By Robert J Herebold.
Stop hiding from tough decisions and learn to confront them head-on. Why do managers at all levels sacrifice corporate success by shying away from making the tough decisions?
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Edited by David Hillson.
Many of us are afraid of failure and spend our lives trying to avoid it. But society’s most high achieving figures would all recognise that failure has been an integral part of their success.
By Doris Kearns.
The book is a remarkable study in leadership.
It describes how in May 1880 William H Seward, Salmon P Chase, Edward Bates and Abraham Lincoln waited in their hometowns for the results from the Republican National Convention in Chicago. When Lincoln emerged as the victor, his rivals were dismayed and angry.
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By Colonel Bob Stewart.
Colonel Bob Stewart believes leading under pressure is as great a challenge as it can get, and he should know. Having served in Northern Ireland and Bosnia, where he was British battalion commander, he has faced life and death situations and the toughest decisions any leader can make.
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By Josh Bernoff and Ted Schadler
In Empowered, Josh Bernoff and Ted Schadler provide real-world examples of how innovative leaders, and their teams, use technology to solve customer problems. We call them HEROes — highly empowered and resourceful operatives. They’re people like John Bernier and Ben Hedrington at Best Buy, who built an army of 2,500 tweeting employees to reach out to customers online.
By Jim Collins
‘We must reject the idea – well-intentioned, but dead wrong – that the primary path to greatness in the social sectors is to become “more like a business”.’
By Charlene Li
“Be Open, Be Transparent, Be Authentic” are the current leadership mantras – but organisations often push back. Traditionally the concept of control predominates, but the new world order demands openness.
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This overview and compendium published by CIPFA looks at the issues and possible approaches to evaluating partnerships and how to answer the question ‘does partnership represent a good value-for-money solution?’
The term partnership covers a broad spectrum of meaning. The publication looks only at partnerships that are not underpinned by a contract and which are commonly described as either advisory, strategic or executive. CIPFA’s Financial Management Panel has reviewed existing literature and guidance to provide an overview on how to approach the evaluation of partnerships and a number of organisations have contributed additional resources developed for their own partnership reviews.
Not only does benchmarking tell an organisation how it performs, but also how much better it should perform. As the squeeze on the public finances tightens, money must go further. For top management, it explains the strategic approach of relationships with partners and how benchmarking with them can become a process of continuous improvement.
By Craig and Patricia Neal.
‘Meetings are a waste of time’ is a sentiment many of us share, which is tragic, because meetings bring us together as human beings. To achieve the kind of meaning or breakthrough results most of us really yearn for when we gather, the key quality needed is authentic engagement: a genuine expression of what is true for us, and an attentive listening to what is true for others. Why it so often eludes us can be a matter of habit, distrust, lack of attention, or fear.
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