in process for a new context and paradigm for the organization of the future-an organization that must be capable of producing high-quality, competitive products that satisfy customers without destroying the planet or degrading human life. The End of Management and the Rise of Organizational Democracy calls for a radical set of organizational development initiatives that will combat the destructive forces of globalization, put an end to authoritarian, paternalistic management, and move organizations toward a new -organizational democracy.- Kenneth Cloke and Joan Goldsmith...
There is a search in process for a new context and paradigm for the organization of the future-an organization that must be capable of producing high-...
