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"Shows professionals at all levels how to improve their leadership skills to create greater success for them, their team, and their organizations"--

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Offers essays by top leaders in business, the public sector, and academia on pressing issues they've faced. This title features contributors sharing personal anecdotes and offering advice drawn from their years of hard-earned experience.

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Sets to find out how era and values shape those who lead.

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"Straightforward and practical, this book is a must-read for any leader or change practitioner." Mark Porter, Executive Vice President People & Culture, WestJet Airlines Leading Meaningful Change is an essential guide for executives, leaders, managers, consultants, and other professionals who need to go beyond applying tactics in a ch

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Presents eight counterintuitive guidelines for confronting situations in which right and wrong seem like moving targets. This book shows how "non-heroes" succeed by managing their political capital, buying themselves time, bending the rules, and more. It also shows how patient, everyday efforts can add up to a better company and a better world.

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This edition lays out an innovative action plan for becoming an industry revolutionary. By drawing on the success of "grey haired revolutionaries" like Charles Schwab, Virgin and GE Capital, and profiling individuals, it explains how companies can continue to grow, innovate, and achieve success.

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Presents a framework for the leader as mediator and outlines specific tools these leaders use to transform seemingly intractable differences into progress on deep-seated problems.

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How do you lead a team scattered across the globe How do you keep members you can't see organized, communicative, and productive This book offers advice on forming virtual teams, assessing their communication and technology needs, and ensuring that they produce high-quality work.

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Most managers understand the value of building a learning organization. Their goal is to leverage knowledge and make it a key corporate asset, yet they remain uncertain about how best to get started. This work introduces three modes of learning - intelligence gathering, experience, and experimentation - and shows how each mode is deployed.

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Why do lenders time and again loan money to sovereign borrowers who promptly go bankrupt When can this type of lending work This title looks at one famous case - the debts and defaults of Philip II of Spain. Using detailed evidence collected from sixteenth-century archives, it examines the incentives and returns of lenders.

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Helps to learn how the most accomplished leaders from around the globe have tackled their toughest challenges with "Lessons Learned". This title also offers all of the lessons in their original video format, free bonus videos, and other exclusive features online.

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Imagine thinking about your company's information technology in the same way that you think about its investment portfolio: as a bundle of assets that - when managed right - generate revenues and savings. This title presents a framework for leveraging IT (technology, networks, data, and software), and contains case studies.

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Based on a ten-year examination of control systems in over 50 US businesses, this book broadens the definition of control and establishes a critical bridge between the disciplines of strategy and accounting and control. It also identifies three control systems that allow strategic change: belief systems, boundary systems, and interactive systems.

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Intended for those accountable for measuring and managing performance, this book shows how good design can become an organisation's roadmap to success. It argues that by viewing design as a powerful and proactive management lever leaders can maximize productivity across every level of the organisation.

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Addresses the fundamentals of life-cost studies in the built environment. It includes the time-value of money, discounted cash-flow analysis, differential price-level movement and affordability fluctuations. Contemporary issues such as occupancy costs, sustainability implications and value adding are also addressed.

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The Little Book of Leadership is full of practical tips. Containing famous quotes by well known leaders and managers, as well as inspirational words to highlight, evaluate or innovate. This terrific read provides fresh and valuable insights into how to lead. Nothing important gets done without leadership.

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The two hundred-year story of the global working class and its many struggles for justice.

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"Living Proof tells the story of how, in just a few short years, Connecticut natives Adam and Pete took Onyx Spirits Company from a start-up concept born in a restored Civil War-era factory to a multimillion-dollar, award-winning spirit distillery by breaking rules, learning from failures, and challenging the status quo"--

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For years, highly paid executives at major corporations have had the benefit of professional image consultants to give them feedback about their presentation in the workplace.