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Leadership Development in the New Millennium

Leadership Development in the New Millennium Leading edge sales organizations understand the value of investing in leadership development is critical,

A Passion for Leadership: Lessons on Change and Reform from Fifty Years of Public Service

Having led change successfully at three sprawling, monumental organizations—the CIA, Texas A&M University, and the Department of Defense—Robert M. Gates offers the ultimate insider’s look at how leaders can transform large organizations and companies. For many Americans, bureaucracy and corporate structure are code words for inertia. Gates knows that it doesn’t have to be that way. With stunning clarity, he shares how simple plans, faithfully executed, can cut through the mire of bureaucracy to reform organizational culture. And he shows that great leaders listen and respond to their teams and embrace the power of compromise. Using the full weight of his wisdom, candor, and devotion to duty, he empowers leaders at any level to effectively implement his leadership strategies.

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Leadership 101: What Every Leader Needs to Know

Unleash your leadership potential.

No matter who you are, you can lead―and lead well.

That is the message New York Times bestselling author John C. Maxwell gives in this power-packed guidebook: Leadership 101. Here the consummate leader offers a succinct and inspiring framework for enhancing the leadership abilities you already possess. Learn how to:

  • Follow your vision and bring others with you
  • Produce a lasting legacy
  • Grow the loyalty of your followers
  • Make continual investments in the quality of your leadership
  • Increase your ability to influence others
  • Determine your leadership “lid”
  • Empower others through mentoring
  • Create a foundation of trust
  • Use self-discipline to improve your character―and your results

One of the keys to successful leadership is applying the concepts that have made other leaders strong. Here’s your opportunity to do just that.

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Leadership: The Power of Influential Leadership: Skills Proven to Harness the Power of Other People

Anyone knows that one of the best paying and rewarding jobs in business and in life is to become a Manager or some other leadership role. However, just because you can become a manager does not mean you will succeed as a manager. There are many important skills that go into being a talented and successful manager. Thankfully for you, we have just what you need.

Now available are the most proven strategies ever written down on paper that allows you to harness the power of other people.

The Book, “The Power of Influential Leadership: Skills Proven to Harness the Power of Other People”, will teach you the recommended, mandatory, necessary, and very important skills to becoming a profound leader in anything that you do.

Managers all around the world fail because they do not know exactly what it takes to be a success managing and leading other people

This book contains proven steps and strategies on how to use your influence to maximize the productivity of the people around you. 

With the tips in this book, you will be able to build your reputation as an effective leader. You will be able to communicate your message to your followers with authority. You will also be able to build important relationships that will help you do your job better.  

This book approaches leadership as a process of dealing with people. With the topics discussed in this book, you will learn how you can maximize engagement from your followers.  

You will learn how you can boost their motivation and focus in order to meet short-term and long-term goals. You will be able to push them to work for the goals of the organization without ruining your relationships and burning bridges. 

With this book, you will be able to accomplish anything that is put in front of you in your leadership position.

So without further to do, pick up “The Power of Influential Leadership: Skills Proven to Harness the Power of Other People” today and become the best leader that you can imagine.

Leadership: How To Make Difficult Co-Workers Respect, Admire And Follow You (Management, Communication Skills)

Are you facing a new role as a leader? If so, you probably know this feeling when you have to be something you are not sure you really are. What I mean is, if you haven’t done something before over a longer period of time, you can’t really tell if you have what it takes. And of course, leaders face many challenges that other people don’t. They have to manage people and guide them in ways that make them follow and respect them. However, many new leaders fail at this, even though it doesn’t have to be the case. They don’t have to experience the embarrassment of not being taken seriously or even made fun of by difficult co-workers. They don’t have to spend their time and energy on people that envy them for their new role or deal with slander every day. Being a leader that is respected, admired and followed isn’t as hard as many new leaders think. You already have the skills in you. You just have to become aware of them and cultivate them, step-by-step. And this book will show you exactly how. This Book is a Must Have for You:

  • If you want to have the unshakable confidence to handle any uncomfortable situation at work
  • If you want to develop your natural charisma and impress people whenever you enter a room of co-workers
  • If you want to be assertive AND build friendly rapport with people around you
  • If you want to be able to enhance your own productivity and the productivity of your co-workers
  • If you want to be seen as the leader you are really meant to be
  • It takes some mental work and a shift in your thinking since new situations require new sets of skills and changes in perspective. As a leader, you can’t think in exactly the same way you thought before. But, it doesn’t have to be a massive struggle to feel comfortable and confident in your new role.

