Everyday People, Extraordinary Leadership

Author: James M. Kouzes
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1119687012
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 247

Book Description
Learn how you can tackle everyday leadership challenges regardless of your title, position, or authority with this insightful resource A book about leadership for people who are not in formal or hierarchical leadership positions, Everyday People, Extraordinary Leadership provides readers with a comprehensive and practical approach to addressing leadership challenges, no matter the setting or circumstance. Esteemed scholars and sought-after consultants Jim Kouzes and Barry Posner adapt their trademark The Five Practices of Exemplary Leadership® framework to today’s more horizontal workplace, showing people that leadership is not about where you are in the organization; it’s about how you behave and what you do. Everyday People, Extraordinary Leadership draws on the authors’ deep well of research and practical experience to cover key subjects: The essence of making a difference in any role, setting, or situation The difference between positions of authority and leadership The importance of self-development in leadership development This book is perfectly applicable and accessible for anyone who wants to improve their own leadership potential and who isn’t yet in an official leadership role. Everyday People, Extraordinary Leadership offers authoritative new insights, original case studies and examples, and practical guidance for those individuals who want to make a difference. You supply the will, and this book will supply the way.

The Leadership Challenge Workbook

Author: James M. Kouzes
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1119397561
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 160

Book Description
Essential, practical tools for implementing evidence-based leadership development The Leadership Challenge Workbook offers practical tools for applying The Five Practices of Exemplary Leadership® in real-life business situations. As the companion to The Leadership Challenge, this workbook provides essential hands-on guidance for planning, implementation, people-management, and more. This new revised third edition has been updated to match The Leadership Challenge Sixth Edition text. It includes easy-to-use worksheets to simplify planning and collectively assemble into a clear blueprint for moving forward. By focusing on the notion of leadership development as a journey rather than an event, this interactive guide provides critical insight through a proven, systematic process. Implementing big ideas requires skillful change leadership—and any successful, sustainable change begins with thorough, practical planning. This workbook helps you map out a plan and put it into action, with tools that help clarify your thinking and translate your big ideas into concrete strategies. Streamline planning with practical, efficient worksheets Assemble a blueprint for effectively implementing your ideas Improve communication, strengthen commitment, and build trust Adopt a systematic approach to leadership to continue producing exemplary results The Five Practices of Exemplary Leadership is a proven model backed by decades of research and data from over 4 million individuals. It is proven, practical, and evidence-based, and has helped leaders from around the globe improve their organizations' performance. With the need for quality leadership development at an all-time high, real-world application of proven models becomes critical; The Leadership Challenge Workbook gives you the hands-on tools you need to more effectively implement a robust, systematic approach.

The Global Leadership Challenge

Author: J. Stewart Black
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000074862
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 316

Book Description
This book first examines the phenomenon of global business and then analyzes what is different about global business and, therefore, what is uniquely required to be a successful global leader. It lays out how companies can develop successful global leaders, and what individuals can do to develop themselves into successful global leaders. Readers will walk away with a clear understanding of how and why globalization of business took place. They will understand what is unique about global leadership compared to domestic leadership. With that insight and through examples, they will come to see what is uniquely required to be a successful global leader. Finally, readers will walk away with clear insights on how they can develop global leaders and what they can do to strengthen their own global leadership capabilities. The book is based on more than 300 interviews with top corporate executives from around the world and across a wide variety of industries, hundreds of surveys, and over 60 years of combined experience. Top executives will find this book helpful in determining how they can ensure that their firm has the right quality and quantity of global leaders it needs to capture the global growth opportunities before them.

The Leadership Challenge

Author: James M. Kouzes
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 111927897X
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 285

Book Description
The most trusted source of leadership wisdom, updated to address today's realities The Leadership Challenge is the gold-standard manual for effective leadership, grounded in research and written by the premier authorities in the field. With deep insight into the complex interpersonal dynamics of the workplace, this book positions leadership both as a skill to be learned, and as a relationship that must be nurtured to reach its full potential. This new seventh edition has been revised to address current challenges, and includes more international examples and a laser focus on business issues; you'll learn how extraordinary leaders accomplish extraordinary things, and how to develop your leadership skills and style to deliver quality results every time. Engaging stories delve into the fundamental roles that great leaders fulfill, and simple frameworks provide a primer for those who seek continuous improvement; by internalizing key insights and putting concepts into action, you'll become a more effective, more impactful leader. A good leader gets things done; a great leader aspires, inspires, and achieves more. This book highlights the differences between good and great, and shows you how to bridge the chasm between getting things done and making things happen. Gain deep insight into leadership's critical role in organizational health Navigate the shift toward team-oriented work relationships Motivate and inspire to break through the pervasive new cynicism Leverage the electronic global village to deliver better results Business is evolving at an increasingly rapid rate, and leaders must keep pace with the changes or risk stagnation. People work differently, are motivated differently, and have different expectations today—business as usual is quickly losing its effectiveness. The Leadership Challenge helps you stay current, relevant, and effective in the modern workplace.

The Student Leadership Challenge

Author: James M. Kouzes
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1118599659
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 253

Book Description
The Student Leadership Challenge Activities Book includes more than 50 activities that give educators a bridge between teaching The Five Practices of Exemplary Leadership model and helping students learn to apply the practices to their lives. The activities map to each of The Five Practices and are designed to be flexible, appropriate for high school and college students, and greatly improve students’ understanding of The Five Practices model through action. The activities include facilitator tips for use in a variety of settings and with various age groups.

