Action Inquiry

Author: William R. Torbert
Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers
ISBN: 1605096334
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 265

Book Description
Action inquiry is the process of transformational learning that individuals (and even whole organizations) can undertake to better assess current dangers and opportunities, act in a timely manner, and make future visions come true. Through short stories of leadership and organizational changes in the areas of business, politics, health care, and education, this book illustrates how this process can increase personal integrity, improve relationships, and lead to company profitability and long-term success.

Action Inquiry

Author: William Torbert
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780369323736
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 592

Book Description
'Action inquiry'' is the process of transformational learning that individuals (and even whole organizations) can undertake to better assess current dangers and opportunities, act in a timely manner, and make future visions come true. Through short stories of leadership and organizational changes in the areas of business, politics, health care, and education, this book illustrates how this process can increase personal integrity, improve relationships, and lead to company profitability and long - term success.

Personal and Organisational Transformations

Author: Dalmar Fisher
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780953818402
Category : Business education
Languages : en
Pages : 219

Book Description

Contagious Leadership

Author: Monica L. Wofford
Publisher: PresentersPlus, Inc
ISBN: 9780975272206
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 250

Book Description
Leaders do not have to be born, they can be cultivated. Readers learn how to lead and to become leaders with ten steps. Topics include respect, recognition, growth, forgiveness, mistakes, communication, and action.

Transforming Leadership

Author: James MacGregor Burns
Publisher: Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
ISBN: 1555846165
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 481

Book Description
The New York Times–bestselling author and Pulitzer Prize winner examines the history of leadership, and the crucial role of leaders in a healthy democracy. In Transforming Leadership, James MacGregor Burns illuminates the evolution of leadership structures—from the chieftains of tribal African societies, through Europe’s absolute monarchies, to the blossoming of the Enlightenment’s ideals of liberty and happiness during the American Revolution. Along the way, he looks at key breakthroughs in leadership and the towering leaders who attempted to transform their worlds—Elizabeth I, Washington, Jefferson, Gandhi, Eleanor Roosevelt, Gorbachev, and others. Culminating in a bold and innovative plan to address the greatest global leadership challenge of the twenty-first century, the long-intractable problem of global poverty, Transforming Leadership will spark lively discussion in classrooms and boardrooms throughout the country.

Managing the Unknowable

Author: Ralph D. Stacey
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 9781555424633
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 248

Book Description
It's What You Don't Know That Counts Discover the important roles chance and uncertainty play insuccessful strategic planning. In this ingenious work, author RalphD. Stacey shows managers how their companies can benefit from theunexpected developments that impact their business and how they canprepare to creatively leverage the opportunities such developmentspresent. He explains how an appreciation of conflict and teamdialogue can help managers discover and build on the innate energyof their organizations. And he illustrates his theories withreal-world examples from Sony, Kodak, Federal Express and othernoted market innovators.

Space and Time in Perception and Action

Author: Romi Nijhawan
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 052186318X
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 583

Book Description
Brings together cutting edge experiments and theoretical treatments regarding space, time and motion in visual neuroscience and psychophysics.

Leadership Unbound

Author: Lawrence W. Corbett
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781589850101
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 204

Book Description
Leadership Unbound explains in clear, simple to understand terms the ways in which a dynamic, forward thinking pastor created a successful new church community in the middle of the desert by applying business principles and how anyone can apply these lessons to their own success plan.

The Unknown Leader

Author: Sheikh Hussein A Al-Banawi
Publisher: Kogan Page Publishers
ISBN: 0749465735
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 280

Book Description
Our world has many obvious leaders: captains of industry, high-achieving academics, CEOs, statesmen, champion athletes. But we also depend on leaders whose work is usually not so visible. They are all around us, filling crucial roles at every level of society, in all kinds of organizations and in our communities, enriching the lives of those around them and making the world a better place. The Unknown Leader celebrates these leaders among us and invites you to join them. Hussein A. Al-Banawi shares the inspiring stories of some of today's Unknown Leaders and shows how they discovered their hidden talents through hard work, reflection and continual learning. He also recounts his own lifelong journey toward leadership and the invaluable lessons he gained from unusual friendships, daunting challenges, tough decisions, victories and defeats. And Al-Banawi explains the six crucial qualities every aspiring leader must develop, with specific advice about how to enhance these qualities in yourself. Whether you are a student, a mid-career professional, an entrepreneur, or anyone seeking a richer and fulfilling life, The Unknown Leader will be a powerful guide and companion in your own lifelong journey.

Advanced NXT

Author: Matthias Paul Scholz
Publisher: Apress
ISBN: 1430202580
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 378

Book Description
The popularity of NXT and the success of The Da Vinci Code are combined in this fascinating book. Projects for building and programming five of Leonardo's most famous inventions are covered in detail: the tank, the helicopter, the catapult, the flying machine, and the revolving bridge. This book is written for serious NXT programmers and covers the most popular programming environments available today. The book is abundantly illustrated and includes sample code and countless best-practices strategies.