    Leadership

    Rudolph Giuliani demonstrates how the leadership skills he practices can be employed successfully by anyone who has to run anything. Opens with a gripping account of Giuliani’s immediate reaction to the September 11 attacks, including a narrow escape from the original crisis command headquarters, and closes with the efforts to address the aftermath during his remaining tenure.

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    People First Leadership: How the Best Leaders Use Culture and Emotion to Drive Unprecedented Results

    The book that redefines leadership for our time―inspired by personal interviews with Jack Welch, Bill Clinton, George Lucas, Madeleine Albright, Pope Francis, and others.

    In this insightful book, former director of the World Business Forum, Eduardo Braun, introduces a new vision of leadership: The New CEO―someone who puts people, cultures, and emotions first. Through thousands of hours of conversations with world-class leaders, Braun has identified 5 Key Roles leaders can use to inspire people to strive for greater success, and in turn change the world for good.

    With this refreshingly human approach, you’ll find it easy to integrate the 5 traits into your work and your life. The author shares intimate stories and practical life lessons from CEOs like Jack Welch and Tony Hsieh, who trusted their instincts, followed their passions, and shared their visions with others. Leaders at all levels will learn how to make stronger connections that get better results―and create a culture of inspiration and success. 

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    Leadership Presence

    BRING THE TECHNIQUES OF THE STAGE TO THE BOARDROOM.

    For more than a decade, Belle Linda Halpern and Kathy Lubar have applied the lessons and expertise they have learned as performing artists to the work of their company, The Ariel Group. Halpern and Lubar have helped tens of thousands of executives at major companies around the country and the globe, including General Electric, Mobil Oil, Capital One, and Deloitte. In Leadership Presence, they make their time-tested strategies available to everyone, from high-profile CEOs to young professionals seeking promotion. Their practical, proven approach will enable you to develop the skills necessary to inspire confidence, command respect, build credibility, and motivate others. Halpern and Lubar teach you:
    * How to handle tough situations with heightened confidence and flexibility
    * How to build your relationships to enhance collaboration and business development
    * How to express yourself dramatically and motivate others
    * How to integrate your personal values into communication to inspire others and become a more effective leader

    “Learning the skills of the true performance experts, readers will understand why Leadership Presence is the key to dynamic and authentic leadership. BACKCOVER: As a leader, you are always in the spotlight. Leadership Presence teaches how to be masterful under that bright light…connecting more profoundly to those you lead and to yourself. A thought-provoking and highly practical guide to realizing your leadership potential.”
    Jay Conger
    Professor, London Business School
    Author, Building Leaders

    “Based on years teaching senior executives at the Columbia Business School I can say that the ideas in this book are easy to apply and make a dramatic difference in leadership effectiveness. Infused with the magic of theater and illustrated with compelling stories, Leadership Presence is a fantastic resource for executives and executive educators!”
    Professor Michael J. Fenlon, Associate Dean for Executive MBA Programs, Columbia Business School

    “In Leadership Presence, Halpern and Lubar reveal what great leaders have always known: that the secret to having a commanding presence isn’t about personal power, but about empowering others. Its inspiring stories will speak to anyone who interacts with others. It will be especially useful for experienced leaders who feel they aren’t coming across as powerfully as they’d like.”
    Kenneth H. Blanchard, Co-author of The One Minute Manager and Full Steam Ahead!

