Warren Bennis, Daniel Goleman, James O’Toole with Patricia Ward Biederman look at what conspires against “a culture of candor” in organizations to create disastrous results, and suggest ways that leaders can achieve healthy and honest openness.
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Change is hard. It’s unsettling, it’s time-consuming, and all too often we give up at the first sign of a setback. Chip and Dan Heath provide insights into why this is so and what can be done about.
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In this book Nathan Yau takes a fresh look at visualization. Whether it’s statistical charts, geographic maps, or the snappy graphical statistics you see increasingly on the news and in newspapers, the art of data graphics or visualization is fast becoming a movement of its own.
The author presents an intriguing complement to his bestseller Visualize This, this time focusing on the graphics side of data analysis. Using examples from art, design, business, statistics, cartography, and online media, he explores both standard-and not so standard-concepts and ideas about illustrating data.
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Alexander Stevenson offers advice to public sector managers in the areas of accountability, setting targets, risk management, innovation, managing people and decision making.
His offer includes practical advice to public sector managers on how to develop techniques to deal with the challenges they face, particularly in the areas of accountability, setting targets, risk management, encouraging innovation, managing people, decision making and working with politicians.
John Gerzema and Michael D’Antonio believe that feminine values can solve our toughest problems and build a more prosperous future. In this book they present a very cogent argument.
Among 64,000 people surveyed in thirteen nations, two thirds feel the world would be a better place if men thought more like women. This marks a global trend away from the winner-takes-all, masculine approach to getting things done. Drawing from interviews at innovative organizations in eighteen nations and at Fortune 500 boardrooms, the authors reveal how men and women alike are recognizing significant value in traits commonly associated with women, such as nurturing, cooperation, communication, and sharing.
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PROJECT RISK ANALYSIS: TECHNIQUES FOR FORECASTING FUNDING REQUIREMENTS COSTS AND TIMESCALES
In this book Derek Salkeld presents insights into the key elements of delivering projects on time and on budget.
Risk and opportunity are inherent in projects and yet, whilst many organizations invest heavily in project management methodologies and processes in the hope of ensuring delivery on time and on budget, project sponsors, project board members or managers do not see that the root cause of the problem of overspend and late completion could be that their projects were underestimated in the first place.
Prasad Kaipa and Navi Radjou offer a fresh and timely approach to nurturing wise, resilient, and flexible leadership in a world of growing complexity.
Leaders tend to obstinately stick to the leadership style that brought them most success in the past. At the extremes these styles are functional leadership that focuses on operational excellence and smart leadership that focuses on growth. When a leader’s focus is too functional, the organization becomes introverted and can focus too much on bottom-line profitability while missing out on top-line growth opportunities. But when leaders focus too much on smart leadership, the organization may experience quick growth but lose its effectiveness quickly.
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We all know that change is hard. It’s unsettling, it’s time-consuming, and all too often we give up at the first sign of a setback.
But why do we insist on seeing the obstacles rather than the goal? This is the question that bestselling authors Chip and Dan Heath tackle in their compelling and insightful new book. They argue that we need only understand how our minds function in order to unlock shortcuts to switches in behaviour. Illustrating their ideas with scientific studies and remarkable real-life turnarounds – from the secrets of successful marriage counselling to the pile of gloves that transformed one company’s finances – the brothers Heath prove that deceptively simple methods can yield truly extraordinary results.
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Alan Berson and Richard Stieglitz challenge high potential managers to become great leaders. They offer help in this guide about climbing the ladder to become a top organizational leader.
Rather than engaging in an ongoing race to be heard and produce short-term results, managers and leaders at all levels must learn how to ask great questions and listen to the answers, to create a culture that places more value on learning than on what people already know, and to foster innovation and strategic thought to achieve long-term objectives.
This practitioner’s guide to strategic thinking by George Tovstiga presents a practitioner focussed approach to strategy. It is increasingly recognised that the ability to adapt classic formulas to changing circumstances and develop fast, sound strategic thinking is what differentiates the successful oraganisation leader.
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