Geeks and Geezers
Author(s): Warren Bennis, Robert J. Thomas
ISBN: 1578515823
Leadership expert Warren Bennis and leadership consultant Robert Thomas set out to find out how era and values shape those who lead. Offers a useful, applicable model to those interested in developing their own leadership skills as well as those around them.
Learning to Lead
Author(s): Warren Bennis, Joan Goldsmith
ISBN: 0738209058
Text reveals the underpinnings of true leadership: showing how to see beyond leadership myths; translate failures into springboards for renewed creativity; and communicate your vision for yourself, your team, and your organization. Offers questions for self-reflection and room to write responses.
On Becoming a Leader
Author(s): Warren Bennis
ISBN: 0738208175
"For many years, Warren Bennis has persuasively argued that leaders are not born -- they are made...In a world increasingly defined by turbulence and uncertainty, the call to leadership is more urgent than ever. Featuring fresh, new commentary on the challenges and opportunities that leaders face today, this new edition of On Becoming a Leader will inspire the next generation of leaders and guide us into the future."
Built to Last
Author(s): Jim Collins, Jerry Porras
ISBN: 0060516402
Jim Collins and Jerry Porras begin their groundbreaking analysis of "visionary companies" with the following bold statement: "We believe every CEO, manager, and entrepreneur should read this book." Although their language may sound slightly hubristic, the authors actually deliver the promised goods: Written in eloquent and accessible language, Built to Last, the result of an extensive six-year research study conducted at Stanford University, is a classic business book that surely deserves the accolades critics, readers, and its creators have heaped upon it.
Jump Start Your Business Brain
Author(s): Doug Hall
ISBN: 1558706429
New Rules for the New Economy
Author(s): Kevin Kelly
ISBN: 014028060X
Kelly presents ten fundamental principles of the connected economy that invert the traditional wisdom of the industrial world. More than an overview of new economic principles, it prescribes clear and specific strategies for success.
Visionary Leadership
Author(s): Burt Nanus
ISBN: 0787901148
Nanus, coauthor of the best-selling Leaders: The Strategies for Taking Charge ( LJ 4/1/85) and author of The Leader's Edge: The Seven Keys to Leadership in Turbulent Times (Contemporary Bks., 1989), continues clarifying the elements of this elusive skill for the reading public. In his latest effort, he presents a step-by-step approach to the development of vision. To do this, he divides his book into three parts and explains what vision is, how to develop it, and how to implement it. Well written, practical in approach, and laced with numerous examples, this work should prove popular with readers. Recommended for public and academic libraries. Fortune Bk. Club main selection; BOMC alternate.
- Robert Logsdon, Indiana State Univ. Lib., Indianapolis
Pour Your Heart Into It: How Starbucks Built a Company One Cup at a Time
Author(s): Howard Schultz, Dori Jones Yang
ISBN: 786883561
The vision came to Schultz while traveling through Italy, when he recognized the intense relationship that the Italian people had not only with their coffee, but with the coffee bars that are an integral part of the country's social life. He knew in his heart that Americans would embrace the coffee bar experience in the same way. The idea was the beginning - and the marketing of the brand was brilliant.
Principle Centered Leadership
Author(s): Stephen R. Covey
ISBN: 0671792806
How do we as individuals and organizations survive and thrive amid tremendous change? Why are efforts to improve falling so short in real results despite the millions of dollars in time, capital, and human effort being spent on them? Stephen R. Covey demonstrates that the answer to these and other dilemmas is Principle-Centered Leadership, a long-term, inside-out approach to developing people and organizations.
Ethics for the New Millennium
Author(s): Dalai Lama
ISBN: 1573228834
The Dalai Lama bases his exquisitely argued cry for a new look at society on the radical notion that human beings are "originally pure" and presents a persuasive examination of man's fundamental nature. His moral system is founded on universal principles and can lead persons of any religion to a happier, more fulfilling life.
