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Dozens of engaging ways to forge good working relationships between managers and their staffs

This book offers managers 50 fun, illuminating experiential activities for building a positive, open, and productive relationship with the people they manage. Unlike ropes courses and other off-site management activities, The Big Book of Leadership Games features activities that can be used in the workplace during staff meetings, as a part of training sessions, or even in the course of daily work. This empowering guide shows leaders how to:

• Tap employees'...

Caught in a state of LeaderShock? Now it's your turn to thrive.

Faced with the chaos of business today, leaders in every field feel overwhelmed and ineffective. They're in LeaderShock. But now there's a way out. Based on seven years of breakthrough research, Greg Hicks' award-winning LeaderShock program has shown thousands how to thrive in our chaotic business culture. And now his revolutionary book offers a practical roadmap of eight behavioral rules you can use to take control and stay in charge. This clear and concise guide will show you how to: Activate and express "Intentions" to...

Understanding, planning for, and thriving in the global business environment

Business leaders face a global environment that is increasingly complex and treacherous. Written by the managing director of A.T. Kearney's prestigious Global Policy Institute, World Out of Balance draws upon the insights of an elite group of business leaders, academics, and government officials from around the world, focusing on the five factors that are shaping tomorrow's business environment:

• Globalization--rising levels of trade, communication, and travel...

In today's superheated business climate, executives and managers are under increasing pressure to squeeze every last drop of productivity out of their people. Built around inspiring stories from both the military and business worlds, Leadership Lessons of the Navy SEALS outlines a step-by-step approach to boosting morale and increasing productivity in any business organization.

Readers look to The McGraw-Hill Executive MBA series for straight-talking, technique-filled books written by frontline executive education professors and modeled after the programs of top business schools.. .

"Managerial Leadership "provides a four-tiered approach that helps professionals from all walks of life develop strong management and leadership skills. Top leadership models and frameworks, tools for assessing leadership strengths, techniques for handling change and growth, and more make this book a veritable learning laboratory..

A Wall Street Journal Bestseller

A compelling look inside the mind and powerful leadership methods of America's coaching legend, John Wooden

"Team spirit, loyalty, enthusiasm, determination. . . . Acquire and keep these traits and success should follow."
--Coach John Wooden

John Wooden's goal in 41 years of coaching never changed; namely, to get maximum effort and peak performance from each of his players in the manner that best served the team. Wooden on Leadership explains step-by-step how he pursued and accomplished this...

An innovative framework for enhancing leadership skills in any situation

Businesses today have a vital need to create individuals who can positively and progressively fill leadership roles at every level of their organizations. An award-winning leadership practitioner, Peter J. Dean has developed an exclusive method that shows how every interaction and every encounter holds opportunities for leadership. Leadership for Everyone provides the knowledge, tools, and advice to produce "everyday, everywhere" leaders who influence each situation in which they're involved as...

"The book makes a convincing case that battlefield techniques really do work in the business world."--Fortune

"A colorful, entertaining, and highly effective way of conveying some powerful lessons along with lots of very interesting military history." --Miami Herald

A Fast Company Reader's Choice Winner

"This book . . . is a timely and instructive guidebook for leaders in organizations who need to establish and maintain credibility."
--James S. Beard, president of Caterpillar Financial Services Corp. and vice president of Caterpillar Inc.

"Read this book and learn how to build credibility through transparency--it is essential for sustainable business success."
--Carl K. Kooyoomjian, executive vice president, technical affairs and worldwide operations, Revlon Inc.

"Wonder why your people are halfhearted in...

In Built to Serve, Dan Sanders, CEO of the award-winning, service-oriented United Supermarkets, makes this bold claim: the prevailing business culture is broken and a radical transformation is required-a paradigm shift that reshapes our understanding of the true purpose of work.

Leaders have a choice-continue to chase a broken price-profit model and suffer the consequences or build a culture committed to servanthood and discover the fulfillment evident when people see their work as a ministry. The choice leaders make will not only determine economic success and failure but...

Why do some managers shine during a high-level crisis while others stumble? Those who have an action plan in place are the ones who can react quickly, manage rumors, and respond to victims and stakeholders sincerely and adequately while keeping their organization afloat.

Leading crisis management expert Laurence Barton has spent more than two decades consulting with top companies on how to anticipate and respond to workplace threats and tragedies. In Crisis Leadership Now he offers concrete solutions for managing disruptive events-from industrial accidents and acts of...