Leading Every Day

Author: Joyce Kaser
Publisher: Corwin Press
ISBN: 1412916410
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 329

Book Description
As our society faces more complex challenges, the demand for effective leadership grows. Leaders, especially education leaders, often need to solve complicated problems quickly with limited resources. Understanding their own leadership styles, roles, and practices enhances the impact that leaders have every day. Leading Every Day offers direction on providing high-quality leadership amid turbulent times. Modeling the philosophy that leadership exists in all of us, the authors inspire educators to lead in big and small ways. This second edition offers: inspirational stories illustrating effective leadership, cogent quotations for educators to carry with them each day, actionable advice that can be implemented today, invitations for larger discourse that can change the lives of leaders and the lives of those they lead, and the latest research on best practices in leadership, change, professional development, and group leadership.

Leadership and the New Science

Author: Margaret J. Wheatley
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN: 145877760X
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 346

Book Description
A bestseller--more than 300,000 copies sold, translated into seventeen languages, and featured in the Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, Miami Herald, Harvard Business Review, Fast Company, and Fortune; Shows how discoveries in quantum physics, biology, and chaos theory enable us to deal successfully with change and uncertainty in our organizations and our lives; Includes a new chapter on how the new sciences can help us understand and cope with some of the major social challenges of our timesWe live in a time of chaos, rich in potential for new possibilities. A new world is being born. We need new ideas, new ways of seeing, and new relationships to help us now. New science--the new discoveries in biology, chaos theory, and quantum physics that are changing our understanding of how the world works--offers this guidance. It describes a world where chaos is natural, where order exists ''for free.'' It displays the intricate webs of cooperation that connect us. It assures us that life seeks order, but uses messes to get there.Leadership and the New Science is the bestselling, most acclaimed, and most influential guide to applying the new science to organizations and management. In it, Wheatley describes how the new science radically alters our understanding of the world, and how it can teach us to live and work well together in these chaotic times. It will teach you how to move with greater certainty and easier grace into the new forms of organizations and communities that are taking shape.

Exploring Leadership

Author: Susan R. Komives
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1118417488
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 610

Book Description
This third edition is a thoroughly revised and updated version of the bestselling text for undergraduate leadership courses. This book is designed for college students to help them understand that they are capable of being effective leaders and guide them in developing their leadership potential. The Relational Leadership Model (RLM) continues as the major focus in this edition, and the book includes stronger connections between the RLM dimensions and related concepts, as well as visual applications of the model. The third edition includes new student vignettes that demonstrate how the major concepts and theories can be applied. It also contains new material on social justice, conflict management, positive psychology, appreciative inquiry, emotional intelligence, and new self-assessment and reflection questionnaires. For those focused on the practice of leadership development, the third edition is part of a complete set that includes a Student Workbook, a Facilitation and Activity Guide for educators, and free downloadable instructional PowerPoint® slides. The Workbook is a student-focused companion to the book and the Facilitation and Activity Guide is designed for use by program leaders and educators.

Exploring Leadership

Author: Susan R. Komives
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 0470596481
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 515

Book Description
This is the thoroughly revised and updated second edition of the best-selling book Exploring Leadership. The book is designed to help college students understand that they are capable of being effective leaders and to guide them in developing their leadership potential. Exploring Leadership incorporates new insights and material developed in the course of the authors’ work in the field. The second edition contains expanded and new chapters and also includes the relational leadership model, uses a more global context and examples that relate to a wide variety of disciplines, contains a new section which emphasizes ways to work to accomplish change, and concludes with concrete strategies for activism.

The Leadership Challenge Workshop, 3rd Edition, Revised Participant's Workbook (Spanish)

Author: James M. Kouzes
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 0787998052
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 174

Book Description
EL LIDERAZGO ES UN ASUNTO DE TODOS ?Esta listo para aprovechar las oportunidades que llevan a obtener resultados extraordinarios? ?Esta listo para inspirar a los demas a so?ar, alentar su participacion activa y estar a su lado cuando las cosas se tornen dificiles? ?Esta listo para liderar? Mas que nunca, nuestras familias, nuestras organizaciones, nuestras naciones y nuestro mundo necesitan personas que esten dispuestas a aceptar este duro desafio. El Taller The Leadership Challenge? (El desafio del liderazgo) le brinda la posibilidad de hacerlo--de tomar la iniciativa, aprovechar las oportunidades y marcar la diferencia. Respaldado por mas de 20 a?os de investigacion original, el Taller The Leadership Challenge? es un proceso de descubrimiento unico e intenso creado por los autores de exitos de ventas, Jim Kouzes y Barry Posner. El Taller desmitifica el concepto de liderazgo y lo aborda como un conjunto de comportamientos que pueden aprenderse. En otras palabras, olvidese de los cargos, los puestos, la jerarquia o la experiencia laboral. El liderazgo esta relacionado con lo que usted hace. Este Libro de tareas del participante esta dise?ado para acompa?arlo en un viaje apasionante para el descubrimiento de uno mismo. Basadas en el celebre modelo Five Practices of Exemplary Leadership? (Las cinco practicas de liderazgo ejemplar) de Kouzes y Posner, las paginas interactivas lo ayudan a descubrir el significado mas profundo de: A medida que avance en este Libro de tareas, pronto descubrira que la experiencia del Taller The Leadership Challenge? es mas que una tipica sesion de capacitacion. Incluso, podria cambiar su vida. LOS AUTORES James M. Kouzes y Barry Z. Posner se encuentran entre los especialistas y educadores mas buscados en la materia del liderazgo y el desarrollo del liderazgo. Han estado trabajando, escribiendo y ense?ando en esta area valiosa por mas de treinta a?os.