William Tate has put together a practical guide that allows the development of leaders to be considered from an organisational rather than an individual perspective.
The Toolkit is based on the author’s extensive consultancy work on leadership issues. It uses a Systems Thinking approach and a series of self-assessment questionnaires to guide through the entire improvement process.
Steve Zaffron and Dave Logan set out a proven system for rallying all of an organizations’ employees around a new vision and ideas for making the vision stick
When something at work isn’t going smoothly, managers struggle with what part of the problem to tackle first. Do they start with cost reduction? Or should they go for process improvements first? The authors—who have helped hundreds of companies and individuals change and improve—say spend time and money adjusting the systems in which people operate, rather than targeting people and their performance directly. They show that it’s in fact possible to change everything at once—with a focus on making such transformations permanent and repeatable.
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In her book Claire Diaz-Ortiz describes the most effective tactics for tapping into the power of Twitter as a real time information network. As Twitter’s head of corporate social innovation and philanthropy, she shares the same strategies she offers other organisations.
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In Tough Calls Allan Leighton focuses on specific decisions he has made in the course of his career – at ASDA, Royal Mail and elsewhere – and describes the thought processes behind them.
The author, Jeffrey Gitomer, describes the 12.5 strengths of responsible, reliable, remarkable leaders that create results, rewards, and resilience.
What makes a leader relevant? It’s not their place of employment, job title, experience, or status in life it’s their resilience. The true measure of any leader is his or her ability to react based on past experience and gut feelings, respond in real time to current circumstances, and then to recover quickly and move on with new lessons learned.
These selected essays by Donald N Michael take on the complex, messy, seemingly intractable issues – notably in the arenas of health, learning, governance and enterprise These are areas where paradox, ambiguity and complexity characterise the landscape. Here rapid change means yesterday’s solutions no longer work, where only genuine innovation has any chance of success.
In this book Harry M Kramer sets out the four principles of value-based leadership.
He argues that today’s organisational environment demands values-based leaders who, in “doing the right thing,” deliver outstanding and lasting results. The journey to becoming a values-based leader starts with self-reflection. He asks, “If you are not self-reflective, how can you know yourself? If you do not know yourself, how can you lead yourself? If you cannot lead yourself, how can you lead others?”
This book by Russell L. Ackoff is an annotated glossary of distinctions important in management . He argues that thinkers very great and very small – from Voltaire to Conservapedia – have underlined the importance of first defining your terms – establishing the exact dimensions of the beast before attempting to argue about it, slay it or revere it.
Carol Kinsey Goman explores how body language can help or hurt how you lead.
Aspiring and seasoned leaders have been trained to manage their leadership communication in many important ways. And yet, all their efforts to communicate effectively can be derailed by even the smallest nonverbal gestures such as the way they sit in a business meeting, or stand at the podium at a speaking engagement.
Payment for Success is a vital element in the White Paper ‘Open Public Services’, which sets out the reform agenda. It is part of the strategy for delivering more for a lot less. It will contribute in helping to move on from the often dysfunctional debate about how much is spent on what services to consider what is achieved.
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