    “The foundation of success in business (and in life) is the ability to authentically engage and connect with others. Using the profession of acting as the perfect metaphor, this book is a masterful guide for achieving true leadership success. I loved the mix of personal stories from clients and well-known actors and found Leadership Presence to be a powerful teaching tool. This book isn’t just for business leaders, it’s for anyone who wants to bring more passion, empathy and presence to all their relationships. I highly recommend it!”
    Cheryl Richardson, author of Take Time for Your Life and Stand Up for Your Life

    “The ability to inspire and move others is difficult to define, yet impossible to ignore. Leadership Presence unlocks the secrets of one of the most decisive and powerful aspects of human communication. If you want to better understand and develop leadership presence in yourself and others, read this book. Like its subject, this book is compelling and impossible to ignore.”
    James E. Copeland, Jr., Former Chief Executive Officer, Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu

    Finally there is a book where the insights of theatre, transformation and organizational learning have been brought together. Leaders of organizations have much to learn from those who have spent their lives understand….

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    Strengths Based Leadership: Great Leaders, Teams, and Why People Follow

    From the author of the long-running #1 bestseller StrengthsFinder 2.0 comes a landmark study of great leaders, teams and the reasons why people follow.

    Nearly a decade ago, Gallup unveiled the results of a landmark 30-year research project that ignited a global conversation on the topic of strengths. More than 3 million people have since taken Gallup’s StrengthsFinder assessment, which forms the core of several books on this topic, including the #1 international bestseller StrengthsFinder 2.0.

    In recent years, while continuing to learn more about strengths, Gallup scientists have also been examining decades of data on the topic of leadership. They studied more than 1 million work teams, conducted more than 20,000 in-depth interviews with leaders and even interviewed more than 10,000 followers around the world to ask exactly why they followed the most important leader in their life.

    In Strengths Based Leadership, #1 New York Times bestselling author Tom Rath and renowned leadership consultant Barry Conchie reveal the results of this research. Based on their discoveries, the book identifies three keys to being a more effective leader: knowing your strengths and investing in others’ strengths, getting people with the right strengths on your team, and understanding and meeting the four basic needs of those who look to you for leadership.

    As you read Strengths Based Leadership, you’ll hear firsthand accounts from some of the most successful organizational leaders in recent history, from the founder of Teach For America to the president of The Ritz-Carlton, as they discuss how their unique strengths have driven their success. Filled with novel research and actionable ideas, Strengths Based Leadership will give you a new road map for leading people toward a better future.

    A unique access code allows you to take a new leadership version of Gallup’s StrengthsFinder program. The new version of this program provides you with specific strategies for leading with your top five strengths and enables you to plot the strengths of your team based on the four domains of leadership strength revealed in the book.

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    How to Improve Your Leadership and Management Skills – Effective Strategies for Business Managers

    This book features effective strategies and clever techniques to help you improve your leadership and management skills. It points out that you must be a leader that people follow, keep informed, make timely decisions and take effective action. In effect you must control the activities of your organization rather than being controlled by them.

    Here’s what’s in the book:

    * How to lead and manage people; powerful tips and strategies to motivate and inspire your people to bring out the best in them. Be the boss people want to give 200 percent for.

    * How to Make a Good First Impression

    * How to Motivate Your Employees in the Workplace

    * How to Manage Change Effectively

    * How to Deal With Difficult Employees

    * Effective Business Negotiation Techniques

    * How To Set and Achieve Goals

    * Effective Delegating Strategies

    * How To Ensure the Profitability of Your Business

    * How to Create a Business Environment that Supports Growth

    * All these and much much more.

    My name is Meir Liraz and I’m the author of this book. According to Dun & Bradstreet, 90% of all business failures analyzed can be traced to poor management.

    This is backed up by my own experience. In my 31 years as a business coach and consultant to managers, I’ve seen practically dozens of managers fail and lose their job — not because they weren’t talented or smart enough — but because they were trying to re-invent the wheel rather than rely on proven, tested methods that work. And that is where this book can help, it will teach you how to avoid the common traps and mistakes and do everything right the first time.

    Table of Contents
    1. How to Lead and Manage People
    2. How to Make a Good First Impression
    3. How to Motivate Employees in the Workplace
    4. How to Manage Change Effectively
    5. How to Deal With Difficult Employees
    6. Effective Business Negotiation Techniques
    7. How To Set and Achieve Goals
    8. Effective Delegating Strategies
    9. How To Ensure the Profitability of Your Business
    10. How to Create a Business Environment that Supports Growth

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